Sentences with phrase «of science tests»

For example, Brittany, a fifth - grade teacher, explained that laptops were provided at her grade level for each student because the required end - of - grade tests were only available online: «We got them [carts with classroom sets of laptops] because of the science tests moving online.

Testing has expanded from the initial grades 6 and 7 to cover grades 3 through 8; ANet is piloting interim assessments for 2nd graders and a set of science tests.

(e.g. Reading comprehension influencing the results of a science test.)

• Almost a third of the tests are based on weak standards: 11 percent of the math testing, 12 percent of the science testing, 38 percent of the English testing, and 48 percent of the social studies testing.

Not exact matches

It is no coincidence that the school system in Finland, the darling of the international educational community for its superior test scores, is built on an experience - based model, where science and math are taught through doing, and labs take precedence over textbooks.

Girls, for example, now make up about half of the enrollment in high - school science and math classes and are scoring almost identically to their male classmates on standardized tests.

In 2014, Krisna Bhargava was getting his PhD in material science from the University of Southern California when he realized he could build better tools to conduct medical tests to be used in doctors» offices and emergency rooms.

The fascinating research led by University of California, San Francisco psychologist Erika Siegel and recently published in Psychological Science, tested how our mood affects our perception of faces.

Microsoft and the China University of Technology and Science taught a computer network how to take an IQ test, and it scored better than a college postgraduate.

FDA said that despite over a dozen meetings and «hundreds of email exchanges» the company had failed to show the tests were backed by science.

A reliable missile must endure at least 10 successful test launches, according to professor Chae Yeon - seok at South Korea's University of Science & Technology.

Gross says focusing on video games was as much about the science of tracking and collecting information about patients» vision, as it is about the psychology in having a testing format that appeals to a wide range of ages and cognitive abilities — from children through elderly — regardless of reading or language skills.

Mean test scores in reading (Programme for International Student Assessment) Mean test scores in science (Programme for International Student Assessment) % of those aged 25 - 64 who have attained tertiary level education Education expense, % of GDP

Yes, he'd understood the science of DNA testing was incomplete, and that there was vigorous debate over the efficacy (and even potential downside) of population screening, and that it still wasn't clear if the process had reached the point where two different testing companies would even arrive at the same results.

A group of psychologists from Yale and other universities tested this in 2009 with a study published in «Psychological Science».

The study, just published in Science, showed that the creation of what the researchers are calling microtumors can help predict drug effectiveness in cancer patients better than the current standard method of testing the drugs on rodents.

For Nike Golf, it's a science requiring some 40 engineers, an array of sophisticated machines, designated testing areas, even a golf ball cannon.

According to geologists from the University of Science and Technology of China, the collapse took place minutes after Kim Jong - un's regime conducted its last nuclear test in September of last year.

NASA expects Juno to be in position for its first close - up images of Jupiter on Aug. 27, the same day its science instruments are turned on for a test run.

«Further testing is required before Song's device could be approved as a treatment for dementia or Alzheimer's, but if it is able to help those patients regain even part of their lost memory function, the impact would be felt not only by the patients themselves, but their families and even the economy at large,» says Science Alert, which notes that Alzheimer's was responsible for a whopping $ 236 billion in healthcare costs last year.

Klemp believed in the science so much that he convinced investors to come on board for further research, including a repeat of all previous testing.

«This is certainly a positive step for making what previously was considered complex lab testing — such as a definitive virus assay — broadly available outside of the classic, central lab setting,» says Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute and the author of The Patient Will See You Now.

Since then, a research company called Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT)-- unaffiliated with Musk or any of his other companies and ventures — is right on track to making science - fiction legit science by building an actual test track for the technology in California.

The fun began February 10 when Derek Muller, host of the Veritasium science blog, posted a nine - minute account of his tour through click farms, Facebook ads, and a deliberately horrible test page called Virtual Cat.

With the help of science and medical professionals, Angel shares three tips to consider from medical testing for vitamin levels to addressing food cravings and figuring out what the right tool is for your exact problem.

Among the documents the committee has published today (with some redactions) is the data - licensing contract between Global Science Research (GSR)-- the company set up by the Cambridge University professor, Aleksandr Kogan, whose personality test app was used by CA as the vehicle for gathering Facebook users» data — and SCL Elections (an affiliate of CA), dated June 4, 2014.

However, Speth left open the possibility of new investment in Britain such as an electric battery and car plant if the conditions, including pilot testing and support from science, were right.

In his eternal quest to destroy expensive gadgets for the sake of science, YouTuber JerryRigEverything has taken a bunch of tools to the Huawei P20 Pro to test its durability...

It was expected to be an academic presentation to show if Theranos Inc.'s controversial blood - testing technology worked, and perhaps explain the science behind the claims that the startup could do lab tests with a fraction of the blood and cost of traditional machines.

There were no test tubes or Bunsen burners, but a courtroom turned into a science classroom Wednesday for a U.S. judge considering lawsuits that accuse big oil companies of lying about the role of fossil fuels in the Earth's warming environment.

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I read fiction that has stood the test of time; history and historical biographies; books on science; books on art.

Based on decades of cognitive science research at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute, the quick and accessible Cogniciti brain health assessment (www.cogniciti.com) is designed as a series of game - like tests that tap into cognitive abilities (such as memory and attention).

Science is a system of hypothesis testing and is created by man with is free will and free ability to think.

... and yet at the end of the day we only find the of test of science created in a lab to be just an «educated guess», with a number attached to it.

Science is defined by the scientific method, and since we can not observe, test, and re-test, the origins of the species, we are all left to have faith in something.

Since «origins» isn't scientific (since science involves observations, testing, etc) then any discussion of origins, whether naturally, or supernaturally, has no place in a science textbook, or a science class.

Science (by hypothesis, testing, theory, and experimentation) describes the natural processes of the universe.

On April 26, 2012, the results of a study which tested their subjects» pro-social sentiments were published in the Social Psychological and Personality Science journal in which non-religious people had higher scores showing that they were more inclined to show generosity in random acts of kindness, such as lending their po.sse.ssions and offering a seat on a crowded bus or train.

our next science project is testing out the theories of natural selection... at my house babe so your husband does nt interfere with my technique

Science is about evidence and testing hypotheses, not blind belief without a shred of evidence.

Don't allow religious philosophy to intrude into biology classrooms and texts, they say, for that is to soil the sacred precincts of science, which must be reserved for hypotheses that can be rigorously tested and confronted with data.

Sir Sayyid urged the Muslims to develop a new science of dialectics to counter the atheistic trends produced by Western civilization, and in 1292 (A.D. 1875) he wrote a commentary on the Qur» an in which he rejected the conception of Islam as a code of rules and regulations which, he said, can not stand the test of scientific scrutiny.

To him, the ability of his philosophy to do justice both to science and religion must be its supreme test of relevance.

The «soft» social sciences, which includes spirituality as well as psychology and sociology, rely on the statistical evidence that has been tested in the crucible of human experience.

I have a lot of faith in science, not in the unscientific assumption that atheists make that reality is purely mechanistic, but in the procedures of testing hypotheses, questioning assumptions, measuring results, replicating experiments, and in general debating and persuading based on actual evidence.

That's the power of science is that we test, retest and retest again.

It is the great strength of science that its speculations are open to verification through empirical testing.

Our discussion of the question of biology's reducibility to the physical sciences is, therefore, a kind of test case.

I didn't pray for leukemia but I got it children die everyday new souls in this sometimes very cruel world what kind of god does that I'm sure you'll say the sins of the father or it just wasn't gods plan or if we were better Christians then we wouldn't be punished or our faith was being tested and to all of you I say what a cruel child of a god you have that» tests his flock he so lovingly created excuse after excuse I'll keep my faith in the science that put my cancer in remission and if I'm wrong I'll march straight into hell knowing I made no excuses