Sentences with phrase «bubble tests of»

For the first time, many teachers will have the state assessments they have longed for — tests of critical thinking skills and complex student learning that are not just fill - in - the - bubble tests of basic skills but support good teaching in the classroom.

Virtually all are replacing their old fill - in - the - bubble tests of basic skills, tests that contributed to both low expectations for student learning and bad teaching practices, with significantly stronger assessments.

Not exact matches

Lightpath Technologies, Inc., a provider of optics, photonics and infrared solutions for the industrial, defense, telecommunications, testing and measurement, and medical industries, hit an all - time low at 30 cents in February of 2009 after a multi-year fall that began with the dot.com bubble in 2000.

If anything, the rush into Bitcoin and the loss of confidence the bursting of this latest bubble will cause may remind investors of the time - tested virtues of gold — and the reasons investors have sought its safety for thousands of years.

They then apply a regime - switching test to estimate whether deviations of actual gold price from fundamental value enter bubble territory over their sample period.

Instead of embracing realistic expectations and a time - tested approach, you may be tempted to react to predictions about bubbles ahead or another financial crisis on the horizon.

Use a piece of leftover dough to test the oil — when dropped in, the dough should float and bubble rapidly.

** Test the oil with a small piece of potato — if it bubbles visually and audibly, then you can reduce the heat to medium and start frying the potatoes in spread - out layers.

The learning lab is brilliantly designed, it looks just like an old fashioned science lab, full of curiosities from brightly coloured, bubbling test tubes to Professor Blasts rather unusual looking pet.

We tested out 4 of the products: Shampoo and Body Wash, Bubble Bath, Intensive Moisture Lotion for Dry Skin and Daily Moisture Lotion.

At 29 weeks their love bubble burst when they found a brain anomaly and after weeks of waiting and testing they found out that she had a chromosomal disorder with fatal consequences.

But deftly and sure - footed, the Buhari administration is building a new foundation for the economy, erecting an edifice that will stand the test of time, not a bubble that collapses with just a pinprick, not a will - o - the - wisp that vanishes in the midday sun.

In New York City and some upstate districts, young children are taking bubble tests or online exams, even though some of the children can't yet hold a pencil or use a computer, union leaders said during a conference call Thursday.

At the Institute of Child Health in London, Roland Levinsky, Christine Kinnon and their colleagues are keen to test an experimental treatment for «bubble babies» — children with a rare immune deficiency caused by a genetic defect.

Sionix, an Anaheim, Calif. — based corporation, which manufactures a treatment system that uses microscopic air bubbles to clean water, is testing whether its technology can also reduce levels of metal, namely iron and manganese (both toxic to the body in large amounts) in Santiago Creek near Villa Park Dam in Orange County, Calif..

Light from the collision should help test Einstein's theory of general relativity, and tell us more about two huge bubbles of hot gas at the centre of the Milky Way that the black hole may have spawned.

The project's co-spokesman, Paul Huffman of North Carolina State University in Raleigh, says that trial runs on a test apparatus ran into problems when bubbles began to form on its electrodes.

Multiple bubbles of the same color represent multiple cancer types that are being tested in these trials.

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and East China Normal University devised and tested a thin - about as thin as the skin of a soap bubble - film composed of a special type of molecules called peptoids that can repair itself, similar to the self - repair seen in cells of living organisms.

In the next set of experiments, they engineered DNA bubbles into the DNA that varied between 3 and 12 base pairs and tested what size bubble would allow transcription to proceed in the absence of TFIIH, the basal or general transcription factor they implicated in forcing these DNA bubbles open.

The main hardware in the existing research infrastructure at IFE Hynor is found in a process room for testing and development of high temperature hydrogen production and solid oxide fuel cell technology (SOFC), including a Dual Bubbling Fluidized Bed reactor prototype (DBFB) for continuous hydrogen production by sorption - enhanced reforming (SER) of methane with an integrated process for CO2 - capture.

So, think of the gas that comes back on the Breath Test is like looking for bubbles on the surface trying to see if someone's in the water.

The SIBO kit comes in a box with 10 glass test tubes, 10 labels, 1 sample collection device (with attached blue bag and needle holder), 1 packet of lactulose, 2 bubble wrap packing bags, the instructions from the manufacturer, and the Patient Record form.

In this article for District Administration, regular Edutopia blogger Suzie Boss tells the story of how schools are meeting the challenge of standardized tests and moving past the «bubble» exam; she also highlights how educators are overcoming fear and anxiety around assessing critical thinking and content.

With every bubble of knowledge that students darken using their # 2 pencils, our nation increases its infatuation with measuring teachers» performance through students» standardized test scores.

And those straying off the cognitive reservation can also invoke Duncan's boss, whose March 2009 denunciation of «bubble tests» called for a new generation of assessments that would address not only «problem - solving and critical thinking» but also «entrepreneurship and creativity.»

Parents worried that the drive to increase performance on state tests came at the cost of an ever - narrowing curriculum and that the focus on getting the «bubble kids» from slightly below proficient to slightly above proficient came at the cost of teaching kids who were way behind or ahead.

Parents and teachers complained — with some legitimacy — that the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) era set loose an avalanche of weak fill - in - the - bubble tests to assess student mastery of watered - down state academic standards.

Some Common Core advocates consider union criticism of the new tests, which replace multiple - choice, fill - in - the - bubble exams that reflect low expectations, to be deeply hypocritical.

Together these media files serve as an alternative form of assessment far move revealing than the often - used standardized bubble test.

With technological advances, gone are the days of poring over a three - inch thick manual and filling out Scantron bubbles on sample test sheet after sample test sheet.

Back in 2009, President Obama told an audience of business leaders that he wanted to see tests «that don't simply measure whether students can fill in a bubble on a test, but whether they possess 21st century skills like problem - solving and critical thinking and entrepreneurship and creativity.»

Since ESSA requires the use of proficiency rates, one design objective is a combination of measures on academic achievement to reduce both the short - term gaming around «bubble kids» (both real and perceived) and also the long - term incentive to lowball cut - scores for various achievement bands on statewide tests.

Then there was the «bulimic education,» with disjointed facts going in one ear and out the end of a pencil bubbling in test answer sheets and then into the ether.

Up to now, much of teaching in California has been criticized as being grounded in the principal measure of success under No Child Left Behind — preparing students to fill in the correct bubbles on standardized tests.

«We are closing the shameful achievement gap faster than ever,» the mayor said again in 2009, as city reading scores — now acknowledged as the height of a test score bubble — showed nearly 70 percent of children had met state standards.

In an effort to provide ongoing feedback to teachers during the course of the school year, measure annual student growth, and move beyond narrowly - focused bubble tests, the U.S. Department of Education has awarded two groups of states grants to develop a new generation of tests.

My commentary in Education Week explains why this issue is critical to determining whether the two consortia of states working to develop new assessments can fulfill their promise to move beyond «bubble» testing.

What we need to improve education in this country is a strong, highly respected education profession; a rich curriculum in the arts and sciences, available in every school for every child; assessments that gauge what students know and can do, instead of mindless test prepping for bubble tests.

I believe that these rigorous standards have the potential to dramatically improve the quality of instruction in the typical American classroom — to move teachers far beyond the test - prep and bubble - kids obsessions of the No Child Left Behind era.

The result was that technology instruction was geared toward testing, with students learning «how to click in a bubble instead of how to pencil in a bubble.»

The tests, by SBAC and Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, will both be administered mostly on computers and will feature more open - ended questions than the traditional «fill in the bubble» exams to which students have grown accustomed.

Before we throw away bubble tests, though, we should institute a relatively simple change that would lessen the worst effects of the test - prep culture and improve education in the bargain.

The Dept. of Education announced a new competitive grant that is compatible with ESSA for states that want to «ditch fill - in - the - bubble tests» with modern, «competency - based tests.»

Even the most technologically advanced states have done little except replace the conventional paper - based, multiple - choice, fill - in - the - bubble tests with computerized versions of the same.

And it is not acceptable that the major emphasis of educational reform is on bubbling in Scantron test booklets, the results of which will be used to rank and sort schools and teachers, so that those at the bottom can be fired or closed — not so that we will invest the resources needed actually to provide good education in these schools.

In Iowa, for example, the cost of administering the fill - in - the - bubble Iowa Tests of Basic Skills is 93 cents per student.

After the field tests were administered, some news reports documented a range of problems, including students struggling to master the technicalities of taking a test online instead of filling in bubbles with a pencil.

«One - shot, year - end bubble tests administered on a single day, too often lead to a dummying down of curriculum,» Duncan said of the old state tests.

Mulgrew stated that both State Education Commissioner John King and Chancellor Dennis Walcott told him they were against standardized testing for pre K to grade 2 but Mulgrew went on to say that 36 schools were giving bubble tests to kids of this age and that he talked to a teacher who reported that some of these students could not even hold a pencil.