Sentences with phrase «while tests tended»

While tests tended to be similar from year to year, they would add to each exam some questions that did not resemble those from previous years.

Not exact matches

It was clear that the driving test would be impossible to pass as one will tend to swerve and crash as they text while driving.

«Females tend to do better overall on IQ tests; they average out at about 100, while men average about 99,» Hameister says.

Not surprisingly, companies churning out products with nanomaterials in them tend to argue that existing regulations and testing are adequate to ensure these materials are safe, while environmental groups tend to call it the other way.

While rapid point - of - care tests for diagnosing sexually transmitted infections are commercially available today and used within developing regions, they tend not to be affordable or accurately quantify the concentrations of the disease markers within a sample, which help to determine the stage of the infection.

The «normal» reference range for the TSH test tends to run from.3 to 4.5, and many patients with levels above 2.5 are told their thyroid is «normal,» while their physicians fail to test to actual circulating thyroid hormone (Free T4, Free T3) or the thyroid antibodies that can detect an autoimmune thyroid disease.

Another study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science in 2016 found that while the test subjects tended to believe they look best in selfies, other people actually thought they looked better and seemed more likeable in photos taken by someone else.

While in testing, women have tended to sign up more as wingpeople, there's been roughly an equal pool of male and female singles.

While at the film's press day, filmmakers Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley spoke to Collider for this exclusive interview about how Vacation ended up being their feature directorial debut, why their humor tends to lean more towards the R - rated, why Ed Helms and Christina Applegate were the perfect heads of this Griswold family, getting Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo involved, which cameos they were most impressed with, being of the mind - set that comedy can be short, and why test screenings can be a good gauge for comedy.

Some educational issues tend to spark large partisan rifts (for example, Common Core and teacher tenure), while a bipartisan consensus emerges on others (for instance, required testing of students).

We've known for a long time, since the 1970s, that girls outscore boys in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading tests, while boys tend to outperform girls in math and science.

It's true that children in prosperous districts tend to test well, while children in poorer districts on average score lower.

The previous state testing tended to focus almost exclusively on math and reading skills, so in many schools math and reading became the priority, while other subjects were pushed aside.

However, Goldhaber notes (in an earlier Education Next article) that, in general, while teachers who perform well on tests of verbal ability tend to perform better in the classroom, «the things that make schools and teachers effective defy easy measurement.»

As a result, the tests tend to leave the best teachers — those with wider teaching repertoires who are able to move students beyond the basics — at a disadvantage, while putting pressure on the entire school system to focus on low - level skills.

Based on scores in nationally standardized tests (fourth grade reading and math and eighth grade reading and math), greater union membership of educators tends to have a positive impact on student test scores while larger class sizes tend to have a negative effect.

For decades, the standardized test scores of California students have shown that achievement gaps based on race, ethnicity and class — while troubling — tended to narrow over time.

While students statewide tended to score low on PARCC and thousands skipped it altogether, the test was mandatory in District 203 and 204, where students overall performed at a higher level.

A recent study used NASA satellite observations to test the skill of climate models in simulating this cloud - type transition, and found that high sensitivity models simulate it more accurately, while low sensitivity models tend to overemphasize its climate cooling effect.

A typical attorney who self - identifies as an «employee rights» attorney will usually have much more experience (as compared to the typical attorney identified as an «employment attorney» or an «employer defense» attorney) with: (1) representing workers on a contingency - fee basis (where no fee is paid unless the case wins or settles) and offering risk - sharing fee arrangements generally; (2) playing offense, so to speak — analyzing, identifying and prosecuting specific legal violations (whereas employer - side attorneys tend to have more experience in broader - stroke compliance / employer - training matters, and reactive work in litigation that responds to claims they are presented); and (3) identifying with the «little guy» who has been harmed by a larger opponent, often having well - tested strategies that have worked while representing individuals against large organizations and wind up with good case results.

1) Roaming Charges Using your Canadian 3G SimCard Outside of Canada: Since I tend to be stingy (not a good quality), I have never tested using my Canadian 3G access while abroad.

While services tend to test new features all the time, there's a good chance that Twitch Prime is going to be announced today, given that TwitchCon, the live - streaming company's annual conference, is currently underway.

Also, while accurate heart rate readings tend to be sketchy on a wristwatch, in my workout tests on a spin bike, the Fenix 5S generally matched or was within a few beats per minute of the reading from a Polar chest strap.