Sentences with phrase «performance testing analysis»

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After all of that performance analysis let's run a Kolmogorov - Smirnov test to see if the two strategies have different return distributions.

It requires robust testing and analysis to simulate the whole supply chain — storage, handling and distribution - to determine the stresses a packaged good will be exposed to and what performance characteristics are required of the packaging.

The insights from the testing and analysis were used to create the SofruPak and SofruBox designs which provided the best logistic performance by reducing the storage space by 70 %.

Performance Analysis: Performance Testing, Benchmarking and Analysing Data with a Power Meter

In one hopeful finding, a 2012 meta - analysis found that in 13 studies in which participants had laid off weed for 25 days or more, their performance on cognitive tests did not differ significantly from that of nonusers.

In order for this experimental line to move towards commercialisation the next steps involve flavour and nutritional analysis and performance testing under true protected and field commercial growing conditions.

The Genetic Edge, owned by Equine Analysis Systems (EAS), adds genetic testing to a series of other performance measures including motion analysis, metabolic profile testing, breathing tests and heart Analysis Systems (EAS), adds genetic testing to a series of other performance measures including motion analysis, metabolic profile testing, breathing tests and heart analysis, metabolic profile testing, breathing tests and heart testing.

NREL will use its performance - testing, analysis, and safety, codes and standards expertise to study renewable hydrogen generation and infrastructure systems and components.

«Assisted reproduction not associated with reduced academic performance in adolescence: US Nationwide analysis of more than 8,000 ART children finds no difference in educational test scores.»

The performance of each classifier set of metabolites was then tested by area under the receiver operator characteristic (AUROC) curve analysis.

Also, given my earlier analysis of arousal phenotypes of DopR mutants, we have tested their performance in the visual arena, and these mutant animals are indeed compromised in their ability to perform visual tasks.

On February 17, 2015, NuScale Power announced an agreement with AREVA for the performance of fuel design, testing and analysis services in support of NuScale's Design Certification Application using AREVA's proven HTPTM fuel technology.

Their analysis showed that the subjects» performance in the endurance tests determined their mortality risk in the coming years, not their weight.

As noted above, one of the benefits of the analysis presented here is that it relies on student performance on NAEP, which should be relatively immune from such test - score «inflation» since it is not used as a high - stakes test under NCLB or any other accountability system.

Gary Phillips at the American Institutes for Research has also conducted a series of analyses comparing state achievement on NAEP to international performance on a different international test, the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).

We exclude from the analysis schools, mostly in rural areas, with addresses we were unable to map and schools with missing test performance measures for any year during our study period, which spans 1996 — 97 to 1999 — 2000.

But if the East Asian countries are excluded from the analysis, a strong - albeit slightly smaller - relationship is still observed between test performance and economic growth.

The typology includes logical problems, algorithmic problems, story problems (which have underlying algorithms with a story wrapper that amounts to an algorithmic problem), rule - using problems, decision - making problems (e.g., cost - benefit analysis), troubleshooting (systematically diagnosing a fault and eliminating a problem space), diagnosis - solution problems (characteristic of medical school and involving small groups understanding the problem, researching different possible causes, generating hypotheses, performing diagnostic tests, and monitoring a treatment to restore a goal state), strategic performance, case analysis (characteristic of law or business school and involving adapting tactics to support an overall strategy and reflecting on authentic situations), design problems, and dilemmas (such as global warming, which are complex and involve competing values and which may have no obvious solutions).

The brief progress report on student performance in those subjects, released last week by the U.S. Department of Education, is the latest study of scores in the long - term trends analysis that uses National Assessment of Educational Progress tests.

As of 2013, New York's tests were the toughest in the country, according to a new analysis by Paul Peterson and Matthew Ackerman in Education Next, matching — if not exceeding — the performance standards of the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Yet Raymond and Hanushek's review looked only at the results from our analysis of NAEP, ignoring the effects that high - school graduation exams have had on college - admissions tests like the SAT and on participation and performance in Advanced Placement courses.

We began our analysis by comparing the vote shares of incumbent school board members who ran and faced an opponent with the test - score performance of the schools and districts they represented.

The typology includes: logical problems, algorithmic problems, story problems (which are algorithmic problems with a story wrapper), «rule - using» problems, decision - making problems (e.g., cost - benefit analysis), troubleshooting (systematically diagnosing a fault, eliminating a problem space), «diagnosis - solution» problems (characteristic of medical school, which involve small groups understanding the problem, researching different possible causes, generating hypotheses, performing diagnostic tests, and monitoring a treatment to restore a goal state), strategic - performance, case analysis (characteristic of law or business school, which involve adapting tactics to support an overall strategy and reflecting on authentic situations), design problems, and dilemmas (such as global warming, which are complex and involve competing values, and which may have no solutions).

The council's Beating the Odds VI report, a city - by - city analysis of student performance, recently revealed that urban students» scores on state assessments in reading and math as well as on the more rigorous federal test — the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)-- are rising, with urban students making the most gains in mathematics.

Metacognitive Strategies and Test Performance: An Experience Sampling Analysis of Students» Learning Behavior, Education Research International, Volume 2012.

It shows a clear positive association between the variation in country - average test scores and the variation in teacher performance pay that can not be attributed to the other factors included in the analysis.

The results of this analysis show that, after only one year's time, attending a private - school improved student performance on standardized tests in math and reading by between 5.4 and 7.7 percentile points.

This meta - analysis of social and emotional learning interventions (including 213 school - based SEL programs and 270,000 students from rural, suburban and urban areas) showed that social and emotional learning interventions had the following effects on students ages 5 - 18: decreased emotional distress such as anxiety and depression, improved social and emotional skills (e.g., self - awareness, self - management, etc.), improved attitudes about self, others, and school (including higher academic motivation, stronger bonding with school and teachers, and more positive attitudes about school), improvement in prosocial school and classroom behavior (e.g., following classroom rules), decreased classroom misbehavior and aggression, and improved academic performance (e.g. standardized achievement test scores).

When we performed the analysis again, this time also including the average test - score performance of a country in our model, we found that countries with higher test scores experienced far higher growth rates.

The latest study focuses on six Boston schools that, in an earlier analysis, were found to produce large improvements in students» performance in the statewide standardized test, the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System.

The Times analysis relied on a statistical approach known as «value - added,» which estimates the effectiveness of teachers by crediting them for the gains students make over their performance in previous years on standardized tests in math and English.

Using the NLSLSASD's standardized testing results by subgroup, the analysis illuminates the potential role of school isolation in student test score performance.1

The results of my analysis suggest that high - stakes testing substantially increases math and reading performance, with gains on the order of 0.20 to 0.30 standard deviations.

These analyses examine how the sizes of the overall effects reported above vary based on the density of nearby charter schools, the quality of the charter school (based on test - score performance and charter operator), and a range of student characteristics.

My CEPR colleagues and I have used data from the 2014 - 15 field test to perform preliminary analyses of the reliability of students» survey responses and their validity, when aggregated to the school level, as an indicator of school performance.

Psychometric analyses supporting instructional improvement and effectiveness by establishing reliability, validity, and forecasts of statewide test performance, evaluating growth (Categorical Growth Analysis) and measuring progress by placing test scores on a common scale.

For our national analysis of educational performance, we rely on testing only a small sample of students.

state - of - the - art statistical analyses and ongoing research including Item Response Theory analyses placing scores on common scale to accurately measure growth, forecast state test performance, and provide categorical growth analysis

Reports - Assessments Dashboards (Teaching, School Performance), Multi-level Reporting (Student, Group, Class, School, District), Custom Filters, Instructional Recommendations (with links to resources), Test Scores, Standards Mastery (Intervention Alert and Development Profile), Test Sets (Multi-Test, Benchmark, Formative, Student Assessment History), Test Monitoring, Test Properties (Test Blueprints, Item Analysis, Item Parameters), Progress Monitoring (Categorical Growth, Student Growth and Achievement), Custom Test Reports, External Tests

However, as pointed out by several other witnesses, since the key performance measure used by these entities is student performance on the STAAR test, which many consider a flawed measure, the resulting productivity / efficiency analysis would be flawed as well.

Accordingly, we have conducted an analysis of New York City charter school state test scores that will allow the public to better understand the performance of individual schools and the sector overall.

Westinghouse's performance was not captured in the new federal analysis; none of the SIG schools in Pennsylvania are part of the study because the state high school exams changed in 2013, making it impossible to compare test scores over time.

Review needs analysis and evaluation data provided and conduct needs analysis and evaluation Develop robust project plans that account for work performance, critical deadlines, pre-deployment testing, and necessary resources.

The effort to analyze the performance of its university schools of education in recruiting and training teachers — using value - added analysis of student test score data — is one of the most - pathbreaking in the nation.

The AFT and the state education department have only agreed that classroom observations — which, even under the best of circumstances, are far less reliable in measuring student performance than either value - added analysis of student test score performance or even surveys of students — should be the «majority» element in the new evaluation system.

The district released its own analysis last week of this year's state standardized test scores, showing that for the third year in a row, student performance at magnets topped those at charters, all LA Unified schools, and the state average.

Text complexity analysis tools, content and performance complexity analyses for items and more in - depth performance tasks, and prioritization and test emphasis considerations will be explored.

Dr. Gandhi has recently served as the data director for the Special Education Component of the Audit of the Written, Taught, and Tested Curriculum for New York State, in which she oversaw the collection and analysis of data in districts that were under corrective action with the state due to failure to make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) due to the performance of students with disabilities.

Arum used statistical analysis to study the relationships between the size of the private school sector in a given state and the scope of public school resources measured as student / teacher ratio, and the relationship between student / teacher ratio in a given state and student outcomes as measured by performance on standardized tests.