Sentences with phrase «initial tests this year»

Further expansion of the state's student database including the first links of student achievement to specific teachers is getting its initial tests this year as well.

At work in over seventy colleges during this initial testing year, some schools saw as much as a 24 % increase in students» completion of higher math courses, as well as a ten percent decrease in the numbers of students dropping math classes due to unpreparedness.

Not exact matches

The initial customer trials will use 28 GHz frequency airwaves for service to fixed points, like a home router, but Verizon also plans to test 5G mobile service later this year.

«It will be of immense value in areas where we have already completed some initial drilling as part of our 2017 exploration campaign, such as Monwezi and Katete, and it will potentially identify completely new targets for testing later this year and beyond.

Human Longevity's latest HNX Platinum membership costs an initial $ 25,000 but covers three years of testing.

While there are some signs of thawing in the tech initial public offering (IPO) market — with speculation that Lyft may be testing the waters and data center operator Switch raising $ 531.3 million in its IPO Friday — 2017 still is shaping up to be one of the most anemic years ever for tech IPOs.

After building the initial MVP last year, we used Twitter to test out the content suggestions combined with popular hashtags to see how they would perform, but we've been focus on working with early access users to refine parts about the product instead of focusing on rapid and early growth.

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) announced plans for a 5 - mile test track late last year and is about to break ground on an initial framework for what HTT CEO Dirk Ahlborn hopes will become the U.S. transportation infrastructure of the future.

HTT bought land last year to begin initial construction on the Hyperloop in Quay Valley — a proposed 75,000 resident, solar - powered concept city being built in King's County, California that intends to use HTT's test track as its main transportation system.

Testing assumes a $ 1,000 nest egg at retirement, a withdrawal rate of 4 % of the initial amount adjusted annually for inflation and a 30 ‐ year retirement.

After reserving the first year for initial momentum calculations, they segment each sample into halves for in - sample optimization of B and T and out - of - sample testing.

The initial investment in developing and testing Golden Rice can generate new, healthier rice varieties that farmers can grow for years to come.

«Under organic certification initial soil tests are taken on farms and they're audited each year to make sure the property and its management complies with the Australian Certified Organic Standard,» Michael says.

The full extent of the injury picked up by the Arsenal and England international midfielder Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain is yet to be found out, as the 22 - year old is due to have further tests today but after the initial assessment of him yesterday it is not looking too promising for the Ox.

Therefore they've aimed to make the 2017 - spec tyres (which are 25 per cent wider than last year) last longer, and according to their initial tests they say they're on target.

An initial «Alpha Site» test project was successfully developed in Bloomington IN, and the methods are now being integrated and applied to «Beta Site» communities in Liberty, MO and South Bend, IN, and around the Country for additional refinement and implementation over the next three years.

Until recently, initial predictive validity testing of the Braden Q Scale only included immobility - related pressure injuries in critically ill pediatric patients aged two weeks to eight years.

Following an initial phase in which the dose of the drug was gradually increased in patients, 72 patients enrolled in the second phase, in which two doses were tested at different administration schedules — weekly, twice monthly, and monthly — for up to two years.

A number of years after the initial experiments, the researchers checked in on their test subjects.

Participants maintained these drinking habits across the five years between initial testing and follow - up.

The study defined a heavy drinker as a person who drank between 10 and 40 alcoholic drinks per week for at least the past two years at the initial testing.

They looked at liver testing orders placed at a large Harvard - affiliated hospital over a five - year period, in patients whose initial blood test suggested they were suffering some sort of severe acute liver injury.

Gene expression profiling tests, such as Oncotype Dx, analyze the patterns of 21 different genes within cancer cells to help predict how likely it is that a women's cancer will recur within 10 years after initial treatment and how beneficial chemotherapy will be to her.

NuScale has been working on its SMR design for more than ten years, with initial development and testing at Oregon State University.

After an initial plan drafted in 2004 which laid the framework of a two - year phase (2005 - 2006) during which we conducted feasibility tests prior to the construction of the Institute, the second phase was prepared by a strategical plan elaborated in late 2006.

After 12 years of development by a large number of engineers and astronomers in France, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and at ESO, and following an extensive period of demanding work installing and testing this very complex instrument, initial observations have now confirmed that MATISSE is working as expected.

Following an initial trial, Mary Beth said «After testing their entire line of vitamins and minerals in their daily nutrient system, I was surprised to find myself feeling more resilient physically and healthier than I have been in years.

I first analyze changes over time in the FCAT test scores of students in their initial 3rd - grade year in order to discern the extent to which Florida's elementary - school students made true achievement gains during the period in question.

I then use the improvements of the median reading test score for initial 3rd - grade students on the FCAT since 2001 in order to rescale the state's mean NAEP test score in the spring of the same year.

In the experimental evaluation of the initial DC Opportunity Scholarship Program that I led from 2004 to 2011, the number of students in testing grades dropped substantially from year 3 to year 4, leading to a much noisier estimate of the reading impacts of the program, which were positive but just missed being statistically significant with 95 % confidence.

«Based on their study, English and King recommend that in the primary years, teachers should spend more time with the class «unpacking the outcomes» of the initial design (in this case the first test flight) and engage and scaffold students in discussions regarding areas for improvement before students move onto redesign,» Rosicka says.

The paper is the result of a two year effort to assess the state of the field, drawing on interviews with 60 sector leaders and 25 teachers, and initial pressure testing of ideas with several hundred educators.

Regardless of initial differences in test score levels, all schools appear to help their students make similar improvements in reading and math over two years.

We're going to recruit 20 schools over the next few years and we're going to do that in two cohorts — we're going to do that in 10 schools next year and then another 10 schools the following year (we're actually doing recruitment at the moment for that), and we're going to test it with a larger sample to see whether our initial positive findings hold and whether they have the same benefits that we've seen so far.

There are initial teaching slides and questions focusing on identifying the most formal sentence similar to those found in the year 6 spag test.

The initial set of waivers required states to link personnel decisions to test - based student growth by the 2015 - 2016 school year, but given that the tests that the Department of Education encouraged states to adopt won't be released at scale until 2014 - 2015, not even the Department of Education thought that a year would be enough time to work out the kinks.

Millions of elementary, middle and high school students in 14 states and Washington, D.C. may have their essays graded by computers next year if initial tests of robo - grading prove to be accurate.

The initial CDE press releases a year ago had the same error, and CDE changed their language mid-stream for the 2014 SB field test, but the language currently being used is misleading.

That's the conclusion of two years of analysis by the Gordon Commission on the Future of Assessment in Education, a panel of top education research and policy experts that was launched in 2011 with initial funding from the Educational Testing Service.

The two rival testing giants — ACT Inc. and the College Board's SAT — will compete for a three - year initial contract with potential renewals through June 30, 2024.

Both consortia also factor into their online assessments the need for a phase - in period and offer paper - and - pencil tests in the initial years, while some sources indicate that elementary school students will have the paper - and - pencil option for the foreseeable future.

To earn your initial teacher certification in South Dakota, you will need to have verification from your university that you completed an education program, complete six credits within the past five years, and pass the required Praxis II tests for South Dakota.

Students have boycotted initial exams this year in New Mexico and New Jersey, claiming the tests weren't a good measure of their knowledge.

Choice B: Young college grads with degrees in their desired career area — who complete 5 weeks of education training which includes teaching a class 1 hour daily and a small group 1 hour daily, pass the state required tests, continue basic education classes after they begin teaching, are hired with the district paying a minimum of $ 5,000 per teacher to a private organization, are paid salary and benefits negotiated by the district's union, are sought by big corporations, banks, and Wall Street because of their service and skills gained from 2 years of teaching, after 2 years get discounts and benefits from grad schools and employers, after 2 years receive $ 11,000 toward further degrees in education or that initial career choice, and after 2 years are now «experts» in education seeking positions in government to influence education policy.

Over-testing: Though we won initial steps last year in cutting and clarifying testing, there is much more work to be done.

One is that high value - added scores in the initial year reflect teacher efforts to «teach to the test» rather than to produce meaningful skills.

Although the NJEA didn't get down to specific percentages, the gist of its argument is that the administration is relying too heavily on student test scores, at least in the initial year of the evaluations.

Attending a classroom that increased test scores by one standard deviation (about 8.8 percentile points) during the initial year of the experiment was reported to increase college attendance, the quality of the college attended (as indicated by the mean adult earnings of its graduates), and earnings.

The research reviewed here suggests that teacher value - added explains a modest, but not negligible, fraction of variation in student test scores during the initial year.

Their initial foray last year into these new tests was hardly reassuring.