Sentences with phrase «further test the standards»

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The only other comment I'd have is that whilst he meets a much higher standard of scientific approach than the snake oil dressed as financial advice elsewhere, the core testing methods used are opaque and (as far as I can tell) not peer reviewed or made available for scrutiny.

I'm sorry that her academic credentials do not meet your standards, but may I also remind you that our current, sitting president had test scores that were far inferior to his other Harvard peers which begs the question of why he was admitted at all?

What I then propose to do is, briefly stated, to test saintliness by common sense, to use human standards to help us decide how far the religious life commends itself as an ideal kind of human activity.

Speaking ahead of an attempt to introduce the Bill into the Commons for further debate, the SNP MP said there are issues around the content and testing of formula products — with trading standards and councils lacking the resources to fully keep tabs on them.

The Britax seats tested were by far the safest of any brand, leading HealthyStuff.org to designate Britax the «Best Overall Child Seat Company» as the gold standard for chemical compliance.

As far as safety goes, the bed meets all ASTM and CPSC standards, and has been tested for toxic chemicals.

This is the latest attack against the new, more rigorous school testing standards and goes further than other reforms offered to date.

For far too long these controversial standards have been pushed along without input from parents, and with the governor's proposal to increase use of high - stakes testing in teacher evaluations, now is the time to return control back to them.»

She recognized that the board and Elia are still working to review the standards, the testing and the teacher evaluation system — work that is far from over.

Liu cautions that the standard Cas9 has proved itself over the years; his lab has only tested the new xCas9 on a few dozen sites in the genome so far, compared with the thousands the original has been shown to hit.

«This treatment has now been studied in our centre using the most sensitive measure of lung structure — a radiologic measurement of lung density — allowing us to detect changes far earlier than can be seen with standard breathing tests,» said Dr. Kenneth Chapman, Director of the Asthma and Airways Centre at Toronto Western Hospital and the Canadian research lead for the multicentre trial.

The newly tested method, devised by CSHL Professor Michael Wigler and Associate Professor Alexander Krasnitz, draws the raw material for further analysis from the standard pre-surgical biopsy.

And as far as testing goes, let's say you have gut issues and you could kind of like go through the gold standard protocol for gut testing.

The Harris Benedict Equation has been the standard since as far back as 1919, but it is losing its validity according to today's tests standards.

I really want to try to the Maffetone test and de-tox myself for two weeks, but so far I have not found a list on this site of specific foods I could find at my local grocer that meet the Maffetone standard.

Be aware that ideal TSH is around 1.8, which is far less than the standard «range» on lab tests.

Uncle Sam's role is to encourage movement in this direction, probably by giving states that join such consortia some breaks on No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and its successors, perhaps a bit more money, perhaps automatic approval of their standards and tests without further inspection or negotiation.

The results, which showed far lower rates of proficiency than the prior test, which was tied to the previous state standards, provoked an outcry from teachers and parents, who complained that schools and students had not been adequately prepared for it.

For all their flaws, they are far better for equity and quality than statewide skills - standards with high - stakes tests that encourage wasting huge amounts of school time in practicing narrow test - taking activities at the expense of education.

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.

When examined in this light, the impacts of NCLB — which the NRC estimates at a 0.08 standard deviation improvement in average achievement nationwide — are far greater than suggested by the NRC committee, which concludes that test - based accountability under NCLB had minimal impact and probably should be abandoned.

Furthermore, over most of the past decade, the standards for student proficiency that Massachusetts has set on the MCAS exam have far exceeded those established by most other state testing programs.

But it's far better to have an education destination worth reaching, i.e. rigorous standards set forth with sufficient specificity, clarity, and rich content to provide real guidance to curriculum designers, classroom teachers, test developers and more.

That's a daunting challenge for any test maker, but it's further complicated by widespread fears of soaring failure rates and their political consequences, as well as by Arne Duncan's stipulation (in the federal grants that underwrite the assessment - development process) that the states belonging to each consortium must reach consensus on those passing scores (in government jargon, «common achievement standards»).

In most states, far fewer students were rated «proficient» on the Common Core — aligned tests than on the old assessments, which was by design — the standards were raised to better indicate «college and career readiness.»

Finally, in Kenya, where the raw test scores showed students in private and public schools performing at similar levels, the fact that private schools served a far more disadvantaged population resulted in a gap of 0.1 standard deviations in English and 0.2 standard deviations in math (after accounting for differences in student characteristics).

We further tested to see whether a one - student reduction in class sizes would increase TIMSS scores by just one point, or 1 percent of an international standard deviation.

Stronger standards, better tests, higher cut scores — so far, so good.

Three ideas stand out: Assessments aligned with CCSS must give students greater skin in the game by requiring them to pass assessments in order to graduate; tests should be linked to two or more different types of diplomas rather than imposing a rigid single standard for all; and low - income and minority students should receive far greater support than they currently do.

Adherence to standard textbook - based teaching means that nothing is being done to challenge this perception when it's all too clear that unlocking curiosity and wonderment across all academic disciplines is not only essential to the mastery of tests, but also key to ensuring that more students are inspired enough to pursue further study and even pursue teaching as a career later in life.

Thinking a little farther outside the usual K — 12 philanthropic box: We've recently seen a raft of rigorous new academic standards and better tests, all of them said to be aimed at making every student «college - and career - ready.»

Most of the dropping out, so far, hasn't taken the form of repudiating the Common Core standards themselves but, rather, exiting from the twin assessment consortia that were created to develop new Common Core - align tests.

So «Tee - Jay» does not look so bad when tested by Virginia's standards, but Freeman pays the state standard little mind, as its students go on further to AP courses and tests: «A reform that might have tied urban and suburban schools together has been transformed into yet another one that reinforces the gap that separates them.

I believe that these rigorous standards have the potential to dramatically improve the quality of instruction in the typical American classroom — to move teachers far beyond the test - prep and bubble - kids obsessions of the No Child Left Behind era.

Just days before a deadline this month mandated by Congress, the Department of Education signed binding compliance agreements with several states that lag far behind in meeting federal requirements on standards and testing dating back to 1994.

Content standards, tests, and curriculum that had been provided by the states — thus far — will now because of Common Core be provided by federally - endorsed national curriculum - content standards, federally - funded tests, and curriculum (some of it federally funded) based on those tests and curriculum - content standards.

As the state struggles to bring common core curriculum standards into California classrooms, Elk Grove Unified School District is far enough along to ready plans for testing its students midway through the coming school year on the new content goals in math and English.

So far, the transition to the new Common Core standards and the Smarter Balanced tests have gone forward without the kind of heated debates and doubts that have raged in a number of other states.

These stakeholders express strong concern that as new standards are adopted, testing will increase even further.

So if it was implementing state standards with the intention of kids passing tests, then people in some divisions had a lot of resources, people in other divisions far less.

Far from nullifying NCLB, the waivers are simply another tool used for the same end — the promotion of standards, testing, and accountability.

8For further information about the standards, assessment program, and tests, please visit these websites.

Upon further review, this was the only question on the test measuring that standard.

The advent of national testing (such as NAPLAN), national curriculum, national professional standards, teacher education reforms and public accountabilities such as the MySchool website comparing schools create an environment that is far from autonomous.

This year's results will not be officially available until October but they will be a further test of whether the project has driven up standards.

It goes further by requiring that the Department of Education accept bids for a test of Tennessee's standards, including the Common Core in English / Language Arts and Math.

Further, starting in 2014 — 2015, state tests will be geared toward measuring whether or not students are achieving these standards.

While there are some schools with high concentrations of successful EL students, many more are falling far short — in more than 700 schools, no tested EL students met the state standard.

There's plenty for Minnesota's test developers to do, but they can only go so far forward until they know what the feds will require and what new unified standards states are now devising look like.

States that are further along in the implementation process have found that the switch to new standards and tests significantly reduced student scores.