Sentences with phrase «of placement test»

The positive effect of taking statistics (relative to remedial elementary algebra without workshops) was similar across students with a wide range of placement test scores (Figure 2).

Studies show that more than one - third of all first - year college students are required — as a result of placement tests — to take some form of remedial coursework in either English or mathematics; the number is far higher at some institutions.

Predicting success in college: The importance of placement tests and high school transcripts (CCRC Working Paper No. 42).

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

Each year begins with a set of placement tests that identifies each student's level of mathematics proficiency.

The product will incorporate the use of placement tests and lesson maps.

There are several different types of placement tests, all of which approach the goal of determining the best career for the test taker differently.

Not exact matches

Farrell notes that colleges and universities tout the successes of their incoming students — test scores, academic achievement, acceptance rates, and the like — but rarely spend the same amount of energy sharing data about job placement and success rates of graduates.

Fraser often cites Lululemon's attributes in his presentations, from its recruitment of real athletes and customers to test its products to its unobtrusive, wordless logo that is recognizable most for its placement on the back of the pants: «From 10 feet away this logo is just a white dot but people understand that that dot means quality.»

It was determined that after the strategic review process and corresponding significant decrease in the share price on the announcement that Fairfax and other institutional investors were investing in the company through a $ 1 billion private placement of convertible debentures, in lieu of purchasing the company, that the carrying value of the company's assets exceeded their fair value based on the impairment testing performed by management.

However, without conceding the point as to whether digital assets are securities (enough ink has already been spilled on the Howey test), white papers are evolving into documents resembling private placement memoranda typical in a standard Rule 506 private offering of securities.

It's also critical that you test the placement and colors of forms, phone numbers, and assorted offers.

Each beverage company may undertake additional activities including: introducing and expanding new lower - calorie products and smaller - portion packages; product placement such as end aisle and checkout displays featuring only reduced - calorie beverages; merchandising efforts such as repositioning reduced - calorie beverages on shelves; providing coupons and other incentives promoting no / lower - calorie options; and taste tests / sampling programs in and out of store.

Standardized test scores can affect your child's placement, the amount of funding the school receives, teacher evaluations and more.

Also, the California State Test scores were often not available until the end of summer or after school started and couldn't be used by teachers to help them make placement decisions.

60 % of US breastfeeding mothers preferred the Philips Avent Comfort Double electric breast pump for comfort when expressing vs 29 % of mothers who preferred the Medela in Style - Independent home placement test among 76 mothers in the USA, August 2012.

Our expert team of clinicians provide a range of services, from evaluations and testing, personalized education plans, school placement consultation, and skills interventions and remediation.

Examples of accommodations include the ability to complete a test a different way / format, use of verbal intermediaries, and ability to request special accommodations in regard to school placement (teachers, friend in the class, etc.).

The state Board of Regents, which sets education policy, already decided in February to advise school districts against using results of Common Core tests in decisions regarding students» promotion and class placement.

Leadership in both houses of the state Legislature support a two - year moratorium on using Common Core - aligned test scores to evaluate teachers and principals or to make decisions about student placement or promotion, a plan supported by teachers» unions.

One commonly used definition of a «good» school is one that has high academic outcomes in absolute terms - its students don't drop out, frequently go to college, frequently go to selective colleges if they do go to college, frequently find decent jobs if they don't go to college, perform well on standardized tests, take more advanced classes such as advanced placement, international baccalaureate, honors and college classes, etc..

A record number of NYC high - school students took and passed at least - one college advanced - placement test last spring — although the percentage of those passing fell slightly from 2016, according to the Department of Education.

«He has also been a leading voice for banning standardized tests for our youngest students, supported a three - year moratorium against the use of Common Core testing for student promotion and placement, and has backed giving the city and state Comptrollers the power to audit charters, particularly charter practices that limit the enrollment and retention of high - needs students.»

In a rare show of unity on a controversial issue, leaders of both the State Senate and Assembly last week advocated a two - year moratorium that would decouple Common Core - aligned test scores with teacher evaluations and student - placement decisions.

A total of 12 individuals and teams chosen from six regional competitions competed for the top prizes; combined with awards to students who score well on advanced placement tests and their teachers, the total Siemens pot comes to nearly $ 1 million.

Researcher say that a shortcoming of their study is that they tested only one anti-smoking poster with the adolescents and they did not experiment with a variety of poster sizes or a greater variety of store placement.

Bianco notes that the placement of the institute in India brings several benefits, including a rich scientific base, and access to Indian firms with expertise in making affordable drugs and vaccines and to a large population of lower - income people who could test new vaccines and would be among the immediate beneficiaries of any successes.

Conversely, when the vitamin's uptake in the embryo was blocked in the test animals, the final placement of the heart was random.

Australia - based Regal Resources has secured commitments to raise A$ 5.2 million (US$ 3.7 million) via a placement of 148.2 million new shares at 3.5 cents to fund the pilot test of a novel Underground Coal to Liquids (UCTL) process near Melbourne.

Students are required to take Community College of Philadelphia's placement tests.

Behavioral analysis of volitional foot placement was tested using a grid - walk behavioral test (Foot Misplacement Apparatus, Columbus Instruments) as previously described [14], [57].

I carefully cut around the outer edge of the zigzag stitch and started to test placement on the base dress.

Like its central characters, at least Cave and Hillcoat are straightforward about their intentions (apart from the awkward placement of its female characters, who are mostly forgotten whenever they aren't necessary to the plot), and the story unfolds in a flurry of pummelings, shootings, and stabbings that punctuate the battle of wills between men with few moral qualms (One particularly gruesome episode really puts a character's legend to the test).

Computer adaptive testing is used to test recruits to the U.S. military, for licensing nurses and computer technicians, for entrance tests to graduate school, and for a popular placement test used by community colleges — but not for academic testing in all but a handful of K - 12 schools.

Two - thirds of the 351,144 students who took the A.P. tests last May qualified for college credit or placement, the Board said.

We looked at differences among the states in terms of their placement rates into special education — often one way to exclude students from state tests — and at whether these differences were related to the introduction of state accountability systems.

In Larry P. v. Wilson Riles, the court barred the use of intelligence tests for placement of black students in programs for the educably mentally retarded.

It takes a great deal of personal time to become informed regarding such issues as racial desegregation, charter schools, curriculum content, testing, graduation standards, geographic placement of a new school, and the configuration of attendance boundaries.

Note the substitution of a 2.7 high - school GPA for passing a college - administered placement test.

• Tuition or fees at a qualified school or an eligible postsecondary institution • Textbooks • Educational therapies or services from a licensed or accredited practitioner or provider • Tutoring or teaching services • Curricula and related materials • Tuition or fees for an online learning program • Fees for a nationally standardized norm - referenced achievement test, an advanced placement examination, or any exams related to college or university admission • Contributions to a college savings account • Services provided by a public school, including individual classes and extracurricular programs • Any fees for the management of the ESA

The organizers plan by this spring to produce «gap analyses» of how well secondary school tests and standards in the five states — Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Nevada, and Texas — line up with college - admissions and - placement tests and the demands of employers.

[6] Several studies estimated the causal effect of being assigned to remediation on future college outcomes by comparing students just above and below test score cutoffs for remedial placement.

February 2, 2017 — Across the United States, more than half of new freshmen are ineligible for college - level coursework each year as a result of their performance on placement tests in English and math.

Regardless of their race or ethnicity, students with a wide range of incoming placement test scores did better in statistics with weekly workshops than their counterparts in noncredit remedial elementary algebra, with or without weekly workshops.

Participants who had earned relatively high — though still not passing — scores on the placement test passed at a mean rate of 68 percent, similar to students who were not assessed as needing remediation and who took the statistics class the year before.

California's colleges and universities add two admissions tests (SAT I and II); and the University of California, California State University, and the community colleges use three different placement exams.

Students who were placed directly in college - level statistics did far better than their counterparts in remedial classes, regardless of their score on the placement test.

Space is too short to highlight every noteworthy feature, but here are a few that have stood time's test: E. D. Hirsch's placement of progressive education within the Romantic tradition (first issue), Joel Best's skeptical view of school violence (2002), Michael Podgursky's discovery of the well - paid teacher (2003), Bruno Manno's and Bryan Hassel's takes on the charter movement (2003), Brian Jacob and Steve Levitt's technique for catching teachers who cheat (2004), Barry Garelick's jeremiad against progressive math (2005), Frederick Hess and Martin West's exposé of school «strike phobia» (2006), Roland Fryer's identification of «acting white» (2006), Clay Christiansen and Michael Horn's vision for virtual learning (2008), and Milton Gaither's authoritative look at home schooling (2009).

Animals A to Z is the primary grade version: «The skills emphasized in the series are those found on all standardized tests in grades 2 and 3: simple word usage, end - of - sentence punctuation, comma placement in a series, basic spelling, and others.»

One explanation is that the debate about whether charter schools «work,» with its focus on testing and college placement, loses sight of the many reasons why people choose a school and what they value in an education.