Sentences with phrase «in test preparation»

As pointed out earlier, your casebook, in my opinion, aids you minimally in test preparation.

And if you have an older child who will enroll in test preparation or tutoring, such as Kaplan, Princeton Review, etc. that's another significant expense that you can at least use towards meeting minimum spend.

This will reinforce the company's deep strength in test preparation and assessment services, complementing its role as the largest provider of K - 12 educational materials in the U.S.

Maybe we should shift to the model widely used in some Asian countries where, in addition to classroom time spent on test - taking, the students spend 10 - hour days on the weekends and their holiday breaks in test preparation classes that drill them in precisely this way.

Students in high - stakes testing grades spend between 60 and 110 hours annually in test preparation — that is, taking practice tests and learning test - taking strategies.

And a 2004 New Jersey study found a wide variation in test preparation lessons.

These features undoubtedly contributed to the narrowing effects of the NCLB law, leading teachers to spend substantial time in test preparation and focus heavily on English and math at the expense of other subjects.

On the negative side, teachers reported spending considerable time in test preparation activities and a tendency to de-emphasize untested material.

Available from school and from home, testGEAR broadens access to every student in a cost - effective way, helping to encourage greater parental involvement in the test preparation process.

A graduate student in a test preparation session for an administrator certification test asked whether he could use educational acronyms and abbreviations in his test responses.

Not exact matches

The nonprofit organization behind the SAT college entrance exam has teamed up with a Silicon Valley pioneer in online education to make test preparation materials available for free starting Tuesday, a move aimed at making the college admissions race less stressful and more fair.

The latter two milestones were first set by former Air Force test pilot Joseph Kittinger in 1960, who served as Baumgartner's mentor throughout five years of meticulous preparation.

Mozilla released a test version of Firefox Quantum web browser in September in preparation for its upcoming official debut in November.

In April, online test preparation platform Oliveboard raised an undisclosed amount in funding from India Educational Investment Fund, an early - stage impact investment fund established by Michael & Susan Dell FoundatioIn April, online test preparation platform Oliveboard raised an undisclosed amount in funding from India Educational Investment Fund, an early - stage impact investment fund established by Michael & Susan Dell Foundatioin funding from India Educational Investment Fund, an early - stage impact investment fund established by Michael & Susan Dell Foundation.

In the first week of September, Bangalore - based online test preparation startup TopRankers raised Rs 4.5 crore ($ 670,000) in angel funding from CareerNet Consulting Pvt. Ltd and Ideation Initiative Pvt. LtdIn the first week of September, Bangalore - based online test preparation startup TopRankers raised Rs 4.5 crore ($ 670,000) in angel funding from CareerNet Consulting Pvt. Ltd and Ideation Initiative Pvt. Ltdin angel funding from CareerNet Consulting Pvt. Ltd and Ideation Initiative Pvt. Ltd..

European banks have been preoccupied with shrinking their balance sheets and restructuring debt in preparation for a new round of stress tests at the hands of their newly empowered schoolmaster, the European Central Bank.

Management expects the Chinese order slowdown to end within the next two quarters, and several large telecoms in America and elsewhere are putting Finisar's latest line of high - speed transceivers through their testing procedures in preparation for new orders.

They create schools for their «intelligent» children to attend, they pay for test preparation programs and tutors, they spend countless hours volunteering in their children's schools, they raise extraordinary amounts of money for these schools, and they call on their vast network of friends and relatives to get their children into preschools and magnet schools and universities.

I entered into the earlier long discussion on ontology and epistemology in preparation for submitting and testing the following assumption: Let us assume that the way we come to faith in God and come to develop symbolic expressions about relationship to Him is not fundamentally different from the way we come to have certitude about and develop symbolic specificity about our other relations.

The program was being beta - tested in 2010 in preparation for a national rollout in 2011 in which 10 million pounds of produce will be processed over a 10 - week period.

I tested out the recipe today in preparation for Mother's Day next week.

Applications testing has shown that the rice flours can enhance formulations of baby foods, soups and sauces; dairy alternatives; fruit fillings and snack products; and meats, batters and ready meals, while also offering advantages in the preparation of gluten - free and dairy - free recipes.

Bold peppers and chiles, fragrant cilantro and lime, and centuries worth of Latin American tradition combine in authentic dishes, unique California - style fusions, and time - tested preparations of Mexican cuisine throughout the valley.

I've never thought of myself as a real meat - eater but every year 2 days come along that test me in meal preparation.

Last field season, Tewksbury had hired a man named Don Odon to tend a thousand chili plants at his remote ranch in preparation for the test.

With the first pre-season test not too far away now drivers have been putting in some preparation.

F1 returned to action for eight days of winter testing in preparation for the fast - approaching 2017 season, with running spread out over the last two weeks.

Although Stroll has done some testing in an older car in preparation for his first year in F1, this was his first chance to try a 2017 machine.

The England international is a rock - solid defender and was given a breather for the 2 - 1 win over Crystal Palace, perhaps in preparation for this test.

They have already had a friendly in Russia, where they beat Argentina, and they also managed to persuade CAF to postpone their 2019 African Nations Cup qualifier in the Seychelles in March so that they can get themselves some more testing preparation before the World Cup finals.

in favor of more test preparation time.

The team compared the purchased samples with their own preparations of human milk diluted with cow's milk to approximate the amount of contamination required in order to test positive for bovine DNA.

The Concrete team also held Taste Test Tuesday the week before, to test recipes with students in preparation for the big Test Tuesday the week before, to test recipes with students in preparation for the big test recipes with students in preparation for the big day!

I authored an Arco test preparation book for practical nurses taking their NCLEX certification exam, and my research on hospital breastfeeding management was published in the Journal of Perinatal Education.

The Safe School Food Act would fill the gaps in the inspection, testing, procurement and preparation of food served to students, Durbin said, and it would provide school officials with the tools and information to help them prevent food - borne illness.

«I am proud to have fought for this proposal, and to be able to provide funding for students to take free test preparation classes, in addition to investing in outreach coordinators at each of the specialized high schools.

The funding included in the budget will target $ 350,000 for outreach coordinators at each school that will focus on underrepresented middle schools, $ 650,000 for test preparation at middle school students for underrepresented populations and $ 750,000 for test prep that targets students receiving free or reduced lunch in New York City.

He was also a pivotal reformer of teacher preparation and certification and played a crucial role in legitimizing standardized tests.

Nolan pointed to the need for long lead time in notifying parents of an upcoming test and test preparation.

Buffalo and Erie County's North Park Branch was closed in late April 2008 when routine site preparation test results indicated elevated levels of lead dust in public areas of the building.

The main objectives of this mission are to search for evidence of methane and other trace atmospheric gases that could be signatures of active biological or geological processes and to test key technologies in preparation for ESA's contribution to subsequent missions to Mars.

In conjunction with Somos, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced actions to increase the number of minorities in the state workforce, including legislation to accelerate the hiring of highly - qualified diverse candidates and expanding access to Civil Service exam preparation and testIn conjunction with Somos, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced actions to increase the number of minorities in the state workforce, including legislation to accelerate the hiring of highly - qualified diverse candidates and expanding access to Civil Service exam preparation and testin the state workforce, including legislation to accelerate the hiring of highly - qualified diverse candidates and expanding access to Civil Service exam preparation and tests.

The schools can use the funding for tutoring during the day, small group lessons after school, Saturday academies or remediation materials and web - based programs, the mayor said, in preparation for what are expected to be even harder 2011 tests.

In the meantime, Rodriguez, who teaches cardiology fellows about lipids in preparation for their board certification tests, isn't so sure she should still be teaching her students that HDL is the good cholesteroIn the meantime, Rodriguez, who teaches cardiology fellows about lipids in preparation for their board certification tests, isn't so sure she should still be teaching her students that HDL is the good cholesteroin preparation for their board certification tests, isn't so sure she should still be teaching her students that HDL is the good cholesterol.

The compound, already proven safe for humans, is undergoing further animal testing in preparation for possible clinical trials in cocaine addicts, the researchers say.

Over the next two years in preparation for launch, various components of the Webb telescope will endure rigorous environmental and optical testing.

Because tissues for ciguatoxin testing undergo preparation in the laboratory to concentrate the toxins, Wilcox further tested whether these proteins made it through common lipid extraction methods used in ciguatoxin testing.

This happens extensively with ability testing in the US, and the results can be seen to have more to do with preparation and practice than actual ability.

In one study, Joaquín Castilla, from CIC bioGUNE in Derio, Spain, and colleagues tested prion preparations from different species to see which ones could cause TSE in rabbitIn one study, Joaquín Castilla, from CIC bioGUNE in Derio, Spain, and colleagues tested prion preparations from different species to see which ones could cause TSE in rabbitin Derio, Spain, and colleagues tested prion preparations from different species to see which ones could cause TSE in rabbitin rabbits.

In preparation for planting an outpost on that far - off world, experiments onboard Red Dragon are set to test on - the - spot propellant production.