Sentences with phrase «on such testing»

Rev. 159 (1999), discussing, inter alia, the uses and misuses of psychometric testing in custody evaluations, and educating toward a goal of assuring that MHP opinions based on such testing and other investigations be grounded in scientific validity.

There are far too many factors that are out of a teacher's control to allow for pay to be based on such testing methods.

Studies have shown a relationship between postconcussion activity level and performance on neurocognitive tests, with athletes engaging in the highest levels of activity performing the worst on such tests.

But the rote memorization of facts, formulas or rules that can lead to high scores on such tests do not a good 21st century scientist or engineer make, notes Alan Friedman, a member of an independent, bipartisan board established by Congress to set policy for NAEP.

Teachers» average student - achievement gains based on such tests are more volatile from year to year (which translates to lower reliability) and are only weakly related to other measures, such as classroom observations and student surveys.

Because of this insensitivity, when students» scores on such tests are used to evaluate a school's instructional performance, that evaluation usually misses the mark.

In fact, it warns, schools» over-reliance on such tests suggests that «many accountability trains are on the wrong track or heading in the wrong...

What we also know from years of research on such tests is that whenever a state introduces a «new and improved» test (e.g., the PARCC and SBAC tests), which is typically tied to «new and improved standards» (e.g., the Common Core), lower «proficiency» rates are observed.

Our children have improved, to some extent, in their performances on such tests, but at significant costs to almost every other aspect of school operations and at a pace that is failing to have us keep up with the international competition that our children will increasingly face.

Likewise, the average student from a low - income family scores much lower on such tests than students from higher - income families.

NCSECS advocated and helped influence the law including a provision raising the bar a bit higher to ensure high standards for special education students by limiting their participation in tests based on alternate (lower) academic achievement standards to 1 % of students tested (and not just limiting the reporting of their scores on such tests, as was done under NCLB).

Items capturing statistics and / or data displays on such tests should theoretically include items illustrating standard column or bar charts, with questions prompting students to interpret the meanings of the statistics illustrated in the figures.

Significantly more reliable and valid outcomes on such tests required three - minutes of oral reading.

This 18 minutes includes information on the educational policies supporting the history of high - stakes standardized tests in the U.S., how educational policymakers (including U.S. Presidents G.W. Bush and Obama) have unwaveringly «advanced» this history, how our nation's over-reliance on such test - based policies have done nothing for our nation for the past ten years (as cited in this clip, even though they have really done little to nothing for now more than 30 years), how and why the opt - out movement is still sweeping the nation, and the like.

While The College Board and its president, David Coleman, the architect of Common Core, is focused on increasing its dwindling market share, many colleges and universities have moved away from reliance on such test scores in their admission policies.

-- Nothing in this title shall be construed to encourage, prohibit, or authorize the conducting of drug testing for the illegal use of drugs by job applicants or employees or making employment decisions based on such test results.

«This is the first time that a machine has outperformed humans on a such a test,» said Si Lou, chief scientist of natural language at IDST.

If you are only after the actual lineage of your pet and don't really want to spend that much on such tests, this kit should come in quite handy.

However, to avoid a large amount of potentially useless work, I would really like to get a clear statement from GISS on the CO2 benchmark cases — to resolve the conflicting information which they have put out so far — before embarking on such tests.

Using psychological tests that had been developed to assess an individual's degree of social sensitivity, as well as tests for other key competencies, he and Dailey found that the officers identified as outstanding consistently performed very well on such tests, whereas those rated mediocre performed poorly.

Not exact matches

As electric vehicles gain popularity, such technology could become as ubiquitous as stoplights, with chargers embedded at bus stops and in stop signs or even in roads themselves (the U.K. government is testing charging lanes on highways that would offer electric cars virtually unlimited driving range).

We conducted some testing on what the effects would be, but in hindsight it was not nearly enough for such a major decision.

There is a second test under the legislation that establishes a ratio of wage income and business income based on level of capital investment that some industries, such as doctors, accountants, lawyers, are required to use this second test.

Who gets the patent depends on such variables as who first conceived the invention and worked on it diligently, who first built and tested the invention and who filed the first provisional or regular patent application.

Some other countries, such as Germany and France, opted to administer a questionnaire on students» cultural attitudes and interest in global news, but not the «cognitive test,» which asks students to spot fake news.

In cases when they do - such as with the work disincentive effects of means - tested tax credits used for the purchase of health insurance - it's better to hold off on those attacks or make them more nuanced.

«There was a clear pattern in the findings - the more literary fiction authors that participants recognized, the better they tended to perform on the emotional recognition test, and this association held even after statistically accounting for the influence of other factors that might be connected to both emotion skills and reading more literary fiction, such as past educational attainment, gender and age,» reports the British Psychological Society Research Digest blog, summing up the results.

The state has licensed 27 companies to test driverless vehicles on public roads, including vehicle manufacturers from BMW to Tesla Inc; suppliers such as Delphi Automotive Plc and Nvidia Corp; technology companies such as Alphabet Inc's Waymo and China's Baidu Inc; and a long list of self - driving startups such as Zoox, Drive.ai, AutoX and PlusAI.

He and his staff will have to think about how they might cajole and persuade Kim to agree to things the U.S. values, such as a permanent freeze on further missile and nuclear tests.

It has been angered by Pyongyang's repeated nuclear and missile tests and signed on to increasingly tough U.N. sanctions, but it has said it believes such steps are not the ultimate answer and called for a return to talks with North Korea.

In a heated discussion on Reddit this week, social engineer Chris Hadnagy, who tests the network security of companies using tactics such as phishing and keylogging scams, shared his tips on cybersecurity from a hacker's point of view.

Research included libraries, on - line research, magazines such as Entrepreneur, Franconnect, and visiting schools and organizations to test the need for Abrakadoodle Art Education.

Kendallville Mayor Suzanne Handshoe says the city's insurance claims dropped 53 percent from 2010 to 2011, and more people can afford procedures such as annual blood tests to keep tabs on their health.

«For anything that is hard on a single - threaded, such as our FCAT test or Cinebench 1T, Intel wins hands down.»

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.

I think in 10 years, we'll have cancer tests such that you take them once or twice a year, find out you have early - stage cancer, take care of it early, and move on.

Out of the blue, such at - home gene tests have become consumer must - haves: On the most recent Black Friday, 23andMe's standard DNA test was one of Amazon's top five sellers — barely trailing Amazon's own Echo Dot and the «Instant Pot.»

Influencer Alissa Ashley, who has nearly a million subscribers, said she was frustrated by the shades or (lack thereof) in her own video review, saying that they appeared «orange» on her skin even after mixing two different shades, opting out of an extended wear test out of principle, and telling Tarte, «The fact that there is such a limited shade range for people of color, people with melanin, is just so disappointing and honestly, I'm shocked that Tarte would do this given the fact they knew that people were so excited for this.»

Following an election campaign that featured immigration as a hot topic, the vote was seen as test of strength for far - right parties, such as Fratelli d'Italia and Lega, that have campaigned on an anti-immigration stance.

Nor have intelligence agencies documented tests of a similar weapon on some other target, or signs that Russia might have moved agents into Cuba to carry out such an operation.

Papathanasiou pointed out that, if an officer asked to run such a test during a traffic stop, the driver could hold on to his or her phone while it was plugged in to the textalyzer - equipped device.

Under Muhlhauser — who joined the company in 2005 and became CEO the following year — Celestica is focused less on such «commoditized» products and instead establishing itself in new, higher - margin fields where major players currently do the majority of design, testing, manufacturing and quality control themselves.

Our audit included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk, and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances.

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The software - as - a-service focused (SaaS) startup has built device - agnostic tools provide services such as notification engine, A / B testing, custom integrations and automatic user profiles creator to product managers and marketers, to improve UI on websites and apps.

Every value - adding activity by the prime or by a sub will be required to be annotated as events on the blockchain — such events could be the fabrication, testing, or delivery of a component.»

In controlled tests, researchers discovered that when waiters gave customers a small gift (such as a mint), tipping was on average 23 % higher for customers who were surprised by the gesture (source).

You want to test items such as image or headline, positioning of the form on the page, or email subject line.

Target is gearing up to test a new service that relies on devices inside the home to monitor and order items such...

The bottom line is that the American public is being fed a carefully crafted mythology (no doubt «market tested» on «response groups» to see which images fly best) to mislead the American public into misunderstanding the nature of today's financial problem — to mislead it in such a way that today's policies will make sense and gain voter support.