Sentences with phrase «around test»

The world of education revolves around tests and test scores.

This proposal would eliminate most gaming around test scores.

This time around I tested 9 different protein pancake mixes for you.

This format will prove to your readers that you've done this type of job before and you know your way around a testing facility.

Related to that, it says, many teachers are losing a commitment to their field amid multiple frustrations, including pressures around testing.

There are several ways that schools and parents can help children who deal with text anxiety or who are experiencing stress around testing.

I was able to look around test drive a vehicle and drive away with my new car.

That said, other countries have different standards and some may have different rules around testing and the accepted method of testing.

She has been gathering data from more than 150 sensors and eight video cameras installed in and around the test buildings.

We look behind - the - scenes at test security, emotions around testing, and the growing influence of tests.

Yet, some districts have oriented their practice and curriculum around these tests.

The company has patented the technology around the tests themselves, including both design and utility patents, with several others still pending.

Their efforts are focused around testing new practices, scaling what works, and adjusting what doesn't.

(Images: Dick Gilbert) I recently had the pleasure of taking two of Volvo's latest prototypes for some blissful laps around the test track in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Since I've done a few hundred laps around our test track in BRZs and FR - Ss, I couldn't wait to give the Fiesta a proper shakedown.

In many places, you could get around the test if you were the descendant of someone who could vote.

When the instructor hands back a graded test to a student, along with it comes a piece of paper literally wrapped around the test itself.

Rocky Mount's Williford Elementary is one of six schools included on a short - list for the Innovative School District (ISD), which could allow for - profit, charter management organizations to ink five - year contracts with the state in hopes of turning around test scores at selected low - performing schools.

You can watch and listen to that 1,008 horsepower in this video from Hennessey Performance Engineering as John pilots the car around their test track:

We'd galvanized around the testing of American cruise missiles in parts of the Canadian north.

Every so often a cheeseburger comes around that tests the resolve of the most zealous vegans and vegetarians.

State Education Commissioner John King estimated that 55,000 students had opted out statewide, five times as many as last year, as parental anger around testing grew.

It would also fracture rock for almost 300 metres around the test site.

Another barrier was the extra paperwork around the test, which is not performed in Canada.

Researchers tried to pick apart the secrets of dolphin skin in a number of ways, wrapping rubbery artificial skin around test torpedoes and even dragging naked young women (or «nekkid leddies,» as referenced here) through the water to see how their skin responded to the drag.

Throughout the preview session I also had the pleasure of both sitting in and driving actual rally vehicles around the test track at Como Park.

Where there are issues requiring development such as for new features or bug fixes, what are your obligations and requirements around testing and signoff?

Common Core also «takes control of our schools away from parents and communities,» leaving schools vulnerable to «a curriculum that has been profoundly shaped around the tests and teaching materials» of the two CCSS testing consortia, Smarter Balanced and PARCC.

The academy spent a major three - year effort bringing some of the best experts in testing and assessment together to try to envision the future around testing and the two elements necessary to make a high - quality test, which are essential for really driving education in the right direction.

Almost everything you do in the high school classroom seems to revolve around test success, and much of that means cramming students with equations, dates, concepts, vocabulary, and more.

Republican Gov. Pete Wilson set the stage for a legislative finale centered around the test last month when he used his line - item veto to cut $ 200 million from the $ 22 billion K - 12 budget, pending the...

NISL works with districts to maximize efficient delivery, scheduling around testing periods, leveraging summer training schedules, even starting later in the day or scheduling weekend sessions if requested.

Still, given the public beating standardized tests have taken over the last decade, and the negative narrative around testing that's solidified as a result, it remains exceedingly important for those of us that still believe in annual, statewide standardized testing to articulate — again, and again, and again — why it matters.

However, when the discussion is framed around testing we find ourselves like cats tossed into a pillowcase.

Improve Title I: Bush's plan indicates that most of the changes he wants around testing will be done through reauthorization of ESEA (including Title I).

Gedge said the language used around the test — which the government hopes will help it reach its goal of having every pupil know their times tables up to 12 by the end of primary school — is problematic.

Community meetings or town halls are a great way to educate, network and organize around testing issues.

There is a constant buzz in the news around testing and the question of whether or not students are being over-tested.

But the typical responses around test score growth miss how we should measure school performance in New Orleans.

That might be welcome news for failing schools desperate to escape wholesale restructuring, but it's doubtless unpleasant news for kids, and for teachers trying to cram their regular lesson plans in around testing seasons.

They made them count before they made them work, and then created such a secret around the testing that no one even knows what's on the test, or no one even knows what the questions look like, except through word of mouth.

So here we are, almost back to where we started eight years ago, before the stars aligned around testing comparability and 90 percent of states agreed to cooperatively join two testing groups, Smarter Balanced and PARCC.

Popham distinguished between «item - teaching,» where teachers organize their instruction around test questions, and «curriculum - teaching,» which requires teachers to direct their instruction toward specific content knowledge or cognitive skills.

We looked around test driving the Chevy Equinox, Ford Edge, Explorer & Toyota Venza.