Sentences with phrase «test if any improvement»

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If you think changing specific elements could enhance your design, create another version based on your hypothesis and run an A / B test to see if there is any improvement in checkout rates with the new desigIf you think changing specific elements could enhance your design, create another version based on your hypothesis and run an A / B test to see if there is any improvement in checkout rates with the new desigif there is any improvement in checkout rates with the new design.

the proof of Gods presence in us is not limited to the material or biological evolutionary development only, but most important scientific proof is the effect of His will in historical development of the world.A computer program now used and tested a powerful machine by inputing all recorded events in history during the last hundreds years and found out that it has a purpose and not random.Meaning that an intelligent being could have influence it.It is now presumed by the religious observers that it could be His will.The process now is under improvement, because the computers is not powerl enough the deluge of information and data since the beginning of history, some analyst believes that in them near future if the Quantum computers which is much powerful than the present coventional will be used, then dramatic results and confirmation will be at hand.

If there be any divine warrant for a church (in this day), there is a divine warrant for a Creed, as a test of union, a bond of fellowship, a fence against error, and a shield against that spirit of restless inspiration, which esteems every novelty an improvement....

Test score improvement, if assessed over a few years, can identify those at the very top and bottom of the teacher effectiveness scale.

Fariña and Elia's close relationship may be tested this summer, when seven «persistently struggling» New York City schools may be turned over to an outside receiver if they fail to meet certain improvement benchmarks agreed upon by the city and state.

Each patient in the trial will undergo a battery of tests to see if there is any improvement in their condition.

«They were not developed for cancer, they were manufactured for people with hypercholesterolemia [chronic condition where patients have very high level of cholesterol in their blood], but it will be interesting for us to test them with cancer patients and see if there is improvement.»

And importantly, we're combining therapeutic trials with testing these new biomarkers out of the laboratory, in humans, to ask if the biomarkers can let us detect disease or improvement even faster.

I will get some blood tests soon so I shall be able to say if there is an improvement in my health markers compared to the times I did not consume all these fatty nuts / seeds.

So now I am following your liver, adrenal, and gut guide - just started the gut protocol, laying off the pork and almonds (bloating, etc.) and if I don't see improvement from there I guess I will need to request to be tested for an infection or something else.

If it is possible to follow the infant with IgE - mediated allergy with SPTs and / or specific IgE determination, improvement of these tests would help in choosing the time point of challenge.

Further lab testing including blood and stool tests may be performed to assess improvement and certainly if there is any worsening in symptoms.

If positive, antibody testing can be repeated every six months to trend improvement while you are working with an integrative physician to address possible underlying causes.

I have another article here that talks about 2 foods worth doing a test for eliminating from your diet, and see if you notice improvements in energy and health.

Even if your antibody tests are negative, if you have symptoms triggered by gluten exposure — and an elimination diet to remove gluten is followed by an improvement in those symptoms — you can be diagnosed with nonceliac wheat sensitivity.

(the only kind I like on a bed of rice) I should get another test done to see if there has been any improvements.

Over 8 biweekly blood tests we had noticed that every time I fasted 20/4 (20 hours water only and 4 hours of feeding window) my bloodwork showed improvements but when I went for vacation and dropped IF as low as 12/12 (12 hours fasting and 12 hours eating) my blood work did not show the same effect.

I probably shouldn't be doing more than one new thing at once, but if my lipids show a decent improvement by my February test, I'll stay with it and eventually try working in more saturated fats.

A blood test will be able to determine what your biotin levels are and if the doctor suspects this is the culprit of your symptoms, a supplement will be recommended to see if there's an improvement to your health.

It may be helpful to test it as a baseline, and then do follow - up testing after various interventions to see if there was any improvement.

The real test is to eliminate these suspect foods for at least 2 weeks, see how you feel, and then if you aren't feeling like you have made significant improvements in your health, reintroduce them and see what happens.

We're testing this out to see if users like it, and we're always making improvements.»

The greatest improvements should be seen among schools that had already received one F grade from the state, since their students would become eligible for vouchers if they received a second F. To test this hypothesis, average FCAT scale - score improvements for schools were broken out by the grade they received the year before.

We have been crystal clear that if after three years data shows that principals who were instructional leaders have not seen improvement in student achievement, state tests, and any other assessments, they have not met the goal.

TheWashington Post's Jay Mathews pointed out, in 2012, that the new assessments would «delay, if not stop altogether, the national move toward rating teachers by student score improvements» and that radical change would force systems «to wait years to work out the kinks in the tests» before they could resume those efforts.

«We have data that shows that if teachers scored high on their evaluations, students showed improvement on state tests.»

Although it is possible that the additional course material taught in G&T classes is poorly aligned with topics covered in the achievement test, research documenting the benefits of being placed with higher - ability peers suggests that we should see improvements, even if that were the case.

Looking back, I can see that my colleagues and I were struggling to counteract powerful tendencies that work against high student achievement in urban schools: If teachers work in isolation, if there isn't effective teamwork, if the curriculum is undefined and weakly aligned with tests, if there are low expectations, if a negative culture prevails, if the principal is constantly distracted by nonacademic matters, if the school does not measure and analyze student outcomes, and if the staff lacks a coherent overall improvement plan — then students fall further and further behind, and the achievement gap becomes a chasIf teachers work in isolation, if there isn't effective teamwork, if the curriculum is undefined and weakly aligned with tests, if there are low expectations, if a negative culture prevails, if the principal is constantly distracted by nonacademic matters, if the school does not measure and analyze student outcomes, and if the staff lacks a coherent overall improvement plan — then students fall further and further behind, and the achievement gap becomes a chasif there isn't effective teamwork, if the curriculum is undefined and weakly aligned with tests, if there are low expectations, if a negative culture prevails, if the principal is constantly distracted by nonacademic matters, if the school does not measure and analyze student outcomes, and if the staff lacks a coherent overall improvement plan — then students fall further and further behind, and the achievement gap becomes a chasif the curriculum is undefined and weakly aligned with tests, if there are low expectations, if a negative culture prevails, if the principal is constantly distracted by nonacademic matters, if the school does not measure and analyze student outcomes, and if the staff lacks a coherent overall improvement plan — then students fall further and further behind, and the achievement gap becomes a chasif there are low expectations, if a negative culture prevails, if the principal is constantly distracted by nonacademic matters, if the school does not measure and analyze student outcomes, and if the staff lacks a coherent overall improvement plan — then students fall further and further behind, and the achievement gap becomes a chasif a negative culture prevails, if the principal is constantly distracted by nonacademic matters, if the school does not measure and analyze student outcomes, and if the staff lacks a coherent overall improvement plan — then students fall further and further behind, and the achievement gap becomes a chasif the principal is constantly distracted by nonacademic matters, if the school does not measure and analyze student outcomes, and if the staff lacks a coherent overall improvement plan — then students fall further and further behind, and the achievement gap becomes a chasif the school does not measure and analyze student outcomes, and if the staff lacks a coherent overall improvement plan — then students fall further and further behind, and the achievement gap becomes a chasif the staff lacks a coherent overall improvement plan — then students fall further and further behind, and the achievement gap becomes a chasm.

And, as if to rebut Ravitch directly, Kemple reported that «the improvement trend continues even taking into account New York state's recent recalibration of test scores.»

Even if the largest estimates of peer effects are correct, however, the improvement in peers» prior test scores would appear to benefit KIPP students» achievement only by about 0.07 to 0.09 standard deviations after four years at KIPP.

Taken together, we believe we have spelled out an approach to standardized testing grounded in the fact that assessments can gather critical information about our students» growth and our own teaching practice, while acknowledging that this potential will be lost if we ignore the need for improvements to our current system.

Although 11 educators were convicted of cheating on state tests (and it would likely have been 12 if not for the death of former Superintendent Beverly Hall), the city made remarkable improvements on low - stakes measures of educational progress such as the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

Second, Rick thinks there is an inconsistency in my suspicion that test - prep and manipulation are largely responsible for test score improvements by Milwaukee choice schools after they were required to take high - stakes tests, while I interpret research from Florida as showing schools made exceptional test score gains when faced with the prospect of having vouchers offered to their students if scores did not improve.

So as quickly as fast - growing districts in Texas and California adopt year - round education, educators in more stable districts, citing among other reasons minimal if any improvement in test scores, are reinstating the traditional summer break.

If schools facing voucher competition were only appearing to improve by somehow manipulating Florida's high - stakes testing system, we would not have seen a corresponding improvement on another test that no one had incentives to manipulate.

It is not hard to imagine, then, a scenario under which Villaraigosa a few years from now will cite some dramatic if narrow improvements in the test scores of the students in the schools under his control, while ducking responsibility for the problems that remain in the broader district.

From these teachers» perspectives, the test data might have had value if they had enabled teachers to disaggregate student performance across skills and make inferences about specific areas needing improvement.

If I was a principal of a school with a lot of kids who were in danger of not meeting proficiency levels on high - stakes math tests, I'd be seriously considering whether these kinds of adaptive systems might lead to improvements.

Since 2002, those gains have counted for half a school's grade, allowing campuses where students struggled on state tests to still earn decent grades, if many students showed lots of improvement.

However, if the NAEP results are accurate, it is not true that poor children are now at least getting the basics: the score increases on state (or local, as in Chicago) tests simply indicates that somewhat different particular things are taught, but overall NAEP results show there usually is no improvement in states which test the most and use tests for high - stakes decisions about students.

Frederick Hess, director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, thinks we need to wait and see if performance tasks really do represent an improvement over old tests.

The Test - Based Evidence On New Orleans Charter Schools Shanker Blog — April 27, 2012 This blog from the Albert Shanker Institute questions whether student performance in New Orleans really has improved since Katrina, and also, if improvement does exist, is it actually due to the expansion of charter schools or is it just different students and more money.

Of course, we'd be able to tell a lot more about whether the improvements are real if we were comparing the scores of kids in New Orleans schools with other scores from across the country by having them take the same tests everyone else does.

If standardized testing is such a valuable tool for school improvement, why do so many educators oppose it?

In the future, there should be a debate on this point: If one agrees there is value in well - designed standardized tests that measure what students learn, then the new tests, with performance tasks and short answers that measure problem solving and critical thinking, will be an improvement.

And if students» improvement in local assessments doesn't show up on the state tests, then something is wrong.

I am not sure if Nissan has done any improvements, but I really felt the car was quieter than the one I test drove last year.

«We also wanted to evaluate a group of vehicles that automakers wouldn't expect us to test to see if crashworthiness improvements in mainstream cars also are being built into convertibles.

Do test the OS and tell us if you notice the improvements.

This OS improvement is coming perfectly, especially if we consider that there won't be any Ice Cream Sandwich or Jelly Bean future official updates released for the Galaxy S smartphones (due hardware limitation), so by applying this tutorial you will be able to install and test an Android 4.1 based ROM on your own device.