Sentences with phrase «by objective tests»

Findings demonstrated positive content learning outcomes as measured by objective tests, rubrics, and anecdotal evidence.

Critics allege that standardized tests contain cultural biases, and that educational quality can't necessarily be evaluated by objective testing.

All of the conditions are known problems in Tibetan Terriers and can be documented by objective testing.

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Yardstick's longer - term objective — what Kureluk calls the company's «big hairy audacious goal» — is to become the most recognized testing brand in the Commonwealth by 2030.

The recruiters confessed that while they employed various metrics in their evaluations — psychometric testing, for example — by necessity, headhunting isn't an objective process.

Forward - thinking leaders recognize these issues and are changing the hiring game by employing data - based assessment tests and rankings based on objective measurements.

While IIHS and dozens of other private industry groups around the world have methods and motivations that suit their own subjective purposes, the most objective and accurate independent testing of vehicle safety is currently done by the U.S. government, which found Model S and Model X to be the two cars with the lowest probability of injury of any cars that it has ever tested, making them the safest cars in history.»

Straticyte is the first and only molecular diagnostic test for oral precancerous lesions that provides an objective and accurate prediction score as evidenced by retrospective clinical studies.

Yes, the path is rocky, they say, but peer review, competition between researchers, and the comforting fact that there is an objective reality out there whose test every theory must withstand or fail, all conspire to mean that sloppiness, bad luck, and even fraud are exposed and swept away by the advances of the field.

Christians rationalize the lack of any mechanism for objective testing by saying if such a test existed people wouldn't need faith.

Demanding strictly scientific precision to guarantee Scripture's trustworthiness, requiring something more objective than the internal, personal witness of the Holy Spirit through the text itself, scholars like Lindsell end up testing the truth of the Bible by an extra-Biblical standard.32 As with Davis, externally derived «good reasons» become the ultimate criterion for judging the gospel.

The scientists protested and presented reams of objective evidence validated by independent tests.

They're reading boring but effective textbooks full of information reinforced in the class's power point presentations, doing very practical group projects (often in labs), and being challenged by detail - driven objective tests.

Yet, approaching the truth affirmed by Christianity as some abstract, objective assertion to be tested, simply demonstrates that the questioner is approaching this query as a problem to be pondered, dissected, and solved, rather than a mystery to inhabit and be transformed by.»

The King - Devick tests vision in a nominally objective way by giving potentially concussed players a series of numbers to read — left to right, top to bottom — as fast as they can.

Why can't people for God sake understand the angle the young man was coming from, this is a guy who has come out to suggest what he feel will be of great glory to the team, futbol is about winning trophy not the samba, champaign, tick taka or jambody style Of playwill be accredited to ur cv after retirement, every professional player will wants to be identify with a medal, mind you he have limited years to his career, therefore we should not allow sentment or affections we have for our various teams erode the basic objective of the game.we should also think about their future too, this guys are proffessionals which young lads are looking up to and questions will be ask tomorrow about theirs playing days.can people tell me why pele and some other famous players in the world both present and past are been celebrated today the answer is simply cos they are successful in their career and have trophy to show for it in their respective clubs or countries, why the complain in nigeria?its simply cos our team for quite a while now has not recorded any troph to her glory, fans should learn how to call a spade a spade in order to balance situation and also for better performance of the team.why then did arsene wenger hurridly went to buy more experienced players after the poor outing he had at the beggining of last season?this players know beta cos they are at the centre of it all, we don't have to trash what they say, we fans are only watching from screen, in as much as we beliv in arsen wenger, we should also know that without the boys no arsen wenger, fans should try to reason along with the players too.an hypotetical cases of similar to rvp has been tested by some players and have put them right over the coach and the team.so, whatelse does the fans needs to prove that futbol has gone beyond living in the past.for example, fabrigas and nasri were able to prove their critics wrong.thank God for them, we should always be objective in our submission, how else do we expect players to show their commitment to a team that was in 8 on the log table and later fought their way back to 3rd this boys are commendable and deserve to be encouraged, I think is high time the manager and the mgt board of arsenal futbol team get to know that game of futbol has gone beyond two teams domination, its now like a pendilum which can swing either way only with a powerful insrument called money.you can't eat ur cake and have.

The K - D test, originally developed in the 1980's by optometrists Al King and Steve Devick at the Illinois College of Optometry, provides objective measures of many aspects of brain function, including subcortical (subconscious) pathways that extend beyond eye movements.

Labour leader Ed Miliband has reiterated his call for the Government to do an «objective test» on the impact of a potential takeover by Pfizer of AstraZeneca, despite the British firm's board rejecting the apparently final offer from the US drugs company.

While unions have said they worry that teachers could be unfairly judged based on their students» test results, the scoring for students and teachers is quite different — students get an objective standardized test score, while teachers are evaluated under multipart programs that are developed by local teachers unions and school leaders.

The group in a statement by its Country Director, Patriot Sunday Attah, said these attacks are deliberate attempts to not only test the strength of our security personnel but also ostensibly as a means of testing the waters for a more sinister objective.

Though the study was a small one, confirmation of the concept that PET scanning could be used as an objective test for CFS / ME could lead to better diagnosis and ultimately to the development of new therapies to provide relief to the many people around the world afflicted by this condition.

«These results enable us to determine whether potential treatments will be effective against patients» symptoms by testing them first in healthy volunteers and defining the best doses based on objective physiological data before conducting costly clinical trials,» said Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, the Lawrence C. Kolb Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at CUMC, and Principal Investigator of this study.

The objective of this study is to validate the diagnostic performance and practical feasibility of massively parallel genomic sequencing for the non-invasive prenatal assessment of trisomy 21 in a large number of pregnancies that have undergone conventional screening and were clinically indicated for definitive testing by amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling.

VAC2VAC stands for «Vaccine batch to vaccine batch comparison by consistency testing» and has the objective to deliver a proof of concept of consistency approach for batch release testing of established vaccines using sets of in vitro and analytical methods.

So I decided to get a more objective opinion by taking the Real Age Test on www.realage.com, which assesses whether you are «biologically younger, older, or the same as your calendar age.»

Objective: We tested the hypothesis that increasing the protein content while maintaining the carbohydrate content of the diet lowers body weight by decreasing appetite and spontaneous caloric intake.

To the extent the program involves student achievement, it bases awards on «student learning objectives» as «created by individual teachers, with the approval of site - based administrators»; these objectives «will be measured by a combination of existing assessment instruments, and teacher designed tools,» as well as by state standardized tests.

Recent government education policies seem to assume that academic achievement as measured by test scores is the primary objective of public education.

Unfortunately, these documents have been diluted and modified by states in formulating their goals documents, mostly because states generally view their standards as behavioral objectives that can be easily tested.

Not surprisingly, examination of the district's test scores objective - by - objective showed that students did well in areas where the textbooks were strong and performed poorly in other areas.

Thousands of schools for African American students across the Jim Crow South were built with the backing of the Rosenwald Fund, one of the earliest and most important foundations in education; philanthropist Grace Dodge founded Teachers College, now at Columbia University, in 1887, which led to training of teachers in pedagogy; the Ford Foundation was involved in promoting the employment of classroom aides, National Merit Scholarships, and the development of Advanced Placement curricula and tests; the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards grew out of work funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York, which also funded the Educational Testing Service to develop objective ways of measuring academic merit, which led to the SAT.

The test map is accompanied by an intervention worksheet organized by objective.

Standards, testing, and accountability have been pitched in part as mechanisms to get objective information to parents (and taxpayers) unfiltered by the spin of local administrators and elected officials.

By mandating that all states develop annual standardized tests to measure student performance, NCLB created objective standards that could be used for other purposes, too — including as an ostensible means of judging teacher effectiveness.

Even as Americans grow accustomed to judging schools by their results — and even as they recognize that testing is the simplest, cheapest, most objective way of gauging and reporting those results — many still lament the effects of testing on curriculum and instruction.

The Powerpoint presentation includes: - Lesson ideas with learning objectives - Opportunities for creative writing and drama activities inspired by the book - Related vocabulary for optional spelling tests - Success criteria for Levels 5 to 7.

At the end of each unit, my students take an assessment that I've aligned directly with my objectives - with objectives being tested by one or more questions on each test.»)

The teacher «efficiently grades in a way that helps students understand their performance and where they are in relation to the big goal,» by sitting down with students in the week after the benchmark exams are returned and guiding students to fill out their personal tracking sheets to see which objectives they have mastered (i.e., «So, for example, after they took the first benchmark, I sat down with about five students every day for a week and reviewed the test.

By focusing and honing their skills on tasks like subject matter expert interview techniques, content analysis and organization, learning objective identification, focus and user group testing, and more, these instructional designers can design and direct the production of training materials with little - to - no prior experience with the content.

Therefore, a key issue in determining alignment is the degree to which assessment results lead to correct classification of test scores and, by extension, correct interpretations of student performance relative to learning objectives and standards.

In the realm of standards alignment, the performance outcome objective is generally described as demonstration of «proficiency» on the established standards as measured by the state test

NAHT general secretary Russell Hobby said: «Anyone who thinks that external tests are somehow an «objective» measure of pupils» achievement should be rapidly disabused of the notion by this year's second exam fiasco.

By setting national standards, countries seek to raise aspirations and define educational excellence, make educational objectives transparent to students, and provide a framework for teachers while avoiding the risks of narrowing the curriculum and teaching to the test.

Unions say there is no objective way to evaluate teachers, arguing principals can be biased and incompetent, and test scores are influenced by factors outside of a teacher's control (such as poverty).

While all individual students are ostensibly still expected to reach proficiency in core subjects, some states have adjusted their «annual measurable objectives» for schools so that the percentage of students that must show progress on standardized tests varies by race and ethnic group.

In contrast, Pennsylvania is following the lead of states like Rhode Island that are using what are known as «student learning objectives,» in which teachers of subjects like art and gym set academic goals for their students, relying on local district tests, curriculum exams or projects and tests created by the teacher.

The student demonstrated intellectual giftedness as evidenced by any of the following: standardized achievement test scores (90th + percentile), scores on tests of general aptitude (125 + IQ), or other objective and subjective indicators of potential for well - above - average academic performance.

Instead, we believe in preparing children to do well on the test by ensuring that every objective has a corresponding Montessori material, so that children learn everything in an authentic, meaningful way.

Today's vote goes a step further by putting the full weight the CEA RA behind that position and providing great detail about teachers» objectives in ensuring less testing and more learning in Connecticut public schools.

Generally, tests — broken down by objective — account for 80 — 90 percent of a student's grade; the remaining portion is based on project work.