Sentences with phrase «of testing vendors»

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The company is partnering up with a group of clinicians at Stanford, as well as telemedicine vendor American Well, to test whether Apple Watch's heart rate sensor can detect abnormal heart rhythms in a cohort of patients, according to two people familiar.

We flew to Hong Kong to meet with key vendors to see if there was an opportunity to improve pricing, and we tested the integrity of the current vendor's price with a second manufacturer and found we could get the balls for 3 cents less per ball.

Work with employees regularly to ensure things will run smooth in the case of an emergency, and have a loyal customer and vendor you can use as test subjects during those drills.

For example, at Dodger Stadium where the L.A. Dodgers are testing the software, Xperiel hooks into an IT management tool built by UK company FortressGB that helps stadium operators keep track of ticketing transactions, vendor sales, and parking services, explained Philipp Hertel.

We researched and testing different paints styles with various vendors as an effort to increase the durability of the product.

The National Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center and security vendor Trusted Key are testing that out with a proof - of - concept application.

The Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN) has validated SeamlessMD (Next 36, 2013) as one of three vendors offering mature and market tested self - management tools that standardize surgical pathways and...

Before we get to the tests themselves, it's worth mentioning that we are not connected with any of the vendors mentioned below.

Although the company considered it a «test kitchen,» it had a detailed plan in place and spent months finalizing the restaurant design, list of ingredients, vendors and suppliers, hiring practices and décor, Zuckerman says.

Although the company considered it a «test kitchen,» it had a detailed plan in place and spent months finalizing restaurant design, list of ingredients, vendors and suppliers, hiring practices, décor, etc., Zuckerman says.

This meant dropping many of our product lines that we sourced from other vendors, as they were either not willing to let us test their products, or they could not assure us that the products we tested would be from the same batches we would purchase from them.

New York was one of seven states earlier this week whose student tests were hit by what was reportedly a «deliberate attack» on the computer system operated by Questar, an outside vendor.

The State Education Department's grades 3 - 8 assessment vendor, Questar Assessment, Inc., experienced a data breach affecting a small number of students registered for computer - based testing (CBT) in spring 2017, Commissioner MaryEllen Elia announced today.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia and Board of Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa say they've been in touch with testing vendor Questar Assessment since Wednesday, when testing was delayed for an unknown number of third - through eighth - grade students as they sat for the mandatory tests.

The commission, had it not been terminated, intended to test the legitimacy of the unitemized spending by subpoenaing the records of vendors and campaign treasurers, City & State reported.

At present, drug shop vendors usually treat patients based on their signs and symptoms without testing their blood for the presence of malaria parasites, as recommended by the World Health Organization.

Most of the 15,000 patients that visited drug shops with a fever chose to buy an rapid diagnostic test when offered one by the trained vendors taking part in the study.

It would have been better not to dismiss Sendmail out of hand, but to provide readers with the simple tests that demonstrate the holes so that they can go to their vendor for replacement code.

He brings his little neighborhood together, doing small favors for the locals that they barely notice (bringing a woman her breakfast in exchange for a ride on her bike, helping a garbage collector with an upcoming test, and offering kind consolation to the vendor at the newspaper stand for the state of her love life).

By shifting funds, public attention and scarce organizational and budgetary resources away from schools and into the coffers of the testing industry vendors, the futures of poor and minority children and the schools they attend get compromised.»

«With the infusion of dollars into these schools, and the additional vendors, we should not see test scores and outcomes and student growth declining,» she said.

Under this system, many of the services that states need to administer the tests and deliver results will come from the vendor community.

States have the contracts with vendors, they pay for the tests, the tests are aligned with standards they set, the tests are part of state accountability systems, and so on.

Moreover, regular state - district reconsideration of testing systems will require vendors to convince their clients on an ongoing basis that their products are the right ones.

Although this statement is somewhat true, the vendors of this claim never tell the public that the original New Jersey Core Curriculum State Standards, adopted in 1997, and the corresponding state tests were not born out of some impressive collection of education research or developed voluntary by educators aimed at providing a world class education to New Jersey's children.

So an updated version of the ISTEP + will serve that purpose, and the Roundtable's recommendation allows the state's current vendor CTB / McGraw - Hill to make necessary changes to the test.

Although initially introduced as a diagnostic tool to help our teachers assess the academic needs of their students, MAP ® is now used by the district to evaluate teachers — a purpose for which the test was not designed, the vendor NWEA has stated — and as a screening mechanism for advanced learning opportunities.

Translation: Whatever rhetoric the vendors use to mask the loss of local control, it is important to remember that the national test frameworks and eventually the released test items will become the actual local curriculum due to the stakes attached to the test results.

Test vendors and officials in some states said the real story is not one of disruption but of remarkable success, given the magnitude of many's states» rapid switch to online assessments.

Marianne Perie, director of the Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation at the University of Kansas, said the test vendor is working on plans for backup servers that could function in the case of another emergency — such as a tornado.

CTB / McGraw - Hill is creating the test for this year, and the State Board of Education is looking for other vendors to create a new test for following years.

One major vendor of value - added measures (i.e., SAS as in SAS - EVAAS) long has held that the tests need only to have 1) sufficient «stretch» in the scales «to ensure that progress could be measured for low - and high achieving students», 2) that «the test is highly related to the academic standards,» and 3) «the scales are sufficiently reliable from one year to the next» (see, for example, here).

To date Pennsylvania's Department of Education (PDE) apparently has ignored the fact that the Data Recognition Corporation (DRC), the vendor of its state tests, has avoided making any claims that their tests are valid for use as measures of teacher performance (see, for example, here).

I believe every vendor of value - added models should report this information for every achievement test being used as a measure of «teacher effectiveness.»

It's pretty easy to dismiss recent editorials from The New York Times and The Washington Post about this legislative threat to the rigor of the Texas high school diploma and to demonize and demagogue on the state testing vendor and «powerful political interests».

Johnson said DPI worked with its test vendor to remove the performance tasks and replace them with questions that would provide schools with the same grasp of a student's abilities.

The new contract is necessary because the Department of Education the state's testing vendor, Measurement Inc. due to a failure to deliver the TNReady test as desired.

The Tennessee Department of Education has contracted with its previous test vendor Pearson Education in an emergency maneuver to score TNReady high school tests.

And the public is beginning to see the picture, which is that their schools are being starved of resources, the schools are on an austerity budget, but there's plenty of money for vendors and testing.

Paula Vanderford, MDE director of research and development, said the test - making vendor used an incorrect conversion table when grading the assessments.

All the major SIS vendors in Texas have participated in parallel testing, so they should be prepared to support your local education agency (LEA — school district or charter school) this year, but you should confirm with them to make sure your version of their SIS (and HR / Finance tracking systems) is capable of creating TEDS - compliant TSDS PEIMS extracts.

At the very least, the move is a strange one, considering Connecticut spends at least $ 25 million on the Connecticut Mastery Test, the vendor responsible for creating and scoring the test has not changed and this is the «4th generation» of the test and has been used before by the stTest, the vendor responsible for creating and scoring the test has not changed and this is the «4th generation» of the test and has been used before by the sttest has not changed and this is the «4th generation» of the test and has been used before by the sttest and has been used before by the state.

Mandate all deformers in Florida, Washington DC, New York and beyond to disclose kickbacks and profits related to financial conflicts of interest with testing conglomerates, the in - the - box mass - produced curriculum industry, lobbyists, charter schools, virtual schools, technology vendors, TFA, and family members.

No vendors of mastery examination tests claim their test is a valid measure of teacher performance.»

Vendors had pledged to deliver scores within 10 days of testing — the testing window ran from March 30 to May 22.

Jindal's decision to cut ties with certain testing vendors who create Common Core materials has left some Louisiana schools lacking critical resources as the beginning of the academic year approaches.

While test vendors provide estimates of split - test reliability, these measures do not account for potentially important day - to - day differences in student performance.

Furthermore, the mayor's fundamental claim about de-emphasizing high stakes testing is at odds with the annual press conferences the mayor and chancellor have held, trumpeting any NYC score increases on the state tests — even as year - over-year comparisons have been undermined by changes in test length, vendor, and protocol, along with an opaque process of setting cut (or passing) scores only after tests are graded and persistent high opt out percentages in schools, districts, and across the state.

He said that as the issue moved forward, the Department of Education started to talk to testing vendors and see what could possibly be done.

His past work with Smarter Balanced was related to the Implementation Readiness Package (IRP), where assessment delivery vendors can test their software for readiness to administer and accurately report results of the Smarter Balanced interim and summative assessments.