Sentences with phrase «pilot tests based»

EdSource reports that California received a waiver from the U.S. Dept. of Education from «administering outdated science tests, instead allowing it to give students pilot tests based on new science standards.»

California officials reject federal government's push to administer old science tests California education officials have decided that students will take only one statewide standardized test in science this spring, a pilot test based on new standards known as the Next Generation Science Standards.

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The Brooklyn - based online craft marketplace is testing out a pilot program that allows makers to raise money for production costs.

But the tests that I've found most fruitful are the qualitative ones, where we run a pilot based on a hypothesis about what people want.

A pilot allows you to test the effectiveness of your survey invitation, determine if there is a particular point in the survey where people drop out, and see if you'll be able to take action based on the results, Ambler says.

To develop health - endorsement logos (HEL) for food products indicating healthy choices based on the South African nutrient profile model and to pilot test these logos with consumers.

The summit will also mark the launch of pilot programs in six communities around the country — each coordinated by a university - based athletic training educator, clinician and researcher — designed to test MomsTEAM's innovative SmartTeam ™ program.

Based on the published results, Legacy is now being pilot tested in a variety of community settings, such as the Administration for Children and Families» Early Head Start, Health Resources and Services Administration's Healthy Start, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration's Project LAUNCH, the American Academy of Pediatrics» pediatric primary care, and Tulsa Educare.

Basically, a new committee of teacher volunteers from across the state would review all exam questions after the items had been tried out on a pilot basis in «field tests» conducted among sample groups of students statewide.

«We are proud of our industry leading capabilities such as our unparalleled State investments, cutting - edge research in both UAS technology and UAS policy, and our proven New York test site team all of which are the basis of our comprehensive UAS integration pilot - program proposal,» Major General Marke F. (Hoot) Gibson (ret), CEO of the NUAIR Alliance, contended in the release.

The program, created in in collaboration with the Colorado - based BSCS group, has been pilot - tested and is due for release next year.

I was working at Edwards [Air Force Base in California] when [test pilot] Mike Adams was killed flying the X-15 there.

Edwards test pilots were the first to fly high enough to see the curvature of Earth, and NASA used the base's runways for 57 of the 135 space shuttle landings.

And based on the timeline for building SLS and Orion, a 2021 Mars mission would be the first crewed flight for both vehicles, which would mean skipping a piloted test flight closer to home.

The paper test currently being piloted is a more user - friendly version than the one in this publication, Dr. Buhimschi said, but it is based on the study's results regarding the ability of Congo Red dye to bind with the misfolded proteins in women's urine.

He adds that only few projects have been implemented and highlights the ones based on nitrogen injection to maintain pressure in the Cantarell and Ku - Maloob - Zaap complexes and the use of steam at Samaria Neogene to lower the viscosity of extra-heavy oil which allows it to flow with more ease, plus some pilot tests with chemicals and gas fields.

The technology has been successfully tested in a pilot plant on different printed forms of polyethylene, polypropylene, polyester and polyamide, and has been proved effective for both solvent - based inks and water - based inks.

American Aerospace Technologies Inc., a Pennsylvania - based company that creates Unmanned Aircraft Systems for industry use, provided and piloted the test aircraft — an RS - 16 UAS, which can be equipped with a special sensor package to identify threats to pipeline integrity.

Specific Aim 2: Pilot test the revised OST CHOICES curriculum with female AI adolescents at - risk for AEP, including utilizing technology - based follow - up data collection methods.

Australia - based Regal Resources has secured commitments to raise A$ 5.2 million (US$ 3.7 million) via a placement of 148.2 million new shares at 3.5 cents to fund the pilot test of a novel Underground Coal to Liquids (UCTL) process near Melbourne.

Researchers based at Zhejiang University have initiated a pilot study with the aim of creating an efficient, painless, and accurate test for clinicians to determine the necessity of antibiotic treatment for a patient.

Based on the results of a pilot test, the state education department had predicted that 8 percent to 10 percent would fail the Indiana Statewide Test for Educational Progress, which is given in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 8th, 9th, and 11th gratest, the state education department had predicted that 8 percent to 10 percent would fail the Indiana Statewide Test for Educational Progress, which is given in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 8th, 9th, and 11th graTest for Educational Progress, which is given in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 8th, 9th, and 11th grades.

It is based on the beliefs that: • Evidence is most powerful when generated locally • To be useful, evidence must be generated quickly and cheaply • Piloting and testing should be a natural part of the way that school agencies make decisions.

LAUSD has been negotiating with UTLA to try to put in place a pilot program with three percent of district teachers, who would be evaluated in part on student performance on the state's standards - based tests.

Purpose: To support the transition from incubation to scalability of two, pilot - tested interventions; the development and testing of three, newly - sourced innovations; and the development of a business plan for the Center on the Developing Child — all in the service of building a system for science - based R&D that achieves breakthrough outcomes at scale for young children facing adversity.

We had 25 high schools participate in the pilot administration of the OECD Test for Schools (based on PISA).

The program will be based on the «Great Beginnings» model that has proven effective in Fairfax County, Virginia, and the Educational Testing Service's «Pathwise» professional development program, which was piloted in Newport News, Virginia.

Establishes a pilot program in up to seven states (or consortia of states) that allows for the complete revamping of their assessment system, meaning that it's possible that summative state tests as we know them will be eliminated, replaced by competency - based assessments, performance - based assessments, interim assessments, or something else entirely

Our lottery - based analysis of pilot effects looks at elementary - grade outcomes as well as test scores from middle and high school.

Two groups of university - based researchers, working independently, have developed models for giving schools financial incentives to improve students» test scores, and one of the schemes will be pilot - tested in Tennessee beginning this year.

Option 3: Using the ESSA pilot provision, create a state - wide sequence and sequence - based reading tests

They also have the opportunity to innovate: Through a new pilot program that will allow seven states to develop radically new approaches to assessments, states can experiment with performance - based and instructionally embedded tests and use technology to advance testing.

Initial pilot studies tested out these assumptions and determined that these types of mediated interventions can be successful in motivating students to read and complete books and increase personal understanding of the relevance of reading and writing in the lives of those who otherwise demonstrate an aversion to text - based media.

This spring, about 600 schools across the state will pilot parts of a new end - of - year exam developed by the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), a group of states working together to develop new computer - based assessments aligned to the new standards that they hope will test deeper understanding of concepts.

Successful tech pilots enhance learning, build excitement around new initiatives, and subject classroom technology to rigorous, data - based testing.

Organisers of the new computer - based PISA tests the UK is to pilot for five - year - olds have hotly denied claims they will heap pressure on pupils and burden schools.

In addition, more than 20 states have begun pilot programs using a new performance test for incoming teachers — the test was developed by the New Jersey - based publisher and test developer, Pearson Inc..

According to TEA, the TELPAS Alternate pilot test is based on alternate Proficiency Level Descriptors (PLDs) that were developed by Texas educators to appropriately determine the progress of English proficiency for students with significant cognitive disabilities.

The law encourages local districts to submit teacher pay proposals for the pilot that could look like one of two distinct models: either pitch a plan that would reward teachers on the basis of how well their students do on tests, or present an idea for paying teachers who work in hard to staff subject areas or rural / high poverty schools and / or taking on additional leadership roles to improve student success.

In the pilot, state test score gains in a particular class were analyzed and scored relative to the student's predicted growth based on past scores, and relative to the average gains seen across the district and within different groups of the student population.

The pilot program calls for teacher evaluations to be based half on classroom observations and half on how much progress students show in learning, including how they perform on standardized tests.

Some local innovators and national advocates argue that they do, especially in states that have required high school exit exams as part of their accountability systems.44 For example, according to one consortium of high schools participating in the Competency - Based Education Pilot for Ohio — a state that has required passage of state tests or threshold scores on other exams to graduate — «testing windows that are currently required for state - mandated assessments do not adequately reflect the needs of the students within a STEM school and / or CBE [competency - based education] environment.&rBased Education Pilot for Ohio — a state that has required passage of state tests or threshold scores on other exams to graduate — «testing windows that are currently required for state - mandated assessments do not adequately reflect the needs of the students within a STEM school and / or CBE [competency - based education] environment.&rbased education] environment.»

The eight pilot districts limit SBAC testing to just three grade levels, while the other grades experience district - developed competency - based performance tasks that ask students to explain, apply, and model their understanding of interdisciplinary real world problems.

-- One more thought on ESSA: The law will allow seven states to participate in a new pilot program where they can experiment with more innovative ways of testing and performance - based systems rather than run - of - the - mill state standardized tests for accountability purposes.

We propose that those of us who teach untested subjects pilot a mix of assessment - based rubrics and portfolios, which could later be adopted by teachers of tested subjects as well.

The pilot test will be based in Colorado and, possibly, Minnesota.

The study involves a 2 - year pilot test of assessing the technology, systems, and driver opinions on a method to collect highway user fees based upon actual mileage driven.

The pilot tests are designed to provide information that can be used to evaluate an approach to assess highway user fees based upon actual mileage driven in multiple jurisdictions.

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