Sentences with phrase «adopt comprehensive testing»

As states adopt comprehensive testing programs in response to the federal No Child Left Behind legislation, large databases will be assembled that make it feasible to compare the progress of any given student with a peer group that has a similar history of test results.

Not exact matches

In 2010, the state adopted the Common Core Standards and started to ease into the new standards and the test to replace the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, or Ftest to replace the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, or FTest, or FCAT.

Oregon pointed out that its social studies test is comprehensive for history, geography, economics and civics and that new tests were adopted in September 2010.

The project tests resource - efficient and productive land - use management techniques, with a view to understanding the potential impact of a comprehensive set of sustainable agriculture and food security adaptation practices adopted at the community level.

One urges governments at all levels to adopt pretrial discovery procedures requiring crime labs to produce «comprehensive and comprehensible» reports that spell out the procedures used in an analysis; the results of the analysis; the identity, qualifications and opinions of the analyst and anybody else who participated in the testing; and any additional information that could bear on the validity of the test results.