Sentences with phrase «administering easier tests»

Though the intentions behind this decision were honorable — to keep states from setting lower expectations for and administering easier tests to low achievers — it has curbed the use of computer - adaptive testing and other strategies that can accurately and validly detect student growth at the high end.

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It's so much easier to administer and grade a useless multiple choice test and to inflate every kids» grades for their college applications than it is to create challenging course work that excites, engages, and challenges them.

Because the test is simple, quick and easy to administer, not just by athletic trainers or health care professionals but parents and coaches, it may have particular value in sideline screening for concussion at the youth level, where immediate evaluation for head trauma by a trained professional is often not possible.

«ImPACT Pediatric is an iPad - based computerized test that is individually administered, engaging for children, and easy to use in a clinical setting.

An easy, two - minute vision test administered on the sidelines after a young athlete has hit his or her head can help to reliably determine whether the athlete has sustained a concussion, according to a new study of student athletes, some as young as 5.

«Our study shows that an easy to administer vision test is a simple, effective tool that empowers parents, coaches, trainers — and even physicians — on the sidelines to have a protocol for deciding if an athlete should be removed from play.»

And the tests were easier for participants and those administering the experiments.

Administering the tests is easy and can provide parents with a way to involve kids in science for a practical purpose right at home.

Standardized, multiple - choice reading and math tests are reliable, familiar, affordable, and easy to administer.

Online assessments make it quick and easy to administer tests to students.

Often, it is easier for employers to administer their own tests.

An easy - to - administer heartworm test is required prior to prescribing preventative medication.

It is very easy to administer these tests at the same time we perform the yearly or bi-annual exam.

Most cats are very tolerant to the small lancet that is used to collect the blood sample and, though you may be intimidated initially, most owners indicate that once perfected testing of blood glucose and administration of insulin is much easier than administering oral medications.

It is very easy to administer these blood tests at the same time we perform the yearly heartworm test.