Sentences with phrase «test than guidelines»

Those districts that require that students take the math test and score higher on the California English Language Development Test than guidelines recommend reduce their annual reclassification rates by nearly half, the study said.

Not exact matches

With nitrate levels 30 per cent higher than Canada Drinking Water Quality guidelines, it's no wonder why the Environment Minister is hiding the test results.

Recognizing this, in October 2011 the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) issued new guidelines recommending that women be tested for cervical cancer with Pap tests (not HPV tests) every three years rather than annually because more frequent testing leads to overtreatment of low - grade changes that would in all likelihood not turn out to be cancerous.

As a general guideline, the recommendation is to eat some gluten in more than one meal every day for at least six weeks before testing.

Based on a long term national survey of 9,802 GPs between 2002 and 2012, the report draws on data from more than 980,000 GP - patient encounter records to assess the extent to which GP's order tests in line with diagnostic imaging guidelines.

This year it developed guidelines for what to do when tests give rise to more information than the patient (and clinician) bargained for and how to manage the data.

Patients with HbA1C in the prediabetes range, 5.7 - 6.4 percent, were considered to be intensively treated if using two or more medications at the time of the test, or if started on additional medications after the test, because current guidelines consider patients with HbA1C less than 6.5 percent to be optimally controlled already.

Fast - forward to today: The latest guidelines from the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the American Cancer Society (ACS) say that most women younger than 21 don't need Paps at all, women age 21 to 30 should get them every three years and women older than 30 can stretch it to every five if they get an HPV test, too, assuming all results are negative.

Current general guidelines recommend that women have a Pap test at least once every three years, beginning about three years after they begin to have sexual intercourse, but no later than age 21.

Researchers suggest that if the EPA guidelines were applied to the farmed salmon they tested, recommendations would be to restrict salmon to no more than once per month.

Such lengths include the release of new guidelines to create better textbooks, including the use of high - quality colour photographs and measures that support pupils learning rather than simply teaching them how to pass tests.

Indiana education officials disagree with Opt Out organizers» assessment, saying they've changed the guidelines of the state's school letter grading system to consider figures other than test scores alone.

Education Drive's analysis of ESSA's proposed guidelines and regulations for state testing show that, while there are still questions, there is more opportunity for test flexibility than under No Child Left Behind.

My personal guideline is that tests to measure the results of instruction (i.e., accountability tests) should take no more than one percent of instructional time, or roughly 9 hours per year.

Many pet owners remain unaware of the option to have titre - testing to verify their pet has responded to core MLV vaccination, despite the fact that the WSAVA Guidelines say ``... the principles of «evidence - based veterinary medicine» would dictate that testing for antibody status (for either pups or adult dogs) is a better practice than simply administering a vaccine booster on the basis that this should be «safe and cost less»».

Parents of small children might be surprised to discover that vaccination «best practice» for companion animals is now more advanced than that for children, with international vaccination guidelines for dogs re live vaccines recommending antibody titre testing rather than an arbitrary «booster», i.e. ``... the principles of «evidence - based veterinary medicine» would dictate that testing for antibody status (for either pups or adult dogs) is a better practice than simply administering a vaccine booster on the basis that this should be «safe and cost less»».

The WSAVA Guidelines 2010 note «the principles of «evidence - based veterinary medicine» would dictate that testing for antibody status (for either pups or adult dogs) is a better practice than simply administering a vaccine booster on the basis that this should be «safe and cost less»».

This is the first legal test of the guidelines, which York and more than 20 other universities are following (rather than adhering to a model licence agreement negotiated in 2012 between Universities Canada and Access Copyright).

The Fit test provides the underwriter plenty of ammunition to approve a policy at better rates than the underwriting guidelines might otherwise lead to.

Our analysis of parent comments corroborates previous work in this area and provides a far more comprehensive collection of factors than previous studies.4 — 7, 23 — 35 Previous efforts implementing the American Academy of Pediatrics clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD demonstrated a need to augment the time - constrained efforts of physicians to educate and support parents.36 Future studies are needed to develop and test systems to support parents facing treatment decisions for their child newly diagnosed with ADHD.

Performance on the visual acuity test was coded on a continuum using standard guidelines (Schumm et al., 2009), whereby 20/20 vision or better was coded as «normal or better» vision, between 20/40 and 20/20 was coded as «good» vision, between approximately 20/60 and 20/40 was coded as «moderately decreased» vision, and worse than 20/60 was coded as «poor» vision.

For example, a 2013 study demonstrated that even students with low blood lead levels — below the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines for «blood lead level of concern» — during early childhood were less likely than students with no discernable blood level levels (BLL) to reach proficiency in standardized tests in elementary and middle school.

The guidelines — or «stress test» — issued by the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) on October 17, 2017, will mean that lower - risk home buyers (those with more than 20 per cent down on their new home) will join higher - risk borrowers in having to qualify for a mortgage at a higher interest rate than the one at which they will actually borrow.