Sentences with phrase «closed test groups»

Not exact matches

Researchers hope the new study «will establish large - scale test norms and expected ranges of pre-competition scores for this age group, and will further investigate the capacity for K - D scores to capture closed head injury and concussion.»

In the wake of the closing of a Bronx schools contaminated with a toxic chemical, two advocacy groups and eight members of the City Council have written to Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott demanding immediate testing of city school on leased property and a public disclosure of he results.

Jasmine Gripper of the Alliance for Quality Education, a union - supported group with close ties to the mayor, said that test scores shouldn't be used as a measuring stick on de Blasio's success with mayoral control.

The world is closer to nuclear annihilation than at any point since the first hydrogen bombs were tested in the early 1950s, says a group of scientists who monitor global tensions.

All our four study groups had test scores very close to the average, which is reassuring — and shows the high validity of the study.»

Having shown that it's possible to directly reprogram mouse fibroblasts (in a dish and in adult hearts) and also human heart fibroblasts in a dish, Dr. Srivastava's group is testing the recipe in pigs, whose heart size and physiology is closer to our own.

The other tests were a bit more straightforward: remembering the direction in which a group of dots was moving and picking the closest match from a series of later groups; and remembering a word and selecting the closest rhyme for it from a group of other words.

Close to 70 percent of the individuals in both groups tested positive for lactose intolerance based on the hydrogen breath test (HBT).

Achievement: Student groups currently scoring below benchmark (scale scores below 750 on current state tests) will be expected to close the gap to 750 by 25 percent within 5 years.

This helps account for at least some of the trauma and disruption caused by the storms, the quality of schools students attended in other regions while their local schools were closed, and any changes in the state tests and state education policies that affected both groups.

This detailed and high quality unit includes: * 33 lesson plans (with 13 differentiation strategies) * 147 slide PowerPoint presentation (divided into lessons) * All resources and worksheets (9 sheets) * Homework project (9 tasks) that includes both reading and writing skills Unit's lessons include: * Cloze activity on the play's contexts * Detailed, thorough comprehension questions on each scene * Spelling tests on key vocabulary * SPaG starter activities * Character crosswords * Huge 60 - question revision quiz * In - depth key scene analyses (including group work) * Exploring characters - Helen, Jo, Peter, Boy, Geof * Exploring themes - marriage, motherhood, relationships * AfL activities - improving sample exam responses * Essay planning * Writing a formal essay on a chosen character * Writing a formal essay on a chosen theme * «Closed book» mock exam to reflect new GCSE exam expectations * Teacher / peer / self assessment opportunities

Many school systems have gotten the message that they need to be more data driven, and they are now awash in data - not just yearly student test scores, but figures on how different groups of students are doing in particular subjects or grade levels, how successful a school is at attracting and retaining teachers or closing the achievement gap among disadvantaged students, or how equitable funding is from school to school.

An analogy that comes to mind is that expecting all children in a year group to perform at the same level on a test is like expecting all runners to reach the finish line together even though some started closer and had less far to run.

MORE will continue to work with our fellow UFT members, parents, student groups, and communities to stop school closings, charter school co-locations, the misuse of standardized tests and the attack on our union rights.

Some schools thought of as high or low performers in the past based on test scores could have ratings that show the opposite because of other factors being used in the ratings, including test score growth over time, readiness for graduation and progress on closing achievement gaps between student groups.

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.

We wondered why so few of the adults working closest to students on a daily basis had been consulted (the Common Core was infamously devised largely by a small group of non-teachers closely linked to the testing industry).

While there were no significant overall gains among students of other ethnic groups, black students in their second year of private - school attendance improved their test scores by 6.3 percentile points — a striking advance at a time when schools around the country are trying to close a persistent gap between scores of white and black students.

In the meantime, a close look at the results of the first year of testing can help us track achievement gaps between student groups and identify districts and schools with the largest tasks ahead.

Wealthy philanthropists invested millions of dollars into their own playbook for reforms that spread to Newark and other cities, including Chicago: Close failing schools with low enrollment and test scores; create «charter schools» that get public money but are run by private groups; and move to a business model that makes fundamental changes in hiring, firing and evaluating teachers.

If these groups» resources keep growing, more of their favored reforms — such as closing failing schools, expanding charter schools and using test scores to grade teachers — will likely spread across the country.

She documented teachers diverting resources and time to the group of students who looked like they were closest to passing the test.

The main point our flyers made was that the «fixes» these groups are offering for public education — more testing, more charters, closing schools, a newfangled idea called the «parent trigger» — simply don't work.

If measured in proficiency rates, even if all schools succeed in closing the achievement gap, the «real» gap (i.e. gap in test scores between groups of students) are most likely to remain because closing the achievement gap simply means that more students are moving towards proficiency, not that the gap in academic performances between two groups of students is decreasing (Dahlin & Cronin, 2010).

There have been a few group tests that include this car plus the 911 Turbo and new McLaren 570S and the McLaren is the car that feels closer in spirit to the previous R8 - usable, supple, but most importantly... fun and engaging to drive.

When we group - tested the Mini John Cooper Works against five of its closest rivals in evo 211, it finished an underwhelming fourth overall.

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AutoGuide.com «s spy photographers have caught the Bentley Bentayga wearing very light camouflage as it was heading into the Volkswagen Group's test facility close to the Nürburgring.

If a test group security closes at a price below $ 1.00 on the primary listing exchange, it will be moved to the control group starting the next day.

A couple of years ago I was asked if I could bring my cat, Broadway, to help «test» a large group of dogs we were taking in when a kennel was closing down.

Beta software is either released to everyone (called an open beta) or a controlled group (called a closed beta) for testing.

Following the event Hackney Law Centre's are inviting selected groups to test their products on potential clients and take their solution further with Hackney Law Centre, with the aim of being used as a pilot by other law centers in the UK and Julie Bishop, Director of Law Centres Network spoke at the closing event on Saturday evening.

Replies to user reviews on Houseparty's Android app indicate that the developer is testing additional features in a closed beta group, and is also working on introducing private chat.

OnePlus 5 running Android 8.0 Oreo has been spotted on benchmarking website Geekbench, suggesting the latest software update is being tested on OnePlus 5 within a closed - group beta.

You can also close the thumbnail once it's playing, but there doesn't seem to be any way to prevent it appearing if you're part of the test group.

• Installed, configured, and managed multiple web sites supporting global e-commerce and e-business credit in technical environments comprised of Solaris 8 - 10 (LDOMS, ZFS, RAID, ZONES, CONTAINERS), Aix 6.1 - 7.1, Linux 4.0 - 5.5, Web Sphere MQ, Apache, Jboss, ATG, DB2, Oracle, MySQL and VMware • Optimized data security through close cooperation between Network Administration, Unix System Administration, NT Administration, DBA, and Backup and Recovery Administration teams • Installed Emulex LPFc, EMC Power path, Navisphere, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas cluster server, Veritas File system, Veritas Net Backup etc. and archived original configuration • Utilized expertise in managing and performance tuning major RDBMS Oracle / Sybase / SQL / Informix / DB2 / ATG / SAP • Built and configured IBM, HP and Sun servers, EMC, TSM and Sun SAN • Architected Disaster Recovery System, conducted testing, observed fail errors, and reset the systems • Compiled opensource applications and packages as necessary for the source of both Solaris and RPM packages • Installed and configured Nagios, Cacti and MRTG graphing tool to monitor and visualize servers and network devices • Managed Send Mail, SFTP, FTP, HTTP, SSL, SSH, DHCP, DNS, NIS, NIS +, DHCP, LDAP, Apache, Tomcat, Web Sphere, BMC Patrol, HP Open View, and Nagios • Coordinated efforts among Development, QA, Production, DR, Systems, DBA, Production, Support, Network Administration, and Applications groups for project completion ahead of schedule and under budget • Planned and developed projects, performed user acceptance tests, and applied patches to fix bugs • Served as liaison with vendors multiple vendors including Cisco, EMC, HP, IBM, Red Hat Linux, Oracle, Sun, and Symantec resolving hardware and software issues in a timely and professional manner

During the Bureau's qualitative consumer testing, consumers were able to use the second pages of the Loan Estimate and the Closing Disclosure together to identify changes in individual costs, often placing the forms side - by - side, which was enabled by the matching order and groupings.