Sentences with phrase «alternative testing measures»

Many doctors and midwives seem to be open to alternative testing measures like dye - free glucola and at - home blood sugar monitoring.

Not exact matches

These measures include the S&P 500 price / revenue ratio, the Margin - Adjusted CAPE (our more reliable variant of Robert Shiller's cyclically - adjusted P / E), and MarketCap / GVA — the ratio of nonfinancial market capitalization to corporate gross value - added, including estimated foreign revenues — which is easily the most reliable valuation measure we've ever created or tested, among scores of alternatives.

This 6 - class course covers common tests, procedures, and alternatives during pregnancy and labor, anatomy and physiology of birth, variations of labor, birth plans, natural comfort measures, medical pain management, avoiding unnecessary interventions and a c - section, labor scenarios, and discusses mindfulness practices and relaxation exercises.

However, the Cuomo administration continued to press the EPA to expand testing of all public water supplies or, as an alternative, have the Legislature pass a measure to do just that.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said recently that he will also be introducing an alternative measure that offers public campaign financing for just the state Comptroller's race, as a test case, as a compromise that perhaps the Senate could find «palatable».

Electrophysiological testing to measure peripheral nerve conduction properties is not a viable alternative because current methods lack the sensitivity required to detect damage to small, unmyelinated fibers, especially in early stages of disease.

Michael Garle, the project's supervisor, says that several research teams have tried measuring levels of cytokines as an alternative to traditional tests where chemicals are applied to the skin of an animal such as a rabbit.

They also may conduct some alternative tests like measuring the contraction of your iris or monitoring whether your blood pressure changes as you go from lying down to standing up (3).

The «Heidelberg test» is an alternative way to measure stomach acid and diagnose hypochlorhydria / achlorhydria.

Yet, until all schools develop the capacity to develop such alternatives to state tests, Murnane maintained that we must not discard the imperfect measures we have now; they are needed to keep the light shining on the inequities that pervade our current education system.

Washington — Charging that an emphasis on multiple - choice tests could «undermine many of the educational reforms which the governors and President Bush wish to achieve,» a coalition of three dozen education and civil - rights groups last week urged those leaders to use alternative forms of assessment to measure progress toward national goals.

Ho's research highlights contrasts between current approaches to measuring student and school proficiency and proposes alternative metrics that address some of the problems that have emerged in standardized testing since the 2001 enactment of No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

Concerned that a state testing program subjects young children to undue stress, the Arizona legislature has passed a bill that would limit mandatory 1st - grade testing to a sample of students while the state develops alternative assessment measures.

We included administrative data from teacher, parent, and student ratings of local schools; we considered the potential relationship between vote share and test - score changes over the previous two or three years; we examined the deviation of precinct test scores from district means; we looked at changes in the percentage of students who received failing scores on the PACT; we evaluated the relationship between vote share and the percentage change in the percentile scores rather than the raw percentile point changes; and we turned to alternative measures of student achievement, such as SAT scores, exit exams, and graduation rates.

There are many alternatives to traditional standardized tests that offer a variety of ways to measure student understanding.

Student - test - based measures of teacher performance are receiving increasing attention in part because there are, as yet, few complementary or alternative measures that can provide reliable and valid information on the effectiveness of a teacher's classroom practice.

Project - based learning and standardized tests don't mix The Hechinger Report This article recently made the rounds on social media — it focuses on PBL schools around Philadelphia and highlights the various alternative ways they measure student learning.

«In this age of educational accountability through standards and assessments with only one right answer and success measured by test scores, we need to keep young minds open for alternative ways of thinking... teach students not to get a job, but create one.»

After piloting the collection of measures of those skills in a small number of schools during the 2013 - 14 school year, including conducting multiple experiments to compare the performance of alternative survey items, CORE conducted a broader field test involving more than 450,000 students in grades 3 - 12 the following spring.

This suggests an alternative criterion by which to judge changes in student performance - namely, that achievement gains on test items that measure particular skills or understandings may be meaningful even if the student's overall test score does not fully generalize to other exams.

These assessments include SOL tests and other measures of student achievement, including alternative assessments taken by certain students with disabilities and children with limited English proficiency.

In both books, Gardner argued that there are better — or at least alternative — ways to measure intelligence than standard IQ tests for students in both regular and special education.

It sure is, say local opt - out activists, who oppose so - called school reform measures — including high - stakes tests used to evaluate teachers — that they say are designed to foster private alternatives and ultimately dismantle public education.

Support alternative assessments to standardized testing as appropriate, rigorous measures of student learning.

Many districts around the country are working to counter that lack of arts assessments, with either traditional paper - and - pencil tests, performance - based assessments, or alternative measures.

Effective teachers have high expectations for all students and help students learn, as measured by value - added or other test - based growth measures or by alternative measures.

«If they will use state test data in evaluations — and if so, how — or opt for another alternative to comprise the 22.5 percent of a teacher's evaluation that must include state standardized tests measuring student learning.»

Both versions that have passed in their respective chambers allow for states to end current accountability measures enforced by high - stakes testing if they develop their own alternatives.

«Given the lack of broad - based stakeholder input into the waiver, the unrealistic timelines for implementing the teacher evaluation system under the waiver, the lack of research - based support for evaluating teachers based on student performance on state tests, and the dearth of vetted alternative measures of student learning available to use for teachers other than those teaching grades 5 - 9 reading and math, we recommend the Legislature delay taking action to implement the waiver's teacher evaluation system requirements, and urge the commissioner to continue to negotiate for more flexibility in the waiver regarding the teacher evaluation requirements, as well as to seek an extension from USDE regarding the timeline under which to implement the new system,» Eaton testified.

Despite the fact that test scores, letter grades, and percentiles provide only narrow interpretations of student achievement, parents generally express greater comfort with these types of indicators than with more complex, alternative measures.

The MET Project found that composite measures of teacher effectiveness that combined, with roughly equal weights, value - added calculated with state tests, classroom observations, and student responses to surveys were somewhat better predictors of a teacher's future value - added calculated from an alternative test than was value - added calculated from the state test alone.

The Winston Society — or «Winsoc,» in Orwell's newspeak — played on these associations in constructing the wiki as a space for classroom teachers to join the likes of Winston Smith and «fight big brother» — that is, work against NCLB and its test - based accountability measures — and cultivate alternative visions for education that involved more progressive politics and pedagogies.

MCAS's stated intention was to rethink how to measure and report on students» progress, yet MCAS relies on a high - stakes, fill - in - the - bubble test and discourages alternative assessments.

Enhancing traditional tests with other assessments such as classroom observations and performance measures can provide the information needed to develop appropriate lessons or identify alternative teaching strategies.

There is now a test to scientifically measure blood levels (titers) for feline distemper as an alternative to yearly vaccines.

This is useful in a directional selection programme because improvements may be achieved by indirect selection, for example, by using alternative tests that are readily available rather than direct selection for traits that may occur later in life or that may be difficult or expensive to measure.

Nowhere in the Common Principles do we even see an alternatives test to measure whether support for non-greenhouse gas emitting renewable energy could be pursued instead of a slightly less dirty fossil fuel project.

In a workplace that is dangerous, employers are generally entitled to test individual employees who occupy safety sensitive positions without having to show that alternative measures have been exhausted if there is «reasonable cause» to believe that the employee is impaired while on duty, where the employee has been directly involved in a workplace accident or significant incident, or where the employee is returning to work after treatment for substance abuse.

This non-parametric statistical hypothesis test can be considered as an alternative to the paired Student's t - test and can be used to compare repeated measures on a single sample to assess differences in the population mean ranks.

This non-parametric statistical test can be considered a valid alternative of the parametric repeated measures ANOVA.