Sentences with phrase «specifically focused on testing»

While Dr. Roediger's OpEd is specifically focused on testing students, the key points are applicable to corporate learning as well.

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For now, the collaboration is focused on testing phosphorylation specifically in a model of a neurodegenerative disease, rather than in cells in general, Fawzi said.

In recent years, the SMA Foundation has shifted its testing strategy to focus on proprietary new compounds specifically designed for SMA.

The research focused specifically on cell phone use behind the wheel, and it found that people who scored highest on multitasking tests do not frequently engage in simultaneous driving and cell - phone use — probably because they can better focus on one thing at a time.

So by focusing so specifically on reading and math tests, our accountability systems can actually diminish the value of reading and math tests.

Specifically, we've called for giving teachers tools to use assessments to inform instruction, minimizing test prep (which research suggests does not necessarily lead to increased test scores), focusing on student growth rather than absolute proficiency, and using test scores as only one measure among many in high - stakes decisions.

The families of more than 350 students chose to send their children there, many of them specifically because the charter school's teachers say they didn't focus on testing.

The student - to - teacher ratio is drastically smaller, there was no testing, there were no administrators, and the camp was specifically focused on technology use — to name a few.

Key 4 focuses specifically on ensuring 8th grade students meet college and career readiness benchmarks on the ACT Aspire test.

Specifically, each of four evaluations of U.S. family income support programs found substantially larger test score increases per $ 1,000 of public expenditure than resulted from programs specifically aimed at improving educational outcomes by focusing on schooSpecifically, each of four evaluations of U.S. family income support programs found substantially larger test score increases per $ 1,000 of public expenditure than resulted from programs specifically aimed at improving educational outcomes by focusing on schoospecifically aimed at improving educational outcomes by focusing on school readiness.

In the above article Chalkbeat focused on how some district practices, in Boulder specifically, discouraged high school students from taking state standardized tests: for the second year in a row, Boulder high schools continued instruction for ninth - grade students who opted - out of PARCC assessments, effectively penalizing students who took the state assessments as they had to catch up on the content later (1).

Likewise, a Saturday school addressing mathematics, literacy and standardized test preparations to specifically focus on the African American subgroup was piloted.

And research finds high levels of correlation between value - added measures based on test scores and high - quality, observation - based evaluation methodologies that focus specifically on instructional practice rather than outcomes.

In this report Harris makes «Recommendations to Improve the Louisiana System of Accountability for Teachers, Leaders, Schools, and Districts,» the main one being that the state focus «more on student learning or growth --[by] specifically, calculating the predicted test scores and rewarding schools based on how well students do compared with those predictions.»

Polestar's test drivers focused specifically on Polestar 1's torque vectoring system, which is enabled by two rear electric motors with individual planetary gear sets.

Opening: Lorraine O'Grady at Alexander Gray Associates This exhibition focuses on two early projects: the performance art piece Rivers, First Draft and her first collage series Cutting Out The New York Times, showcasing «the artist's nuanced perspectives on art history — specifically Dada and Surrealism — and the topical issues of the late - 1970s and early 1980s, when Multiculturalism and Feminism were articulated and tested in the art world,» according to a press release.

Wageningen University is the only university in the Netherlands to focus specifically on the theme «healthy food and living environment», so it's the perfect testing facility for research into the use of LED lamps in greenhouse horticulture.

Set to kick off on January 20 on both Xbox One and Windows 10, this beta test will focus specifically on a certain new game mode coming along with the sequel: Blitz.

Behavior therapy is considered probably efficacious for childhood depression, and a number of other experimental interventions show promise but require further evaluation.12 Currently, only 2 research groups have focused on psychosocial interventions for childhood bipolar disorder.13 - 15 Hence, increased attention to creation and testing of treatments specifically targeting depression and bipolar disorder in children is needed.16 In particular, studies should focus on children's developmental needs, address comorbidity, involve family members in treatment, demonstrate treatment gains as rated by parents and clinicians rather than children themselves, and compare experimental interventions with standard care or treatment as usual (TAU) rather than no - treatment or attention control groups.12, 17,18 In addition, parental psychopathology may affect treatment adherence and response.

More specifically, according to a recent study focusing on the role of self - compassion on life satisfaction and hope (Yang, Zhang, & Kou, 2016) and testing a sample of Chinese adults demonstrated that self - compassion indeed is positively associated with life satisfaction and added that hope plays a mediating role between self - compassion and life satisfaction.

The NAR REach ® Team is looking for commercial members to get involved on the Insight Panel, test demos and give feedback to the companies in the 2014 Class, specifically the commercial - focused technology in the program this year.

Last year, Volvo opened a new research and test center specifically focused on eliminating crash fatalities.