Sentences with phrase «tests as a gauge»

Test it and see if that feels stronger or weaker with weights, or however you want to do your squat, see if it feels more dialed in or not with body weight, test it as a gauge for yourself.

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They talk about setting up tools such as Google Analytics or Adobe's SiteCatalyst to track page views, test variables and gauge their website's performance.

As it was newly introduced, there is very little very information to go on for us to gauge its capabilities apart from the fact it is still in beta testing and has so far been said to be unreliable.

Google AdWords can help you test concepts and gauge your targeted audience's interest in your offerings, as well as refine your communication strategy.

Cook's Illustrated and America's Test Kitchen: Holiday Cookies, December, 2010 «Sight, touch, and instinct are age - old ways to gauge when food is done, but for consistent results, none is as reliable as taking the food's internal temperature... The test kitchen's go - to thermometer for any task is the ThermoWorks Super-Fast Thermapen...» (pageTest Kitchen: Holiday Cookies, December, 2010 «Sight, touch, and instinct are age - old ways to gauge when food is done, but for consistent results, none is as reliable as taking the food's internal temperature... The test kitchen's go - to thermometer for any task is the ThermoWorks Super-Fast Thermapen...» (pagetest kitchen's go - to thermometer for any task is the ThermoWorks Super-Fast Thermapen...» (page 15)

And, when research uses standardized tests to measure homework's impact, she continued, it is difficult to gauge how much of the overall improvement or decline in test scores is due to student learning in the classroom context as opposed to student learning from homework.

If your baby will be taking any medication on the day of the trip (such as a decongestant or pain reliever), be sure to test it out before the day of travel to gauge any side effects.

Much as NASA used simulators to test dogs and monkeys before launching them into space to gauge the physiological effects of g - forces and weightlessness, Bond sealed animals, and eventually human volunteers, in pressurized tanks to simulate a deep - sea habitat.

They gauged aggressiveness using the results of the patients» prostate cancer - specific antigen, or PSA, tests, as well as the clinical stage of their cancer and Gleason grade.

The federally run National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), often known as «the Nation's Report Card,» periodically tests students on several subjects to gauge their progress over time.

Alan Turing was a visionary thinker on artificial intelligence (AI), devising the Turing test, which is still used as a key gauge of how close machines have come to human intelligence.

With the understanding that some diseases such as obesity are metabolic syndromes in which multiple biochemical pathways interact to cause complex symptoms, metabolic testing offers a way to gauge health over a lifetime.

Balaban agrees that the technique must be tested in animals to gauge its effectiveness in the body (as opposed to the less complex environment of a cell culture).

The limited tests in Japan and China are only meant to gauge how a reservoir would react to the piercing of a drill bore and how a well would respond to the depressurizing hydrate as it is extracted.

The testing schedule in New Zealand, limited at first, expanded as they added new techniques and technologies, such as DNA analysis, retinal imaging (which can help gauge the brain's vascular health), and scans of brain activity.

The same staff and facility also process deCODE's DNA - based reference laboratory tests for gauging individual risk of major public health challenges ranging from heart attack to breast cancer, as well as the company's pioneering deCODEme ™ scans, the world's first personal genome analysis and focused disease area scans.

That's probably because gauging someone's fitness level often involves expensive and time - consuming testing procedures, such as running on a treadmill to determine measurements like oxygen capacity.

It's not really my favorite snack, but it's my gauge — I use it as a testing method to go, «Okay, am I really hungry, or will a piece of fruit satiate me right now?»

The study participants underwent a type of brain scan known as single - photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and took a series of computer - based tests designed to gauge real - world cognitive function.

Researchers used standard tests to gauge people's memory skills, along with functional MRI scans to track their brain activity as they performed one of the memory tasks.

Unfortunately, blood tests are relatively ineffective in gauging magnesium levels as less than 1 % of magnesium is in the blood.

It's good to get blood tests and other information to arm yourself with as much information as possible, but also realize that observing your body's reactions to things is always the best gauge for any decision about what to do.

Using a technique referred to as lactulose hydrogen breath testing (LHBT), researchers were able to gauge concentrations of bacteria in the bowels of nearly 200 participants.

Blood tests are the most accurate gauge of blood ketone levels (which is what matters), and dumping fuel into the urine isn't a great use of resources, even glucose only gets dumped in pathological states, as the glucose challenge in the fasted state demonstrates.

Further exams may be done to test for contributing factors such as hormone levels, gauging one's insulin resistance, cholesterol and triglyceride levels, and glucose tolerance.

These tests should be abandoned because they are unreliable as gauges of thyroid function.

And in a similarly placed story (on the Times front page) a couple of weeks before Rich's, colleague Pam Belluck reported that a new study in the journal Science had found that «after reading literary fiction, as opposed to popular fiction or serious nonfiction, people performed better on tests measuring empathy, social perception and emotional intelligence — skills that come in especially handy when you are trying to read someone's body language or gauge what they might be thinking.»)

What students are expected to know in order to reach proficiency levels on exams in some states may be as much as four grade levels below the standards set in other states, according to a study by the American Institutes for Research that uses international testing data to gauge states against a common measuring stick.

When using one - hour testing sessions to gauge student performance, combined reading and math scores serve as a better indicator of student achievement than either test separately.

Majerik will supervise as Fann takes a test — called, in this case, an assessment — to gauge her progress toward the master's degree she's pursuing in science education and physics from the online Western Governors University.

The Assessments tied to the Common Core State Standards require significant lift from states and districts as well as the teachers who will be implementing more formative testing to gauge student readiness for the exams.

Even as Americans grow accustomed to judging schools by their results — and even as they recognize that testing is the simplest, cheapest, most objective way of gauging and reporting those results — many still lament the effects of testing on curriculum and instruction.

As Illinois schools shift to a new set of state mandated exams next year, the state board of education plans to keep asking schools to give the ACT, using the test to gauge college readiness for high school juniors.

Because using test scores as a way to gauge teacher effectiveness is new and largely untested, it is important that Oregon proceed in a thoughtful, measured way that continues to put most emphasis on how well teachers use research - proven methods of engaging and teaching all students, he said.

Academic standards in core subjects would be the same across the land, as would tests and other gauges of performance.

While the Department will likely add more academic performance measures in the future, for 2014 officials also included the level of participation in state assessments, achievement gaps between students with disabilities and the general population as well as scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a standardized test used to gauge academic growth across the country.

Yet, even as the United States begins implementing SEL across its educational system and shifting from high - stakes, strictly test - based accountability, SEL experts debate whether we can accurately measure and assess these skills and competencies — and if so, whether we should use those results to gauge school quality.

The national exam is viewed by testing experts as a more reliable gauge of progress.

ESSA calls for states to revamp their accountability systems, allowing for less emphasis on testing as an exclusive gauge of school progress.

Last year, Primary Sources: 2012, a report by Scholastic and the Gates Foundation, found that only 28 percent of educators see state - required standardized tests as an important gauge of student achievement.

A RAND study published in 2012 looked at how well 17 of the old state tests gauged «higher - order skills,» such as abstract thinking skills and the ability to draw inferences from multiple sources.

TVAAS is an analysis of student assessment data, such as the TN Ready and end - of - course tests, that provides districts and their schools a lens to gauge growth and progress of students outside of proficiency on standardized tests.

Instead, take advantage of TalentLMS» testing capabilities and include a few questions or small quizzes at the end of every lesson, so that you can gauge your learners» comprehension as the course progresses.

As the reporters write, «The new vision, championed by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, who used to run Chicago's schools, calls for a laser focus on standardized tests meant to gauge student skills in reading, writing and math.

First, even the makers of the tests by which school quality is inappropriately gauged — as well as testing experts — acknowledge that this is a misuse of test results.

In particular, the study found severe accountability problems with both programs, most notably: they do not serve students in rural areas where there were virtually no private schools or scholarship organizations (SOs) present; they fund primarily religious schools, which are not required to be accredited or adhere to the same standards for curricula as public schools; they do not require the same testing requirements as public schools, making it impossible to gauge student achievement; and they do not require reporting by schools or SOs.

Indeed, the National Assessment of Educational Progress test is often used as a gauge for actual student performance specifically because it is a low - stakes test.

The Christie administration this week released the first of two reports from the 25 pilot districts that were charged and funded to test the new systems that use uniform evaluation practices, as well as student performance measures, to gauge the effectiveness of teachers.

And, in a nod to concerns that the NCLB law placed too much emphasis on a single test score in rating schools, the measure calls for states to consider other factors in gauging school performance, such as school climate and teacher engagement.

A new test known as edTPA, meant to better gauge if teachers are prepared for the classroom, is still getting mixed reviews, according to a pair of studies out this month.