Sentences with phrase «more challenging tests»

The more challenging tests have been controversial - with parents claiming they make children stressed and anxious.

In a May 30 letter to parents, state Education Commissioner Brenda Cassellius wrote that because Minnesota schools began using more rigorous standards to teach English arts last fall, schools also gave students more challenging tests to measure their progress towards meeting higher expectations.

The math that she teaches is more advanced, culminating in high - school level algebra and a different and more challenging test, New York State's Regents exam in Integrated Algebra.

While only 42 percent of the state's fourth graders in 2001 scored at «proficient» levels on the math portion of the Arkansas Benchmark Exam, in 2011, 81 percent scored «proficient» on a more challenging test.

Many argue that those low marks were a result of a more challenging test designed after Pence repealed Common Core in Indiana.

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Like any relationship, two - way communication is the only way to ensure a long, fruitful love connection that withstands the test of time or, even more challenging, an economic downturn.

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Uber is testing many of its cars in Pittsburgh, which has much more challenging climate and geography than Phoenix.

As most would guess, kids with more disadvantages, such as poverty and less educated parents, come to school less prepared, which pulls down average test scores at districts where more kids face these challenges.

As companies continue to increase the number of tests they conduct in cities, their vehicles are facing the kinds of challenges — like pedestrians and intersections — that are more difficult for self - driving cars to handle.

More important, the company tries to hire people who have an affinity for the offbeat challenge and then puts them straight to the test.

Marijuana testing excludes too many potential workers, experts say, at a time when filling jobs is more challenging than it's been in nearly two decades.

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Reduced affordability, while challenging for first - timers, may prove to be more of a surprise for move - up clients who anticipated greater leverage on their home equity; should those clients break existing mortgages upon their move, they will also be subjected to stress testing.

Meanwhile, I've been my own harshest critic — particularly with regard to the unfortunate timing of my stress - testing decision in 2009 — and have been very open about the challenges that QE and yield - seeking speculation have posed for the methods that resulted: deferring market losses that resulted much more quickly following extremely overextended market conditions in prior historical cycles.

The trials and tribulations that have tested the retail market, like over-retailing sparking more competition and the rise of e-commerce such as with online ordering — are beginning to present complex challenges for restaurants trying to turn tables.

Arguably, the biggest testing challenge organizations now face is moving away from processes based on IT Information Library (ITIL) guidelines to a more DevOps - centric process, under which continuous testing is more embedded within the application development process, Evans says.

Striking this balance could soon become even more challenging, as the prospect of less government enforcement might encourage management to test the limits of acceptable behavior.

«Doing this challenge during the 30 days of Ramadan is even more of a test as I won't be eating or drinking during the day.»

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

They were told in early tests that Trig may provide more challenges, and more joy, than what they ever may have imagined or ever asked for.

In fact, the more culinary - challenged you are, the better — I want all of these recipes to be battle tested.

There'll be plenty of challenges for Kubica to overcome as the R.S. 17 is a more complicated car than the Lotus E20 he tested in Valencia.

In their place, however, was a new / old problem — a wayward driver that found just two of 14 fairways at the Masters and that could quickly derail his chances at TPC Sawgrass, a far more challenging and watery test of accuracy than Augusta National.

Leaving aside the basic position's basic problems — the SEC won seven straight national titles purportedly because its teams were more tested, there's a long layoff between the regular season and the Playoff, the SEC schedules an SEC - SoCon Challenge every November — the argument applies at least as well to the Pac - 12 as it does the SEC.

After a few more challenges, including an Instagram recognition game and a shooting test whereby they had to kick the ball into a basketball net, it was almost time for the players to depart, but not before they'd spoken a little more about on - pitch matters.

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Their second test, however, is one far more arduous and challenging than the last, even if the consequences of a defeat aren't anywhere near as severe.

For example: an 18 month old throwing a spoon on the floor could be seen as trying to disrupt or take control, which would assign the child more negative motive, than if the parent were to also consider tiredness and natural developmental challenges of this age, which would be seen as normal and inevitable testing of limits.

For example, tests with «gotcha» multiple - choice questions present much more substantial challenges for these kids than open - ended questions that allow them to express what they know in terms they understand.

But for moms who work outside the home, getting a positive pregnancy test result can prove more challenging than enjoyable.

Tested later in life, early «imaginators» had more resources to draw on when it came to coping with challenges and difficult situations, such as what to do if they forgot a book they needed for school that day.

Whereas Olds» work has focused on the challenges of becoming a parent (i.e. program limited to first - time parents), Webster - Stratton has targeted the late preschool period and the transition to formal schooling, when children's emotion regulation skills are becoming more stable and tested in the context of full - day school settings.6, 22 A central focus of Webster - Stratton's program is parent management training to promote child social competence and prevent the development of conduct problems.

Well it's more along the lines of «and at the next appointment you'll take your glucose challenge test», «oh, not something I can skip?»

If the patient's history, diet diary, elimination diet, or oral food challenge suggests a specific food allergy is likely, the doctor may use tests that can more objectively measure an allergic response to food.

Tested later in life, early «imaginators» were more resourceful when it came to coping with challenges and difficult situations, such as what to do if they forgot to bring a book to school they needed that day.

And also willing on this place, because yes we can be pretty tough and test and challenge our leaders, perhaps more than some other countries.

Opposition to the tests boiled up after they became more challenging at the same time the state made plans to weigh them heavily in teacher and principal evaluations.

Testing them has historically been more challenging.

Hearts are promising organs for the new technology because introducing nanoparticles into the wide - open spaces of the organ's atria and ventricles presents less of a challenge than incorporating the tiny magnets all throughout more solid structures like brains or livers, according to Kelvin Brockbank of Clemson University and Tissue Testing LLC, one of the authors of the paper who spoke to reporters during a 28 February teleconference.

Conversely, when case studies portrayed boys with behavioral challenges, teachers were more likely to refer black and Latino boys than white boys for testing.

When teachers read a case study of a boy with academic challenges, meant to suggest learning disabilities, they were more likely to refer white boys than black and Latino boys for testing.

There is a national movement to create biology tests that are more cognitively challenging.

The computational problems involved in interpreting genomic tests are several orders of magnitude more challenging that those posed by scanning a database of 4.4 million traditional records, says John Lutz, IBM's vice president of on - demand business.

Sara Brownell, an assistant professor with the school and senior author of the study, said there is a national movement to create biology tests that are more cognitively challenging, as these types of tests can improve students» conceptual understanding of biology; however, doing so may harm the very students they are trying to help.

Hispanic families are in turn more likely to use religious coping styles positively and view the challenge of raising a child with ASD as a test of their faith and part of a divine plan.

Another instructional practice that might attract more adherents if tests were made more challenging is interleaving, or mixing up different types of problems during practice sessions.

We also intend to test out our fish with more challenging tasks such as object detection.»

In the next step the researchers are not only aiming at expanding the length of the route, but also plan more complex challenges on the test track.

However, the UK team says it is confident that the newer test will be easier to translate into clinical practice because it uses simple technology to measure proteins in the blood, whereas lipid measurement is more challenging.