Sentences with phrase «quality of the tests»

Students, teachers and principals are held accountable, but the low quality of the tests themselves is never accounted for.

These and other issues likely compound dissatisfaction with the amount and quality of testing in our schools by all stakeholder groups, undermining support for testing.

The image quality of test photos was good, not great, but videos recorded with the rear camera were particularly sharp in testing.

Further, very little is known about the psychometric qualities of these tests.

«It's even more exciting that the teachers were able to discern the high quality of the test while only looking at a small sample of the items and not the seeing the power of the full adaptive assessment that generates an individualized test for each student to better support high - and low - performing students.»

Conceived and developed a hands - free system to increase efficiency and quality of testing processes and to test updates shipped to the world through Windows Update service.

A U.S. health regulator has barred blood - testing company Theranos Inc.'s founder and CEO, Elizabeth Holmes, from operating a lab for at least two years, the latest blow for a company that is under scrutiny for the accuracy and quality of its tests.

Nick Hicks of Sun Life says that quality of testing is always the most important criterion for companies choosing a laboratory, but speed and price are also factors.

She adds that there is actually little incentive for the patent holder to improve the quality of the tests or lower its price.

Accordingly, a team of researchers investigated the quality of the test results at two WADA labs.

In particular, realizing the full potential benefit of this technology requires attention to challenges in three critical policy domains: oversight of the quality of tests and related services; intellectual property; and coverage and reimbursement.

Unfortunately, most of the advanced tools, including the patented personality tests fall into the premium category and can't be used for free, there's a fee for using them, but the rates are pretty low compared to what I've seen other dating sites charge and the quality of these tests merit some kind of payment.

Even if convinced by the evidence of the causal effects of test - based measures and their predictive power, skeptics have raised questions about the quality of the tests being used.

Critics of testing raise some legitimate concerns about the quality of tests.

I do think you will see some reconsideration about both the quantity and quality of testing.

Tilles raises legitimate concerns about the use of these tests — the quality of the tests, their snapshot nature, the unintended consequences of their being high stakes — but seems to forget that 20 % of the teacher score comes from «locally - selected measures of student achievement» and that 60 % of evaluation is based on «other measures.»

The quality of tests must be improved to ensure careful alignment to the Common Core, and teacher evaluation needs to reduce the emphasis on test scores.

than meets the eye in these scores, depending on the kind and quality of test.

Officials should solicit feedback from educators on the quality of tests and their preparation.

Apparently, politicians and state - government bureaucrats remain unconcerned about the quality of the tests they mandate, so long as they can continue to appear to be «tough on teachers.»

To be good assessors of student knowledge, teachers need to know the quality of their test questions.

As part of the field test, the state will be examining technological capacity and the quality of test questions, while helping students and teachers prepare for next year's first operational test, said Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction in a press release.

As part of the field test, the state will be examining technological capacity and the quality of test questions, while helping students and teachers prepare for next year's first operational test,...

Interpreting the results state - by - state is intricate — the quality of the tests, the interpretability of the results, and the amount of bureaucratic chicanery vary enormously across states.

The teachers reviewed PARCC sample test items, discussed them with fellow teachers, and provided feedback about the quality of the test.

Jason Zimba: I was most concerned about the quality of the tests that would be used to assess whether students had mastered the Common Core.

We found that the quality of the tests was so bad that they should have been removed from use before they were ever administered.

Other recent studies have explored teaching to the test from the perspective of the quality of the tests themselves.

Ever since I publicly challenged the quality of the tests, I have received a trickle of messages from professional friends who think I may have done irreparable harm to the effort to improve testing in mathematics.

We found that the quality of the tests was so bad that they should have been removed -LSB-...]

to allow states to use federal funds to audit the number and quality of tests they use, and eliminate any deemed repetitive or of low - quality.

Unfortunately for them, however, with so many awards stating essentially the same thing, the term «the best discount brokerage» has begun to lose its impact and the only way to distinguish between awards is by the quality of the tests discount brokerages have to pass in order to earn the award.

The crispness of imagery and wide - range of contrast were top draw, while thanks to the quality of our test Samsung television, colours popped and details really stood out.

This kind of method is applied to participants increasing the quality of testing.

The quality of these tests differs greatly, mainly because free tests are less inclined to offer quality than career choice tests you have to pay for.

• Ascertain the quality of test results by running set standards and controls.