Sentences with phrase «administering the test later»

While administering the test later in the year has potential benefits in measured performance, grading the tests over a shorter time frame costs more, estimated at some $ 3.9 million annually in Colorado.

States in the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium will administer tests later this month.

Not exact matches

And if you don't believe that, consider that the Fed's moneyless («Portfoli - O - Matic») transmission mechanism has already had one «stress test» — the one administered between late 2008 and 2014 — which it failed miserably, by proving incapable of transforming $ 3.5 trillion in fresh reserves into more than a few percentage points of NGDP growth, or far fewer than were required to restore that growth to its pre-crisis path.

Means - tested pensioner benefits will be swept away to fund this new «citizen's pension» and the reform will, it is said, be funded by the later retirement age and abolishing the complex bureaucracy that administers the humiliating process of form - filling that stands between pensioners and top - up benefits.

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

On a follow - up test administered eight months later, students still remembered the information they had been quizzed on much better than the information they had reviewed.

Later this year, the Duke team (which includes students and faculty from engineering and psychiatry) plans to test a new tablet application that could do away with the need for a person to administer any tests at all.

Importantly, the researchers only administered treatment with 1NMPP1 for two weeks, which was sufficient to prevent epilepsy from developing in the mice when tested many weeks later.

Others say the drugs have not yet been fairly tested because they were administered too late, after brain damage is irreversible.

In the latter case, enhanced insulin economy and glucose disposal were observed during an intravenous - glucose - tolerance test administered 4 h later.

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).

Helicoptered to the remote fastness of Nathan's half - subterranean house, Caleb is told he will help administer the Turing test to determine whether the firm's latest prototype possesses artificial intelligence.

«The direct costs of developing and administering the tests themselves represent a small share of the total costs of implementing a mandatory exit exam policy,» says «Pay Now or Pay Later.»

Here the correct answer, according to the latest tests administered by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's Program on International Student Assessment (PISA), is 24th out of 29th.

A representative sample of this cohort of students took the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests, administered by the Organization for Economic Development (OECD) two years later, as 15 - year - olds, in 2009.

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.

She said in later testimony that the DOE has since met with HSTA and also has «begun the process to ensure that the appropriate number and types of tests are administered to students.»

However, the results won't be available until at least late 2015 since full Smarter Balanced tests will not be administered until spring 2015.

In the latest report of scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, standardized tests administered to U.S. elementary and secondary students, finds Asian - American students have overtaken white students» scores in reading at the high school senior level.

The latest scores were especially disappointing because score gaps between white and minority students did not diminish at all since the last time the math test was administered, in 2007.

This means that if a student scored a 100 one year, it would be expected that when he is administered the test a year later, he would receive a similar score.

Others worry money is being diverted from classrooms to administer and score the tests and that results are released too late to do any good — after the school year has ended.

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.

But exactly an hour later, at 6:51 p.m., an email reached her inbox: The online test was canceled and the entire state would instead administer a paper test to be given on a yet - to - be-determined date.

If the test is administered immediately after the learner completes the eLearning course, all it measures is her short - term memory; that student might not be able to score as well a week later.

TEA must administer the redeveloped test no later than the 2015 - 16 school year.

Diagnosing Cushing» s is done with a blood panel called a low dose dexamethasone test that involves a blood sample drawn in the morning, a injection of dexamethasone administered and a final blood sample taken 8 hours later.

A second «Virus Neutralizing Antibody Test» should be administered 12 weeks later, to positively confirm whether it will be a permanent condition or if the cat was able to shed the virus.

15 year old, neutered 18 lb siamese cat; found prone, responsive but unable to lift his head emergency animal hospital performed all primary diagnostics: blood test, x ray, abdominal sonogram, urinalysis: nothing abnormal after 24 hours at hospital, they started him on steroids and antibiotics; 48 hours later, he is scooting around, able to raise and hold his head up and eat / drink; still can't get up upon release, he continues to show improvement on third day, but still unable to stand up vets have no idea what it is hoping my dear boy recovers I'm with him 24/7, feeding him, administering meds, and keeping him clean his vision is compromised; he reacts if a hand comes towards him suddenly, but will not make eye contact he does not seem to be in any pain

If, years later, the employer compels the employee to undergo another medical assessment, and upon arrival, the employee finds out that the only tests administered are the PAI and MCMI III, which the later is a forensic psychopathy test, and tries to refuse it again, is this right.

Alcohol consumption during the year preceding pregnancy recognition was assessed using the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT).28 Alcohol consumption during pregnancy was assessed using a later AUDIT administered in the third trimester.

In the second test - session approximately 3 months later, the MCAST (with respect to the other parent) was administered.