Sentences with phrase «test in the given subject»

For example, if wholesale cheating had occurred on one test in a given subject within a particular classroom, it was ten times more likely that cheating on a test in another subject would be identified in the same classroom.

The state requires that students must have at least a 3.0 grade point average (or at least a 2.0 GPA for students wishing to take Career and Technical Education courses) and must pass a college placement test in the given subject in order to participate.

Not exact matches

In a German study, researchers gave two groups of subjects, one well - rested and one sleep - deprived, a math test.

He told CNBC that the stress tests will show a gap in the banks» capital positions, though not a «dramatic one» given that there is a political component around this subject.

It tells the story of «the guinea pigs»» the people most likely to be research subjects in Phase I trials, which test the safety of a drug under development by giving it to healthy subjects and examining any side effects they experience.

She gives concrete how - to's on managing visits (use the in - law test), talking to the public about your adoption (educate, use humor, ask a question or say it's private), handling difficult subjects and feelings with your kids (depersonalize the situation), and coaching your kids on how to handle comments from peers (choose whether to share, walk away, educate or say «it's private»)....

Each subject was given a standard word - retrieval test, in which she was presented with a list of semantically related words (such as rest, dream, nap, tired).

Researchers gave personality tests to 235 subjects — from teens to people in their 60s.

The subjects were given standard tests of musical aptitude, such as the ability to discern differences in the pitch or duration of two tones.

Before taking the treatments and then again two hours after, the subjects took taste tests where researchers gave them solutions of tastants in different concentrations and told them what taste to expect: sour, salt, sweet or bitter.

But while those studies have suggested that animals are able to understand what others see — giving them an advantage in competing for food, for example — they rely on the test subjects» ability to see another's head or eyes, providing so - called «gaze cues.»

That small trial, plus another in which Flex induced cramps and tested subjects» response to the supplement, gives the company bragging rights to say there's scientific evidence the product works.

When given various tests, the subjects saw significant boosts in memory performance.

In one study, obese test subjects were given a low - carb ketogenic diet and a low - fat diet.

In 2010, Indian researchers gave 35 infertile test subjects 200mg / day of shilajit extract for 90 consecutive days.

In these 2 studies, 6 obese, untrained subjects and 5 highly trained bicycle racers were tested for fitness and endurance at baseline, and then given 1.2 to 1.75 g of protein per kg of reference weight for 4 - 6 weeks of a ketogenic diet.

Some time ago, I viewed a video from the Doc about fenugreek giving test subjects improved strength and mass in a matter of weeks.

In the paper «Milk as a supplement to mixed meals may elevate postprandial insulinaemia ``, milk or water was given to test subjects in addition to their spaghetti meaIn the paper «Milk as a supplement to mixed meals may elevate postprandial insulinaemia ``, milk or water was given to test subjects in addition to their spaghetti meain addition to their spaghetti meal.

Half of the test subjects were given a mix of amino acids that approximated the composition of amino acids in whey protein, 26 percent of which consists of leucine.

In the lab, test subjects were given foods by a standardized weight (grams), because certain foods like carrots have more water and unavailable carbs like fiber, they had to give subjects seven carrots to equal the carbs of white bread.

Since the Functional Movement Screen has a good set of guidance to help raters decide on the category in which a single performance by any given subject must be placed, the test tends to display very good reliability between raters (Beardsley & Contreras, 2014b; Moran et al. 2015).

One group of test subjects consumed a diet high in fat and sugar, another group was fed a low - fat, high - sugar diet and a third group was given a balanced or «normal» diet.

That's madness...) has given me a real love for all things beauty and skincare related, and whilst I still consider myself a total dunce on the subject, I'm always so interested in testing new products, finding myself the perfect skincare routine, and perfecting the art of creating a beautiful day - to - day makeup look.

When money problems force him to become a test subject in an advanced augmented reality program, the fun seemingly starts in earnest: unnerving illusions give way to immersive nightmares that increasingly obscure reality.

But their strongest evidence comes from analyses that identify students who took one of those courses online and the other in person, and ask whether a given student's 10th - grade test scores were higher or lower in the subject he or she took online.

A few thousand well - selected subjects might give us an accurate picture of 4th graders in a state, but these types of tests can not be used to measure the performance of a student or school.

• too much school time is given over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices; • subjects and accomplishments that aren't tested — art, creativity, leadership, independent thinking, etc. — are getting squeezed if not discarded; • teachers are losing their freedom to practice their craft, to make classes interesting and stimulating, and to act like professionals; • the curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities; and • judging teachers and schools by pupil test scores is inaccurate and unfair, given the kids» different starting points and home circumstances, the variation in class sizes and school resources, and the many other services that schools and teachers are now expected to provide their students.

According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), which administers NAEP, the determination of proficiency in any given subject at a particular grade level «was the result of a comprehensive national process [which took into account]... what hundreds of educators, curriculum experts, policymakers, and members of the general public thought the assessment should test.

It came via yet another wonky study, The PISA 2009 Results: What Students Know and Can Do, reporting that on a test of math, reading and science given to fifteen year olds in sixty - five countries in 2009, Shanghai's 15 - year - olds topped those in every other jurisdiction in ALL THREE SUBJECTS.

The state is one of 12 that give standards - based tests in every core subject in every grade span.

When a high - VA teacher leaves a given subject - grade - school combination, test scores of subsequent students in that subject, grade, and school fall.

The new legislation maintains the NCLB mandate that standardized tests in math and reading be given annually in grades 3 through 8 and once in high school, and, in an effort to make other subjects as important, science tests three times between grades 3 and 12.

The numbers are unlikely to give fodder either to educational cheerleaders or alarmists: The average score in both subjects was just one point lower in 2015 compared with the last time the test was given, in 2013.

The tests were only in math and reading, leading schools to focus on those subjects and giving short shrift to history, science, physical education and the arts.

Moreover, there are statistical shocks to achievement in a given school and subject — such as a dog barking in the parking lot on the day of the test — which could also introduce a mechanical relationship between the value - added estimates from prior years and student's baseline achievement this year (Kane and Staiger 2002).

SAT II: Reasoning Test A one - hour test given in specific subjects such as mathematics, science, English, or foreign languaTest A one - hour test given in specific subjects such as mathematics, science, English, or foreign languatest given in specific subjects such as mathematics, science, English, or foreign languages.

Some of these tests give only verbal and mathematics scores, while others offer additional subject scores in science and social studies.

The scores will apply to about 20 percent of all teachers in the state, given the limited number of teachers who have students taking the state tests in their subject areas.

Starting in the mid-1980s, a standards - based education reform movement emphasized beefed - up subject - matter content, with a test given at the end of the year to see whether students had «gotten» it.

Wisconsin will still be giving students the Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Exam in other subjects like science and social studies until new standards and tests are created, according to DPI.

Re: the US News article on top about ESSA: Chairwoman Foxx is right about the role of the federal government in America's K - 12 education system; and families can continue to pressure educrats like Mr Botel by opting out, wherever and whenever possible, from their local state schools until the federal government gives up on the continuing mistake of its annual testing requirement in two subjects only, which has produced no significant improvement in American education for 15 years now, but has cost us in lost opportunities, including time and energy that might have been devoted to non-tested subjects, including those in the broader curricula represented by the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, which requires assessment — including but not limited to external final exams — in six subjects distributed over at least five fields, an assessment approach that has been imitated by the world's leading educational jurisdictions, but is being discouraged by the ignorant Luddites in the the U.S. ED.

It gets more complex if students are given the choice between a standard test or an adaptive test and mix them up in various subject areas.

GreatSchools conveys this testing data through bar graphs depicting the percentage of students at a given school who tested as proficient or better in each subject.

Teachers create these tests based on the school's curriculum and learning expectations in a given subject area.

That is, bias (a highly controversial issue covered in the research literature and also on this blog; see recent posts about bias here, here, and here), does also appear to exist in this state and particularly at the school - level for (1) subject areas less traditionally tested and, hence, not often consecutively tested (e.g., from one consecutive grade level to the next), and given (2) the state is combining growth measures with proficiency (i.e., «snapshot») measures to evaluate schools, the latter being significantly negatively correlated with the populations of the students in the schools being evaluated.

Some districts define the value - added score as the average learning gain made by students on a standardized test in a given teacher's classroom, in a specific subject area, in a specific year.

After the tested subject teachers were threatened with a ten day suspension without pay for refusing to administer the MAP, the superintendent finally gave in at the end of the school year and announced that the test would no longer be mandatory at the high school level.

Public charter schools in Michigan are closing the performance gap with conventional district schools in some subjects, according to recently released results from a national assessment test that was given last year.

SB 1458 encourages giving more weight to social science and science tests in response to the widely shared criticism that a math - and English - heavy point system had discouraged K - 8 teachers from making time for other subjects.

«By requiring that test scores in two subjects and graduation rates be given preferential weight, [the regulations] discourage schools from supporting truly broad opportunities to learn and the skills necessary for a healthy society.