Sentences with phrase «group fair test»

«There needs to be a further de-linking of test scores from educational high - stakes decisions about students, teachers and schools,» says Robert Schaeffer, the public education director of the watchdog group Fair Test.

Not exact matches

Facebook's accessibility group is testing out new ways to use FAIR's research to help blind users.

But funding from its two main donors, the Ford Foundation and the Joyce Foundation, has been «phased down or phased out,» said Robert Schaeffer, a spokesman for the nonprofit group, formally known as the National Center for Fair & Open Testing.

Words included are: Scientific Method, Hypothesis, Control group, Variables, Problem, Data, materials, Procedure, Observation, Conclusion, Science, Classifying, Fair test, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Zoology, Geology, Geography, Astronomy, Bar chart, Pie chart, Line graph, Stem and leaf.

This includes observation over time, pattern seeking, classifying and grouping, and researching using other sources, as well as comparative and fair testing.

It masks the substantial issues involved in generating meaningful credible actual test scores... whether students have sufficient actual instruction on common core standards prior to operational testing to permit valid test scores, or the fact that while Smarter Balanced may have generated enuf qualified test questions to deliver an actual full test spring 2015 [the so - called «field» test was not an actual test, but rather an exercise to try - out test questions for potential inclusion in an actual test], it still needs actual test scores from spring 2015 to generate credible scoring rules for the test (i.e., «cut scores») for valid reliable fair individual student and aggregate group scores.

One DCPS official told a concerned parent in an email that a longer testing window has allowed schools to rotate smaller groups of students through tests rather than testing everyone at the same time, «so that instruction, student services, field trips, science fairs, performances and the like can continue.»

And equally important, those same people and groups should be de-couple the teacher evaluation program from the Common Core tests and demand that the Connecticut State Department of Education develop a fair, appropriate and effective teacher evaluation programs.

This means implementing a multi-pronged approach of providing good care, fair, reliable behavior testing, rehabilitation if needed, and a commitment to making adoption an appealing option to the public by way of education, a foster home network, cooperation with rescue groups, good customer service, clean facilities, spay / neuter before adoption, and liberal adoption hours.

Rent Collection Courtyard, 1974 — 1978 (original 1965), Test the Quantity of the Grains (Detail) In conjunction with China's appearance as Guest of Honour at the 2009 Frankfurt Book Fair, the Schirn will be showing, for the first time ever in the West, the spectacular Chinese sculptural group Rent Collection Courtyard (Chin.: Shouzuyuan).

Having jumped from Armory Week to cluster around Frieze's warmth, Pulse will be testing the waters of New York's new fair week for its diverse group of exhibitors.

«Sceptical groups, however, argued that publication in scientific journals was not a fair test of expertise.»

The association developed a program to allow brokers to be voluntarily tested by fair housing groups for informational purposes, hoping it would foster more collaboration on training in the industry.

Plus, you never know when your fair housing practices are being tested; testers from government or private groups can pose as home seekers, and their evidence is fully admissible in court.