Sentences with phrase «difficult tests designed»

It has become particularly acute as states have switched to more difficult tests designed to align with the Common Core, academic standards adopted by more than 40 states and spurred in part by the federal government.

Not exact matches

The best practice among Silicon Valley companies is to adopt far slower hash algorithms — designed to take a large fraction of a second to scramble a password — that have been intentionally crafted to make it more difficult and expensive for the NSA and other attackers to test every possible combination.

When it comes to animals, the problem is compounded for two main reasons: First, it is very difficult to design and administer tests that pick up on overall smarts instead of specific skills, such as the keen memories of food - hoarding birds or the fine motor skills of chimpanzees that make tools for finding insects in trees.

These chips could also be used to evaluate antibody drugs and other immunotherapies, which are difficult to test thoroughly in animals because the treatments are only designed to interact with the human immune system.

And we had a third class... the students were introduced to the self - assessment and the peer - checking, but they were also given an additional activity where they identified questions that they found difficult and had a go at designing and solving some of the questions, which they then tested each other on.

The new tests are considered more difficult because they're designed to prevent students from making educated guesses from the wording of questions.

They are worried that the Common Core's testing system is too difficult, and that teachers» jobs will be in danger because the standards aren't only designed to compare students nationally, but teachers too.

Because turning observations about student reasoning into calculated instructional adjustments is often a difficult task, the Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation has made available a number of resources designed to aid teachers in providing immediate, descriptive feedback for redirecting student learning.

With the many standards teachers have to cover, with too little time to do so, it is no wonder that it's difficult for many classroom teachers to progress to Design Question 3, Deepening New Knowledge and Design Question 4, Generating and Testing Hypothesis.

Structural reinforcements, primarily in the front end, are designed to ensure that the Civic achieves a «good» rating in the difficult new IIHS slight - offset barrier crash test.

Among these changes are stress tests, designed to ensure that home buyers can handle payments if mortgage rates rise by 2 percentage points, potentially making it more difficult for cash - strapped or indebted Canadians to buy homes.

«The design demands of Brutal Legend were such that trying to develop the game using an existing FPS engine would have proven difficult, but having the initial access to the flexibility of Unreal Script meant we could test some of our early RTS ideas right on our development PCs.

Tests of statistical significance (flawed as they may be) are designed to make it more difficult to torture the data not less.

It's like the difference between E = MC2 and designing a fusion power plant: a lot of theory and modeling and testing lie in between, and the systems are very difficult to run full - scale tests or gather long records of extremely accurate data for.

This test mostly covers things that a good driver should already know, and it «s not designed to be difficult.

Encounters are designed to test your skills and ability to read and learn each enemy, but they're still fun and exhilarating, and not purely difficult for the sake of being difficult.

Competency based questions, on the other hand, are designed to test for specific attributes, for instance, «tell me about a time you worked well in a team» or «talk about when you resolved a difficult work situation?»