Sentences with phrase «compare future tests»

Downes explains that even if your pet is young and healthy, routine blood testing is necessary to establish a baseline against which your veterinarian can compare future test results.

Not exact matches

• Women who have a negative HPV test result from their primary screening have a greater reassurance of a very low risk for a future cervical cancer precursor lesion, as compared to women who have a negative Pap smear test in their primary screening.

Future studies will test and compare the efficacy of imatinib and allosteric compounds in mouse models of breast cancer.

Men with a false - positive prostate cancer screening were at least 22 percent more likely to have future colon cancer screenings compared to men who did not have an inaccurate positive test result.

Drawing from math test scores from PISA 2009 in which the United States performed lower than the OECD average, the report argues that while demand for STEM labor is predicted to increase over the next few decades, a shortage of STEM labor in the United States, along with inadequate performance in science, math, and reading compared to other countries, endangers U.S. future competitiveness and innovation.

In the future, a students» performance across a variety of programs and platforms will likely give us a much richer picture of how that student is performing against state standards, as compared to a once annual high stakes test.

Tests designed to compare students» aptitude for future learning rather than to assess what they had learned in a curriculum could be allowed to fade away, much as Chancellor Richard Atkinson has recently proposed for the University of California system.

[6] Several studies estimated the causal effect of being assigned to remediation on future college outcomes by comparing students just above and below test score cutoffs for remedial placement.

A new book, Computers and the Future of Skill Demand, uses a test based on the OECD's Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) to compare computers with humans.

VAM is an incomprehensible formula, at least to those who don't have a Ph.D. in advanced statistics, which attempts to predict how a teacher's students will score in the future by using past test scores and other various assumptions — and then compares that prediction to actual results.

Because of the Badger exam's fleeting existence, it will also be difficult to compare students» performance on future tests with this year's results.

Yet when compared with this year's ISTEP +, Wyoming's 2010 PAWS experience raises many of the same questions about the future of online standardized testing — in part, because the problems students experienced were the same.

«The state's rejection of that test sounded the bell on common assessments, signaling that the future will now look much like the past — with more tests, but almost no ability to compare the difference between one state and another.»

To test the quality of an historical valuation, valuation parameters can be plugged into a formula to forecast a future return, which can then be compared to the actual future return.

Baseline record and future health Testing gives us a baseline record so we can compare future results with past results.

Had never heard of realfont — but I have an iPhone And yeah, I hope to test both handwritten and typed in the future — and compare which actually does better!