Sentences with phrase «where test subjects»

At Lab126 there is a «reading room,» where test subjects are asked to read on various devices for hours at a time.

To test the notion, he took the question beyond the walls of academia (where test subjects have generally been Ivy League college students) to friends and relatives in Ohio and Tennessee and children in the local schools.

Not exact matches

This test of the strength of any intruding topic is healthy; where there is no planned order of subjects for preaching, the blank page for next Sunday hungrily welcomes every passing issue and invites it into the pulpit.

I enjoyed your article the other day on the subject of his development, but the gist is still that Ifedi is «surprisingly, right about where he ought to be despite what you've heard / read / felt / seen with your flawed eye - test instruments» I give your comment a rec because you're right, but its a tough sell for most folks

Predicting this sort of thing is impossible in Italy or Spain, where people seem to get sacked for winning things and chairmen seem to have been rigorously subjected to a Deranged And Violently Narcissistic Persons Test.

This was collaborated by a 1998 article in the Journal of the American Medical Association where studies proved that acupuncture was effective at turning breech babies in 75 percent of the test subjects when combined with moxibustion.

In their experiments, the Tübingen researchers placed test subjects at a computer screen and into a virtual maze, where they had to find hidden objects.

They found that L - theanine and caffeine together improved their subjects» performance on cognitive tests where they had to switch quickly between different tasks.

Before taking the treatments and then again two hours after, the subjects took taste tests where researchers gave them solutions of tastants in different concentrations and told them what taste to expect: sour, salt, sweet or bitter.

There's a place in Austin, Texas, where the residents have agreed to be the test subjects for a renewable energy and smart grid future — and it's named after a nut.

Each will be heard simultaneously by test subjects outside and inside, where the sound will rattle plates, windows and cutlery.

The receiving antenna has successfully passed performance tests and resistance, where it was subjected to very low temperatures among other parameters.

And that's where I came up with the Turbulence Training program based on interval training that I was using with athletes and the training that I was reading about, the workouts that people were studying, and then also the workouts that I was using with scientific subjects that I was testing for sports supplements when I was in the university.

This is just me making up connections where none exist, of course, but I still like to think that if there were some crazy intertextuality going on, the sinister - sounding voice that intones here about totally - not - at - all - evil reasons for testing dangerous rollercoasters on live human subjects will one day, after the robot apocalypse, be putting people through much more rigourous testing, perhaps while wearing orange jumpsuits.

Instead, it's a very personal story — a road movie where the apocalypse has already happened, in which Logan, a deteriorating Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart in a wonderful supporting role), and mutant test subject Laura (newcomer Dafne Keen) are outlaws on the run, traveling across a barren landscape in search of their own paradise.

«NAPLAN is a point - in - time test of a just a few, albeit important — subjects which can be compared to the same data collected at other times and around Australia, to help work out, among other things and alongside other data, the effects of different education programs and policies, and the places where additional resources could make the greatest impact.

Nineteen of the 50 new teachers — or 38 percent — had the added pressure of teaching subjects and grade levels where the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), the state's high - stakes test, was administered.

Both PowerPoints have links to statutory requirements and examples of SPAG test questions to illustrate where the subject knowledge links to the National Curriculum expectations.

«We've gotten to the point where, in many cases, science isn't even being taught, especially in the elementaryschool and middle school levels, because ofthe pressure to increase performance on subjects thatare tested,» says Shirley Malcolm, director of educationand human resources at the American Associationfor the Advancement of Science.

So although the subject matter is well established and we know how to teach it, I try and talk about LHC and where things are relevant to that, and then wander off for five minutes and talk about current tests of relativity e.g. new space missions that are relevant.

Our analysis estimated that the share of classrooms where cheating occurred on any particular subject test ranged from 1.1 percent to 2.1 percent, depending on where the statistical cutoff point was set.

Where is the evidence that high stakes testing actually improves student learning in not only the subjects tested, but other important areas as well?

Likewise, because test scores are often used as a proxy for school quality, it is not so surprising to see improvements in test scores where schools are subjected to more competition.

This was particularly so in settings where district leaders mobilized the development of districtlevel curriculum content and performance expectations across all areas of curriculum (not only in externally - tested subjects).

And this has been a growing issue for math teachers and it's no doubt tied to the testing and accountability environment where math is one of the main subjects tested.

Bloom named three ways students receive instruction: Conventional teaching, or classic lecture style, where students listen and are tested on the material; Mastery learning, when the students are tested on the lecture, given feedback on the tests and then tested until they've mastered the subject; and Tutoring, where students are tested first, receive specific feedback and instruction and then tested again until they master the subject.

But what about educators who teach subjects like art and music, where students don't take statewide tests?

The change has three main prongs: principals making more frequent and rigorous classroom observations; teachers in core subjects like math and English receiving ratings based on how their students perform on standardized tests; and teachers in grades and subjects where those tests don't apply devising other ways to chart student growth, in collaboration with their principals and using advice from the state.

This type of information, when available for every tested grade and subject, can be invaluable in determining what programs are working and where more resources may need to be devoted.

Most states require tests to show competency in basic skills as well as in the other areas provided by Teachers Test Prep, where you can also access free online Praxis Practice Tests and Praxis Study Guides, plus a variety of paid Praxis Test Prep options for those desired subject tests to show competency in basic skills as well as in the other areas provided by Teachers Test Prep, where you can also access free online Praxis Practice Tests and Praxis Study Guides, plus a variety of paid Praxis Test Prep options for those desired subject Tests and Praxis Study Guides, plus a variety of paid Praxis Test Prep options for those desired subject area.

Prior to scoring the pre-calibration administration in mathematics and reading and the first operational administration in all other subjects, the NCES standing committee will again review the scoring guides in light of student responses and select appropriate training packets for the operational assessments, particularly where refinements to items and / or scoring guides were made after the pilot test.

At our academy we believe that Key Stage 3, Years 7 - 9, should focus on teaching rather than testing; where we focus on learning and enthusing our students with the joy of our subjects rather than making them simple sit endless tests.

Alternatively (and much cheaper), the state could send the outgoing Commissioner of Education on a tour of schools to attempt to persuade high achieving students to enter a profession where they can expect to earn significantly less than other professionals and be subjected to a testing and evaluation system that according to some is «driving teachers crazy.»

The cleverbods at Datalab tested and found precisely zero primary schools where pupils went on to make an extra grade for each GCSE subject compared to expectations.

At Willow Springs Raceway in Rosamond, California, where each is subjected to 0 -60-mph and quarter - mile acceleration testing as well as 60 -0-mph braking performance using a RaceLogic Performance Box for data acquisition.

At the end of the lease, all of the automobiles belonging to the project will be returned to the BMW Group's engineering fleet where they will be subjected to comparative tests.

The final project before being delivered to you are subjected to quality tests where typos, spelling issues and grammatical errors are alleviated completely.

In a real life test where the Kobo was subjected to varying reading times that ranged from a few minutes to a few hours with the device kept «on» on each day, the battery could last almost an entire week.

In cases where your income exceeds the Arizona median, you will need to subject your income and expenses to the means test, a government - derived formula that analyzes your disposable income.

Eventually, if she does not die first of illness or disease, she will be killed, dumped at the local pound or sold to a research facility where she will be the subject for experiments and testing.

The animals are then adopted into loving homes, where they're finally given the opportunity to live as a cherished pet instead of a test subject.

Play as one of the four remaining human brains kept as tests subjects in a cyber futuristic world where machine have overpowered the Human race.

Garner elucidates this moral / aesthetic issue thusly, «The era that I reference in my work is a period where black people were enslaved — not only enslaved, but used as test subjects, even though all the scientists and medical practitioners are aware that we have the same makeup as far as anatomy.

Yet where Kelley approached his abject bodies with the calculated distance of a Freudian with his test subjects, Pylypchuk enters the protocols of abjection from within.

I mean, one of the things that I've tried to do over these last four years and will continue to do over the next four years is to make sure that we are promoting the integrity of our scientific process; that not just in the physical and life sciences, but also in fields like psychology and anthropology and economics and political science — all of which are sciences because scholars develop and test hypotheses and subject them to peer review — but in all the sciences, we've got to make sure that we are supporting the idea that they're not subject to politics, that they're not skewed by an agenda, that, as I said before, we make sure that we go where the evidence leads us.

And for the cases where chemicals are nice - to - have, but not need - to - have, remember that these young children will be the subject of the next generation of tests on what we have allowed into our bodies, and they themselves will consider having children someday.

Perhaps the real division needs to be to create a subject which is the application of climate science — to create clear (melted ice) between climate science which is based on the scientific methodology and the null hypothesis and «climate prediction» where the «best» predictions are made based on the balance of evidence but there is no pretence that these predictions have or even can be tested (except by comparison to what happens... which I have to point out isn't climate «science's» / forecasters strong card!)

But where this is valid is where the «scientists» claim their assertions are «science» and have the certainty of real science when they do not subject these assertions to the rigorous tests of the scientific methodology.

We could have a, say, «Vioxx audit» website where we analyze the results of tests to the lil» bunnies and the human subjects, and then the tests the FDA saw and didn't act on.

Interesting article too, but I am a bit sceptical to broadly applicable economic tests such as the MEIP, especially in a field such as State aid where the State often pursues other objectives (equity, solidarity, public access to common goods, etc) which are not prohibited under the Treaty but subject to the appraisal of the Commission.