Sentences with phrase «test time improvements»

Achieved significant manufacturing cost savings and production speed / test time improvements.

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The advantage with multivariate testing is that you can find the optimum combination of website elements in a shorter space of time and achieve significant improvements in the website's performance; the disadvantage is that it takes a considerable amount of traffic to get accurate results.

Analysis of the data showed on average a 3.4 % decline in postmarathon treadmill tests in the placebo group and a 2.6 % improvement in postmarathon treadmill test times in the compression group.

Instead of focusing on the final performance results of a test or paper (in other words, the grades), talk about the learning and revision process and improvement over time.

Results of the sepsis education effort showed improved frequency of blood culture testing before antibiotic administrations and significant improvement — a 50 percent reduction — in the time to antibiotic treatment from a mean of 182 minutes to 92 minutes.

Our aim was to determine whether repetitive dynamic stereo testing with a limited time frame can induce a significant long - lasting improvement of stereo processing time in a group of young athletes with highly developed stereo acuity.»

In one test — determining what a paper folded several times over and then cut might look like when unfolded — students who had listened to Mozart seemed to show significant improvement in their performance (by about eight to nine spatial IQ points).

However by day 7 the hGDABMP group showed a robust improvement to 3.75 + / − 1.5 mistakes, and by 28 days post injury / transplantation, the last time point tested, the 9W - 1 hGDABMP group made an average of only 3.0 + / − 0.7 mistakes, compared to 5.5 + / − 1.0 and 5.1 + / − 0.8 mistakes for hGPC treated and control groups respectively (p < 0.05, Fig. 5 B).

The normal hydration group showed noticeable improvement in the completion time of the trail - making test after cycling when compared to their pre-cycling test.

Now is the time to test your improvement.

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.

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.

The accuracy of this test still has room for improvement, as it can vary depending on the time of day and other factors, but it is a much better indication of heart disease risk than a cholesterol test (which is practically useless for determining heart disease risk).

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.

As long as your MAF tests show improvement, it's time to incorporate a little bit of anaerobic work.

Despite numerous graphical improvements, more complex control schemes, colour commentary and a host of detailed play modes, NHL 94 still stands the test of time as a game that is just pure fun to pick up and play.

Over an average of five weeks the blended students» improvement between the entrance and the exit test was 9 points, compared to an average score increase of 3 points for the students in the control groups during the same time period.

We look at the students» scores on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) tests in math and reading (ELA) and improvements in those test scores over time.

For example, Krueger (1998) uses data from the NAEP and documents test score increases over time, with large improvements for disadvantaged children from poor urban areas; the Current Population Survey shows declining dropout rates since 1975 for those from the lowest income quartile (Digest of Education Statistics, NCES 2012).

We analyzed the test - score improvements made between each student's first 3rd - grade year and the following year on both the state's own accountability exam and the Stanford - 9, a nationally normed exam administered at the same time as the FCAT but not used for accountability purposes.

And progress won't be fast; it will take quite some time simply to repair the damage that test - based accountability has produced, let alone to make the sizable improvements we want.

The conclusion is that improvements on the state - based tests reflect «score inflation», with NAEP providing the more accurate indication of trends over time.

The improvement in Texas accelerated over time, however, and the past few years» improvement are most likely due to true learning of the material tested by the examinations - particularly as Texas's curriculum and tests became more closely aligned.

The ideal assessment will be more nuanced, gathering student data over time but also looking at the small, yet significant improvements in achievement, such as higher grades or increased participation in class, which might not be immediately reflected in students» test scores.

«Based on their study, English and King recommend that in the primary years, teachers should spend more time with the class «unpacking the outcomes» of the initial design (in this case the first test flight) and engage and scaffold students in discussions regarding areas for improvement before students move onto redesign,» Rosicka says.

For these teachers, we can test whether improvement over time in the practices measured by TES is related to improvement in the achievement gains made by the teachers» students.

The researchers found, for example, that a school with improvements in school climate and violence in one time period tended not to see test score gains in a subsequent time period.

But by the end of the first year, their scores on standardized tests showed the most improvement in English among district middle schools and exceptional growth in math, according to a Times analysis.

In Smith's model, as it was refined over time, curriculum standards serve as the fulcrum for educational reform implemented based on state decisions; state policy elites aim to create excellence in the classroom using an array of policy levers and knobs — all aligned back to the standards — including testing, textbook adoption, teacher preparation, teacher certification and evaluation, teacher training, goals and timetables for school test score improvement, and state accountability based on those goals and timetables.

Overall, Leading Educators reports, students taught by teams led by Leading Educators fellows achieved five times more improvement on state standardized tests than their district counterparts in Kansas City in 2011 — 12, and 12 times more than their counterparts across the districts they serve in New Orleans.

At the same time these states are making improvements in teaching and learning and helping students reach higher standards, they're also making improvements in testing to reduce pressure on tests, shorten testing time and make sure that tests have value for students and parents.

At a time when student performance on state tests is used to judge everything from teacher effectiveness to school improvement to a high school senior's right to a diploma, many in the education world have been pushing hard for better assessments.

In response to mixed test results at Barry, the district sought additional resources and supports for the school's expanded - learning - time program through a School Improvement Grant it received from the state of Connecticut in 2014.

Some even display pupils» attendance, behaviour and test scores in real - time on video screens in corridors and staffrooms, so teachers can see where improvement was needed.

By not giving the test TO THE SAME COHORT multiple times, no improvement can possibly be shown.

In Meriden, where test scores are low due to poverty and language barriers, is a 5 percent improvement in the 4th grade master test in reading the same, equal to or less than a 1 % improvement in Avon where test scores start out three times higher.

A significant number of schools that received School Improvement Grants — as many as half — were not included in the analysis for a variety of reasons, including missing data, the schools were shut down or the state tests were changed, making it impossible to compare scores over time.

«They take longer and we get less test information per unit time spent, «said Scott Marion, associate director of the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment and an advisor to PARCC.

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.

According to PEAC members, some of the issues that PEAC and state officials should look at include the requirement that statewide test data be included in evaluations, the strict formulaic approach of the system that limits judgment and takes an inordinate amount of time away from teaching and learning, specified teacher rating categories that interfere with improvement, and evaluator training that may not ensure calibration.

The study determined healthier meals cost approximately $ 80 more per year per student; to achieve similar testing improvements through reducing class sizes by hiring more teachers would cost five times as much.

Did Principal Oh not see areas for improvement and did Principal Oh not spend time evaluating prior year test results for Caruso (and all the school's teachers) and see any red flags that would indicate that all did not shine so brightly after all?

They show that for the first time in two decades, the math scores of 4th graders across the nation were flat, showing no improvement on how 4th graders performed when last tested in 2007.

It lets educators know who needs extra help while there's still time to provide it — a great improvement over the «end of course» testing that has always yielded results long after students had left the classroom.

Studies of students who attend high - quality programs for a significant period of time show improvements in academic performance and social competence, including better grades, improved homework completion, higher scores on achievement tests, lower levels of grade retention, improved behavior in school, increased competence and sense of self as a learner, better work habits, fewer absences from school, better emotional adjustment and relationships with parents, and a greater sense of belonging in the community.

I am sorry that The Times has taken up the cause of evaluating teachers based on improvement in student test scores.

The value - added assessments of teachers — which use improvements in student test scores to evaluate teacher effectiveness — has grown in popularity across the country with support from the federal Department of Education, which has tied teacher evaluations to the Race to the Top state - grant program, reports the New York Times.

Other research, this time by Northwestern University, proved that private schools actually have a positive effect on public schools, through a statistically significant improvement in student performance on state math and reading tests.

Equitas Academy's 2012 - 2013 API score: 894 The Academic Performance Index (API) is a single number assigned to each school by the California Department of Education to measure overall school performance and improvement over time on statewide testing.

In short, the principals were forced to make hard choices: Should they allocate coaches» time toward activities designed to meet highly consequential, short - term goals related to students» test scores, or toward longer - term (and more amorphous) goals related to teachers» instructional improvement?