Sentences with phrase «field testing of»

Laszewski, Sparr, & Hammel (2012) Details the development and initial field testing of a quality rating measure, the Home Visiting Program Quality Rating Tool (HVPQRT), designed to evaluate a program's capacity to provide high - quality home - visiting services to families with infants and toddlers.

Responsible for conducting research and field testing of newly developed products using newly developed materials

Planned and supervised the field testing of all BGAN satellites, Power supplies, and network hardware to be incorporated into Field Communications System designs.

Pokémon Go developer Niantic has opened up field testing of the mobile game in the United States.

During that time, they completed their application for the competition and began real - world field testing of biochar with commercial growers.

Building Science Consulting has conducted field testing of full scale test walls in an field exposure hut on the lower mainland of British Columbia, which experiences similar temperatures and moisture loads to both Portland OR, and Seattle WA, and some of those results will be shown here to compare actual measured results in the field to predicted results by hygrothermal simulations.

It was also mentioned the big amount of feedback that was gathered during the field testing of the app across various countries and it was detailed its functions, being allowing players to use the game without taking out their phone.

Field testing of edTPA ended in 2013, and teacher preparation programs in 33 states use it in some capacity.111 Some states are beginning to require some form of performance - based assessment as a condition of licensure.

In Canada we have moved to computer based assessments and I believe such problems would be identified in the field testing of items.

EdSource Today coverage of the state's conflict with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan over field testing of Smarter Balanced, September 2013

This second group, with Diane Ravitch as its most prominent member, has raised concerns over who stands to gain financially from the Common Core effort, the role of the Gates Foundation in the standards» creation, the lack of field testing of the standards, and the way in which the standards have been implemented in the midst of changing assessment and teacher evaluation policies.

Other studies included use of rapid tests for HIV, HBV and HCV for emergency field testing of the «Walking Blood Bank» in military operations; use of dried blood spots for collection of specimens in the field for testing of HIV, Dengue, West Nile Virus and Chikungunya Virus; and molecular assays for monitoring Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Ebola virus, and other infectious agents in epidemiology and vaccine research studies.

Science Systems and Applications, Inc.: development, review and field testing of educational and outreach products; educator training; public events; management of social network sites.

In July 2017, the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy used various types of cucumbers to conduct initial field testing of the robot system at its test site.

MORE than 400 farmers coming from all over Bicol stormed the ongoing field testing of Golden Rice at the Department of Agriculture Regional Field Unit No. 5 at Pili, Camarines Sur.

Last May, the Court of Appeals ruled against the field testing of another GMO, the Bt (Bacillus thurngiensis) eggplant, saying that the field trial violates the basic constitutional right of Filipinos to health and a balanced and healthy ecology.

But this was belied by Zenaida Soriano, APC Southeast Asia coordinator, saying that the Aquino government approved the field testing of International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and Syngenta's Golden Rice.

The DA - AO is also used by multinational companies and offices such as the Philrice, IRRI and universities such as UPLB in applying for contained use and field testing of GM crops such as Golden Rice, Bt cotton, GM corn, GM Papaya and many others.

Apart from permanently stopping the field testing of Bt talong, it also declared the Department of Agriculture's administrative order No. 8 - 2002 null and void resulting to a halt on the application for field testing, contained use, propagation and importation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) pending the promulgation of a new administrative order.

«We are overjoyed on the decision of the Supreme Court to stop the field testing of Bt talong.

MASIPAG, a farmer - scientist network, is one of the petitioners that filed a Writ of Kalikasan against the field testing of Bt talong, saying that the said GM crop will affect the people's right to a healthy and balanced ecology.

The activity also commemorates the fourth year anniversary when 400 strong delegation of farmers and other sectors uprooted the field testing of Golden Rice in Pili, Camarines Sur.

About 200 farmers, consumers, church groups, organic advocates and other sectors convened in the city of Cabanatuan to calling the Department of Agriculture to deny the application of open field test of Golden Rice in Munoz, Nueva Ecija and in San Mateo, Isabela.

Observations on the occurrence of pest and beneficial insect species were also recorded during confined field tests of GR2E rice in the Philippines.

All field tests of genetically - modified crops are conducted according to national biosafety regulations and the conditions of each individual testing permit.

A UK - based team hopes to begin field tests of gene drives in Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes, the main carrier of malaria in Africa, as soon as 2024.

Occasionally constipated in tone — «That brief tethered flight of our little ROV had been exactly the field test of the fiber - optic technology that I had promised the navy I would build and deploy less than four years earlier» — the excitement of Ballard's work breaks through.

A Swiss court has put the brakes on a field test of wheat engineered to resist the fungus.

Preliminary field tests of the new criteria, overseen by researchers working on the revision, show that some definitions, such as those for depression and anxiety, are less reliable than in previous versions.

This observation provides a very strong gravity field test of General Relativity.

Though we did not get as much snow as surrounding areas, it was still a major event, providing the perfect context for a lesson on design thinking, and a field test of the mantra.

The leaders in Sacramento have taken what was designed to be a limited field test of the new assessment and have attempted to stretch it to cover the length and breadth of California.

Last week, California legislators took an unprecedented step: they voted to discontinue their old test and conduct a statewide field test of the Smarter Balanced Assessment in the spring of 2014.

The 2015 field test of a prototype established that the Institute's model of assessment of principals» work is both valid and reliable, critical for any certification system and achieves the goals of being customisable and manageable.

Seventh graders at Marshall Simonds Middle School in Burlington, Mass., including Nimra Mian, reflected here in an iPad, look at a practice PARCC test to gain familiarity with the format before a field test of exams tied to the common - core standards.

A field test of students from five schools assessed the retention of content after playing The Reconstructors series titled Nothing to Rave About.

Last spring more than 3 million students in California, the largest number ever to take an online test in the state, took field tests of new assessments aligned to the Common Core state standards without major technical breakdowns or system crashes, according to state officials.

The Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Field Test of a test means more testing and less learning.

The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards is seeking thousands of PreK - 12 teachers to take part in field tests of the revised National Board Certification process.

Here a reader confronts the mindlessness of the decision that, in the name of ensuring that students are college ready, the Malloy administration is forcing high school juniors to take the Smarter Balanced Assessment Field Test of a test rather than actually spend their time on the college application process.

The database was developed to house and share the lessons created by teachers who participated in the professional development program, as well as the field tests of these lessons.

«Oklahoma looks forward to both the pilot test this academic year and the field test of the assessment in the 2013 - 2014 academic year,» Janet C. Barresi, Oklahoma's education chief and a PARCC steering committee member, said in a statement.

The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards is seeking PreK - 12 grade teachers to volunteer to participate in field tests of the revised Read more about Help NBPTS revise its new certification process -LSB-...]

In June, the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC)-- which includes 14 states and the District of Columbia — accomplished a major milestone: the completion of a field test of new, Common Core - aligned assessments that were developed for the states by the states.

(except, of course, for those student who are struggling in which case they will still be forced to take the «real» tests in additional to the Common Core Smarter Balanced Field Test of a Test).

Perhaps after four or five field tests of field tests, we will have a better idea of whether Smarter Balance works.

Asked whether any feedback from this spring's field tests of the Smarter Balanced assessments will be taken into consideration by lawmakers this summer, Kit Beyer, spokeswoman for Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, said lawmakers would use «all pertinent information available to construct a comprehensive accountability bill.»

The field tests of the assessments produced by the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium were intended to be a practice run for the full rollout this spring, when all of California's 3rd - through 8th - grade students, along with 11th graders, will take the assessments in both English language arts and math for the first time.

At one point, in a showdown with the state Legislature, Duncan threatened to withhold funding to California if the Legislature approved legislation to suspend the previous California Standards Tests and in its place have students take field tests of new Common Core aligned tests — that Duncan was himself promoting.

The Malloy administration's concerted effort to mislead parents into thinking that they lacked the right to opt their children out of the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Field Test of a test is just the latest example of his lack of respect for the rights of parents and the importance of local control of public education.