Sentences with phrase «increased testing time»

• Deal with the increased testing time?

Implementation problems and teacher capacity: The new assessments set forth more challenging proficiency benchmarks for students and required substantial investments in technology, as well as increased testing time.

Bottom line, ACT's and SAT's need to change their time pressure requirements and increase the test time allowed by at least 50 %.

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Plenty of thinkers have argued that time abroad increases important skills for business success like comfort with ambiguity, confidence when confronted with the unfamiliar, and accelerated learning, but the team of social scientists out of Rice University, Columbia, and the University of North Carolina behind this study wanted to test the effects of extended travel abroad on self knowledge specifically.

«At the time, people looked at our plan for more generous and means - tested child benefits, tax increases for the rich and tax cuts for the middle class as a bit of a curiosity,» he said, according to a copy of his remarks.

This time he thinks the Tories can be convinced to make changes, in addition to not increasing the annual contribution limit, like setting a lifetime limit on holdings that would be tax - free and making sure withdrawals count against income - tested programs like old age security and guaranteed income supplement.

Even more important than that was the fact that Google made is so incredibly simple and easy to split test more than one ad, and over time increase your clicks and traffic.

The company a Godly man kept constituted a test of his regeneration: a truly Godly man, Increase said, delighted only in the company of other Godly men; he resented wasting his time with sinners; he did not want them to throw his mental frame out of joint.

Even in the face of increased competition and a shrinking customer base, Kohl Wholesale of Quincy, Ill., refuses to abandon the time - tested practices that have kept the family owned distributor in business since 1873.

I'm not sure exactly how long you'd need to increase the baking time, but as long as the muffins pass the toothpick test, they should be ready.

I tested with a toothpick, and needed to increase the baking time, so I tried 5 more minutes.

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There remains a need for future research to particularly show the effects of sustained or longer - term exposures to food advertising and to test whether the observed increases in intake after acute exposures are not later compensated for and, therefore, could lead to weight gain over time (54).

In the latter part of the decade increasing restrictions and the eventual ban on in - season testing meant that Badoer had less and less track time.

Finally, in Houston in 2010 — 11, he gave cash incentives to fifth - grade students in 25 low - performing public schools, as well as to the parents and teachers of those students, with the intent of increasing the time they spent on math homework and improving their scores on standardized math tests.

With states and counties showing increased interest in adopting evidence - based methods for preventing or reducing child maltreatment and for parent training of families involved with child welfare services, it is now time to test this array of science - informed and promising parent training programs and program components on a national scale.

Julia Bauscher, who is president of a national advocacy group called the School Nutrition Association, says administrators are under intense pressure to increase instruction time and boost standardized test scores.

If this is the case, and you're not sure when to use the test, begin to monitor your cervical mucus and wait to take the test when you've noticed an increase in this clear, stretchy, egg white - like mucus that is secreted around the time of ovulation.

Peak velocity during a graded treadmill test can be equated to the time to exhaustion during the same test, as there is a progressive increase in velocity throughout the test.

For far too long these controversial standards have been pushed along without input from parents, and with the governor's proposal to increase use of high - stakes testing in teacher evaluations, now is the time to return control back to them.»

The time allocated to candidates will increase to 57 minutes to accommodate the extended test.

Included among the proposed reforms is a teacher evaluation system based half on student test scores, an increase in the length of time before a teacher is eligible for tenure and allowing the state to take over failing schools and districts.

In January, arguing to increase the weight of test scores, Mr. Cuomo cited the small number of teachers who were rated ineffective, noting that at the same time only about a third of students were reading or doing math at grade level, as measured by state tests.

The changes, which Education Commissioner John King said are already under way, include increasing public understanding of the standards, training more teachers and principals, ensuring adequate funding, reducing testing time and providing high school students the option to take some traditional Regents exams while Common Core - aligned tests are phased in.

This design will stand the test of time, and it will keep its value or increase its value as the years go by.

At the same time, however, HPV testing of women resulted in 56 percent more biopsies and a 20 percent increase in surgical treatment procedures performed.

To test their effect on aerosol nucleation, Kirkby's team fired beams similar to cosmic rays through the chamber and found it increased nucleation between 2 and 10 times.

We will develop multiplexed assays that will allow us to measure multiple proteins at a time in human samples, thus increasing the speed with which we can test candidate biomarkers.

In the team's lab tests, the moss also increased rates of weathering of iron and phosphorus from granite by 60 and 170 times, respectively.

New claims that increased snowfall in eastern regions could offset melting in the western side of the continent might not stand the test of time

Additional animal testing on such a scale would be very time consuming, highly expensive, and politically very unpopular, especially given increasing doubts as to whether the data gathered could be used effectively in increasing protection of human health and the environment.

Testing techniques have improved since then — increasing the chances that scientists are right this time around — but the investigation is continuously evolving, and revisions in the analysis may be made.

With increasing evidence that many studies in biomedicine and social science do not stand the test of time, journalists are facing new challenges in reporting and interpreting the results of such research, NPR science correspondent Richard Harris told a University of Texas audience on Nov. 2.

By testing cycling time to task failure (TTF) in a group of 12 active participants in a placebo controlled study, Dr Mauger discovered that stimulating the brain by passing a mild electrical current (transcranial direct current stimulation or tDCS) over the scalp to stimulate it increased the activity of the area associated with muscle contraction.

Christensen and colleagues sought to test the hypothesis that increased screen - time may be associated with poor sleep by analyzing data from 653 adult individuals across the United States participating in the Health eHeart Study.

Our new electrophoresis method allows us to increase the number of test samples on a given run by up to ten-fold and to complete the assay in less than half the time of the traditional comet process.»

In the past 15 years, research in the U.S. and other countries has increased by 10,000,000 times the fusion power level produced in experiments, and we have now achieved production of 10 megawatts of fusion power on the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor at Princeton.

At the time, Rosenthal countered that even if the initial test results were faulty, that didn't invalidate the subsequent increase, as measured by the same test.

Dr Costa said: «Paper spray mass spectrometry is gaining increasing popularity in forensic circles because it is incredibly sensitive and is very easy to set up a testing system — the units will save laboratories time.

Chamie said the study did find a small but statistically significant increase in follow - up intensity with time, meaning that the more time passed, the more likely subjects were to receive the recommended tests.

When participants held their own hands crossed during the tests, a similar increase in response time was observed in all three groups.

The three institutions are part of a first - of - its - kind study to research and test the concept of «transaction - based» energy management, which combines financial signals and dynamic control technologies to shift the timing and quantity of energy usage in devices, buildings and campuses to increase efficiency and reduce costs, while also providing flexibility for the power grid.

To test whether friendship, and more generally, social network proximity, is associated with increased similarity of real - time mental responding, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging to scan subjects» brains during free viewing of naturalistic movies.

A literature review finds an increased risk of cancer, late - stage cancer, and mortality, with increased waiting time between a positive screening and start of diagnostic testing.

«We are working to increase our understanding of Alzheimer's disease all the time, and there are already a number of drugs in clinical testing that are targeted against amyloid.

If NASA opts to increase the crew size and mission length of Boeing's Crew Flight Test, the agency said it wouldn't be the first time it has «expanded the scope of test flights.&raTest, the agency said it wouldn't be the first time it has «expanded the scope of test flights.&ratest flights.»

These 36 students who did not participate in the earlier test then had pick letters and numbers out of an array within a designated amount of time, finding that the subjects who viewed the baby animals were able to concentrate more and perform better, increasing accuracy by 16 percent and speed by 13 percent, while performance.

Finally, the scientific approaches to the analysis of samples is changing all the time: that is that options are increasing all the time and the treatment options are changing all the time so large scale studies set up to recruit sufficient patients and test them in a particular way must be «future proofed» so that the results stand the test of time.

[71] In historical ground testing, NTRs proved to be at least twice as efficient as the most advanced chemical engines, which would allow quicker transfer time and increased cargo capacity.»

Initial tests with pre-SM4 default voltages and timing patterns showed that WFC's performance matches or exceeds its pre-failure levels, notwithstanding the expected increases in dark current and hot pixels and the decline in charge - transfer efficiency due to prolonged exposure to HST's radiation environment.