* Assisted in preparation of National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program (ELAP) and Industrial Hygiene Proficiency Analytical Testing (IHPAT)
Proficiency test samples for all analysts in the Air Quality Department.
* Francisella tularensis, the cause of tularemia also known as Rabbit Fever, that was a College of American Pathologists (CAP)
proficiency testing samples.
This was also a CAP
proficiency testing sample.
Not exact matches
Labs can
test their
proficiency at carrying out the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), a technique that generates usable quantities of DNA from cells in a tiny
sample of blood or semen.
Simpson's defence lawyers grilled an official from a Cellmark laboratory in Maryland, which
tested blood
samples from the crime scene, over wrong answers that the laboratory gave in
proficiency tests in the late 1980s.
You can
test yourself on
sample PISA 2015 science questions and find out more about the concepts and competencies covered and
proficiency levels by clicking on the link.
To make the
tests more fair, we spent several months
testing samples of students who reflect the demographics of the state, and then another several months working with teachers to define levels of
proficiency.
The inclusion of larger percentages of students with disabilities and limited English proficient students in the 2009 Virginia
testing samples did not significantly impact achievement as average scores, and
proficiency levels for the commonwealth's fourth and eighth graders were similar to 2007.
However, when developing common formative assessments, high performing teams study the standards documents and
sample released
test items to learn about
proficiency and work collaboratively to match the rigor of the expectations to their own assessments.