Sentences with phrase «traditional exam in»

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The marketing is edgy: October's «Touch Yourself» campaign in partnership with Women's Health and Men's Health magazines ditches traditional pink National Breast Cancer Awareness Month branding in favor of a naked woman holding her breasts, encouraging women to do self - exams for early detection.

Rodale Inc. is among the companies that provide community gardens in their roundup of wellness services — a far cry from the more traditional programs, like free health exams and discounted gym memberships.

In general, if you're relatively healthy and wouldn't mind a simple medical exam, traditional life insurance is the better option because it will likely be less expensive than a simplified issue life insurance policy.

Johnson himself bemoaned the fact that he had to devote «this rare and sacred column space» to the issue, highlighting a range of issues he would have rather put thought to, including «singing a hymn of praise for my old chum Gove» over the education secretary's plans to scrap GCSE exams in England in favour of a traditional model styled on the old O - level.

Charter school's students of the poorest neighborhood of New York City are doing excellent test scores in the state exams & the traditional public schools are falling miserably where those charter schools are co located.

They have to complete coursework in their subject area, have extensive supervised teaching experience and pass certification exams — just like teachers in traditional public schools.

The changes, which Education Commissioner John King said are already under way, include increasing public understanding of the standards, training more teachers and principals, ensuring adequate funding, reducing testing time and providing high school students the option to take some traditional Regents exams while Common Core - aligned tests are phased in.

Accurately detecting a rare, but devastating cause of blindness in premature babies can be done as effectively with telemedicine as with traditional, in - person eye exams, a study published in JAMA Ophthalmology suggests.

Oncologists at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center are the first in San Diego to meld magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology with a traditional ultrasound prostate exam to create a three - dimensional map of the prostate that allows physicians to view growths that were previously undetectable.

The study showed that prediction of student graduation may be significantly improved by including in the college admission process consideration of AP exam performance and a small set of personality traits, along with traditional indicators of student abilities and high school grades.

It's not an exam in the traditional sense of the word; in my department, it's basically just a research proposal defense that Ph.D. students have to complete.

Exam regulator Ofqual has said that there has been an increase in the number of pupils choosing to take «traditional» subjects, such at maths, science and English, at GCSE and A level.

Whether in a traditional classroom or an eLearning setting, a quiz or an exam gives the instructor information about the learner's progress with the material.

In a traditional classroom setting, the assessment doesn't need to «look» like an exam.

The research team used data from more than 1,300 8th graders attending 32 public schools in Boston, including traditional public schools, exam schools that admit only the city's most academically talented students, and oversubscribed charter schools.

In a further departure from the traditional AP approach, BASIS students take no AP exams during their senior year.

In the traditional lectures, black students and students whose parents did not attend college performed worse than white students on exams.

When Bishop examined the effects of high - school exit exams, one traditional form of external accountability, on intrinsic motivation by comparing whether students subjected to this approach engaged in less reading for pleasure or were more likely to associate learning with rote memorization, he found no evidence that accountability undermined natural curiosity and even found some evidence of the opposite.

Some states, for instance, are creating «end - of - course» exams aimed in part at assessing the efficacy of individual courses, whether traditional or online.

Test items including both «straightforward» questions (such as what might appear in a textbook or traditional exam) and «non-straightforward» questions which assessed students» ability to apply their learning.

Pupils in England taking their exams this year are the first to be awarded numerical grades — from 9, the highest, down to 1 — instead of traditional A * - G grades.

The tests, by SBAC and Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, will both be administered mostly on computers and will feature more open - ended questions than the traditional «fill in the bubble» exams to which students have grown accustomed.

Although one can't consider the results gains because the tests and testing rules changed, the figures have encouraged many: In the English exams for grades 3 - 8, the traditional public schools passage rate «rose» by 7.6 percentage points, and for charter schools, the figure was up 13.7 percentage points.

The authors recommend that the state allow schools to use «well - designed» portfolios, comprised of work from each of five different subject areas to include research essays, art work and other sophisticated projects that can't be captured on a test in place of traditional exit exams.

In 2016, according to the editorial, «children who attended public charter schools in these eight districts were 146 % more likely to pass state exams than students at traditional district schools, and three times more likely to score at the highest proficiency level.&raquIn 2016, according to the editorial, «children who attended public charter schools in these eight districts were 146 % more likely to pass state exams than students at traditional district schools, and three times more likely to score at the highest proficiency level.&raquin these eight districts were 146 % more likely to pass state exams than students at traditional district schools, and three times more likely to score at the highest proficiency level.»

Commissioner of Education Robert Scott reasons that state standardized tests, soon to include end - of - course exams in high schools, already prevent some students from graduating — even if they slip too easily through some classes, traditional or otherwise.

In addition to measuring academic achievement, ESSA will also require schools to address at least one non-academic «other indicator» beyond traditional measures such as state exam scores or graduation rates.

In fact, when private school students on vouchers in Milwaukee were required for the first time last fall to take the standardized Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Exam, they did not do as well as their counterparts in Milwaukee's traditional public schoolIn fact, when private school students on vouchers in Milwaukee were required for the first time last fall to take the standardized Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Exam, they did not do as well as their counterparts in Milwaukee's traditional public schoolin Milwaukee were required for the first time last fall to take the standardized Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Exam, they did not do as well as their counterparts in Milwaukee's traditional public schoolin Milwaukee's traditional public schools.

The state has created only five alternative certification routes other than the traditional method of certification at an undergraduate university or college: Alternative One requires a program of professional preparation in education along with a chairperson recommendation, Alternative Two is open for certified teachers from other states, Alternative Three requires a written exam and oral review, Alternative Four requires superintendent recruitment for teaching in high - need areas, and Alternative Five is an on - the - job training option that nevertheless requires a Bachelor's degree.

Alternate route candidates for teacher certification in Minnesota must pass the same exams as traditional - route educators, the National Evaluation Series (NES) Essential Academic Skills Test and the Minnesota Teacher Licensure Examinations (MTLE).

But Setren's research also uncovered some contradictions: While students in those populations were more likely to score proficient on the 10th - grade MCAS math and English exams in charter schools, they are less likely to graduate from a charter school in four years, in comparison with their peers in traditional schools.

In the past, the middle school, grades 6 - 8, had a traditional approach, with an emphasis on mastering material from textbooks and preparing for multiple Regents exams.

According to the report, just six of 25 Detroit charter schools had higher math or science proficiency rates on the Michigan Merit Exam than those in Detroit's traditional public schools.

More than 90 % of students of color (Black and Hispanic) enrolled in a Buffalo traditional school DID NOT pass the NYS 3 - 8 Math or ELA exams last year

In order to get an initial certificate through a traditional teacher preparation program as an elementary school teacher for grades 1 - 6, a prospective teacher at any of the institutions on this list must complete an NYSED registered program that has been determined to contain the «studies required» to become a teacher, must be recommended to NYSED by that program, must pass the state certification exam, must pass the state content specialty exam for elementary teachers, must pass the externally evaluated performance assessment called edTPA, must take workshops on the Dignity for All Students Act, and pass a criminal background check based on their fingerprints.

In fact, the recent tendency has been to intensify the traditional mode of testing, with higher cut - off scores and more «difficult» exams, without changing the underlying approach.

The report found that just six of 25 Detroit charter schools had higher math or science proficiency rates on the Michigan Merit Exam than those in Detroit's traditional public schools.

Making adjustments to state teacher licensure requirements to allow teaching candidates to demonstrate their competency through rigorous but more authentic performance assessments, such as the edTPA, that do not have the degree of racial disparity in pass rates that traditional exams have had.

In the report's executive summary, where researchers state their main conclusions, Flanders writes, in bold letters, «We find that private schools in the choice programs and public charter schools in Milwaukee and Wisconsin perform significantly better on the ACT and Forward Exams than traditional public schools when a proper apples - to - apples comparison is made.&raquIn the report's executive summary, where researchers state their main conclusions, Flanders writes, in bold letters, «We find that private schools in the choice programs and public charter schools in Milwaukee and Wisconsin perform significantly better on the ACT and Forward Exams than traditional public schools when a proper apples - to - apples comparison is made.&raquin bold letters, «We find that private schools in the choice programs and public charter schools in Milwaukee and Wisconsin perform significantly better on the ACT and Forward Exams than traditional public schools when a proper apples - to - apples comparison is made.&raquin the choice programs and public charter schools in Milwaukee and Wisconsin perform significantly better on the ACT and Forward Exams than traditional public schools when a proper apples - to - apples comparison is made.&raquin Milwaukee and Wisconsin perform significantly better on the ACT and Forward Exams than traditional public schools when a proper apples - to - apples comparison is made.»

In traditional schools, 49.5 percent of students scored proficient or advanced in math on the 2013 exams, an increase of more than three percentage points from the year beforIn traditional schools, 49.5 percent of students scored proficient or advanced in math on the 2013 exams, an increase of more than three percentage points from the year beforin math on the 2013 exams, an increase of more than three percentage points from the year before.

Sixty percent of urban charter schools in Massachusetts outperformed comparable traditional schools on the 2003 MCAS exams.

Modular A-levels could be phased out in favour of a return to traditional exams at the end of two - year courses, the education secretary has said.

It also means that apart from a stray AS - level, there will be no public exams in the lower sixth year - perhaps allowing it to return to its traditional status as a time for school plays, forming bands and writing bad poetry.

If you're in decent health, you may still be able to get traditional term life insurance (which requires health questions and usually a quick medical exam).

In general, if you're relatively healthy and wouldn't mind a simple medical exam, traditional life insurance is the better option because it will likely be less expensive than a simplified issue life insurance policy.

If not accepted, you continue on to traditional underwriting in which a medical exam is required.

Knowledge about the disease and when to utilize both the DNA test and traditional veterinary eye exams will enable breeders to deal effectively with CEA should it occur in their breeding programs.

Services include wellness exams, vaccinations (or vaccination titers), microchipping, laboratory services, veterinary acupuncture, Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine, pet hospice care, and in - home euthanasia.

In contrast to the traditional forms of restraint, marine mammal trainers have long taught «husbandry» behaviors to their animals to facilitate medical exams and treatment.

It's a relatively traditional program, requiring students to pass a comprehensive exam (that means learning the details and significance of 300 + works of art from around the world, still weighted towards major Western works of art from antiquity through the contemporary period) and passing a reading exam in a second language (German, Italian, Spanish, or French).