Sentences with phrase «about administering these tests»

Teachers mostly feel prepared to deal with all aspects of assessment tests and data, but they are more confident about administering these tests than interpreting them or communicating with parents about the results.

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They then were administered a test to determine if they were lying to appear more socially acceptable, or telling the truth about their language habits.

Facebook is trying fix its broken data privacy after a developer named Dr. Aleksandr Kogan used the platform to administer a personality test app that collected data about participants and their friends.

And if you're serious about the testing, the next thing you do [after a low T - E ratio test result] is administer a CIR test on the same sample.»

To do so, we administered a modified version of a four - letter type personality test to over 1,000 Americans, then asked them about their bedtimes routines.

The entire test takes about an hour to administer.

Drawing an emotional response from the audience, more than a dozen Chicago Public School parents voiced complaints at Wednesday's school board meeting over how the district questioned their children about their decision to not to take the Illinois Standards Achievement Test when it was administered earlier this month.

Trump performed «exceedingly well» on a surprise cognitive screening test administered last week, his doctor said, as the White House continued to bat back questions about the president's mental fitness for office.

Educators and parents have complained about secrecy surrounding Albany's testing program since the first new assessments based on national Common Core academic standards were administered in spring 2013.

Elia says her style will be «collaborative», and she says she will work with the teachers and their union and seek their input designing the tests, which will be administered by a new company, Questar, after the state severed it's ties with another company after criticism about the process.

Memory tests administered several minutes later showed that the patients retained few, if any, specific details about the clips.

Over the course of 10 years, the team administered five intelligence tests and confidential surveys about marijuana use.

After the final stressors were administered, the researchers gave the young mice a round of behavioral tests and then waited until the mice reached adulthood, at about 10 weeks old, to see if their different upbringings had affected their cognitive abilities or brain morphology.

«You could administer the test, but you wouldn't be able to inform the patient about that region.

Having already established himself as a novelist with the cult classic «The Beach» and as a screenwriter by penning the likes of «28 Days Later,» «Sunshine» and adaptations of «Never Let Me Go» and «Dredd,» Alex Garland made his directorial debut with 2015's «Ex Machina,» a story set in the not - too - distant future about a programmer (Domnhall Gleeson) sent by his technological genius boss (Oscar Isaac) to administer the Turing test to a new and advanced form of artificial intelligence, a beautiful humanoid robot (Alicia Vikander).

Students had picked up brochures, watched a video about drunken - driving accidents, undergone mock sobriety tests administered by police officers, and sampled nonalcoholic mixers from a «mocktails» stand.

Data - driven instruction began its spread across the country about a decade ago, in the footsteps of the No Child Left Behind requirement that schools administer yearly achievement tests.

Fair enough, you may say, but what about the tests we are obligated to administer?

Test search: Results for «drugs» included informative sites about both street and prescription drugs, including that of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and sites administered by the federal government, such as StopDrugs.org, and organizations.

At ETS — which writes the SAT and Advanced Placement exams, among others, and administers fifty million tests a year — Randy Bennett is field - testing assessments that make use of about thirty years of psychology research on how children learn.

The fact is that we use standardized tests because they are relatively inexpensive to administer and score, not because they tell us a great deal about the capacities of individual students.

On average, the public thinks U.S. students rank about 19th internationally, just a bit better than the 25th place that a test administered by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has shown.

The study administered the Terra Nova test at the time students applied for vouchers (generally spring or early summer), and again about a year later.

While many parents, educators, school leaders, and policymakers disagree about the kinds of tests administered, how the scores should be used, and how frequently students should be tested, it is important to be supportive of your child's efforts on standardized tests, and to help her do her best.

During an investment analysts call in October, Mr. Packard boasted about results at Agora, calling them «significantly higher than a typical school on state administered tests for growth.»

«Sometimes people think education is an intractable problem,» McCartney said, citing the scale of the issues, the flood of unanalyzed data about students» performance, and the apparently inadequate American level of learning revealed on tests administered around the world — not to mention the daunting gaps in performance between and within U.S. districts.

And finally, in the ongoing debate about testing, there's still the question of which part of our fragmented education system administers these tests.

Military researchers are experimenting with a computerized version of a group of vocational - aptitude tests administered to about 800,000 armed - services personnel annually.

In spite of mounting concerns about the validity and fairness of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) test — which is administered to students in grades 3 - 8 — a divided state committee in charge of reviewing the test voted to retain SBAC and ignore concerns raised by teachers and administrators.

Results from Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a test in reading, mathematics and science administered every three years in about 70 countries by the Paris - based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, came out Tuesday.

Students are opting out, primarily because of community, parent, and student concerns about the types of tests being administered, the length and number of the tests administered, the time that testing and testing preparation takes away from classroom instruction, and the like.

The presenters also informed attendees about the range of assessments to be administered during the course of the school year and shared several sample test items.

Districts anxious about annual tests might require benchmark tests to be administered frequently.

The problems began before the tests were even administered, continued during their administration, and will persist unless there is a radical shakeup in the leadership of the State Education Department; in the way in which information about the tests and participation in the tests is communicated to families; and in how the tests themselves are constructed, administered, and scored.

They complain about the time and money schools must devote to preparing for, administering and scoring the exams and the limited information they get from them, as well as raising broader philosophical objections to testing.

Learn about the most commonly used tests of reading - what they measure, how they are administered, and their limitations.

About 200,000 U.S. students were tested in the exams administered last school year.

Parents and teachers flooded Wednesday's open public testimony session to complain about the new tests, which will be administered to all students in grades 3 - 11 in March and again in May.

This year, students took them in two rounds, in March and May, and the company administering the tests said they would take about eight hours in total.

And she said that the state was worried about overloading districts as they move from state tests, using paper and pencil, to computer - administered Common Core assessments.

The state launched a new website last month at testscoreguide.org, which gives parents detailed information about their children's Smarter Balanced score reports on tests that were administered in the spring.

Tests can be administered early or late in the fall, early or late in the spring, and the dates they are given influence the judgments about whether a teacher is performing well or poorly.

The kid passes the high stakes exam and moves on, the principal looks good for generating better results, the teacher administering the test feels good about the student success.

Maybe, maybe... if you could hold other factors constant, such as the courses I teach, the number of students I teach, the curriculum, the technology and other resources, all the other teachers and all of their courses, the administrative policies, the school's schedule, school transportation, extra-curricular activities and field - trips that affect instructional time... if you haven't worked in a school, if you haven't administered the tests and watched the students» eyes glaze over as they go through a meaningless exercise with no consequences for them... then you simply do not understand this issue as well as you need to in order to make pronouncements about it.

Since they are the ones creating and administering the GRE exam, they might know a thing or two about what is on the test.

«If you look at the trends since 2003, it paints a clear picture about the progress that has emerged in the large cities since that time,» said Mike Casserly, executive director of the Council of the Great City Schools, which helps administer the test.

Further, as a result of the commitment made by those board members, financial costs would accrue to Hartford Public Schools that were not covered by the grant — for example, the technology to administer the NWEA map tests, something I wrote about back in December 2012, just after the grant was announced.

When the statewide SBAC pilot tests were to be administered last year, parents expressed reluctance to state and local officials about subjecting their children to this experiment.

Administer the practice test about one week before the actual test.

However, Smith pointed out some lawmakers are hesitant about adopting the new Smarter Balanced test because of the way the test is administered and its content.