Sentences with phrase «as fair a test»

To provide as fair a test as possible, we also adopted an additional strategy to restrict our analysis to those LEAs that were truly comparable with the NLP participants.

Not exact matches

If the loan is for more than the fair market value of your home (i.e., if your mortgage is underwater), then the loan amount that is over the fair market value counts as a liability under the net worth test.

As a professional palate, he has tasted for Beverage Testing Institute, United Airlines, the Grand Jury Européen, the Oregon State Fair, StarWine, the Jefferson Cup, and the Detroit Wine Competition.

As well as selling your crafts online, many makers start out at craft fairs and although they can be a bit hit and miss, they are a great testing ground — as long as you select ones appropriate for your productAs well as selling your crafts online, many makers start out at craft fairs and although they can be a bit hit and miss, they are a great testing ground — as long as you select ones appropriate for your productas selling your crafts online, many makers start out at craft fairs and although they can be a bit hit and miss, they are a great testing ground — as long as you select ones appropriate for your productas long as you select ones appropriate for your productas you select ones appropriate for your products.

So you're saying any studies that show formula yields better results (not that Tanya was making such claims) would be due to the impossibility of developing a fair sampling / testing method, but you have no problem extolling the virtues of breast feeding, not to mention perpetuating this modern day phrenology of head circumference as a determination of future IQ, based on the same flawed science?

I try to make my absorbency test experiments as fair, scientific, and unbiased as possible.

These means - tested weekly payments of up to # 30 are a crucial means of support for those who wish to remain in further education - and it is simply not possible for the Government to claim their cuts to be fair at the same time as they remove this support for the poorest in our society.

He loves his Conservative Party almost as much as his country - though both have put that emotion to the test - and wants to ensure whoever leads has a fair wind.

Upon registration, teams of two to six people will be equipped with t - shirts, a map of the park, a tote bag and a list of new clues that will test participants» knowledge of the 1939 - 40 and 1964 - 65 World's Fairs and of the park as it is now.

As State Senator, she'll work every day to ensure that Westchester schools get their fair share; stand strong against the misuse and overuse of standardized testing; and protect the rights of parents to have a say in their children's schools.

The Governments have agreed that the referendum should have a clear legal base; be legislated for by the Scottish Parliament; be conducted so as to command the confidence of parliaments, government and people; and deliver a fair test and decisive expression of the views of people in Scotland and a result that everyone will respect...

NAATs are too complex, however, to perform in point - of - care settings such as physicians» offices, health fairs, school clinics, or other sexual health outreach venues, and they also have a high per - test cost.

Claire Buchanan is the brains behind the blog Cruelty Free With Me where she provides delicious plant - based recipes, fair - fashion tips, all her favorite cruelty - free beauty products free of animal testing, as well as being an inspiration for others to start making conscious decisions.

And, as promised, the two tests I want you to schedule with your doctor today so that you have a fair advantage when fixing your fertility.

As for the Frieze Art Fair, Angie and I had a blast goofing off around some of the weird art, and we took a personality test maze that told me I like candy (fact.

Through all of its flaws, though, «My Fair Lady» is a charming and highly enjoyable film that will stand the tests of time as a pure classic.

But funding from its two main donors, the Ford Foundation and the Joyce Foundation, has been «phased down or phased out,» said Robert Schaeffer, a spokesman for the nonprofit group, formally known as the National Center for Fair & Open Testing.

Once again this spring, boys outnumber girls as National Merit Semifinalists, even though girls typically earn higher grades than boys in both high school and college, the National Center for Fair & Open Testing has charged.

Middle school students engaged in Learning by Design (LBD) consistently outperformed students engaged in traditional instruction on tests of collaboration and metacognitive skills, such as checking work, designing fair tests, and explaining evidence.

As part of the Common Core State Standards initiative, our state is about to start using a new set of tests that are dramatically better, tougher, and fairer than what we've had before.

A spokesman for the ACT echoed this sentiment, saying, «We are all in the business to make the tests as fair to everybody as we can.»

This includes observation over time, pattern seeking, classifying and grouping, and researching using other sources, as well as comparative and fair testing.

There should also be a national strategy for teacher recruitment and retention that recognises teachers as high - status professionals and guarantees enough teachers for every school; fair methods to hold schools to account, recognising that test and exam results are only part of the picture when judging a pupil's success or a school's effectiveness; and a broad range of subjects in the school day so opportunities are not limited.

This camp claims that tests, as currently administered, are the only fair and «objective» measure of progress and should determine all or most high - stakes decisions.

Last, there are implications for fair testing practices, he says, especially on such important tests as the SAT, which is used by many colleges and universities as an admissions tool.

But audit testing, in a few grades at year's end, using secret tasks, is inherently unable to improve teaching and learning day in and day out in all classrooms, as my proposal is designed to do and any attempt at fair and comprehensive reform must do.

IELTS is the International English Language Testing System, devised as a fair way to test English - language ability, regardless of your ability or cultural background.

IELTS is the International English Language Testing System, devised as a fair way to test English - language ability, regardless of your ability or c...

Likewise, in a March 2011 Rutgers poll, 60 % of adults thought it would be «fair» to base teacher evaluations on student results on statewide tests as well as classroom observations, while 37 % thought it «unfair.»

These tests were developed to provide thorough, fair and carefully validated assessments for states to use as part of the licensure process for principals, superintendents and school leaders.

(2) When teacher evaluations of students count as least as much as the score on a one - time standardized test (3) When employment contracts are not for life and employee evaluations are fair and thorough.

States and districts should hold fast to higher standards as they take advantage of new opportunities under ESSA to make their tests better, fairer, and fewer.

Strauss used the words of Monty Neill, the executive director of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, known as FairTest, to set the record straight about the implications to a school, school district or state for failing to get at least 95 percent of the students to take the Common Core test.

She is a policy analyst for the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, known as FairTest, a Boston - based organization that aims to improve standardized testing practices and evaluations of students, teachers and sTesting, known as FairTest, a Boston - based organization that aims to improve standardized testing practices and evaluations of students, teachers and stesting practices and evaluations of students, teachers and schools.

As an assessment guy, I advise folks that statewide instruction must come before statewide assessments, or as Dave Gordon (Sacramento Co Supt) has been quoted «it isn't fair to test the kids on skills they haven't been taught.&raquAs an assessment guy, I advise folks that statewide instruction must come before statewide assessments, or as Dave Gordon (Sacramento Co Supt) has been quoted «it isn't fair to test the kids on skills they haven't been taught.&raquas Dave Gordon (Sacramento Co Supt) has been quoted «it isn't fair to test the kids on skills they haven't been taught.»

Parker's Suzanne Crown Goodman Science Wing was put to the test again this year as more than half of the student body in 1st — 5th grades participated in Parker's annual Lower and Intermediate School Science Fair

«People know that the test scores are flawed for a variety of reasons and that they can not be relied on as the sole or primary factor to make high - stakes decisions,» said Robert A. Schaeffer, the public education director of the National Center for Fair & Open Testing.

I've come to that position because I don't believe it is possible to apply test scores as a fair barometer of teacher quality.

As I have always said, standardized tests are not an effective means to judge every child's intellectual capacity and skills, and therefore these scores are not a fair and honest way to evaluate our teachers.

Indisputable evidence from the frontlines of teaching took center stage today at a CEA news conference in Hartford as teachers urged lawmakers to examine the needs of students and reject a test that is not valid, reliable, or fair.

Ultimately the question comes down to how you want to use the tests as to whether they really are ever «fair» (and to whom this «fairness» applies).

Many of us education activists (and yes, this includes folks of color) challenge the fundamental assumption that high - stakes, standardized testing provides ``... fair, unbiased, and accurate data...» as the civil rights organizations assert in their statement, and we challenge this assumption on historical grounds, empirical grounds, pedagogical grounds, political - ideological grounds, cultural grounds, and technical grounds, amongst others.

As to the question of fair, I'd ask whether it's fair to test a student in a non-native language.

Dave Gordon, SacCo Supt, said it best about a year ago when he was quoted by the SacBee as saying «It just isn't fair to test students on material they haven't been taught.»

A major newspaper expose demonstrating the U.S. school testing industry's inability to competently design and administer the current level of required state exams should persuade Congress to drop a plan to greatly increase mandated testing now being debated as part of an «education reform» bill, according to the National Center for Fair & Open Testing (Faitesting industry's inability to competently design and administer the current level of required state exams should persuade Congress to drop a plan to greatly increase mandated testing now being debated as part of an «education reform» bill, according to the National Center for Fair & Open Testing (Faitesting now being debated as part of an «education reform» bill, according to the National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FaiTesting (FairTest).

If all testing companies would clearly explain that their reading comprehension tests are tests of knowledge, and if they would explain — as the ACT's Chrys Dougherty does — that the only way to prepare for them is to build broad knowledge, then we could begin to create a fair and productive assessment and accountability system.

As we have shown in previous articles, Common Core tests are not fair in that they were deliberately designed to fail two thirds of American students even though American students, when adjusted for poverty, do better than any other students in the world.

In his RSCO School Choice Fair field notes, HH expresses concern that ``... the lack of conversations about test scores, despite some critics» view that test scores are not a reliable indicator of a school's quality of education, is concerning as low - income parents might not be aware of the academic outcome produced by the schools that they are choosing for their kids» (HH).

The nonprofit National Center for Fair and Open Testing, known as FairTest, which fights the misuse of government - mandated standardized tests, says on its website that the average student takes 112 tests between kindergarten and 12th grade and that the assessments «are frequently used in ways that do not reflect the abilities of students of color, English language learners, children with disabilities, and low - income youth.»

As we know, charter schools like to brag about their higher test scores, but traditionally use their recruitment process and «out migration» policies to push out less academically proficient students and, almost across the board, fail to take their fair share of non-English speaking students and students who require special education services.