Sentences with phrase «challenge testing results»

How do I challenge the test results.

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Rather, the challenge was the inadvertent result of my 2009 insistence on stress testing our methods of classifying return / risk profiles against Depression - era data.

Meanwhile, I've been my own harshest critic — particularly with regard to the unfortunate timing of my stress - testing decision in 2009 — and have been very open about the challenges that QE and yield - seeking speculation have posed for the methods that resulted: deferring market losses that resulted much more quickly following extremely overextended market conditions in prior historical cycles.

Among 11 study participants for whom data from the oral food challenge were either inconclusive or not available, a diagnostic algorithm based on clinical history, the results of a skin - prick test, and the values for peanut - specific IgE were used to determine whether or not a participant should be considered to have peanut allergy (Fig.

Challenge Success believes that our increasingly competitive world has led to tremendous anxiety about our children's» futures and has resulted in a high pressure, myopic focus on grades, test scores and performance.

But for moms who work outside the home, getting a positive pregnancy test result can prove more challenging than enjoyable.

In what could become a major conflict between Trump and local governments, the showdown on «sanctuary cities» likely will result in legal challenges testing how far the White House can go in dictating its priorities.

The study showed that children with reading challenges may have lower than expected binocular vision test results, something a standard eye exam may overlook.

«What particularly disturbs me,» Judge David T. Stitt stated in the summary of the Chreky case, «is that most of the people coming through our system, particularly criminal defendants, do not have the resources to mount the kind of challenge to the DNA test results as was done in this case....

One of the biggest challenges in the training and testing of canine teams results from the explosives materials themselves — especially new homemade explosives.

An international study published in Nature Biotechnology presents the combined results of a 2013 DREAM Challenge: a crowd - sourcing initiative to test how well the effects of a toxic compound can be predicted in different people.

With increasing evidence that many studies in biomedicine and social science do not stand the test of time, journalists are facing new challenges in reporting and interpreting the results of such research, NPR science correspondent Richard Harris told a University of Texas audience on Nov. 2.

GE then challenged Yan's team, in collaboration with the software company Cascade Technologies, to deliver these first - of - a-kind results before the 2015 test to demonstrate a truly predictive capability.

«Pap tests are important for FTM patients but it can be challenging to obtain interpretable results,» said Dr. Potter, Director of Women's Health at Fenway Health.

Before the randomized food challenge, researchers collected blood from all patients and analyzed the results, which showed a strong correlation between BAT testing data and food challenge severity scores.

Doctors traditionally screen patients for diabetes during their second or third trimester by looking at risk factors including age, ethnicity, body mass index, family history of diabetes and the results of a glucose challenge test.

Another study showed that results varied noticeably depending on when the glucose challenge test was given.

You can do skin prick tests or shell out the dough for expensive food sensitivity lab results (that may not even tell you anything definitive), but the gold standard remains the food challenge: strict avoidance of the suspected food until symptoms subside followed by an oral challenge.

Recently I challenged a paleo blogger to give up his blood test results.

The testing results help us to create a comprehensive, fully individualized program to address your child's unique challenges.

Bacteriology Study Results - Challenge tests were performed on bacterial and fungal pathogens including Aspergillus niger, Candida Albicans, Escherichia coli, Escherichia coli 0157H7 (hemorrhagic e.coli), Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, Trichophyton rubrum, Vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecalis (VRE), and Vancomycin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA).

And I wouldn't have realized it was possible for me order lab tests on my own and challenge my PCP with the results.

Dr. Sara's Detox Challenge is the result of years of research and testing what works (and what doesn't work) when it comes to detoxing for hormone balancing and weight loss.

Completing a one - hundred - mile trail run across challenging terrain in less than thirty hours «tested and highlighted my breakthrough fitness results enjoyed since joining CrossFit East Cobb.»

However, in this analysis, diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus was based on results with highly abnormal serum glucose concentrations of 10.3 mmol / L or more on the 1 - hour 50 - g glucose challenge test — the threshold at which women do not require further confirmatory testing with an oral glucose tolerance test.34

I have tested this challenge on my self, as I do with all of my routines and I can tell you with confidence, you are going to LOVE the results!

The actors aren't tested or challenged, necessarily, but they're playing in comfortable grooves and there's a lot of satisfaction in watching the results.

It is an immensely compelling discussion, which covers revisions resulting from moviemaking challenges and test screenings, amusing production anecdotes, and various little revealing tidbits (like the briefly - seen llama cactus and Disney's first on - screen pregnancy), all of which is bound to enhance anyone's appreciation for the film.

As a result, state tests were made much more challenging and the percentage of students identified as proficient dropped from 90 percent or more to around 50 percent, a candid admission of the challenges the Tennessee schools faced.

(The complexity and the nature of the challenges posed to the learners tested their cognitive proficiency to tackle the situation at hand, thereby resulting in immersive learning.)

The result of that survey is the National Education Technology Plan, which highlights the challenge of improving test scores among an increasingly tech - savvy student population while using traditional teaching methodologies, and emphasizes what it calls «e-learning» and virtual schools.

The results in maths show that 44 per cent of the students tested do not meet the baseline identified in ACARA's Measurement Framework for Schooling in Australia 2012 (2013); which outlines a «challenging but reasonable expectation of student achievement at a year level, with students needing to demonstrate more than the elementary skills expected at this level.»

Although acknowledging their challenges, both principals said they want to channel some of their resources toward improving standardized test results, particularly with talk at the federal level of tying funding to student test scores.

How does this occur today, particularly when test results often seem more important than the development of a child ready to tackle career - life challenges?

Most importantly, then, test results provide parents and teachers with vital information about student learning, and accountability policies challenge districts and schools to meet individual student needs with effective teachers, strong curricula, choices for families and students, and break - the - mold interventions for failing schools.

These systems will face legal challenges that they probably will not overcome once test results are used to fire teachers or reward or penalize them with higher or lower pay.

The results, largely based on standardized test performance with graduation rates and advanced course enrollment factored in, are praiseworthy given the district's challenges, high poverty (70 percent of its 345,000 students qualify for free or reduced - priced lunch), and large population of English language learners.The Education Village «includes all of the elements that make sense,» Miami - Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said in the Miami Herald.

Research behind VAL - ED (the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education tool to assess principal performance, developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University) suggests that there are six key steps - or «processes» - that the effective principal takes when carrying out his or her most important leadership responsibilities: planning, implementing, supporting, advocating, communicating and monitoring.40 The school leader pressing for high academic standards would, for example, map out rigorous targets for improvements in learning (planning), get the faculty on board to do what's necessary to meet those targets (implementing), encourage students and teachers in meeting the goals (supporting), challenge low expectations and low district funding for students with special needs (advocating), make sure families are aware of the learning goals (communicating), and keep on top of test results (monitoring).41

These test results are not necessarily a reflection of the quality of education offered by a charter school like Trinity on a RTC campus, but are certainly impacted by these students» life challenges.

The Every Student Succeeds Act creates an innovation fund to test, validate, replicate and scale evidence - based solutions to solve the big challenges students and schools face, and it allows school districts to invest their federal dropout prevention and student safety and health funds in «pay for success» initiatives in which districts pay for student services only if and when specified results are achieved.

One of the biggest concerns around introducing the baseline test is that schools «don't have a massive incentive to produce high results for the baseline» as this could make demonstrating progress more challenging, he added.

Zimmer, King and Torlakson stayed away from some of less positive news from the test results, including that the achievement gaps between some minority groups and white students, and between students from economically challenged backgrounds and their wealthier peers, remained close to the same as last year.

A similar level of challenge across all the SLOs created, as well as similarity between the difficulty of SLOs and difficulty of achieving the results determined by other means (e.g., value - added ratings generated with state test data).»

In effect, framing the test as a threat rather than a challenge resulted in a two - letter - grade drop in performance.

Across the nine schools, the teachers tested 15 different change ideas, and several of these practices produced standout results in shifting students» mindsets and learning outcomes, including a routine to improve peer - to - peer feedback, the revising work and tests routine, the challenge problems activity, and a one - on - one conferencing protocol.

Far too often, however, students in high - poverty schools must confront not only the challenges in their community, but also the burden of an impersonal, standardized testing scheme that too often results in the wrong priorities and fails to identify and address their needs.

Taking Stock: How Standardized Test Reports Let Us Down under NCLB (2016) The Testing Mess - Why It Won't Go Away (2016) The Grammar of American Schooling and the Challenge of the Common Core (2014) Testing and the Common Core (2012) Something's Wrong with Illinois Test Results (2009)

Many argue that those low marks were a result of a more challenging test designed after Pence repealed Common Core in Indiana.

ALL CHILDREN deserve an appropriate, holistic, challenging and nurturing education, regardless of their test results in a given year or over time.

The truth is that the real barriers to educational achievement are primarily due to poverty, language barriers and unmet special education needs and a look at the tables below reveal just how the charter schools are able to corrupt their test results by refusing to take their fair share of the students who face the greatest challenges.