Sentences with phrase «science test as»

These candidates must also pass the Praxis II General Science test as well as the Principles of Learning (7 - 12) test.

In one study of 1,651 high school students from three states, reading ability was just as important to students» science - class grades and scores on state - level science tests as the amount of science knowledge they had.

-- The Education Department also excluded science tests as an option for states when considering academic factors to hold schools accountable, limiting them to math and English exams.

Not exact matches

Gross says focusing on video games was as much about the science of tracking and collecting information about patients» vision, as it is about the psychology in having a testing format that appeals to a wide range of ages and cognitive abilities — from children through elderly — regardless of reading or language skills.

This data science also helps strengthen risk management in areas such as fraud detection, financial crime compliance, and stress - testing.

That idea might have been considered «science fiction» as recently as a decade ago, Felten said, but now Waymo is testing its driverless ride - hailing service on public roads in Arizona.

«Further testing is required before Song's device could be approved as a treatment for dementia or Alzheimer's, but if it is able to help those patients regain even part of their lost memory function, the impact would be felt not only by the patients themselves, but their families and even the economy at large,» says Science Alert, which notes that Alzheimer's was responsible for a whopping $ 236 billion in healthcare costs last year.

«This is certainly a positive step for making what previously was considered complex lab testing — such as a definitive virus assay — broadly available outside of the classic, central lab setting,» says Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute and the author of The Patient Will See You Now.

Among the documents the committee has published today (with some redactions) is the data - licensing contract between Global Science Research (GSR)-- the company set up by the Cambridge University professor, Aleksandr Kogan, whose personality test app was used by CA as the vehicle for gathering Facebook users» data — and SCL Elections (an affiliate of CA), dated June 4, 2014.

However, Speth left open the possibility of new investment in Britain such as an electric battery and car plant if the conditions, including pilot testing and support from science, were right.

Based on decades of cognitive science research at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute, the quick and accessible Cogniciti brain health assessment (www.cogniciti.com) is designed as a series of game - like tests that tap into cognitive abilities (such as memory and attention).

As used in science, a theory is an explanation or model based on observation, experimentation, and reasoning, especially one that has been tested and confirmed as a general principle helping to explain and predict natural phenomenAs used in science, a theory is an explanation or model based on observation, experimentation, and reasoning, especially one that has been tested and confirmed as a general principle helping to explain and predict natural phenomenas a general principle helping to explain and predict natural phenomena.

On April 26, 2012, the results of a study which tested their subjects» pro-social sentiments were published in the Social Psychological and Personality Science journal in which non-religious people had higher scores showing that they were more inclined to show generosity in random acts of kindness, such as lending their po.sse.ssions and offering a seat on a crowded bus or train.

Dalahast, As I said, «Untested hypotheses, what is the best method to test something, etc. are debated, but the science itself is not.»

As used in science, however, a theory is an explanation or model based on observation, experimentation, and reasoning, especially one that has been tested and confirmed as a general principle helping to explain and predict natural phenomenAs used in science, however, a theory is an explanation or model based on observation, experimentation, and reasoning, especially one that has been tested and confirmed as a general principle helping to explain and predict natural phenomenas a general principle helping to explain and predict natural phenomena.

Sir Sayyid urged the Muslims to develop a new science of dialectics to counter the atheistic trends produced by Western civilization, and in 1292 (A.D. 1875) he wrote a commentary on the Qur» an in which he rejected the conception of Islam as a code of rules and regulations which, he said, can not stand the test of scientific scrutiny.

The «soft» social sciences, which includes spirituality as well as psychology and sociology, rely on the statistical evidence that has been tested in the crucible of human experience.

You wise Scientist — Can you please scientifically explain to me where did the stuff came from that caused the «BIG BANG» — if you can not do that your so called science are based on a belief and not on facts as you so eagerly would like to promote — so — then your view is also based on faith and not science, because science should be able to observed and tested, but faith must be taken and believed.

As Montgomery puts it: «Science and theology form and test their respective theories in the same way; the scientific theorizer attempts objectively to formulate conceptual Gestalts (hypotheses, theories, laws) capable of rendering Nature intelligible, and the theologian endeavors to provide conceptual Gestalts (doctrines, dogmas) which will «fit the facts» and properly reflect the norms of Holy Scripture.»

Karl Popper, the great twentieth century philosopher of science, insisted that what makes experiments genuinely scientific is that the experiments can falsify the theories being tested as well as support them (his famous «criterion of falsifiability»).

Its not science until you test as they have with countless discoveries including evolution (on a micro level of course).

He is able to conform to «those presumptions, which, in despite of criticism, we still employ for the regulation of our lives,» (PR 229) which should serve as «the final test of all science and philosophy» (PR 502).

His survey of the social science literature on the topic usefully, if sometimes turgidly, compiles the growing evidence that homeschooled children learn more than their counterparts, at least to the extent that standardized tests measure learning, and are emotionally healthier as well, at least to the extent that psychologists» «self - esteem and self - concept» scales truly capture emotional health.

You stated: «As used in science, however, a theory is an explanation or model based on observation, experimentation, and reasoning, especially one that has been tested and confirmed as a general principle helping to explain and predict natural phenomena.&raquAs used in science, however, a theory is an explanation or model based on observation, experimentation, and reasoning, especially one that has been tested and confirmed as a general principle helping to explain and predict natural phenomena.&raquas a general principle helping to explain and predict natural phenomena.»

The mechanisms of stereotyping distorted the objective world, and the doctrines of racism were seen as «bad science» because so many studies — of IQ testing, of genetics, of reality - distortion — showed racial prejudice to be invalid.

Science dose not provide all the answers either but it looks for the answers and more importantly, when science gives an answer you do not have to except it on Faith, you are required to test it, question it and verify it until you are satisfied that the answer is right (at least right as far as we know now, it may change as we learnScience dose not provide all the answers either but it looks for the answers and more importantly, when science gives an answer you do not have to except it on Faith, you are required to test it, question it and verify it until you are satisfied that the answer is right (at least right as far as we know now, it may change as we learnscience gives an answer you do not have to except it on Faith, you are required to test it, question it and verify it until you are satisfied that the answer is right (at least right as far as we know now, it may change as we learn more).

You say --- > «Science isn't against the idea that a massive unicorn farted out the universe, they just recognize that there's no way to currently test that theory — exactly as there is no way to currently test ID..»

Science isn't against the idea that a massive unicorn farted out the universe, they just recognize that there's no way to currently test that theory — exactly as there is no way to currently test ID..

In general, this school can be characterized by its acceptance of a logic of science; that is, its members maintain that there is a logic with respect to such scientific activities as the testing of theories, theoretical explanation, and conceptual change.

a. Evolution, as a science, is based upon testing ideas against evidence.

They'll likely become confused by what's true and what isn't, they'll be disinterested in science as a subject, and our already declining test scores in math and science will decline further while we stand around bickering over whether our kids should learn the thing we can prove or the thing we can't prove but choose to believe in anyway.

Weiz and Keogh state: «Science is useless as a tool to discover or evaluate any truth that can not be tested experimentally.»

NSF International is a global independent organization that writes standards and tests and certifies products for the water, food, health sciences and consumer goods industries to minimize adverse health effects and protect the environment as well as offering a range of standardized and proprietary methods of measuring sustainability for organizations, products, processes, supply chains and services.

Join this pup as he explores kitchen science through experiments like making slime, test tube explosion, crystal formation, and more.

So you're saying any studies that show formula yields better results (not that Tanya was making such claims) would be due to the impossibility of developing a fair sampling / testing method, but you have no problem extolling the virtues of breast feeding, not to mention perpetuating this modern day phrenology of head circumference as a determination of future IQ, based on the same flawed science?

I doubt it's ethical for them to do a lot of testing as to when thawed milk makes babies sick, so it's probably an inexact science as to the timeframe they picked.

De Blasio responded by pointing to successes under the mayoral control program, including higher graduation rates and test scores as well as an expansion of computer science courses.

Examinations will test extended writing in subjects such as English and history, have fewer bite - sized and overly structured questions, and in mathematics and science there should be a greater emphasis on quantitative problem - solving.

McGlothlin and his team recently received a grant from the National Science Foundation to test whether birds have built up resistance in the same way as snakes.

Features fun science tools such as beakers, test tubes, a magnifying glass and more - all perfectly sized for little hands.

Initial tests, reported in July in Science, have demonstrated effective adhesion to animal hearts and livers, as well as cartilage and arteries.

Immunophenotyping — a laboratory procedure used to study the proteins expressed by cells — is very commonly used in basic science research as well as in laboratory diagnostic testing.

More recently, he spent 4 years in Science's Cambridge office as European News Editor; his story «Scientists Decry «Flawed» and «Horrifying» Nationality Tests» won the 2010 Association of British Science Writers award for best news story.

Computer - enhanced science testing is becoming more popular as a way to assess knowledge and skills that ordinary paper and pencil tests can not measure, but research on the actual effectiveness of online testing is limited.

I accept them as starting points for developing hypotheses that we can test, but I'm not happy with the answers we have now, either from science or from religion.»

Hughes ran into conflict with the university and his former sponsor, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), over his efforts to diagnose genetic diseases — such as Tay - Sachs disease and cystic fibrosis — in test - tube embryos scheduled for implantation (Science, 24 January, p. 472).

It has caused good schools to be labeled as failing and puts undue pressure on students and teachers to focus on passing standardized tests instead of engaging in other subjects such as the sciences, history, art, or music.

Science tests serve as a gateway toward commonsense computers.

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

Although Milgram's tests upset some volunteers, most participants identified with his scientific mission to understand human behavior and wanted to prove themselves as worthy of the project, Haslam and psychologist Stephen Reicher of the University of St. Andrews in Fife, Scotland, conclude in a research review scheduled to appear in the 2017 Annual Review of Law and Social Science.