Sentences with phrase «based test maker»

Web - based test maker that helps educators and trainers develop and deliver tests and quizzes online.

Not exact matches

Drug maker Lundbeck, genetic testing firm 23andMe, and think tank the Milken Institute are joining forces to study the genetic bases and underlying causes of psychiatric disorders like major depression and bipolar disorder.

The Brooklyn - based online craft marketplace is testing out a pilot program that allows makers to raise money for production costs.

• Quanterix, a Lexington, Mass. - based protein detection test maker, said it plans to raise $ 49.5 million in an IPO of 3.3 million shares between $ 14 to $ 16 a piece.

• Branford Castle acquired Vitrek LLC, a California - based maker of electrical safety test and measurement equipment.

This provides the decision maker with expert views, based on tested evidence, on which to base a decision» (NGP Report, Volume II, s. 2.3.1).

Again, we always come off of that Money Maker exercise and go right to a ground based test to see: «Did it make the ground based squat more dialed in?».

DairiConcepts, a Springfield, Missouri - based cheese maker that's a subsidiary of Dairy Farmers of America, said on its website that in a test of 28 brands, only one - third of label claims about protein levels in grated parmesan were accurate.

But the Princeton, N.J. - based test - maker has already received inquiries from admissions officials seeking such a tool, ETS officials say.

Outside of school, policy makers and the media are no longer heard judging programs, schools, school districts, or states solely on the basis of test scores.

For two years, Agency by Design has partnered with preK — 12 educators in Oakland, California, to develop instructional strategies and tools to help students think critically about the design of objects, ideas, and systems — and to test the notion that maker - based experiences can increase students» sense of self - efficacy.

In tandem with a new website that offers important educational resources, including thinking routines to stimulate learning, the paper solidifies Agency by Design's efforts to shape a set of research - based, educator - tested practices and to invite the broad community of maker educators into a conversation about the ideas driving and shaping the movement.

Regular feedback in the form of surveys is needed to understand how those charged with implementing standards - based educational reform — teachers, superintendents, parents, and policy makers — think about the uses of tests and the high - impact decisions that follow from them.

She writes in that letter about the test - based evaluation of teachers and principals, a policy that's received increasing national attention from policy makers.

Along with other national testing experts, FairTest advises policy makers and educational practitioners that using standardized test scores alone as the basis for describing school performance or improvement is both unreliable and unfair.

''... Plans for 2016 are still underway as the state talks with test makers and considers its options, but the testing turmoil most likely means that Michigan kids will end up taking three different tests in three years: the state's traditional MEAP in 2014, the Smarter Balanced - based M - Step in 2015 and a new, unknown M - Step in 2016...» read full article

Following Louisiana's lead, policy makers in a growing number of states are evaluating programs based on the test scores of their graduates» students.

Union leaders generally have to preserve an ability to speak with policy makers, so a degree of caution in promoting a movement that aims to pull the rug out from under test based accountability and spark a confrontation with those implementing that policy is expected.

Standardized test passing rates are based on arbitrary and political decisions about how many students decision - makers want to fail.

If governments are going to base car taxation on Co2 emissions, then car makers are going to build cars that «game» the official tests.

Qualcomm, the world's largest maker of mobile - phone chips, will demonstrate a test device running Windows 8 based on its Snapdragon processor, said a person familiar with its plans.

Supplement makers that are willing to put in the time to develop a truly scientifically based formula that has been clinically tested for positive results are the only kind to consider.

She had the space to do so, but instead hypothesized that science (and presumably climate science) bases its approach to statistical testing in the long shadow of its ancient historical ties to religion, which is something she may well be able to offer an opinion about, as an historian, but which has minimal relevance to policy makers or the interested public in interpreting scientific claims as found, say, in the IPCC reports.

Moving forward, employers operating in Ontario should expect that courts and administrative decision - makers will apply the Johnstone test where an employee claims that he or she has been discriminated against on the basis of «family status.»

Athletic Propulsion Labs (API), makers of the Tech Loom shoe, make products based on testing done by «two independent, world - class, Ph.D. experts in the field of bio-mechanics, energy return, and vertical leap.»

Taiwan - based Largan Technology as well as Japan - and China - based camera lens makers have sent dual - lens camera test samples to Apple for potential inclusion in its next - generation iPhone, according to sources from the upstream supply chain (via DigiTimes).

Taiwan - based Largan Technology as well as Japan - and China - based camera lens makers have sent dual - lens camera samples to Apple for testing, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.

European Aircraft maker Airbus is testing Ethereum for a possible shift of its supply chain management to an Ethereum based blockchain since Ethereum technology is specifically intended to support smart contract applications that can automate complex physical and financial supply chain procedures and compliance processes involving multiple parties.