Sentences with phrase «national test design»

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Three designs were submitted to the national Department of Health to consider for implementation, after further testing, as a tool to assist in addressing the high incidence of non-communicable diseases in South Africa.

Physicists had to design computer simulations, tested against those mid-century analyses, to «predict what would happen if a weapon went off,» says Greg Spriggs, a nuclear weapon physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, who is leading the project to scan and declassify the films.

The international team's design and testing of this novel advanced material from scratch required multidisciplinary expertise and sophisticated tools from such places as Argonne National Laboratory and ORNL, including Argonne's Advanced Photon Source and ORNL's Center for Nanophase Materials Science, says Lee.

Livermore official Bruce Goodwin said that the design his team submitted had a solid «test pedigree» as it was based on a previously tested weapon that was never deployed; Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, which was the loser in the competition between the two schemes, chose to use a design that hadn't been tested.

Physicists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago, Illinois, announced this week that the Holometer, a device designed to test whether we live in a giant hologram, has started taking data.

Fox's research, funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA, was designed to test his theory that rubber trees, which are exotics from the South America, differ from native vegetation in that they suck up most of their water when the soil is the driest at the beginning of the monsoon season.

In the Coast Guard's spring tests, small - scale models navigated an ice sheet as long as one - and - a-half Olympic - sized swimming pools at the National Research Council's ice - tank test facility in Newfoundland to measure various designs» resistance, power and maneuverability (shown below).

Together with Professor Rod Peakall of Australian National University, he decided to test this assumption by taking advantage of an experiment already designed by nature.

Angélica Nogueira - Rodrigues, MD, PhD, of the Brazilian National Cancer Insitute, and her colleagues designed a phase 2 clinical trial to test the potential of the EFGR inhibitor erlotinib combined with chemoradiation therapy in 36 women with cervical cancer.

A team at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington, tested plastic fibres that had 10 times more surface area than the Japanese design, allowing for greater absorption.

The compounds were designed, synthesized and tested for biological activity at the Technical University of Munich in Garching, structurally characterized at the CSIR National Chemical Laboratory in Pune (India) and at the Università di Napoli Federico II in Italy.

Several universities designed, built, and tested key components for Advanced LIGO: The Australian National University, the University of Adelaide, the University of Florida, Stanford University, Columbia University of the City of New York, and Louisiana State University.

Dr. Leo Stamatatos, an immunologist in Fred Hutch's Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, has received funding from the National Institutes of Health to begin manufacturing an HIV vaccine candidate designed to stimulate the production of broadly neutralizing antibodies and to test the experimental vaccine in human clinical trials.

Several universities designed, built, and tested key components for Advanced LIGO: The Australian National University, the University of Adelaide, the University of Florida, Stanford University, Columbia University of New York, and Louisiana State University.

The tests are designed to monitor if there is any change in how students perform at national level over time, which will provide valuable additional information for the awarding GCSE grades.

Her newly created job is designed to put data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress and other ETS - designed tests into the hands of policymakers.

Visitors to the site can find articles about education and technology news; research on topics in math education, implementing standards, and standardized testing; and resources on technology integration, multimedia in projects, web design, national math initiatives, math methodology, and professional development.

Appealing in design and meeting the key aims of the new Maths National Curriculum, these questions will test pupils on many aspects of upper KS2 and early KS3 learning stages, encouraging them to utilise a variety of problem solving skills and confirming their understanding of the key principles.

Appealing in design and meeting the key aims of the new Maths National Curriculum, these questions will test pupils on many aspects of upper KS2 an...

The Washington - based American Association for the Advancement of Science has announced a new effort to design and build a collection of test items in mathematics and science that provide «explicit evidence that a student has or has not learned a specific idea or skill» in state or national standards.

Washington — The «modified» ability tests that may decide whether a physically handicapped student graduates from high school or is accepted by a college do not and can not comply fully with federal regulations designed to prevent discrimination against the handicapped, according to a report issued here last week by the National Research Council, the research branch of the National Academy of Sciences (nas).

National curriculum tests at Key Stage 2 have negatively impacted on the time allocated for art and design in primary schools with 89 per cent of primary teachers in state schools reporting that during the two terms before Key Stage 2 tests the time allocated for art and design decreased.

We examine an intervention designed to expand Hispanic students» college exposure: the National Hispanic Recognition Program (NHRP), a College Board initiative that identifies top - performing Hispanic students based on their 11th - grade Preliminary SAT / National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT / NMSQT) scores.

The first National Reference Test (NRT), designed to better inform the awarding of GCSE grades, has been given the go ahead to take place in 2017.

ACARA released the findings of its National Assessment and Surveys Online Program, Tailored Test Design 2013 Study today.

Visit the ACARA website to download a copy of the full National Assessment and Surveys Online Program, Tailored Test Design 2013 Study.

It matches to the new arrangements and provides slides on all the content within the following: Development methodologies Analysis Design Implementation (data types and structures) Implementation (computational constructs) Implementation (algorithm specification) Testing Evaluation These slides have worked wonderfully well with my class and have made new parts of National 5 much more accessible to my classes.

The National Assessment and Surveys Online Program, Tailored Test Design 2013 Study also found that as many as 50 % of students will experience an enhanced assessment experience, particularly for high - and low - achieving students.

To that end, CZI is aspiring to foster «a collaborative community of leading researchers, practitioners, advocates, and policymakers committed to: continuing to explore and advance the science, including by testing new research methodologies that surface the unique needs of individual children; designing and providing the tools and systems of support necessary to help educators and school leaders implement SoLD - aligned practice shifts; advancing science - informed national, state and district policies; and working to limit practices and policies that the science makes clear are detrimental to children's learning and development.»

While a biomedical engineer and Commissioned Officer in the U.S. Public Health Service at the National Institutes of Health, he and a heart surgeon colleague designed an implantable left ventricular heart assist pump, and co-led the team that tested the device through twenty - nine calf implant surgeries, and published several papers on their work.

In an attempt to reverse the impact of years of budget cuts and a state and national emphasis on math and English test results, some 70 education officials, arts advocates, teachers and principals will unveil in June a blueprint designed to renew California's battered K - 12 arts education system.

The National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) is a tough test, for the simple reason that it is designed to match the level of difficulty of tests used by the industrialized nations that belong to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Teacher licensing tests had been suspended in 1985 as a result of a lawsuit by African American educators demonstrating that the state's exams designed by National Evaluation Systems were racially biased and improperly validated (see Examiner, Spring 1987).

With Pence's support, it becomes more likely Indiana will become the first to leave the Common Core initiative, though many others have taken a step back from national consortiums designing new tests aligned to the standards.

«It makes a lot of sense to check along the way to see where your kids are doing well and getting hung up,» said Robert J. Mislevy, a member of the commission and the chairman in measurement and statistics at the Princeton, N.J. - based ETS, which has helped design the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the SAT, Advanced Placement tests, and other well - known exams.

Indiana plans to withdraw from PARCC, one of two national consortia designing standardized tests to align to the Common Core.

Haertel has served as president of the National Council on Measurement in Education, chairs the Technical Advisory Committee concerned with California's school accountability system, and chairs the National Research Council's Board on Testing and Assessment (BOTA), and from 2000 to 2003 chaired the Committee on Standards, Design, and Methodology of the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB).

By contrast, while Pence hasn't advocated for exiting the initiative, he did pull the state out of a national consortium designing new standardized tests.

With an increasing number of states opting out of the two national testing consortia, there's a possibility they could band together to design a test instead of going it alone.

Partnering with other states that have left the national consortia designing new tests would certainly be more cost effective than Indiana designing its own exam.

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Linda Darling - Hammond, a professor of education at Stanford University who helped design the edTPA, the national test, says the high pass rate on the PACT is expected.

A major newspaper expose demonstrating the U.S. school testing industry's inability to competently design and administer the current level of required state exams should persuade Congress to drop a plan to greatly increase mandated testing now being debated as part of an «education reform» bill, according to the National Center for Fair & Open Testing (Faitesting industry's inability to competently design and administer the current level of required state exams should persuade Congress to drop a plan to greatly increase mandated testing now being debated as part of an «education reform» bill, according to the National Center for Fair & Open Testing (Faitesting now being debated as part of an «education reform» bill, according to the National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FaiTesting (FairTest).

Age 14: Key Stage 3 national tests in English (Welsh *), maths and science, replaced by statutory teacher assessments in English (Welsh), maths, science, history, geography, design and technology, information technology, modern foreign languages, art, music and physical education.

NISL invested $ 11 million from our parent organization, the National Center on Education and the Economy, and from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Broad Foundation, the New Schools Venture Fund and the Stupski Foundation, to support the research, design, development and field - testing of the Executive Development Program for School Leaders.

A resident asked about upcoming 11th - grade use of the SAT and the panel was unwilling to inform the audience that David Coleman, the renowned «architect of the Common Core Standards», was now leading the College Board which oversees not only the newly - designed SAT, but all Advanced Placement tests, the PSAT / NMSQT (for qualifying as a National Merit Scholar), the traditional PSAT, and more.

This is part of a national trend: states cut funding to public schools while pouring millions into new materials and computer systems designed for standardized tests.

These are the PSSA (a state - mandated test given in selected grades for reading, math, writing, and science) and the TerraNova (a test designed for national use and introduced by the District this year in grades 2 - 10 as a replacement for the SAT - 9).

The tests are designed to be used with all pupils who are working at the standard of the national curriculum.

As might be expected, the BRT advocated high - stakes testing and national standards, and a careful look at the list reveals a notable coincidence: each of the Nine Essential Components were included in the design of No Child Left Behind.10