Sentences with phrase «for bubble tests»

What we need to improve education in this country is a strong, highly respected education profession; a rich curriculum in the arts and sciences, available in every school for every child; assessments that gauge what students know and can do, instead of mindless test prepping for bubble tests.

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Lower valuations across the board, even for tested companies, are horrible news for untested, bubble - inflated wannabes.

Lightpath Technologies, Inc., a provider of optics, photonics and infrared solutions for the industrial, defense, telecommunications, testing and measurement, and medical industries, hit an all - time low at 30 cents in February of 2009 after a multi-year fall that began with the dot.com bubble in 2000.

If anything, the rush into Bitcoin and the loss of confidence the bursting of this latest bubble will cause may remind investors of the time - tested virtues of gold — and the reasons investors have sought its safety for thousands of years.

, Dirk Baur and Kristoffer Glover test for bubbles in gold price over the past four decades.

In their December 2017 paper entitled «Datestamping the Bitcoin and Ethereum Bubbles», Shaen Corbet, Brian Lucey and Larisa Yarovaya test for bubbles in Bitcoin and Ethereum price Bubbles», Shaen Corbet, Brian Lucey and Larisa Yarovaya test for bubbles in Bitcoin and Ethereum price bubbles in Bitcoin and Ethereum price series.

«Our bench scale testing was a 1 - liter vessel — the bacteria was producing little bubbles in it — and the next size up for us was a 145,000 - gallon anaerobic digester,» he recalls.

Let the brown butter bubble a bit and it will continue to cook the sprouts, which you can test for done - ness with a fork.

• You'll see some small bubbles in the crepes but look for dryness - if there's a patch that still looks wet they can probably be flipped, but just test and see what works for you.

We tested out 4 of the products: Shampoo and Body Wash, Bubble Bath, Intensive Moisture Lotion for Dry Skin and Daily Moisture Lotion.

But deftly and sure - footed, the Buhari administration is building a new foundation for the economy, erecting an edifice that will stand the test of time, not a bubble that collapses with just a pinprick, not a will - o - the - wisp that vanishes in the midday sun.

He said some teachers reported running from desk to desk throughout the test to fill in bubbles for students who didn't know how.

Some 12,000 UFT members signed a «Recess from Tests» petition this fall, calling for a ban on bubble tests in those early grTests» petition this fall, calling for a ban on bubble tests in those early grtests in those early grades.

At the Institute of Child Health in London, Roland Levinsky, Christine Kinnon and their colleagues are keen to test an experimental treatment for «bubble babies» — children with a rare immune deficiency caused by a genetic defect.

The main hardware in the existing research infrastructure at IFE Hynor is found in a process room for testing and development of high temperature hydrogen production and solid oxide fuel cell technology (SOFC), including a Dual Bubbling Fluidized Bed reactor prototype (DBFB) for continuous hydrogen production by sorption - enhanced reforming (SER) of methane with an integrated process for CO2 - capture.

So, think of the gas that comes back on the Breath Test is like looking for bubbles on the surface trying to see if someone's in the water.

But, these bubble sleeves have been popping up everywhere, so it was time for me to test the waters and see if they were for me.

In this article for District Administration, regular Edutopia blogger Suzie Boss tells the story of how schools are meeting the challenge of standardized tests and moving past the «bubble» exam; she also highlights how educators are overcoming fear and anxiety around assessing critical thinking and content.

For 21st century success, students will need skill sets far beyond those that are mandated in the densely packed standards — and that's evaluated on bubble tests.

And those straying off the cognitive reservation can also invoke Duncan's boss, whose March 2009 denunciation of «bubble tests» called for a new generation of assessments that would address not only «problem - solving and critical thinking» but also «entrepreneurship and creativity.»

But, it's an unfortunate comment on today's education debate that my quest to align public funding with effectiveness is seen as a call for more bubble tests.

He shows how tests «dumb down» the curriculum by channeling teachers» efforts and students» time into activities that mimic the tests (for example, filling in the bubbles on practice tests).

Virtually all are replacing their old fill - in - the - bubble tests of basic skills, tests that contributed to both low expectations for student learning and bad teaching practices, with significantly stronger assessments.

Lessons regularly wow the pupils and give them hands - on opportunities to test and explore their ideas and we have found that this enthusiasm for learning bubbles over into all subject areas.

Since ESSA requires the use of proficiency rates, one design objective is a combination of measures on academic achievement to reduce both the short - term gaming around «bubble kids» (both real and perceived) and also the long - term incentive to lowball cut - scores for various achievement bands on statewide tests.

[We've written before about proficiency and the tendency, under high - stakes testing, for schools to focus resources on kids who are «on the bubble.»]

Finland's educational emphasis on critical thinking and creativity as opposed to bubbling in test score sheets is given as a reason for their competitiveness.

The tests, by SBAC and Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, will both be administered mostly on computers and will feature more open - ended questions than the traditional «fill in the bubble» exams to which students have grown accustomed.

The Dept. of Education announced a new competitive grant that is compatible with ESSA for states that want to «ditch fill - in - the - bubble tests» with modern, «competency - based tests.»

For the first time, many teachers will have the state assessments they have longed for — tests of critical thinking skills and complex student learning that are not just fill - in - the - bubble tests of basic skills but support good teaching in the classroFor the first time, many teachers will have the state assessments they have longed for — tests of critical thinking skills and complex student learning that are not just fill - in - the - bubble tests of basic skills but support good teaching in the classrofor — tests of critical thinking skills and complex student learning that are not just fill - in - the - bubble tests of basic skills but support good teaching in the classroom.

In Iowa, for example, the cost of administering the fill - in - the - bubble Iowa Tests of Basic Skills is 93 cents per student.

It is time that we stop testing students using antiquated fill in the bubble» forms, and begin to align our assessment methods with standards that will better prepare students for college and careers,» Bonilla said in a statement Thursday.

Mulgrew stated that both State Education Commissioner John King and Chancellor Dennis Walcott told him they were against standardized testing for pre K to grade 2 but Mulgrew went on to say that 36 schools were giving bubble tests to kids of this age and that he talked to a teacher who reported that some of these students could not even hold a pencil.

The Toledo Technology Academy (TTA) is a four - year public high school that is considered one of the gems of the Toledo Public Schools system and a model for community - supported education based on teamwork and project - based learning rather than a school day crowded with «fill - in - the - bubble» test fixation.

Lessons regularly wow the pupils, giving them hands on opportunities to test and explore their ideas and we have found that this enthusiasm for learning bubbles over into all subject areas.

Instead of filling in bubbles for multiple choice questions, students take computer - adapted tests that ask different questions based on what they get right or wrong.

At the same time, the new tests have generated hope among advocates that the low - quality, fill - in - the - bubble tests that states currently use, and the added assessments that districts require to compensate for them, will finally become a thing of the past.

Funny how the city that didn't have enough ballots for the last gubernatorial election has enough bubble sheets for tests.

On the other hand, though, one wonders whether he'll leave a trail of teachers fired for their students» failed bubble tests in his embrace of the imperfect.

You can also test for combustion gas in the coolant by over filling the reservoir, get the engine hot and check for bubbling in the reservoir.

If you know what to look for, you can probably just observe the bubbling at the radiator cap and skip the test kit, but it can be hard to distinguish from just having air in the cooling system (which you'll have if the level is low).

If calling your Golden Retriever «Bubbles» works for them, consider keeping the high test name strictly for AKC purposes.

The Campaign sent unopened bottles of bubble bath, baby lotion, and other products targeted at babies and children to an independent lab to be tested for 1,4 - dioxane and formaldehyde, chemicals that do not appear on product labels but are known to be carcinogenic.

Google might be testing another tweak that adds an interesting and new «bubble» design for the search bar.