Sentences with phrase «rejected use of test»

The Democratic party platform states that researchers have rejected use of test scores, but that's not accurate.

Not exact matches

Repeatable in science refers to the ability to test the same hypothesis, using the same methods (typically by independent researchers), to confirm or reject said hypothesis, e.g. the repeated observation by many, many different researchers of fossils in the correct temporal and morphological relationships within the fossil record (no rabbits in the pre-Cambrian, no humans alongside dinosaurs, etc).

She rejected arguments for the use of prima facie evidence tests before extradition, saying it would be «absurd» to demand it of «mature legal systems» in the US, Canada and Australia when it is not required for other countries.

It argues that the company «rejects all forms of discrimination, so it has no right to judge the purpose for which an individual will use his or her test result, and so for ethical reasons it could not have refused to carry out the test».

The U.S. Supreme Court today ended a long patent battle over rights to a widely used HIV test, awarding a victory to Roche Molecular Systems Inc. (which developed and marketed the test) while rejecting the royalty demands of Stanford University (whose faculty conceived and patented the test).

The National Board's researchers rejected the use of student test scores as a measure of teacher performance, claiming, «It is not too much of an exaggeration to state that such measures have been cited as a cause of all of the nation's considerable problems in educating our youth....

We oppose high - stakes standardized tests that falsely and unfairly label students of color, students with disabilities and English Language Learners as failing, the use of standardized test scores as basis for refusing to fund schools or to close schools, and the use of student test scores in teacher and principal evaluations, a practice which has been repeatedly rejected by researchers.

The 74 contacted researchers who study teacher evaluation to see if they agree that the use of test scores has been rejected.

Supporters rushed the standards» adoption, used whatever political channels were most convenient, eschewed public debate and discussion, and in doing so triggered a massive backlash that either caused states to reject the standards outright or led them to water down the initiative to such an extent that there's little left of the original vision, which called for the careful alignment of standards, tests, curricular resources, and teaching strategies, all to be shared across state borders.

The U.S. Department of Education rejected Alabama superintendent Michael Sentance's request to use different tests next spring.

The University of Texas at Austin rejected a lower court decision upholding how the University considers race in admissions on grounds that it didn't meet the «strict scrutiny» test for using race.

Gov. Jerry Brown rejected the requirements that states use standardized test scores in evaluating teachers and that state governments oversee plans to improve their lowest - performing 15 percent of schools.

We validate our use of nontest student outcomes to assess differences in teacher productivity using the quasi-experimental teacher switching methods of Chetty, Friedman, and Rockoff (2014) and find multiple cases in which these tests reject the validity of candidate nontest outcomes.

The Democratic platform amendment also states, «We oppose... the use of student test scores in teacher and principal evaluations, a practice which has been repeatedly rejected by researchers.»

(b)(1) In the rare case where the collector, either by mistake or as the only means to conduct a test under difficult circumstances (e.g., post-accident or reasonable suspicion test with insufficient time to obtain the CCF), uses a non-Federal form for a DOT collection, the use of a non-Federal form does not present a reason for the laboratory to reject the specimen for testing or for an MRO to cancel the result.

Regardless of whether or not they have converted, the basic tests we use to ferret out good investments and reject bad ones still apply, not only to Canadian income trusts, but to other types of investments, as well.

Fama was referring to the joint hypothesis problem in which any statistical test of market efficiency is simultaneously a test of the asset pricing model that is used to measure efficiency and vice versa, meaning that neither market efficiency nor a given asset pricing model can be definitively established (or rejected) via statistical testing.

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Quite egalitarian, so in fact contrarians, scientists who hold ideas outside of the mainstream can prosper provided their ideas have some factual basis and use the scientific method (Scientific method: based on existing obervations pose an hypothesis; using new observations or experiments, test the predictions of that hypothesis; on the basis of the new data either reject the hypothesis or modify it to fit the better understanding, or accept that the initial hypothesis was right at which point it becomes a «theory» or explanatory model).

Have you computed the statistical power of the test to reject a null trend using the alternative hypothesis that the trend really is 0.006 C / year?

2205 (2011)[U.S. Supreme Ct.]; author — Justice Kagan: «But for» test applies when determining whether a prevailing defendant should recover fees in a plaintiff's civil rights suit involving both frivolous and nonfrivolous claims, rejecting the district court's use of a «focus» test.

The joint judgment also appears to reject the use of a proportionality test at [70] but then comments that the forfeiture of the superannuation was not a disproportionate consequence of Theophanous» convictions (at [71]-RRB-.

The legislature, the courts and tribunals have rejected the use of lie detector tests.

China, originally counted amongst the countries rejecting the use of cryptocurrency, has now begun testing the incorporation of a national digital currency to be used alongside its fiat currency.