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Graphics - heavy games like Deus Ex Go feel just a bit sluggish, and benchmark tests consistently put it behind the iPhone SE and other $ 400 phones like the OnePlus 3.

Although new state tests will be rolled out this spring based on demanding Common Core national standards, almost 8 out of 10 New York City teachers surveyed said the city's Department of Education has yet to address the new learning benchmarks, including failing to provide any curriculum or other instructional materials keyed to the new standards.

Other attempts to extract temperature info from a matrix of tree ring chronologies using a statistical fitting procedure have to pass statistical tests benchmarked with reference to the characteristics of the specific data set being studied.

Druker said that Gleevec's long - term efficacy also offers a benchmark for comparative testing of two other similar kinase inhibitors, dasatinib and nilotinib, now underway.

This special report highlights common misconceptions about the approach and shows how formative assessment differs from other kinds of assessments, such as summative or benchmark tests.

Like other schools in Aldine, Thompson Elementary also regularly administers its own tests to measure whether students are mastering the district's standards as well as the school's benchmarks.

By the middle of year three, the district had pressured the school to begin using its core curriculum and, like other neighborhood high schools, administer biweekly benchmark tests based on it.

Other tools you may need are cross tabulations, benchmarks, and filtering of tests and surveys results.

(It would be reasonable to insist that every state seeking Title I dollars deploy standards, tests, and proficiency definitions that can be benchmarked to and compared with NAEP and thus with each other — and with many other countries.)

Released in the first week of December, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) report has highlighted issues in education outcomes for Australian students (tested at Year 9), adding to the weight of other benchmarking reports released recently.

Eight states have raised their standards for passing elementary - school math and reading tests in recent years, but these states and most others still fall below national benchmarks, according to a federal report released Wednesday.

No standardized local interim, benchmark, predictive, formative, or other such tests, including those embedded in commercial on - line curricula.

The council would, among other tasks, evaluate the effectiveness of the common - core assessments; help set performance - level benchmarks for cross-state tests; provide professional development for teachers and the public on how to use different tests; and develop and study policies and protocols to protect students» privacy while allowing the use of assessment data for research.

For example, using the Baseball Card, which is an ad - hoc reporting tool available in ADMS and Unify, we can look at how students performed on high - stakes tests, district benchmark assessments, and other measures including the SAT, reading comprehension, and course grades.

In addition to criterion benchmarks, it's also common for tests to offer up normative data in which students» scores are directly compared to other students in the nation, district, school, or grade.

This high profile test simply benchmarks the educational performance of 15 year olds in different countries in relation to each other.

The same benchmark test used by school districts in, say, Pennsylvania and in New Jersey might predict one state's test and not the other.

«Miss Shelly's skills and hard work has allowed us to exit kids from receiving Title I services, because they have met or exceeded certain benchmarks, test scores, and other criteria, indicative of their academic growth and success.»

SEL data provides critical insight that academic benchmarks, test scores, and other common metrics often can't provide.

In addition to failing to fully deliver on earlier promises of digital tests for all students and more timely results, as with the national benchmarks (through agreed cut scores), other promises made by the Department of Education back in 2010 are still up in the air.

In fact, your school may have invested in a powerful data warehouse that provides you with access to reports that may include state test scores, benchmark assessment scores, and other assessment data.

NCLB also led to an explosion of other standardized exams, including «benchmark» tests often administered 3 - 10 times per year.

At the other schools, benchmark testing suggests that Crocker will improve the C it earned last year, said Chief Schools Officer Andy Parker.

Every year, however, millions of high school students — disproportionately from low - income and minority backgrounds — are denied access to such opportunities, whether it is because their schools lack the resources to offer such courses, because their teachers haven't recommended them for advanced coursework, because their test scores fall below a certain benchmark, or for some other reason (Mathews, 1998; Oakes et al., 2000; Schmidt et al., 2015; Solorzano & Ornealas, 2004; Tyson, 2013).

Maxey says that students were being tested nine times a year in each of three subjects — reading, language arts, and math — in addition to three other forms of assessment for benchmark testing.

Targeted academic initiatives are relatively easy to assess: if you are putting in a new reading program, you can assess its success by looking at test scores (from state tests, district benchmarks, or other internal assessments) and comparing results before and after the program was put in place.

The plan dictates that my homeroom students will be assigned to groups based on benchmark testing data and will then be sent out of my homeroom to other teachers for math instruction for the next three months.

Other states are using ELP progress benchmarks from their current ELP assessments to set provisional school targets that they plan to revise in future years (after collecting data from the new tests).

With the exception of the Multisensory Learning Academy in the Reynolds School District, state test data from the four other Portland - area charter schools with benchmark data available for spring showed mixed performance.

School board vice president Nick Melvoin requested the change at Tuesday's board meeting because he said the added requirements, known as benchmarks, were being applied unfairly to some schools that were showing improvements while others that had lower test scores had none.

While these metrics — rankings, benchmark test scores, and other performance measures — are intended to help practitioners and the public have a more transparent understanding of expected performance outcomes, Colyvas argues that they do not always work in that way.

Long established as the benchmark by which others are judged, it stands the test of time by being unique in that it's occasionally the best at one criteria, yet as often very good at almost all of them.

You might love watching automakers chase each other's best times around Germany's Nürburgring, or you might think that running production cars around the roughly 13 - mile circuit is nothing but an irrelevant battle for bragging rights, but there's no denying that the «Ring is an international performance - testing benchmark.

Like other hybrids with only 2 GB of memory, it's fine for productivity apps but unsuited for demanding multimedia creation (it was able to start Adobe Photoshop CS6 but unable to apply all the filters and effects in our benchmark test, for example).

While Amazon says the tablet is faster because of the larger memory onboard, our benchmark tests didn't bear that out, at least relative to a bunch of other tablets we compared the 2016 Fire HD 8 with.

We performed a PCMark 7 benchmark test and it got a 1427, which is quite low compared to some other Windows 8 machines.

In short, benchmark results were all over the place, with the MeMO Pad 7 netting high marks in a handful of tests, while it was unable to even complete many others.

The ZTE Optik performance is just below adequate, however, and this tablet ranked worse than most others from 2011 in the TPCR benchmark tests.

Other than that, there is little information on the forthcoming fondleslab, but if the speed test is to be believed, Sony's slate will pack quite a punch, tabling a Nenamark benchmark score of 59.70.

Our Softweg benchmark test suite, which applies scores to CPU, Memory, Graphics, and File System performance, ranked the Thrive higher than the Xoom and most other Honeycomb tablets for Graphics, and about the same for all other tests.

This may not sound like much, but given the architecture of the chip, it will do very well in benchmark tests compared to other high - end tablet processors.

And while the 2 GB of memory limits which benchmark tests run (particularly Photoshop CS6), the system is measurably faster than others running older - generation Atom processors like the Acer W3 and Dell Latitude 10.

For our objective benchmark tests, we compared the Encore 2 with two other 10 - inch Windows tablets, the Acer Aspire Switch 10 (1.33 - GHz Intel Atom Z3745 processor with 2 GB of RAM) and the ASUS Transformer Book T100 (1.3 - GHz Intel Atom Z3740 processor with 2 GB of RAM).

According to CNET UK, which had the chance to run a JavaScript SunSpider benchmark test on the iPad 2 during a brief demo at San Francisco, the iPad 2 will outperform the competition and even other Apple's devices when it comes to web browsing experience and overall snappiness of the browser application.

Asus» tablet turned in a score that surpassed other 8 - inchers in our graphics test, earning 18,520 on the Ice Storm Unlimited benchmark, which measures graphics performance.

In fact, the tablet scored very well against other tablets on the benchmark tests, but its specs were top - of - the - line in 2011.

You are assured that lenders have undergone the necessary testing, background checks and other validity benchmarks to ensure that you're safeguarded from unsavory lending practices

In - built benchmarking tools were used for Rise of the Tomb Raider, The Division and F1 2016, but the others were tested purely in game.

Anyway, the GPD Win 2 scored lower than most other Intel Core - based computers I've tested in tests like PCMark and the Street Fighter IV benchmark.

Interestingly, the Win 2 outperformed the Eve V tablet with a more powerful Core i7 - 7Y75 processor in most gaming benchmarks, including several other 3DMark tests and the Street Fighter IV test.