Sentences with phrase «group test designed»

There is no standardized, group test designed to evaluate the progress of every child in the class as well as the performance of the classroom teacher.

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The covert group actually «designed our test to fail,» one GAO official said.

Once you outline several levels of criteria, you could have a focus group test a variety of shakers in different realistic situations to see which designs work best.

After the site rewrite was complete, the design team was ready to show off the product of more than a year of sketching, designing, focus - grouping and in - office testing.

Over the following year, tools for moderators and small design updates were tested with core groups of moderators.

The trial uses complex and innovative design features, testing for different dosing, different durations of treatment, and different age groups.

The 2011 study, conducted by a team of psychologists at Columbia, Wisconsin - Madison and Harvard universities, put groups of students through four cognitive and computer - based experiments designed to test recall and word recognition.

That's why, for the second year in a row, Zillow Group is sponsoring employee registrations for Tough Mudder — a 10 - mile obstacle course designed to test mental and physical strength while prioritizing teamwork over individual rankings.

Utilizing the «factor» test laid out in 506 (c), it seems that «reasonable steps to verify» for a member of a legitimate angel group would be less than that of a random person on the street, which is seemingly who the safe harbors appear to be designed for.

Most notably, among this group, is IBM, which last year revealed work with cryptocurrency startup Stellar and is now looking at ways to explore open blockchains in cross-border payments and last week revealed a test called Fabric Coin designed to demonstrate how the blockchain works.

In a landmark experiment in 2006, Cohen and a colleague, Julio Garcia, tested a wise intervention designed to counteract this anxiety with a group of underachieving seventh - graders at a suburban middle school in New England.

Since 2009, the Healthy Communities Research Group (GP RED, GreenPlay, Design Concepts, along with other key academic and community partners) has been working together to develop and test the Healthy Communities Surveillance and Management Toolkit Project.

The DEC should let residents and community groups help design the second round of air testing and the results should be reviewed by a panel of independent experts, he said.

They combined the blood test data with an app that asks questions designed to detect suicidal intentions, and predicted with 92 per cent accuracy who of a group of 108 men receiving psychiatric treatment would develop suicidal feelings over the following year — and with 71 per cent accuracy who of a group of 157 would be hospitalised by an attempt.

Ramesh Raskar of the Camera Culture group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has devised a method of providing basic eye tests using only a smartphone and a specially designed eyepiece.

John Glass, a senior microbiologist in the synthetic biology group at the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Maryland, puts it this way: If you can imagine a set of genes that will program a cell to do something — anything — then you can make them «at a reasonable cost and test your hypothesis... so it will be possible to attempt to design organisms that have extraordinary properties to solve human needs.»

In a test of their idea, they farmed out a task to design a small chair for children to a group of 60 paid workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk.

«David [Baulcombe]'s group developed a number of very interesting gene silencing systems at the time and Olivier was very good at seeing connections between these and designing elegant experiments to test them,» Hamilton, today a lecturer at the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom, writes in an e-mail.

Since leafing - out requirements are thought to be species - specific, the group designed a lab experiment to test the responsiveness of 50 tree and shrub species in Concord to warming temperatures in the late winter and early spring.

In a second paper at UIST, Kumar and her group will present a testing platform for correlating app design with performance without requiring access to the app's code.

To look for variation in honey bee social behavior, Hagai Shpigler, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Illinois (UI) in Urbana, designed two tests where he and colleagues video recorded a group of bees and analyzed each individual's reaction to a social situation.

The 3D printing approach allowed researchers at Innolign and Chen's group to quickly change and test their designs, which helped them discern which patterns worked well.

But the question of whether certain, more influential peers have more influence on social norms governing a group is what spurred Paluck and her colleagues to design their test program, the Roots program.

In addition, other teams at the O'Donnell Brain Institute are designing tests for the early detection of patients who will develop dementia, and seeking methods to slow or stop the spread of toxic proteins associated with the disease such as beta - amyloid and tau, which are blamed for destroying certain groups of neurons in the brain.

Although, Hedrick and Linden target different cell types, innovations by both groups could encourage clinical tests of drugs designed to switch on a patient's immune cells by eradicating secondary lung malignancies.

Bryan's group has designed a BiTE against the EGFRvIII tumor - specific antigen, which is expressed in a majority of glioblastoma cases, and has performed preclinical tests to determine its efficacy against EGFRvIII - expressing glioblastoma.

«I think that the future of exploration is such that you'll have to have both humans and robots working together,» said Terry Fong, human exploration telerobotics project manager and director of the Intelligent Robotics Group at Ames, which designed and manages the tests.

Our platform is designed to emulate human biology more accurately than current cell culture or animal models, and we are currently working with a diverse group of partners to test the way drugs, foods, and chemicals affect human health.

«This is the first study of its kind designed to test the effects of a diet on the decline of cognitive abilities among a large group of individuals 65 to 84 years old who currently do not have cognitive impairment,» says Martha Clare Morris, ScD, a nutritional epidemiologist at Rush and principal investigator of the study.

Individuals from both groups were brought to the University of Illinois for an 80 - minute session during which they completed a series of motor tasks designed to test postural stability, balance control, reaction time, and sensory integration.

By providing high - energy group classes that are designed to test your limits and help you exceed your own expectations, Prevail uncovers what it truly means to realize your potential.

The test was designed by a group of psychologists who are specialised in psychometrics and dynamics of human relationships.

Also not surprisingly, Eggsy manages to last throughout the extended testing process designed to winnow the group down to one under the eye of Merlin (Mark Strong).

Since we group our students (on the basis of their exhibited performance) into three Divisions, each with an approximately two - year curriculum designed by our teachers, the state's pattern of testing 8th and 10th graders (a designation we don't make, on philosophical grounds) is especially hard on our students.

Designed to be a whole class or small group teacher lead game rather than a practice test.

Using this rapid cycle of design - test - iterate, an idea is developed by a group of experts and key stakeholders, piloted in a real world setting, refined, and tested again with a larger group, thereby creating an accelerated method to prepare for scale up at a population level.

The typology includes logical problems, algorithmic problems, story problems (which have underlying algorithms with a story wrapper that amounts to an algorithmic problem), rule - using problems, decision - making problems (e.g., cost - benefit analysis), troubleshooting (systematically diagnosing a fault and eliminating a problem space), diagnosis - solution problems (characteristic of medical school and involving small groups understanding the problem, researching different possible causes, generating hypotheses, performing diagnostic tests, and monitoring a treatment to restore a goal state), strategic performance, case analysis (characteristic of law or business school and involving adapting tactics to support an overall strategy and reflecting on authentic situations), design problems, and dilemmas (such as global warming, which are complex and involve competing values and which may have no obvious solutions).

The typology includes: logical problems, algorithmic problems, story problems (which are algorithmic problems with a story wrapper), «rule - using» problems, decision - making problems (e.g., cost - benefit analysis), troubleshooting (systematically diagnosing a fault, eliminating a problem space), «diagnosis - solution» problems (characteristic of medical school, which involve small groups understanding the problem, researching different possible causes, generating hypotheses, performing diagnostic tests, and monitoring a treatment to restore a goal state), strategic - performance, case analysis (characteristic of law or business school, which involve adapting tactics to support an overall strategy and reflecting on authentic situations), design problems, and dilemmas (such as global warming, which are complex and involve competing values, and which may have no solutions).

It would sponsor the creation of innovative designs, pilot test them in a select group of schools, and decide whether they were effective enough to warrant wide dissemination.»

The researchers responsible for the evaluation responded to this threat to their random assignment design by creating a treatment and control group through statistically matching subjects whose parents had given permission for follow - up testing.

Often, teachers give students group tests, which, like the class worksheets, are designed to be harder than the individual assignments.

The tailored test design and the proposed branching mechanism work effectively to adapt to the different ability groups.

It is our hope that by collaborating with this diverse group of educators working in a variety of teaching and learning environments, we may be able to develop, test, remix, retest, and refine a suite of contemporary assessment strategies designed to document, enrich, and support maker empowerment across all learning environments.

These studies also are weak with regards to external validity because the research design does not permit a determination of whether the pre-k program improves performance in elementary school — the control group begins to receive the pre-k program just after the children are initially tested, which means there is no untreated control group with which to benchmark performance in kindergarten and thereafter.

The problem with this design is that all the children who did not make it successfully through pre-k because they dropped out or moved are absent from the program group, which is tested at entry into kindergarten, whereas all the children who will eventually experience conditions that lead them to drop out are still in the control group.

Most tests are designed to make efficient comparisons between groups, not tell us about individuals.

In addition to teaching social studies at Mooresville High School, Jeffrey Franklin is part of the Indiana Educator Leader Cadre, a group helping design new standardized tests aligned to the Common Core.

Before state lawmakers voted to pause rollout of the new standards, Superintendent Ritz had expressed interest in joining both groups and going with whichever consortium designed the better test.

By focusing and honing their skills on tasks like subject matter expert interview techniques, content analysis and organization, learning objective identification, focus and user group testing, and more, these instructional designers can design and direct the production of training materials with little - to - no prior experience with the content.

As each group tests, all other groups should be taking note of the design and success of their peers» lifts.