Ciraso and her staff
examined individual test scores after being contacted by USA TODAY, and she acknowledged some oddities that she said need to be reviewed further.
Not exact matches
The meta - analysis
examined 394 non-cancer, phase I studies comprising 11,028 healthy, compensated, voluntary participants (4,620 unique
individuals, some of whom participated in more than one study) conducted between September 2004 and March 2011 at Pfizer Inc.'s three worldwide dedicated phase I
testing sites in Belgium, Singapore and the United States.
The researchers allowed rats to self - administer meth using a paradigm designed to
examine individual differences in the rats» drug - taking behavior, then
tested the effects of oxytocin on their motivation to acquire the drug.
Cook - Mills
examined the CARDIA results for
individuals» lung function
tests at four intervals from baseline to 20 years and the type of tocopherol levels in their blood plasma at three intervals from baseline to 15 years.
She and colleagues
examined DNA from
individual brain cells taken from three donated human brains and
tested bulk samples from the hippocampus (an area important for learning and memory) and the frontal cortex (where most thinking and decision making is thought to happen).
To
examine effects in
individual subjects, for each
testing session we calculated the average percent reduction in excess path length during block 4 for each of the three locations that had been learned during periods with stimulation in blocks 1, 2, and 3, and compared the data with the average percent reduction in excess path length during block 4 for each of the three locations that had been learned without stimulation in those blocks.
These profiles are
examined with respect to how well they «fit» various disorders;
test results are compared with large normative databases derived from similar
individuals without cognitive disorders.
The ALCAT blood
test examines up to 300 foods and chemicals that commonly trigger immune responses in
individuals.
Without assessing these programs per se, Johnson explains, the book
examines how these systems are set up, including whether they use student performance on standardized
tests, professional evaluations, a hybrid model, and whether they used
individual or group assessments.
Our data set enabled us to
examine the
test - score gains of
individual students from grade to grade across three school years.
This article
examines the role of student demographic characteristics in standardized achievement
test scores at both the
individual level and aggregated at the state, district, school levels.
While value - added models based on student
test scores are problematic for making evaluation decisions for
individual teachers, they are useful for looking at groups of teachers for research purposes — for example, to
examine how specific teaching practices or measures of teaching influence the learning of large numbers of students.
Baron
examined the type of schools that switched to
individual - salary schedules and found that before Act 10, these schools were in districts with higher
test scores, more property tax revenue, and higher teacher salaries.
Presented as videos, installations, and performances, these semi-staged situations are a means by which to
examine and
test what constitutes a functioning society, and what the role of an
individual is within its systems.
Presented as videos and installations, these semi-staged situations are a means by which to
examine and
test what constitutes a functioning society, and what the role of an
individual is within its systems.She is also the co-author of the publication WHO IS AN ARTIST.
The Third Circuit in In re Bevill Bresler & Schulman Asset Management Corp., developed a five - part
test (the Bevill
test) to
examine the merits of such an assertion by an
individual employee against company counsel.50 Under this
test, employees must show that (1) they approached corporate counsel for the purpose of seeking legal advice; (2) they made it clear that they were seeking advice in their
individual capacity; (3) counsel sought to communicate with the employee in this
individual capacity, mindful of the conflicts with its representation of the company; (4) the communications were confidential; and (5) the communications did not concern the employee's official duties or the general affairs of the company.51 The Bevill
test has been recognised by other jurisdictions as a means of assessing whether a company employee may assert attorney — client privilege in an
individual capacity arising out of communications with corporate counsel.52 (See also Chapter 13 on employee rights.)
An aptitude
test examines an
individual's abilities, knowledge, or alignment with a particular profession.
The Life Orientation
Test (LOT; Scheier & Carver, 1985)
examines individual's tendency to believe that he / she will experience good or bad outcomes in his / her life using eight items rated on a 5 - point Likert scale ranging from «Totally Disagree» to «Totally Agree» (e.g., «In Uncertain times, I usually expect the best»).
Specific
individual interventions were
tested as a separate category only if the effect of the intervention has been
examined in at least two studies.
This longitudinal study is the first to
examine developmental trajectories of social anxiety in a nonclinical sample aged 9 to 21 years and simultaneously
test whether conceptually relevant
individual level variables assessing cognition, social competence, and temperament discriminated between the trajectories.
In this study, we
tested a structural model to investigate the
individual differences in well - being and ill - being by
examining the mediating effects of autonomy, relatedness, and competence on the extent to which two higher order factors of personality, namely Stability and Plasticity, are linked to life satisfaction and depression.