Sentences with phrase «test items across»

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Dunkin' Donuts, a division of Dunkin' Brands (DNKN), has started tests on several items across the country that are a bit fancier than its standard fare of donuts and coffee, confirms a company spokeswoman.

Testing different items across the campaigns you run will help you to understand what works and what doesn't work.

Basically, a new committee of teacher volunteers from across the state would review all exam questions after the items had been tried out on a pilot basis in «field tests» conducted among sample groups of students statewide.

Sub-Project One: collection of Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) ratings and comparison with PISA difficulty ratings; a study of differential item functioning across tests delivered in13 countries.

After that, they will test the new items in classrooms across the country to see if the changes can improve ELL students» test performance.

The study includes results from 359 multiple - choice test items administered to over 20,000 students in grades 4 through 12 from across the U.S..

The participants took part in a memory test known as the «Treasure - Hunt Task», where they were asked to hide items around complex scenes (for example, a desert with palm trees) across two «days».

One of the key considerations in designing a field test is the number of common items shared across the multiple forms.

In a «Research Notes» item entitled «Testing 1, 2, 3,» you summarized a research article of mine on the relative amount of student testing across couTesting 1, 2, 3,» you summarized a research article of mine on the relative amount of student testing across coutesting across countries.

ExamView offers a bank of thousands of test items aligned to state standards across subjects which teachers can use to create and administer online quizzes and tests, and which refreshes with new items if the same student takes the quiz again.

Research efforts are aimed, for example, at ensuring bias - free results, validity of technology - enhanced items, stability of measuring student growth across time, developing testing accommodations for students with special needs, software for computer - based testing, and technical support and scoring for local standards - based assessments in Iowa and the nation.

If this were true, one would expect the patterns of test - score gains across items to differ for low - versus high - performing students and schools.

The Naiku platform allows educators to create, share, import and deliver rich standards aligned quizzes and tests in any subject area, using graphics, multimedia clips and hyperlinks to query students with multiple item types.With automated scoring and built - in analysis tools, teachers can inform and differentiate instruction within the classroom, and data can be shared across the school and district to enhance best practices.

Important here is the need to remember that assessments capable of both predicting performance on state tests and tracking progress toward achievement of state standards must include items across the entire range of skills necessary for demonstrating proficiency in the standards.

We find that the estimated gaps are strongly associated with the proportions of the test scores based on multiple - choice and constructed - response questions on state accountability tests, even when controlling for gender achievement gaps as measured by the NAEP or NWEA MAP assessments, which have the same item format across states.

Mean scores were then calculated across the pre - and postsurvey administrations by item as well as by category and analyzed using a paired samples t - test.

Re the 12 - week window, several factors are that item - tryout studies are not strongly sensitive to time - of - instructional year like operational programs where you want all students taking the test within a relatively small window for comparisons across students or groups of students, nor are you generally concerned about test security since it is a low stakes research data collection.

On behalf of parents of public school students across Connecticut, I am writing to request that you add an agenda item to the April 6, 2015 State Board of Education Committee meeting to review and address the actions taken by your Interim Commissioner of Education and other State Department of Education staff as they relate to the issue of a parent's fundamental and inalienable right to opt their children out of the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing program and how local school districts should deal with children whose parents have opted them out of the SBAC testing.

The state assembles six to 12 educators from across Massachusetts for each grade (and sometimes subject area) that's being tested to go through items with them, one by one.

This study was conducted to determine 1) whether items / tasks perform similarly across paper and computer - based tests, and 2) whether student performance is similar on computer - based tests and paper - based tests.

During your testing, you will come across two types of questions, which are ranked items and multiple - choice answers.

During your testing, you will come across two type of questions, which are ranked items and multiple - choice answers.

Studies need to employ multi-group confirmatory factor analyses and differential item functioning to test whether measurement models are equivalent across subgroups (e.g., gender) and whether individual items or scales are biased against certain subgroups.

In conclusion, Exploratory Factor Analyses from data in Study 1 indicated support for five factors: social consequences; to include concerns regarding how parents, friends, classmates and teachers may view test performance; item types; to include items related to anxiety across item formats; and temporal aspects of anxiety; that is how stress is felt before, during, and after an exam.

Factorial invariance analyses tested whether item - factor loadings and threshold values differed significantly across time.

Two reasonable correlated error residuals were added between similar items across time, as suggested by the LM test, for fit improvement.