Sentences with phrase «on testing for»

At least, that is the only way to explain the way kids are taught — with an emphasis on testing for academic skills like reading, writing, and math.

Florida spends $ 22 on testing for every student enrolled in the public schools, up from about $ 5 per student in 1997, state data show.

The Parent Portal site sponsored by the Center for the Assessment and Evaluation of Student Learning (http://lhsparent.org/findout.html) offers plain talk on testing for parents eager to help their child successfully navigate the standardized assessment waters, with links to such topics as Educational Jargon Defined.

NCLB put too much emphasis on testing for schools to receive funding, leading to failures in teaching, from «teaching to the test» to outright having teachers forge students» tests.

In a letter to superintendents and charter school leaders, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson gave more details on testing for this year.

On testing for the first time as Evy.

I would like to know other clinicians thoughts on testing for iodine.

A multidisciplinary approach may provide the best results in managing the symptoms, based on testing for food sensitivity, Nutritional assessment, urine heavy metal testing, biochemical analysis, Genetic testing, Gastrointestinal functional evaluation.

Being that the main goal of the AIP is addressing inflammation starting in the intestine, at Parsley Health we focus on testing for changes in inflammatory and immune markers to measure the protocol's success.

To date, we have focused our efforts on testing for the two isotopes of cesium (137 and 134) because they provide the first indication of whether contamination from Fukushima is present in a sample.

In the past decade, researchers have developed prenatal tests for gender and Rh blood group based on testing for mutations in fragments of fetal DNA circulating in the blood of pregnant women (Science, 2 September 2005, p. 1476).

«Prior to this, there has never been an easy way to measure teachers» knowledge of student thinking, while we have probably been placing too much emphasis on testing for advanced scientific knowledge.

But as a mom at Dwarf Parents explains, the decision to perform genetic testing in utero is a difficult one, and she and her husband passed on testing for both their pregnancies.

Lynch, who has a doctorate in immunology and microbiology from Ohio State University, spent two years there before joining DuPont as a research scientist working on tests for the AIDS virus.

NYS has a standardized testing problem, a NYSUT official writes: Many students do poorly on tests for grades 3 - 8, but pass high school Regents exams.

And the women with schizophrenia and the highest Candida antibody levels scored almost 15 points lower on the test for delayed memory, from a score of 71.4 without infection to 56.2 with infection.

Rather than merely a cumulative effect, Meyer says, the two conditions appeared to act in synergy, increasing anxiety behaviors in the mice as well as damaging their performance on tests for associative memory and other basic cognitive skills associated in people with a range of neurological disorders, including schizophrenia.

This therapy is a leading example of precision medicine, where treatment is based on a test for genetic mutations.

A study evaluated over 700 elderly Chinese people and those who drank oolong, green, or black tea scored better on tests for brain function.

Women with a low seafood intake (less than 12 ounces a week) had children who scored lower on tests for fine motor, communication, and social development skills from ages six months to eight years, according to a 2007 paper published in the Lancet.

However, after getting negative results on a test for lactose intolerance, one of the doctors encouraged us to add dairy back into her diet.

In fact, men who overshare selfies in social media score higher on tests for narcissism and psycopathy, to boot, per a recent study published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences.

Students taking a PBL course generally score higher on the test for deeper understanding compared to controls.

The overall grade for each state was determined by comparing the difference with the standard deviation from the average for all states for all four years on the tests for which the state reported proficiency percentages.

With more digging and a new algorithm, the two scientists discovered that hundreds of learners were skirting the system by using multiple accounts to cheat on tests for massive open online courses, or MOOCs...

When you were successful on a test for which you studied, how did you decide which information was the most important to learn and study?

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.

By focusing on middle school, one can simply use the statewide data on a child's performance on tests for students in grades 3 through 8, as mandated by No Child Left Behind.

The creators of TIMSS acknowledge that there is a curricular mismatch on the test for some nations.

Maybe that's the question that should be on THE TEST for any politician running for office.

A statement, question, exercise or task on a test for which the test taker is to select or construct a response or to perform a task.

More student passed the statewide ISTEP + exam this spring than last, continuing the gains Indiana students have been making on the test for the past five years.

Moreover, the change in the stifling use of standardized tests as a weapon against public school teachers will deal a deadly blow to the corporate education reformers in the country who relied on these tests for denigrating teachers as well as for closing public schools and for the expansion of charter schools.

This means that USDE's proposed evaluations of specific teacher education programs (e.g., art education at Ohio State University) will be aided by the use of extensive «teacher of record» data routinely gathered by schools and districts, including personnel files that typically require the teacher's college transcripts, degree earned, certifications, scores on tests for any teacher license and so on.

Compared to the Mercedes and Porsche (and GT - R and BMW i8 also on the test for that matter), it's rather old - fashioned.

Not exact matches

For an extra $ 10 per blast, Campaign Monitor will test how your campaign looks on popular e-mail services and how well it gets through major spam filters.

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.

The company's nearly a dozen employees help people sell their cars on consignment by conducting test drives, handling paperwork, offering financing and providing a one - stop location for any other car - selling needs.

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.

Apple faced a crucial test on Wall Street on Tuesday, as it reported financial results for the quarter ending in March.

Tests show that the human brain can only concentrate on something for so long at a time.

That's the ultimate test for ambitious contestants on Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch, a weekly streaming show that gives entrepreneurs one minute to pitch a panel of prominent investors.

Simply building platforms for others to test their drugs on, Tehrani and his board soon realized, would have failed to capitalize on the expertise the firm was developing in the process.

That it's possible to predict someone's willingness to lie and cheat based on a personality test has potential implications for the workplace.

Depending on what you plan to market and your budget, you can use formal focus groups (or simply host roundtable discussions with members of the target audience), employ online research or mall intercept studies, or distribute your product to a select group of users for testing.

Today only, you can get the 23andMe DNA Test Kit for $ 99.99 (half price) on Amazon.

The Australian Institute of Geoscientists has appealed to the federal government for the inclusion of the geoscientist profession on the list of jobs to which labour market testing applies under the 457 visa program.

For more than a year, Finland has been testing the proposition that the best way to lift economic fortunes may be the simplest: Hand out money without rules or restrictions on how people use it.

At 1,400 ppm, for instance, the test subjects» performance dropped by 50 percent on average, and in some cases by much more.

The $ 1.1 billion Alphabet - backed Silicon Valley unicorn 23andMe just pulled off a milestone feat: On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said the company could sell its genetic tests and accompanying health risk reports for ten different diseases directly to consumers.