Sentences with phrase «develop end of year tests»

At the Dallas Independent School District he was a Principal Evaluator working with K - 8 school teachers to develop end of year tests to provide information to both the current teacher and the teacher in the next grade.

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They also found that some of the athletes, none of whom suffered diagnosed concussions, didn't do as well as predicted on tests of learning and memory at the end of the season, although the study did not find «large - scale, systemic differences» in the brain scan measures, which the authors found «somewhat reassuring» and consistent with the fact that millions of athletes play contact sports for many years without developing progressive neurodegenerative disorders.

WRAIR scientists are moving rapidly to develop and test the ZPIV vaccine, and they plan to start human testing at their clinic in Silver Spring before the end of the year.

Her school and administration were so intensely focused on standards and developing lessons that prepared students for end - of - year testing that there was little room for the use of technology.

This spring, about 600 schools across the state will pilot parts of a new end - of - year exam developed by the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), a group of states working together to develop new computer - based assessments aligned to the new standards that they hope will test deeper understanding of concepts.

Common Core assessments that are being developed by a multi-state consortium to replace them, both end - of - year and practice tests, may be incorporated, depending on their quality.

The report recommended that: policy makers ensure curriculum and assessments are aligned at state, district and local levels; districts survey teachers on test prep activities and keep those that are highly rated, while dropping those that aren't; districts expand access to technology so students can develop skills before taking tests and teachers can support them; and districts only use interim tests aimed at predicting performance on end - of - the - year tests, if teachers believe they are high - quality.

Massachusetts will not formally decide whether to adopt PARCC until the end of the 2014 - 15 school year and, next spring, school districts will be able to choose between it and a state - developed test.

The state as a whole will decide whether to commit to PARCC or use a state - developed test at the end of next school year.

In 2010, Duncan also called PARCC and Smarter Balanced «comprehensive assessment systems,» because in addition to the end - of - year exams, the consortia were to develop mid-year tests designed to give teachers a sense of how well their students were mastering the standards along the way.

Over the summer, she analyzed their CMT scores and compared them to an end - of - year assessment from fourth grade, developing individual tests for the first week of school to see where students stood.

«The new 6.2 - litre LS3 engine and its distinctive sound character is the result of years of hard work, testing, developing and evaluating this vehicle and I'm so proud of the end result,» said Ms. Watt.

This effort will draw upon work already undertaken by major national organizations to develop and test these standards by the spring of 2001, followed by initiation of a formal accreditation process before the end of next year.

Through the years of my professional life, I have continued to develop my facility in producing bug - free software; designing both real life and extreme testing conditions; meeting the needs of both development and end - user communities; and certifying optimal product stability and robustness.