Sentences with phrase «even stricter test»

Because we observe schools over several time periods, we can subject the program to an even stricter test by controlling for all characteristics of schools that remain constant over time (by «differencing out» the effect of attending a particular school on exam scores).

Not exact matches

Unfortunately, Krause says, only a few of the mummies» nuclear genomes were well preserved, and even fewer passed his strict contamination tests.

You can do skin prick tests or shell out the dough for expensive food sensitivity lab results (that may not even tell you anything definitive), but the gold standard remains the food challenge: strict avoidance of the suspected food until symptoms subside followed by an oral challenge.

One study on over a hundred children with confirmed milk and / or egg allergies found that 38 percent still had increased intestinal permeability (based on a breath test) even while on strict elimination diets and no symptoms, which may point to an intrinsic role that it plays in at least some people.

This (and Race to the Top) prompted state legislators to craft an even stricter law that required fully half of a teacher's evaluation to be based on students» test performance; the union put up a fight and Governor Charlie Crist vetoed the measure.

He says even though Indiana has a waiver from some of the federal No Child Left Behind law's strictest provisions, things like school letter grades and teacher evaluations are still tied to standardized test scores.

An added gem is that Common Core advocates excitedly announced that the new tests will be harder to pass, giving even open - minded teachers reason to fear that the combination of new tests, stricter scoring, and new high - stakes evaluations was designed to put them in the crosshairs.

The game is recognized as an immersive tactical team shooter that has traits to persuade even the most strict of single player gamers to test the waters of online.

Hemp seeds are harvested from non-psychoactive industrial hemp plants grown in Canada and Europe, for example, under strict regulatory regimes, and have no potential psychoactive «drug» effect, and do not interfere with drug testing even when unrealistic amounts are eaten on a daily basis.

Five or six years ago it was possible - and common - to make real estate releases or make decisions of investment in the market based on less strict premises, without great validity tests; it is not possible anymore, even because it was checked that great projects on paper were, in practice, business of no feasibility in the real business world.

But even with such strict standards and tests, some defective devices do slip through the net.

The UK has one of the most rigorous driving tests in the world, which helps to keep its accident record one of the lowest in the world, but it got even more strict on 4 December 2017 when the DVSA introduced even more requirements to...

Even stricter than South Africa, however, are Japan's road tests, which boast pass rates that fall below 35 percent.