Sentences with phrase «thinking test makers»

Jennifer Simone, for one, is depending on forward - thinking test makers and policy makers to succeed — for the sake of her students, most of all.

Not exact matches

Drug maker Lundbeck, genetic testing firm 23andMe, and think tank the Milken Institute are joining forces to study the genetic bases and underlying causes of psychiatric disorders like major depression and bipolar disorder.

I can't believe that worked!!!! Thanks for reporting back, someone had asked earlier in the comments if I thought it would work and I didn't have a waffle maker to test it with so this is great!

We asked science film - maker Chris Riley and two other well - known science graduates to take a common personality test and tell us how well the results reflect their real - life career, plus what they think was the key to their success

If even rigorous research fails to show a consistent relationship between test scores and later success, why would we think that regulators and policy makers with less rigorous approaches to test scores could use them to reliably identify school and program quality?

For two years, Agency by Design has partnered with preK — 12 educators in Oakland, California, to develop instructional strategies and tools to help students think critically about the design of objects, ideas, and systems — and to test the notion that maker - based experiences can increase students» sense of self - efficacy.

In tandem with a new website that offers important educational resources, including thinking routines to stimulate learning, the paper solidifies Agency by Design's efforts to shape a set of research - based, educator - tested practices and to invite the broad community of maker educators into a conversation about the ideas driving and shaping the movement.

Our initial goals were to develop an understanding of the Agency by Design research findings, and to utilize the AbD framework for maker - centered learning to collaboratively think about prototyping and testing assessment tools in the context of maker - centered learning.

Regular feedback in the form of surveys is needed to understand how those charged with implementing standards - based educational reform — teachers, superintendents, parents, and policy makers — think about the uses of tests and the high - impact decisions that follow from them.

The makers of Smarter Balanced exams say they don't just look different from the usual standardized tests, but make students think differently, too.

A new large - scale, longitudinal study should make Connecticut policy makers think twice before continuing with their ill - advised policy imposing the SAT as the new «mastery test» for 11th graders.

SENIOR ROAD TEST EDITOR NATALIE NEFF: I have to admit, I can go for long stretches where I never once think of Mitsubishi Motors, and when I do, it may take me a second to not confuse it with Suzuki, which doesn't even exist anymore (at least as a maker of vehicles that find their way Stateside).

An example: The makers of the Hubble Space Telescope optics thought they had every process modeled, so much so that they were able to lowball the competition by nixing the final end - to - end testing.

The well known test for «reasonable apprehension of bias» is whether an informed person, viewing the matter realistically and practically — and having thought the matter through — would conclude that it is more likely than not that the decision - maker, whether consciously or unconsciously, would not decide the matter fairly.

The legal test for a reasonable apprehension of bias is whether an informed person, viewing the matter realistically and practically and having thought the matter through, would think that it is more likely than not that the decision - maker consciously or unconsciously would not decide the matter fairly (Committee for Justice and Liberty v. National Energy Board, 1976 CanLII 2 (SCC), [1978] 1 S.C.R. 369).

What I think about the Galaxy S8 after 14 days of use is that it's a fast, smooth phone, that's beautiful to behold, satisfying to hold but unbelievably frustrating to unlock due to the retarded location of the fingerprint scanner, and since unlocking the phone is done tens of times daily, the phone failed the test of usability for me and was returned to its maker.