Sentences with phrase «new difficult tests»

Then IIHs added two new difficult tests and changed the top rating name to Top Safety Pick Plus.

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Levy reported that in a 2004 study of suburban rail commuters taking the train from New Jersey to Manhattan, «Wener and his coauthor Gary Evans found that the longer their test subjects» journey was, the higher the levels of cortisol (the primary stress hormone) in their saliva, and the more difficult they found to focus on the task of proofreading assigned them at the end of their commute.»

After testing their all - electric and autonomous Chevy Bolt EV prototypes in California, Michigan, and Arizona, GM's Cruise Automation vehicles are going to New York City to further test their system in a difficult traffic environment.

The state's new «ABC» test will make it more difficult for companies to defend classifying workers as independent contractors.

Gin said it's difficult to pinpoint energy savings of the new system because FSTC continually uses Bridges as a beta test site for new technology.

On the back of a difficult pre-season testing programme, with Honda's new engine proving to be unreliable and under - powered, McLaren has been evaluating various options to try to save its campaign.

Our doctor performed a series of blood tests, and we tried fertility drugs for 10 www.theadoptionguide.com Choosing a new path «Fertility treatments were very difficult for us.

Even if your child has been cooperating with blood tests and injections for a while, a new fear or emotional issue may crop up that could make a test or shot difficult.

The new i - Size standard include side impact testing which makes it difficult for infant seats to pass.

Spending for health care will also be tested as the federal government potentially trims costs, making it difficult to backfill those costs for New York, one of the largest recipients of the federal aid.

ALBANY — Outgoing state education commissioner John King hopes to help school leaders in other states navigate the difficult transition to the Common Core standards and related standardized testing in his new position as the second - highest ranking official in the U.S. Department of Education.

Some of the proposals Cameron suggested included a crackdown on new immigrants claiming benefits and the development of a «residency test» to make it more difficult for migrants to access legal aid.

A glitch Wednesday in the computer - based ELA state assessments that made it difficult to download the tests affected schools in 263 districts, including some in Western New York.

«Inserting this new test in the way that Sequenom is proposing is very difficult, from the patient perspective, and difficult for physicians and counselors to manage,» Benn says.

New speech analysis tests could also help doctors screen for several other cognitive and mental health ailments, such as dementia and depression, that can be difficult to detect in their early stages.

This makes it an exciting drug target, but until now, it has been difficult to test the effectiveness of potential new drugs on blocking the protein.

For Benevolent's Hunter, today's attempts to find new drugs for ALS and other difficult diseases marks an important test - bed for the future of AI, which is already being deployed in other high - tech areas such as autonomous cars.

«It is difficult to see how any safety case presented from now on that relies in any way upon the UK VPF, whether on the roads, the railways or in the nuclear industry, such as the new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C in Somerset, could stand up to test in court.

«The optimal testing pathways to arrive at correct diagnoses is changing, so it is difficult for primary care physicians to keep up with new and efficient testing algorithms,» says Dr. John Hickner, professor and head of family medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, the corresponding author on the paper.

Because they offer theorists many more variables to play with, such «dark sector» models can be reconciled to fit into the ever tighter straitjacket of facts placed on dark matter by new data — but the downside is that this sprawling flexibility makes them very difficult to conclusively test.

Douglas Berg, a microbiologist at Washington University in St. Louis, while impressed by the new study, cautions, «Critical tests and rigorous proofs are difficult to obtain in their field of «microbial anthropology,» and some scientists will think that the authors rather overstated their case.»

In essence, the new accelerated evaluation process breaks down difficult real - world driving situations into components that can be tested or simulated repeatedly, exposing automated vehicles to a condensed set of the most challenging driving situations.

With fewer new cases occurring, it is becoming more and more difficult to test vaccines and drugs.

«Those species that are most vulnerable to rats are often the ones that are the most difficult to count» says Steffen Oppel, a Conservation Scientist with the RSPB who recently tested a new approach to count the invisible birds with colleagues from SPEA in Portugal.

«We want to test the things that would be difficult to do,» said Kristopher Kuhlman, a hydrogeophysicist at Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico, during the meeting.

It will be difficult to evaluate these new results until this test is applied to common aerosols to which the public are regularly exposed, particularly tobacco smoke and diesel fumes.»

«Some manufacturers have made it more difficult for the FDA to detect undeclared ingredients in their products by creating pharmaceutical analogues — they take the formula for an approved prescription drug and alter a few molecules, which makes the drug undetectable but basically creates a new prescription - strength drug that hasn't been tested by anyone.»

It may be difficult to get insurance companies to agree to pay for the newer tests.

Earning higher honors on each event helps propel the career mode; unlocking the next, more difficult, set of tracks and granting you shots at new high powered motorcycles through the game's License Tests — pseduo - tutorials that help introduce more advance techniques such as bunny hopping and weight distribution management.

As a result, it has been difficult for observers to determine which factor or group of factors was most responsible for these gains: a revised and strengthened licensing system; revised or new licensure tests; the use of first - rate standards in most classrooms, in annual state student tests, and in the professional development programs all teachers took for license renewal; and / or the major changes in K - 12 governance and finance introduced by the Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993.

With new demands for accountability, testing, and record - keeping being added continuously, finding time to train staff, to keep a program going, to talk with students about bullying, and to deal with bullying incidents is difficult.

This new test format was difficult to construct and, after a few years, it had not made much difference.

(The unions» opposition has more to do with implementation and the new, more difficult tests that are being used to evaluate teachers than the standards themselves.)

[REF] To date, no state has applied, with one observer saying «states realized just how difficult it would be to comply with some of the «guardrails» around the pilot, including a requirement to make sure the results of any new assessments are «comparable» to the state test.»

Mrs Morgan's warning comes in advance of the publication of results from Sats tests taken by 11 - year - olds, which this year have been made more difficult and based on a new curriculum.

«However, it will be particularly difficult to measure children's progress over the next few years as schools are dealing with a new «more rigorous» national curriculum, new key stage 2 tests, new, tougher GCSEs and new scoring systems.

The new tests are considered more difficult because they're designed to prevent students from making educated guesses from the wording of questions.

Determining how New Orleans stacks up with the rest of the nation is difficult to assess since the tests are particular to Louisiana and comparisons can not be reliably made with similar tests in other states.

When you are presenting a new or difficult concept to students you often hear the question, Will this be on the test?

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson and the State Board of Education are using multiple cues to send a uniform message: Parents shouldn't compare the new results with scores on past state standardized tests; this year's English language arts and math tests are, they say, more difficult, and are based on a different set of academic standards.

It also brings to an end a difficult week for the Department for Education, which has already faced criticism from the National Audit Office for its accounts, and comes just weeks after the government announced it would no longer be using new reception baseline tests as an performance measure for schools after concerns were raised about comparability.

I now know firsthand how uplifting and difficult being a teacher can be, and how myriad policy decisions affect the work I do every day: implementing the rigorous standards known as the Common Core; modifying No Child Left Behind / ESEA to address its shortcomings, such as simplified curricula due to testing; establishing new evaluation systems that rate teacher effectiveness and, I hope, provide us with support and feedback to get even better.

The new tests are meant to be much more difficult than typical standardized tests, with many more open - response questions and essays in addition to fill - in - the - bubble multiple choice.

More than 90 percent of teachers outside New York City have earned high ratings in the state's first year of mandated performance evaluations, a fact that state education commissioner John King said «should» ease unions» concerns about attaching «high stakes» to testing in a new, more difficult curriculNew York City have earned high ratings in the state's first year of mandated performance evaluations, a fact that state education commissioner John King said «should» ease unions» concerns about attaching «high stakes» to testing in a new, more difficult curriculnew, more difficult curriculum.

The new testing model brought great relief to many teachers and students, but also difficult decisions.

Students may have struggled with the math test because the new Common Core - aligned math standard is more difficult than what students are used to, said Carolina Cardenas, CSU's director of academic outreach and early assessment.

But the shift is largely attributable to school success, because flat or improved test scores statewide triggered a new clause in the school grade law that makes the grading scale more difficult when too many schools earn either an A grade or B grade.

Across the country, school districts in rural areas and other pockets with low bandwidth are confronting a difficult task of administering new Common Core - aligned standardized tests to students online.

High - quality implementation of standards - based reform requires the following: specificity in stating the content goals of teaching and learning; consistency / alignment among the policies and practices put in place to pursue those goals (e.g. content standards, student achievement tests, performance standards, curriculum materials, professional development, accountability); authority / legitimacy to those charged with implementation; power through rewards and sanctions; and stability — when policies, practices, and leadership are in a state of flux, it is difficult to take each new thing that comes along seriously.

Teachers could be evaluated on these test scores as soon as the 2015 - 16 school year, but they find themselves with less time to prepare for the more difficult new online Common - Core aligned exams on which they will definitely be evaluated — exams that experts across the U.S. warn will cause test scores to plummet.