Sentences with phrase «whose subjects are tested»

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Mr Clarke, whose strong connections to civil liberties groups have been severely tested during the row, said the proposal would subject security agencies behaviour to judicial scrutiny.

Chris Nadeau is studying a species of water flea whose tiny, easily replicated and manipulated rock pool habitats make them ideal test subjects for predicting how climate change affects the planet's most vulnerable species.

This Commentary special collection offers a range of perspectives on parents» opting their children out of tests, from researchers who are studying the phenomenon, to parents who have long embraced testing boycotts, to teachers whose opinions on the subject vary widely.

As part of the federal Race to the Top grant obligation, the state will require end - of - the - year tests for every subject to help evaluate teachers whose pay and job will be tied to scores.

For the majority of teachers, whose students don't take a state test on the subject they teach, gains would be measured by students» gains from a spring or fall pre-test to a spring post-test in their subject.

Acknowledging the «unfairness» of the evaluations, Walker said that a system should measure the individual effectiveness of each teacher, but noted that the «FCAT VAM has been applied to teachers whose students are tested in a subject that teacher does not teach and to teachers who are measured on students they have never taught....

For many states and districts the question of how to measure student learning as one aspect of measuring teacher effectiveness — in ways that are accurate, amenable to teachers, and do - able for teachers whose grades or subject areas are not systematically tested — has consumed much of their time and resources the last few years.

Student progress on locally based measures would account for 15 percent of the rating for teachers whose subjects are not covered by statewide tests.

As well, all Canadian snowbirds whose visits to the U.S. fall between 30 and 183 days in a single calendar year are subjected to something the IRS calls a «substantial presence» test.

Perhaps that is why Adam Curtis, the documentarian whose practice of testing theories of power through multimedia essays linking subjects as remote as Bikram yoga and peace and stability in Iraq, has become so popular.

In meeting the first test, a covered entity is considered to have received satisfactory assurances from the party seeking the information if that party demonstrates that it has made a good faith effort (such as by sending a notice to the individual's last known address) to provide written notice to the individual whose information is the subject of the request, that the written notice included sufficient information about the proceeding to permit the individual to raise an objection, and that the time for the individual to raise objections to the court or administrative tribunal has elapsed and no objections were filed or any objections filed by the individual have been resolved.