Sentences with phrase «with academic tests»

«And like with academic tests, a single measure [of social - emotional learning] will never be perfect.»

The new Every Student Succeeds Act, the successor to NCLB, provides an opening for states to broaden their accountability regimes by including a non-traditional measure along with academic test scores.

Not exact matches

Instead, he said, it might make more sense for Stoneman Douglas or the Broward school district to provide students with extra academic support, like an Algebra I refresher, before they take the test.

Like schools with physical classrooms, here you'll find field - tested professors to learn from, other working adult students to relate to, and academic and career coaches to guide you.

It was expected to be an academic presentation to show if Theranos Inc.'s controversial blood - testing technology worked, and perhaps explain the science behind the claims that the startup could do lab tests with a fraction of the blood and cost of traditional machines.

Although she had not attended school with any sort of regularity, she scored well on academic tests.

RESIST Agrochemical TNCs together with the All UP Academic Employees Union and NNARA — Youth UP Manila conducted a Round Table Discussion with civil society organizations regarding the imminent approval of Golden Rice application for direct use and open field testing.

The Conversation's FactCheck team will be in Townsville during the Queensland election campaign, keeping track of politicians» claims and working with academics to test them against the evidence.

The Conversation's FactCheck team will be in Adelaide for the next two weeks, working with academics to test politicians» claims against the evidence as South Australians prepare to vote on March 17.

Scan the list of abuses that beset college sports, and your football team can claim, going back to 1980, at least one entry in virtually every category: improper benefits; recruiting violations; boosters run amok; academic cheating; use of steroids and recreational drugs; suppressed or ignored positive tests for drugs; player run - ins with other students as well as with campus and off - campus police; the discharge of weapons and the degradation of women in the football dorm; credit - card fraud and telephone credit - card fraud.

Moser brings to the subject matter a unique background: As a clinician who has treated hundreds if not thousands of concussed student - athletes at the Sports Concussion Center of New Jersey, she brings real world experience to the subject, not just as a neuropsychologist with specialized expertise on baseline and post-concussion neurocognitive testing but in the management and treatment of concussions, including the academic accommodations that are often needed during the sometimes long road to recovery.

With our culture and our nation's emphasis on high academic achievement, the perception that in order to get into college kids need straight As and perfect test scores, increased course work and more complex curricula, teachers are feeling the pressure to cover more material, and to prepare kids for the next grade.

We encourage you to attend a Windows on Waldorf Tour to learn how this time - tested international education offers children a solid academic foundation interwoven with unique multi-sensory experiences, to engage students» interest, deepen their understanding and spark their enthusiasm for learning.

Since 2009, the Healthy Communities Research Group (GP RED, GreenPlay, Design Concepts, along with other key academic and community partners) has been working together to develop and test the Healthy Communities Surveillance and Management Toolkit Project.

And that eating breakfast in the classroom is associated with higher attendance, improved academic performance, and better test scores?

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Further testing was also conducted with other key stakeholders (policy officers, public health academic, nutritionists, health promotion officers) via the use of a response form on a website.

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He repeated his earlier position that the state's rollout of curricula and tests aligned with the Common Core academic standards was rushed, that teachers were not prepared and there is too much testing in general.

Anti-testing activists said the opt - outs sent a clear message to Cuomo, the Regents and the state Education Department: The tests and curricula aligned with the Common Core academic standards must be completely retooled.

It came after a cascade of dissent from parents and teachers, steadily growing since tests aligned with the Common Core academic standards were introduced into classrooms in the 2012 - 13 school year and since the state toughened its evaluation laws, with an increasing amount of educators» job ratings linked to student performance on exams.

Indeed Natasha Devon (who is co-founder of the appropriately named Self - Esteem Team) fell out with her government masters when she weighed in to the Kids Strike row by declaring «the culture of testing and academic pressure is detrimental to mental health».

Many district officials already have told residents they face a squeeze next year between holding down taxes while expanding instructional services needed to prep students for lessons and tests aligned with rigorous Common Core academic standards.

Nassau Community College found its sixth president in W. Hubert Keen, outgoing president of Farmingdale State College, a tested academic with 40 years of experience in higher education.

Nationally, Natale's words struck a chord as teachers everywhere are dealing with reforms similar to those implemented in Connecticut this year — a new teacher evaluation system, new academic standards known as the Common Core State Standards, and the trial of a new computerized testing system.

In spring 2015, the boycott grew so large — with parents pulling more than 200,000 students out of testing in English language arts and mathematics, about 20 percent of those eligible statewide — that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo called for a sweeping review of the state's academic standards and exams.

The latest round of state standardized academic test scores showed gains both across New York State and locally.But rather than celebrate the largest bump since New York adopted new tests tied to the Common Core Learning Standards, education officials reported the increases with caution.

Griffiss International Airport has partnered with the Northeast UAS Airspace Integration Research Alliance (NUAIR), a consortium of public entities, private industry and academic institutions in both states, to conduct UAS testing, research and development.

Yanagisawa believes a simple amyloid blood test would enable recruitment for clinical trials of new drugs in a larger share of the population, as opposed to only those with access to advanced academic centers.

The National Assessment Governing Board, an independent committee that sets policy for the test, defines proficiency as «solid academic performance» with «demonstrated competency over challenging subject matter.»

Furthermore, these differences also correlated with one measure of academic achievement — performance on standardized tests.

You've been on the academic conveyor belt for as long as you can remember: a seamless journey from messing with insects and test tubes as a child, to years of earnest undergraduate biology courses, through the financial deprivations of your PhD and a postdoc or two.

«Repeated testing is a powerful practice that directly enhances learning and thinking skills, and it can be especially helpful to students who start off with a weaker academic background,» Gosling says.

In case studies where teachers read about boys with academic strength and emotional sensitivity, clues for good candidates for gifted education, teachers were more likely to refer white students for gifted testing.

But the academics believe that more regular, detailed tests might help youngsters with literacy problems.

When teachers read a case study of a boy with academic challenges, meant to suggest learning disabilities, they were more likely to refer white boys than black and Latino boys for testing.

We are excited to continue this academic collaboration with our Canadian colleagues to test this drug in humans for the first time,» said Wainberg.

... In the current study, academic achievement was measured with standardized tests administered in spring 2013, which was concurrent with the time of year when participation in the SBP peaked.

In our two previous research collaborations with the Skills for Life team, we already had shown that mental health problems are quite common, are among the strongest predictors of poor attendance, poorer grades, and lower scores on standardized tests, and that improved mental health scores are powerful predictors of improved academic outcomes.»

«Assisted reproduction not associated with reduced academic performance in adolescence: US Nationwide analysis of more than 8,000 ART children finds no difference in educational test scores.»

(1) Similarly, ART singletons and ART twins also had comparable test scores, suggesting, say the investigators, that «the higher obstetric risk» identified in ART pregnancies — and particularly in twins — «is not associated with poorer academic performance in adolescence.»

«Excellent resources for academic education as well as clinical development with respect to genetic testing and application.»

In collaboration with several drug companies and academic laboratories, we developed furin inhibitors active both in the test tube and in cell culture.

In this presentation, we discuss data from studies conducted with academic, clinical, and industry collaborators that demonstrates the utility of the system as a more predictive, human - relevant alternative for efficacy and safety testing of new chemical entitites.

The «Great Courses» are not academic courses in the usual sense, but are intended to provide a college - level view of a subject for those outside the field, with no homework or tests.

Analysis of four SNPs, in tandem with genetic risk factors detected by the deCODE ProstateCancer ™ test, yields substantial improvement in efficacy of PSA screening Reykjavik, ICELAND, 15 December 2010 — Scientists from deCODE genetics and academic colleagues from...

The Delaney Collaboratory to Cure HIV - 1 Infection by Combination Immunotherapy (BEAT - HIV Collaboratory) is a consortium of more than 30 top HIV researchers from leading academic research institutions working with government, nonprofit organizations, and industry partners to test combinations of several novel immunotherapies under new preclinical research and clinical trials.

I am extremely intelligent per my test scores (genius - level), what everyone says about me, and my academic success, etc. and ma very intellectual, so that gives me a big advantage with highly intelligent, intellectual women — the kind I want anyways.