Sentences with phrase «if test makers»

We know from international research that well - designed testing can drive better learning outcomes, so the new tests have the potential to benefit our students immensely - but only if the test makers take bold steps in their designs.

We know from international research that well - designed testing can drive better learning outcomes, so the new tests have the potential to benefit our students immensely — but only if the test makers take bold steps in their designs.

Though he sees potential in the «commonness» of the Common Core, he argues that true learning gains will only follow if states turn more demanding ELA standards into a mandate for knowledge - rich curricula and if test makers understand that «close reading» of texts could make things worse unless those texts are integrated with such a curriculum.

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I can't believe that worked!!!! Thanks for reporting back, someone had asked earlier in the comments if I thought it would work and I didn't have a waffle maker to test it with so this is great!

There are other concerned mothers who have also looked into this horrible laundering trend and have contacted Protor & Gamble, the makers of Cascade, to see if tests had been done on fibers and what the results were.

The tough Lee welcomes the company of Will, a polar opposite in personality, if only to help realize his submission for the Young Film Maker's competition of BBC children's program «Screen Test.»

But analysts, authorizers, regulators, and other policy makers also make mistakes, especially if they rely predominantly on test results that are, at best, weak predictors of later - life success.

Even if we ignore the fact that most portfolio managers, regulators, and other policy makers rely on the level of test scores (rather than gains) to gauge quality, math and reading achievement results are not particularly reliable indicators of whether teachers, schools, and programs are improving later - life outcomes for students.

Don't labor over making certificates by hand, though; if you use an online quiz maker such as ProProfs to administer your test, the software automatically creates a certificate.

If even rigorous research fails to show a consistent relationship between test scores and later success, why would we think that regulators and policy makers with less rigorous approaches to test scores could use them to reliably identify school and program quality?

Test makers in multiple corners are creating more complex assessments, ones that, if tied more closely to curriculum and instruction, could paint a clearer picture of student learning.

Many policy makers agreed: set higher standards; test to see if students have mastered them; hold back students or prevent them from graduating if they don't pass.

It will indeed be a cause to cheer if and when policy - makers start to turn their sights away from the zero - sum game of whose schools are outperforming on ELA and Math tests and towards the ends that chartered schools were supposed to lead us in the first place: teacher empowerment, innovation, entrepreneurism and new models of teaching and learning to name just a few.

The report recommended that: policy makers ensure curriculum and assessments are aligned at state, district and local levels; districts survey teachers on test prep activities and keep those that are highly rated, while dropping those that aren't; districts expand access to technology so students can develop skills before taking tests and teachers can support them; and districts only use interim tests aimed at predicting performance on end - of - the - year tests, if teachers believe they are high - quality.

Hence the maker can tailor the gear change points to the test, even if that test is not really representative of real life.

If governments are going to base car taxation on Co2 emissions, then car makers are going to build cars that «game» the official tests.

However, Google Now is one of those features that really has to be tested in real world conditions to find out if it is really as cool as is being made out by its makers.

As many of you already know (if you signed up for the author alert), e-reader maker and e-book distributer Kobo has just finished beta - testing its self - publishing platform, Writing Life and released it upon a suspecting world.

Unfortunately, the convinced model - makers of climatism who have been beating the drums are so dedicated to the concept of an average global temperature that they no longer even care if their models are tested and fail in every possible way: regionally, seasonally, temporally and historically.

The next test revolves around the question of when, not if the company will stop holding consumers» hands and make them pay extra if they want that privilege — after all, Made for iPhone accessories makers want a piece of the Lightning headphones market.

While August is the first smart home partner that Walmart is working with on this effort, presumably, if the tests were successful, Walmart would add other smart home device makers to the list of supported device in the future.

ZDNet's sister site CNET got the chance to test the Snapdragon 845 on a Qualcomm reference phone to check if it met the chip maker's claim of a 25 percent speed increase over the Snapdragon 835, the chipset that powered most of 2017's Android flagships.