Sentences with phrase «subsequent testing years»

Scores generally improve in subsequent testing years because students practice how to answer the specific types of questions that appear on the yearly TAAS.

Not exact matches

However, this perseverance has been severely tested in recent years by the Great Recession and subsequent tepid economic recovery.

According to a transcript of a Florida Cabinet Meeting, «MR. [VP of Georgia - Pacific Palatka Ted] KENNEDY: However, as part of the administrative order, the DEP, EPA and Georgia - Pacific agreed that post installation of the technologies and subsequent optimization and testing period of a year each, we would test as to whether we could meet water quality standards in Rice Creek.

We have been successful in some years growing clean corn with our farmers in Wisconsin, but often subsequent harvest years turned up positive results of GMOs in our testing, forcing us to find new sources of open pollinated heirloom corn.

Subsequent tests have shown that the 31 - year - old full - back will need to to undergo an operation which is likely to sideline him until well after the new year.

It was a bit daunting, but over the years and subsequent babies, I have picked up a few tips and hints I would like to pass on, all personally tested and also appreciated by our customers.

Extent of fraud: Subsequent tests showed the ages on many of his skulls were off by tens of thousands of years.

The objectives to achieve within the 4 years of the NAREB project are: 1 / to select antibacterial molecules and design nanocarriers with strong antibacterial activity, 2 / to test in vitro and in vivo the best therapeutic combinations including innovative genomic and bioimaging approaches, 3 / to assess safety, regulatory and production (GLP / GMP) aspects for the most promising nanoformulations, and 4 / to establishing the Clinical Development Plan for the preparatory work for the subsequent clinical testing of the selected nanoformulations.

We tested for possible effects of the shorter sampling duration in 2009 by randomly truncating the datasets from the subsequent years to 32 days.

During the subsequent 44 years, the women were tested for dementia on six times occasions.

This discovery, and his subsequent research, has provided tools that clinicians use to help them make accurate diagnoses for hundreds of thousands of genetic tests every year on conditions such as autism, birth defects and cancer.

They must actively be purged for months or years and will only reveal themselves on subsequent hair tests as they are removed from the tissues and flushed out of the body.

In my case, I had colon polyps five years ago (I got the colonoscopy because the stool test indicated blood), and thought I did not develop any additional polyps since subsequent stool tests showed no blood.

In 1998, Florida scored about one grade level below the national average on the 4th - grade NAEP reading test, but it was scoring above that average by 2003, and made further gains in subsequent years (see Figure 1).

The ultimate test will be how many more students these teachers can help make outstanding progress, not just in the first year, but in subsequent years as more teachers on new teams break through to excellence with the help of their outstanding peers.

In its first year, only families with students in grades three through six were invited to the event because those grade levels encounter testing, but students in all grades and their families have been included in subsequent years.

In Massachusetts, the expectation that students pass a 10th - grade test if they are to graduate from high school spiked student performance the first year the law was introduced, with continuing gains in subsequent years.

But in a subsequent meeting, the staff actually took portions of the MCAS and came to these conclusions: Although the test is hard, it really does measure the kinds of skills and knowledge students need to be successful in the 21st century; because the MCAS is a curriculum - referenced test whose items are released every year, it is possible to align the curriculum and study for the test; and finally, our students have a long way to go, but most can reach proficiency if the whole school teaches effectively over time.

One would expect, if Haney's interpretation is correct, to see an upward spike in 4th - grade test scores in 2003 followed by a steady decline in test performance in subsequent years.

Although that ensures that the competition measure is not itself affected by postpolicy test scores, it does give a less accurate view of the competitive pressures faced by schools in subsequent years.

As West shows in his Education Next article, moving to middle school leads to a «substantial drop in student test scores» in the first year of the transition, and the «relative achievement of middle - school students continues to decline in the subsequent years they spend in such schools.»

However, given the amount of sampling variation and other non-persistent fluctuations in test - score levels and gains, schools with particularly low test scores in one year would be expected to bounce back in subsequent years.

The large research base on teachers» value - added to student test performance has consistently found that which math teacher a student has matters a lot for their learning during the year in that math teacher's class and that the learning sticks with students in subsequent years.

The study distinguishes the persistent effects that teachers have in their own subject — English teachers on students» later English test performance and math teachers on students» later math test performance — from cross-subject effects in which English teachers in one year can affect math performance in subsequent years and math teachers in one year can affect math performance in a subsequent year.

While the effects that math and English teachers have on students» test scores in the year that they have them similarly persists in their own subject in subsequent years, the gains in English scores due to English teachers have far greater effects on students» subsequent math performance than the gains in math scores due to math teachers have on students» subsequent English performance.

Although time spent on test preparation increased substantially after the institution of high - stakes accountability, it declined in subsequent years.

First, to estimate the effect of entering a middle school in grade 6 or 7, we examine only students enrolled in grade 3 between 2001 and 2004 who completed the state test in both math and reading in each of the subsequent five years.

Over the subsequent years of the study, as annual testing data became available, we added it to the student achievement data base.

The utility of this approach is compromised as data is usually sent to districts several months after students have taken the test and often when the subsequent school year has already started.

Subsequent fitness tests at the middle and end of the year enable the teacher and her students to document their progress and, if necessary, establish new goals.

These new policies are layered on top of No Child Left Behind and the subsequent years of narrowed curricula and teaching to the test.

It was an ambitious initiative that, in subsequent years, fell victim to a political backlash against Common Core and led more than two dozen states to back away from the standards - based tests.

These teachers not only produce higher than expected test scores during the year that they are teaching the students, but their students go on to score better in that subject in subsequent years.

The 12C may not have walked away with every award and group test win but McLaren's subsequent models have shown how the firm has matured over the past few years.

While the Yeti has been on sale in Australia since 2011, this test vehicle is a minor power upgrade (from 77kW to 81kW) that has been introduced subsequent to the face - lifted model that arrived last year.

Subsequent testing at AJAC's 2014 Car of the Year TestFest, resulted in a respectable 0 - to - 100 km / h time of 8.0 seconds and its 80 - to - 100 km / h time of 6.3 seconds was similarly about par for the class.

A portion of the gain on a subsequent sale of the home will be ineligible for the home - sale exclusion of up to $ 500,000, even if the seller meets the two - year ownership - and - use tests.

Almost all of the factors and smart beta strategies exhibit a negative relationship between starting valuation and subsequent performance whether we use the aggregate measure or P / B to define relative valuation.9 Out of 192 tests shown here, not a single test has the «wrong» sign: in every case, the cheaper the factor or strategy gets, relative to its historical average, the more likely it is to deliver positive performance.10 For most factors and strategies (two - thirds of the 192 tests) the relationship holds with statistical significance for horizons ranging from one month to five years and using both valuation measures (44 % of these results are significant at the 1 % level).

Your pet's first year of visiting the vet will cost more than in subsequent years, due to necessary tests, blood work, and vaccinations.

Three years were to be allowed for subsequent construction and test phases.

The development took place over decades, beginning with the Supreme Court's 1979 decision in Monsanto Company v Commissioner of Patents, which articulated the principle of sound prediction and prohibited post-filing evidence, and by subsequent decisions over the next 23 years, including the Supreme Court's articulation of the utility test in Consolboard Inc v MacMillan Bloedel (Sask) Ltd, and a later decision in Apotex Inc v Wellcome Foundation Ltd, which clarified the disclosure requirement.

[1] Subsequent to a drug or alcohol screening of its driver and regardless of the reason for testing, a motor carrier is required to keep the results of a negative test for a minimum period of 1 year and is required to retain the results of a positive test for a minimum period of 5 years.

Roadside license suspensions for drivers who get a «warn» on a roadside screening test, or whose breath test shows a blood alcohol level between.05 and.08 (50 to 80 milligrams of alcohol in 100 milliliters of blood) are: • 7 days for a first suspension within 10 years; • 15 days for a second suspension within 10 years; • 30 days for a third or subsequent suspension within 10 years.

For example, maternal employment during a child's first year appeared to negatively affect subsequent cognitive test scores and was associated with increases in behavioural problems.

The objectives of the present study were (a) to investigate whether clique isolation from age 11 to 13 years is a social risk factor for subsequent depressive symptoms in early adolescence; (b) to test the potential role of loneliness and perceived social acceptance as cognitive and emotional constructs underlying the link between clique isolation and depressive symptoms; and (c) to explore possible sex differences in the association between clique isolation and depressive symptoms.