Sentences with phrase «how difficult the test»

He wrote an email to parents explaining how difficult the test was and how illogical the curve against which the tests were scored.

Not exact matches

They had heard about the work we had done and introduced me to the problem of crude oil testing and how it's very difficult to do in that field.

This week I have Eagle Eyes, a very difficult, unambiguous test to see just how good your powers of observation are.

Though some of these seemingly out - of - left - field questions can be difficult to answer, they «test a job candidate's critical thinking skills, see how they problem solve on the spot, and gauge how they approach difficult situations,» Glassdoor's head of global recruiting and talent acquisition, Susan Underwood, said in a press release.

So while creationist and evolutionist will often agree on the what, we disagree on the how, why, and where, which are often more difficult to test definitively.

I understand how difficult it is to make a great test.

And, when research uses standardized tests to measure homework's impact, she continued, it is difficult to gauge how much of the overall improvement or decline in test scores is due to student learning in the classroom context as opposed to student learning from homework.

She gives concrete how - to's on managing visits (use the in - law test), talking to the public about your adoption (educate, use humor, ask a question or say it's private), handling difficult subjects and feelings with your kids (depersonalize the situation), and coaching your kids on how to handle comments from peers (choose whether to share, walk away, educate or say «it's private»)....

Be sure to test how easy or difficult it is to adjust the straps; the last thing you want is to be fumbling for the perfect fit while your baby fusses.

So I wasn't testing different strollers to see how heavy they were and how difficult or easy they would be loading them into the trunk of my car.

In November 2010 Japanese researchers announced online in Analytical Chemistry that they had built a chip that simultaneously tests how liver, intestine and breast cancer cells respond to cancer drugs, and in February 2010 scientists publishing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA developed a microscale replica of the human liver that allowed them to observe the entire life cycle of hepatitis C, a virus that is difficult to observe in cultured cells.

Kristi League of Brookings knows how difficult it is to assess when a child's brain has returned to normal without baseline testing.

However, testing the validity of data analysis algorithms is difficult since it is still unclear how even relatively simple neural systems like the brain of a fruit fly work.

In the less difficult version, they were told how many items they had to remember, and took the test in order; in the difficult version, the amount of information to remember in working memory was random.

Fetal surgery has been around for nearly 30 years, but it's proven difficult to test how well it really works.

«It is difficult to see how any safety case presented from now on that relies in any way upon the UK VPF, whether on the roads, the railways or in the nuclear industry, such as the new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C in Somerset, could stand up to test in court.

Others, including Baillargeon, believe the tests psychologists traditionally use are too difficult for young children to successfully demonstrate their understanding of how others view the world.

«This study is a beautiful example of how relatively simple bioinspired robots can address [questions] that are difficult or impossible to test in living organisms,» says Brandon Jackson, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Montana, Missoula.

This was an uncontrolled and open study, and so it is difficult to know how much significance we should place on the small improvements in neuropsychological test scores observed in the mild cognitive impairment participants who underwent the training.

Because children without symptoms are not tested for the HD mutation, it is very difficult to obtain enough MRI images to understand how the HD brain changes during early life.

I know firsthand how difficult it can be to get testing, even when you think you might know what is wrong.

Fortunately I had already become interested in nutrition and through my own research I learned how food allergies and food intolerances are difficult to diagnose and testing methods are not always reliable.

Or you could be reacting to one of the basic foods in the menu — it's difficult to know how to test for that on this diet as it's so prescriptive.

It is difficult to assess just how many people in this NZ suffer from poorly balanced adrenal hormone control, «because the blood tests all come back normal».

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But even in math, requiring students to explain how they figured out their answers makes it more difficult to cheat on a test.

By examining rigorous evidence about the validity of both of these tests, however, Massachusetts provides a model for other states facing difficult choices about whether and how to upgrade their assessment systems.

[REF] To date, no state has applied, with one observer saying «states realized just how difficult it would be to comply with some of the «guardrails» around the pilot, including a requirement to make sure the results of any new assessments are «comparable» to the state test.»

But what I find most frustrating is that those backing common assessments seem to have unforgivably underestimated how difficult it would be to undo decades of state policy and practice on tests.

And don't forget to use the rest of your free trial to try out some of the key features and workflows you saw during the demo to test how easy (or difficult!)

The «DOK level of an item does not refer to how easy or difficult a test item is for students» (Wyse & Viger, 2011, p. 188).

As practice is built around the integration of global themes in everyday learning, you will begin to find that you no longer have to make a difficult either - or decision between test results and global know - how, or between fulfilling mandated curricular requirements and bringing the world to your students.

«That's how you get these other dimensions of competence into the picture, but it's very difficult to create a single test,» he said.

Determining how New Orleans stacks up with the rest of the nation is difficult to assess since the tests are particular to Louisiana and comparisons can not be reliably made with similar tests in other states.

Officials found that it's not more difficult to predict how students will perform in their first year even without standardized test scores.

Additionally, although DoS attacks are easy to implement it is incredibly difficult to track down the source of a DoS attack, and thus it is almost impossible to prosecute the individual or group of individual's responsible for the attack, Furthermore, it is unknown how much, if any, of the AIR's testing data was compromised by the attack.

«It would be difficult to see how the range of teacher effects on the 8th grade Reading test would be considered substantively meaningful if this result holds up in a larger and random sample.

I now know firsthand how uplifting and difficult being a teacher can be, and how myriad policy decisions affect the work I do every day: implementing the rigorous standards known as the Common Core; modifying No Child Left Behind / ESEA to address its shortcomings, such as simplified curricula due to testing; establishing new evaluation systems that rate teacher effectiveness and, I hope, provide us with support and feedback to get even better.

Field testing provides valuable information about test items, such as how difficult each item is, how many students select each specific answer choice, and which items might be biased in favor of or against certain groups.

It is difficult to say how many students, parents and educators pushed for not taking the test for fear of a poor result.

Nuthall looks at how difficult it is to judge teaching due to its interactive nature, and disagrees with using test scores to evaluate teachers and schools.

«Since the Common Core was introduced, these problems have only gotten worse, with tests so difficult and confusing that teachers themselves are at a loss as to how the questions should be answered.

Those involved in helping students prepare for the test say a lower bar to passing is an imperfect solution to a genuinely difficult problem — how to create an exam that is aligned to the tougher standards now being implemented in high schools, while addressing the fact that most of those trying to pass the exam — both young people who dropped out of high school years ago and adults — never had any exposure to the Common Core.

On the other hand, the fact that Teach for America's teachers did no better than their more experienced colleagues in this latest study points to how difficult it is to improve students» test scores by improving the quality of instruction.

I'm also quite sure of how difficult a task it is to push the standards rock up the status quo hill, particularly in a day and age when we are wary of testing in general and many are waiting to see what will become of the accountability standards in NCLB as wishes move to reauthorization, multiple measures, and a new look on federal education policy.

Every Connecticut school administrator is well aware, or should be well aware, that in January 2013 Governor Dannel Malloy's first Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, provided local school officials with a directive explaining how to mislead parents about the Common Core testing and how to make it as difficult as possible for parents to opt their child out of the testing frenzy.

If you've taken the TOEIC Listening and Reading exam, then you know that it can be difficult to ascertain how well you've done on the test.

My students did take standardized tests and knowing what I do now about how difficult it is to assess teacher quality from those, I would not be surprised if I were to learn that my student's «growth» was probably in some acceptable range.

That makes it difficult for outsiders to understand how much New York students improved after their second year of Common Core curriculum and testing.

Beyond the anxiety associated with taking the difficult test, Scarice said he thinks that some parents want to opt their children out of the test because they are just frustrated with how test - centered schools are becoming.