Sentences with phrase «proposed changes to the tests»

Things have moved on in this respect also and it remains to be seen whether the revised version of the Bill (via Chris Heaton - Harris) which revises the proposed changes to the tests of negligence in such cases goes through and whether the original «Saatchi» Bill is resurrected or falls away.

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The proposed «reasonableness» tests on the labour and financial contributions by adult family members leave too much discretion with the CRA, who will be able to change the tax attributes on these earnings.

He proposes a multi-step process for boat burning that includes testing the proposed tool or model, running a pilot, communicating the change, training people in the revised system and creating a support squad to solve problems along the way.

And, when changes were proposed, faculty hesitated: they refused to implement homework - free weekends because they had material to cover, and they thought a coordinated test and project calendar was just too much to take on.

Tax fairness will only be achieved if every tax change proposed by the government is put through a rigorous fairness test to assess its impacts on inequality.

Greater emphasis is to be placed on learner motorists» ability to drive without direction from the examiner under proposed changes to the driving test which aim to improve road safety.

Does anyone recall that the Governor came in at the last minute of the SED regulation development process on teacher evaluations and asked the Regents for changes in the proposed regulations to include greater emphasis on test scores than the original legislation prescribed?

A spokesman said on Friday that Mr. Silver also opposed making changes to the state's teacher evaluation system that would increase the weight of state tests, and opposed increasing the probationary period for teachers to five years from three, as the chancellor of the State Board of Regents, Merryl H. Tisch, proposed in a recent letter to the governor's office.

If we think a particular process is responsible for the origin of feathers, we could rerun that process, changing the developmental pathway in the bird embryo as a way to test our proposed evolutionary pathway.

One group consisted of 2,578 projects that utilized automated pull requests, which notified project owners of needed upgrades to out - of - date dependencies, proposed potential code changes, and ran a small battery of tests to determine if the replacement code was viable.

The reduced funding levels, if adopted by the Senate, would make it difficult for the agency to properly test proposed changes to the next census that they say could save $ 5 billion.

An insecticide — like chlorpyrifos, which alters how brains develop and leads to measurable changes in behavior and function later in life — will probably not be picked up by the proposed tests.

Produced by diverse universities and institutions across the country and world, the supplement investigates the quality of vital, broadly sold drugs, such as anti-malarials and antibiotics; new tests and assays to detect counterfeit drugs; and proposed policy changes and laws to reduce the distribution and sale of falsified medications.

Under the changes being proposed to the state's A + school accountability program, Florida's annual school - by - school letter grades would be based on longitudinal data — that is, looking at how students» test scores increase or decline as they proceed through school over several years.

DeMaria also proposed several other testing changes to the state school board Monday.

DeMaria has proposed eliminating all tests given just for evaluations - a change which fits his earlier proposal to overhaul the evaluations.

From worries about where the United States ranks on international tests to arguments over the Common Core, the way teachers teach and students learn math continues to be debated widely, leading to proposed changes in the ways mathematics is taught.

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The proposed changes to the current Policy are minimal and amount to little more than a swap of one high - stakes nationally - normed standardized test for another.

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Dr. King helped broker a fragile peace with the state's main teachers» union to begin those changes last year, but continuing disputes, particularly over the state's proposed use of standardized tests to rate teachers, periodically disrupt it.

A spokesman said on Friday that Mr. Silver also opposed making changes to the state's teacher evaluation system that would increase the weight of state tests, and opposed increasing the probationary period for teachers to five years from three, as the chancellor of the State Board of Regents, Merryl H. Tisch, proposed in a recent letter to the governor's office.

Two recent events have made it a perfect time to change the way we conduct our educational testing: growing dissatisfaction with consortia - built tests and a new focus on the proposed use of a test in the revised Standards for Educational and Psychological Ttesting: growing dissatisfaction with consortia - built tests and a new focus on the proposed use of a test in the revised Standards for Educational and Psychological TestingTesting.

Cuomo proposed legislation Thursday that would change how test scores are used in evaluations to prevent teachers deemed «ineffective» or «developing» from facing termination or a denial of tenure based solely on student test scores.

The West Virginia Department of Education has removed from proposed policy changes its recommendation that the state Board of Education switch standardized tests in public high schools from Smarter Balanced to yet - to - be-developed end of course exams.

Some of the DPI's proposed changes include allowing educators 55 and older to apply for a five - year, nonrenewable license without having to meet professional development requirements, increasing the time a substitute can be in the same assignment, expanding renewal options for emergency licenses and expanding the pathway for teachers to add additional licenses based on content tests.

Across the country, dozens of states and school districts have proposed or instituted changes in the way they evaluate teachers to take into account how much their students improve on standardized tests.

But I will proudly stand by my statement that a Democrat who proposed doing away with teacher tenure for all public school teachers and repealing collective bargaining for teachers in the poorest school; who refuses to de-couple inappropriate standardized tests from teacher evaluation; who diverts a hundred million dollars a year from public schools to prop up unaccountable charter schools that refuse to educate their fair share of bi-lingual students and students who need special education services; and who refused to settle the CCEJF lawsuit and develop a long - term change to Connecticut's school funding formula... DOES NOT deserve the badge of honor that comes with being endorsed by teacher unions.

As per a recent article in the Tennessee Education Report (see also an article in The Tennessean here) Governor Bill Haslam announced this week that «he will be proposing changes to the state's teacher evaluation process in the 2015 legislative session,» the most significant change being «to reduce the weight of value - added data on teacher evaluations during the transition [emphasis added] to a new test for Tennessee students.»

Eliminating those differences in test scores between middle - class white students and minority, low - income and non-native English - speaking children is one of the key components of Obama's Race to the Top initiative and the proposed changes to No Child Left Behind.

Among the proposed sweeping changes to the way the federal government (NHTSA) tests car safety, headlight and taillight effectiveness would join forward collision warning, auto emergency braking, lane departure warning, blind - spot monitoring, and pedestrian automatic braking as new factors by 2018.

The Institute welcomes many of the changes NHTSA is proposing to side impact compliance testing but urges it to reconsider some details.

Proposed projects will need to encourage such ambitions, engage a community or multiple communities in London, and test ideas for urban change; the results will be installed in a museum gallery between February and April 2018.

TransCanada Corp.'s proposed Keystone XL pipeline has become a litmus test in the U.S. battle over energy policy, as the environmental movement looks for reassurance that President Barack Obama is committed to combatting climate change.

We propose here a new statistical approach to climate change detection and attribution that is based on additive decomposition and simple hypothesis testing.

SAFE - MET (2011 - 2014) The overall aims of the project were to examine, propose and test ways to strengthen societies» resilience to climate and weather - related hazards and to enhance the multi-disciplinary climate change research in Zambia and Malawi.

@Mosher It is also quite clear that the discrepancy was taken very seriously, debated in a respectful and useful way, and changes to the theory were being proposed and tested to explain and remove the discrepancy.

A proposed revision to remove an admission test requirement for accredited law... Continue reading «ABA Legal Ed council approves proposed rule change to end admission test requirement»

Those can be used to test out each proposed refactoring of the law, and tell the legislator or the legal draftsperson when a change will cause a different result than they intended.

Lysaght and Barry Currier, the managing director of the section, both stressed that under the proposed change the council could direct any school to require an admissions test as «remedial action» if, for instance, a low bar passage rate, attrition or other facts suggested a school was accepting less capable students.

We can test and see if the proposed change to the definition of fraudulent are general or special cases, and make the general cases part of the general law.

In his post, Ali highlights the need for more C / C + + developers to contribute to Bitcoin Core development, refactoring the Bitcoin code base (work that is currently in progress), better testing of proposed changes to Bitcoin, and an overall more scientific approach towards discussions about the Bitcoin protocol.

• Identify clients» requirements by conferring with them and providing them with an overview of possibilities • Draw electrical project specifications and provide clients with information on how a project will be implemented • Work according to project specifications and technical drawings and manage any redesigning needs as the project proceeds • Create models and prototypes using 3D design software • Propose modifications on existing and pipeline projects • Make - certain that the final product qualifies quality standards • Test run each module of each electrical project and make necessary changes • Prepare project documentation for each module • Write reports at the completion of testing and prepare corresponding presentations • Monitor existing products to determine design improvements for later ones

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