Sentences with phrase «social studies tests»

Then there are science and social studies tests that her daughter has already taken this fall, just so the performance of her science and social studies teacher can be measured.

Given that 11th graders take many tests, including the college entrance exam the SAT, districts, surveyed two years ago, decided to administer the science and social studies tests in 12th grade.

Social studies tests are a good example: these are tests of a student's social studies knowledge, not reading ability.

National social studies tests for 4th grade students and high school seniors have been indefinitely postponed as a result of sequestration cuts, which has alarmed social studies advocates and contributed to the perception that federal decision making and policies have narrowed the curriculum and downplayed the role of subjects other than reading and math in preparing students for college and careers.

But CTB / McGraw - Hill will administer the test, and also develop items for its science and social studies tests.

«This can be achieved by eliminating social studies tests in grades 4 and 6 - something that was proposed in the newly released Senate budget - and doing away with four end - of - course assessments.»

This is one of two high school social studies tests required by state, but not federal, law.

Combining English and social studies tests to streamline state testing and to help students build their base of background knowledge;

Ten students at a Queens school got a second chance to answer questions they had skipped on a state social studies test.

Can he skip his social studies test?

That activity provided valuable practice for the fifth grade New York State Social Studies Test.

Study for your big social studies test tomorrow (you are almost failing this class).

In Colorado, where a new state law requires that districts allow parents to excuse their children from the state tests, 5 percent of seventh graders did not take the social studies test this year and 6 percent of eighth graders sat out the science test, state officials said.

It will be at least three or four years before the state produces a new social studies test and a science test aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards, which the state adopted two years ago.

Friday, 10 students took the social studies test.

He says there probably does need to be a social studies test at some point in high school, but not in 12th grade.

A social studies test is scheduled in grade 8.

You really studied for your social studies test.

• Almost a third of the tests are based on weak standards: 11 percent of the math testing, 12 percent of the science testing, 38 percent of the English testing, and 48 percent of the social studies testing.

Oregon pointed out that its social studies test is comprehensive for history, geography, economics and civics and that new tests were adopted in September 2010.

Not exact matches

Plenty of thinkers have argued that time abroad increases important skills for business success like comfort with ambiguity, confidence when confronted with the unfamiliar, and accelerated learning, but the team of social scientists out of Rice University, Columbia, and the University of North Carolina behind this study wanted to test the effects of extended travel abroad on self knowledge specifically.

A study published in the «Journal of Personality and Social Psychology» compared how students performed on a test to how they thought they did.

For the study, biologists followed a group of wild chimpanzees for two years, charting their social ties and periodically testing their urine for chemicals that indicate stress.

On April 26, 2012, the results of a study which tested their subjects» pro-social sentiments were published in the Social Psychological and Personality Science journal in which non-religious people had higher scores showing that they were more inclined to show generosity in random acts of kindness, such as lending their po.sse.ssions and offering a seat on a crowded bus or train.

Studies have also shown that most of the common intelligence tests have a social class bias; the vocabulary and thought patterns used in them generally follow a middle class pattern, thus putting the socially and economically more privileged in a preferential position.

The study correlated a range of relevant social and personal variables, utilized a variety of research methodologies and statistical tests, and brought forward a series of conclusions and proposals which will be referred to throughout this section.

Signaling a profound turn away from the education policies of the Bloomberg administration, newly appointed schools chancellor Carmen Fariña promised to retreat from an emphasis on standardized testing and preparation, to re-focus on arts, social studies and science, and to implement changes that «happen with people, not to people.»

, 1968 Zick Rubin, «The Social Psychology of Romantic Love», 1969 Elliot Aronson, «Some Antecedents of Interpersonal Attraction», 1970 David C. Glass and Jerome E. Singer, «The Urban Condition: Its Stresses and Adaptations — Experimental Studies of Behavioral Consequences of Exposure to Aversive Events», 1971 Norman H. Anderson, «Information Integration Theory: A Brief Survey», 1972 Lenora Greenbaum, «Socio - Cultural Influences on Decision Making: An Illustrative Investigation of Possession - Trance in Sub-Saharan Africa», 1973 William E. McAuliffe and Robert A. Gordon, «A Test of Lindesmith's Theory of Addiction: The Frequency of Euphoria Among Long - Term Addicts», 1974 R. B. Zajonc and Gregory B. Markus, «Intellectual Environment and Intelligence», 1975 Johnathan Kelley and Herbert S. Klein, «Revolution and the Rebirth of Inequality: The Bolivian National Revolution», 1977 Murray Melbin, «Night as Frontier», 1978 Ronald S. Wilson, «Synchronies in Mental Development: An Epigenetic Perspective», 1979 Bibb Latane, Stephen G. Harkins, and Kipling D. Williams, «Many Hands Make Light the Work: The Causes and Consequences of Social Loafing», 1980 Gary Wayne Strong, «Information, Pattern, and Behavior: The Cognitive Biases of Four Japanese Groups», 1981 Richard A. Shweder and Edmund J. Bourne, «Does the Concept of the Person Vary Cross Culturally?»

Darlene Kertes and colleagues tested the commonly held belief that pet dogs provide social support for kids using a randomized controlled study — the gold standard in research.

In studies of women with only one X chromosome, he found that test subjects who inherited their X chromosome from their fathers had better social skills than those who inherited their X chromosome from their mothers.

To conduct the study, researchers started with two groups of chimps: one with little exposure to social and cognitive testing and no trading experience, and one with extensive bartering practice and language training.

Conducting HIV testing among the social and risk networks of those recently diagnosed with HIV helps identify undiagnosed cases of HIV at significantly higher rates and at a lower cost than other testing approaches, finds a new study conducted in Ukraine by an international research team.

«Using social and risk networks helps identify people undiagnosed with HIV: Study in Ukraine identifies targeted, cost - effective approach to HIV testing.»

The researchers from the University's Department of Social Policy and Intervention, and the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm, studied the test scores measuring cognitive ability of children aged between 10 and 13, and found they had a strong effect on a child's subsequent educational performance.

With increasing evidence that many studies in biomedicine and social science do not stand the test of time, journalists are facing new challenges in reporting and interpreting the results of such research, NPR science correspondent Richard Harris told a University of Texas audience on Nov. 2.

To gain more insights into the effect's molecular underpinnings, Tingting Zhou and colleagues studied mice as they performed a standard social dominance test.

In their paper «Two tests of social displacement through social media use,» Hall and then - KU doctoral students Michael W. Kearney and Chong Xing performed two unique studies.

To investigate how signal traits vary in relation to the overall social environment, the authors of this study tested whether neighboring birds sharing a territory boundary, rather than birds just flying in the area, is related to similarity in dawn song traits between territorial wild great tits.

Prompted by health officials with a dim sense of genetics, the testing of African Americans for sickle - cell disease was a social program that, like the Tuskegee study, backfired on the group it was meant to benefit.

THE MOTIVE In a study of more than 900 years of conflict in eastern China, a team of researchers has tested the hypothesis that cold spells fuel the social instability that leads to war.

The most significant finding of a recent study considered by the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications Group of the US Human Genome Project was the lack of demand for testing: people don't want it (New Scientist, 18 September).

The committee that conducted the study and wrote the report said that science knowledge is only one component of science literacy, which also encompasses understanding scientific practices, such as forming and testing hypotheses, and understanding science as a social process, such as the role of peer review.

This idea has become one of the most studied theories in social psychology, and has been tested in hundreds of experiments.

Those cognitive styles turn up in a personality test called the Big Five, which assesses people for openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism; only the first two have been strongly linked to political tendencies, says New York University (N.Y.U.) social psychologist John Jost, another author on the study.

In the beginning of the study, each child was given a variety of psychiatric tests as well as interviewed by an experienced social worker in order to determine how that child perceived his / her relationship with his / her parents.

June 2, 2011 Patients with bowel disease eager to test «fecal» therapy The first study of the social and ethical issues associated with a provocative approach to treatment for ulcerative colitis has found that the majority of potential patients are eager for what is now called «fecal microbiota transplantation» to become available, although many have concerns about donor selection, screening, and methods of delivery.

In fact, men who overshare selfies in social media score higher on tests for narcissism and psycopathy, to boot, per a recent study published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences.

In virtual worlds, he points out, you may have a made - up persona, whereas social media may promote greater authenticity, although he is quick to note that the study did not test this.

Another study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science in 2016 found that while the test subjects tended to believe they look best in selfies, other people actually thought they looked better and seemed more likeable in photos taken by someone else.

A longitudinal test of video game violence influences on dating and aggression: A 3 - year longitudinal study of adolescents Recent Issues - Volume Six; Date Title Author (s) 08/12/10: The Effects of Humor and Gender on the Relationship between Social Support and Psychological