Sentences with phrase «not administer the tests»

«We vote as a district that we will not administer the test.

But around a quarter of primary schools did not administer the tests - known as Sats - in May because members of two large teaching unions staged a boycott of them.

The Department for Education said 4,005 schools of the 15,515 schools did not administer the tests.

The state has threatened to withhold federal funding and other money from districts that don't administer the test, a penalty the cash - strapped Chicago district can ill afford.

Districts that don't administer tests are breaking the law and can have state funds withheld, he said.

Maybe, maybe... if you could hold other factors constant, such as the courses I teach, the number of students I teach, the curriculum, the technology and other resources, all the other teachers and all of their courses, the administrative policies, the school's schedule, school transportation, extra-curricular activities and field - trips that affect instructional time... if you haven't worked in a school, if you haven't administered the tests and watched the students» eyes glaze over as they go through a meaningless exercise with no consequences for them... then you simply do not understand this issue as well as you need to in order to make pronouncements about it.

Not exact matches

It's not just some random form, either — it's the PHQ - 9 (Patient Health Questionnaire), which is a self - administered and clinically validated test used to assess the most common mental disorders.

Some other countries, such as Germany and France, opted to administer a questionnaire on students» cultural attitudes and interest in global news, but not the «cognitive test,» which asks students to spot fake news.

That would be like administering an IQ test to a group of individuals who have not connection to each other; it's not very meaningful.

A big part of what's driving Opdivo's success is an early decision by BMS to chase a much wider share of the cancer patient population — a decision that has meant that doctors don't have to administer a time - consuming diagnostic test to check if patients have a protein called PD - L1 before prescribing Opdivo in certain cancers.

Not long ago, BLI administered a financial - literacy test to a random sample of more than 300 U.S. managers, from top executives to supervisors.

And if you don't believe that, consider that the Fed's moneyless («Portfoli - O - Matic») transmission mechanism has already had one «stress test» — the one administered between late 2008 and 2014 — which it failed miserably, by proving incapable of transforming $ 3.5 trillion in fresh reserves into more than a few percentage points of NGDP growth, or far fewer than were required to restore that growth to its pre-crisis path.

When God begins the sorting of the flock, it is not to divide the good from the bad or administer litmus tests of faith or political conviction.

The organization does not have to expend its energies applying for, defending, reporting, qualifying, undergoing audits and evaluations; nor does the government have to devote its resources to administering these tests and scrutinies.

So I don't know who administered your IQ test but I suggest you take the inverse for a closer estimate.

Because the test is simple, quick and easy to administer, not just by athletic trainers or health care professionals but parents and coaches, it may have particular value in sideline screening for concussion at the youth level, where immediate evaluation for head trauma by a trained professional is often not possible.

Drawing an emotional response from the audience, more than a dozen Chicago Public School parents voiced complaints at Wednesday's school board meeting over how the district questioned their children about their decision to not to take the Illinois Standards Achievement Test when it was administered earlier this month.

Your child's doctor may administer a hearing test and then refer you to an audiologist (hearing expert) if your child doesn't do well on the test.

The dangers of skipping prenatal testing (or just as bad, having inadequate testing performed by someone who doesn't know how to appropriately administer the test or interpret the results) are serious.

In a show of opposition to Governor Cuomo's education policies, Ken - Ton's School Board voted this week to «seriously consider not administering» the state's mandatory math and English tests to students in grades 3 through 8.

Most of the state's school children did not measure up in new tests administered last year.

The drug can not be administered to those who have had opioids in their system for 7 to 10 days, making prisoners a good test population for others who may benefit from the treatment, the sheriff said.

The resolution up for discussion in Comsewogue says the board «will seriously consider not administering the New York State standardized ELA and math exams in grades 3 - 8, and the science exam in grades 4 and 8,» citing disagreement with state funding and the linkage of teacher evaluations to student test scores.

Formal methods of self - assessment are commonly administered like standardized tests, not unlike the GRE (although some are now available online).

But in a more rigorous study — which randomly assigned participants to take either NSAIDs or a placebo daily for several years and administered annual cognitive tests — anti-inflammatories did not seem to help.

«At this point, people (administering) ImPACT may not have very much training in neuropsychological testing or standardized test administration or data interpretation,» said lead author Kathryn Higgins, a postdoctoral researcher with the Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior at Nebraska.

Hu said many developing countries are not equipped to administer the two - step test, especially the HCV RNA PCR test.

«In the animals that we tested, the quantities were so large they could not be administered through diet.

In all of the tests, the person administering them isn't just controlling the stimulus, he or she is also counting how long it takes for the child to react — an imprecise science at best.

However, in Bangladesh, IQ tests were slightly modified to increase cultural appropriateness, and not precisely the same test as administered in Maine.

Unlike the water test, this device was designed for home use and doesn't require water or a trained specialist to administer.

Others say the drugs have not yet been fairly tested because they were administered too late, after brain damage is irreversible.

«You could administer the test, but you wouldn't be able to inform the patient about that region.

This doesn't mean these trials aren't safe - before any drug is administered to people, even experimentally, it must be throughly tested in animals to ensure it is not toxic.

These tests aren't commonly administered because the treatment would be the same whether you have Hashimoto's or true primary hypothyroidism: thyroid hormone replacement drugs.

An Internet trainer is not able to directly administer fitness tests, motivate, observe exercise limitations, or respond effectively in an emergency situation (spotting, administering first aid or CPR), and thus is not able to design the most safe and effective exercise program for you.

Of course, it gets even more complicated than that, because variations in genetics means that some metabolic types tolerate fats well and some do not, so diet tests administered without regard for genetic differences will produce conflicting results, and the complication then gets even deeper in that hunger may be a generic response to nutritional deficiencies.

Sadly, there is no test that can be administered to tell if someone is an executive and belongs or not.

After Tris takes her exam, a woman named Tori (Maggie Q) who administered it tells her, «The test didn't work on you.»

Having already established himself as a novelist with the cult classic «The Beach» and as a screenwriter by penning the likes of «28 Days Later,» «Sunshine» and adaptations of «Never Let Me Go» and «Dredd,» Alex Garland made his directorial debut with 2015's «Ex Machina,» a story set in the not - too - distant future about a programmer (Domnhall Gleeson) sent by his technological genius boss (Oscar Isaac) to administer the Turing test to a new and advanced form of artificial intelligence, a beautiful humanoid robot (Alicia Vikander).

(It was not possible to verify the validity of the FCAT writing test with this technique because no Stanford 9 writing test was administered.)

Challenges: Teacher training / PD and classroom resources will need to be provided to enable effective and efficient implementation; Funding for relief teachers whilst teachers administer the test; Not addressing the flaws in the UK Phonics Screening Check / inaccurately tests students; Not providing funding / resources to support students identified through the check as at risk; Additional workload for teachers including, impact on time to administer tests; Duplication of existing tests and / or additional testing burden; Stress or anxiety for students and parents; Some commented writing was a key element that needs to be in the test.

We analyzed the test - score improvements made between each student's first 3rd - grade year and the following year on both the state's own accountability exam and the Stanford - 9, a nationally normed exam administered at the same time as the FCAT but not used for accountability purposes.

• A study of the ACT (which is administered statewide) in Illinois found test strategies and item practice did not improve student performance, but coursework did.

Don't labor over making certificates by hand, though; if you use an online quiz maker such as ProProfs to administer your test, the software automatically creates a certificate.

Here's one option which would be available now: (i) Administer the new assessments to all eligible students; (ii) Score the assessments for a randomly chosen 10 percent of students; (iii) Estimate the item parameters and weed out the items which did not perform as expected; (iv) Go back and score the remaining tests for the remaining 90 percent of students; (v) Provide scaled scores back to school districts, parents and teachers.

These achievements in Massachusetts and Florida aren't simply improvements on state tests, which could be subject to manipulation, but are confirmed by progress on national tests administered in those states.

Although Florida's record of steady improvement on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (a national test administered to students in all states) has won plaudits from observers across the country, critics have alleged the improvement in 4th grade test scores was apparent, not real.

By and large, the state - level testing not only failed to report results disaggregated by race and class but often wasn't even administered to low performing students.

The voluntary paper - and - pencil test, which Head Start programs may receive for $ 34 a copy from its developer, the University of Arizona, is too costly, takes too long to administer, is too complex for 3 - and 4 - year - olds, and does not provide useful child - development information, those familiar with it argue.