Sentences with phrase «impact test among»

Graco is also known for prioritizing safety of its users hence the rigorous side impact test among other tests that it pushes through before putting its product in the market.

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Testing with laboratory mice have shown negative impacts on respiratory, digestive, and reproductive systems, among others.

The experiment at the University of Oregon was designed to test, at a fundamental level, the impact of microbial dispersal among individuals with different microbiomes.

The test scores confirm a devastating impact: After mothers left home to work in another city, mental development scores among their children declined significantly and socio - emotional indices «fell apart,» Rozelle says.

As expected, the simple traffic light labeling of calorie content had a particularly strong impact among the subset of participants who scored poorly on a simple test of math ability (numeracy).

Rapid diagnostic tests for point - of - care diagnostics, diabetic - resistant coatings, HIV inhibitors and an impact - resistant, corrosion - prohibiting coating were among the 15 innovations for which Clemson University researchers received patents in 2016.

They are among 34 groups in Florida to receive a piece of $ 25 million in state funds that Gov. Rick Scott OK's last year for Zika vaccine development, testing methods and understanding the long - term impact of the virus.

«NAPLAN is a point - in - time test of a just a few, albeit important — subjects which can be compared to the same data collected at other times and around Australia, to help work out, among other things and alongside other data, the effects of different education programs and policies, and the places where additional resources could make the greatest impact.

Among many influential projects conducted under the auspices of EdLabs, Fryer has developed and implemented programs to test the impact of incentives on student achievement, teacher pay - for - performance concepts, and an effort to apply charter - school practices to a district turnaround school in Houston.

Yet research on the impact of licensure on student outcomes is inconclusive, with some studies finding little, if any, difference among traditionally certified and uncertified teachers and others finding substantially higher student test scores among traditionally certified teachers.

The study's findings on school context, implementation fidelity, and the service contrasts among the groups of schools will help lay a framework for understanding the impact findings and what it takes to implement the tested practices with fidelity.

Low teacher salaries, discipline problems, standardized testing, poor principals and administrators, and the impact of poverty are among the reasons South Carolina public - school teachers are quitting their jobs in record numbers, pushing K - 12 classrooms into crisis.

(Among other things, test scores help determine teacher and principal evaluations, and in New York City they also have an impact on middle and high school admissions to some schools.)

The impact is particularly severe at Stuyvesant and Bronx Science — two of the Specialized High Schools that serve the largest numbers of students, have the longest track records of educational excellence, and are the among the most popular among test - takers.

However, research published in 2006 on families in five major U.S. cities who used the federal Moving to Opportunity housing voucher program to transplant from public housing to more affluent neighborhoods concluded that living among the more affluent had no significant impact on student test scores, behavioral incidents or student engagement.

After three years of charter school assessment, the EPIC model, which uses state test results in reading and math to measure the impact of a school on its students over time, is beginning to show emerging trends and common threads among high - performing charter schools in the United States.

Given the growing understanding that value added measures (VAMs) of teacher effectiveness rely upon tests not designed to detect teacher input, are highly unstable, and can not account for teacher impact on variability among student scores, it is quite apt that Dr. Audrey Amrein - Beardsley of Arizona State University and a leading researcher on value - added measures, described the proposal as going from «bad to idiotic.»

In addition to these four state - based studies of voucher program impacts on test scores, some recent studies do show positive effects on graduation rates, parent satisfaction, community college enrollment, and other nonachievement - based outcomes, but it is unclear if these outcomes are lasting and valid.23 For example, research shows that nationally, graduation rates for students in public schools and peers participating in voucher programs equalize after adjusting for extended graduation rates.24 Some critics suggest that private schools may graduate students who have not successfully completed the full program.25 Also, in regard to parent satisfaction, while some studies do show greater satisfaction among parents whose children participate in voucher programs, the most recent evaluation of the D.C. voucher program shows that any increase in parent or student school satisfaction is not statistically significant.26

Among the changes he mentioned were two new additional colors, Got ta Have It Green and Deep Impact Blue, which is what our test car wore.

This report highlights the key findings of Wisconsin's 2005 impact study, which found, among other things, that higher test scores correlated with higher staffing levels, larger and more current collections, greater amounts of technology resources, longer hours of operation, and more time spent on instructionally - related student and teacher activities.

While others don't go so far as to disrupt field research (in this case testing a wheat strain modified to lower the grain's glycemic index and increase fiber), the sentiments expressed by the raiders down under are popular among foodies and others who envision some kind of no - impact utopia feeding some 9 billion people.

Although I haven't put the resume to the test yet, I'm confident it will have the impact it needs to help me stand out among other qualified job candidates.

In response to the pervasive exposure to stress and trauma, we have developed and previously tested a program of mindfulness instruction intended to reduce the negative impacts of stress and toxic stress among urban youth.

The initial omnibus test suggested this effect was pervasive, impacting the average of all voxels hypothesized to activate to the presentation of threat cues — especially among couples suffering from the lowest levels of relationship quality.