Sentences with phrase «testing agency»

Once this is done, the makers will have to seek type approval from the government approved testing agencies after the prototype passes through all the required standards.

This examination is administered by an independent testing agency.

The Golf was awarded a maximum five - star rating by the EuroNCAP crash testing agency along with a maximum five - star safety rating by the Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP).

While we do not sell, distribute, or copy these exams, practice exams and study materials are widely and inexpensively available from testing agencies, libraries and other sources.

However, Chrysler's automobiles are rated by an independent consumer products testing agency as being the worst re quality of the big three domestic brands.

In other words, NAEP has been identifying gains that are somewhere between two and three times as large as those recorded by two respected international testing agencies that do not have a political stake in showing rising levels of student achievement in any particular country.

The Standards and Testing Agency states that the child has 45 minutes to complete the test, answering the questions in the answer booklet.

Commenting on the accidental publication of key stage 1 (KS1) spelling, punctuation and grammar (SPAG) tests online by the Standards and Testing Agency earlier this month, Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) said:

The schools minister Nick Gibb announced in April that primary schools would not have to administer the controversial test in May, and ordered an investigation after Schools Week revealed that the paper had been available to download from the website of the Standards and Testing Agency for several months.

(* as certified by Test Agency under Rule 115 of CMVR 1989).

USADA also became the drug - testing agency of choice for fighters advised by Al Haymon, who is now the most powerful person in boxing.

The College Board, the Educational Testing Service, and other testing agencies last week filed a suit asking a federal court to allow them to offer some of their examinations in New York State without disclosing the questions and answers, as state law currently requires.

After all, Greenpeace says it is doing this to inform and empower consumers, so why not enlist the aid of consumer testing agencies?

The product testing agency on Thursday gave the new, high - performance P85D version of the automaker's Model S a rating of 100 — a perfect score — calling it «the best - performing car that Consumer Reports has ever tested.»

The test, available at the UPMC / UPCI Multidisciplinary Thyroid Center and other diagnostic testing agencies, improved the chances of patients getting the correct initial surgery by 30 percent, according to the study published this month in the Annals of Surgery.

An anti-nuclear test agency installs a key part of a hydroacoustic monitoring system on the remote French - administered Crozet Islands.

Meanwhile, a second testing agency, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, has given the Chevrolet Volt a «G,» the highest safety score possible, after side crash tests on the front, side, rear and rollovers.

Ofqual has recommended that the Standards and Testing Agency redesigns its tests for moderators and keeps the approach to assessment of writing under review.

Because the number of countries participating in the 12 test administrations changed from one administration to the next, and because testing agencies have made no attempt to link their results to one another, we needed to develop comparable scores for each test.

Nancy S. Cole confirmed Jan. 7 that she will retire once her successor is hired to lead the giant nonprofit testing agency that runs the SAT college - admissions tests, the Advanced Placement tests, teacher - screening exams, and several graduate - admissions tests.

You must request that official test scores be sent directly to the Admissions Office from the appropriate testing agency; photocopies of test scores are not acceptable.

It is true that many (but certainly not all) high schools offer some AP courses that prepare students for one or more of the thirty - four end - of - course examinations available from Education Testing Service (ETS), a nationally respected, private testing agency.

However, the idea of a national teacher assessment system to replace levels has today been rejected by both Ofqual and the Standards and Testing Agency amid fears that such a system could «quash» the «richness of formative assessment».

The study from the Standards and Testing Agency concluded that the tests in literacy and numeracy, with three separate systems in use, were not sufficiently comparable.

The Standards and Testing agency published their «Key stage 2 science — sampling 2016» in July 17.

A Standards and Testing Agency spokesperson said: «Pupils, parents and schools have the right to expect test papers to be marked accurately and the Government ensures these tests are marked to a high standard.

Furthermore, due to provisions set forth in the Americans with Disabilities Act, the courts have determined that testing agencies such as the Educational Testing Service (ETS) may not report to colleges about a student's testing accommodations.

Without an independent testing agency quantifying the integrity of the claims for a particular vehicle we can't in good conscience recommend it.

Testing agencies like the Insurance Institute For Highway Safety (IIHS) always include a head restraint test among the many they conduct for this very reason.

Pipeline Safety: Post Accident Drug and Alcohol Testing AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA); DOT.

The Mazda5's J - NCAP six - star rating marks the first time a minivan has won the maximum possible crash safety protection ratings from both European and Japanese testing agencies.

Government will issue notice to Volkswagen Group over «significant variations» that have been found by testing agency ARAI in on - road emission levels, compared to laboratory measurements, of the firm's three diesel models in India — Jetta, Audi A4 and Vento.

Tesla says it expects the Model X to receive full five - star safety ratings from global test agencies - including Europe's NCAP.

Recommendation: The Secretary of Education should more thoroughly test the agency's approach to estimating Income - Driven Repayment plan costs, including by conducting more comprehensive sensitivity analysis on key assumptions and adjusting those assumptions (such as the agency's Public Service Loan Forgiveness participation assumption) to ensure reasonableness.

regarding the eventual lobbying power od testing agencies.

Tested agency support software and worked with programmers to create streamlined processes and user friendly tools.

One car crash testing agency that you may know is the Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP).

The latest results from the math and science tests administered by the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), the respected international testing agency, show gains of only 0.8 percent of a standard deviation yearly between 1995 and 2011.

Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of ATL, comments on the accidental publication of KS1 spelling, punctuation and grammar (SPAG) tests online by the Standards and Testing Agency earlier this month.

The company solicited feedback from customers both before and during the initial rollout through a partnership with Applause, a mobile product testing agency, and put the app in the hands of consumers to gauge what they did and didn't like about it.

But in other sports at this level, it's not uncommon to have to tell the testing agency where you'll be, every day for the calendar year.

In early March, USADA presented the Pacquiao camp with a contract that allowed the testing agency to grant a retroactive therapeutic use exemption (TUE) to either fighter in the event that the fighter tested positive for a prohibited drug.

USADA is a drug - testing agency.

On 28 November, William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for NASA's human - exploration division, presented plans to test the agency's next generation of heavy - lift rockets with trips to the vicinity of the Moon in 2017 and 2021.

The Government Village returns bigger and better than before, staffed by representatives from the Department for Education, Education & Skills Funding Agency, Schools Commercial Team and the Standards & Testing Agency.

A spokesperson for the Standards and Testing Agency, part of the DfE, said: «Reducing unnecessary teacher workload is a key priority for this government.

Ofqual said moderators were critical of the way a script was used for the centralised training delivered by the Standards and Testing Agency to two people from each local authority and the faxt that attendees not allowed to asked questions.

The Standards and Testing Agency has recently reminded headteachers that they have a statutory duty to ensure that all pupils in their school who are eligible and can sit the tests do so.

The document urges the testing agencies...