Sentences with phrase «over traditional tests»

Teachers and administrators need to educate parents about how portfolios work and what advantages they offer over traditional tests.

Not exact matches

Blockchain is also being tested by retailers like Wal - Mart Stores Inc. for ensuring food safety, as industries explore what advantages the technology might hold over traditional databases.

Computerized tests have four significant advantages over traditional pencil and paper neuropsychological tests:

However, he points out that the authors don't actually test whether social factors or more traditional resource limits keep predator numbers stable over time.

Inspired by a New York Times article which features images of kids and their breakfasts from all over the world, the video production company Cut has created a new segment which features American children actually testing out traditional breakfasts from different countries.

And this is a lab service that has a bunch of direct - to - consumer tests that aren't on traditional labs and can be just custom panels that a doctor orders for you, or that you order, and they even offer some of their functional lab testing over in Europe.

Apart from that, tests done in the Michelson Laboratories Inc. and the Korean Food Research Institute revealed that slow juicers are able to extract over 40 % more Vitamin C, and over 60 % more Vitamin A than traditional juicers.

We're drawn to the convenience factor — 58 percent of consumers said they'd likely choose a DIY strep test over a traditional office - visit swab, and 42 percent would prefer to do simple urinalysis testing in their home rather than visit a clinic, according to a report from PricewaterhouseCoopers.

These advantages include greater flexibility at a lower cost than traditional testing, quicker feedback for students, parents, and teachers regarding student performance (typically, test results are not available until months after students have taken standardized tests), and considerable time savings over traditional methods.

Formal testing is a useful form of assessment for both teachers and Ofsted to keep track of pupil progress over the course of the whole year, but on a day - to - day basis, a light - touch approach complements traditional assessment methods to give the staff, and the pupils, what they need to shine.

So over our traditional pre-test breakfast of Reese's Waffles, which has produced stellar test scores in our house for years (recipe below), I dial back the pressure.

You don't really care about treatises on whether families are best being customers of schools, or ideological debates over the value of Common Core, or pablum from school choice activists with jobs to protect about why state tests shouldn't be used to hold accountable private schools taking vouchers for serving kids, or if an Obama Administration plan to address suspensions is somehow a punishment to traditional district schools that have been failing kids for decade after decade.

However, with continued concerns over the unintended (and sometimes detrimental) consequences of expanding standardized testing, policies have reemphasized the importance of more traditional, widely applicable approaches to measuring teacher quality — specifically, the quality of teachers» instruction, assessed through classroom observation.

Here's an idea for you to test your quality: Over a year or so send your book to twenty or so major editors in traditional publishing houses.

Just as studies have shown that value investing holds a slight edge over growth investing over the long haul, fundamental investing has shown an ability to outperform its traditional cap - weighted peers, although that history is not long once you throw out back - testing (results «proven» by looking backward and seeing how the strategy might have performed had it existed years ago).

Arnott has back - tested his methods on historical data and claims that his fundamental indexing approach would have outperformed traditional indexes by more than two percentage points a year over the past few decades.

But now that the vast majority of APBTs are no longer performance - bred to the traditional pit standard (understandably, since the traditional performance test, the pit contest itself, is now a felony), the American axiom of «Bigger is Better» has taken over in the breeding practices of the many neophyte breeders who joined the bandwagon of the dog's popularity in the 1980s.

One of the greatest advantages to using DNA tests over traditional screening methods, like eye exams, x-rays and blood tests, is that you can find out which dogs may be affected before symptoms develop.

But over time, this traditional legal doctrine about causation came to be severely tested.

For those using the handbook and traditional study, just go over the material as much as you can before you are called into the testing room.

The traditional pregnancy test hasn't seen any innovation in over 30 years, with the exception of adding a digital component.

A Collaborative Divorce can save time and money for couples over the cost of a traditional litigated divorce, and can ensure decisions are carefully considered and will stand the test of time.