Sentences with phrase «on conventional tests»

We conclude, therefore, [that] assignments calling for more authentic intellectual work actually improve student scores on conventional tests.»

And more «authentic» and comprehensive forms of assessment provide not only significant gains on conventional tests but also more useful feedback (because the tasks are more realistic).

They may get picked up by conventional testing, but many patients they aren't getting picked up on conventional testing because they're kinda in no man's land.

Not exact matches

The EWG claims that five pesticides were found on conventional cherries on average, while 30 % of cherry samples tested contained iprodione, which is a pesticide that is not allowed in Europe.

On this particular occasion, the D - Wave Two would have to pass five somewhat more mundane tests, pitting it against a variety of conventional processors.

Our GMO - Tested and Glyphosate - Tested open pollinated corn is grown on small family farms with buffer zones, ensuring that the places where the corn is planted is not downwind from any other conventional corn fields that may be using genetically modified seeds.

Project partners will evaluate conventional, widely used products, as well as more innovative «green» products and approaches; original work on green chemistry options will also be tested.

The Mt. Shasta Ski Park has something for everyone with both day and night operations, miles of trails available to cater to all skill levels, 32 conventional trails for 425 skiable acres, and two terrain parks to test your skills on twists, jumps and rails.

In another ongoing study, psychiatrist Michael Mithoefer of Charleston, South Carolina, is testing MDMA (3,4 - methylenedioxymethamphetamine) on people suffering from severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), including rape victims and Iraq War veterans who have not gotten any relief from conventional treatments such as antidepressants and therapy.

The scientists also tested the therapy on tumors taken from two patients who had not responded to conventional therapy for their glioblastoma, a deadly form of brain cancer.

Conventional smear tests, which rely on visual inspection of cervical cells, spotted only 76 %.

For the conventional «Pap» smear test, cells are scraped from around the cervix — the neck of the womb — and «smeared» on to a slide.

An inexpensive blood test to diagnose schizophrenia could be made available within two years, offering a groundbreaking alternative to conventional methods that rely on conversations between patients and doctors.

These comprised not only «conventional» behavioral studies, but also the physical effects on the brains of test participants by measuring the Blood Oxygen Level - dependent (BOLD) response using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) scans.

Where conventional references provide only coded platitudes on temperament and ability, psychological tests give explicit and specific results.

«We chose to attack the problem using machine learning implemented on a D - Wave quantum annealer, in order to test our ability to translate complicated real - life biology problems to the setting of quantum machine learning, and to look for any advantages this approach might offer over more conventional, yet state - of - the - art classical machine learning techniques,» Lidar added.

To study brain cell's operation and test the effect of medication on individual cells, the conventional Petri dish with flat electrodes is not sufficient.

Conventional technology such as mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance can measure such components — that is how biochemists test the toxicity of drugs or environmental pollutants on human cells.

If a mother has two different versions, or alleles, of a gene, conventional genetic testing can't work out which allele she passed on to her child, because her blood contains both.

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have tested a genetically - modified (GM) soybean oil used in restaurants and found that while it induces less obesity and insulin resistance than conventional soybean oil, its effects on diabetes and fatty liver are similar to those of conventional soybean oil.

As for methane, genetic tests suggested that there were far fewer methane - producing microbes living on the roots of the modified rice than on the conventional rice.

«The new maps allow us to analyze the excess and test whether more conventional explanations, such as the presence of undiscovered pulsars or cosmic - ray collisions on gas clouds, can account for it,» said Dan Hooper, an astrophysicist at Fermilab in Batavia, Ill., and a lead author of the study.

In the conventional approach to measuring IQ, a person is given a standardized test, such as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, and their score on the test is assumed to reflect their level of intelligence (with some amount of random error).

There are no tests on conventional crops whatsoever, you can produce them one day and sell them the next day.

A conventional top - down approach based on e-beam lithography is tested together with a bottom - up solution based on directed self - assembly of block copolymers.

The tests are based on research conducted by Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) investigators — and could pave the way for a more precise approach to cancer therapy and help find effective drugs when conventional approaches to precision medicine have failed.

Meanwhile, the report proposes that decisions on when to provide whole genome sequencing in place of conventional alternative diagnostic tests «should take into account the digital infrastructure available».

For many years I suspected that I had some form of thyroid problem based on my own research and symptoms like dry skin, occasional fatigue, trouble losing weight after having a baby, and hair thinning, but I was never able to get answers from conventional tests which showed that my T3 and T4 thyroid hormones were in the normal range.

The ACS recommends that women ages 21 to 30 should be tested every one or two years, depending on whether a conventional or liquid - based Pap test is used.

Tests commissioned by the EWG showed that in just two to five minutes on a conventional stove top, cookware coated with nonstick surfaces could exceed temperatures at which the coating emits toxic gases.

So if you've gone to your conventional doctor or even the gastroenterologist, the specialist you're gonna get referred to that's gonna throw you on prescription acid blockers, if they run tests on you and how up negative, don't necessarily take their word for it.

Integrative medicine is a comprehensive, science - based approach to medical care that draws on the best of many different specialties: natural medicine, allopathic (or conventional) medicine, diagnostic testing, nutrition, metabolism, detoxification, nutritional supplements, customized diets, acupuncture, chiropractic, and massage, among others.

Researchers from USDA's Genetic Improvement of Fruit and Vegetable Laboratory and Rutgers University tested blueberries grown on five organic and conventional farms in New Jersey that shared the same soil, weather, and harvesting conditions.

We run a stool test on everyone, organic acids testing on everyone, or nearly everyone as much as possible, because there's a lot of different markers that conventional doctors are never going to test.

Conventional diagnosis finds levels between 110 and 125 mg / dL to indicate impaired fasting glucose and prediabetes, and levels above 126 mg / dL on several tests can diagnose Type 2 diabetes.

Though TSH comes back in the normal range, so they look good on their conventional doctors uh — thyroid test, but they still have all these thyroid symptoms, right there.

She brings to life the benefits of focusing on root causes and nutritional / biochemical imbalances for her patients, working in collaboration with conventional care teams and using cutting edge lab testing to help practitioners tailor their interventions to their patients» specific needs.

Conventional endocrinology is divided on whether there is any value to testing your thyroid antibodies, primarily because there are few widely accepted ways to lower your antibodies when they are elevated.

And I've seen people come back with infections where they've already been tested by their conventional labs and hospitals and they — they come back negative there but they come back positive on mine.

Also, TSH ranges on conventional lab tests may fail to pick up some cases of subclinical hypothyroidism or impending cases of autoimmune thyroid conditions, otherwise termed Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, which is the most common cause of hypothyroidism.

Test of transfer (long - term): Tous - Fajardo et al. (2015) compared the effects of a training program involving eccentric overload exercises with a program of conventional training, on COD ability.

Part 1 will focus on the diagnosis, the ANA test, conventional drug treatments, stress and toxic exposure as being some prime causes, rheumatoid arthritis case study, three examples of auto - immune disease and toxic exposure from my clinic.

The prevention of disease and whether a developing health condition in its initial («subclinical») stage is discovered depends significantly on whether a healthcare practitioner uses the conventional or functional laboratory ranges to interpret a person's blood test results.

Tests that strictly measure the number of bacteria on a person's hands after use do show that soaps with triclosan kill slightly more bacteria than conventional ones.

During Lewis - Carter's four years as principal, she has led these children — disadvantaged by every conventional measure and further handicapped by the hardships of Katrina — to a stunning performance record on state - mandated standardized tests, one that compares favorably with the city's selective - admissions schools.

Unlike conventional colleges and universities, Western Governors doesn't require students to spend a set number of hours in a classroom, average out their performance on assignments and tests, then hand out letter grades and credits.

The results of such an analysis allow us to reality - test the broad cautions voiced by the Friedman Foundation, the Cato Institute, and others — in particular their warning that holding schools to account for student achievement (especially via conventional state testing programs) will surely cause them to turn their backs on such programs and thus leave needy children without good educational options at all.

(Va.) Despite recent efforts of the Obama administration to provide states more flexibility in developing new accountability systems, school districts across the nation continue to rely on performance measures tied to conventional testing systems, according to a new report.

Bloom named three ways students receive instruction: Conventional teaching, or classic lecture style, where students listen and are tested on the material; Mastery learning, when the students are tested on the lecture, given feedback on the tests and then tested until they've mastered the subject; and Tutoring, where students are tested first, receive specific feedback and instruction and then tested again until they master the subject.

Most notably, they deliver thorough data on the highest - and lowest - achieving students, whose needs and particular challenges don't show up on more conventional tests.