Sentences with phrase «on an annual test of»

«More than 150 colleges and universities got failing scores on an annual test of their financial stability by the U.S. Department of Education in results, released this year, that date from 2011,» The Hechinger Report article adds.

Not exact matches

Actual results and the timing of events could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward - looking statements due to these risks and uncertainties as well as other factors, which include, without limitation: the uncertain timing of, and risks relating to, the executive search process; risks related to the potential failure of eptinezumab to demonstrate safety and efficacy in clinical testing; Alder's ability to conduct clinical trials and studies of eptinezumab sufficient to achieve a positive completion; the availability of data at the expected times; the clinical, therapeutic and commercial value of eptinezumab; risks and uncertainties related to regulatory application, review and approval processes and Alder's compliance with applicable legal and regulatory requirements; risks and uncertainties relating to the manufacture of eptinezumab; Alder's ability to obtain and protect intellectual property rights, and operate without infringing on the intellectual property rights of others; the uncertain timing and level of expenses associated with Alder's development and commercialization activities; the sufficiency of Alder's capital and other resources; market competition; changes in economic and business conditions; and other factors discussed under the caption «Risk Factors» in Alder's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on February 26, 2018, and is available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.

The firm's likely hoping to capitalize on a significant opportunity — the global direct - to - consumer genetic testing market is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 20 %, from $ 117 million in 2017 $ 611 million by 2026, according to Credence Research.

Important factors that could cause our actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those indicated in the forward - looking statements include, among others, the following: our ability to successfully and profitably market our products and services; the acceptance of our products and services by patients and healthcare providers; our ability to meet demand for our products and services; the willingness of health insurance companies and other payers to cover Cologuard and adequately reimburse us for our performance of the Cologuard test; the amount and nature of competition from other cancer screening and diagnostic products and services; the effects of the adoption, modification or repeal of any healthcare reform law, rule, order, interpretation or policy; the effects of changes in pricing, coverage and reimbursement for our products and services, including without limitation as a result of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014; recommendations, guidelines and quality metrics issued by various organizations such as the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the American Cancer Society, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance regarding cancer screening or our products and services; our ability to successfully develop new products and services; our success establishing and maintaining collaborative, licensing and supplier arrangements; our ability to maintain regulatory approvals and comply with applicable regulations; and the other risks and uncertainties described in the Risk Factors and in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations sections of our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and our subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10 - Q.

Oktay, who has been involved with testing the procedure in a clinic in Turkey, reported the birth of a healthy baby girl at the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) annual meeting on June 17.

CNBC's eighth annual study once again puts all 50 states to the test, measuring them on 56 different metrics of competitiveness.

«Precision medicine is already positively affecting providers (for example, by reducing ED visits by 30 % through application of molecular profiling treatment strategy); payers ($ 25 billion expected annual spending on genetic tests by 2021, and 45 % of FDA approvals were geared toward targeted therapies in 2013); and pharma (the pharmacogenomics market is expected to be $ 7.5 billion by 2017).»

Safe harbor plans offer a simple trade - off: employers can avoid the hassle and expense of annual testing on their 401k plan, but they have to offer contributions that are fully vested at the time they're made and notify employees about the nature of the 401k plan each year.

Speaking at the annual Texas Transportation Forum hosted by the Texas Department of Transportation, Musk confirmed his earlier tweet, saying that the test track will be «something that's maybe on the order of a five - mile loop.»

Yesterday, Feb. 1, the California Department of Motor Vehicles published its annual performance report on the 11 companies testing self - driving cars on public roads in the U.S. state.

To test DR - CAPM on currencies, they rank a sample of 53 currencies by interest rates into six portfolios, excluding for some analyses those currencies in highest interest rate portfolio with annual inflation at least 10 % higher than contemporaneous U.S. inflation.

Second, White focused on the SEC's plan to improve its grasp of portfolio composition risks and operational risks by: requiring better data reporting and risk controls, particularly with respect to derivatives; mandating that investment advisers create transition plans to prepare for major business disruptions; and requiring large investment advisers and funds to submit to annual stress testing.

All ingredients must contain 10ppm or less of gluten, barley - based ingredients are not allowed, GFCO requires ongoing testing of finished products and high - risk raw materials and equipment and all manufacturing plants producing GFCO certified products undergo, at minimum, an annual inspection and are required to submit finished product testing on a regular basis for the GFCO for review.

It would have delayed the effects of Common Core related tests on teacher's annual performance reviews.

Under the new «emergency regulation,» educators still would get annual «growth» scores from Albany based on results of state tests given during the moratorium, but the scores would be advisory.

The Board of Regents» new leaders launched an inquiry Monday into the validity of the state test system and its links to teacher evaluations, citing the need to rebuild public trust following a second annual round of massive exam boycotts on Long Island and across the state.

Ranzenhofer says the fourth piece of legislation called the «Unnecessary Testing» bill would require the State Education Commissioner to expedite a review of the Annual Professional Performance Review (APPR) plans to eliminate unnecessary testing on stTesting» bill would require the State Education Commissioner to expedite a review of the Annual Professional Performance Review (APPR) plans to eliminate unnecessary testing on sttesting on students.

«We use tests to make sure kids are on track and I don't think parents can perfectly distinguish between what is an assessment given solely for [Annual Professional Performance Review] purposes and what is any other kind of test given,» Lowry said.

In a paper presented at the NARST annual meeting, Abel showed how a detailed analysis of answers in a multiple choice test on elementary - school energy ideas showed which misconceptions were popular and persistent for different students.

The interests of the CSFR and the NCLS aligned well on many SFRL projects, conferences, publications, and AAAS annual meeting symposia such as on the ethical and legal implications of genetic testing; use of animals in research and education; scientific misconduct and research integrity; use of scientific and technical information in the courts; ethical and legal aspects of computer network use and abuse; effects of national security controls on unclassified research, and the impact of neuroscience on the legal system.

The results of eye tests carried out as part of last year's annual survey of the health of schoolchildren were the worst on record, with the highest ever number of children having sight classed as «extremely poor».

Hybrid technology is far from an exact science, however, as student engineers found out last week at the Formula Hybrid International competition held at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, N.H. Dartmouth College's fifth - annual Formula Hybrid competition called on student teams to conceive, design, fabricate, develop and drive formula - style hybrid - powered cars — weighing 180 kilograms to 270 kilograms — in a series of exercises testing their hot rods» acceleration, maneuverability and endurance.

The test results were presented at the 2016 Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Annual Meeting in San Diego on June 13.

The little - known hiatus has forced the directors of the three principal U.S. weapons laboratories to rely on other types of reliability tests, mostly conducted at other U.S. nuclear weapons facilities, when they promised in annual reports to the President and the Congress that the country's warheads will still explode in the manner intended by their designers.

Dr. Eng presents at an invited symposium on direct - to - consumer genomic testing at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Clinical Chemistry, Atlanta, GA

At the 29th annual American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) / Utah State University (USU) Conference on Small Satellites, The Planetary Society's citizen - funded LightSail spacecraft test mission (LightSail A) was named Mission of the Year.

There are many insightful markers that give a more comprehensive picture of what your body is up to and what is going on behind the scenes, beyond the routine tests you'd find in an annual physical or check - up.

[1] And most intriguingly, annual testing — the star of the current debate — stays in yellow thanks to Alexander's equivocation on the issue.

Schools are expected to make annual improvements of 3 percent on state tests over the next 15 years, using the gap between current figures and 100 percent.

Annual average improvement target of 2.5 percentage point gains in achievement on state reading and math tests between 2018 and 2025 for all students and student subgroups; plan includes goal of reaching a graduation rate of 90 percent by 2025 for all students and student subgroups

These annual volumes make assertions about empirical facts («students» scores on the state tests used for NCLB are rising»; or «lack of capacity is a serious problem that could undermine the success of NCLB») and provide policy recommendations («some requirements of NCLB are overly stringent, unworkable, or unrealistic»; «the need for funding will grow, not shrink, as more schools are affected by the law's accountability requirements»).

After all, the Arizona State shop promises that this is just the first of many annual reports on the impact of high - stakes testing.

In an analysis of the effects of the 1990 Kentucky Education Reform Act recently published in the Kentucky Annual Economic Report, a professor of economics at the University of Kentucky asserts that the state's higher school spending levels have not led to significant gains on national tests or substantial improvements in the dropout rate.

Last year, Gallup's annual national survey on education reported that 22 % of respondents thought the increased use of testing over the past decade has helped school performance and 36 % thought it had hurt.

And annual tests help level the playing field between schools, enabling policymakers to judge schools based on how well they serve their students, rather than the type of students they serve.

In the end, our analysis of charter school effectiveness is based on the experiences of only those students for whom we observe annual gains (whether positive or negative) in test scores at least once in a charter school and at least once in a traditional public school.

The future of accountability — and of using test scores to improve our schools — will depend on one thing: does the public care enough to advocate for the «eat - your - vegetables,» common - sense annual tests and the associated accountability?

The law also required annual statewide tests in grades 3 through 8, and again in high school, and states had to publish the performances of students on these tests for every school, breaking out the results by ethnicity, eligibility for a subsidized lunch, and a variety of other categories.

Under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), states will give annual tests; the results will be published and released; schools will receive some form of rating, based largely on those results; and the very lowest - performing schools will be subject to some form of intervention.

Such studies, which compare the annual gains made by students in charter schools with the gains made by the same student while attending a traditional public school, draw only on the experiences of students who were tested for at least two years in the regular public schools before attending a charter school.

While both states deserve plaudits for innovative moves in recent years — Arizona for its excellent approach to school ratings under ESSA, and New Hampshire for its work on competency - based education — they have erred in enacting laws that would let local elementary and middle schools select among a range of options when it's time for annual standardized testing.

Performance measures based on the growth in student achievement over time, which are only possible with annual testing, provide a fairer, more accurate picture of schools» contribution to student learning.

, the Hoosier State has an «annual performance - accountability rating system» for participating private schools that is based on the results of state assessments — the same tests that public school pupils take.

Keep in mind how few test - takers are currently deemed «college ready» on multiple gauges, from the testimony of professors (and employers) to the annual reports by ACT and other groups.

Although most states continue to use multiple - choice and short - answer items on their standardized tests, a handful of states have incorporated additional measures into their annual assessments.

West's data on Florida includes annual FCAT math and reading test scores as well as two behavioral outcomes: days absent and a measure of whether they dropped out of high school by grade 10.

When those two factors are taken into account, the positive effect of cognitive skills on annual economic growth becomes somewhat smaller, but is still 0.63 percentage points per half of a standard deviation of test scores.

Just last week, the annual conference of the Association for Education Finance and Policy featured new research on topics such as the importance of charter organization type, the characteristics of charter schools associated with effectiveness, charter student outcomes beyond standardized test scores.

Companies should also provide third party test certificates for the products it will be using on the project as well as its annual certificate of API membership, which is the only way to provide guaranteed credibility.

Our use of annual gain scores provides an estimate of treatment effects based on the extent to which students at each school do better or worse than would be expected, given their initial test scores.