Sentences with phrase «week test administration»

The reason for the CA - specific 3 - week test administration window appears to be to spread out the peak processing load problem for Smarter Balanced's test administration platform vendor (AIR), to insure CA's load doesn't occur all at the same time and cause the system to crash.

Also, while the Smarter Balanced field test plan allows for a 12 - week test administration window, I suspect it is not widely known that CA - specific plans... Read More

Also, while the Smarter Balanced field test plan allows for a 12 - week test administration window, I suspect it is not widely known that CA - specific plans for the 2014 field test require shorter test administration windows for each school — 3 - week windows as assigned by the CA - specific «Field Test Participation Plan» that was first made public as part of state board agenda materials on Nov 6.

As a PS on my comment above about the CA - specific 3 - week test administration window for each school, for interested readers you can find more on this change on the State Board of Education agenda material for their Nov 7 meeting, Item # 9, Attachment 1, pg 10 of the scope - of work (or pg 16 of 76 for the overall attachment).

The reason for the CA - specific 3 - week test administration window appears to be to spread out... Read More

Not exact matches

The mayor told The Buffalo News his administration is conducting an internal review to determine how it can address the lead problem, and earlier this week his administration asked the Common Council to extend a contract with a company whose work will be expanded to include lead testing.

Fred Downs, who heads the prosthetics program at the Veterans Health Administration and who lost his left arm during combat in Vietnam, recently tested Luke for two weeks.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week gave its first green light to a company that wants to start selling a blood test to evaluate for mild traumatic brain injury, or concussion.

The move comes a week after a flap over Pathway Genomics's plans to sell its test over the counter in Walgreens, a plan the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said was unacceptable because the test needed the agency's authorization.

Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave Geron permission to conduct a safety test of embryonic stem cells in a handful of patients with a recent spinal cord injury.

Recognizing this, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) last week announced it will pay Morristown, N.J. — based manufacturer Honeywell International, Inc., and Aviation Communications & Surveillance Systems (ACSS) in Phoenix $ 9 million to test and install satellite - based ADS — B (automated dependent surveillance — broadcast) systems to help improve runway safety.

Last week, after a series of additional side - impact crash tests on the Volt battery, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) launched what it called a «safety defect investigation» into the risk of fire in a Chevy Volt that has been involved in a serious accident.

On two separate occasions in recent weeks, the Reagan Administration has used Scholastic Aptitude Test data to draw faulty and misleading conclusions about American education.

Even as the Department of Education began soliciting proposals from test contractors last week, House lawmakers both criticized and praised the Clinton administration's plan for new national student tests in reading and math.

Don — The 12 - week window for CAASPP test administration for grades 3 - 8 is not good educational measurement policy.

The first administration of the experimental new PARCC high - stakes standardized tests is only weeks away and parents are increasingly concerned.

This week has seen a major flap over the Obama administration's plans for testing under a new ESEA.

Once again the uneasy relationship between the city administration and charter school advocates was on display last week as dueling positions were taken with regards to how to interpret the latest round of state test results.

In keeping with Jindal's months - long offensive, the Jindal administration decried the move, noting that teachers will leave the classroom the week before students take standardized tests that determine, in part, student promotions and graduations, school accountability assessments and teacher evaluations for tenure.

The hallmarks of Vallas» tenure in Bridgeport so far have been adding an inexplicable and cruel three weeks of standardized testing, and increasing spending on administration.

States such as Washington and Oregon provided their citizens with their statewide Common Core test results nearly eight weeks ago, but the Malloy administration has consistently failed to make Connecticut's results public.

on Shhhh... Don't tell but Malloy administration will be releasing SBAC test results as early as next week

Last week began with the Connecticut State Department of Education's Deputy Commissioner, Ellen Cohn, telling school superintendents that «correction action plans» will be implemented in towns where too many parents opted their children out the tests and that the Malloy administration would be mobilizing to «help educate» parents and communities where parents had stood up against the SBAC testing program.

We heard many stories about SBAC testing that are common to high - stakes, standardized tests: the tests dramatically disrupted the educational process, deprived students of hours of instructional time, reduced stressed out students to tears, and monopolized the computer labs and libraries in service of test administration for weeks at a time.

The Christie administration this week released the first of two reports from the 25 pilot districts that were charged and funded to test the new systems that use uniform evaluation practices, as well as student performance measures, to gauge the effectiveness of teachers.

According to NBC News, «Federal Food and Drug Administration officials unexpectedly posted summaries this week of lab results of nearly 300 jerky treat samples collected and tested in the U.S. between April 2007 and June 2012.»

To establish test — retest reliability, a smaller group of patients complete the CLEFT - Q scales and then complete the scales again 1 week after the first administration.

To assess the test - retest reliability of the GOCQ, the questionnaire was administered twice to a group of N = 35 participants in the Cologne sample with the amount of time in between administrations ranging from 2 to 11 weeks.

One - week test — retest reliability values for the two questionnaire administrations ranged from 0.55 to 0.68 across TV / computer and weekday / weekend day ratings.