Sentences with phrase «testing system without»

In other words, citizens appear to be evaluating schools based on local comparisons or on information provided by their state testing system without taking into account the relative rigor of state standards.

Today, states have an opportunity to use the new flexibility embedded in ESSA to develop stronger testing systems without the pressure of NCLB's exclusive focus on summative tests.

Not exact matches

The intelligence agency's product incubator relied on lean - startup testing to develop a system allowing staffers to do the work from separate locations via secure smartcard log - ins, without compromising safety.

Aitel suggested that, rather than outsource tasks or projects to particular individuals without security clearance, the government could allow private companies specializing in penetration testing — the practice of testing a computer system, network or application to find vulnerabilities that a hacker could exploit — to apply for security clearance and compete for a contract.

A holistic and fully tested solution that enables Securities Exchanges to go multi-currency without significant changes to systems and back - end processes, with low start - up and running costs.

The iKeg system enables bartenders and bar managers to use real - time measurements of a keg's beer content without the shake - test.

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This package will take you through a few diaper changes, giving you more of an opportunity to test this diapering system on your baby without a large initial outlay of monies.

Traits like self - control, optimism, intellectual curiosity, emotional intelligence, and conscientiousness — habits that will cause them to turn off the TV because they have a test the next day or complete a college application without needing reminders from others or having the belief system that working hard will positively impact their life.

Flanagan's ascension leavesommittee he chairs — Education — without a leader at a time when education remains a very hot topic at the Capitol, thanks to the ongoing debate over the state's teacher evaluation system and Common Core - related tests.

«Sweeping simplification of the state pension system is needed so that everyone can expect a decent, flat - rate pension, set at a level high enough to help most people avoid poverty without recourse to means - tested benefits.

Fariña recently told Capital she believes some charter schools can have a positive effect on the public system, while knocking others (without naming specific schools) for touting high test scores, but not accepting special education or English Language Learner students.

Echo Therapeutics is testing a biosensor system that reads glucose levels without breaking the skin

A quest to help the systems software community work on very large supercomputers without having to actually test on them has spawned an affordable, scalable system using thousands of inexpensive Raspberry Pi nodes.

It's not reasonable to expect that we can do a sustained exploratory program without the capability of testing systems and studying human adaptation to space in low Earth orbit.

In lab tests, waterlily beetles reached 0.5 meters per second — without an active brake system.

Dr. Cripe and his colleagues at The Ohio State University, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center tested how well the oncolytic viral therapy — a cancer - killing form of the herpes simplex virus, called oHSV — infected and killed tumor cells in mice with and without a healthy immune system.

Also canceled were two scheduled tests this spring on two Native American reservations in Washington state, that were designed to measure the agency's ability to use tribal enrollment data in enumerating residents as well as how the new electronic system of updating addresses works in areas without unique addresses.

Testing of COWL prototypes for the Chrome and Firefox web browsers shows the system provides strong security without perceptibly slowing the loading speed of web pages.

Further testing showed that HB36.6 shuts down the virus without help from the immune system.

Although a small number of repurposed and new drugs have recently become available to treat drug - resistant TB (including bedaquiline, delamanid, and linezolid), the authors warn that without accurate diagnostic tests to deliver individually targeted treatments, clear prescription guidelines on appropriate use and improved control efforts to prevent transmission, optimal dosing and administration, and well - functioning health care systems, the effectiveness of the drugs could be rapidly lost.

We found a key advantage of the EnerCage system is that it will allow researchers to conduct chronic DBS and track associated behavioral changes for days, if not weeks, without disturbing the test animals.»

These efforts include installing a 30 - ton detector system (with shielding) in an operating research reactor building as close as 21 feet to the reactor core without affecting HFIR's primary missions of neutron scattering research, isotope production and testing of irradiated materials.

That test and a precursor flight without crew are part of the final development work Boeing is completing with NASA's Commercial Crew Program to certify a new crew transportation system for low - Earth orbit.

However, global drive systems can not be tested in field trials without a substantial risk of eventual worldwide spread [36].

Following the experimental tests using this system, the team did many detailed simulations to interpret the results and was able to determine precisely how much stress and strain the diamond needles could accommodate without breaking.

And please don't attempt chelation on your own or without proper testing to asses brain, gut and immune system to make sure all systems are healthy and get guided advice from a functional medicine doctor.

Learn how to work with your OB / GYN to safely transition off the pill, what to do before stopping the Pill (don't quit cold turkey without this), how to tell if your hormones need balancing even before you stop the Pill, which specific supplements you need post-Pill to undo what the Pill has done to your system, which foods to eat to keep symptoms from reoccurring, which genetic test you should have to know if it's even safe for you to be on the pill, and what steps to take to restore your fertility post pill.

While following a carb - based vegan diet, I got a blood test and saw that I had soaring levels of Candida yeast overgrowth, which had been in my system for years without my knowing.

According to the Cochrane Database System (2004), test subjects on Alli dropped six pounds without changing their diet or exercise levels.

What can happen then is, technically, your hemoglobin concentration is gonna test, if you're gonna test it is below normal just because you've got this big expansion plasma volume without a subsequent expansion in red blood cell concentration and because red blood cell concentration is kinda synonymous with your hemoglobin levels, all that drops and that's sports - induced anemia and really, it's an adaptation of your cardio - vascular system really the result is that you become a better athlete but you may notice that this reduction in hemoglobin, etc..

But since the two - week test cuts back so drastically on your carbs, it's very difficult to stay running at the same heart rate without a very powerful aerobic system.

A credit - based system helps singles test out premium features without paying a cent.

In the world of Youtube and Soundcloud and Band Camp, the idea that an artist would buck the system and operate without a label behind her as she starts out being some shocking alien concept does not pass the smell test.

This resource includes: 33 slide PowerPoint (this is also REALLY useful if given to students for revision, deleting instruction slides) 9 page work booklet for students to complete with lots of activities Quiz on Von Neumann Architecture Answers to the quiz Test on system architecture (40 marks) to assess progress in this unit Test mark scheme A 16 page revision booklet for students (this is the adapted lesson PowerPoint without instructions etc.) These resources have been mapped against GCSE OCR Computer Science (J276), Computer Systems Unit (J276 / 01) 1.1 System Architecture, though are useful for anyone teaching the following topics in Computer Science (any system architecture (40 marks) to assess progress in this unit Test mark scheme A 16 page revision booklet for students (this is the adapted lesson PowerPoint without instructions etc.) These resources have been mapped against GCSE OCR Computer Science (J276), Computer Systems Unit (J276 / 01) 1.1 System Architecture, though are useful for anyone teaching the following topics in Computer Science (any System Architecture, though are useful for anyone teaching the following topics in Computer Science (any spec!)

Without their approval, the state's online assessment system will not allow students to take a test a second time.

However, without the changes Massachusetts made to its entire system of teacher licensing (e.g., subject area licensing tests for all prospective teachers, criteria for achieving full licensure after beginning teaching, and criteria for license renewal for veteran teachers), it is unlikely there would have been enduring gains in achievement for students in all demographic groups and in all its regional vocational / technical high schools — gains confirmed by tests independent of control or manipulation by Massachusetts or federal policy makers.

But such a policy could easily be implemented through a system of means - tested grants and tuition discounts, like the current U.S. system, without providing costly tuition benefits to students who can afford to pay at least part of their higher education expenses.

Without a doubt, I was convinced, he will look at this new flat world, where Americans must compete with people not from their own community or state but from all over the planet, and declare our patchwork education system — with its 50 sets of academic standards and tests — no longer up to the challenges at hand and say that the time has come for rigorous national standards and tests, political obstacles be damned.

Having a central system in place makes it simple for teachers to quickly and easily access student data and compare progress individually, across groups or whole classes at a glance, without having the headache of referring to previous paper notes and test results filed away throughout the year.

Without assessing these programs per se, Johnson explains, the book examines how these systems are set up, including whether they use student performance on standardized tests, professional evaluations, a hybrid model, and whether they used individual or group assessments.

Last spring more than 3 million students in California, the largest number ever to take an online test in the state, took field tests of new assessments aligned to the Common Core state standards without major technical breakdowns or system crashes, according to state officials.

While the authors shame all states for minimizing teachers» test - based ratings before these systems had a chance, as also ignorant to what they cite as «a robust body of research» (without references or citations here, and few elsewhere in a set of footnotes), they add that it remains an unknown as to «why state educational agencies put forth regulations or guidance that would allow teachers to be rated effective without meeting their student growth goals» (p. 4).

The LSG teachers acknowledged the possible harmful effects of having students learn a procedure without meaning, but at the same time were charged with having students produce correct answers to a narrow selection of systems of equations to be included on tests that would be used by administrators to judge the quality of their teaching.

The teachers felt that some students involved in lesson 1 were not capable of more advanced reasoning about systems of equations and also felt that students could succeed on the state test by following a sequence of steps on the calculator without thinking much about them.

Yet, because changes in assessment affect our entire education system and infrastructure, from state agencies to test makers to federal officials to classroom teachers, we won't see the real benefits from technology - enabled assessments — improved teaching and learning — without careful attention from policymakers and deliberate strategies to create change.

The results in this round do not count and are simply part of the system shakeout, but just the advent of the tests in New Jersey was not without controversy.

In Louisiana, one expert warned of lawsuits as the state began to roll out a truncated observation system without first testing it.

The union had opposed the district's effort to test changes to the system without negotiating the changes in teacher workload that came with it, and it unsuccessfully sought an injunction from the state Public Employment Relations Board to stop the program in 2011.

And I emphasize: without state testing data we're at a loss for understanding who exactly Boulder's education system underserves and work that needs to be done to address the gaps.