Sentences with phrase «standard benchmark tests»

Let's see how the Earth 1 holds up in our industry - standard benchmark tests of smartphone image quality.

Our experts hand - test the newest products in dozens of categories, compare them against each other, and with the help of industry - standard benchmark tests, score, rate, and rank them.

We have a 32 - node cluster running in our lab, and we do industry - standard benchmark tests off of that cluster, and we give potential customers the published results of those tests.

On 29 September, IBM's «Blue Gene» knocked NEC's Earth Simulator from first place in the world rankings, performing at a speed of 36,000 gigaflops (36 teraflops) during a standard benchmark test.

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The report is the latest step in the state's retreat from the Common Core school standards, national benchmarks that New York adopted in 2010, and especially from using student test scores in teacher evaluations.

Although new state tests will be rolled out this spring based on demanding Common Core national standards, almost 8 out of 10 New York City teachers surveyed said the city's Department of Education has yet to address the new learning benchmarks, including failing to provide any curriculum or other instructional materials keyed to the new standards.

The authors used level DOK4 as their benchmark for questions that measure deeper learning, and by this standard the tests are failing utterly.

Instead of a concrete curriculum or a test that students must be able to pass, the science and engineering standards lay out benchmarks for what concepts students should know at particular grade levels, each year building on those before it.

The AWS Benchmarking Project is an integral part of DOE's HydroGEN consortium and will leverage HydroGEN's expertise and resources to test and validate the standard protocols and benchmarking methods developed in this collaboraBenchmarking Project is an integral part of DOE's HydroGEN consortium and will leverage HydroGEN's expertise and resources to test and validate the standard protocols and benchmarking methods developed in this collaborabenchmarking methods developed in this collaborative effort.

By running some simple benchmark tests in the arcade mode, he noticed some speed increases by loading GT5 from the solid - state drive (SSD)-- about a half reduction in the time it takes to load from the standard SATA HDD.

Like other schools in Aldine, Thompson Elementary also regularly administers its own tests to measure whether students are mastering the district's standards as well as the school's benchmarks.

The authors use data from state tests and the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to estimate changes to each state's proficiency standards in reading and math in grades 4 and 8 by identifying the difference between the percentages of students the state identifies as proficient and the percentages of students identified as proficient by NAEP, an internationally benchmarked proficiency standard.

The assessment itself was first given in 1969, but the underlying political compromises meant that (a) students were tested by age, not grade level; (b) results were reported either as percentages of test takers getting individual questions right or (starting in 1984) on a psychometric scale that included no benchmarks, standards, or «cut points»; and (c) the «units of analysis» were the entire country and four big regions but not individual states, let alone districts or schools.

When the 2013 test results came out last year, NAGB reported the results against these benchmarks for the first time, finding that 39 percent of students in the twelfth - grade assessment sample met the preparedness standard for math and 38 percent did so for reading.

Peterson, Barrows, and Gift used data from state tests and the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to estimate changes to each state's proficiency standards in reading and math in grades 4 and 8 by identifying the difference between the percentages of students the state identifies as proficient and the percentages of students identified as proficient by NAEP, an internationally - benchmarked proficiency standard.

(It would be reasonable to insist that every state seeking Title I dollars deploy standards, tests, and proficiency definitions that can be benchmarked to and compared with NAEP and thus with each other — and with many other countries.)

Many districts have also developed benchmark exams that are given a few times a year to measure students» progress towards mastering these power standards; that way, schools don't have to wait until August to find out how students did on the big, standardized state tests.

We turn the deep complexity of a life and learning and experience into the simplicity and narrowness of data points; benchmarks, outcomes, standards, data, testing, ranking.

... First of all, to assess where the students are at using rigorous tests that are aligned with existing standards and benchmarks.

As governors and legislators debate the fate of the Common Core, they hear repeated five impressive claims that Core advocates lay out: that their handiwork is «internationally benchmarked,» «evidence - based,» «college - and career - ready,» and «rigorous,» and that the nations that perform best on international tests all have national standards.

Achieve has helped nearly half the states benchmark their standards and tests against the best examples in this country and abroad and work in partnership to improve teaching and learning.

Eight states have raised their standards for passing elementary - school math and reading tests in recent years, but these states and most others still fall below national benchmarks, according to a federal report released Wednesday.

Those high - performing schools did things like «set measurable goals on standards based tests and benchmark tests across all proficiency levels, grades, and subjects»; create school missions that were «future oriented,» with curricula and instruction designed to prepare students to succeed in a rigorous high - school curriculum; include improvement of student outcomes «as part of the evaluation of the superintendent, the principal, and the teachers»; and communicate to parents and students «their responsibility as well for student learning, including parent contracts, turning in homework, attending class, and asking for help when needed.»

When North Carolina implemented new curricular standards back in 2010 (which included the Common Core), educators anticipated that test scores would drop when students were examined for the first time based on these new benchmarks.

Instead of focusing on what we expect of our students upon graduation, the discussion of standards has become complicated by political agendas, teacher evaluations, school rankings, the challenges of computerized test platforms, and a myriad of topics that distract from the original goal, which is to establish benchmarks for student learning.

I really love the depth of the math standards and have no problem with the LA standards, but some schools and school systems are pushing scripted lessons in, and building an ever - increasing level of benchmark testing in all in the name of Common Core.

So, for assessments that are used for formative or interim / benchmark purposes, alignment to the standards will require that tests include items that are likely to be taught and mastered early in the instructional sequence as well as, items that reflect the highest levels of mastery for that standard.

Many schools are moving to develop benchmark tests to monitor their students» progress toward state standards throughout the academic year.

Created by charter school expert Cynthia Millinger, Utilizing Benchmark Guiding Assessments is a guide for new charter schools who need to develop an academic program that adheres to New York state testing standards.

We can use certain types of assessment as measures of student learning (e.g., annual standards - based assessments, benchmark / interim assessments, end - of - course tests, end - of - chapter tests).

Despite differences in standards, assessments, testing methods, and benchmarks for meeting the standards, there is some overlap between high - performing districts on the SBAC and CST.

The fact that No Child never required states to set high test proficiency targets and cut scores (or even forced states to benchmark their tests to NAEP) allowed for states to undercut their overhauls of curricula standards.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Monday directed his state board of education to back out of a consortium developing one of the Common Core benchmark tests and review the standards for ways to strengthen them and prevent «federal intrusion.»

Edmentum's formative assessment solution, Study Island, features built in Benchmark Assessments within each subject designed to help assess your students» progress toward meeting standards and preparing for state testing.

In the K - 12 context, we can discuss how learning these technologies connect with literacy standards and benchmarks and — whether or not we agree with the politics and practices of standardized assessment — how they connect to improving students» performance in testing situations.

Some of the pros include that the standards are internationally benchmarked, they will allow states to compare standardized test scores accurately, and students will be better prepared for life after high school.

Reasoning Mind recommends that teachers use an initial Practice Test in order to benchmark students» mastery of specific standards and readiness for STAAR testing.

The ambitious benchmarks would be realized by creating, for the first time, national achievement standards and tests.

The benchmark of excellence in achievement testing for more than 80 years, Stanford 10 provides reliable data to help measure student progress toward content standards and high expectations.

For instance, «internationally benchmarked» actually meant no more than that the committees that wrote the Common Core standards looked at the standards in countries that score well on international tests.

In December 2008, Achieve, Inc., the Council of Chief State School Officers, and the National Governors Association issued «Benchmarking for Success,» a report that urged states to develop and adopt common standards; called for federal incentives to promote that effort; and advocated aligning textbooks, curricula, and tests to those standards.

That test is aligned to the state's old standards, not to the Common Core — meaning teachers were doing double duty, transitioning students to new standards while ensuring that they also had a grasp of the old benchmarks.

When asked about her role, she replied, «I think I'm going to have an important role in being able to influence the direction of that test, because it is based on the standards and benchmarks.»

And the children at Sylvanie Williams, which has 417 students in pre-K through Grade 5, would be sitting through a lot of those — including tests matched to the new Common Core standards in March and May, separate state tests, and two sets of three - times - a-year benchmarking tests.

All these components contribute to some of the highest benchmark scores we've seen on our standard suite of tests.

the raptor also turns in some of the highest numbers i've seen at futuremark's 3dmark06, an industry - standard gaming graphics benchmark test.

In our submission, we tested all of the MW methods in «pseudoproxy» experiments based on long climate simulations (a standard benchmark used by practitioners in the field).

Benchmark 1: 0.6 ach The Passivhaus standard requires that a building be airtight enough to reduce air leakage to below 0.6 air changes per hour at 50 Pascals when subjected to a blower door test.

We benchmarked each Radeon RX Vega in our standard video card test rig.

We rounded out our synthetic tests with 3DMark, the world standard in cross-platform GPU benchmarks.