Sentences with phrase «force changes to the tests»

Parent groups and the state teachers union fueled the movement to try to force changes to the tests and how they are used (test results are an important factor in teacher evaluations).

Not exact matches

Important factors that could cause our actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those indicated in the forward - looking statements include, among others, the following: our ability to successfully and profitably market our products and services; the acceptance of our products and services by patients and healthcare providers; our ability to meet demand for our products and services; the willingness of health insurance companies and other payers to cover Cologuard and adequately reimburse us for our performance of the Cologuard test; the amount and nature of competition from other cancer screening and diagnostic products and services; the effects of the adoption, modification or repeal of any healthcare reform law, rule, order, interpretation or policy; the effects of changes in pricing, coverage and reimbursement for our products and services, including without limitation as a result of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014; recommendations, guidelines and quality metrics issued by various organizations such as the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the American Cancer Society, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance regarding cancer screening or our products and services; our ability to successfully develop new products and services; our success establishing and maintaining collaborative, licensing and supplier arrangements; our ability to maintain regulatory approvals and comply with applicable regulations; and the other risks and uncertainties described in the Risk Factors and in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations sections of our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and our subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10 - Q.

Recognizing this, in October 2011 the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) issued new guidelines recommending that women be tested for cervical cancer with Pap tests (not HPV tests) every three years rather than annually because more frequent testing leads to overtreatment of low - grade changes that would in all likelihood not turn out to be cancerous.

The second and final pre-season test hasn't started well for McLaren as the team has been forced to change the engine... again.

It didn't help that shortly after the regulations on carrying liquids changed, some traveling moms were forced to test their breast milk by tasting it or even dump it all out at the security checkpoint.

«Until serious changes are made to the Common Core standards and the high - stakes tests, it is unrealistic and wasteful to force children to participate in the exams,» Niccoli wrote in the letter.

A nuclear clock could be used to test whether the strength of the fundamental forces of nature changes over time.

In order to understand how El Niño responds to various climate forces, researchers test model predictions of past El Niño changes against actual records of past ENSO activity.

Surviving and thriving as our autistic selves is far more appealing — not to mention more practical — than chasing a magic pill that would fundamentally change who we are, forcing us into harmful treatments geared toward making us look more «normal,» or pursuing prenatal testing that could prevent the next generation of people like us from being born at all.

Test of transfer (long - term): Gonzalo - Skok et al. (2016) observed a tendency for force vector specificity to influence changes in COD ability, when comparing squats with a volume - matched range of similar multi-directional exercises, including both horizontal and lateral movements.

TheWashington Post's Jay Mathews pointed out, in 2012, that the new assessments would «delay, if not stop altogether, the national move toward rating teachers by student score improvements» and that radical change would force systems «to wait years to work out the kinks in the tests» before they could resume those efforts.

Adjusting for many other factors that can affect student performance, Chingos compares changes in the rate of gain in student test performance in school districts that were forced to reduce class size with changes in the rate of gain in other districts that could spend the funds as they saw fit.

Some conservatives believe they are being forced to support a broader set of social issues and embrace strategies or tactics they do not agree with as a litmus test to determine whether they are true change agents in education.

It could well be due to broader educational forces or to changes in testing procedures.

Butchko joined forces with another mother who was having similar struggles and ultimately helped get the homework policy in her district changed, limiting homework on weekends and holidays, setting time guidelines for daily homework, and broadening the definition of homework to include projects and studying for tests.

This change to the APPR system forces districts to create and adopt local assessments in order to measure teacher performance, even while our students are still also required to take state - created and administered tests.

The test will take around five minutes to complete, the government said, and school level will not be published, nor be used by Ofsted and others to «force changes in schools».

Teachers and schools districts are also clamoring for changes to the No Child Left Behind program that seeks to raise educational standards by forcing schools to reach 100 percent proficiency in reading and math tests by 2014 or lose funding.

Unlike the brawls we've been having over charter schools and testing, these changes go to the heart of our problem — an undertrained educator force that lacks the respect and skills it needs to do a very hard 21st - century job.

REVIEWS «When the Obama Administration decided to spend the billions it got for schools as part of the stimulus package to launch the Race to the Top program and the NCLB waivers, forcing many states to adopt teacher evaluation based on changes in student test scores, leading experts warned that this «value added» system did not have a reliable scientific basis and would often lead to false conclusions.

Chicago Parents» Fair Testing Campaign: How Parents Used Multiple Strategies to Force Change in the CPS Student Testing Policy

While a full repeal of the standards remains rare, the staying power of the Common Core will continue to be tested as state task forces and review boards have the opportunity to chip away with potential changes, administrative roadblocks, or delays.

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Driven by ever - more stringent global emissions testing, the new 9A2 engine's move from natural to forced induction is the latest in a series of fundamental changes under the distinctive skin that have included swapping from air - to water - cooling and hydraulic to electric - assist steering.

Members of the armed forces do not have to meet these tests if the move was due to a permanent change of station.

Leverage fully - dynamic physics - based destruction to improvise on the fly: blow holes in a wall or floor to set an ambush or escape, take out a staircase to stop your pursuers, or drive vehicles through blown out walls.; Evolving & Emergent Gameplay - Carve your path through an ever changing landscape as you improvise your combat tactics - mixing gameplay styles, vehicles, weapons and explosives to defeat the EDF.; Epic Sci - Fi Setting - Explore the huge, unforgiving Martian landscape, from the desolate mining outpost of Parker to the gleaming EDF capital city of Eos; then tear through the fully destructible open - world environments swarming with EDF forces, Red Faction resistance fighters, and the downtrodden settlers caught in the cross-fire.; Multiplayer Combat - There is no place to hide when you put your guerrilla warfare skills to the test in a variety of highly destructive multiplayer combat modes.

Using teleportation is key, but you'll skills will be tested, sometimes in mid air, forcing you to change directions, and charge through a wall without skipping a beat.

The response of that model to volcanic forcings, the last ice age, changes in orbital parameters etc. are all «out - of - sample» tests that are not fixed by adjusting parameters.

Response: < / b > von Storch et al purport to test statistical methods used to reconstruct past climate patterns from «noisy» proxy data by constructing false proxy records («pseudoproxy» records) based on adding noise to model gridbox temperature series taken from a climate simulation forced with estimated past radiative forcing changes.

Climate modelers are very thankful for the existence of the seasonal cycle, for providing such a beautiful data set with which we can test a models quantitative response to a well - defined change in external forcing.

The test of the model is whether, given the observed changes in forcing, it produces a skillful prediction using the scenario most closely related to the observations — which is B (once you acknowledge the slight overestimate in the forcings).

# 66 nigelj: «We then ask sceptics to test their «logical assumption» and show in detail which natural forces are causing current climate change, and they can not, because solar activity is flat etc..»

Since the projected surface forcing changes come from a climate model (s) the underlying assumption is that the important ice - ocean feedbacks are captured in the superimposed forcing changes, so it really isn't an independent test and not meant to be a substitute for a coupled model.

We then ask sceptics to test their «logical assumption» and show in detail which natural forces are causing current climate change, and they can not, because solar activity is flat etc..

Note that 2xCO2 is the preferred test since the impact of 10 ppmv depends on the base amount of CO2 (i.e. 280 +10 ppmv has a different response that 380 +10 ppmv due to the roughly logarithmic change of forcing with CO2 level).

von Storch et al purport to test statistical methods used to reconstruct past climate patterns from «noisy» proxy data by constructing false proxy records («pseudoproxy» records) based on adding noise to model gridbox temperature series taken from a climate simulation forced with estimated past radiative forcing changes.

Given the huge sums of money involved in funding climate research and the even larger sums being spent on the assumption that it gives us good guidance for practical decisions, it may be time for some very large experimental chambers to be constructed to test the presumptions of the device of using forcings as an tractable way of including changes in atmospheric composition in climate models.

In fact, it is routine in model development to test model ability to simulate «control climates» — i.e., climates without forcing changes due to greenhouse gases, the sun, aerosols, etc..

Recent work (e.g., Hurrell 1995, 1996; Thompson and Wallace 1998; Corti et al., 1999) has suggested that the observed warming over the last few decades may be manifest as a change in frequency of these naturally preferred patterns (Chapters 2 and 7) and there is now considerable interest in testing the ability of climate models to simulate such weather regimes (Chapter 8) and to see whether the greenhouse gas forced runs suggest shifts in the residence time or transitions between such regimes on long time - scales.

«That's important for understanding causes of megadroughts, and it's important for climate modelers to test hypotheses of climate forcing and change.»

As such, the statistical model provides a direct and transparent methodology to test whether changes in anthropogenic and natural forcings can account for the recent pattern of temperature changes.

The goal is to force these hard - working Americans into compliance with federal mandates on climate change — which will surely include new restrictions on their use of water, livestock feed, fertilizers, livestock management techniques, and who knows what all else that violate every principle of real land management ever established through the test of time.

Another way to test the importance of atmospheric changes would be to calculate both the TOA and surface forcing using the satellite measurements, and then impose this transient forcing in a general circulation model that calculates both the atmosphere and ocean response.

The test results indicate that the radiative forcing due to changes in the atmospheric concentrations of CO2, CH4, CFCs, and N2O, emissions of SOX, CO2, CH4, and CFCs and solar irradiance contain a unit root while most tests indicate that temperature does not.

Given the case was decided on the law prior to the coming into force of the Care Act 2014 («Care Act») this paper will also consider how far the changes in the ordinary residence test are affected.

Billy could form a «Let Billy show up to every meeting» party, run candidates for the legislature in every State and federally, lobby hard, raise funds for lawyers to run test cases, change the constitution, take control of the armed forces, pass a resolution through the United Nations General Assembly, etc etc..

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