Sentences with phrase «broader use of test»

This week, Maryland provided the latest surprise: Gov. Martin O'Malley, who is seeking union support for reelection, proposed tighter rules for teachers to qualify for tenure and opened the door to broader use of test scores to evaluate them.

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SAN DIEGO — U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Tuesday began testing the use of body cameras by its employees at nine locations, potentially leading to a broad rollout by the nation's largest law enforcement agency that would make it the first federal agency to use the devices on a large scale.

By invalidating key parts of Myriad's patents, the court has removed a bar that prevented labs using new technology from developing and selling broader one - time tests that search for all known cancer risks, including the BRCA genes, geneticists said.

Understanding the broader scope of Sensory Analysis, cuppers will be challenged to develop widely used guidelines, prepare scientific tests, and approach analyzing coffee in commonly accepted formats.

According to him, industrial parks will help the country bridge infrastructure gaps, develop targeted sectors, economies of scale and can also be used as testing grounds for broader economic reform initiatives.

«Because BX795 targets a common pathway that many viruses use to replicate inside the cell, it could be a new kind of broad - spectrum antiviral that might be used to treat other viral infections, including HSV - 2, which primarily affects the genitals, and HIV, although we have not yet tested it on viruses other than HSV - 1.»

It has used broad gene patents to operate a monopoly over testing for the two BRCA genes, which when mutated can cause inherited forms of breast cancer.

covering a broad range of constituents may be stored electronically and its basic pattern / profile (as reference standard) can be used for comparison with a given test sample to determine a?

Young also hopes the results, which should be compiled by the end of the year, will provide enough preliminary evidence to help raise funds for a larger trial testing the use of social media to combat abuse of a broader number of substances.

The use of hydrogen peroxide in the Broads is a potentially useful new management tool, if approved for use, and we welcome further testing and work with the John Innes Centre.»

Myriad Genetics has used broad gene patents to operate a monopoly over testing for the two BRCA genes, which when mutated can cause inherited forms of breast cancer.

Nitazoxanide is a drug that treats a broad spectrum of parasites and can be used as treatment for patients with persistent diarrhea who test negative for a pathogen in the lab.

«These new tests are easy to use, are capable of detecting a broad range of pathogens and represent a significant improvement over culture - based diagnostic approaches.

G. Expand use of proven cancer prevention and early detection strategies Reduce cancer risk and cancer health disparities through approaches in development, testing and broad adoption of proven prevention strategies.

Therefore, the study supports the hypothesis tested, and the new discoveries provide insight to mechanism and intervention using a broad range of measurements at several levels in a single longitudinal experiment.

The course gives a broad introduction to high throughput screening (HTS) that is technique used to identify biologically active small organic molecules through screening of compound libraries with the help of robust test systems and advanced instrumentation.

Because of the reporting requirements on report cards, however, because of the use of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Test as a benchmark, a parent leaving Georgia to go to Pennsylvania has more opportunities to understand where the next school their child will be attending fits within the broad framework of No Child Left Behind.

This logic applies not only to the restricted example used here (math and verbal) but also to a broad spectrum of tests of intellectual ability.

The hopeful news is that as more schools offer integrated studies, broader, more substantive forms of assessment — testing that more accurately reflects authentic development in student thinking and performance — may, out of necessity, come into use.

Policymakers and the public must immediately engage in an open and transparent community decision - making process about the best ways to use test scores and to develop accountability systems that fully support a broader, more accurate definition of college, career, and citizenship readiness that ensures equity and access for all students.

It contrasts the results of single - test approaches to graduation with those of states using a broader range of measures to award a high school...

The 15 volunteer parents who spent a week last year reviewing 10,000 Utah test questions were suddenly — in the last minutes of the 2014 Legislature — handed a far broader job: investigating complaints from parents about curriculum and materials used statewide.

Increased use of standardized testing has failed to spark broad improvement in student performance or stimulate progress in struggling schools, they say.

«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.

Putting aside the broader problems associated with using standardized mastery tests to measure educational outcomes; there is overwhelming evidence that test scores are impacted by a number of factors beyond simply what is going on in the classroom.

The letter commends the committee for providing states with the flexibility to use additional indicators of student proficiency in H.R. 5, its ESEA reauthorization bill, but asks to add language to the bill that will take into account the broad array of measures beyond standardized test scores.

Should we, as educational technology leaders, concentrate our efforts upon developing, testing, and disseminating a wide range of educational technology uses that support a broad spectrum of pedagogical approaches?

In addition, they pontificate that students learn best when schools are mandated to use the ill - conceived Common Core standards so classrooms become little more than Common Core testing factories and the teaching profession is opened up to those who haven't been burdened by lengthy college based education programs designed to provide educators with the comprehensive skill sets necessary to work with and teach the broad range of children who attend the country's public schools.

WHEREAS, the San Diego Unified Vision 2020, long - term strategic plan, Quality Schools in Every Neighborhood, supports and provides for quality teaching, access to broad and challenging curriculum for all students, closing the achievement gap with high expectations for all, and is committed to using multiple formative measures of success that go beyond standardized achievement tests; and

Initially used to support the Illinois State Board of Education in soliciting feedback on their State Plan, Partners for began testing out this new way of engaging with a broad range of stakeholders in December 2016.

Wisconsin's plan uses a broad array of factors to determine school performance, including academic achievement in reading and math tests, graduation rates, progress in attaining English language proficiency and chronic absenteeism.

Without offering any actual evidence, Mr. Mucher suggests that prospective teachers have been scared off from applying to his program by much of the agenda of the corporate reform movement: increasing accountability demands placed on teachers, using student test scores to determine teachers» effectiveness ratings, and «the way teachers are blamed for much broader social problems.»

Adamowski, Vallas, Fischer in New London, Kishimoto — they are leading the charge to increase segregation in schools; to deprive poorer children of art and music (an award - winning Middle School music program at Windham Middle School is currently languishing, with students not allowed the time to take what used to be daily music classes — more test prep, more test prep); to turn schools over to for - profit companies and mercenary non-educators from TFA and Broad — but all roads lead back to Hartford.

We provide a broad spectrum of diagnostic procedures through a combination of in - house testing and the use of external laboratories.

We provide a broad spectrum of diagnostic procedures through in - house testing and the use of outside laboratories.

Our staff of highly skilled doctors and nurses provide a broad spectrum of diagnostic procedures through in - house testing and the use of external laboratories.

We provide a broad range of diagnostic procedures through in house testing and the use of external laboratories.

We can provide a broad spectrum of diagnostic procedures through in - house testing and the use of external laboratories.

We provide a broad spectrum of diagnostic procedures through both in - house testing and the use of outside supporting laboratories all over the country.

We can provide a broad spectrum of diagnostic procedures through our extensive and immediate in - house testing along with use of external laboratories to aid in your animal's diagnosis, treatment, and recovery.

Our hospital provides a broad spectrum of diagnostic procedures through in - house testing and the use of external laboratories.

Our veterinarians provide a broad spectrum of diagnostic procedures through in - house testing and the use of external laboratories.

We provide a broad spectrum of diagnostic procedures through in - house testing, the use of external laboratories, digital x-ray and ultra-sound.

That's why we offer a broad spectrum of diagnostic procedures to our pets through in - house testing and the use of external laboratories.

We use outside labs with a quick turn around for other tests that are deemed necessaryto allow us to have a broad range of tests to aid in your pets treatment.

This could even be used as a sort of broad metric for game testing, a la what Valve has been doing.

In a broader sense, when models are used to test hypotheses about the climate variables used in their simulations, they conform to the concept of an experiment as a means of performing tests to gain knowledge about the world around us.

Nearly half of fast food wrappers tested contained PFAS chemicals — showing widespread use of these chemicals, but also broad adoption of alternatives.

Since the debate is mostly about severity and confidence levels, studies that use broad or ambiguous litmus tests of simple agreement with human caused warming are not very useful.

As a test of what I have just said above, and as a guard against it being seen as too broad and general, I will see what I am able to do with your ``....0.035...» issue using the humidity data Miscolczi has accumulated.»