Sentences with phrase «field test questions»

Christine was a human - centred designer before the title became cool, and she went into the community to field test her questions.

Not only were the tests lengthy and challenging, but embedded field test questions extended the length of the tests and caused mental exhaustion, often before students reached the questions that counted toward their scores.

Using the additional funding, the state created up to 11 exams, each with different field test questions.

In addition to these assessments, stand - alone field tests were administered in each school, and additional field test questions were embedded into each of the testing booklets.

Don't forget the kids who get stuck on a field test question embedded in their test; a question geared several grades over their own.

Not exact matches

Though some of these seemingly out - of - left - field questions can be difficult to answer, they «test a job candidate's critical thinking skills, see how they problem solve on the spot, and gauge how they approach difficult situations,» Glassdoor's head of global recruiting and talent acquisition, Susan Underwood, said in a press release.

Steven Pinker, a prominent and prolific psycholinguist, explores the question of style with both vivacity and vigor, applying the findings in his field and questioning rules that have stood the test of time.

Perhaps just not the same fields of study» Second — if one can't see these questions as an exercise in thought and rationale then that person has failed the test... placing opinion in the mix as to thwart the morons is just another test to see truly how moronic people can be!

Later, all the careful testing and tracking of my cycles made it a bit more awkward to field questions about growing our family.

I'm in a different field, not OB, but if I got a similar question («why do I need this test or medicine when I have no risk factors for X and won't it just cause Y problem...») I take the time to talk it through with the patient.

The field - side test provided via the Head Case Mobile App guides users through a series of questions to aid in determining symptoms of a concussion.

Basically, a new committee of teacher volunteers from across the state would review all exam questions after the items had been tried out on a pilot basis in «field tests» conducted among sample groups of students statewide.

Quinn said public school children shouldn't be forced any longer to take private testing companies» field tests, which aren't graded, and which are only intended to help for - profit companies such as Pearson develop questions for the next year's exams.

The questions have been field - tested by over 100,000 middle school and early high school students for their ability to assess students» knowledge of life and physical sciences and to identify students» common misconceptions about the sciences.

But the test tube burger, rolled out to the press in 2013, has helped put a spotlight on the question of how the U.S. government will regulate the emerging field of cellular agriculture, which uses biotechnology instead of animals to make products such as meat, milk, and egg whites.

After extensive field tests, the question first appeared in 2009.

Self - testing may involve flash cards, it may mean answering questions at the back of a book chapter or it may be fielding questions lobbed by a study buddy.

Other solutions could be field - tested sooner, raising the delicate question of whether such experiments should be allowed in the first place, and what forms they could take.

Of course, visual field testing, looking at the optic nerve, optic nerve atrophy, nerve fiber layer thinning, using optical coherence tomography, but the real question is can we back that up significantly and be able to tell whether the patient sitting right there in the chair is in trouble?

Array Operators Array operators pay attention to multiple computer screens that monitor the health of the antennas, answer radio calls from technicians in the field, work with observers and scientists whose tests or observations are running, and field questions from tour groups that may be passing through.

The eye test was very satisfied with your usual procedure of health questions, equipment such as the visual field screener and digital retinal photography to see how well your eyes focus and give an accurate prescription tailored to you for when it comes to the final stage of choosing your glasses and style to suit your face shape.

And, unlike the tests in either of those countries, the United States» Advanced Placement exam in chemistry asks almost no questions about organic chemistry — the specialty of almost half the field's practitioners.

Through surveys, focus groups, field tests, and interviews, Circumventure is asking fundamental questions: Do people want what schools are offering?

Instead, they require the insights of faculty trained in multiple disciplines, working together and closely with those in the field, who can help shape the questions and test the hypotheses generated by scholars.

More than 54,000 students this spring field - tested questions for the revised Scholastic Aptitude Test.

The new system, which requires test - takers to sit at computer terminals and answer questions electronically, is likely to revolutionize the whole standardized - testing field, making current paper - and - pencil methods obsolete, those working on the idea believe.

This raises the question of whether field - testing teachers did not read or understand the lesson instructions, whether the student grouping instructions were unclear in the lesson directions, or whether the field - testing teachers simply wanted to implement the lesson their own way or in a way that best addressed their students» needs.

«A field test is a tryout of all the test questions,» he said.

The data generated by the field test will allow researchers to dig into key questions such as the comparability of paper - based and computer - based tests, whether accessibility features worked properly, and whether student performance differed significantly on tablets versus laptops versus other equipment.

KAP field tests its test questions to ensure appropriate fairness and difficulty.

In Florida, a district - based RTTT project in Polk County is working to create a test bank of questions and performance - based assessments for dance, music, and theater that it will begin field - testing in 2013 — 14.

As part of the field test, the state will be examining technological capacity and the quality of test questions, while helping students and teachers prepare for next year's first operational test, said Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction in a press release.

It masks the substantial issues involved in generating meaningful credible actual test scores... whether students have sufficient actual instruction on common core standards prior to operational testing to permit valid test scores, or the fact that while Smarter Balanced may have generated enuf qualified test questions to deliver an actual full test spring 2015 [the so - called «field» test was not an actual test, but rather an exercise to try - out test questions for potential inclusion in an actual test], it still needs actual test scores from spring 2015 to generate credible scoring rules for the test (i.e., «cut scores») for valid reliable fair individual student and aggregate group scores.

The field tests will help determine, among other things, the difficulty level of questions and what ranges of scores are considered advanced or proficient.

Tony Alpert, executive director of Smarter Balanced, said that they are ready to go live, because they established the difficulty of the questions with last spring's field tests.

Another 48 took the field - tested questions and created the final test forms, and then 36 separate educators reviewed the test forms before they went to print — for a total of 156 educators, according to the department.

«We want to make sure that our tests are valid, reliable and fair to all students,» Swerdzewski said of the field - test questions.

By embedding the questions in the exams for certain students, as volunteered by their districts, 25 percent fewer students will have to participate in the stand - alone field tests, he said.

So the questions were field - tested last year.

Field testing, however, will never be fully eliminated, because the state uses it as a way to test questions for the next year.

Field tests are given to a portion of students to create potential questions for future exams, but do not count towards the students» grades.

But in New York, «field test» questions can not be included in tests because those exams are made public.

The field test was not used for accountability purposes, but was instead a test to collect information on a wide range of questions to ensure that potential questions are fully vetted and that the operational test uses appropriate questions to assess students learning.

But, both Smarter Balanced and PARCC did not generate a sufficient number of qualified test questions from their spring 2013 «pilot» tests to do the traditional field tests spring 2014 — instead, both need to tryout more items to generate a pool of qualified items for a full field test exercise, and they are doing that work spring 2014.

A field test is essentially a test of a test — a method to screen questions and determine their level of difficulty, a necessary step before rolling out the official assessment.

The field test next spring is intended to help a federally funded state collaborative creating the assessment, called the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, choose the test questions and determine the preliminary grading scale for the official Common Core tests.

However, a primary purpose of the Field Test is to identify those questions that are not working as they should so that they can be fixed or eliminated.

If you have any questions about the field test, please email [email protected].

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