Sentences with phrase «standard performance tests»

Troubleshoot problems with equipment using standard performance tests and computer - aided diagnostic equipment

Not exact matches

Your mother may have warned you not to walk and chew gum at the same time, but when Schaefer compared the performance of both children and young adults on a standard test of working memory when they were sitting with when they were walking, her results contradicted mom's advice.

Putting aside the surprising reemergence of test scores as the preferred standard of performance, I wondered what she would say about Catholic schools.

Distribution test standards set performance thresholds for complete packaged - product systems by translating real world hazard levels into controlled laboratory tests.

ASTM International F2638 - 07 Standard Test Method for Using Aerosol Filtration for measuring the Performance of Porous Packaging Materials as a Surrogate Microbial Barrier

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Standard regulatory systems for new rice varieties require multi-season testing to ensure performance, pest and disease resistance and consumption quality.

Operated by Fisher - Nickel, Inc. for Pacific Gas & Electric Company, the FSTC has developed more than 35 Standard Test Methods for evaluating commercial kitchen appliance and system performance.

We'll likely be moving before kdg, and may have some good alternative options, but it hurts my heart to imagine sending my boy into the standards / performance / testing mess that our public schools have become.

This list of common types of standard scores can help you estimate your child's performance on tests using these types of scores.

Lastly, when buying a great child booster seat, make sure that you check to see that it has passed all standard safety and performance tests.

The Recaro Performance Booster is tested to international standards and offers racing - inspired design to protect your child in case of accident.

The state has put a moratorium on counting Common Core - based tests toward teacher performance reviews as a possible overhaul at the Department of Education is underway for the standards.

Testing of the Paint Preparation Pad has demonstrated high standards of performance and more than comparable surface measurement statistics against other similar products on the market.

In December it recommended reversing Cuomo's push to link controversial standardized test scores to teacher performance reviews, and begin a new four year transitional period to adopt the new standards.

It came after a cascade of dissent from parents and teachers, steadily growing since tests aligned with the Common Core academic standards were introduced into classrooms in the 2012 - 13 school year and since the state toughened its evaluation laws, with an increasing amount of educators» job ratings linked to student performance on exams.

The vacancies on the board come after Regents backed a plan to place a moratorium on linking Common Core - based test results to teacher performance evaluations as the standards are being studied and potentially revised in New York.

Teachers are complaining that they were not adequately prepared to teach to the new standards, and that the test results should not be used to evaluate their performance.

Cuomo has complained that while two - thirds of students are failing new standardized tests associated with the Common Core learning standards, most teachers are rated very highly under new performance reports.

The new law requires that the State Education Department develop new teacher performance reviews, that will be more heavily reliant on controversial standardized tests associated with the new Common Core learning standards.

Beginning July 6, Elia will lead a state education system that has overseen several years of contested reforms around teacher performance, learning standards and student testing.

A champion of the Common Core learning standards, Dr. Tisch, 60, pushed for the creation of new, harder tests based on those standards and for teacher evaluations tied to students» performance on the exams.

Following standard practice in the field, the researchers divided their training data into three sets, sequentially training the algorithm on two of the sets and testing its performance against the third.

In tests, rubber made with the new fillers exceeds industrial standards for performance, which may ultimately open up new applications for rubber.

Next, Ritchie and colleagues compared the amount of time it had taken for participants to make their choices, called inspection time, and examined how it tracked with their performance on four standard intelligence tests.

To test their performance, Monroe's team ran a set of standard algorithms on each device, and compared the output.

It is true that after the age of 40 performance on standard intelligence tests steadily declines for most people — unless enough time is given to solve the problems.

NREL will use its performance - testing, analysis, and safety, codes and standards expertise to study renewable hydrogen generation and infrastructure systems and components.

The assay — when compared against the performance of the conventional ELISA — has proved to be «up to clinical standards,» according to the researchers, with the added ability of removing the false positives, thereby eliminating the need for repeated testing.

Unfortunately, several studies have shown that adolescents» intake of important nutrients, as well as their performance on standard physical fitness tests, has fallen in recent years.

The cognitive performance was evaluated in standard cognition tests.

For instance, physical inactivity is linked to poorer results on standard neuropsychological tests as well as academic performance, though exercise appears to improve attention, decision making and memory.

Running economy is negatively related to sit - and - reach test performance in international - standard distance runners.

While an element of the unexplained variability will likely have arisen though measurement error, it is more likely that the variation occurred primarily through variation between performances within individuals, as snatch, clean and jerk, and total 1RM varies by around 2.3 — 2.7 % in elite Olympic weightlifters (McGuigan & Kane, 2004), although test - re-test reliability of the 1RM power clean is nearly perfect in adolescent male athletes, with ICC = 0.98, a standard error of measurement (SEM) of 2.9 kg and a smallest worthwhile change (SWC) of 8.0 kg (Faigenbaum et al. 2012).

However, when track and field athletes are tested according to the most standard procedures (back squat and / or bench press 1RM respectively for lower and upper body strength) the correlation between absolute strength and performance in competition has shown to be relatively weak.

Because these assessments are likely to include some tasks that many students had little exposure to prior to 2010, and because the expectations for student performance represented by the standards are considerably higher than in many states» previous standards, the test scores are expected to be lower than in the past.

• Work with client schools to administer NAEP (or some other matrix - based test aligned to the standards) to 2,000 students each year in key grade levels; use their performance to set the curve for the summative test (think of this as «Curriculum NAEP,» the equivalent of the current state NAEP testing).

In this latter capacity, he presided over what some have called «The Massachusetts Miracle,» a series of reforms involving teacher preparation, standards, and testing that are associated with the commonwealth's rise to the top of performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

Providing a more honest assessment of student performance was one of the goals of the Common Core initiative and the new tests created by states that are meant to align to the new, higher standards.

Common standards and tests that evaluate performance against those standards are to be found in most of the countries that are performing better than the United States, whether they be in Europe or Asia.

The assessment will continue to use performance standards — basic, proficient, and advanced — and a mix of multiple - choice and open - response test items in assessing the academic achievement of U.S. students.

But while their attention has been concentrated on student performance based on standard intelligence tests, they have often overlooked the fact that vocational classrooms have their share of «gifted and talented,» said an educator who addressed a group of vocational leaders meeting here recently.

We have plenty of stark evidence that real change in student, teacher, and school performance doesn't come from standards or tests alone.

To equate proficiency and performance rates across states and countries, the researchers execute a statistical crosswalk between standards identified by the NAEP (National Assessment for Educational Progress) and the PISA tests.

Ludger Woessman (see «Merit Pay International,» research) looked at 27 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries and found that students in countries with some form of performance pay for teachers score about 25 percent of a standard deviation higher on the international math test than do their peers in countries without teacher performance pay.

The U.S. is in the throes of developing new standards and new tests of student performance, actions that reflect a general dissatisfaction with the level of student achievement.

The law goes back four decades and says that the board of trustees of each school district shall evaluate teachers, at least in part, by their student's performance on the state's standards - based tests.

At least one of the two new assessment - development consortia could — probably in the name of «performance assessment» and «career readiness» — easily drown in the soft stuff, in which case the tests it is building may not do justice to the academic standards with which they are meant to be aligned.