Sentences with phrase «of international test results»

Consider analyses of international test results.

Concern over U.S. competitiveness erupts with each release of international test results.

Not exact matches

In addition, the question of his mutual support for the Griffiss International Airport drone testing site — that has resulted in the creation of 6 jobs at the cost of over $ 6 million in taxpayer dollars — would be in question as well.

A Canadian environmental group sent a letter warning of drought resulting from the future release of sun - blocking particles and claiming that the test would cause a distraction from international efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

However, there is now a glimmer of hope for patients: Thanks to a newly tested substance, the pain can be reduced to a tolerable level, as indicated by the promising results of an international phase II study involving the Center of Dental Medicine at the University of Zurich.

Close analysis of test results reveals that «the majority of U.S. students (white students) actually rank near the very top on international tests.»

For a paper published in the International Journal of Psychophysiology, the researchers observed the EEG measures of 13 autistic children and 13 neurotypical children (children with a mean age of 10 years old without an intellectual deficiency or sleep problem and who were not on medication) and found that disruptions in protective brain waves during sleep are associated with lower results on verbal IQ tests.

Exhilarated by recent results in monkey experiments, some researchers here at a meeting of the International Xenotransplantation Association are eyeing human testing.

An international study published in Nature Biotechnology presents the combined results of a 2013 DREAM Challenge: a crowd - sourcing initiative to test how well the effects of a toxic compound can be predicted in different people.

Its schedule was altered so that NAEP results could be synched with the latest version of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study's international test of what fourth and eighth graders know about math and science, which is due outInternational Mathematics and Science Study's international test of what fourth and eighth graders know about math and science, which is due outinternational test of what fourth and eighth graders know about math and science, which is due out in December.

So when the results of international tests show Western schoolchildren lagging behind their peers in countries like Singapore and Japan, alarm bells start ringing.

In tests with volunteers who had never waltzed before, five out of six improved, according to results to be presented at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Singapore later this month.

A team of international experts reported that there is no significant change in the blood test results of those people who fast and did not fast before having a cholesterol test.

As a matter of fact, the Journal of International Society of Sports Nutrition conducted a study which concluded that regular consumption of the ingredients used in Sheer TEST helps in increasing muscle mass, reducing body fat and provides better results from the workouts.

A newly published research paper in the peer - reviewed Journal of AOAC International titled «Measurement of β - Glucan in Mushrooms and Mycelial Products», by Dr. Barry McCleary, CEO of Megazyme Ireland International, confirms testing results from the Nammex White Paper by Jeff Chilton, Redefining Medicinal Mushrooms, published in February, 2015.

The results of the test came back at this year's SXSW festival, where Franco's Disaster Artist — which also stars the actor as international man of mystery and Room auteur Tommy Wiseau — debuted to rapturous reviews.

Thomson say results for the 2015 round of PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) tests for 15 - year - olds, published next week, will provide further information about the current state of Australian education.

Results from the 2016 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), released on 5 December, show Australia's average score was lower than those of 13 other countries, including Singapore, Hong Kong, Ireland, Northern Ireland and England, which all tested in English, as well as other top - performing countries the Russian Federation, Finland and Poland.

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American teenagers scored lower in science than students in a majority of other industrialized countries participating in a prominent international exam, in results that testing officials said they released early after the scores unexpectedly slipped out abroad.

The results of the reading section of the Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, were ruined when printing errors in the test booklets directed students to the wrong pages for information related to specific questions.

Much of the fevered discussion of the PISA results suffers from a pretty big flaw — which is that most observers don't really understand what these international tests measure.

One could forgive the American public if, upon examining the results of recent international tests, it regarded East - Asian nations as a single educational behemoth that had perfected a uniform strategy for dominating the United States in comparisons of students» mathematical ability.

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In particular, the recent work of Ludger Woessmann, Martin West, and Eric Hanushek has utilized the PISA and TIMSS international test results that Tucker finds so valuable, but they have done so with the scientific methods that Tucker rejects.

(We excluded results from the 1995 Third International Math and Science Study and subsequent tests because they were obtained outside the analytical period of interest.)

Despite all the barriers to teaching science in primary school, and the apparent poor results in national and international testing, there are countless cases of wonderful practices, some incredible teachers of primary science and individual schools that do their utmost to prioritise science.

Because of the difference in length and because international tests are not administered in exactly the same years as the NAEP tests, the results for each state are not perfectly calibrated to the international tests, and each state appears to be doing slightly better internationally than would be the case if the calibration were exact.

(Because of the difference in length and because international tests are not administered in exactly the same years as the NAEP tests, the results for each state are not perfectly calibrated to the international tests, and each state appears to be doing slightly better internationally than would be the case if the calibration were exact.

In December of 2004, media outlets across the country were abuzz with news of the just - released results of the latest Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) tests.

Other tests intended to measure problem - solving ability and the competence to apply mathematical and scientific concepts in real - world settings (such as the Programme for International Student Assessment [PISA] administered by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development) might yield different results.

Please see the «NJ Education Facts» section of our website for the full NAEP results, data on the achievement gap and US performance on international tests, and independent rankings of the NJ school system.

In Spokane at the Spokane International Academy, 62 percent of low - income sixth - graders met the state math standard and 72 percent met the English standard, compared to districtwide results of 33 percent of low - income sixth - graders passing the math exam and 42 percent passing the English test.

Today, hundreds of inquisitive visitors travel to Kettle Moraine, some 30 miles west of Milwaukee, to learn about the district's decade - long journey into personalized learning — one in which teachers choose or create their own microcredentials to advance their careers, students have multiple options about what they will learn and how within state standards, and their results on international tests meet or exceed those of students from the highest - performing countries in the world.

At least that's a conclusion in an assessment of the latest American scores on the international test of 15 - year - olds in 65 nations, whose results were released this week.

People can debate whether the flood of international, comparative data is helpful, but we can agree that, because educational systems have historically been locally controlled, international test results have had little effect on state and local educational policies and practices... until now.

That's the message of a new report by Stanford education professor Martin Carnoy and two colleagues that calls on U.S. educators to stop paying so much attention to the many nations who rank above it on international tests and instead delve deeply into results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), often referred to as the nation's report card.

Partnership with SRI International (SRI) and School Readiness Consulting (SRC) to support the implementation of VPI + through the collection and use of formative program measures, summative child assessments, and cost - effectiveness data to provide feedback for continuous improvement of instruction and program implementation, administer predictive tests and analyze results to answer pressing questions, and communicate results with VDOE, school divisions, and teachers

Early learning and preschool education are part of Finnish children's learning journey and has a huge impact on great results in international testing such as PISA, Timms and Pirls.

On December 6, 2016, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released the 2015 results from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a test of reading literacy, mathematics, and science given every three years to fifteen - year - olds in more than seventy countries and economies worldwide, including the United States.

Whether or not it is the result of the disappointing showing of US students on international tests, college professors» concerns about the college readiness of students, or other evidence of students» and graduates» lack of 21st century skills, there is no shortage of recent initiatives designed to address the situation.

Incidents of tampering with a set of standardized tests were probably the result of intra-office quarrels rather than an attempt to get away with inflating scores, according to an independent investigation into the suspicious test results at Beacon Hill International School in Seattle.

Advocates of the standards say they want Common Core to be measured by increased college and career readiness for graduates, as well as our results on international tests like the PISA.

International test results such as those of the OECD have become surrogate measures of the future economic potential of nations, prompting a global education race between national education systems.

Ms Greening is likely to be in place when the next results of international Pisa tests are published later this year.

English pupils about to take their GCSEs are strongest in science, just above average for reading (with girls outstripping boys) and at risk of leaving low achievers behind in maths, results from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests show.

The results from an international test of 15 - year - olds show that North Carolina students are competitive with worldwide peers in reading and science, but lag significantly in mathematics.

The education secretary says there is more to school children's performance than the results of the international Pisa tests.

Today, elected officials of all political stripes and advocates for a range of school policies scrutinize the results from international exams and comparisons with the intensity that, a decade ago, would have been reserved for state and local test scores.

Apparently, this improvement owed much to his policy, as England's average results in these Progress in International Reading Literacy (PIRLS) tests climbed a huge seven points out of just over 550, which Gibb suggested was down to his government's «increased emphasis on phonics».