Sentences with phrase «test whether a student»

At the high school level, one assessment tested whether students were familiar with key social media conventions, including the blue checkmark that indicates an account was verified as legitimate by Twitter and Facebook.

The study tested whether the students» behavior would improve if they chose to agree to lose 20 percent of their weekly paycheck if they didn't instead meet a goal of increasing their paycheck by 10 percent.

The controversy arises when states attempt to test whether students have met a certain standard — and especially when they attach consequences to the results of such exams.

It is not designed to test whether students receive appropriate placement into special versus general education — indeed, no parent survey could be.

They're clearer — so you can test whether a student knows them.

They are a way for teachers to test whether their students are mastering material without having to develop their own exams, and they provide information to help teachers see how their students are doing compared to other students.

Not exact matches

The test includes sections on cultural awareness, the ability to resist extremism, and whether students can identify fake news.

Thirty years ago, when she was a medical student helping to create in - vitro fertilization babies at Toronto's East General Hospital, and never thought she'd be asked whether or not we should eat hamburgers made in test tubes.

The fake news element tests skills like whether a student can tell when data is being presented in a misleading way, and whether students can distinguish between facts, opinions, and propaganda.

In one experiment, researchers told the students the test they were taking would gauge their career success and then asked students whether they believed God had a hand in that success.

By comparing the six campuses that required statements of faith from all entering students with the three campuses that did not, the study was able to test whether a more «insular» setting actually served better to protect the plausibility of traditional beliefs.

Testing provides, sort of a snapshot, of a child's skill set and abilities at a given time, and allows a parent and a school to develop more appropriate expectations of the students; whether it's performance in school or ability to learn.

Remarkably, Jackson found that this simple noncognitive proxy was a better predictor than a student's test scores of whether the student would attend college, a better predictor of adult wages, and a better predictor of future arrests.

Students had the opportunity to test new items and results were used to determine whether the item would be placed on the upcoming menu.

An easy, two - minute vision test administered on the sidelines after a young athlete has hit his or her head can help to reliably determine whether the athlete has sustained a concussion, according to a new study of student athletes, some as young as 5.

In fact, you may be hearing some chatter this week with the start of the state testing season, as the New York State United Teachers union calls for fixing the benchmarks used to determine whether or not your student is proficient.

The calculated growth is determined by a New York State Education Department (NYSED) formula that factors in poverty, a student's prior test scores, whether a student has repeated a grade, whether a student is an English language learner or a student with disabilities.

Should the group decide that student test scores are invalid for rating teachers — and many Albany insiders expect that to be the case — it would be up to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and lawmakers to decide whether to rescind a state law that now links scores and evaluations.

It's unknown whether the retreat from the most controversial effects of the Common Core standards will quell a boycott movement that led to one fifth of students skipping the third through eighth grade standardized tests earlier this year.

«Parents have a right to know whether their children have equitable access to quality teachers, which is only possible with an evaluation system that properly incorporates student test results.»

New York State United Teachers president Richard Iannuzzi is calling for a three - year moratorium on using the test results for «high - stakes» decisions, such as whether to promote a student or discipline a teacher.

Elia and her aides noted that federal law requires state tests to be administered to students annually, regardless of whether assessments are also used in rating job performance of school employees.

ALBANY — A drive to repeal New York's legal requirement basing teacher job ratings largely on students» state tests scores ignited debate Monday over the question of whether repeal could mean «double testing» for students.

That would mean tens of thousands of students will continue to be tested against standards that don't tell them or their families whether they are prepared for college.

He says the commission should also look at changing a new requirement that 144 struggling schools in danger of state receivership be judged by their students» test scores and whether or not they opt out of the tests.

Tilles said local tests would take into account socio - economic background when calculating student performance, and that those calculations would include whether English is a student's first language.

Community colleges give placement exams to decide whether incoming students need remediation, but in some instances those exams test things that were never taught in high school.

«Whether it's making sure our students are ready for high school or simply helping them ace that test, Project BOOST provides today's students with the tools they need to be successful tomorrow.

Some school districts are reporting that 60 to 70 percent of students boycotted statewide English tests, raising questions about whether the federal government could withhold funds from schools with high opt out rates.

«By moving the eyes off the head, we could test whether people were really drawn to the eyes or just the head in general,» says study author Christina Starmans, a Ph.D. student at Yale University.

The students wondered whether it was possible to detect human - originated compounds in the water systems, and decided to find out by testing for cooking spices in local waters.

In research published last year with one of her graduate students, Katherine Motyl, she tested whether leptin could help mice avert the bone loss that can accompany type 1 diabetes.

Chan and colleagues are testing whether humans carry similar signs of stress in these RNA - loaded vesicles by studying college students» semen samples.

T o test whether BA can protect fruit from D. suzukii, Ray and his graduate student Christine Krause Pham conducted a series of experiments using two bowls of fresh, ripe blueberries — a preferred fruit of D. suzukii.

All Lake Preston students in grades 7 through 12 have had baseline testing, regardless of whether they participate in school sports, according to superintendent Tim Casper.

That was a good impulse, but they were asking students to make a decision about whether to get genetically tested without much information about the program.

The show got its start in 1999 when Smith, then a graduate student, was invited on a local radio show to explain how people could use materials from around the house to extract DNA from vegetables and test whether they were genetically modified.

«Among all of the variables we analyzed, whether a student attends a public pre-K program is the strongest predictor of whether the student takes the gifted and talented test.

Mosca also hopes to work with Mississippi's Department of Education to begin testing all students in selected high schools for HIV, whether or not they appear to fall into a high - risk group.

Students were then given the tests three times throughout the year to determine whether their knowledge improved.

The researchers asked the students whether they believed that humans are causing climate change, and they also had the students complete a test intended to reveal their automatic, instinctual preferences toward the politicians.

The findings held true for all students, regardless of whether they appeared likely or unlikely to attend selective schools, as predicted by student background characteristics such as race, gender, socioeconomic status, and pre-college test scores.

So researchers tested whether visual cues of healthful foods could increase consumption at a grade school with 800 students.

Jim A.C. Everett, Oxford PhD student and Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University, worked with Molly Crockett from Oxford and David Pizarro from Cornell University to test whether our default reliance on moral rules has an evolutionary basis.

For the current study, Jessica Childs, a graduate student in Kroener's lab, applied VNS to a test group of rats used in the study in a process called «extinction learning» to determine whether the procedure could help the animals learn different behaviors and reduce their drug cravings.

Others, however, question whether a greater reliance on video games is in students» best interests, indicating there is little proof that skillful game play translates into better test scores or broader cognitive development.

By 2007 Medler and Mundorff had resolved to test whether hidden graves could be found remotely, but they needed funding, and Mundorff was still a student.

The research team wanted to test whether certain students, who they label «social referents» or social influencers, have an outsized influence over school climate or the social norms and behavioral patterns in their schools.

«After testing the drug in mice, we wanted to check whether JQ1 would have the same effect in humans,» explained co-first author Sarah McMahon, a UCSF graduate student in Haldar's lab.

It is up to each individual student whether he or she would like to get tested, and that testing will be at the student's expense.