Sentences with phrase «mostly focused on the testing»

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The next steps for Zhang and his team is to focus mostly on using the agent on different types of stem cells and to test them in vivo.

The patch focuses mostly on weapon balance, tweaking nearly every pointy object in the game in response to testing and player feedback.

Keeping in mind that test - based accountability mostly focuses on the level of test scores, not changes, and virtually never relies upon a rigorous identification of how test scores are caused by schools and programs, we have no way of knowing that that the kinds of schools, programs, and practices that we are pushing in education will actually help kids later in life.

The report, while focused mostly on Florida, suggests schools all over the country (again, possibly in TN) may be pushing low - performing students, many of whom are black, into «alternative schools,» as a way of preventing their low test scores and graduation rates from dragging down the average.

While federal legislation calls for «multiple up - to - date measures of student academic achievement, including measures that assess higher - order thinking skills and understanding» (NCLB, Sec. 1111, b, I, vi), most assessment tools used for federal reporting focus on lower - level skill that can be measured on standardized mostly multiple - choice tests.

However, schools that focus primarily on raising test scores, implement RTI as a series of discrete actions rather than an on - going process, implement RTI mostly to comply with the law, or see student failure as a failure in learning will struggle to reap the benefits of RTI.

A strict focus on test preparation and behavior has helped the network, which serves mostly low - income and black and Hispanic students, to significantly outperform the city's public school students on state reading and math tests; however, critics charge that student attrition skews the results (2015).

Since these tests are mostly multiple - choice, students focus on rote learning to identify correct answers instead of learning to think and apply their knowledge.»

In elementary schools, they protest that a laser focus on the subjects tested, mostly math and reading, crowds out science, social studies and the arts.

The constant public focus on standardized test scores suggests the belief that the threat of sanctions or promise of rewards (mostly in the form of increased funding) will enhance students» test scores and improve school quality — that schools can somehow be coerced or seduced into improvement.

The law promotes teaching to the mostly multiple - choice state tests, focusing one - sidedly on rote skills and ignoring higher - level thinking.»

Further testing since our long - term Cherokee arrived has revealed that this chassis is also quite a performer on twisty blacktop, feeling much sportier that we remember from Four Wheeler of the Year testing, which is mostly focused on dirt roads.

In this meeting, we mostly focus on the bigger tests and the impact they could have on our goals and the design of the blog.

We're testing Garmin's latest wearable that costs twice more than the Apple Watch but is focused mostly on fitness