A study of Arizona's career ladder program, which requires the use of various methods of student assessment to complement evaluations of teachers» practice,
found that, over time, participating teachers demonstrated an increased ability to create locally - developed assessment tools to assess student learning
gains in their classrooms; to develop and evaluate pre - and post-tests; to define
measurable outcomes in hard - to - quantify areas like art, music, and physical education; and to monitor student learning growth.
«The study also
found that the despite significant JavaScript performance
gains in the latest Apple iOS 4.3 release and Google Android 2.3 releases, these improvement made no
measurable improvement on the actual page load times of the sites tested.»