Sentences with phrase «not appear on the tests»

Moreover, critics warn of a «narrowing» of the curriculum, saying that the heightened attention paid to standardized tests forces teachers to ignore content or even entire subjects that do not appear on the tests.

The need to make test performance the first priority has forced many teachers to push topics and activities that do not appear on the test to the end of the school year, after testing is finished.

Other STDs take longer and may not appear on a test right away.

Not exact matches

The office issued a series of cease and desist orders on February 2, targeting herbal supplements that, according to genetic tests, don't contain what they claim to and often contained ingredients that don't appear on the label.

But a few months later, the DPRK released some photos of its laptop manufacturing process that seemed a bit odd to Martyn Williams — for one thing, the computers being tested didn't appear to be turned on or plugged into anything.

Generally speaking, I find the FCA's approach more flexible than what I have observed among securities regulators in Canada and the US (in that England does not have a Howey test — more on that below) with the consequence that the kinds of securities regulations we would normally expect to apply to a token sale elsewhere do not appear to apply directly to token sales in the UK.

On the contrary, I should claim, what I have been saying is metaphysical in the second sense of the word which I proposed in an earlier chapter; it is the making of wide generalizations on the basis of experience, with a reference back to verify or «check» the generalizations, a reference which includes not only the specific experience from which it started but also other experiences, both human and more general, by which its validity may be tested — and the result is not some grand scheme which claims to encompass everything in its sweep, but a vision of reality which to the one who sees in this way appears a satisfactory, but by no means complete, picture of how things actually and concretely go in the worlOn the contrary, I should claim, what I have been saying is metaphysical in the second sense of the word which I proposed in an earlier chapter; it is the making of wide generalizations on the basis of experience, with a reference back to verify or «check» the generalizations, a reference which includes not only the specific experience from which it started but also other experiences, both human and more general, by which its validity may be tested — and the result is not some grand scheme which claims to encompass everything in its sweep, but a vision of reality which to the one who sees in this way appears a satisfactory, but by no means complete, picture of how things actually and concretely go in the worlon the basis of experience, with a reference back to verify or «check» the generalizations, a reference which includes not only the specific experience from which it started but also other experiences, both human and more general, by which its validity may be tested — and the result is not some grand scheme which claims to encompass everything in its sweep, but a vision of reality which to the one who sees in this way appears a satisfactory, but by no means complete, picture of how things actually and concretely go in the world.

The issues paper notes that the Ministry's preliminary view is that the operation of s 36 has «not been satisfactory» because it appears «to be failing to maximise the long - term benefit of consumers», it is «too complex to allow for cost - effective and timely application» and is «misaligned with other prohibitions» in the Act by relying on a purpose test rather than an «effects» test.

The goalkeeper has also expressed a desire to test himself on the European stage and with Hannover currently sat in 11th place in the Bundesliga the likelihood of that doesn't appear to be too positive.

When a positive appeared on the test stick I was floored and did not believe it.

On the 4th August I didn't feel so good and did a home pregnancy test and to my surprise 2 lines appeared.

The government also appears to have decided that it will not be able to proceed with this reform on any kind of cross-party basis, and so is keen to test out the conviction that the procedural reforms associated with EVEL will be employed on sufficiently few occasions that they may slip from political consciousness, while also looking substantive enough to satisfy the aspirations of its backbenchers.

The lawmakers, concerned with a backlash not just from the teachers but in some cases from vocal parent - constituents, appear to have followed the union's lead: The moratorium, which has been a major legislative priority of New York State United Teachers, would essentially hold harmless teachers, principals and students from low test scores on Common Core - aligned exams for two years.

Student retention, promotion and placement can not be based primarily on the new tests and their scores on these exams will not appear on students» permanent records until 2018, under the budget provisions.

The result is that a large number of people whose brains appear normal on standard tests (X-ray, computed tomography, or magnetic resonance imaging) could actually have some form of injury whose course is not well understood.

Gambetti, who was not involved in the new study, is co-author on a second NEJM paper appearing online today that shows that an assay similar to the CSF — based RT - QuIC test can pick up very small amounts of abnormal prion protein in the urine of people who have contracted a rare variant of CJD that is transmitted by consuming contaminated meat.

Attempts to test the intrinsic role of S1pr1 using BM chimeras were unsuccessful due to difficulties in achieving efficient reconstitution of IL7RαhiCcr6 + cells and our finding that many of the cells developing in the chimeric mice appeared activated based on CD69 expression (not shown).

Carman says while there may not be any detrimental health effects in the future from GM foods, no one really knows the truth because GM foods have not been tested adequately before appearing on supermarket shelves.

Anyway, I downloaded your app, and I appear to have come across some information that is presented differently there than here on the website, under the two - week test (I am aware that this is not the appropriate page, right now).

The single most important thing you need to remember, is that even if all probiotics products contain what they promise on the label (and it appears that, according to clinical tests, many do not), only those probiotics which have a special coating to protect them as they pass through the stomach and small intestine will really hit the spot.

If you are not immediately put on thyroid hormone medication, watch carefully for symptoms of hypothyroidism, and insist on full testing as soon as any symptoms appear.

And the woman has a lot on her plate — when she's not posing for Sports Illustrated and appearing on the TV series Lip Sync Battle, she's taking care of her daughter and testing out mouthwatering new recipes.

It appears as if the pressures placed on previously failing schools did not lead them to distort their test results.

Parents can see what grade a child has made on a test, they can receive an email if there is a zero for a grade, they can contact a teacher if a grade hasn't appeared in the amount of time the school has deemed appropriate for grading.

In other words, contrary to Tough's assertion that «we have been focusing on the wrong skills and abilities in our children» (what he calls «the cognitive skills — the kind of intelligence that gets measured on IQ tests, including the abilities to recognize letters and words»), it would appear, especially for the poor in our inner cities, that we have not been focusing enough on those skills.

«U.S. Students from Educated Families Lag in International Tests: It's not just about kids in poor neighborhoods» will be available at http://educationnext.org/us-students-educated-families-lag-international-tests as of 12:01 AM on Tuesday May 13, and will appear in the Fall 2014 issue of Education Next.

But now that Senator Alexander has suggested he believes federal accountability, not federal testing, is the problem and Kati Haycock blogged that a retreat on testing is a «dumb policy idea,» NCLB assessments appear safer than I would've guessed sixty days ago.

Although these items may not appear on any standardized test, they are critically important to the healthy development of the gifted child.

If schools facing voucher competition were only appearing to improve by somehow manipulating Florida's high - stakes testing system, we would not have seen a corresponding improvement on another test that no one had incentives to manipulate.

The impacts of school choice programs on test score gains and longer term outcomes are not really as out of sync as they may first appear.

The nature of language growth is such that in earlier grades, scores will likely fluctuate (especially in high - poverty schools) as academic domains that have been taught may or may not appear on any particular reading test.

Test 14 - turned on answer layer in Teacher Edition so answers will appear Lesson 45 - changed Teacher Edition objective to «Students will round numbers to the nearest ten» (not «tenth»).

When the culture of the district was one of responsibility to individual learners and decisions were based on individual or collective perspectives of teachers, assessment as test did not appear to drive instruction.

Unlike ACT or SAT, scores don't appear on college applications, though some colleges accept Smarter Balanced scores in lieu of placement tests.

Differences in age of starting school and length of schooling did not appear to contribute once differences in age on testing were taken into account.

Numerous concerns have been raised about user - interface barriers and design flaws on the math test (in a 30 + page invalidation report) and it appears there have not been any validation studies to affirm that the tests are worth using in any meaningful way.

Scores from standardized tests do NOT appear on your ERCHS transcript.

«If you start getting too far away from what's going on in classrooms, which appears to be what is happening now, you don't really have a trend — you're picking up an artifact of the test not matching the curriculum.»

State officials appear on track for developing a new test by 2015 - 16 for identifying students whose home language is not English and who need help improving their language skills.

Secretary DeVos is right when she says that American state schools appear to have grown accustomed to being in receive mode, waiting for orders from on high as to what they are to do next; while independent schools continue to enjoy their autonomy and capacity for innovation, which was once a rationale for the charter sector as well, but that sector has lost its vitality since philanthropists suborned leading educational entrepreneurs into specializing in test prep, so impatient did they become to see the effects of their spending reflected in national test score reports, an improvement that has not been forthcoming.

The findings also don't appear to reflect «gaming» through an overemphasis on test preparation: At the high school level, the tests given to students were not required by the state and so were unfamiliar to teachers and students.

But that minor point aside, according to the state of Connecticut's annual, multi-million dollar investment in standardized testing and the hundreds and hundreds of hours spent on test prep, I can now say with great pride that my child appears not to be an idiot.

Schools that are not adequately making progress with their English learners» English language proficiency will fall in the «red zone» on the English Learner Progress Indicator that appears on the dashboard display alongside math and English Language Arts test scores.

That is, bias (a highly controversial issue covered in the research literature and also on this blog; see recent posts about bias here, here, and here), does also appear to exist in this state and particularly at the school - level for (1) subject areas less traditionally tested and, hence, not often consecutively tested (e.g., from one consecutive grade level to the next), and given (2) the state is combining growth measures with proficiency (i.e., «snapshot») measures to evaluate schools, the latter being significantly negatively correlated with the populations of the students in the schools being evaluated.

Because, if you are a charter school and you want to appear successful, you don't want to risk taking on the special education students since they will inevitably lower the school's average Connecticut Mastery Test scores.

But using a different statistical method that compares Renewal schools to similar ones that didn't receive extra resources, Teachers College's Pallas found the program appeared to have no effect on test scores or graduation rates.

This important development should close the book on what appeared to be an unending effort by Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy's administration and some local school superintendents who have been working to mislead and harass parents into believing that they did not have the fundamental right to opt their students out of the destructive Common Core SBAC testing.

The processes did not appear to be much improved at all as the 2016 testing cycle got into full swing, with a significant technical failure on Day One.

Based on the discussion, it does not appear any testing changes are imminent for the 2014 - 15 school year.

The test score gains which appear on the state test may not show up on other assessments whose content is not drilled, such as NAEP.