Sentences with phrase «than on test»

Alternatively, charter schools might produce larger effects on attainment than on test scores because they are endowing students with skills, knowledge, work habits, motivation, and values that are important for long - term success but are not fully captured by test scores.

The opportunity to make innovative instructional decisions — and to focus on learning rather than on test scores — makes working at Winnona Park a more satisfying professional experience, teachers say.

In short, they want schools to be focused more on the social good students do than on their test scores.

I hear that many of the best colleges are now placing far greater emphasis on student maturity, our independence of thought, and our breadth of potential talent than on test scores.

We address this limitation by focusing on the effect of school spending on such long - run outcomes as educational attainment and earnings rather than on test scores.

Consortium and California officials have warned that the initial scores on the Smarter Balanced tests would be lower than on tests based on California's and most states» standards, because the Common Core standards are harder, and the tests, designed to measure critical thinking, problem solving and verbal reasoning, will be harder.

Not exact matches

Better yet, when tested on the same material thirty days later, the interleaving group scored 76 percent better than the block - taught group.

For more than a year, Finland has been testing the proposition that the best way to lift economic fortunes may be the simplest: Hand out money without rules or restrictions on how people use it.

The company has received approval for one test and is certified to operate lab testing facilities, but the FDA's assessment of the company's other tests — more than 240 are listed on Theranos» website and they say they've submitted over 130 for approval so far — is still pending.

But his question is whether Theranos could have really developed a way to run as many tests as it offers (more than 240 so far) on the large scale needed at hospitals and in major labs without relying on already existing machines to automate processing.

With 45 cars on the road, Apple is now testing more vehicles than its top rivals.

The recent FDA approval for its herpes test was the first public sign the company is making headway on this goal, though the company and the FDA declined to comment to the WSJ on the status of the more than 130 other tests it has submitted to the agency.

In the past two years, Yardstick has branched into another vertical: selling software that allows clients to administer certification tests online rather than on paper.

When this idea was tested by Johnson et al. (2010), the results showed that participants who smiled performed better on attentional tasks which required seeing the whole forest rather than just the trees.

In January 2018, both Microsoft's and Alibaba's deep - learning software did better than humans on reading and comprehension tests, opening the door to artificial intelligence — based customer service, medical diagnoses, and many other applications.

U.S. teens scored a mean 492 on the OECD test, eight points below the overall global mean of 500 — and more than 100 points below first - ranked Shanghai - China's 603.

But companies are now using psychometric tests in more management areas and on a wider range of job types than ever.

She points to a 2011 study by the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, which found that students who started school at 8:30 a.m. got almost an hour more sleep and performed better on tests measuring attention levels than peers who started at 7:30 a.m.

Rather than asking prospective clients to take the tests, he relies on the overt trappings of the personality factors: speech patterns, office decor, style of dress.

In 2011, after government researchers conducted a series of those tests, the European Commission found that diesel cars were spewing as much as seven times more NOx on actual roads than they were in the lab.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has accused Fiat of using «hidden software» that appeared to make some of its vehicles perform differently in testing than on - road use, according to a Reuters report.

The trial was one of three scheduled for the first half of this year over claims that Volkswagen deceived customers with the deliberate rigging of emissions controls to perform differently when being tested than they do on the road.

The lengthy research cited on HVMN's website and others are primarily animal studies, rather than human studies, and primarily test one of two compounds in combination, rather than the half - dozen contained in a product like SPRINT.

These emotionally in - tune workers also had significantly higher income than those who received a low score on the study's emotion recognition test.

I, for one, typically favor shoes that feel barely - there but still leverage technology to give better energy return (and protection) than bare feet on pavement can — like the Adidas Ultra Boost X or new Nike Epic React Flyknits, which I've tested and now regularly rely on for my 5 - 7 mile runs.

On Wednesday, the company updated its $ 99 genealogy test to include more countries, which is far more specific than regions.

The black leather seats in our test car felt soft to the touch and offered more than adequate bolstering for both leisurely jaunts down the highway and dynamic drives on twisty country roads.

With your EOIs posted on your website or blog, you will begin testing the waters, see who is still available in the labour pool and begin to build your pipeline of talent so that when that big order comes in sooner than planned, you already have a talent pool to draw from.

«One study looked at students in New York and showed that those who ate lunches that did not include artificial flavors, preservatives, and dyes did 14 % better on IQ tests than the students who ate lunches with these additives.»

Anytime we test a new workflow on our site, we look at more than just «got to page two.»

«This is one of those things that's really difficult to test on the ground,» said Musk, looking much more energetic than he did at a National Governor's Association meeting last Saturday.

Other than making vague promises to place more police officers on the streets, encouraging DNA testing for death - row inmates and calling for the need to reduce recidivism by investing in «proven community - based law - enforcement programs,» the Democrats» policy solutions over the past eight years have done little to dismantle the carceral state that they helped create.

One former employee also charged that as late as 2014, Theranos did fewer than 10 percent of its tests on Edison machines.

On August 25 and September 19, 1962, less than a month apart, the USSR conducted nuclear tests # 158 and # 168.

Most of the common analyses and tests done by Web companies treat are centered on the notion of «visitors» to their website (transactional, one time relationship with consumers, typically driven by traffic coming from search engines) rather than «users» of their service (longer term relationship, typically involves creating a user account with the Web service).

«Phase 2» was successfully completed Sunday on the company's test track spanning more than 1,600 feet in the Nevada desert, the company said in a statement.

In the last of those years, the reporters discovered, the federal government actually spent more on urine - based drug tests than it did on «the four most recommended cancer screenings combined.»

The study, just published in Science, showed that the creation of what the researchers are calling microtumors can help predict drug effectiveness in cancer patients better than the current standard method of testing the drugs on rodents.

The missile flew further than any other so far, reports CNBC's Chery Kang on North Korea's latest missile tests.

The second ICBM flies further and for longer than the missile tested on July 4.

In our tests, the Gene Knockout Kit gave us greater than 80 percent knock - out rates for seven targets,» shares Shondra Miller, Ph.D., Director, Center for Advanced Genome Engineering at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, on Synthego's web site.

Consumer Reports tested more than 50 of the top smartphones on the market from manufacturers including Google, Apple, LG, Samsung, Hauwei, HTC, and OnePlus.

So were the average GMAT scores of its entering classes, which tended to range near 600, more than 100 points below the best schools, which typically report scores in the 700 - plus range on an entrance test where the highest possible score is 800.

To do this, we tested if narratives shot on video, rather than face - to - face interactions, would cause the brain to make oxytocin.

When the pressure is on to fill a position, it's easier to use the clichéd «beer test» — as in, «would I have a beer with this guy» — as a decision - making tool than it is to undergo the complicated and time - consuming work of a more nuanced assessment.

More than 95 % of the assessment is based on her interpretation of the tests, and she intentionally doesn't ask the candidates for any self - analysis.

That Monday's accident was the first fatal incident involving a fully autonomous vehicle indicates that arguments for their safety have merit, but much of that testing has occurred on highways, which are easier for self - driving cars to navigate than dense, urban environments.

The isolated nation conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on Sept. 3, and launched more than a dozen missiles in the past year.

Testing this out on your local area is easy, as appealing photo postcards are even simpler to produce and mail than catalogs.

Indeed, he found, the bilingual people in this group performed better than expected on intelligence tests at their advanced age, and showed less relative cognitive decline compared to monolingual people.