Sentences with phrase «influence over our testing»

New procedures that gave the governor and other public representatives more influence over test questions were designed to overcome the concerns that had engulfed the CLAS program.

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And despite fathering four children, three with wife Laurene Powell Jobs and another from an earlier relationship (whom he acknowledged only after a court - ordered paternity test), Jobs seemingly never used his influence to change the debate over work - life balance.

Dr. Tisch's influence over the board began to wane last year with the election of several new Regents who were skeptical of the state tests.

Then they estimated the relationship between people's neighborhood scores and their performance on cognitive tests over two years, factoring in issues like age, gender, education and wealth, that might influence people's cognitive scores independently of neighborhood characteristics.

The researchers are testing bacterial signatures of human cadavers over time to learn more about the process of human decomposition and how it is influenced by weather, seasons, animal scavenging and insect infestations.

The research team wanted to test whether certain students, who they label «social referents» or social influencers, have an outsized influence over school climate or the social norms and behavioral patterns in their schools.

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

In using its Race to the Top grant program and waivers from No Child Left Behind to promote Common Core, the Obama administration has opened the door to increasing federal influence over what gets taught and tested in schools.

As I suggested in my Follow the Money post in August, «our philanthropist reformers» may just be «responding to what has been the outsized influence over the system exercised by private teacher unions, textbook and testing companies, and a web of high - powered lobbyists representing all manner of industry associations.»

Even if teachers are not sufficiently aware of the statistical forces at work to recognize their rather limited influence on test scores in the short run, they may well become aware of this over time.

Moreover, genetic influences need not have the same effect on test scores throughout the lifecycle, since any genetic effects may be amplified over time if they also affect the environmental influences that people seek out for themselves.

One motivation for studying the change in the black - white gap across grades has been to test the hypothesis that the difference is primarily genetic in origin, since evidence that the black - white gap changes in magnitude over time would suggest a role for environmental influences.

Controversy over state accountability tests is likely an important influence on the widespread perception that U.S. students are tested too much.

It goes without saying that there is over 100 years of evidence that demonstrates that commercially prepared standardized tests are influenced too much by out - of - school factors to provide important results.

The statute was sponsored by the SSPI, and the CDE has used their influence with the locals to justify technology - based administrations for well over 99 percent of the kids taking SBAC tests this spring.

In an interview with my colleague Liana Heitin, she called testing «the most corrupting influence over what it means to teach and what it means to learn.»

The 2011 Florida Legislature and Governor Rick Scott tied the future of nearly 200,000 professional educators to high - stakes standardized test scores, dramatically diminished their professional influence over classroom curriculum and cut their pay by 3 % calling it a «contribution» to the Florida Retirement System.

Although Mr. Cuomo has wielded influence over the state's evaluation system, it is the State Education Department and the Board of Regents that oversee the state standards and tests.

Decoupling tests from student grades and teacher evaluations would likely have the effect of reducing the influence they have over instructional time.

Our test is the only dog DNA test that provides true genetic size not based just on breed ancestry but based on over a dozen genes known to influence a dog's weight.

Similar to competitive Smash Bros., over time fans of Catherine developed a paradigm for versus games that allowed players to best test their skills against each other without undue influence from the puzzles or instantaneous deaths on stages.

Using a sleek, minimal look influenced as much by logos and graphic design as by minimalism and hard - edge abstract painting, Hoelscher tests two of the dominant pictorial modes of painting over the last 500 years.

There are two elements to the control test, the body must (a) operate in a genuinely autonomous matter; and (b) operate in that way because a public authority is in a position to exert decisive influence over it.

Over the years lawmakers have invoked harsh penalties for anyone convicted of a DWI, Refusal to Submit to a Breath Test or Driving While Under the Influence (DUI), in the state of New Jersey.

Anyone want to bet there won't be a Ward - influenced fact pattern on some constitutional law test in some Canadian law school over the next few terms?

His group replicated the methods of psychographic profiling over two years, firstly examining differences in personality traits, thinking styles and cognitive biases between voters in the UK's 2016 EU referendum and then devising their own campaign to test whether it might be possible to identify, target and influence voters.

Earlier today, CCN revealed that Shinhan, South Korea's second largest commercial bank with major influence over the South Korean finance sector, has begun the testing of its bitcoin vault and wallet services, which will be offered to its clients by mid-2018.