Sentences with phrase «computer testing all week»

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Reddit users discovered last week that shortly after the battery on an old iPhone was replaced, benchmark tests — which measure a computer's processor speed — saw a dramatic and noticeable increase in performance.

This week, a computer program fooled 33 percent of judges at the University Reading into believing that they were chatting with a real - life 13 - year - old boy from Ukraine, thus passing the «Turing Test» for artificial intelligence.

And I worried about the ominous things that happened during the two weeks before my retirement date: a driver ran into my car and totaled it; our dishwasher, garbage disposal and computer broke down; a manuscript I had submitted for publication was rejected; and my doctor, his face drawn in a frown, told me I had to come in for tests.

New York was one of seven states earlier this week whose student tests were hit by what was reportedly a «deliberate attack» on the computer system operated by Questar, an outside vendor.

About 260 of the state's more than 700 districts used computer - based testing this week.

Students in some schools will continue to take the tests on computers next week.

A study comparing results from computer - based versus paper - and - pencil tests of students» energy knowledge was presented at the annual AERA meeting and highlighted in the «Curriculum Matters» blog of Education Week.

Next week at the Computer Human Interaction 2009 conference in Boston, Massachusetts, the team will present results of user tests on a Nokia N800 Internet Tablet equipped with the technology.

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A story in the Sept. 3, 2003, issue of Education Week about the American Board for the Certification of Teacher Excellence («Essays on New Teachers» Test to Be Graded by Computers») misstated the requirements for veteran teachers seeking the board's approval.

In an exclusive interview with Schools Week, he said that teachers should not «underestimate» how seriously the government is about tackling workload and also revealed plans to introduce a «simple computer - based» multiplication test for primary children.

At the State Board of Education meeting last week, board member Sarah O'Brien asked if the Department of Education had discussed the future of that contract after computer glitches ground ISTEP + testing to a halt this spring.

During the last 12 weeks of the school year, Smarter Balanced administers a summative assessment consisting of a computer - adaptive test and a set of non-adaptive performance tasks that require students to use multiple Common Core skills.

The Common Core tests aren't in their final form yet, but next week students across the country will still sit down in front of computers to take them.

During the first 2 weeks Jacob and I communicated about technological issues and content goals, but the use of GSP was delayed in the computer lab due to state testing scheduled in the computer lab.

History teacher Jesse Hagopian said, «What frustrates me about the MAP test is that the computer labs are monopolized for weeks by the MAP test, making research projects very difficult to assign.»

Some had access to a computer only once a week, Taylor said, making it difficult for them to develop the skills needed to succeed on an online - only test.

Teachers said they refused to administer the tests because they cover material they are not expected to teach, they take too much time away from learning, especially for struggling students, and giving the MAP tests ties up computer labs for weeks.

Gov. Jerry Brown this week threw his weight behind legislation that would suspend use of the state's current standardized tests while select schools try out the new «Smarter Balanced» computer - based assessment that hews to the Common Core.

Along with replacing paper - based tests on English language arts / literacy (ELA) and mathematics with the new computer - based California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) tests, California has created a new online reporting system that will provide permissioned users with partial, preliminary scores within three weeks of students having completed the exam.

The schedule allows schools without many computers to spread the testing over several days or weeks.

This requirement could be essentially addressed by administering one 45 - minute reading comprehension test, one 45 - minute math reasoning test, and one 45 - minute science test rather than immerse our students in a week - to - ten - days of expensive, unproven, computer - adaptive testing while disrupting the routines and schedules of everyone else in school not taking the tests.

Indeed, according to a new analysis from Education Week, students who took the PARCC tests on computers last year tended to score lower than those who took the tests on paper.

We heard many stories about SBAC testing that are common to high - stakes, standardized tests: the tests dramatically disrupted the educational process, deprived students of hours of instructional time, reduced stressed out students to tears, and monopolized the computer labs and libraries in service of test administration for weeks at a time.

Last month, Schools Week revealed that the exam board Edexcel had replaced the NEA component of its computer science GCSE after admitting an error in its security settings meant pupils may have seen the content of the test in advance.

My testing yielded a trip computer recorded 26.9 mpg at the end of the week, which included a day of back - road carving, a good deal of highway cruising, and just a bit of cursing at first gear during city driving.

Over the course of a week of commuting, I'd wager that almost 80 - percent of my nearly 300 test miles were logged with the Cadillac's computer in control.

And we got pretty close to the official figure on test with the trip computer showing 9.8 L over a week of driving in mixed conditions, indicating that a highway cruising range potentially better than 700 km is on the cards.

During a week of testing, including a drive from Los Angeles to San Francisco, I saw 25.1 mpg on the trip computer.

Reddit users discovered last week that shortly after the battery on an old iPhone was replaced, benchmark tests — which measure a computer's processor speed — saw a dramatic and noticeable increase in performance.

This week on Too Embarrassed to Ask, The Verge's Lauren Goode and popular gadget - testing blogger Ray Maker (a.k.a. DC Rainmaker) geeked out together on what fitness watch is best, how many bike computers can fit on a single bike at once and what happened that time Ray stepped on a sting ray right before diving into the water for an open - ocean test.

Associations were tested with inattentive and reckless driving behaviors in the subsequent survey — controlling for baseline age, sex, socioeconomic status, parental education, school performance, extracurricular activities, daily television and video / computer game exposure, number of movies watched per week, self - regulation and sensation seeking.

One - week test — retest reliability values for the two questionnaire administrations ranged from 0.55 to 0.68 across TV / computer and weekday / weekend day ratings.