Sentences with phrase «taken pilot tests»

Some surprising answers from the kids who've taken pilot tests.

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A pilot allows you to test the effectiveness of your survey invitation, determine if there is a particular point in the survey where people drop out, and see if you'll be able to take action based on the results, Ambler says.

As executive vice-president and chief information officer for Indigo, Serbinis was the point person on Shortcovers, which he now describes as a «pilot» project designed to take the company's theories off whiteboards and out of conference rooms and test them in the marketplace.

For now, the pilot trips will be free, and every test vehicle will come equipped with a human supervisor in the front seat — ready to take control if there's a system malfunction.

A pilot test of the system will take place on a 10 - kilometer stretch of track near Mumbai within a few weeks, Branson said.

«But even though we have the depleted oil and gas fields that are ideal for testing this technology, not a single pilot is yet taking place in Britain.

Piloting of the limited voter registration meant to test the upgraded Biometric Voter Registration Kits (BVR) has taken off.

National tests at 11 and 14 could be scrapped in favour of a series of assessments that pupils would take when they were ready, under a new pilot scheme.

Assemblyman Felix Ortiz, a Democrat, said he will introduce legislation to require pilots departing from New York airports to take a breathalyzer test before they get behind the controls.

Speaking of wind: The windier it gets the harder it is to pilot a drone so be patient at first and take your drone for it's first test flight on a day with calm weather.

The former test pilot wants to launch satellites and other payloads with a rocket that takes on its liquid oxygen three to six miles up.

The first Solar Impulse plane (known as HB - SIA) took to the skies in 2010 in the hands of a professional test pilot.

More importantly than playing sports, the insights could help people taking important tests, pilots flying under dangerous conditions or surgeons performing difficult procedures.

Best known among her close to 100 film appearances, most for MGM, are Stella Dallas (1937), Test Pilot (1938), Too Hot to Handle (1938), The Women (1939), Another Thin Man (1939), I Take This Woman (1940), Susan and God (1940), Honky Tonk (1941), Heaven Can Wait (1943), Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Murder, He Says (1945), The Harvey Girls (1946), Summer Stock (1950), The Long, Long Trailer (1954), Rose Marie (1954), and Friendly Persuasion (1956).

Innerspace takes its premise from Fantastic Voyage, where a cocksure Navy test pilot, Tuck Pendleton (Quaid, Dreamscape), is set to become the first man to be shrunk down to microscopic form to traverse in a submersible through the body of a rabbit.

After the three pilots take Eddie out for a test run, where it is programmed to simply watch and learn, the UCAV is struck by a chain of lightning and its system core is significantly damaged, causing the machine to go AWOL with a set of new targets that could start a World War.

To fill that critical gap, we are actively engaged in creating, testing, and refining an entirely new, innovation ecosystem at the same time that we are preparing to take the first round of pilots through it.

«Starting small with a pilot test and keeping in mind that transforming a course to a hybrid format takes time and is an evolving process were important factors in maintaining the author's motivation to continue.

Physicians, lawyers, accountants, financial planners, real - estate brokers, and pilots all take high - stakes tests.

I suspect the pilot may get more attention for reducing the number of tests students take and for spreading them out over the school year, so that students are assessed immediately following a unit's completion, leading to a cumulative score.

More importantly, the federal pilot program's focus should be to allow schools to choose the best way to educate their students and measure progress, not just require all students to take the same test.

Until then, the bill would allow schools to take a pilot MAPP field test in either English or math, and not count the scores as an official measure of school progress.

At the end of the pilot, have students take the test again to determine if the pilot correlated with any meaningful academic growth.

Unless you're one of the roughly 290 primary schools that have agreed to take part in the government's pilot (but which have not been named), you won't have to get your pupils to sit the test for a while.

The law encourages local districts to submit teacher pay proposals for the pilot that could look like one of two distinct models: either pitch a plan that would reward teachers on the basis of how well their students do on tests, or present an idea for paying teachers who work in hard to staff subject areas or rural / high poverty schools and / or taking on additional leadership roles to improve student success.

Alyson Klein reports in Education Week that Louisiana, New Hampshire, and Puerto Rico have officially submitted applications for the ESSA's Innovative Assessment Pilot, which «allows states to try out new forms of testing in a handful of districts, with the goal of eventually taking them...

That means whatever test Indiana students take next will look more like new, Common Core - aligned tests being piloted in a handful of states and less like the ISTEP + in its current form.

San Juan schools will be taking part in a Diné Content Standards Assessment pilot to test students knowledge of Diné life and history.

The addition of the hotly contested student test scores in the pilot didn't affect Miyaji because students take their first California Standards Test in the second grtest scores in the pilot didn't affect Miyaji because students take their first California Standards Test in the second grTest in the second grade.

A possible alternative to the Sats for 14 - year - olds has already been ruled out - with pilots of single - level tests (where pupils take tests when teachers think they are ready) proving «disappointing» in secondary school and being discontinued.

Gullen debriefed with 500 students in various grades who had just taken pilot assessment items connected to the coming assessments online, asking them what was positive or difficult about doing the tests online and what skills they thought students would need to take such tests.

The pilots were also the first test case of the state's use of student test scores as part of the ratings for teachers whose students take the state's language arts and math tests, roughly about a sixth of the total.

California officials reject federal government's push to administer old science tests California education officials have decided that students will take only one statewide standardized test in science this spring, a pilot test based on new standards known as the Next Generation Science Standards.

Volvo plans to take the Pilot Assist features a few steps further in 2017, when it will test a fleet of 100 XC90s with enough autonomy to allow drivers to not pay attention to the road when traveling on a roughly 50 - kilometer (31 mile) stretch of highway in the automaker's home town of Gothenburg, Sweden.

You can take your knowledge test results and documentation to a Federal Aviation Administration Flight Standards District Office (FSDO) to get your pilot or flight instructor certificate.

Under the guidance of Pierre - Henri Raphanel, Bugatti's official test pilot who in 2010 set the world speed record (431.072 km / h) for production cars in a Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport, participants take their Veyron through every conceivable situation they could encounter on public roads, and also complete safety training on an exclusive track.

The 2017 Honda Pilot is available now here at Motor Werks Honda in Barrington, and if you're shopping for a three - row crossover in the Chicago area, then you should take it for a test drive today.

[53] It seems that Bentley provoked the former tyre supplier by attempting a new record with a different brand (using Pirelli Sotto Zero IIs) because, on 6 March 2011, Nokian Tyres test driver, piloting an Audi RS6 with Nokian Hakkapeliitta 7 studded tyres, took the ice speed record in Finland, clocking a top speed of 206.05 mph (331.61 km / h) in freezing conditions.

Take a test drive at our Honda dealership in a new Honda Fit or Pilot or a new Honda Accord, Civic, CR - V, Odyssey in Centennial, or any other Honda vehicle!

Joe's first real test of medical skill is on a pilot whose plane takes a hard landing in a training field; after rushing to the crash scene, he is stunned to come face - to - face with a gorgeous Rita Hayworth lookalike.

Elinor Smith took her first flight at age 6, became a licensed pilot at 16, was voted «Best Woman Pilot in America» over the likes of Amelia Earhart, went on to be a test pilot, and, at age 89, «flew» NASA's space - shuttle simulpilot at 16, was voted «Best Woman Pilot in America» over the likes of Amelia Earhart, went on to be a test pilot, and, at age 89, «flew» NASA's space - shuttle simulPilot in America» over the likes of Amelia Earhart, went on to be a test pilot, and, at age 89, «flew» NASA's space - shuttle simulpilot, and, at age 89, «flew» NASA's space - shuttle simulator.

Although investing time in pilots can be time - consuming and risk - taking, self - publishers have every opportunity to measure feedback and test the waters.

Students are testing out Amazon.com's Kindle DX e-book reader device as part of a pilot - program taking place at seven campuses nationwide this fall.

The incident took the life of Army Air Corps» chief test pilot Major Ployer Hill, a very experienced pilot.

Then, for those not in the mood for large scale battles, we have created Missions where players can, for example, take on armies of AI or test their piloting skills.

Taking full advantage of a bluebird day, test pilot Lonnie Thompson takes the Alpha One on a quick flight.

The GPC is the newest and full publication that has taken into consideration feedback from the pilot test in 2013 and global public comments in 2012 and 2014.

Pilots are currently running to test online systems which might ease some of the pressure, but again, if an application is particularly tricky or requires explaining, it requires a personal review and this might take months.

What it takes to get support and implement is (A) having a problem that an AI product solves, (B) the ability to analyze the economic pros and cons of the solution to reach a financially sensible decision, (C) a willingness to run a proof of concept and or pilot to empirically test candidate products, (D) budget and available IT resources to deploy, and (E) a plan for user adoption.

Following the event Hackney Law Centre's are inviting selected groups to test their products on potential clients and take their solution further with Hackney Law Centre, with the aim of being used as a pilot by other law centers in the UK and Julie Bishop, Director of Law Centres Network spoke at the closing event on Saturday evening.