Sentences with phrase «track tested high»

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To become a Top Pick, a car must excel at the publication's track tests, offer average or better reliability, perform effectively in government or industry crash tests, and return high owner - satisfaction scores in Consumer Reports» surveys.

I had been competitively tracked from middle school to high school to college, and by going straight to law school I knew I would be competing at the same kinds of tests I'd been taking ever since I was a kid, but I could tell everyone that I was now doing it for the sake of becoming a professional adult.

Hard working people who went to top schools, scored high on aptitude tests and had a proven track record of getting results were highly sought after.

SpaceX is building a test track for the Hyperloop high - speed rail that could transport passengers from San Francisco to LA in 30 minutes.

Elon Musk announced on Thursday, Jan. 15, that he will build a test track that will help speed up the arrival of his vision of future transportation, a high - speed pod propped up on air cushions traveling at speeds of 800 miles per hour inside a vacuum tube.

THE BIOPSY»S DANGEROUS CASCADE: HOW TO LESSEN THE NEED FOR INVASIVE TESTING Intervention Track Hosted By: Insigniam Current medical tests are too often marred by high rates of overdiagnosis («false positive» results) or they too often miss the danger altogether («false negatives»).

The tech benchmark recovered after last week's brief volatility surge and as quiet summer trading resumed the index looks back on track to test the prior highs.

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies has struck a deal with California landowners to build a test track for the high - speed train first proposed by Elon Musk in 2013.

Following the discovery of high levels of lead in the water in Newark's schools, New York City is unveiling a website where parents can track the results of lead testing in its schools.

High - resolution cameras, meanwhile, snapped photos of the test metal's exterior, which was speckled with 70,000 black dots whose movements were tracked by imaging software to reveal the buckling in finer detail.

«Sled track simulates high - speed accident in B61 - 12 test.»

Sandia National Laboratories has sent a mock B61 - 12 nuclear weapon speeding down the labs» 10,000 - foot rocket sled track to slam nose - first into a steel and concrete wall in a spectacular test that mimicked a high - speed accident.

When I receive the results of a food allergy test that has multiple positive food results it is vital to heal the lining of the digestive track with L - glutamine, demulcent herbs like slippery elm, aloe vera, licorice, and marshmallow root; as well as use long term high dose probiotics to re-establish healthy gut flora.

Arizona will became the first state to require high school students to pass a civics test to graduate when the governor signs a bill that was fast - tracked.

Earning higher honors on each event helps propel the career mode; unlocking the next, more difficult, set of tracks and granting you shots at new high powered motorcycles through the game's License Tests — pseduo - tutorials that help introduce more advance techniques such as bunny hopping and weight distribution management.

This set of resource includes: • 6 attractive PowerPoint presentations which lead the class through each of the lessons • Fun and thought provoking activities and discussion starters, worksheets and questions to reinforce the learning • 6 differentiated homework tasks • A mark sheet which allows pupils to track their own progress • An end of unit test to prepare the students for exams or can be used as a form of assessment • A complete teacher's guide including easy to follow lesson plans • An answer booklet to help the teacher along The lessons are: Lesson 1 — Looking into ethical and moral dilemmas such as driverless cars and the impact of technology on modern life Lesson 2 — More ethical dilemmas including the ratings culture, medical apps, sharing personal data and cyber bullying Lesson 3 — Environmental issues with technology and how organisations and individuals can reduce these effects Lesson 4 — The Computer Misuse Act 1990 Lesson 5 — The Data Protection Act 1998 Lesson 6 — Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 For more high - quality resources written by this author visit www.nicholawilkin.com

Instead, Orfield states that The Civil Rights Project strongly supports the recommendation of the National Academy of Sciences» report entitled High Stakes: Testing for Tracking, Promotion, and Graduation (1999) that single tests never be used as the sole determiner of graduation or grade promotion.

Optimism, Test Scores on the Rise at English High School Boston Globe, 11/30/15» [Senior Lecturer Katherine] Merseth said the key elements to improving a failing school are a shared vision, welcoming culture, tracking student progress through detailed data, and supporting teachers as they try challenging new things.»

The Arkansas Department of Education has announced that students who score at level 3 or above on new Common Core tests will be deemed «proficient,» even though the makers of the test say that only students who score at level 4 or above are on track to graduate from high school with the skills they need to be ready for college or a career.

· tracking high - performer data more thoroughly · universal screening through achievement tests and teacher recommendations to identify the top 10 percent · afterschool programs of independent study · more acceleration and early graduation · more training of teachers in gifted education.

• States with larger percentages of tracked eighth graders produce larger percentages of high - scoring AP test takers, whereas states where tracking is less prevalent tend to have a smaller proportion of high scorers.

In the study, which tracks economic - growth patterns from 1970 to 2000, researchers found that the link between national productivity and high test scores weakens and, in some years, disappears when the so - called «Asian Tigers» — Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea — are removed from researchers» calculations.

(Dozens of selective high schools in New York City — not including the eight that rely entirely on test scores — follow a complex citywide dual - track choice - and - selection process akin to the «match» system by which medical residents get placed.)

For which purpose, let us return to 30,000 feet and suggest that the two essential sets of data for tracking America's progress or lack thereof in revitalizing the high school are objective test scores and graduation rates.

The first track is standards - based: Set clear, high expectations in core academic subjects; test students regularly to see which schools and students are clearing the bar; and hold schools (and perhaps also educators and pupils) to account for the results.

It was the intriguing idea of Amanda Ripley, an investigative journalist, to track the experiences of three American high - school students who, dissatisfied with the offerings in their home schools, decided to go abroad for a year and attend school in two countries that surpass us in educational achievement — Korea and Finland — and in Poland, which has shown remarkably rapid improvement in PISA tests.

Proponents of the next - generation assessments argued that such tests would enable educators to track progress toward the higher - order thinking skills — such as critical thinking, communicating effectively, and problem solving — that the standards emphasized.

If teachers find it easier to teach a homogeneous group of students, tracking could enhance school effectiveness and raise test scores of both low - and high - ability students.

Data from the tracking schools allow us to estimate the effect of being taught with a higher - achieving vs. lower - achieving peer group by comparing students with baseline test scores in the middle of the distribution.

Even so, the test scores of students in tracking schools remained 0.16 standard deviations higher than those of students in nontracking schools overall (and 0.18 standard deviations higher with control variables).

Although she was two chapters into a dissertation in Comparative Literature, she decided to eschew the professor track for a different path, and she now happily fulfills the one job that was recommended to her by a junior high aptitude test: freelance writer.

Confidence in gross findings can be developed by replication, by averaging results over several time periods, and by using several measures of the development of human capital — not tests alone, but also attendance rates, dropout rates, and promotion rates (a very high - quality assessment will track indicators of human capital such as post-secondary school earnings and higher - education outcomes as well).

Urban charter schools have an incredible track record of increasing student achievement, while increasing school funding by as much as 10 % yields very modest test score effects, and these effects come at a very high cost.

Most of the Baltimore region's high school students aren't on track to be ready for college courses or jobs when they graduate, based on the first round of scores on new state tests.

The Partnership is tracking high school placement and completion data, scores on state exams and the Archdiocesan religion tests, enrollment and student retention figures, and costs and revenues for every students.

The impact is particularly severe at Stuyvesant and Bronx Science — two of the Specialized High Schools that serve the largest numbers of students, have the longest track records of educational excellence, and are the among the most popular among test - takers.

As is well known, the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 (NCLB) required states to test students annually in grades 3 - 8 (and once in high school), to report the share of students in each school performing at a proficient level in math and reading, and to intervene in schools not on track to achieve universal student proficiency by 2014.

The plan still includes tracking performance on annual standardized tests in grade 3 - 8 and in specific high school courses, measuring how well non-native English speakers are learning the language, and breaking down student performance by subgroups such as ethnicity, economic status, and students with disabilities.

Christi Ham, chairwoman for Military Families for High Standards, discussed the importance of ESSA «requiring states to identify military students and track their test scores, attendance and graduation rates as they move from base to base and state to state.»

[11] For this reason, we would expect the test to align better with lower or middle tracks, implying that teachers in these tracks have an easier time showing achievement gains — and therefore higher value - added.

State leaders want to include more meaningful measurements along with test scores such as absenteeism among kindergartners, how many high school freshmen pass enough classes to be on track to graduate, and the share of high school graduates who go on to college.

This prediction is reinforced by evidence of «ceiling effects» in standardized tests; students in the upper tracks, as described above, are likely to have higher scores and to hit the ceiling with little growth.

In middle and high schools, students with low test scores and grades and certain other characteristics are generally tracked into remedial courses, and those with stronger academic backgrounds are tracked into advanced courses.

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In a Wired blog, «Inside the Educational Data Revolution,» David Stewart, CEO of Tembo, laments how in the largest US school systems, «millions of dollars are being spent on interim assessment systems, intended to track student performance throughout the year and adapt teaching strategies in advance of the high - stakes year - end tests.

States where tracking isn't practiced as much had fewer students hitting a passing score of 3 or higher on AP tests.

eAchieve Academy's students have a proven track record of academic achievement, receiving high scores on standardized tests, Advanced Placement and college entrance exams.

However, high stakes decisions involving tracking, grade promotion, admission to dual - credit courses and graduation based on a single testing event present major educational and motivational challenges.