Sentences with phrase «improving test plans»

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With Google planning to further develop and test its algorithm on larger and more comprehensive datasets, it's reasonable to assume that the accuracy of this test will improve over time.

Second, White focused on the SEC's plan to improve its grasp of portfolio composition risks and operational risks by: requiring better data reporting and risk controls, particularly with respect to derivatives; mandating that investment advisers create transition plans to prepare for major business disruptions; and requiring large investment advisers and funds to submit to annual stress testing.

So basically they're planning to rush through safety testing of a device intended to improve the safety of the sport.

In 2009, through the «Race to the Top» program, the federal government offered $ 4.35 billion in competitive grants to states that adopted Common Core standards and developed plans to improve state test scores and teacher evaluation results.

Under the state's ESSA compliance plan, such districts would be required to come up with their own proposals for improving test - taking rates.

Experts will also discuss how such diagnostics could be rolled out widely in Ebola - stricken areas, and will develop a six - month plan to improve access to testing.

In addition, the researchers plan to test the effect of approved drugs and thus to improve the clinical care of HIV - 1 patients in the future.

The team tested the program on a printer that builds objects from plastic, but they plan to improve the software to include multiple materials, such as metal, and give it the ability to test models with moving parts.

Next the NIMH team plans to test whether COMT - blocking drugs, currently used to treat Parkinson's disease, can improve working memory in schizophrenics.

Now that they're licensed, Daimler plans to conduct tests on Nevada's roads, collecting real - world data to help improve the truck further.

Although doctors have long incorporated personal information like family history into treatment plans, personalized medicine holds the promise of revolutionizing medical care by using knowledge of molecular biology and genetics that will allow more precise diagnoses, better diagnostic tests, greater predictability of disease course, more successful therapies by targeting the right treatments to the right patients, and improved patient safety by selecting drugs and their proper dosage to reduce adverse side effects.

Parsley's real strength is how it combines a variety of elements, including tests, nutrition plans, doctors, coaches, online patient portal, supplements, etc., to help patients improve their health.

Carson is planning a larger study that will use sensory tests to explore how exactly yoga might improve fibromyalgia.

Aided by Charles Xavier, the three set their sights on North Dakota and «Eden», a safe haven for mutants, but Transigen has plans of its own to unleash a new and improved version of their experiments that will test the aging Logan to his limits and beyond.

Additional steps will be taken if the plan doesn't improve test participation.

The first decade of the 21st century has also had a dominant strategy: incentive - based reforms, such as increasing competition among charter and district schools, merit - pay plans to improve teacher quality, and school - level accountability based on testing.

The costs of extra planning time are offset, however, by significant rewards, as evidenced by students» successes and their improved confidence and attitudes, as well as their achievement on standardized tests.

The Palmetto State Teachers Association questioned the value of the state's testing regimen, noting on its web site, «The current statewide tests do not provide immediate diagnostic information needed to improve student achievement or provide information to help teachers plan to meet the needs of each student.

The lists included their scores from last years tests, in which categories and by how much they hoped to improve in reading, writing, and mathematics; and how they planned to meet the goal.

The result of that survey is the National Education Technology Plan, which highlights the challenge of improving test scores among an increasingly tech - savvy student population while using traditional teaching methodologies, and emphasizes what it calls «e-learning» and virtual schools.

Kevin Courtney, deputy general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, also questioned the government's plans, saying that more testing does not improve children's learning.

Proponents, insisting that tying teacher salaries to measurable standards will improve schools, have instituted a wide variety of incentive plans across the country: Some evaluate teachers based solely on standardized test scores, some on teacher skill development; some offer more pay to teachers working in at - risk schools or with at - risk children, or for teaching certain subjects.

States and test vendors should improve their efforts to ensure that schools have access to actionable student assessment results in time to inform their planning activities.

Consistent with the President's plan, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) ensures annual information about students» progress for parents, educators, and policymakers while helping states and districts improve and reduce testing.

Efforts to Improve Teacher Quality: Instead of requiring its teachers to complete minimum degrees or coursework in the subjects they plan to teach, Oregon requires its high school teachers to demonstrate subject - matter knowledge by passing tests in their areas of endorsement prior to certification.

The Department of Education is making final plans to overhaul the popular Blue Ribbon Schools awards program, transforming it into an honor for schools that improve test scores, especially among minority students.

This detailed and high quality unit includes: * 21 lesson plans (with 13 differentiation strategies) * 77 slide PowerPoint presentation (divided into lessons) * All resources and worksheets (7 sheets) * Homework project (7 tasks) that includes both reading and writing skills * End - of - unit reading / writing exam * End - of - unit exam mark scheme (suitable for KS3 Levels 4 - 7, with GCSE 1 - 9 conversion) Unit's lessons include: * Contexts match - up * Exploring working class vs. middle class stereotypes * Shared reading and discussion of the whole play * Creating theatre publicity posters * In - depth analysis of key scnes (Act 1 Scene 1; Act 2 Scene 1; Act 2 Scene 5) * Writing to describe - script to prose * Features of writing to inform and explain * AfL - improving a sample application letter * Role play - creating and performing an extra scene for the play * Spelling tests on key vocabulary (differentiated by writing level) * SPaG starter activities * Crosswords * Huge 60 - question revision quiz * End - of - unit reading exam (GCSE English Language / Literature style) * End - of - unit writing exam (GCSE English Language style) * Teacher / peer / self assessment opportunities

This detailed and high quality unit includes: * 33 lesson plans (with 13 differentiation strategies) * 147 slide PowerPoint presentation (divided into lessons) * All resources and worksheets (9 sheets) * Homework project (9 tasks) that includes both reading and writing skills Unit's lessons include: * Cloze activity on the play's contexts * Detailed, thorough comprehension questions on each scene * Spelling tests on key vocabulary * SPaG starter activities * Character crosswords * Huge 60 - question revision quiz * In - depth key scene analyses (including group work) * Exploring characters - Helen, Jo, Peter, Boy, Geof * Exploring themes - marriage, motherhood, relationships * AfL activities - improving sample exam responses * Essay planning * Writing a formal essay on a chosen character * Writing a formal essay on a chosen theme * «Closed book» mock exam to reflect new GCSE exam expectations * Teacher / peer / self assessment opportunities

Put another way, it isn't «one size fits all»; it's planning action on a few locally relevant and tested change efforts designed to make steady progress toward improving student outcomes.

This view was not universally shared among school personnel, who pointed to a track record of good results on the old state test and rankings, where Tortuga Shoals was always in the top 10 percent of the districts in the region.303 To legitimate these directions for improvement, the superintendent commissioned a curriculum audit by outside consultants, with the expectation that results from this audit would provide direction and legitimacy to a new plan for improving teaching and learning in the district.

Plans to improve pupils» mastery of times tables were first introduced in the 2015 Conservative manifesto, backed up by a promise from Nick Gibb of «a short computerised test at the end of primary school».

Three studies reported that instructional support by teacher leaders, including lesson planning, was linked to improved student learning on annual state standardized tests in mathematics (Balfanz et al., 2006; Weaver & Dick, 2009) and science (Ruby, 2006).

Halfway through my third year of teaching music, in 2007, administrators in my St. Louis district decided to cut student time in the arts by 64 percent at the middle - school level as part of a plan to improve student test - scores.

Part of the state's plan to improve Priority and Focus Schools (schools that have consistently low test scores) include removing ineffective principals or giving them mentors from better performing schools, implementing anti-bullying programs or other programs to improve school culture, improving recruiting and hiring techniques for teachers and providing more teacher development.

Improve Title I: Bush's plan indicates that most of the changes he wants around testing will be done through reauthorization of ESEA (including Title I).

The law encourages local districts to submit teacher pay proposals for the pilot that could look like one of two distinct models: either pitch a plan that would reward teachers on the basis of how well their students do on tests, or present an idea for paying teachers who work in hard to staff subject areas or rural / high poverty schools and / or taking on additional leadership roles to improve student success.

• Use of multiple forms of evidence of student learning, not just test scores; • Extensive professional development that enables teachers to better assess and assist their students; • Incorporation of ongoing feedback to students about their performance to improve learning outcomes; • Public reporting on school progress in academic and non-academic areas, using a variety of information sources and including improvement plans; and • Sparing use of external interventions, such as school reorganization, to give reform programs the opportunity to succeed.

After mentioning NCTQ's plans for a nation - wide review of teacher preparation programs, McKee suggested that in order to improve teacher effectiveness the federal government should provide funding for high - performing teacher preparation programs, issue state teacher preparation report cards, and research best practices, while states should strengthen their oversight practices, and require rigorous licensing tests that do not act as a rubber stamp for all teacher candidates.

But he directed much of his ire at the plan itself: Mandating that schools improve while holding the threat of closure over their heads, and at the same time trying to «bypass» district governance, creates the wrong atmosphere for schools to actually improve largely on the basis of test scores, he argued.

Known in Japan as jugyou kenkyuu — roughly translated as «lesson research» — the practice asks teachers to plan together, observe each other's classes, and work to continually test, refine, and improve teaching methods.

And improving literacy has always been on our agenda: we worked with all schools and teachers across Wales to embed the Literacy and Numeracy Framework into curriculum planning and teaching and learning and from 2013 to 2016 we delivered Closing the Gap: test and learn, a Department for Education programme that put interventions to improve literacy in primary and secondary schools to the test.

States will be asked to use that document to develop a multi-year plan that will improve students with disabilities» performance on tests, high school graduation rates, and post-school outcomes.

The districts and schools with better - than - expected performance on the Smarter Balanced tests can be a valuable resource to the districts and schools that are still struggling to implement the new state standards and adapt to their new responsibilities to improve their own accountability plans.

But Grim said what Bennett didn't discuss in his media rollout of the state's intervention plan yesterday was that Washington Community High School is in year two of a three - year turnaround plan with the state, which called on a third - party organization to help the school improve its test scores when it was written.

«This grant competition is the next step as part of that plan, and will help states and districts improve tests to allow for better depiction of student and school progress so that parents, teachers and communities have the vital information they need on academic achievement.»

Hopeful that the legislature would initiate some action to address the question and resolve the issues before court intervention, State Senator Judith Zaffirini submitted a plan to the legislature to address the need for improved monitoring of state bilingual and ESL programs in Texas, including the disaggregation of English language learner state testing data at the elementary, middle and high school level.

Gov. Jerry Brown rejected the requirements that states use standardized test scores in evaluating teachers and that state governments oversee plans to improve their lowest - performing 15 percent of schools.

While the study's report concluded both new tests hold a lot of promise for improving teacher practice and student learning, it pointed to technical, fiscal, and political challenges the two consortia face in bringing their plans to fruition.

Under the guidance of expert practitioners, participants learn tested strategies for assessing student learning and supporting student success, and leave with plans for action that can be implemented at their institutions right away to start improving processes and practices that support student success.

We're not talking about a «test»; formative assessment practice is a planned process used by teachers and students during instruction that provides in - the - moment feedback for adjusting ongoing teaching and learning to improve students» learning.