Sentences with phrase «testing students for testing»

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Accommodating for individual students» needs is a high - priority in the classroom, but the state tests hardly ever share the same philosophy.

Chipotle closed the location in question yesterday, and the students have been tested for E. Coli and the norovirus.

According to an independent study done by nonprofit researchers SRI International, students who used Dreambox for four months improved their test scores by about 5 percent.

When it comes to blood tests, which is what Cuban referred to specifically, Dr. Aaron E. Carroll explains at The Incidental Economist that at the Indiana University School of Medicine, he teaches «residents and medical students never, ever to order blood tests unless they are looking for a specific problem.»

China's testing was limited to Shanghai students, a narrow scope Lusardi likened to the U.S. testing only students in Washington, D.C. Still, China and other Asian countries typically rank among the top five for other school subjects — and OECD data showed some positive correlation between financial literacy skills and high performance in mathematics and reading.

The experiment itself was simple: a hundred and forty - five undergraduate students were given a standard test of creativity known as an «unusual use» task, in which they had two minutes to list as many uses as possible for mundane objects such as toothpicks, bricks, and clothes hangers.

Among the 18 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's assessment, the U.S. ranked at best eighth and at worst 12th, based on the range of scores from its 1,133 students tested.

To find out, they developed a series of five experiments in which they asked student volunteers to plan for a variety of daunting goals — from acing a tough test to nailing a dream job interview — by mapping out each action they'd need to complete to succeed.

College Board President David Coleman said the partnership aims to level the college admissions playing field by putting high - quality training within easy reach of students without the funds for commercial test - prep services or the family support often needed to stick with a self - paced practice book.

The OECD hoped that the test, which launches this year, would be taken alongside the organisation's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) test, which is used to compare education systems.

Mean test scores in reading (Programme for International Student Assessment) Mean test scores in science (Programme for International Student Assessment) % of those aged 25 - 64 who have attained tertiary level education Education expense, % of GDP

SokoText, from students at the London School of Economics, has been testing similar technology in Mathare Valley, Nairobi, by sending text messages from small - scale rural farmers to individuals in slums who want to secure wholesale prices for healthy produce once it arrives at a market.

As a psychology student at Harvard, he developed the lie detector test but failed to win acceptance for it.

When Rip Pruisken and Marco De Leon started testing recipes for their Amsterdam - style stroopwafels (thin waffles with sweet flavoring), they were students living in Brown University's dorm and often blew out the power in the building with their industrial press.

Coursera has already tested the waters of charging students for certificates of completion, and edX has struck deals with corporations and other non-profits like the International Monetary Fund to power their internal training courses online.

Johnston: For students, it's the instant nature of getting over a roadblock in your homework or the test that you're studying fFor students, it's the instant nature of getting over a roadblock in your homework or the test that you're studying forfor.

The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Sydney and examined three groups of students, who were tasked with completing an «alternate uses» test — a common creativity drill wherein subjects are given an object and asked to come up with as many uses for it as they can.

The researchers worked with the Association of Former Students at Texas A&M to test the donation responses of alums who were solicited for money during a regular direct - mail fundraising campaign.

They then tested the students for the so - called dark triad of personality traits to get a sense of their levels of narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy.

Project Wing most recently made headlines in September for flying Chipotle burritos to students at Virginia Tech to test how a drone delivery program might work.

Instead, he said, it might make more sense for Stoneman Douglas or the Broward school district to provide students with extra academic support, like an Algebra I refresher, before they take the test.

«The Governor signed a law this year that provides an abundance of exemptions and flexibility for testing for all students at MSDHS this year,» said communications director John Tupps in a statement.

Will be building a Hyperloop test track for companies and student teams to test out their pods.

The median GMAT score for its latest entering class of 710 is pretty darn impressive, considering that most of these students haven't taken a standardized test in more than 15 years.

Mohawk's $ 1.8 million Additive Manufacturing Resource Centre in Hamilton, Ontario will serve as a test lab for advanced manufacturing companies and a one - of - a-kind living lab for students from Mohawk's Faculty of Engineering Technology.

In your article around Baltimore's technology gap («Computer - based tests a challenge for low - income students, some Baltimore teachers say,» April 22), we read that students who took the PARCC scored lower when they took the test on a computer than when they used paper and pencil.

The Council for Economic Education recently surveyed all 50 states and reported only 6 require testing students on their financial knowledge.

A: God uses evil as a learning tool to draw us closer to him (like a test does for students)

In fact, the researchers report that «if similar success could be achieved for all minority students nationwide, it could close the gap between white and minority test scores by at least a third, possibly by more than half.»

Comparing national test scores, Catholic schools in general (as with most private schools) perform better in both reading and math than public schools although the advantage is stronger in reading than in Math though the difference in Math was still statistically significant; however, this could be due to the self selecting nature of the students in Catholic schools where the parents have made the decision to value education to the extent of paying for it.

More plausible and more troubling is Ravitch's claim that «test - based accountability... removes all responsibility from students and their families for students» academic performance.»

Whatever the type of institution, the effect of studying theology can be a testing one for a student's faith.

Tests and measurements should be used with great circumspection and not to mark off students into separate groups for all purposes.

Students communicate with their teachers and set up a schedule for completing any missed assignments and tests.

If a test falls on a day when a student will be out for religious reasons, he or she must be given the right to take a make - up test, for example.

«We have been informed by the Pennsylvania Department of Health that one of our students who traveled abroad over the winter break has tested positive for the Zika virus.

For example, the Theological Student Inventory developed by the American Association of Theological Schools and the Educational Testing Service is being used more and more to enable students to assess and reappraise their motivations for entering the ministFor example, the Theological Student Inventory developed by the American Association of Theological Schools and the Educational Testing Service is being used more and more to enable students to assess and reappraise their motivations for entering the ministfor entering the ministry.

The largely implicit rules that normatively govern specifically «Christian» practice, and in particular ministerial practice, can be identified, tested for their conformity with the essence of Christianity (which philosophical theology discovers in the Wissenschaft pole), and communicated to students, all quite directly.

This example is all too familiar, as it is common for minority students to be tested unfairly with racially biased exams.

When discussing student performance on achievement tests, Barton notes that private or religious schools account for a disproportionately high number of National Merit Scholars and says that is because «one school utilizes religions principles and one does not.»

Similarly, the test of admission to a Christian university ought not be church membership, but the prospective student's need for the kind of healing — wholeness — for which the university possesses special competence.

But it ruled that the school board nonetheless passed muster under the secular purpose test of Lemon because the school board stated two other valid secular purposes for its policy: «disclaiming any orthodoxy of belief that could be inferred from the exclusive place of evolution in the curriculum, and reducing offense to any student or parent caused by the teaching of evolution.»

Hi Stacy, I think I read on your site some weeks back about the CLEP test for students entering college.

Numbers of page views, numbers of followers, numbers that my students score on tests... ugh... Thanks for a great reminder.

We are delighted to be working with Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) to offer a free heart test for students at Manchester Metropolitan University aged between 14 and 35.

He made sure that prom tickets were free for students who passed state tests, hosted banquets for honor roll students with free food and T - shirts, and filled the seats at Back to School Nights.

The girls are given a more focused education — the classrooms are much smaller than in the coed schools that pack upwards of a 100 students in one room — and they perform, on average, much better than the rest of Kakuma on Kenya's standardized testing for secondary schools.

Scan the list of abuses that beset college sports, and your football team can claim, going back to 1980, at least one entry in virtually every category: improper benefits; recruiting violations; boosters run amok; academic cheating; use of steroids and recreational drugs; suppressed or ignored positive tests for drugs; player run - ins with other students as well as with campus and off - campus police; the discharge of weapons and the degradation of women in the football dorm; credit - card fraud and telephone credit - card fraud.

Every Saturday and Sunday from 9 to 10 a.m., join student scientists as they use state - of - the = - art equipment to test for dissolved oxygen, pH, conductivity and other variables.

Those courses, according to the allegations, allowed the students to receive quality grades without having to show up for class, turn in papers or take tests.