Sentences with phrase «test session as»

One teacher described the testing sessions as «child abuse.

Oliver shared the running of the No. 74 Corvette C6R with Tommy Milner for the test sessions as their endurance team mate, Richard Westbrook, was in the USA on Grand - Am duty.

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Gold climbed for the first time in three sessions on surging demand for the metal as a store of value while the dollar fell and investors prepared for the release later this week of U.S. bank stress tests.

BTC / USD Bitcoin fell during the trading session on Tuesday, as we are testing the $ 7000 region.

Specific test sessions are one thing, but Ross Brawn wants to introduce more ways for young drivers to gain F1 experience during actual race weekends so that they are better prepared for when they get their chance as F1 drivers.

They sorted the issue and got him out onto the circuit but he was two laps down and just had to get stuck in, using it as a test session and hoping for a miracle.

Yesterday's test at the Circuit de Barcelona - Catalunya was done in temperatures of 0 °C but today things got even worse as snow fell at the circuit, delaying the morning session.

The drivers set to test for the team are Jaden Conwright and Rasmus Lindh, as each will take part in the eight on - track sessions over the two - day period.

As a fitness test on Oct. 13 in Reno, where Holyfield trained before moving his camp to Las Vegas, the 28 - year - old Holyfield was put through a grueling 12 - round session against three sparring partners.

Last season, he participated in some practice sessions as a test driver for Force India alongside his duties in GP3, in which he secured the title convincingly, picking up half of the pole positions and feature race victories available.

So the Chiron already has a bit of a motorsport connection, and now that's been added to as two - time Indy 500 winner and former F1 driver Juan Pablo Montoya recently drove the car during a test session.

The 23 - year - old will conduct simulator work and potentially some test sessions for the Scuderia as he looks to keep his foot in the door in the sport.

He may feel better for a time after his session, but if he doesn't change his behavior and do his homework, he's going to feel just as bad the next time he fails a test.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania tested boxers and mixed martial arts (MMA) fighters before and after sparring sessions or bouts using the King - Devick (K - D) test, a simple, two - minute test in which the athletes were shown a set of three index cards with a series of numbers scattered across eight lines and asked to read the numbers as quickly as possible without any errors from left to right.

Still, education remains a top - tier issue, even as the more pitched battles over charter schools, teacher evaluations and classroom standards for testing have been quietly de-emphasized in recent legislative sessions.

But in recent weeks, Cuomo has indicated he will begin to emphasize a new direction in education after a legislative session that saw yet more changes to the state's teacher evaluation system that linked performance reviews to tenure as well as student test scores and in - classroom observation.

In his TU op / ed, Gov. Andrew Cuomo listed «campaign finance reform» as one issue in his litmus test for support of Senate lawmakers in the coming 2013 legislative session.

The department has been able to test as many as six water sample per month, in contrast to the previous two years, when «we basically got zero,» Mr. Collins said at Tuesday's Town Board work session.

After an hour - long informational session, a follow - up questionnaire found that nearly all attendees were able to correctly answer questions about the rationale for screening, the difference between the need for additional testing and a cancer diagnosis, the benefit of negative screenings as a baseline for future comparisons, and the continued importance of physical examinations.

In addition to this, swim teams at the PSV Eindhoven (Philips Sports Union Eindhoven) in the Netherlands tested the new system out for two months, using it as part of their technique training sessions.

The volunteers will undergo these tests after each session of Mozart:» [They] will give us an idea as to the listening skills of each participant in terms of the language being learned and allow us to chart their progress,» Cristina Pérez of the UPV tells us.

Researchers ran participants through a series of training sessions with a computerized test that was designed to become harder as the participants» scores rose and easier as their scores went down.

As part of the study, Daly and her colleagues had asked half of the people getting tested to participate in two coaching sessions to help them communicate their results to relatives, such as through role playinAs part of the study, Daly and her colleagues had asked half of the people getting tested to participate in two coaching sessions to help them communicate their results to relatives, such as through role playinas through role playing.

When most of the subjects were tested again after six months, their processing times were the same as in their last training session.

Other sessions focused on electronic health records, reimbursement, education of patients and their care givers, and such ethical, legal, and policy issues as privacy, patients» responsibility for their own health, and direct to consumer testing, among others.

The volunteers were tested for anxiety sensitivity levels before and after the sessions, as well as one month later.

Kessler Foundation will conduct single - session tests on each participant as they walk using the new powered orthosis, which is currently being developed at Stevens»

Just one 20 - minute Hatha yoga session has been shown to improve accuracy and speed on tests of inhibitory control and working memory, two measures of brain function responsible for the capability of remaining focused and absorbing as well as retaining information.

One thing I should throw in there for people listening in is, is that I personally, you know, also tend to look at a lot of blood and biomarkers because I do some work with WellnessFX as I know you do, Dr. Bryan, and you'll see often in someone who has exercised in the past 48 hours leading up to the test elevated liver enzymes because they tend to be elevated in response to a moderate to difficult exercise session, correct?

When subjects returned for session 3, the protocol remained the same as the previous 2 testing sessions, but neither group performed foam rolling between their 2 extended lunge positions.

There are plenty of powerful features and tools on this site, from personality tests to big chat rooms with quizzes, trivias and online games, as well as tons of communication methods, from e-mails and instant message tools to real time web cam chat sessions — all to make your dating life more interesting.

This special bundle will be available at Gamestop and Amazon in the US and at Gamestop.ca in Canda. In DiRT 3, players get behind the wheel to race through the snow, rain and dirt, competing as a professional driver across three continents — from the forests of Michigan to the infamous roads of Finland and the national parks of Kenya. DiRT 3â $ ™ s stunning new Gymkhana mode, inspired by Ken Block's incredible freestyle driving event, allows gamers to test their skills in free sessions or challenge events where they must complete courses by performing spectacular stunts, racking up combos and earning style points. Players can also play or compete with friends in split - screen or online multiplayer modes, and become Gymkhana stars by publishing spectacular runs direct to YouTube.

Encourage students to create a study planner to build in time for going to class and the library, as well as for study sessions for distributed practice over time to avoid cramming immediately before test time.

As befitting an article published in the nation's leading statistics journal, it introduces new statistical techniques to deal with problems that often emerge in randomized field trials: 1) missing data (for instance, not all students who initially joined the study participated in the follow - up testing sessions), and 2) noncompliance (some students, for example, refused the vouchers that were offered to them).

When using one - hour testing sessions to gauge student performance, combined reading and math scores serve as a better indicator of student achievement than either test separately.

«Design thinking» involves «creating many ideas in brainstorming sessions, and adopting a hands - on approach in prototyping and testing», as well as «ongoing experimentation: sketching, prototyping, testing, and trying out concepts and ideas».

A test administration team will debate how many test sessions there should be and whether the tests should be timed (as PARCC is) or untimed (as MCAS has been).

Class sessions that critiqued notions of social justice and multiculturalism, raised concerns about affirmative action or a culture of «victimhood,» advocated phonics and back - to - basics instruction, or were generally positive with regard to testing or choice - based reform were coded as «right leaning.»

Likewise, history class has a renewed relevance for Joe Leon's seniors at Fowler High School, as they put their civics knowledge to work conducting weekly study sessions for adult Punjabi immigrants studying for their American citizenship tests.

A 24 - week program of breath work, bodyscan awareness, movement, and sensorimotor awareness activities (12 sessions, delivered bimonthly) to first, second, and third graders found improvements in children's attention and social skills and decreased test anxiety in children who received training, as compared with randomly assigned controls.

Of course, during the legislative session, Haslam suffered a major setback as the Common Core - aligned PARCC tests were delayed by the General Assembly.

The «new and improved» summer school program CPS proposes sounds a lot like hours and hours of computer test prep: «weekly acceleration / intervention sessions as part of the full school day; access to instructional tool that provides focused lessons based on individual needs,» which CPS calls «personalization» (slide 14 of CPS PowerPoint Presentation)

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) negotiated rulemaking committee completed its third and final session today coming to consensus on the assessment (testing) issues but failing to reach agreement on supplement, not supplant (ESSA provisions requiring that federal Title I funds be used in addition to state and local education investments and not as a substitute for such).

District staff asked parents and educators what they wanted to learn about the assessment system, and they designed training sessions to address these topics, such as having parents analyze student test questions, helping teachers learn to score extended responses, and allowing teachers to explore accessibility and accommodations resources to find out which supports were the best fit for their students.

Using both classical test theory and modern measurement models contextualized to tests with given purposes, the pre-conference session attendees will explore the ideal distribution of item difficulty, the importance of item discrimination (and its location), as well as the use of distractor analysis to revise items and gain information about student understanding and ability.

As a result, during a collaborative work session, teachers scanned results of their new Smarter Balanced standardized tests.

The Senate passed legislation (S.B. 795 — The Excellent Public Schools Act) this session that would label students, schools, and teachers as failing on the basis of a standardized test score.

Central office leaders and principals will leave the session with field - tested tools and next steps to apply as soon as they return to their districts.

Beginning almost immediately, this accountability system, which had been rated by national organizations as the best in the country, came under relentless attack by a firestorm of misguided opposition to standardized and so - called «high stakes» testing that by the end of the legislative session in 2013 had virtually gutted the system.

Over the past three legislative sessions, the Texas public education accountability system, once rated by national organizations as the best in the country, has come under relentless attack by a firestorm of misguided opposition to standardized and so - called «high stakes» testing, so that by the end of the 2013 session, the system had essentially been gutted.