Sentences with phrase «over use of testing»

In order to grapple with what seems to be an over use of testing, educators should frame their view of testing as assessment and that assessment is information.

On the «managing by results» side, there has been the big battle over the use of test data for accountability purposes (CompStat for schools), culminating in the fight over value - added measurement of teacher performance.

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Current rules do not let people fly drones beyond the line of sight of human operators and over people's heads in public places, which limits companies like Amazon (amzn) and Google (goog) from using drones to deliver goods, among other business uses, beyond testing.

In development: a version of the test that can be administered over the Internet using a standard webcam.

U.S. safety regulators have demanded that it hand over detailed information about the design, operation and testing of its Autopilot technology following a May 7 fatal crash in which the system was in use.

Instead, he said he believed that because of its tumultuous political climate, «Ukraine was targeted by bad actors who are using it as a cyberweapon testing ground over the past couple of years.»

Quote: «The forbearing use of power does not only form a touchstone, but the manner in which an individual enjoys certain advantages over others is a test of a true gentleman.»

However, Rainforest QA has now released their mobile app testing platform («Quality Assurance as a Service»), along with an ebook about scaling mobile testing itself, using their crop of over 50,000 crowdsourced testers to zero in on specific issues (and they get into this in detail in a recent eBook).

The 2,700 - word story, reported over the course of five months, alleged that Theranos has struggled with and neglected to use its proprietary blood test technology, which purports to perform a wide range of tests with the mere prick of a fingertip.

Making use of the high frequency changes in productivity growth over one - to five - year periods, we run a series of regressions to test this link more rigorously.

The company jumped to support him and over the coming days worked with him to apply the technology to his passion while also using it as a true test of their system's accuracy and advantage over competitors.

Since his last re-election, Clarke has openly supported Republican causes on local and national right - wing media outlets; proudly trumpets on official Milwaukee County letterhead his 2013 award from the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, whose leader suggested using women and children as human shields during Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's standoff with federal agents; accused Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele of having «penis envy» and being on heroin when crafting the county budget and needing to be drug tested; blasted Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm and Chief Judge Jeffrey Kremers for being «soft on crime»; provided minimal protection for President Obama during his 2012 visit; employs former Scott Walker spokeswoman Fran McLaughlin, who was given criminal immunity over her role in Walker's mixing of campaign and county business; and created pro-gun public service announcements.

Using the community, the Catalyst team was able to test the end - to - end migration experience of existing customer email services over to a new Telstra Mail platform.

To test robustness of findings, they: (1) account for one - way trading frictions ranging from 0.02 % to 0.05 % across assets; (2) consider five subperiods to test consistency over time; and, (3) perform out - of - sample tests using the first part of each subperiod to select the best rules and roughly the last year to measure performance of these rules out - of - sample.

Two verses — «They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly things, it shall not hurt them» (Mark 16:18) and «Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you» (Luke 10:19)-- are used by the snake - cult Christians in Appalachia as support for snake - handling and the drinking of poison as tests of Christian faith.

A former US deputy secretary of state has also warned against using «hot rhetoric» as international tensions over North Korea's missile testing continued to escalate.

Other than that, the biscotti book is being tested and for your recipe chatting pleasure, there's now a Jewish Holiday Baking Facebook page you can visit over at My Famous Matzoh Caramel Buttercrunch FREE Over 20,000 people have downloaded this recipe since 2004 although I first published this «Trademark» dessert creation of mine in 1986 and invented it in 1985 - and not to mention the people who use the recipe from my first cookbook, A Treasury of Jewish Holiday Baking (Whitecap Books, new edition, 20over at My Famous Matzoh Caramel Buttercrunch FREE Over 20,000 people have downloaded this recipe since 2004 although I first published this «Trademark» dessert creation of mine in 1986 and invented it in 1985 - and not to mention the people who use the recipe from my first cookbook, A Treasury of Jewish Holiday Baking (Whitecap Books, new edition, 20Over 20,000 people have downloaded this recipe since 2004 although I first published this «Trademark» dessert creation of mine in 1986 and invented it in 1985 - and not to mention the people who use the recipe from my first cookbook, A Treasury of Jewish Holiday Baking (Whitecap Books, new edition, 2009).

* I would not suggest keeping this over 1 week or in your pantry since it has no preservatives (a good thing) but if you just want a single serving you could easily use 1 tablespoon peanut powder and 1 dried frig with 2 teaspoons of water to test this recipe out for a one - serving deal.

Using tongs, place the chops over the hottest part of the grill, turning once, until browned and crisp on the exterior and medium - rare at the center when tested with a knife, about 7 - 10 minutes total.

WELL i am till trying, ordered in a good stand mixer, use the paddle beater use 9 × 5 pan got a new oven thermometer to make sure oven calibrated right, thermometer to test doneness of bread proofed the dough no more then 20 minutes left bread in oven turned off for awhileafter testing over 200 before getting out bread still didnot raise as high as yours did but it was above pan tested water heat for yeast etc and bread still fell, i have tried this several times and am abt at my rids end what i could be doing wrong

I have three piles — ones that I like and bought on the spur of the momemt (aka the hubs has permission to throw away when he goes on his binge cleaning sphere); ones that I LOVE and browse for recipe and photography inspiration every now and then (Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Sprinkle Bakes, Surprise Inside Cakes to name a few) and finally ones that I use over and over again and can not be caught without them EVER (Baking Chez Moi, BHG Bridal Cookbook, Test Kitchen and now Grandbaby Cakes — Modern Recipes, Vintage Charm, Soulful Memories.)

Over the past year Jackson Family Wines have been testing a prototype of the BlueMorph, a cutting edge technology especially designed to use ultraviolet light for tank sanitation, reducing or eliminating the use of water, power, and chemicals.

I did a lot of testing over the summer using archived material and noticed no reliability or quality issues, but given it's the offseason the demands on the system are at their lowest and the issues people complain about are unlikely to show up.

Renault has shown good pace and reliability over the course of the first test, though there are rumours that the car the team is running now is nothing like the one it'll use by the time the season starts.

Though the club lost outfielder Melky Cabrera, one of its top hitters, to a 50 - game suspension on Aug. 15 after he flunked a drug test for using synthetic testosterone (his ban will end after San Francisco's fifth postseason game, but the club said last week he is not welcome to return), the offense improved over the past two months.

After years of development, filming, testing and interviews, we were able to present Baby Carrier Original, which is now used all over the world.

Individual growth curve models were developed for multilevel analysis and specifically designed for exploring longitudinal data on individual changes over time.23 Using this approach, we applied the MIXED procedure in SAS (SAS Institute) to account for the random effects of repeated measurements.24 To specify the correct model for our individual growth curves, we compared a series of MIXED models by evaluating the difference in deviance between nested models.23 Both fixed quadratic and cubic MIXED models fit our data well, but we selected the fixed quadratic MIXED model because the addition of a cubic time term was not statistically significant based on a log - likelihood ratio test.

I have been using it for over 8 weeks now, long enough of a trial run to really put this stuff to the test.

I used to teach high school biology, but now I'm a private science tutor because I hated how much the administration focused on test scores and test - taking skills over fostering love of science and learning.

Over the two weeks I washed my diapers a total of 4 times and for each load of washing with this unit I used an ammonia test kit to test for levels of ammonia in my diapers before and after using Laundry Pure.

The fact that there has never been any test that showed BPA leaching from SIGG bottles means that those of us who have used them extensively, even with our children — I was an «early adopter» of metal bottles and favoured SIGGs over other brands almost exclusively — don't have to panic that we've had dangerous exposures.

Finally, we perform a set of industry standard safety tests, along with our own proprietary tests for braking and stability, to weed out any models that might topple over or fail to stop during use.

It's just a tiny and recent example of how plenty of people all over the world — citizens, bureaucrats and politicians alike — are using tested and ready technologies to open up government to its citizens and to change the political process.

«Having worked on DNA - related legislation for over 25 years, I see the use of «familial» DNA testing as the next significant step in assisting our law enforcement officials in solving these sickening crimes and getting these violent criminals off our streets,» Boyle said.

Over the past five years, Duncan has used a combination of financial incentives and regulatory waivers to push the use of teacher performance ratings based partly on student test scores.

Belluck has used his own Twitter handle in recent days to dog the State Education Department over the results of third - through eighth - grade English and math test scores that showed charter school students performing slightly better than their public school counterparts.

Those stats look like this: Three different fundraising messages were sent as part of the welcome series over this six month test — the average size of the send was 63,889 records, and that's what we're using as our control.

This product has undergone over 12 years of testing, which led to the EU permitting the use of the product.

New York is going back to the drawing board to rethink the way it evaluates school teachers and principals after controversy over the use of student test scores in job evaluations helped fuel a massive boycott of state exams in recent years.

Marginal polls used to only come along occasionally, varied a lot, polled different groups of seats, and didn't often happen right before elections so weren't tested against reality, meaning methods weren't finessed and improved over time in the same way national polls are.

In the speech, delivered inside The Mall at Bay Plaza in Baychester, Diaz described the number of Latino and black students admitted to the city's prestigious Stuyvesant High School over the past few years as unacceptably low and called for the creation of new high schools in each borough that would use a portfolio of the students» grades and schoolwork rather than a specialized test to determine who gets in.

The aforementioned suit over a candidate's use of LLC money was settled out of court, so there hasn't yet been a clear test of what might be called the Sugarman Doctrine, which assumes underutilized power in the sections of election law prohibiting attempts to circumvent contribution limits and obfuscate the true source of campaign money.

The Common Core has been one of the educational and political struggles of the year, with the fights over its standards and the tests used to study how well students are doing with its material.

Topics ranged from the use of standardized testing and school co-location, to school closures and the recent gridlock between Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the UFT over teacher evaluations.

But unions and the State Education Department have battled over how districts should handle teacher evaluations in the absence of test scores, with the union saying scores should be thrown out entirely and the state saying a backup measure should be used.

Recent hearing tests on teens show an increase in hearing loss over the last generation, possibly as a result of increased earbud use

It has used broad gene patents to operate a monopoly over testing for the two BRCA genes, which when mutated can cause inherited forms of breast cancer.

Tests using advanced technology could resolve a longstanding puzzle over what is driving the accelerated expansion of the Universe.

A nuclear clock could be used to test whether the strength of the fundamental forces of nature changes over time.

Still used today by some companies, the test involves applying a small amount of the substance under study to an animal's eye or skin for several hours, and then observing whether or not irritation occurs over the following week or two.