Sentences with phrase «with testing companies»

Some states build their own tests; some contract with testing companies; and some just adopt commercial tests.

The first week that the new education commissioner began her job, in July, the state Board of Regents announced it was not renewing a contract with the testing company Pearson and beginning a new arrangement with the company Questar.

The commissioner says New York teachers who are seeking more input into standardized tests that will be used to rate their performance, will get more chances to design tests going forward, under a new contract signed with testing company Questar.

The commissioner said New York teachers, who are seeking more input into standardized tests that will be used to rate their performance, will get more chances to design tests going forward, under a new contract signed with testing company Questar.

Backed by $ 360 million in federal grants, some 40 - plus states have spent the past three years working with testing companies to develop math and language arts exams tied to the academic standards known as Common Core.

The state is currently under contract with testing company CTB / McGraw - Hill through 2014.

If you have trouble finding a position with a testing company, you could look for work with test prep companies, which frequently hire former educators to write and edit passages for test prep courses and practice tests.

We use tested methods with tested companies.

The tests for grades three through eight were created through a contract with the test company Pearson.

So scientists at AOAC International, a nonprofit analytical chemistry group in Gaithersburg, Maryland, are working with testing companies to try to develop faster methods for preparing and analyzing samples with mass spectroscopy.

New York, for example, made its own tests, though a contract with the testing company Pearson.

Dimino thinks Common Core has become a way for corporations to make money, and points to the multi-million dollar contract the state of New York has with testing company Pearson to develop the state's Common Core tests for grades three through eight (Pearson also has a contract with PARCC, one of two multi-state consortia developing Common Core tests).

States contract with testing companies to develop and administer customized state exams.

The first week that the new education commissioner began her job, in July, the state Board of Regents announced it was not renewing a contract with the testing company Pearson and beginning a new arrangement with the company Questar.

«Smarter Balanced has been more decentralized, allowing each state to contract with testing companies, while that maybe has made them more nimble than PARCC, it might have also made the system less stable.»

Hernandez ruled that Jindal's team did not offer any evidence that Superintendent John White had broken state law in amending an existing contract with a testing company to deliver the new Common Core exams, which were developed by the federally funded PARCC consortium.