Sentences with phrase «more useful test»

The ratio of insulin to glucose is a more useful test.

Not exact matches

College officials might also learn that certain tests are more useful to them than others, and so make better admissions decisions.

This could be useful with regards to potty preparing solid discharges, which is even more a test normally.

On the one hand coursework is open to massive abuse, on the other exams really don't favour everybody, and indeed an ability to complete an ongoing project successfully is arguably a more useful skill in the workplace than being good at tests.

«Tests must be better aligned to the new core curriculum and more useful in guiding instruction, in order to best help students learn and grow.

Since 1997, more than 465,000 children have left primary school with no «useful literacy», meaning that they did not reach a Level 3 in their SATs tests taken at the end of primary school.

Once thought to only be useful during wartime operations, the recent testing by companies like Amazon has made the possibility of drones becoming much more common a reality in the 21st Century.

Professor Anderson believes that if the LGS proves to be a useful cancer diagnostic test, it would be a highly valuable addition to the more traditional investigative procedures for detecting cancer.

More importantly, within the afflicted groups, both the mice and humans had similarly poor performance in the hidden target trials, making the Morris Maze Test a useful tool for comparing our two species, the researchers say.

This new study demonstrated that the test can also be used to identify people with precancerous polyps — a finding that makes it potentially more useful for a screening test, since it may be able to identify cancer risk before the disease actually develops.

These results should prove useful for setting new therapeutic and preventive targets: «At their parents» request, we also tested the siblings of some of the children carrying the mutation to see if they too are more fragile when it comes to infections.

This test may be particularly useful for patients with high grade serous ovarian cancer because the mutated cancer gene TP53 is found in more than 99 per cent of patients with this form of the disease.

More complex tests being developed can be useful but only if the people using them have the necessary knowledge and support.

But, he says, it is more useful than physical tests in determining a child's athletic abilities before age 9.

She says first researchers should look for more variants that in combination could raise the risk higher and make the test more useful.

«Simple, sensitive, and cost - effective assays for analyzing Fragile X-related disorders: Tests useful for preclinical and clinical research on a genetic mutation related to autism and intellectual disability may become more available.»

«Captive breeding programs must consider breeding and releasing frogs with stronger defenses, and testing their skin secretions against the fungus is one useful tool to see which frogs are more resistant.»

In the new paper, Roska and Busskamp tested the Jaws protein in the mouse retina and found that it more closely resembled the eye's natural opsins and offered a greater range of light sensitivity, making it potentially more useful for treating retinitis pigmentosa.

Though interest in STRs for research use has waned in recent years — there are denser and more prevalent markers that are better for genetic mapping — they remain inexpensive to genotype, and they're still useful for forensics, paternity testing, and genealogy.

Researchers are using stem cells to help them understand normal development of brain tissue and what goes wrong in MS. Stem cells are also enormously useful for testing new drugs and treatments and for learning more about the body's natural repair mechanisms.

The free T4 & free T3 test is more useful for me to determine if a person is properly converting thyroid hormones.

(1 - 4) Dr. Sinatra also informs us that the routine Cholesterol Blood Test ordered by your doctor is now obsolete, and has been replaced by the VAP test, a more sophisticated lipoprotein panel which provides a wealth of useful information absent from the old cholesterol paTest ordered by your doctor is now obsolete, and has been replaced by the VAP test, a more sophisticated lipoprotein panel which provides a wealth of useful information absent from the old cholesterol patest, a more sophisticated lipoprotein panel which provides a wealth of useful information absent from the old cholesterol panel.

Saliva testing may also be useful, and is surely a more practical option than blood draws, to assess the cyclical estrogen and progesterone pattern throughout the month in a cycling or peri-menopausal woman.

As more investigators become more familiar with saliva hormone tests, I believe these various ratios will become more and more useful in monitoring hormone supplements.

Because, you know, couture is a personal service, but it can also offer designers an imaginative playground, free from immediate commercial restraints and useful for testing innovations that can be adapted for something more commercially viable at a later stage.

I would love to see more of this test across middle income and lower income countries — as a useful even if not perfect indicator of educational quality.

Results from annual standardized tests can be useful for accountability purposes, but student progress must be measured on a far more frequent basis if the data are being used to inform instruction and improve achievement.

Rather than using this opportunity to develop a new vision of how the state data system could be more useful across California's vastly different 1,000 + districts, Cody reinforces the testing lens that he despises by limiting his perspective on data use to this frame.

This is a pedagogy useful for creating armies of number crunchers and for downgrading teachers to supervising the administration of standardized tests, but not much more.

92, do you build and sustain long - term collaborations between researchers interested in doing work that is more useful and educators working on the ground who can actually test solutions to pressing problems?

And more «authentic» and comprehensive forms of assessment provide not only significant gains on conventional tests but also more useful feedback (because the tasks are more realistic).

Thus, we have already tested it in more than 45 schools in Spain, with very good results from the point of view of usability and opinion of the teachers and students, who say that these games are useful and effective in reinforcing what they are learning in class, and students are having a great time, that is, that when it comes the time when they are told «and now let's play Little», they think it's great because they remember it as something playful in the process of classroom learning.»

How sad that a confluence of limited funding, political pressures, and its own history of empire - building has led the National Assessment Governing Board to propose an increase in testing combined with a reduction in the kinds of items and tasks that might actually tell us something worthwhile about student learning («Board Ponders New Format To Make NAEP More Cost - Effective, Useful,» Jan. 24, 1996).

New technologies can help with experimentation and development of more inherently useful tests.

To do this, see what methods you used for previous tests — do you remember lists, or would a spider diagram be more useful?

California is providing a range of new resources to teachers, parents and the public to make Smarter Balanced tests and student scores easier to understand — and more useful in actually guiding instruction.

While standardized tests provide an effective means of holding schools more accountable for achievement levels, the report says, they «usually do not provide information useful for improving individual or school performance.»

Adults at work and in transition gain more useful self - knowledge from the rich and descriptive MIDAS ™ profile than from other so - called MI intelligence «tests».

state education department officials say this will provide schools with more useful information about what students have actually learned, while other supporters say it will spare those students from taking tests they have no chance of passing.»

According to Chalkbeat, «state education department officials say this will provide schools with more useful information about what students have actually learned, while other supporters say it will spare those students from taking tests they have no chance of passing.»

Not only is it more objective and easier to measure, he said, but the link between good CPD and unmanageable teacher workload could also make CPD a useful litmus test for how hard staff are having to work more broadly.

College Board President David Coleman (who was a lead author of the Common Core standards) stated that the test will be «more focused and useful, more clear and open than ever before,» and that the College Board will expand access by offering new test - preparation tutorials for free online.

We seek articles on such topics as expanding our view of data beyond test scores, setting up a school culture in which teachers collaborate to examine student data and translate it into meaningful action, using qualitative data - collection techniques like peer observation and home visits, harnessing technology to organize data and make it more useful, and sharing data with school stakeholders to help them understand its implications and to mobilize support.

Although this, of course, would require more professional development to help teachers (and others, including district personnel) develop more instructionally sensitive, and accordingly useful tests.

Standards - based assessment under No Child Left Behind (NCLB) promised to make test information more meaningful and useful for parents, educators and the public at large.

These changes include returning to a 1,600 scale, removing the penalty for wrong answers, making the essay optional, exchanging pretentious vocabulary words and math problems for more practical and useful questions, and aligning the test with the Common Core Standards.

Challenged to find a better course, the Instructional Technology team at Lee County School District in Fort Myers, Florida, forged a program that produces useful data, gives educators more time to teach, and helps student learn more and score better on standardized tests.

This unprecedented development was the direct result of a growing awareness by parents, students, teachers and public education advocates that the standardized testing scheme isn't useful and that the Corporate Education Reform Industry is turning public schools into little more than testing factories.

The Report recommends three shifts in state policy that it says would boost the odds for growing school effectiveness at scale in every region of the State: test less and report results in ways that are more useful for parents, teachers, and other end - users; follow through on early advances in State support for principal leadership preparation and development; and fund schools equitably.

Assessment based on student performance on real learning tasks is more useful for measuring achievement and provides more information for teaching than multiple - choice achievement tests.