Sentences with phrase «other major testing»

This had far - reaching implications, since ETS runs several other major testing programs, including the oracle of college admissions, the SAT.

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Here we've compiled a list of seven fascinating individuals whose careers will be worth watching in 2014 — some are new at their job, while others have major tasks on the horizon that will test them in significant ways.

Ideally, we would now like to see the small - cap index hold the breakout and close the gap with the other major indices before pulling back to test its new - found support.

One of the major advantages, though, is that you can use the Google Website Optimizer with existing web page URLs (e.g. yourdomain.com); some other split testing applications require you to use a custom URL (e.g. yourdomain.com/tracking.php) which makes it very difficult to split test non-paid website traffic, such as SEO traffic, referral traffic or direct traffic.

We don't know why Trump decided to fire Flynn (the stated reason that he «lied to Mike Pence» doesn't pass the laugh test), whether he was told of the domestic abuse allegations against then - White House staff secretary Rob Porter, what's on the Apprentice outtake footage that producer Mark Burnett is keeping locked up, why exactly Trump handed some choice Israeli intelligence to the Russian foreign minister, who financed the hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, or any of a dozen other major questions about Trump.

From the San Fran Chronicle: Wells Fargo & Co., Bank of America Corp. and other major financial companies that came up short in government stress tests took quick steps Thursday to shore up capital and confidence, most notably announcing plans to raise billions of dollars through common stock offerings.

The major difference between McClung and most other retirement researchers is that McClung has subjected these formulas to more tests than a talking ape.

«We drove in the rain and other kinds of weather, and we've added lane - changing capabilities since we started in September,» Mr. Levandowski said in an interview, adding that Uber has faced no major issues in its testing in Pennsylvania thus far.

Low Inflation Tests World's Central Banks Inflation is slowing across the developed world despite ultralow interest rates and unprecedented money - printing campaigns, posing a dilemma for the Fed and other major central banks as they plot their next policy moves.

By drawing on these two sources of data, the researchers were able to produce an analysis that is better than that of the two other major quantitative researchers in the field, George Barna and George Gallup; it is the standard against which other research on teens should be tested.

and Extra Grainy have been launched in test markets over the past year or so, and both will be available nationally by the end of April, available at Wal - Mart, Target, Kroger and other major chains.

The Eco Alkalines battery was developed in Canada and when its lifespan was independently tested against other well - known brands it came up equal to, if not better than, its major alkaline competitors.

Chinese tinned peaches served in hospitals and other institutions in Australia could contain up to twice the allowable levels of lead, according to test results released by a Coalition backbencher, Sharman Stone, as she fights to save Australia's last fruit major processor, SPC Ardmona.

the true test of the scouting ability of the service, rather than a regurgitation of who the best programs in the country are looking at, is to find a kid who is pretty highly ranked but does not have other obvious signals such as major programs recruiting him or elite camp type invites.

This is a test of 1990s - style politics (when Cuomo came of age), where politicians try to play everyone against each other and capture the support of major outside interests, against today's politics, where winners are chosen based on how well and directly they can connect with voters.

In reaction, the former army major said «when we go for operations in Congo, Liberia and other places, Ghanaian army drivers drive our own vehicles because what time do they have to test the drivers who have been trained here in Ghana».

At 2 p.m., environmental justice advocates, community groups, and city officials will meet to stage an emergency drill to test and evaluate community preparedness for future hurricanes and other major climate disasters, THE POINT Community Development Corp., 940 Garrison Ave., the Bronx.

Questions during the Q&A portion of the press conference included his plans during his scheduled visit to Albany on March 4th, why he expects to convince legislators who he has not convinced, whether he's concerned that the middle school program will be pushed aside if there is a pre-K funding mechanism other than his proposed tax, where the money to fund the middle school program will come from, how he counters the argument that his tax proposal is unfair to cities that do not have a high earner tax base, how he will measure the success of the program absent additional standardized testing, whether he expects to meet with Governor Cuomo or Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos during his March 4th trip, what he would say to a parent whose child planned on attending one of the charter schools that his administration refused to allow, whether he doubts Governor Cuomo's commitment or ability to deliver on the funding the governor has promised, what are the major hurdles in trying to convince the state senate to approve his tax proposal, whether there's an absolute deadline for getting his tax proposal approved, whether he can promise parents pre-K spots should Governor Cuomo's proposal gointo effect, and why he has not met with Congressman Michael Grimm since taking office.

Now a major literature review concludes that, in the majority of tests, women are better at face recognition than men, irrespective of all other factors.

«Not only could the test have a major impact on treatment of prostate cancer, but it could also be adapted to open up the possibility of precision medicine to patients with other types of cancer as well.»

In the Department of Homeland Security's BioWatch program, mailbox - size machines gather air in major urban areas to be tested for DNA of smallpox, anthrax, plague - causing Yersina pestis, and other pathogens on a federal list.

This is not only because tests on laboratory animals can cause much suffering, but also because the relevance of the data they provide for predicting effects in humans or other animals is severely limited by differences among major species.

This will freeze a patent infringement action which Kodak had filed against Sony as a test case before seeking royalties from the other major manufacturers of VCRs and camcorders.

Patients with chest pain have similar rates of heart attacks and other major cardiac events within two years whether they were evaluated with a new type of CT scan or the traditional stress test, according to results presented today by Duke Medicine researchers at a meeting of the American College of Cardiology.

A new breast cancer clinical trial is testing the idea a major reason why breast cancer returns after treatment and spreads to other parts of the body is because current chemotherapy and radiation treatments do not kill the cancer stem cells.

The team concluded that AIG1 and ADTRP, at least in the cell types tested, appear to work mainly to break down FAHFAs and not any other major class of lipid.

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To figure out what's really going on, these tests must be interpreted properly, and they need to be considered in tandem with other major hubs in your hormone network like your adrenal hormones, insulin and your sex hormones.

In addition to avoiding my list of reactive foods, I had also been advised to avoid the other major inflammatory foods such as soy and peanuts, which I also reacted to, corn and dairy even though they didn't show up in the test results, and caffeine.

When I did a stress test recently the cardiologist told me I had inappropriate heart rate recovery although she still considers me low risk because I have super good cholesterol and no other major problems.

After having tested just about every gluten - free flour out there, I can save you a lot of time and hassle when I say that almond flour is far superior to other flours in terms of every major aspect — nutrition, ease - of - use, and taste!

All MELT techniques and protocols were built upon key aspects of these major hands - on therapies and influencers: Neuromuscular Therapy (Chaitow), CranioSacral (Upledger), Manual Muscle Testing (Kendall and McCreary), Lymphatic Drainage (Chikly), Visceral Manipulation (Barral), Anatomy Trains (Meyers), Structural Integration (Rolf), the World Fascia Congress (Vleeming, Pollack, Hedley, Stecco et al.), and others.

The improved scores were impressive enough to lead several states and other major school districts, including New York, to adopt elements of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) policy — making student progress toward the next grade dependent on demonstrated achievement on standardized tests.

Some teachers provided more information than others, but the essentials of the student's productivity and accomplishments that week — including information about homework completion, test and project scores, major upcoming assignments, and classroom behavior — were related with consistent clarity.

Though the decision received wide coverage (per above) and throws New York school districts a curve (they are supposed to have an evaluation policy in place by September 1), it's not clear that the decision will have any major implications for other states that are considering linking teacher evaluations to test scores (except as inducement to make sure their regulations correspond to their laws).

(Two weeks later, the other major college - admissions testing program, the ACT, adopted the same policy.)

These same schools report poor achievement by other major student groups as well, and have a set of characteristics associated generally with poor standardized test performance — such as high student - teacher ratios, high student enrollments and high levels of students living in or near poverty.

Creighton and WestEd used four major improvement strategies: 1) refining the curriculum and aligning staff training and student tests to that curriculum; 2) improving instructional practices, including those for English language learners, who comprise a large share of the district's students; 3) developing and using tests during the school year, other than those used for accountability, to assess what students had learned; and 4) implementing a system of individualized instruction based on student needs.

On most major reading comprehension tests, you'll see a question or two related to figuring out the author's tone along with other reading comprehension skills such as finding the main idea, understanding vocabulary in context, determining the author's purpose and making inferences.

Lily Eskelsen Garcia, president of the National Education Association, and Randi Weingarten, president of the other major teachers» group, the American Federation of Teachers, say they support parents» right to opt their children out of the tests but have not gone as far as Ms. Magee and some local chapters in encouraging parents to do so.

The nation's other major teachers union, the American Federation of Teachers, has also expressed concern about the implementation of Common Core and has called for a three - year moratorium on high - stakes testing.

Since major tax increases are out of the question in many towns, implementing the Common Core Smarter Balanced Testing scheme will come from diverting scarce public money from other instructional activities such as art, music, PE, social studies and academic subjects that are not part of the Common Core tTesting scheme will come from diverting scarce public money from other instructional activities such as art, music, PE, social studies and academic subjects that are not part of the Common Core testingtesting.

What's more, a well - respected test, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) provides a state - by - state picture of our schools that is much more relevant than either PISA or other major international tests, such as the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).

The MET report uses data from six major urban school districts to, among other things, compare two different value - added scores for teachers: one computed from official state tests, and another from a test designed to measure higher - order, conceptual understanding.

On isolating teacher effects: «Inferring teacher competence from test scores requires the isolation of teaching effects from other major influences on student test performance,» while «the task is to support an interpretation of student test performance as reflecting teacher competence by providing evidence against plausible rival hypotheses or interpretation.»

The solution is that the leadership of the two major teacher unions, and all of the others committed to public education, should be retreating from their support of the Common Core and its associated testing scheme.

If the announcement is as impressive as suggested, it would mean that the leadership of Connecticut's teacher unions have finally moved 180 degrees from the position they held on January 25, 2012 when the CEA and AFT joined with the other members of Governor Malloy's Performance Evaluation Advisory Council (PEAC) to approve the so - called «teacher evaluation framework» that inappropriately and unfairly mandates that student's standardized test scores be a major factor in the teacher evaluation process.

One of the major reasons Massachusetts, as well as other states abandoned Common Core was the fact that the tests «were too hard and too long» for students.

In fact, U.S. schoolchildren do better in the other major international comparison, the TIMSS, which is a more traditional test of the academic curriculum.

People have suggested these patterns might be due to: neighborhood / local area / region of family background; other family background characteristics; high school test scores or high school quality; quality of college attended; choices of majors and occupations; choice of neighborhood or area to live in after college.