Sentences with phrase «much testing pressure»

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During the test, a sensor on the bit measured how much movement, and pressure might be needed for the unassisted drill bit to obtain rock samples.

Unschooling allows so much freedom, and lets the child grow and learn at their own pace, without pressure or pushing or tests.

At a meeting with concerned parents, the school superintendent sympathized with our concerns, but explained how much pressure the administrators were under, because of No Child Left Behind, to raise standardized test scores.

In the endless, exhausting chase to meet standardized testing pressures, graduation rate pressure, and attendance pressures (in which funding is tied to students being in school, not what, how or if they learn), there so much more that is sacrificed than just nutrition.

Many of these candidates are completely hypothetical, but engineers are already beginning to shortlist those that are worth synthesizing and testing for specific applications by searching through their predicted properties — for example, how well they will work as a conductor or an insulator, whether they will act as a magnet, and how much heat and pressure they can withstand.

They found that a single oral dose significantly reduced pain using a standard test — how much pressure the rat could withstand before withdrawing its paw.

But tests in a lab are many layers removed from the conditions inside Earth, where pressures are higher and deformation rates are much slower than in the lab.

In tests, this gel matrix was able to reduce pressure by as much as 80 % compared to top - of - the - line memory foam or sleep number mattresses.

My colleagues ask me how do I possibly find time in a curriculum for project - based learning when there are so many concepts to cover, so much curriculum to cover, and pressure to get students ready for high - stakes tests — these standardized state tests, for example.

But I also hear from parents who, rightly, worry about too much testing, and from teachers who feel so much pressure to teach to a test that it takes the joy out of teaching and learning, both for them and for the students.»

It's remarkable that even [former U.S. Secretary of Education] Arne Duncan, who arguably did as much as any one person during the past decade to increase the pressure on educators to raise test scores, conceded that «testing issues today are sucking the oxygen out of the room in a lot of schools.»

• too much school time is given over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices; • subjects and accomplishments that aren't tested — art, creativity, leadership, independent thinking, etc. — are getting squeezed if not discarded; • teachers are losing their freedom to practice their craft, to make classes interesting and stimulating, and to act like professionals; • the curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities; and • judging teachers and schools by pupil test scores is inaccurate and unfair, given the kids» different starting points and home circumstances, the variation in class sizes and school resources, and the many other services that schools and teachers are now expected to provide their students.

The pressure to perform on standardized assessments equates learning and schooling with testing, mastery, and memorization.However, as most teachers, parents, and students can tell you, learning is much more of an organic, constructive process.

Leaders must deal with everything from overstretched budgets to mediocre teachers to unruly (and potentially dangerous) students, not to mention heavy pressure to boost academic results (without, of course, «teaching to the test,» much less engaging in even more dubious practices).

Even if schools started an hour later and even if all tests were abolished, it is unlikely that any of us has the power to roll back the trends and competitive pressures that have become so much a part of all of our lives.

Current and former teachers, reflecting on last year's progress, said they worried that they were spending too much time on test preparation and putting too much pressure on students.

We're destroying our kids — for nothing: Too much homework, too many tests, too much needless pressure, Salon, 10.31.15

«In their young minds, they're putting so much pressure on themselves, and I can only guess that's because of what's filtering down through the system — that the principal has, that maybe the teachers have, of making sure these tests come out,» Pictor says.

At Public School 10 on the edge of Park Slope, Brooklyn, parents begged the principal to postpone the lower school science fair, insisting it was going to add too much pressure while they were preparing their children for the coming state tests.

At the same time, I believe that it is appropriate for states to debate this question, and we should expect some states to pull out, especially once the testing starts, and we — as we expect — if the test scores come out and kids do much worse on these new tests than the old tests, then there's going to be huge political pressure for some other states to pull out and it won't be the end of the world.

Former staff members described students in third grade and above wetting themselves during practice tests, either because teachers did not allow them to go to the restroom, which Ms. Moskowitz disputed, or because the students themselves felt so much pressure that they did not want to lose time on the test.

The third argument is that high - stakes testing places too much pressure on students.

Children in poor communities are likely to get a sub-par education as their faculty and administration must feel so much more pressure to «teach to the test.»

Much of the criticism of the Bush - era No Child Left Behind law was that its over reliance on standardized assessments — and the subsequent pressure it put on teachers due to its punitive nature — encouraged educators to «teach to the test» at the expense of actual learning.

Too much school time is given over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices.

The study speculated that the high pressures surrounding teaching and testing — before merit pay was even introduced — might explain why introducing the new incentives did not change outcomes very much.

As a consequence the children give too much import to the tests themselves and are under pressure.»

«This pressure dramatically increased with the inclusion of student test scores in teacher evaluations, with some states using them to account for as much as 50 % of evaluation scores.

But boost pressure does not increase much (way less than the ECM is asking for) and the engine doesn't feel like it is getting any significant amount of boost (so while I haven't tested the MAP (manifold absolute pressure) sensor, I'm inclined to believe it.

A compression test will tell you how much pressure each cylinder will hold when operating.

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It's easy to modulate pressure at the brake pedal, and fade is not an issue, but we don't anticipate much improvement over the sedan's 178 - foot stopping distance from 70 mph in our test.

This time around I put the RAV4 through much more rigorous testing to see how it really holds up under pressure.

The workers who build these engines and transmissions are surrounded and supported by automated test benches, negative - pressure assembly rooms, laser measuring systems, gas spectrometers, automated high - pressure wash systems, robotic vacuums and much, much more.

In most of the games we tested the D - pad required far too much pressure to register any input, and your thumb will get tired after just a half hour of wrestling with it, trying to get your vehicle, character or other avatar to move.

The pressure sensitivity is configurable in the settings, which also provides a test area so you can gauge how much pressure is needed at the different levels.

Consumer electronics tend to follow the IP code, although some companies, such as Garmin, Pebble and Polar, independently test their products to determine how much pressure they can withstand.

Though much of our testing occurred during warm, summer days in Portland, Oregon, this feature allowed us to see even slight changes in pressure.