Sentences with phrase «only tests designed»

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A company that designs tests that it uses only in its own labs, as Theranos does, doesn't need to get them approved, but the FDA is considering changing its policy.

Unlike Staples and other big - box office - supply stores, Poppin, which recently launched an invitation - only beta test, designs and makes its products.

PPC experts understand not only the principles of landing page design, but also how to test those principles.

Pre-shipment distribution tests enable a means of validating a packaging design prior to going to market and avoids exposing not only your product but the brand image from potential supply chain blemishes.

Not only did we design our breast pump cushions with you in mind, we collaborated with hundreds of moms across the U.S. to help test and refine our product.

After four years of research, development and market presence, TwinGo's sophisticated design not only meets ergonomic and comfort expectations, but it passed rigorously safety testing in both the US and Europe.

Because the SAC only takes approximately 5 to 7 minutes to administer and was designed for use by clinicians with no neurocognitive testing experience, it is considered a «practical sideline assessment tool» (2) which can «detect changes across multiple domains of cognitive functioning that are susceptible to the acute effects of concussion.»

«While crash tests serve a very important role in child restraint design, they only tell part of the story,» Arboghast said.

Though there are ways to do so safely like drinking the beverage while you are nursing so the alcohol levels are sure to drop (so long as you only have a small dose,) by the time you are ready for the next feeding, and if you really want to be safe you can check out Milkscreen, a product designed to test the alcohol content of breastmilk.

Our collection of luxury alpaca clothing for babies brings you colourful, stylish and contemporary designed garments which have been teamed with alpaca and the numerous qualities it possesses resulting in a range that is not only truly unique, but one that will stand the test of time.

«Our popularity and acceptance had been put to test through this activity which we designed not only to improve healthy living but to restore hope in our people and as well as identify with their challenges and needs.

Our children deserve a real, balanced education, not a strategy designed only to raise test scores,» he said in a statement.

The team designed DNA circuits that simultaneously test for 24 distinct regions of viral RNA — more than would have been possible using only naturally occurring DNA sequences (Cell, doi.org/wn4).

Our only interest is to learn how students respond to these test items so that we can design items that are valid measures of what students know about important energy ideas.

Ramesh Raskar of the Camera Culture group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has devised a method of providing basic eye tests using only a smartphone and a specially designed eyepiece.

EPA charges that the German automaker installed emissions - control software designed to work only during tests

In one set of tests designed to quantify how much the rats desired each drug, they could get another infusion only by making ever - greater numbers of lever presses.

In the third design, only a few tests were pre-selected based on recommendations by pediatric experts.

For treatment, that knowledge could make a huge impact: not only should researchers be better about testing potential migraine drugs on men and women separately, Maleki says, but they may be able to design new treatments based on these brain differences — giving both sexes a better chance at relief.

In a broadly designed comparative test, conducted by 28 ecotoxicological laboratories from 15 countries and four continents, they were able to consistently show that only 17 of the 28 labs actually worked with the earthworm species of the genus Eisenia that they had specified.

In a second study designed to test the results of the first, though, only narcissistic women reported more frequent attempts at mate poaching, leading the researchers to conclude that it's possible that narcissistic women are more frequently guilty of the behavior.

«To demonstrate this, our results will need to be replicated in clinical studies also designed to test the differential susceptibility model, this time not only assessing the impact of more or less coercive parenting methods, but also the impact of intervention programs targeting parenting practices.»

The test is designed to assess not only fine motor skills, but also short - term memory and cognitive processing.

Yet much of the evidence cited by smart drug enthusiasts comes from animal experiments which can, by virtue of their design, test only a drug's effect on learning, not recall.

This will not only significantly reduce the fabrication and testing turnaround time, but will also give us much better control over the fabrication processes and offer possibilities to improve designs and generate new ideas.»

The team has designed a novel genetic manipulation that ensures only insects with a specific trait survive early development — and they have tested the technique in fruit flies.

In 2012 he founded and is now Co-Director of the Concordia Centre for Applied Synthetic Biology, Canada's only research centre focused on synthetic biology, also home to The Genome Foundry, a unique technology platform that aspires to accelerate the design - build - test cycle of biological engineering.

Testing eight different combinations of the corrective tRNAs, each designed with or without the RP import signal, its modified aminoacyl stem, or the MTS, they found that with the inclusion of all three modifications — and only with their inclusion — expression of their constructs induced a substantial increase in mitochondrially - encoded protein synthesis (6 -8-fold) and respiration (~ 2.5-fold) in mutant cybrid cells.

These chips could also be used to evaluate antibody drugs and other immunotherapies, which are difficult to test thoroughly in animals because the treatments are only designed to interact with the human immune system.

All members are also required to take the Color Code Personality Test, which is designed to help you decipher not only your own traits but the characteristics of other Spark members who you may be interested in.

From doing testing with my own students (with no interference from myself), I have been pleasantly surprised how well this method works in not only the students understanding the words / phrases (of course they still make mistakes), but in also how long they remember them.As creators of eLearning material, this process of learning through discovery is something we must take into account when designing courses or exercises.

Hopefully these tips will help you not only to relax, but also to focus when it comes to designing PBL projects within the world of standardized testing.

Since the state department of education not only designs tests but constructs numerous other policies that affect operations both in New York City and elsewhere in the state, it is of interest to learn whether New York City students do as well or better than students across the rest of the State of New York.

We know from international research that well - designed testing can drive better learning outcomes, so the new tests have the potential to benefit our students immensely — but only if the test makers take bold steps in their designs.

These student - tested and approved projects include: - Quadratic Functions Roller Coaster Design Project - The Trigonometry Triple Regatta Boat Race - Unit Circle Inquiry Project - Law of Sines and Cosines and area of non-right triangles rope adventure project - Conic Sections Project - Applying Logarithms Project - includes 3 project choices for students This purchase is for one teacher only.

Unnoticed among all the other arguments was the fact that the new tests appear to be designed to test knowledge only of the simple tables facts.

Last week, I argued that Hitt, McShane, and Wolf erred in including programs in their review of «school choice» studies that were only incidentally related to school choice or that have idiosyncratic designs that would lead one to expect a mismatch between test score gains and long - term impacts (early college high schools, selective enrollment high schools, and career and technical education initiatives).

Critics argued that the tests focused only on cognitive impacts, that the questions were not age appropriate, and that the process was intentionally designed to prove Head Start was ineffective and therefore should be terminated.

They learn about engineers» problem - solving process of design, test, and redesign, and learn that there is no such thing as failure, only opportunities to keep learning.

The only online program designed exclusively by ACT test development professionals, featuring real questions from previous tests.

At the same time, we are investing, by modern R&D standards, only a pittance ($ 260 million) to design and test the next generation of schools.

While I maintain there is value in tests that align to college and career ready standards, those tests can only be designed to test a particular set of cognitive skills.

Hill, Ball and Brian Rowan find only modest links between measures of the mathematical knowledge that teachers need for teaching and their students» performance on standardized math tests, and the vaunted Measures of Effective Teaching project had to abandon its content knowledge for teaching measures, designed to assess some aspects of pedagogical content knowledge, as they were not associated with student achievement.

And, yes, teachers and parents have a right to be alarmed when unnecessary tests designed only for school benchmarking or teacher evaluations cut into instructional time.

They are worried that the Common Core's testing system is too difficult, and that teachers» jobs will be in danger because the standards aren't only designed to compare students nationally, but teachers too.

These were the basic design factors in the cover - test - sort (CTS) instructional model, used in a time when our society needed only a few good readers, mathematicians and life - long learners.

While some say this practice of designing teacher preparation curriculum around the PACT bears resemblance to K - 12 teachers «teaching to the test,» many educators at Northridge say the PACT is focused on critical areas of good teaching, like planning lessons with strong student assessments, and modifying lessons for English language learners and students with disabilities, and that it therefore only reinforces what candidates should learn anyway.

It is a law explicitly designed to raise test scores, if only because it produces intense drilling on how to take tests.

Although the ruling only relates to the admissions policy of one school, Schools Week understands it could have wider implications, because the same 11 - plus test, designed by the Consortium of Selective Schools in Essex (CSSE), is used by 10 other schools in the county.

Only 8 percent of Perspectives's students passed multi-state college - readiness tests last year, which were designed to test the new, tougher Common Core standards.