Sentences with phrase «therefore tested grades»

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To make the task manageable, the first round of the process consists of discarding the great majority of candidates on the basis of two quantifiable, and therefore supposedly objective, standards: grade point average and GRE scores, including those in specific subject matter tests.

«Intelligence tests have always been closely linked with education and grades and therefore relied upon to predict who would do well,» Dr Poropat said.

DoTERRA is the only essential oil company out there who actually set a standard for purity, and therefore created a third - party testing process called CPTG (certified pure therapeutic grade) to ensure that their products are the best on the market.

Most teachers work in grades or subjects in which standardized tests are not administered and therefore will not have a value - added score.

Above all, the law's requirement that students be tested annually in reading and math in grades 3 - 8 and once in high school has provided parents, teachers, and other citizens with detailed information about students» performance in these foundational subjects — and therefore the extent to which they have mastered skills that are prerequisites for other educational goals.

The Center for American Progress (CAP) identified some of these obstacles in a November 2012 study of early - adopter states, including restructuring and staffing state education agencies; lack of capacity and the tight fiscal climate; debates concerning local control and the proper role of the state; training administrators who will be conducting new teacher evaluations; and determining how to evaluate teachers who do not teach in tested subjects or grades and therefore lack student achievement data (McGuinn, 2012).

NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board of Education of the San Diego Unified School District calls on the U.S. Congress and the Obama Administration to overhaul the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, currently known as the «No Child Left Behind Act,» eliminate the federally - mandated, annual testing requirement in each of Grades 3 through 9, and at least once in Grades 9 through 12; promote multiple forms of evidence of student learning and school quality in accountability; and not mandate any fixed role for the use of student test scores in evaluating educators; and

Since School B has fewer challenges, they don't need to spend quite as much time focusing on testing because their kids have more resources, and therefore, are likely to have more kids at or above grade level.

more payload than is used in the EPA test procedure under road conditions (e.g., grades) that are not representative of those in the EPA test procedure Each of the above may increase emissions readings, therefore rendering invalid a comparison of on - road and off - road test results.

Getting good grades in law school therefore depends on just a handful of tests at the end of each semester.

Getting good grades therefore depends on just a handful of tests at the end of each semester.

We therefore tested whether children's temperament (effortful control and negative affect), social skills, child psychopathology, environmental stressors (life events), parental accuracy of predicting their child's emotion understanding (parental accuracy), parental emotional availability, and parental depression predict changes in depressive symptoms from preschool to first grade.