Sentences with phrase «spent administering tests»

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For example, she has spent 2.5 years working on a European Union — funded project to design a flu test that works in less than 30 minutes and can be administered in a port, an airport, or a doctor's office.

Teachers must spend precious instructional time on test preparation, despite their conviction that many of the standardized tests they administer inadequately assess what their students know.

States are required to administer uniform tests, but whether they spend enough to get a high - quality test has become a politicized decision.

I simply did nt see it.While I did nt actually instruct the boy, I had spent some time with him, when administering standardized tests, helping out...

Allows states to institute a cap limiting the amount of time that students spend taking tests, which could reduce that time (and the time educators spend administering them)

A study by the Center on Education Policy found that the time district schools spent on subjects besides math and reading declined considerably after Congress enacted the No Child Left Behind Act (NLCB), which mandated that states require district schools to administer the state standardized math and reading tests in grades three through eight and report the results.

Ohio expects to spend more than $ 20 million preparing and administering the test to 6000 beginning teachers each year.

With the advent of the Common Core, we will spend billions more to develop, administer and score new tests.

With districts spending more and more time and money administering them and their performance evaluations based on them, Wisconsin teachers would be foolish not to spend significant amounts of class time teaching kids how to test well.

Why, then, is our nation spending billions developing and administering new tests, replacing curricula, buying technology, text books and test materials, retraining teachers and administrators, and misleading the public by claiming that these changes will assure us that we are preparing our children for college?

Ravitch explained that, as a country, we have spent billions to implement the Common Core, to prepare students to take the Common Core aligned tests, and to buy the technology to administer those tests online.

The state estimates it will spend $ 17 million developing and administering standardized tests during the 2015 and 2016 fiscal years.

Tennessee spent $ 126 million as a result of their decision to back out of the PARCC consortium and administer their own tests.

«As a result, we have had to spend millions of dollars in order to administer the test and we will need to continue to make additional expenditures in the future.»

«Currently, states spend a combined $ 1.3 billion annually to develop, publish, administer, score, and report on their own state tests,» the Alliance for Excellent Education writes.

There are various theories on choosing a puppy, from grabbing the first one you see to spending hours administering the puppy aptitude test to every puppy in a litter.

CAP said that its study was based on data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a test administered to students every two years by the U.S. Department of Education, as well as a state - by - state review of state department of education websites to see if states had evaluated the return on their technology - related spending.