Sentences with phrase «by testing companies»

We have a lot of data about student learning but it isn't coming through tests developed by testing companies.

If we can't get it right using the best tests we have going, as developed by testing companies with decades of experience developing tests that are still highly questionable when used for measuring teachers» contributions to student learning, just think of the exponential problems this is to now cause too.

Current licensure requirements vary significantly among states, as reported by the testing company Educational Testing Service (ETS):

The links provided by CSDE are billed as «nonscientific» and include SBAC - developed surveys: the Administrative Survey is really a Smarter Balanced Proctor Survey Report completed by an unreported number of district administrators; the Smarter Balanced Field Test Student Survey was provided by the testing company and had 1800 respondents (less than one - percent of students who took the test in CT); and the Superintendent's Survey was specific to the Smarter Balanced Testing Calendar and from the 79 respondents listed (out of a possible 169 school districts) it is easy to understand why this information provided by the CSDE should be viewed with caution.

Just like the SBAC website itself, school administrators and teachers only know what they have been told by the test company promoting its product.

How do we, as teachers and educational leaders, condone putting our students through an assessment process that has been designed to ensure that 70 percent of the students taking the test will not meet the predetermined cut - score that has been set by the test company in consultation with political leaders and educational bureaucrats who are predominantly out - of - touch with both classroom instructional practice and how children learn?

This was the first such analysis conducted by the test company.

The following tests have not been published by a test company, but are either research measures (the TSC - 40 and CMIS - SF) or are intended for clinical use, but do not warrant commercial publication as a test at this time (the ITR series).

Not exact matches

They said the company's head honchos told the public they perfected a «revolutionary technology» vetted by experts and regulators that will change the world of lab testing, knowing full well that it'll reach investors» ears.

For $ 999 per year up front or $ 99 monthly, customers will use a kit sent by the company each quarter to take blood, urine, stool, and saliva samples, and then send them back for testing.

The company's nearly a dozen employees help people sell their cars on consignment by conducting test drives, handling paperwork, offering financing and providing a one - stop location for any other car - selling needs.

At a conference hosted by the Cleveland Clinic, Holmes said the company would release data showing its tests are accurate, although she didn't say how or when.

In November 2013, the FDA sent 23andMe cofounder and CEO Anne Wojcicki a stern warning saying that the company's tests and health reports, which it was already selling straight to customers, were unapproved medical devices that hadn't been cleared by the agency.

For Theranos to take lab - testing business from the two major lab companies used by doctors, Quest and LabCorp, and to partner to run tests for more hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and government agencies, it has to show it can get it right at every stage, from the preparation before it pricks someone's finger to the accurate processing of hundreds of thousands of samples.

That's because weak companies die and people lose their jobs when tested by stronger competition.

Blue Origin is headed quickly toward commercial operations as the rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos nears the end of testing for several of its major projects.

He also points to payments platform Stripe — another company founded by Millennials — and its «Sunday Test.»

Theranos, a company founded by Stanford sophomore Elizabeth Holmes in the fall of 2003 (she dropped out a few months later) has generated a lot of buzz for developing a revolutionary approach to the blood test.

By 2020, Bhargava says the company will be on the market — selling a shoebox - size lab for about $ 1,000 and an annual subscription plan for the testing pods.

Facebook is stepping up its efforts to compete with Twitch and YouTube for video game streaming: The company is now offering select video gamers a chance to monetize their gameplay live streams on Facebook by giving their audience a way to tip them as part of a test of new monetization options.

But BresoDX, a self - administered home test for sleep apnea, developed by Toronto - based company Bresotec, is likely to complete the study portion of the process in early 2016.

So while the autonomous technology is still evolving, Ford wants to test its new business model centered around logistics so that it can lay the groundwork for a new era shaped by self - driving cars at the company.

A couple of B - school professors decided to test the hypothesis by reviewing employee promotions and sales records at over 200 companies.

It did submit data from its herpes blood test to the FDA (which approved it), but a former Theranos employee cited by the Journal said that, at the end of 2014, the company only used its technology for 15 blood tests out of at least 225.

Although psychological tests have long been dismissed by skeptics, many companies are using them — with great success — to match employees to jobs that they won't want to leave.

Phil Soper, chief executive of real estate company Royal LePage, said the new stress test for uninsured mortgages introduced by the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions has «interrupted» the flow of move - up home buyers looking to upgrade from their entry level home or move to a more desirable location.

Many of these companies are getting a chance to test the U.S. market by selling goods at a pop - up exhibit called «The Edit» at the Roosevelt Field Mall on Long Island, New York.

By outsourcing development wherever possible, conducting rigorous market testing and selling exclusively online, he's turned Paretologic, which specializes in online security, into a company with $ 88 million in annual revenues, and profit margins that regularly exceed 50 %.

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.

FDA said that despite over a dozen meetings and «hundreds of email exchanges» the company had failed to show the tests were backed by science.

By analyzing data and employing A / B testing to decipher, for example, how its opening in Miami differed from its opening in Atlanta, the company quickly identified key indicators that a market was a good fit, namely cities with «significant population density, restaurant density... and a high percentage of independent restaurants,» says Zabusky.

The company monitors credit and debit transactions by running them through more than 100 security tests each day.

In the San Diego company's stores you can test - drive an oven by baking cookies or a grill by preparing a steak, with a professional chef on hand to instruct you in the features.

That research will be crucial: An earlier effort by another company, Pathway Genomics, to create a «liquid biopsy» for cancer was greeted in September by a stern letter from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warning that the agency had «not found any published evidence that this test or any similar test has been clinically validated as a screening tool for early detection of cancer in high risk individuals.»

As marijuana legalization slowly passes state by state and lawmakers discuss national reform, companies are calling into question prohibition - era policies like employee drug testing.

Now his softer approach will be put to the test — though the company is also diving back into the Kalanick - era playbook, including by marshalling public pressure on regulators.

Top executives at Uber used the encrypted chat app Wickr to hold secret conversations, current and former workers testified in court this week, setting up what could be the first major legal test of the issues raised by the use of encrypted apps inside companies.

DNA - testing companies determine where your genes are from by comparing you to other users who are known to have ancestors from that region.

«By and large, tech companies have moved away from these crazy brainteasers,» she says, «because they don't test anything relevant.»

Sappington plans multiple pilot tests to collect customer feedback, work out any kinks and streamline the integration with the company's existing technology systems before rolling out the finished app in nearly all 14,000 U.S. restaurants and some 6,000 others in Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Australia and China, by the end of this year.

McDonald's Corp has begun testing its long - awaited U.S. mobile ordering app, with the goal of avoiding the kinds of service hiccups that have haunted digital debuts by companies such as Starbucks.

But it wasn't until he stumbled on a blog post by Internet and mobile cloud testing and monitoring company Keynote that he fully grasped how well WeatherTech's site had nailed it.

The LGBTQ dating app, which has more than 3.6 million daily active users around the world, was recently revealed by BuzzFeed News to have shared the HIV statuses of its users as well as the dates of their most recent tests with two data optimisation companies.

The judges» picks then move on to the real test: a stamp of approval from consumers themselves, who were polled by the thousands by global market research company TNS on behalf of Rogers Insights.

Most of the common analyses and tests done by Web companies treat are centered on the notion of «visitors» to their website (transactional, one time relationship with consumers, typically driven by traffic coming from search engines) rather than «users» of their service (longer term relationship, typically involves creating a user account with the Web service).

The proposed regulations create a framework that will allow certain companies to bring more tests to market by eliminating a requirement for premarket review for every new test they release.

«It turns out 4 to 5 percent is enough of a discount for shoppers,» CEO Marc Lore said, discussing the results of tests the company ran over the past few weeks by raising the prices of some products.

In tests conducted by SGS, a leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company, it found that Teforia could decrease caffeine content by up to 67 percent and could increase the increase the amount of gallocatechin, one of the major antioxidants found in tea, by up to 133 percent.

But then, the secretive company's claims it could run a full range of tests from a few drops a blood had yet to be vetted by anyone.

The article described how an internal investigation conducted by a company executive, Dinesh Thakur, who went on to become a whistleblower, reported appalling deceit: Ranbaxy scientists substituted cheaper, lower - quality ingredients in place of better ingredients, manipulated test parameters, and even bought brand - name drugs and used them in place of their own generics to win FDA approval.