Sentences with phrase «use science test»

So far, Connecticut, Delaware, Louisiana, and Tennessee, and other states «can use science test scores,» but «they just can't be part of the «academic achievement» indicator.»

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In 2014, Krisna Bhargava was getting his PhD in material science from the University of Southern California when he realized he could build better tools to conduct medical tests to be used in doctors» offices and emergency rooms.

Among the documents the committee has published today (with some redactions) is the data - licensing contract between Global Science Research (GSR)-- the company set up by the Cambridge University professor, Aleksandr Kogan, whose personality test app was used by CA as the vehicle for gathering Facebook users» data — and SCL Elections (an affiliate of CA), dated June 4, 2014.

As used in science, a theory is an explanation or model based on observation, experimentation, and reasoning, especially one that has been tested and confirmed as a general principle helping to explain and predict natural phenomena.

Why can't you understand that science knows they almost never get it perfectly right the first time so use a repeatable process, the scientific method, to propose, test, modify and / or discard ideas in a open and shared manner.

I can test and repeat the science that helps me create and use these things.

Science requires an ability to test using the scientific method.

As used in science, however, a theory is an explanation or model based on observation, experimentation, and reasoning, especially one that has been tested and confirmed as a general principle helping to explain and predict natural phenomena.

'' Religions make guesses based on human invented concepts» Who created the processes used to test out things in science?

Repeatable in science refers to the ability to test the same hypothesis, using the same methods (typically by independent researchers), to confirm or reject said hypothesis, e.g. the repeated observation by many, many different researchers of fossils in the correct temporal and morphological relationships within the fossil record (no rabbits in the pre-Cambrian, no humans alongside dinosaurs, etc).

You stated: «As used in science, however, a theory is an explanation or model based on observation, experimentation, and reasoning, especially one that has been tested and confirmed as a general principle helping to explain and predict natural phenomena.»

Action and use are a test of explanation, and explanation is the basis of action, but explanation is an end in itself and is the chief end of science and philosophy.

Barring this one logically inappropriate means of testing the reliability of models, the metaphors of religion lie open to evaluation along very similar lines to the models used in the sciences to represent a subject matter that lies beyond our powers of direct inspection.

Neither science nor scientists are flawless, but the vast majority of their findings has met the test of time and use.

The university food sciences team who carried out the survey on behalf of cleaning experts Vileda also tested a used child's dummy after it had been dropped on the floor and discovered growth of E. coli.

Try to get a hole - in - one while testing out your science skills by using pipes, ramps, funnels, turntables and more at three different putting areas.

Using metaphors developed by FrameWorks and tested with audiences both in the United States and in Alberta, «How Brains are Built» infuses core story concepts with energy, accessibility, and high fidelity to the science.

Rooted in the science of naturopathic medicine, Pranin Organic provides organic supplements that minimize toxins by using only whole food ingredients and batch testing through third - party labs.

I used to teach high school biology, but now I'm a private science tutor because I hated how much the administration focused on test scores and test - taking skills over fostering love of science and learning.

We also had fun using the Primary Science Jumbo Test Tubes (affiliate link).

Cambridge academic Aleksandr Kogan and his company Global Science Research created an app called «thisisyourdigitallife,» which used psychological tests to gather data on users.

The American Statistical Association and other research groups have issued serious cautions about using test scores to measure teacher effectiveness, with some concluding it is junk science.»

Since 1985, Project 2061 has led the way in science education reform by first defining adult science literacy in its influential publication Science for All Americans and then specifying what K - 12 students need to know in Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and cscience education reform by first defining adult science literacy in its influential publication Science for All Americans and then specifying what K - 12 students need to know in Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and cscience literacy in its influential publication Science for All Americans and then specifying what K - 12 students need to know in Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and cScience for All Americans and then specifying what K - 12 students need to know in Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and cScience Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and cscience literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and cScience Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and climate.

Immunophenotyping — a laboratory procedure used to study the proteins expressed by cells — is very commonly used in basic science research as well as in laboratory diagnostic testing.

With support from the National Science Foundation, Project 2061 has developed an online bank of high - quality test items and related assessment resources for use in middle and early high school science (http / / assessment.aaas.org), and a grant from the U.S. Department of Education is funding the development of assessment instruments for evaluating students» understanding of energy concepts from elementary through high Science Foundation, Project 2061 has developed an online bank of high - quality test items and related assessment resources for use in middle and early high school science (http / / assessment.aaas.org), and a grant from the U.S. Department of Education is funding the development of assessment instruments for evaluating students» understanding of energy concepts from elementary through high science (http / / assessment.aaas.org), and a grant from the U.S. Department of Education is funding the development of assessment instruments for evaluating students» understanding of energy concepts from elementary through high school.

The U.S. government cracked down after both nations tested nuclear weapons in May 1998, requiring U.S. organizations to obtain a license before shipping civilian materials deemed to have a dual military use to more than 300 institutions (Science, 24 July 1998, p. 494).

Principal investigator Cari Herrmann - Abell and her colleagues plan to expand on their previous efforts to develop multiple - choice test items by developing a set of constructed or open - ended response items that can be used in combination with the multiple - choice items to measure students» understanding of core disciplinary ideas, science practices, and crosscutting concepts — the three dimensions of science learning that are central to the vision of NGSS.

In lab tests, prototype multilayer lenses have shown they can release ciprofloxacin (an antibiotic often used to treat eye and other infections) for up to 100 days, according to a study published in the July issue of Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science by researchers from Children's Hospital Boston, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary's (MEEI) ophthalmology department, Schepens Eye Research Institute in Boston, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (M.I.T.) chemical engineering department.

It was sloppy science: Researchers around the world were already testing powdered minerals for their ability to form ice, but they used minerals that were sterile and pure.

High performance computing researcher Shuaiwen Leon Song tests a new architecture on rendering graphics for Doom 3, though the research ultimately benefits science that uses visualizations, models and even virtual reality.

And maybe people who use the test can help clarify the connection between telomeres and health: If Telome Health lets users contribute (or actively entices them to contribute) their results and detailed medical histories to science, we could all help bring the picture into better focus.

When the comparison also included samples from healthy people, the method accurately identified early Lyme disease up to 85 times out of 100, beating a commonly used Lyme test's rate of 44 of 100, researchers report online August 16 in Science Translational Medicine.

It's certainly possible that Chilesaurus is something other than a theropod, «but the analysis they use to test this is problematic,» says Martin Ezcurra, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Argentine Natural Science Museum who was an author on the original Chilesaurus paper.

The companies that offer these tests give inconsistent results because the science is really new, and it's not ready for medical use.

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

Collaborator David Nelson, a stable isotope ecologist with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, tested the birds» feathers for stable hydrogen isotopes, which can be used to determine where the birds likely grew their feathers.

The results of the early - stage vaccine trial suggest that the preventive treatment should be developed further and that scientists are a step closer to being able to counter a potential H7N9 flu pandemic using a clinically tested vaccine, researchers argue April 30 in Science...

Webber and co-author Robert Fares, a Cockrell School alumnus who is now an American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy, analyzed the impact of home energy storage using electricity data from almost 100 Texas households that are part of a smart grid test bed managed by Pecan Street Inc., a renewable energy and smart technology company housed at UT Austin.

This synthetic eye could be used to study and test treatments for eye diseases, researchers reported February 16 in a news conference at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Amrita Cheema, PhD, one of the main investigators on Federoff's team, will give an in - depth lecture on the test's significance, the science behind it, and the research techniques used to develop it in the July 28 AACC session, «Lipidomics: A Powerful Approach to Identify Pre-clinical Memory Impairment in Older Adults.»

The students who used their assigned strategy correctly had the highest scores on their science tests, even when the researchers controlled for students who had better reading skills to begin with.

Like Mozi, Jian - Wei Pan of the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei and colleagues will use photons to test out quantum key distribution, a form of secure communication in which the laws of quantum mechanics prevent eavesdropping.

But the Doudna / Charpentier team, as they reported in a landmark paper published online by Science on 28 June 2012, at that point had only used CRISPR to cut DNA in test tube studies.

Together with his daughter Wendy and other colleagues at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC, he was using the device to test materials at pressures many millions of times higher than those at the Earth's surface — higher even than in our planet's core — by squeezing them between two tiny diamond jaws.

A new report from the Royal Society on improving U.K. science and mathematics education contains a lengthy wish list: Upper - level students should take a lot more science and math; more college graduates with science degrees should go into teaching; current teachers should continually upgrade their skills and have a larger voice in the educational process; and the government should de-emphasize the high - stakes tests used to measure student achievement.

In the Netherlands, based on research reported in 2016 in Science Translational Medicine, Clevers and colleagues are already using personalized gut organoids, derived from rectal biopsies, to test whether cystic fibrosis patients will benefit from available drugs.

They tested their system on a pair of yeast transcription factors and used the data to predict which yeast genes the proteins would target, they report in this week's Science.

But Kevin Zmetra, a recipient of a Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) Zmetra, a doctoral candidate at the University of Connecticut, along with leading researchers, has tested the use of Ultra-High Strength Concrete (UHSC)-- a strong material used to repair bridges much more quickly at a much lower cost.

CARVE makes frequent and sustained science flights across Alaska using NASA's Arctic - tested Sherpa C - 23B aircraft.

We got into a series of science and technology conferences whereby we try to think out of the box, moving away from our everyday work on nuclear test monitoring to see what the outside scientific community could do with the technology that we use.