Sentences with phrase «comprehensive system test»

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Only the Olympics has what you could call a comprehensive testing system, but even then there are NO tests for certain things like Insulin and WADA has said that there is no test at all for Mechanic Growth Factor and they don't even know How to make one.

The agreement formalizes a partnership in support of two elements of the State's Unmanned Aerial Systems strategy: the launch of the world's first 50 - mile Unmanned Traffic Management Corridor and creation of NUSTAR, the most comprehensive UAS test facility in the nation.

The International Monitoring System (IMS), established by the Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty, has a number of different ears to the ground to detect clandestine nuclear weapons testing: seismic networks that listen for terrestrial shock waves, hydroacoustic networks that scan the oceans for sound waves, and radionuclide networks to sniff out radioactive particles that nuclear explosions produce.

The test scores of students are taken from fifth - and sixth - grade results in the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), in math and English language arts.

The Transnational Access 1 (TNA1) «Cross platform screening and optimization service «and the corresponding Joint Research Activity (JRA1) «Improved optimization and harmonization of cross-vector screening «will combine the expertise of six different partners (IME, SSI, UOXF, iBET, BPRC and UNISI) to provide the unique offer to test vaccine candidates in a comprehensive range of different expression hosts, to identify the optimal production system for further pre-clinical and clinical development.

Our comprehensive partnership approach offers a wide range of innovative nutritional products and services to our clients including: scientific research, clinical studies, proprietary ingredients, customer - specific nutritional product formulation, product testing and evaluation, marketing management and support, packaging and delivery system design, regulatory review and international product registration assistance.

In addition to comprehensive gluten sensitivity testing, Cyrex also tests for the following: foods that cross react with gluten, damage that gluten can cause to your gut and your brain, and autoimmune reactions (when your immune system attacks and destroys body tissue) that may have gone undiagnosed yet cause chronic symptoms.

An elimination / provocation diet, such as Balanced and Clear, can help you figure out what your immune system reacts to, or a comprehensive food sensitivity test from Cyrex Labs.

It is a documented medical system spanning over 2,500 years based on comprehensive philosophies, rational theories, clinically tested and empirically verified by over 100 generations of highly educated practitioners.

Tiffany was also a clinical consultant for three years under Dr. William Shaw at Great Plains Laboratory in Kansas City, Kansas, where she learned how to interpret comprehensive lab - testing results and gained an extensive understanding of candida — how it impairs the immune system and how to heal a body that's been damaged by it.

Based on a decade of his research studying the DNA of the microbiome, he also created a suite of microbiome tests, including the B IOHM Gut Report Kit — the most comprehensive gut analysis that's ever been available to consumers, and the BIOHM Candida Report, which allows people to get specific insights into the Candida species and levels present in their digestive systems.

RHS students outscored the state average on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) test this year.

Last year, the Boston Teachers Union surveyed over 400 of its members on a variety of issues, including MCAS (Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System) testing.

In their article, «The Relative Equitability of High - Stakes Testing versus Teacher - Assigned Grades: An Analysis of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS),» Harvard Graduate School of Education researchers Robert T. Brennan and James S. Kim, and UMass Boston researchers Melodie Wenz - Gross and Gary N. Siperstein compared 736 student results on the MCAS with teacher - assigned grades in order to analyze the relative equitability of the two measures across three subject areas — math, English, and science.

We look at the students» scores on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) tests in math and reading (ELA) and improvements in those test scores over time.

When the class of 2003 first took the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System tests, only 68 percent of students passed.

The researchers also had access to most of the students» scores on the spring 2008 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) English Language Arts test.

The Sunshine State had instituted school voucher programs, increased the number of charter schools, and devised a sophisticated accountability system that evaluates schools on the basis of their progress as measured by the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT).

Efforts to Improve Teacher Quality: Arkansas has established a comprehensive system of teacher testing that continues after teachers enter the classroom.The state requires its prospective teachers to pass basic - skills, subject - knowledge, and subject - specific - pedagogy tests to earn their beginning licenses.

Although the tests have evolved over time, the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) has been in place ever since.

It has such programs for transportation, reimbursement for high - cost special education students, early - childhood education, literacy programs, kindergarten - development grants, support for students scoring low on state tests (the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System), and school construction assistance.

The new standards and the new tests obviously are part and parcel of a comprehensive new education system.

In 2003, nearly 86 percent of fourth - grade English - language learners scored not proficient in math on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) test.

Led by Stanford University professor Linda Darling - Hammond, a panel of experts outlined a comprehensive system that includes summative and formative tests of higher - order thinking skills, reflecting a marketplace that they say places increasing value on such skills.

Performance - based accountability evaluates teachers» effectiveness through a comprehensive, research - based system that combines such criteria as position responsibilities, classroom observations, and students» gains in test scores.

Still, even a modicum of school choice and competition can boost student test scores, especially when combined with a comprehensive examination system for high - school graduates, says Ludger Woessmann, whose systematic, sophisticated analyses of international test - score data best summarize what can be learned from abroad.

Proposals for a $ 320 million fund for comprehensive assessment systems (two proposals to be funded) and a $ 30 million fund for high school end - of - course tests are due today.

* What happens in states (about half of them) that already have statewide graduation tests (e.g., Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System and the Ohio Graduation Test) with minimum passing scores?

«They are moving from rote memorization in the move from the MCAS to the PARCC, the Common Core assessment,» she says, referring to the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System state test.

I'm convinced that much of the modest success we've enjoyed has been tied to the adoption of a statewide graduation requirement based on our 10th - grade MCAS test (Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System), beginning with the class of 2003, not the result of a national standard or ethic.

Conversation moved quickly from the challenges with English - language arts to the system's investigative math curriculum to the controversial Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) standardized tesystem's investigative math curriculum to the controversial Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) standardized teSystem (MCAS) standardized testing.

The Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, better known and feared as the MCAS, fulfills the requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act through annual tests in English and math (and now additional subjects).

These online systems actually generate better material and more comprehensive testing than typical classroom curriculum.»

Nineteen of the 50 new teachers — or 38 percent — had the added pressure of teaching subjects and grade levels where the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), the state's high - stakes test, was administered.

The explanation for this odd fact: since 1981 Chile has had a more comprehensive school choice system than any other country in the world, as well as a system of publicly available information on student test performance.

And on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS)- the state's standardized test, first administered in the spring of 1998 - Worcester public school students in different grade levels were 8 to 20 percentage points less likely to score at or above proficiency than were students statewide.

This material was adapted from «Defining and Requiring Academic Achievement,» a 2003 study of the history and significance of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) tests.

The CORE is a consortium of nine California school districts that implemented a pilot to create a comprehensive accountability system by assessing school performance through a variety of measures that go beyond academic achievement tests.

The Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) was long considered one of the best tests in the nation.

Now Kuder is working with Boston educators on designing a metric to help drive instruction that uses data in addition to results from the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, known as the MCAS, which has tests taken in March, with results not available until six months later in September.

But at times she finds herself thinking about the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System tests rather than simply seizing upon a teachable moment.

Many achievement tests created and administered at the state level — such as the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS), or the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) Assessments — use criterion - referenced scoring.

The latest study focuses on six Boston schools that, in an earlier analysis, were found to produce large improvements in students» performance in the statewide standardized test, the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System.

Last week, on the recommendation of state education commissioner Mitchell Chester, the state's education board decided to revamp its famed Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) and drop plans to retire MCAS for the Common Core — aligned PARCC test.

Some tests, such as the Stanford Achievement Test, are developed for general use by any school district in the country, while other tests are developed for a specific state, such as the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), and the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS).

As the first large urban school district to introduce a comprehensive accountability system, Chicago provides an exceptional case study of the effects of high - stakes testing - a reform strategy that will become omnipresent as the No Child Left Behind Act is implemented nationwide.

They must also create comprehensive systems of teacher and principal development, evaluation and support that include factors beyond test scores, such as principal observation, peer review, student work, or parent and student feedback... they must set new performance targets for improving student achievement and closing achievement gaps.

Of course standardized tests can be used as part of a comprehensive assessment system but they should not make up the majority of the system, nor should their results be used as the deciding factor to make important decisions about students and educators, as is being done in NJ.

The dashboard offers a more comprehensive and nuanced look at a school than the previous system, the Academic Performance Index, that ranked schools by test scores.

The commission acknowledges that its paper does not grapple with several big hurdles in developing more - comprehensive assessment systems, among them the cost of developing complex test items and the widely disparate digital infrastructures of the schools that would use the tests.