Sentences with phrase «significant changes to their tests»

In recent years, some states have made significant changes to their tests, and these might hint at what states can expect when they change to the Common Core tests.

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The GRE, administered by the Educational Testing Service, is rolling out significant changes to its content, design, scoring and format this year.

The GRE, administered by Educational Testing Service, is rolling out significant changes to its content, design, scoring and format next August, while the GMAT is adding a new integrated reasoning section in June of 2012.

A holistic and fully tested solution that enables Securities Exchanges to go multi-currency without significant changes to systems and back - end processes, with low start - up and running costs.

The AHA recommends obtaining a comprehensive personal and family history from an athlete entering high school or college, with an interim history and blood pressure check each year for the next 3 to 4 years, significant changes or abnormalities triggering another physical exam and further testing.

Individual growth curve models were developed for multilevel analysis and specifically designed for exploring longitudinal data on individual changes over time.23 Using this approach, we applied the MIXED procedure in SAS (SAS Institute) to account for the random effects of repeated measurements.24 To specify the correct model for our individual growth curves, we compared a series of MIXED models by evaluating the difference in deviance between nested models.23 Both fixed quadratic and cubic MIXED models fit our data well, but we selected the fixed quadratic MIXED model because the addition of a cubic time term was not statistically significant based on a log - likelihood ratio testo account for the random effects of repeated measurements.24 To specify the correct model for our individual growth curves, we compared a series of MIXED models by evaluating the difference in deviance between nested models.23 Both fixed quadratic and cubic MIXED models fit our data well, but we selected the fixed quadratic MIXED model because the addition of a cubic time term was not statistically significant based on a log - likelihood ratio tesTo specify the correct model for our individual growth curves, we compared a series of MIXED models by evaluating the difference in deviance between nested models.23 Both fixed quadratic and cubic MIXED models fit our data well, but we selected the fixed quadratic MIXED model because the addition of a cubic time term was not statistically significant based on a log - likelihood ratio test.

This finding is significant in helping to develop personalised diagnostic tests for patients with colorectal cancer based on the genetic changes present in each individual's colon tumour.

They report that the test can detect significant drops in the metabolic activity levels of all three types of tumors within 72 hours when exposed to an effective drug whereas tumors that were resistant to a drug show no change.

What's more, the team found that the mothers» scores on a standard test that gauges the degree of a mom's attachment to her infant could be predicted to a significant degree based on the changes in their gray matter volume during pregnancy.

Only three of the 208 statistical tests performed showed any significant changes that could allude to more violent behavior, and these are explained through coincidence.

«Many clinical trials in pulmonary hypertension also use the catheter test as an outcome measure, but it could provide a significant advantage to be able to replace it with a less invasive MRI scan, as our model also provides more detailed information on physical changes to the heart itself.»

Also today, NHGRI and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), both part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced that all three sequencing centers will devote a significant part of their efforts to The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Pilot Project, which is testing the feasibility of a large - scale, systematic approach to identify important genomic changes involved in cancer.

To identify genes that changed expression depending on PMI, we used the five PMI intervals also used by the GTEx Biospecimen Methodological Study (BMS) 21, and asked which genes had a significant and noticeable change between two consecutive time intervals (> 2-fold change and Wilcoxon test p < 0.05, see Methods and Supplementary Note 2).

While plasma glucose, insulin, and carbohydrate oxidation did not change significantly, plasma free fatty acid levels rose from 432 ± 31 to 848 ± 135 µEq / liter and were accompanied by significant increases in fat oxidation during the last hour of the test.

In sum, Krueger and Zhu take three methodological steps to generate results that are not statistically significant: 1) changing the definition of the group to be studied, 2) adding students without baseline test scores, and 3) ignoring the available information on baseline test scores, even though this yields less precise results.

The pilot test is done so late in the process that any significant change to the design would be nearly impossible, or hugely expensive, to accomplish.

In these projects, students will help plan, implement, or assess a significant improvement effort that is of high priority to the organization, test their own theories of change, and reflect on their own leadership styles.

Though the increased emphasis on the mechanics of taking tests should be considered a factor in the increase of mathematics and reading scores throughout this period, survey results also found signs of significant changes in teachers» emphasis on content in language arts and in the time devoted to content appropriate to grade level in mathematics.

This year's changes include all pupils being tested on their course knowledge at the end of their two - year GCSE courses, and significant changes to compulsory English GCSEs.

A significant number of schools that received School Improvement Grants — as many as half — were not included in the analysis for a variety of reasons, including missing data, the schools were shut down or the state tests were changed, making it impossible to compare scores over time.

Given the small number of Virginia's Hispanic test takers, NCES does not regard recent year - to - year changes in the average scores and proficiency levels of these students as statistically significant.

Results have been mixed, ranging from gains in high school graduation and college enrollment rates (e.g., Chingos and Peterson 2012), small increases in reading and math scores (e.g., Greene et al. 1998), or increases in math but not reading scores (Rouse 1998), to no significant change in test scores (e.g., Howell and Peterson 2006; Wolf et al. 2011).

Complicating matters, Louisiana made significant changes to its new evaluation system between testing it in a few districts and pushing it statewide this year.

While funding and curriculum / testing reform are significant endeavors that need the new governor's attention, he must also look towards an impending problem for all of New Jersey's school: the teaching profession is far less attractive today than it was a decade ago, and without a strong plan to reverse that, funding and curriculum changes will falter.

The assistant superintendent cited above noted that when the state made a significant change to its annual test, teachers whose classes had high prior achievement saw their value - added go up relative to other teachers, and teachers whose classes had low prior achievement saw their value - added go down.

2000 Results began to demonstrate that the changes in Finland's educational system were making a significant difference as demonstrated by scoring third on a global assessment, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a standardized test given to 15 - year - olds in approximately 40 countries.

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.»

Noticed significant changes to behavior in my hand - tests among most of the shocks I hand - primed.

As expected, the newer airbag did not contribute to any significant changes in test results.

Sure, a 2003 - present Jeep Wrangler Rubicon is a pretty amazing off - road vehicle right off the dealer lot, but we won't be firing up the hot tub time machine to include any in the 2015 4x4 OTY test (the Rubicon saw no significant changes for 2015).

According to Shelby American's chief test driver Vince LaViolette, all these changes bring significant handling improvements, allowing for more grip for later braking, earlier acceleration out of corners, and more feedback to the driver.

The only significant styling difference — apart from small details — is to the front styling, changed mostly to allow for superior crash test protection.

«The market has changed some since our last three - row Challenge, so we tested last year's winner, the Honda Pilot, against three significant competitors — one updated, one fully redesigned and one new to the market.»

Regular exams and testing allow us to monitor for small but significant health changes.

It seems that nobody, including Johnson himself, ever took a moment to openly question his strategies, even when he decided to roll out significant changes with little or no testing with the chain's customers and store staff.

This test does not prove anything except that you have made significant structural changes to the climate data in applying the bias correction (irrespective of whether it is a good or bad one).

Only then can you start to discuss whether they are significant, how they change etc etc and the power of any statistical tests you are seeking to use in that analysis.

I am used to calculate trendlines to test if data is significant different from noise, not to use teh trendline to forecast future changes.

These are significant claims that will definitely need to be tested before being taken at face value, but we'll describe the changes that Huawei made anyways.

When I run benchmarks on a smartphone, it's only to test one device against itself after I've made some significant change.

With profound understanding of determining diesel engine conditions, expertise to chart out best possibilities for repair work and coinciding knowledge of diagnostic tests, I am quite sure in my ability to bring a significant change to your organization.

In addition, this questionnaire presents good test — retest reliability, even for testing after 6 months (correlation coefficients from 0.60 to 0.90, except for bodily pain (0.43)-RRB-.53 Finally, the SF - 36 is sensitive to change, 57 with a difference of 5 points in scale scores being clinically significant, as suggested by Ware et al. 58

Formal tests to determine if the above rates of changes in children's diagnoses varied with mothers» remission status were statistically significant (P =.02), and remained significant after further adjusting for maternal depression severity at baseline, maternal treatment setting, annual household income, and child treatment status during the 3 - month follow - up interval (P =.01).

However, in the fall of 2010, plans for the extensive restructuring of CPS, including significant expansion of the alternative response program and a change to «one worker / one family» (effective April 2011) resulted in the need to modify the model, retrain staff, and conduct additional fidelity testing

Results of grouped t tests and Mann - Whitney U tests to show t or z values, degrees of freedom, and p values for the significant differences in the changes in scores between the control and intervention group

In tests of the main study hypotheses, the experimental group showed a significant decrease in attachment anxiety after the online program, t (25) = 4.69, p <.001, d = 1.03, but no decrease in attachment avoidance, t (25) = -0.96, p =.35, d = 0.19, and there was no significant difference between the two study groups on either change in anxiety scores, controlling for baseline avoidance, F (1, 47) = 0.39, p =.54, η2p =.008, or change in avoidance scores, controlling for baseline anxiety, F (1, 47) = 0.49, p =.49, η2p =.010, from pre-test to post-test.

Analyses of findings from an earlier intensive child development program for low birth weight children and their parents (the Infant Health and Development Program) suggest that the cognitive effects for the children were mediated through the effects on parents, and the effects on parents accounted for between 20 and 50 % of the child effects.10 A recent analysis of the Chicago Child Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour.

Meaningful improvements to the LIHTC (Low Income Housing Tax Credit), including a significant increase in funding and a change in the average income test, which should result in hundreds of thousands of new affordable housing units.