Sentences with phrase «national testing standards»

Increased student achievement on national testing standards in reading and math by 65 % and 100 %, respectively.

To ensure a level playing field, a national solution with uniform national testing standards is essential.

Not exact matches

Amulet's technology is tested according to the National Institute for Justice's body armor standard and can stop rifle fire, including from an AR - 15, an assault rifle popular with mass shooters, says Isquith.

These seeds are grown under conditions mandated by the National Standard for Organic Agriculture, including rigorous soil testing and use of approved fertilizers and pest controls.

The OISCC is also proposing to amend the National Standard to require Australia's organic certification bodies to test for residues on a minimum of five per cent of their certified operators» products.

Over the next 12 months, Australian Organic will canvass members about important issues, including imports labelling and testing; achieving a one base national standard; our promotional programs; and the objectives of your organisation.

She called for transparent country - of - origin labelling and more rigorous food testing for imported goods to meet national standards.

The group developed the first set of national standards for birth centers, conducted a two - year pilot program to develop and test the optimum mechanism for evaluating the quality of birth centers, and consulted with the Commissioner on the JACHO (currently the Joint Commission) on the best structures for the CABC (www.birthcenteraccreditation.org/about-commission-accreditation-birth-centers, 2013).

Britax has taken this seriously and has developed technology that exceeds the federal standard for head excursion as well as performing twice as many tests as required by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

It was independently tested by the New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) to prove that it has the ability to withstand a crash at two times the national standard.

Among the new standards are more stringent testing for E. coli and other bacteria as well as a planned review of the beef purchasing system by the National Academy of Sciences.

At the same time, the 2010 national Common Core standards were being implemented, and the number of standardized tests that students were required to take multiplied.

Clinton has serious reservations about how the Common Core rollout and testing have happened in New York, even as she supports tough national standards and standardized tests in general.

The report is the latest step in the state's retreat from the Common Core school standards, national benchmarks that New York adopted in 2010, and especially from using student test scores in teacher evaluations.

The law, which bases as much as 50 percent of teachers» job ratings on student test scores, was strengthened during a time when more rigorous standardized exams, based on the national Common Core academic standards, were being introduced into classrooms.

Educators and parents have complained about secrecy surrounding Albany's testing program since the first new assessments based on national Common Core academic standards were administered in spring 2013.

Although new state tests will be rolled out this spring based on demanding Common Core national standards, almost 8 out of 10 New York City teachers surveyed said the city's Department of Education has yet to address the new learning benchmarks, including failing to provide any curriculum or other instructional materials keyed to the new standards.

«My concern and the governor's concern has always been that these are national standards and that our children, at some point in the near future, are going to be tested for their SAT's based on the Common Core Standards and the Common Core testing,» responded Hochul.

For the study, researchers modified the standard drop test system, approved by the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment, that tests impacts and helmet safety.

They tested their assumptions using standard daily weather data from the US National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP).

Although I am no champion of the onslaught of state and national testing, the benefit of rigorous standards and measurable results of learning has brought renewed interest in «doing what works.»

To spur progress, the Obama administration asked the Department of Transportation to propose complete national testing and safety standards by this summer.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is beginning a two - year, $ 16 million study of the twin - tower collapse that will address three pressing questions: whether current testing standards and building codes are adequate to resist catastrophic fires; whether building codes sufficiently take into account what engineers call progressive collapse, the chain reaction that leads to extremely rapid collapse (in the case of the World Trade Center towers, about 10 seconds); and how existing buildings can be made less vulnerable to terrorist attack.

NIBSC's mission is to play a major national and international role in assuring the quality of biological medicines through product testing, developing standards and reference materials, and carrying out applied research.

For this project, conducted from 2005 to 2006, survey teams from the National Opinion Research Center used a standard, well - validated test to assess the ability of 3,005 older participants to identify five common odors.

A China - UK graphene conference was held as part of the launch activities on the 24 October 2015 and graphene experts from China and the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) discussed graphene R&D progress and the development of graphene international standards; the discussions included NPL's work in this area and the related testing methods.

In Jula's case, her allergists at National Jewish Health in Denver, Colo., repeated the standard allergy blood tests last summer.

The school's principal told journalist Rachel Aviv that his school district was «increasingly «corporate,» with every school focused on the «bottom line,» putting additional pressure on teachers to pull up test scores despite there being no national standard.

More recently, the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) released new standards for teacher training programs: among them, each cohort of entrants should have a collective grade - point average (GPA) of 3.0 and college admission test scores above the national average by 2017 and in the top one - third by 2020.

President Bill Clinton has called for national education standards and voluntary achievement testing.

Survey after survey makes clear that (if the question is asked correctly) parents favor national standards and tests.

So we're talking about looking at a standardised test that gives a minimum standard skillset that all students should reach, but really with the national minimum standard we're looking at 100 % of students, ultimately that would be the ideal.

Schools Minister Nick Gibb has announced that the review will focus on the more than 500,000 pupils whose ability is below the national curriculum standards in the Key Stage 1 and 2 tests.

The review of Denmark Primary School said achievement standards were «unsatisfactory» and progress of capable students on national literacy and numeracy tests was «alarmingly slow».

«Those who indulge in moaning and whinging about national testing need to remember that when standards decline, it is the most disadvantaged pupils who suffer the most.»

In this latter capacity, he presided over what some have called «The Massachusetts Miracle,» a series of reforms involving teacher preparation, standards, and testing that are associated with the commonwealth's rise to the top of performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

But as the Gates Foundation pushes national standards with new national tests, they seem inclined to impose the «best» practices that science identified on all students.

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.

With federal funding, states will buy into one of the systems of national standards and tests, saving the huge expense of developing new standards alone.

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.

To equate proficiency and performance rates across states and countries, the researchers execute a statistical crosswalk between standards identified by the NAEP (National Assessment for Educational Progress) and the PISA tests.

Gates has a lot of sensible people working for them and there are many barriers remaining before we fully implement national standards and testing.

But if the science of best educator practice is combined with a national infrastructure of standards and testing, then local actors can not adjudicate among competing claims about what science says.

What the central authorities decide science says will be infused in the national standards and tests and all must adhere to that vision if they wish to excel along these centralized criteria.

At a meeting here, officials from American College Testing, the Iowa City - based firm that administers the widely used college - admissions test, outlined the procedure it used to set standards on the 1992 National Assessment of Educational Progress.

One would not want to take the international assessments — which are attempts to develop tests that are not dependent on specific national curricula — and then try to reverse engineer standards or curricula.

The Obama administration soon developed an ambitious program of federally guided K — 12 education reform consisting of national curriculum - content standards and national tests based on these curriculum standards.

In a 2011 interview by Lynnette Guastaferro of Teaching Matters, Darling - Hammond says that whether the national standards are put into effect in a way that is «much more focused on higher - order learning skills» (that is, progressive education classrooms for all) depends on «building curriculum materials,» «transforming» testing, and changing in - service teacher training.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

Key writers of the national standards were subsequently retained to develop the national tests.