Sentences with phrase «new kind of testing»

We need to get some of our best, most - capable people together with outstanding teachers and work together on developing new kinds of testing.

The Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 opened the way for primary and secondary schools to experiment with this and other new kinds of testing, and states that include New Hampshire, Kansas, Maine, Arizona, Colorado, and Vermont are already giving it a try.

Like No Child Left Behind, ESSA requires states to test students every year, but provides a bit more flexibility for states to try out new kinds of tests or use a nationally recognized college entrance test at the high school level.

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The big social network is testing a new kind of ad that appears in mobile users» News Feeds to encourage them to «like» company pages.

«Over the last 10 to 20 years, because of blogs and the applicant community and discussion forums, people have developed a really good sense of what the admissions process looks like, down to what kinds of questions are asked and how they manage the interview,» Vice Dean Karl T. Ulrich explained in an interview when the school announced the new test.

Olympic Freestyle skier Kristi Leskinen prepares to test out the Bellyak, a new kind of «lay - on - top» kayak, and questions whether it can revolutionize the sport.

For a certain kind of person (i.e., the hermetic kind), blogging is a true dream job: You get to write about your passions, test out new products / recipes / lifehacks (or whatever your specialty is), and earn money through advertising or by earning sponsorships from companies in exchange for reviews — all without ever needing to get out of bed.

«Power of Prayer Flunks Unusual Test — NEW YORK — In the largest study of its kind, researchers found that having people pray for heart bypass surgery patients had no effect on their recovery.

I didn't pray for leukemia but I got it children die everyday new souls in this sometimes very cruel world what kind of god does that I'm sure you'll say the sins of the father or it just wasn't gods plan or if we were better Christians then we wouldn't be punished or our faith was being tested and to all of you I say what a cruel child of a god you have that» tests his flock he so lovingly created excuse after excuse I'll keep my faith in the science that put my cancer in remission and if I'm wrong I'll march straight into hell knowing I made no excuses

If theology is tested by its ability to shape new kinds of personal and corporate existence in the times in which it lives, then it would seem that radical theology may be able to pass such a test.

Either that or he is testing Jesus» new movement, to see what kind of demands it makes.

Editor's Note: Brian Ruddell, a New Zealander studying in Australia, was kind enough to write us about High Performance Liquid Chromatography tests that he performed on a number of chiles that he grew in his garden, as well as a famous hot sauce.

by Brian Ruddell Editor's Note: Brian Ruddell, a New Zealander studying in Australia, was kind enough to write us about High Performance Liquid Chromatography tests that he performed on a number of chiles that he grew in his garden, as well as a famous hot sauce.

We don't really have any idea what kind of team Billups would want to put together; or if he is more tied to the old - school eye test, new school analytics or a mixture of both.

When new parents see this kind of marketing for infant formula, they're likely to believe such claims are based on rigorous scientific support, or maybe even actual testing by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

They discuss the current emphasis on these kinds of skills in American education, and the emphasis on standardized testing, and then turn our attention to a growing body of research that suggests we may be on the verge of a new approach to some of the biggest challenges facing American schools today.

While the noxious potion was more benign than the kind used by police officers, being sprayed with it evokes the «feeling of having Sriracha poured into every one of our tiny cuts and abrasions,» a man who tested the new course told Sports Illustrated.

«Because BX795 targets a common pathway that many viruses use to replicate inside the cell, it could be a new kind of broad - spectrum antiviral that might be used to treat other viral infections, including HSV - 2, which primarily affects the genitals, and HIV, although we have not yet tested it on viruses other than HSV - 1.»

Besides putting Einstein to the test, the first confirmed observation of gravitational waves will mark the beginning of a new kind of astronomy.

The study, one of the most comprehensive of its kind, provides compelling new evidence that the A1c test can accurately gauge risk at an earlier stage than is currently recognized.

Selmer Bringsjord of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York, who ran the test, says that by passing many tests of this kind — however narrow — robots will build up a repertoire of abilities that start to become useful.

Their eventual goal is to recirculate pressurized steam back to the surface to test a new kind of technology called an enhanced geothermal system (EGS).

«It's a kind of test we haven't been able to do before on these new, more exotic nuclei, which may have very interesting structures,» says Horowitz.

Fortunately the same ideas predict very concrete new phenomena, a whole new world of particles that have to be accessible at the LHC and so [we have this] wonderful idea that we've been entranced by for 25 years, and the kind of the thing that Einstein dreamed of, unifying the forces, and now is the time of testing [whether these] ideas have been on the right track; whether nature has, with all these hands, has been teaching us or just teasing us.

All kinds of new phenomena can be seen, and new ideas can be tested.

Despite these questions, RIP — which Balaban discovered in Novick's laboratory — is in the first stages of preclinical testing as a new kind of antibiotic.

«This is the first study to test the promise of a new kind of drug, olaparib, for life - threatening prostate cancer no longer responding to best available treatment.

Research, early stage testing, and clinical trials are showing extremely positive results for this new kind of medicine.

PGC 1000714 is a new kind of galaxy that tests existing ideas in astronomy.

And they tested the technology on a tiny slice of an adult mouse's neocortex, gaining new insights into the complex relationship between axons (nerve fibers) and dendrites (branches on neurons that act kind of like electric input sockets).

We're also testing a new kind of visual field test where we're actually measuring the signals that go from the eye to the brain in glaucoma patients.

A new kind of chemical test can reveal whether a T. rex was «pregnant» — and therefore female.

Additionally, anyone buying any new beauty product of any kind should conduct a patch test on a sensitive (non-facial) part of their skin to make sure that this product will work for you and not cause over sensitivity.

So maybe my question is kind of dumb but here it is — with all of this new information about cholesterol and the advance testing that is now available why is it that members of the medical profession (and I am here referring to cardiologists at excellent hospitals with highly rated heart programs I have recently had personal experience with) still only rely on the standard lipid profile?

Then there's a new method that's kind of a combination of the best of saliva testing and urine testing.

Measure Hormones in Blood Spot Test A new type of blood spot test that measures bioavailable hormones, the same kind measured in salTest A new type of blood spot test that measures bioavailable hormones, the same kind measured in saltest that measures bioavailable hormones, the same kind measured in saliva.

Two years ago I started this company with the dream of transforming modern healthcare and creating a radically new kind of medicine, one that worked as seamlessly as your iPhone and treated the root cause of your problems with food, meditation, next - level testing -LSB-...]

Just have the newbies at the company slog through it: it'd be a great test of their work ethic to see what kind of work they will do on altogether new games.

Having our students engaged in that kind of work will help prepare them for these new tests.

At 12, kids shed layers, test new roles and transform before our eyes as they explore what kind of adult they want to be.

Test makers have an obligation to signal to the field the kind of instructional choices they want teachers to make — an obligation New York's test makers, in rushing ahead rather than waiting for PARCC, appears not to have consideTest makers have an obligation to signal to the field the kind of instructional choices they want teachers to make — an obligation New York's test makers, in rushing ahead rather than waiting for PARCC, appears not to have considetest makers, in rushing ahead rather than waiting for PARCC, appears not to have considered.

It's a new kind of teamwork, and one that's under - emphasized in our testing - based school systems.

The members of the governing board of NAEP have been very active ever since NCLB was passed to make whatever changes are needed to accommodate the new law and to make sure they do it in a way that the NAEP test really is the kind of benchmark we want it to be.

How sad that a confluence of limited funding, political pressures, and its own history of empire - building has led the National Assessment Governing Board to propose an increase in testing combined with a reduction in the kinds of items and tasks that might actually tell us something worthwhile about student learning («Board Ponders New Format To Make NAEP More Cost - Effective, Useful,» Jan. 24, 1996).

The lawmakers aired concerns with how the federal agency has interpreted provisions on testing and what kinds of reading programs can be supported with federal aid under a new K - 3 reading initiative.

Gardner revolutionized the fields of psychology and education more than 30 years ago when he published his 1983 book Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences,» which detailed a new model of human intelligence that went beyond the traditional view that there was a single kind that could be measured by standardized tests...

Discover the kinds of formative and summative classroom assessments that best coordinate with the new generation of testing consortia for the Common Core State Standards.

Everything involving the CCSS as well as SBAC are being rushed because of the fundamentally hysterical notion that any further delay in publishing new «box scores»» of student test scores in the media represents a threat of some kind of «existential proportions.»

They discuss the current emphasis on these kinds of skills in American education, and the emphasis on standardized testing, and then turn our attention to a growing body of research that suggests we may be on the verge of a new approach to some of the biggest challenges facing American schools today.

A new voluntary national test of fourth grade reading would stimulate change» [b] y showing parents and teachers where individual students stand in relation to rigorous national standards and by demonstrating the kind of work that will be essential for success in the next century.