States and schools plan to
use the new tests to not only determine how well students are mastering the new standards, but also to make judgments about school and educator performance.
As with previous assessments, states will
use the new tests for school accountability determinations, but the tests will have the added purpose of clearly demonstrating students» reading and math readiness for entry into college and the workforce.
Murphy said she hopes lawmakers allow districts to
use the new tests for a few years before accountability measures are put into place.
If the scores are as reliable as expected, colleges plan to
use the new tests to measure college readiness and determine student class placement in 2016.
And if they don't want to
use the new tests being created by the states, they don't have to.
Furthermore, tests
using a new test called liquid chromatography - mass spectrometry (LC - MS)-- scientists believe it is a more accurate way to measure gluten in fermented beers — showed that even though all the tested beers «had been rated by their makers to have gluten levels below 20 mg / kg, according to ELISA», the new test «found detectable gluten fragments in every sample using LC - MS, and most had much higher levels of gluten than ELISA detected.»
That's why the specialists in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease at Floating Hospital for Children
use the newest tests and techniques to get you those answers.
Using a new testing technique to capture tiny DNA fragments from several hundred Southern patients, Kerry Clark hopes he can identify the Borrelia strains infecting both patients and ticks.
Using the new testing method, the research group was able to correctly differentiate the samples of those who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia from those who had no history of the disorder.
Using the new test many samples can be analysed quickly and at the same time, and the functional level of AMACR can be measured much more accurately than by previous methods.
His team is currently
using the new test to assess up to 30 more patients at the UNSW Centre for Eye Health.
For high - risk women, Birnbach and his colleagues have started
using a new test which can detect cocaine in urine.
Dr. Chris Kuhr, a former Center researcher, and Gadi played with the idea of
using a new test being developed in the Nelson Lab to look for rejection.
If the state doesn't want to go back to PARCC or join Smarter Balanced, they also have the option of
using new tests from SAT or ACT.
The state of Colorado
used new tests (PARCC) to assess student learning, replacing the TCAP and CSAP assessments of the past.
However, reflecting wariness over being judged too soon on tests they've never taken and standards they're just beginning to implement, the Association of California School Administrators and the California School Boards Association asked the State Board of Education to put off setting API base scores
using the new tests for another year.
Its EPA rating,
using the new test procedures, is 16mpg city and 23mpg highway.
Not exact matches
THE Bank of Queensland will
use Western Australia as a
testing ground for a return to the
use of mortgage brokers and a
new branch model in an attempt to firm up its bottom line.
The true
test will come when apps are released that truly make
use of the
new processor.
Google's study shows how AI - technology can be
used to create
new diagnostic
tests to predict medical conditions by
using data from existing tools.
The US Military is
testing out
new technology that
uses virtual reality to help give machine gunners an edge.
Companies can also «
test the waters»
using the
new provisions of Regulation A — meaning that you can let the world know you are thinking of raising investment dollars.
Still, since labs are the biggest source of objective data that most doctors have to base decisions on, they need to trust
new tests before deciding they're going to start
using them.
«What we're excited about is the constant
testing on
new ways to
use Twitter and engage users,» he says.
Currently the J - 15 launches
using a ski - jump arrangement as with Russian and soon UK aircraft but at least one modified J - 15 was photographed with a catapult bridle on its nose wheel for land - based
testing of a
new magnetic catapult system likely to be
used on the next Chinese aircraft carrier, the yet - to - be-named CV - 18, Type 002 aircraft carrier of entirely Chinese indigenous design to be built by the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai.
It helped an anti-immigrant group learn the best way to target its fearmongering ads, and then
used those ads as a case study to
test the effectiveness of a
new ad format.
Code Eight, the
new Walmart subsidiary run by Rent the Runway co-founder Jennifer Fleiss, is
testing a personal shopping service that allows customers to get product recommendations and make purchases
using text messaging.
Russia has
used its involvement in Syria as a sort of «
test bed for showing off its
new submarine capabilities,» including the ability to launch cruise missiles from subs, Nordenman said.
Of course, there will always be cases in which you need to analyze data on a shorter time frame — like when you are evaluating results of an experiment or
testing the effect of a
new software release — but for those cases you can always perform an ad hocanalysis
using a temporary spreadsheet.
The company is demonstrating two
new categories of vision
tests at CES, both of which
use video games and eye tracking technology.
Glossier leverages its social media presence to
test out and promote
new products, and then
uses its showrooms, pop - ups, and stores to grow that audience further by turning them into must - visit destinations.
For TaskRabbit, the biggest change came in 2013 when it began operations in London and
used the expansion to
test out a
new model.
They operate and maintain equipment
used in developing,
testing, and producing
new aircraft and spacecraft.
New social media platforms pop up on a regular basis, and as we all hop in to
test the water and see how we can
use each, we undoubtedly upload a profile picture in the process.
Originally built with developers in mind, LaunchDarkly has evolved into a tool that can be
used across organizations for auditioning and
testing new features.
That doesn't tell us how much faster it is than the A9
used by the previous iPad, though, or even the A8X chip
used by the iPad Air 2, so we'll have to reserve judgment until we get the
new iPad in the lab for
testing.
Using Optimizely, an online A / B
testing tool, uSell created two versions of its homepage, the regular one and one that included the
new items.
After Alex Jones
used his platform to rant about the Comedy Central host, Klepper weaved his comments about «The Opposition» into a bit at a
test screening in
New York.
The social network is
testing Stories in Ireland, where as of today members can
use the
new format to share videos and photos with their friends that will disappear after 24 hours and won't automatically show up in their News Feeds.
For clients, I have
used Field Agent to
test the appeal of
new colors for a gaming accessory.
Adapting Ries's «most viable product» concept, Procter & Gamble (pg) got two
new lines of feminine - hygiene products to the consumer market -
testing phase in just one year; it
used to take three.
We're seeing diagnostics companies
use AI to create
new tests that have much higher accuracy, much lower cost, and typically diagnose things much earlier.
Palantir Has Secretly Been
Using New Orleans to
Test Its Predictive Policing Technology (The Verge) Predictive policing technology has proven highly controversial wherever it is implemented, but in
New Orleans, the program escaped public notice, partly because Palantir established it as a philanthropic relationship with the city through Mayor Mitch Landrieu's signature NOLA For Life program.
Software developers at many startups and some bigger companies love AWS partly because they can
use their corporate credit cards to order the computer power they need to
test out
new applications, often without the knowledge or permission of their corporate overlords.
It would roll out a
new technology, the «Textalyzer,» that can
test whether a cellphone had been in
use in the moments leading up to a crash.
Fritz Maytag, president and master brewer of the Anchor Brewing Co., based in San Francisco,
uses his VisaCalc at home as well as in the office; frequently he will
test some
new «what if» in the middle of the night.
He built his own smart home in 2007, which he
uses as a real - world
test lab when reviewing
new products.
A structural equations model is developed and empirically
tested using a sample of
new car buyers.
The money could be
used on anything from putting candidates through a battery of personality
tests to subsidizing salary in the early months to providing the
new hire with coaching services up to a year after he or she is sent into the field.
Instead of creating a
new, separate site to host my
test prep course, I would have
used my existing blog site, where I already had solid SEO and authority.