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.
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.
Everyone loves a
bubble (until they don't), and those journalists who go out
with pokers to
test their surface strength are not held in high esteem by newsroom bosses, some readers and viewers, investors, companies pitching their products, or politicians who have hitched their wagon to making that
bubble get bigger.
Let the brown butter
bubble a bit and it will continue to cook the sprouts, which you can
test for done - ness
with a fork.
**
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.
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.
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.
Echocardiograms showed one - fourth as many nitrogen
bubbles in their hearts compared
with readings in similar
tests that were not preceded by heavy workouts.
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.
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.
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 sco
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 sco
with measuring teachers» performance through students» standardized
test scores.
But, it's an unfortunate comment on today's education debate that my quest to align public funding
with effectiveness is seen as a call for more
bubble tests.
And when
bubble - in
tests define what gets taught, we end up
with narrow and shallow curriculum (and federal pressure certainly played a big role in this).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.»
The new
tests are meant to be much more difficult than typical standardized
tests,
with many more open - response questions and essays in addition to fill - in - the -
bubble multiple choice.
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.
with endless
bubble - in
tests.
It is time that we stop
testing students using antiquated fill in the
bubble» forms, and begin to align our assessment methods
with standards that will better prepare students for college and careers,» Bonilla said in a statement Thursday.
We will not distort curriculum in order to encourage students to comply
with bubble test thinking.
That is why many people across the political spectrum support the work of 44 states to replace multiple choice «
bubble»
tests with a new
test that helps inform and improve instruction by accurately measuring what children know across the full range of college and career - ready standards, and measures other skills, such as critical - thinking abilities.
«We're in an age of accountability and quantifying just about everything that you can quantify,» he said, «so providing teachers
with a way to actually show what they're doing in class is very different from a
bubble - in
test.
Most efforts to lift struggling schools focus on students
with the lowest scores on standardized
tests, as well as students who are «on the
bubble» — not college - bound students who presumably are meeting grade - level expectations.
The Toledo Technology Academy (TTA) is a four - year public high school that is considered one of the gems of the Toledo Public Schools system and a model for community - supported education based on teamwork and project - based learning rather than a school day crowded
with «fill - in - the -
bubble»
test fixation.
The U.S. public views teachers as providers of content — facts and figures — to improve student achievement on multiple - choice
bubble tests, while high - performing countries say teaching — like social work — is about relationships and call on teachers to collaborate
with each other and their students to solve problems.
Apparently the belief in this school, and probably others, is that by humiliating these students, segregating them from their fellow classmates and preventing them from having popcorn and cotton candy will provide them
with a powerful incentive to forgo their anxieties and be more attentive when it comes to filling in the
bubbles on next year's CMT
test.
I don't have a problem
with including
test results as part of (teacher performance), but the
bubble test we're using right now is ineffective in determining how effective teachers are.
Traditional multiple - choice assessments
with bubbles struggle to meet the needs of both the new national
test and more importantly the learning needs of our students.
The white
test car,
with multi-colored accent stripes and red Monte Carlo SS graphics, showed a few shortcomings of early production, such as ill - fitting rubber trim around the rear window and air
bubbles under the accent stripes, but nothing to get overheated about.
My general thesis when it comes to investing in tech companies is to diversify across a number of the highest - quality and most profitable dividend growth stocks in the space, limiting myself to those companies that have demonstrated an ability to change / adapt over time (
with the dot - com
bubble itself being a nice
test of that).
The housing
bubble was easy to see
with long - term perception — where one does stress
tests, and looks at the long term likelihood of loss, rather than risk measures that derive from short - term price changes.
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Castle of Illusion, obviously, isn't on the Mini, but many more
testing platformers are, from the Mario games to
Bubble Bobble and the genuinely fuck - this - thing - I - am - done -
with - it frustrating original Castlevania (both dating from» 86).
It focused on laboratory
tests in which coccolithophores were grown in water made more acidic by infusing it
with bubbles of air
with elevated concentrations of carbon dioxide.
The latter gives an idea of the gas age at closing depth (together
with several other
tests), as we have an overlap of about 20 years between ice
bubble ages at Law Dome and South Pole atmospheric measurements.
Those walls grew until finally the creativity of your heart, spirit, and right brain were all but abandoned in favor of subjects that could be objectively
tested with multiple - choice exams and computer - graded
bubble sheets.