Sentences with phrase «continued use of the test»

However, reports of rare HPV - negative, Pap - test - positive cancers are motivating continued use of both tests (cotesting) despite increased testing costs.

Not exact matches

While evidence is anecdotal, some employers seem set to continue drug testing all applicants and taking a hard line on use of opioids, methamphetamine, and cocaine.

If at this point we found that using an interest rate of 6.8 % in our calculations did not yield the exact bond price, we would have to continue our trials and test interest rates increasing in 0.01 % increments.

A former US deputy secretary of state has also warned against using «hot rhetoric» as international tensions over North Korea's missile testing continued to escalate.

Nevertheless, it appears as though they aren't afraid to throw him into the mix and test him, and it will have certainly been a memorable night for the barely - teenage ace who will hope to use the experience to his advantage and continue to develop his game and become a part of Celtic's long - term future plans.

What I think is that Wenger should stay to fix d missing tiles, it can be done now, first he needs to understand that you need set of players who can stand the test, like sanchz, koscz, mstafi, ozil, bllern, and few more new faces like these soldiers, not the type of players that cant even give u 20 league matches appearance, either injured or not in form, like walcot, ramsy, Gibbs giroud, matzcker, Gabriel, and Montreal who gifted man u a victoryy they never merited, all this players have let Wenger down big time, but he continues to carry on with most of them just for their loyalty to him and glimpse of flashes they have shown in last 8, 9 or more years, Wenger should decide who should board the ship this time not same weaklings who uses arsenal as a brand just to be noticed but no ambitions

Man Utd have bigger challenges ahead as they will take on Real Madrid for the UEFA Super Cup next Tuesday, and so Mourinho will undoubtedly be hoping to use this latest outing as an opportunity to test out his new players and continue to ensure everyone is fully fit for the start of the new campaign.

And, when research uses standardized tests to measure homework's impact, she continued, it is difficult to gauge how much of the overall improvement or decline in test scores is due to student learning in the classroom context as opposed to student learning from homework.

As with my previous post on absorbency testing, I continue to use my very unscientific means of testing out their capacity for holding liquids.

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Without proper funding for experienced prison staff, addiction treatment centres and decent rehabilitation programmes, drug use in prison will continue, regardless of the tests imposed to control it.

The test results will still be used to measure teachers» performance ratings, and a spokesman for the teachers union says until that changes, many of the parents involved in the boycott movement will continue to opt their kids out of the tests.

The deal would delay that use for two years, but would allow the tests to continue to be used in job evaluations of teachers and principals, said two state officials Tuesday night.

Cuomo's task force on academic standards and testing expects to hand in its much anticipated report this month, amid a continuing push by teachers unions to end the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations.

Continuing to make these tests available would represent a poor use of public money.

The state Education Department's review of teacher evaluations and how student tests scores are used in that process will continue into 2016, state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia said.

Opt - out activists have said the number will continue to grow, citing reasons such as the perceived «over-testing» of students using exams that are not age and grade appropriate, as well as the use of test scores on teacher evaluations.

Another continuing BIOFAB project is to create a bookshelf of reference tools tested under conditions used in commercial metabolic engineering.

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

He told Nature that his team will continue to test the technique, using eggs from prospective mothers who are between 42 and 47 years of age.

Greenpeace reports that in three cases bromine was present in more than one percent of the total surface chemical composition of the material tested, prompting the environmental organization to conclude that there was «continued widespread use of either additive or reactive brominated flame retardants.»

«Test results indicated that continued use of standing desks was associated with significant improvements in executive function and working memory capabilities,» Mehta said.

The team will continue their tests using an artificial human arm to model the physical effects of far more severe collisions.

Use of animals in testing and in biomedical research continues to be necessary in many instances and is ethically preferable to experimenting on humans or forgoing cures that could save human lives.

Wu continued testing the algorithm using a different set of photos it had not seen before, and found that it could correctly spot a criminal more often than not.

Gamestars Testing fatigue, combined with more pervasive computer use in and out of the classroom and continued experimentation with games as learning tools, suggests that such video games will play a significant role in the future of education.

: The controversy surrounding the use of genetic testing to guide the treatment of persons with AMD continues.

Tests using two types of assays revealed that the cells continue to function properly when exposed to the polymer.

We therefore used a statistical method that excludes men that were diagnosed prior to the introduction of PSA testing since these men could not benefit from the effect of PSA testing,» continues Håkan Jonsson.

The sad truth is that athletes continue to test positive for many of the same things that they have been using historically: amphetamines and other stimulants, becoming popular in the 1950s; anabolic steroids in the «70s and «80s; EPO and human growth hormone from the «90s to the present.

While discussion continues over the value of screening healthy men for prostate cancer by testing for levels of prostate specific antigen (PSA) in their blood, scientists have found another use for PSA.

This experimental proof that the Zika virus caused microcephaly came quite rapidly, and other teams working with Zika have continued to use organoids to test therapeutic interventions and to probe why only some strains of the virus appear to result in the condition.

The CSNE is now recruiting more participants with challenges using their hands and arms after spinal cord injury, and the center will continue to test this novel form of stimulation as an innovative approach to improving hand and arm function.

Probiotics use has so far stood the test of time, and products that contain them will likely continue to grow in numbers and volume as consumers seek products that will benefit their health.

We will continue to test how services and users can do more to verify the identity of those they meet online, possibly using web - cams and smartphones.

The assessment will continue to use performance standards — basic, proficient, and advanced — and a mix of multiple - choice and open - response test items in assessing the academic achievement of U.S. students.

For example, ESSA only slightly broadens the focus from test scores, does nothing to confront Campbell's Law, * doesn't allow for reasonable variations among students, doesn't take context into account, doesn't make use of professional judgment, and largely or entirely (depending on the choices states» departments of education make) continues to exclude the quality of educators» practice from the mandated accountability system.

Four Unintended Consequences of Using Student Test Scores to Evaluate Teachers Washington Post, 7/29/15 «When teachers in the same school continue to work in isolation, they can not benefit from the social capital that their school might provide.

As policymakers continue to pursue measures that tie crucial decisions about students to tough new assessments, the National Research Council is sounding a warning about the use of such high - stakes testing.

• Continuing to enhance the Center's redesigned website by conducting usability testing and improving navigation and functionality, as well as exploring new platforms to connect and support a growing community of innovators interested in using science to catalyze new thinking and action.

In keeping with our rapidly growing innovation agenda, the Center must continue to explore new ways of using a variety of media and advanced technologies to catalyze creative thinking across disciplines and sectors, to support the design and testing of more effective interventions, and to disseminate our findings in a way that transforms the policy and practice climate, both in the United States and globally.

But, if states and school districts continue to insist on using state standards and tests to judge school performance, then the for - profits will be pushed to compete for contracts and clientele on the basis of a narrower set of criteria.

Although the mandate for student testing continues, the use of the tests is now a state and local matter.

Although most states continue to use multiple - choice and short - answer items on their standardized tests, a handful of states have incorporated additional measures into their annual assessments.

Use of the tests will be strictly voluntary and decisions about whether or not to participate will not affect continuing participation in Federal programs.

A 2014 PDK / Gallup poll found that 76 percent of teachers continued to support the goals of Common Core, but only 9 percent supported using those test scores to evaluate teachers.

The overall goal of this extension of our existing work in partnership with TFF and Achievement First Bridgeport Academy (AFBA) is to continue and expand our work in Bridgeport focusing in several keys areas: (1) building knowledge about (a) children's emerging skills and areas of challenge in the social - emotional domain and why these skills are critical to school success, and (b) the ways in which adult stress and skills in the social - emotional domain can impede or foster children's social - emotional skill development; (2) identifying, deploying, and evaluating strategies to build adult and child skills in social - emotional learning with an emphasis on the Tauck Family Foundation's (TFF) five essential SEL skills; and (3) developing and testing a performance management system for SEL that (a) guides the identification of strategies, (b) provides a mechanism for ongoing progress monitoring, feedback, and changes to practice, and (c) serves as an anchor point for ongoing coaching and support in using SEL strategies.

And the continued use of multiple - choice questions has parents, teachers, and kids questioning whether the new tests could be much better than what they were replacing.

It's not that parents and voters have turned against the principle of using of standardized tests to monitor school and student performance: National surveys continue to show 2 - to - 1 support for the practice.

SMARTER will continue to use one test at the end of the year for accountability purposes, but will create a series of interim tests used to inform students, parents, and teachers about whether students are on track.