Sentences with phrase «new testing pressures»

We saw up close the concerning effects of new testing pressures.

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What's more, a CVS store is an easy drive to tens of millions of Americans, an ordinary CVS with those services can turn into a new option compared to a hospital visit to get a blood test or get their blood pressure checked.

That just adds to the pressure for these many tests and new approaches to work, something Easterbrook acknowledges.

Interest in automated testing has increased substantially in the last few years, says Evans, because developers are under more pressure than ever to roll out new applications and associated updates faster.

New rice varieties are also tested in pest and disease «hot - spots» to check their performance under pest and disease pressure before release so that no vulnerable varieties are distributed to farmers.

The new deputy PM, Barnaby Joyce, has stated that he expects the government to deliver on the inclusion of an effects test, noting that it is «imperative that the government resist the threat and the pressure from the BCA and Wesfarmers and one or two other companies and sends a message that they are here for the whole economy and not just a small part of the economy»: Joe Kelly,» «We'll deliver betterment for small business»: Barnaby Joyce» (The Australian, 21 February 2016).

The Board of Regents, facing pressure from Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the legislature, is recommending that the effects of the new high stakes testing on students, designed in response to the Common Core, be delayed for five more years.

The State Board of Regents, facing pressure from Governor Cuomo and the legislature, is recommending that the effects of the new high stakes testing on students, designed in response to the Common Core, be delayed for five more years.

The New York State School Boards Association and the New York Association of School Psychologists released a report Friday showing students, in many cases, internalize test pressure, especially during state tests.

New York State United Teachers pressured the governor to back off his aggressive timeline for using test scores to evaluate teachers.

«We designed a new experiment with a new independent variable, pressure, in order to test these hypotheses.

Sandia engineers developed and tested the new receivers at the National Solar Thermal Testing Facility, studying their ability to withstand high temperatures and pressures while absorbing sunlight as heat that can be stored or transferred to a power cycle to generate electricity.

«Test methods for traditionally driven cars are something like having a doctor take a patient's blood pressure or heart rate, while testing for automated vehicles is more like giving someone an IQ test,» said Ding Zhao, assistant research scientist in the U-M Department of Mechanical Engineering and co-author of the new white paper, along with PTest methods for traditionally driven cars are something like having a doctor take a patient's blood pressure or heart rate, while testing for automated vehicles is more like giving someone an IQ test,» said Ding Zhao, assistant research scientist in the U-M Department of Mechanical Engineering and co-author of the new white paper, along with Ptest,» said Ding Zhao, assistant research scientist in the U-M Department of Mechanical Engineering and co-author of the new white paper, along with Peng.

The test, performed at Earth's atmospheric pressure, took place at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, which assembled and tested the instrument.

Right now all therapy for glaucoma is directed at lowering eye pressure, but the idea that we could develop therapies and test them in people that really target the retinal ganglion cells and the axon fibers going into the optic nerve — that, I think, is the most exciting new frontier for the premise of restoring vision and protecting vision in glaucoma.

My go - to herbalist, author and American Herbalist Guild member David Winston of Broadway, New Jersey, says in his book, Herbal Therapy and Supplements: A Scientific and Traditional Approach, that animal and test - tube studies are convincing enough to recommend eating maitake regularly as part of a treatment plan for high cholesterol, high blood pressure, insulin resistance, and even hepatitis B. (Placebo - controlled studies in people have yet to be conducted.)

A new, breakthrough study recommends this test in addition to cholesterol and blood pressure checks.

Furthemore we can test the new transport train, the Tension Belts to fix objects (e.g. Bales), the new animal (Pigs), the tire pressure, the function to put and throw small objects and the new FS17 map «Goldcrest Valley».

Tagar is howlingly funny from the first moment that we see her, an entirely complete comic creation, but what's truly impressive about the performance is how she gives it texture and nuance as it goes on: when she returns in the third segment, Daffi's gone through officer training and has a new - found responsibility, or at least the pressure to look responsible, and there's truth and pathos in the way it tests her friendship with Zohar.

To evaluate the claim that No Child Left Behind and other test - based accountability policies are making teaching less attractive to academically talented individuals, the researchers compare the SAT scores of new teachers entering classrooms that typically face accountability - based test achievement pressures (grade 4 — 8 reading and math) and classrooms in those grades that do not involve high - stakes testing.

In most cases, new goals and content additions are tacked onto an already overburdened curriculum, and with the pressure of preparing for standardized tests, relatively few educators are able to consistently provide the time needed to effectively integrate new learning goals into the curriculum.

Because of the vast amount of information that needs to be covered and the pressure of preparing for standardized tests, relatively few educators are able to consistently provide the time needed to effectively integrate new learning goals into the curriculum.

While the federal education department was pressuring states to adopt new standards and test - based teacher evaluations, Fagen wanted to go above and beyond in Douglas County.

Nineteen of the 50 new teachers — or 38 percent — had the added pressure of teaching subjects and grade levels where the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), the state's high - stakes test, was administered.

Unfortunately ~ with testing pressures and varied instructional approaches ~ the process of discovering and mastering new skills and information is often contrived and ~ frankly ~ learned in an unnatural manner.

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).

Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, said: «Primary schools are already under immense pressure from having to introduce an untried baseline assessment scheme this year alongside a new primary curriculum, and new tests at the end of key stage 2.

Efforts to align curriculum, instruction, and assessments with Common Core State Standards have intensified as the pressure escalates for states and districts that will administer the new summative tests to students this spring.

«Testing Reform Victories: The First Wave» documents dozens of cutbacks in state testing mandates, reductions in score - based consequences and suspensions of new exams, all resulting from public prTesting Reform Victories: The First Wave» documents dozens of cutbacks in state testing mandates, reductions in score - based consequences and suspensions of new exams, all resulting from public prtesting mandates, reductions in score - based consequences and suspensions of new exams, all resulting from public pressure.

Because of the mounting political pressure and a certain amount of test anxiety, a number of other states are considering ways of distancing themselves from the Common Core and the new assessments.

In particular, the Obama administration, through its Race to the Top competitive grants and its waivers of No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) requirements, is putting pressure on states to incorporate student test scores as a significant component of any new teacher evaluation system.

The Indiana Department of Education is writing new rules to address test security on the ISTEP + exam as experts suggest pressure to perform well on the exam might cause teachers to bend the rules.

Today, states have an opportunity to use the new flexibility embedded in ESSA to develop stronger testing systems without the pressure of NCLB's exclusive focus on summative tests.

Frederick M. Hess, a resident scholar and the director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, blamed the widespread testing problems in part on federal pressure to quickly introduce new assessments based on the Common Core State Standards in many states, and other new college and career - ready standards in others.

It is still clinging to external testing for reading and maths and is introducing a new test for spelling, and while testing continues to be used to rank schools teachers will feel under pressure to teach to the test,» she said.

Friday's New York Times gives FairTest the lead reaction quote in a story about how high - stakes testing pressures cause some educators to cheat on standardized tests.

Organisers of the new computer - based PISA tests the UK is to pilot for five - year - olds have hotly denied claims they will heap pressure on pupils and burden schools.

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.

The school, responding to pressure from New York State, had purchased test prep materials from the company that makes the exam for the state.

New student testing next year and the advent of the Common Core State Standards already under way will surely put even more pressure on the state's schools.

He followed up with his hyperbolically titled May 2010 New York Times Magazine feature «The Teachers» Unions Last Stand,» which admired the Obama administration's attempt to pressure states to tie teacher evaluation and pay to students» standardized test scores.

Saying they are responding to pressure from parents and teachers upset with the troubled roll - out of a new statewide test that students are taking this spring, Assembly Republicans will pass a bill (Senate Bill 67) next month ensuring the results aren't used on school report cards or to evaluate teachers.

Over the holiday break, Kyle Spencer of The New York Times reported on how testing and a school district's effort to ease student pressures has led to an «ethnic divide» in the community.

The new tests, he added, also will address the No. 1 complaint he's heard from teachers: that «bubble tests pressure teachers to teach to a test that doesn't measure what really matters.»

Via NY Times by Motoko Rich Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced on Thursday that states could delay the use of test results in teacher - performance ratings by another year, an acknowledgment, in effect, of the enormous pressures mounting on the nation's teachers because of new academic standards and more rigorous standardized testing.

Pressure to meet testing benchmarks and close the achievement gap have spurred growing interest nationally in examining new ways to think about the structure and use of time within schools.

He estimates that KIPP will need about 10 percent of the students in a community to really put pressure on the system as a whole, and in Houston, he is already seeing some evidence of that, as the traditional direct - run schools have begun emulating KIPP policies, putting up posters about colleges instead of standardized tests and sending teachers on visits to new students» homes.

The State Board of Regents, facing pressure from Governor Cuomo and the legislature, is recommending that the effects of the new high stakes testing on students, designed in response to the Common Core, be delayed for five more years.

Schools across the country are increasingly turning to wraparound services after recognizing that earlier efforts like creating new schools and putting pressure on teachers to boost test scores were not sufficient to help children living in poverty.

While many political leaders around the country are bowing to public pressure to retreat from Common Core, both Mayor Bill de Blasio and the New York City schools chancellor, Carmen Farina, pointedly confirmed their commitment to Common Core when they announced the test results.