Sentences with phrase «ability tests into»

Career Counseling integrates interest, personality and ability tests into a process designed to assist the individual with making informed career decisions and educational and career plans.

Not exact matches

It regularly tests these abilities and, if you do well, you are promised to get into a good college, have a successful career and live a happy, prosperous life.

A Globe investigation this summer called into question the department's ability to detect potentially dangerous contaminants, and revealed that Health Canada standards at the time did not require testing for myclobutanil and other banned chemicals.

Sylvia Fu, e-commerce director at confectionary company Hershey's, told attendees that the ability to test new products on the platform provides valuable insights into consumer preferences and «helps us define our next - stage innovations.»

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).

«Well, we've ruled out a couple hundred possibilities, which leaves an almost infinite number of possibilities that it might be, and the vast majority of those possibilities we can't even fathom or even put into words, and the trillions and trillions and trillions of other possibilities we might be able to fathom but we don't even have the ability to test - well, we're just going to give up and say that it's probably just the god thing even though there are trillions and trillions of other possibilities that it might be.»

The ideal candidate has the ability to analyze requirements, translate them into specifications / designs, and then both create and rapidly build mechanical systems for testing.

The design of this study made it possible to examine 1) the extent to which benefits of breastfeeding on cognitive ability and achievement were evident throughout middle childhood, adolescence, and into young adulthood; and 2) the extent to which breastfeeding was related to a range of indices of academic achievement that included performance on standardized tests, teacher ratings of academic achievement, and levels of success in examinations on leaving school.

Gazzaley is testing a meditation - inspired activity that may help people train themselves to minimize internal distractions, while Bavelier is interested in another type of cognitive control that likely plays into supertasking: emotional regulation, or the ability to minimize interference from anxiety and other strong, distracting emotions.

In advance, they are always a «crucial test» of the government's popularity, and the opposition's ability to turn poll ratings into votes.

The government argues the ability to «test on arrest» helps the police fight drug - related crime by getting users into treatment facilities.

To test the cells» abilities, the researchers injected them into the injured body parts of rodents with diabetes or injuries that cut off blood flow to the retina, heart or hind leg.

Testing each of these factors for their ability to return differentiated tumor cells to a stem - like state, identified a combination of four — POU3F2, SOX2, SALL2 and OLIG2 — that was able to reprogram differentiated tumor cells back into glioblastoma stem cells, both in vitro and in an animal model.

The lean version says that the test tells us little: «any animal that manages to avoid bumping into things, or biting itself in a fight» has the ability to distinguish self from non-self.

«Before we get too excited about this being a new form of infertility treatment, these cells can not as yet be made into functioning sperm, so we have no idea if they can pass «the acid test» — the ability to fertilise female eggs as is achieved with donor sperm in IVF treatment,» says Malcolm Alison of the London School of Medicine and Dentistry in the UK.

An initial library of 15 biodegradable particle formulations was tested for their ability to carry siRNAs into human glioblastoma cells that were genetically engineered to make green fluorescent protein (GFP).

To test for the ability to recognize conspecific eggs, Herbert Hoi and colleagues at the Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology of the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna introduced both real eggs and cardboard models into the nests of tree sparrows.

Bill Craelius, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Rutgers University, is testing a hand that restores some of that finesse by tapping into the ability of certain amputees to sense the limb they lost.

Melander's team, which is not involved in any of DeSimone's work, is currently testing their gold nanoparticles» ability to cross through a simulation of the blood — brain barrier that prevents many substances from passing into the brain from the bloodstream.

Laboratory cage tests demonstrated the ability of wAlbB to spread into an A. aegypti population after seeding of an uninfected population with infected females, reaching infection fixation within seven generations.

The HZI will develop a vaccination protocol for mucosal administration based on three novel strategies: (i) development and optimization of a vaccination protocol in which parenterally - primed T and B cells are subsequently pulled into the mucosa by the local delivery of the cognate antigen to the requested effector site, (ii) testing the co-administration of antigens with novel mucosal adjuvants using different mucosal immunisation routes and schedules, and (iii) testing various nanoparticles co-administered with different immunomodulators for their ability to generate both systemic and mucosal immune responses following transcutaneous / trans - follicular vaccination.

The biophysicist possesses the ability to separate biological problems into segments that are amenable to exact physical interpretation and to formulate hypotheses that can be tested by experiment.

Even if glcosepane's low tissue burden in rats means that cleaving it will not have dramatic rejuvenating effects in these animals (which is a reasonable prediction, but might be happily disproven in the event), its high prevalence in aging and diabetic human collagen, and its implication in the complications of diabetes, will make the mere demonstration of a candidate's ability to cleave glucosepane crosslinks in vivo a sufficient proof - of - concept to spur further work to move it down the therapeutic pipeline into human testing.

«So it provides a nice way to test the ability of these compounds after being loaded into the nanoparticles to actually target leukemia stem cells within the bone marrow.»

Turning self - care into a test of our ability to «do it all» is just an intensely distilled manifestation of being hard on yourself.

It is the signature test that gives an FDN practitioner insight into your circadian rhythm, your ability to handle stress, body physiology, mood, energy levels, quality of sleep and reproductive hormones.

With the ability to test and evaluate such things as gut microbiome, immune responses to food, and exposure to environmental toxins or a detailed breakdown of your cholesterol profile, while taking into account your unique genetic makeup — functional nutritionists offer an unparalleled experience.

Japanese researchers reporting in the May 2005 issue of «Nutrition» tested the ability of cocoa to interfere with the ability of the body to metabolize dietary fat into fatty tissue.

I think it's a great way to test your body's abilities, tap into different types of strength, use new forms of movement, and increase variety too.

It brings you into a silent and distant world, it tests your ability with a deep an fast paced gameplay; it's the rightful heir of»90s bidimensional adventures.

The test will be used to track students into ability groups, you are told.

Australian Parents Council Executive Director, Ian Dalton, told Education Matters parents were pleased with the move to online NAPLAN testing as it will provide the capacity for students to be tested according to their level of ability and faster availability of results means that remedial programs can be put into place more quickly.

When we clump children together into a single diagnostic category based on test scores, we not only fail to address what might be causing the dyslexia, but we also ignore variability in performance that limits our ability to identify individual differences.

The matrix converts scores on standardized tests — the Stanford Achievement Test for English - speaking students and the Aprenda exam for Spanish - speaking students with limited English proficiency — scores on the Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test (NNAT), average course grades, teacher recommendations, and indicators for socioeconomic status into an overall index score.

We all know that how well students score on reading and other tests influences their ability to succeed later — getting into college, for example, or securing a good job.

«If we want to know your intelligence, for example, we give you an IQ test that is supposed to tap a range of abilities, but then we merge that into a single score.»

The new framework and emphasis on global competencies is part of a larger effort to incorporate the assessment of social skills and abilities into PISA tests.

The MMSA believes that the transition into secondary education is challenging enough for young people without the added burden of external tests so early on, which it feels could negatively affect pupils» confidence in their abilities and make them feel that they have failed.

Oh, and let's not forget the ubiquitous frustration and anger I keep running into regarding things like professional discretion, high - stakes testing, and an often enormous gap between curricular mandates and students» ability levels.

* Though many parents seem content to cram knowledge and higher test scores into their kids as rapidly as possible, educators and policymakers in the «gifted» world are paying more attention to nurturing qualities like «creativity» and «independent research» in high - ability youngsters.

Preliminary Evidence from California's CORE Districts Brookings, 3/17/16 «A growing body of evidence confirms that student skills not directly captured by tests of academic achievement and ability predict a broad range of academic and life outcomes, even when taking into account differences in cognitive skills,» writes Associate Professor Martin West.

This includes the ability to integrate spelling tests with audio support, use images on each card, and divide cards into categories.

Many states now require incorporating technology into standardized testing, so the number of systems with the ability and willingness to support apps and software is also increasing.

But is the very idea that a student can take an exam, type a question into Google, and then copy and paste the perfect answer into their exam paper an ideal and effective way of testing ability and competence?

A growing body of evidence confirms that student skills not directly captured by tests of academic achievement and ability predict a broad range of academic and life outcomes, even when taking into account differences in cognitive skills.

But the measure would take into account a student's English language ability and only count if the curriculum matched the tested material, if the student sample was statistically significant and if students attended the teacher's class at least 85 % of the time.

New Jersey, like Connecticut, claims that high school juniors must take the Common Core test despite the fact that college bound high school juniors should really be focusing on getting their grades up and taking the SATs, ACTs, and AP tests, all of which will actually impact their ability to get into the college of their choice.

No Child Left Behind, signed into law in 2002, required schools to sort children into groups by race, language ability, disability and poverty status and report test scores for each group.

They're building into their state tests more opportunities for students to write, more opportunities for students to do problem - solving, more opportunities for students to demonstrate the ability to critically analyze text, which is an essential skill for success in postsecondary education.

There will be some type of ability to show that a kid showed up, but did not take the test — the reality is that it will happen so it has to be built into the scoring of the test somewhere.