Sentences with phrase «with testing policies»

• Greet examinees and verify them by checking their examination slips • Control test areas by ensuring that policies and procedures are properly administered • Monitor candidates during the testing procedure in order to ensure a secure testing environment • Coordinate standardized test administration and administer the center's computer pods • Provide routine direction and information to both existing students and prospective ones • Ascertain that all testing procedures are conducted in compliance with testing policies and protocols

Any stakes associated with testing policies should be shouldered not only by students and educators, but also by policymakers who have control over the educational systems in which teaching and learning occur.

Not exact matches

As with any human - resources policy, to use tests effectively you need to take some reasonable precautions:

Home sales across the country have dropped in the wake of several government policy measures, including a stress test for home buyers with a down payment of more than 20 per cent, that were implemented to cool the country's hot housing market.

Worsening trade ties will test China's policy of» strategic composure» in dealing with Trump's America First ethos.

Important factors that could cause our actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those indicated in the forward - looking statements include, among others, the following: our ability to successfully and profitably market our products and services; the acceptance of our products and services by patients and healthcare providers; our ability to meet demand for our products and services; the willingness of health insurance companies and other payers to cover Cologuard and adequately reimburse us for our performance of the Cologuard test; the amount and nature of competition from other cancer screening and diagnostic products and services; the effects of the adoption, modification or repeal of any healthcare reform law, rule, order, interpretation or policy; the effects of changes in pricing, coverage and reimbursement for our products and services, including without limitation as a result of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014; recommendations, guidelines and quality metrics issued by various organizations such as the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the American Cancer Society, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance regarding cancer screening or our products and services; our ability to successfully develop new products and services; our success establishing and maintaining collaborative, licensing and supplier arrangements; our ability to maintain regulatory approvals and comply with applicable regulations; and the other risks and uncertainties described in the Risk Factors and in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations sections of our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and our subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10 - Q.

Thus, as with random drug testing that depends on the employer's policies.

It's an important early test of Trudeau's economic policies: Resist the bailout request, and he'll go a long way to silencing critics who've claimed he can't be trusted with the nation's finances; cave to Bombardier's demands, and his new government will be born into the original sin of corporate welfare.

Their arrival could test Bangkok's international pledges to treat the Rohingya humanely, two years after Thailand faced international condemnation over secret policies of towing Rohingya back out to sea in unpowered boats with little food and water.

One of the trickiest areas of negotiating a leaguewide random drug - testing policy is how — or if — to deal with steroids.

He has been up front in discussing the seasonlong feud with the Patriots that involved his violating the NFL's substance abuse policy by missing a drug test, New England's withholding $ 8.5 million of his $ 11.5 million signing bonus, and his filing a grievance against the Patriots and a lawsuit against the league (both of which, along with the team's countergrievance, were dropped when the trade was made).

The university is expected to be charged with a «failure to monitor» for part of its athletics program, according to sources, who told NJ Advance Media other possible violations include allegations of wrongdoing with regards to football recruits and the program's recruiting host / hostess program as well as what's been described by sources as «inconsistencies» in the administration of the athletic department's drug testing procedures and policies.

Yet in the wake of the collapse of your drug - testing policy, you appointed still another committee, only this time — you must be getting really serious now — the committee was supplemented by a «special task force» charged with reviewing the activities of the entire athletic department.

If an LEA adopts a policy permitting random drug testing of students in voluntary extracurricular activities, it must notify the parents and guardians that the student may be subjected to random drug testing prior to a student participating in an extracurricular activity, with the parent or guardian providing written consent.

TOUGH: Well, I think part of it has to do with education policy, that we've been so focused on standardized tests as the measure of whether a school is doing well that we're not giving schools the time and the incentive to work on these other skills.

Sure you can minimise risk at home by having at least two CNMs who are accredited with the local hospital, a minimum standard for prenatal care and testing, strict risk - out criteria (no primips, twins, breech, PIH, diabetics) and liberal transfer policy, but there will always be unforeseen complications.

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.

With more rigorous assessment tests this year creating concerns that the number of failing students could rise, Chicago Public Schools plans to revamp its promotion policy for third -, sixth - and eighth - graders.

These policies need to pass the «can we actually do it» test, but also appear flexible enough to cope with the fast changing global economic situation.

A better, tried - and - tested method through congress is to make certain (significant) aspects of federal funding of local police forces contingent upon compliance with a camera program / policy.

The new year started with the Green party announcing a universal, non-means tested weekly payment of # 72 to every British adult as its flagship economic policy, only to drop it this week from the party election manifesto after the programme's costing failed to withstand rigorous scrutiny.

The move clashes with Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina's policy on the statewide test given to students in grades 3 through 8 on April 5 - 7 for the English standardized test and April 13 - 15 for the math exam.

NYSUT argues the SED policy prevents teachers from raising issues with state testing out of fear of reprisal.

The session, at Spackenkill High School, was filled with parents and teachers opposed to King's policy agenda, including the state's rush to the Common Core standards, high - stakes Common Core tests and teacher and principal evaluations tied to those tests.

But while most of the attention went to negotiations about teacher evaluations and standardized tests, new policies also were put in place for dealing with failing schools.

It's also seen as a litmus test for President Donald Trump, who is lauded by many of the district's Cuban - American voters for chilling his predecessor's accord with Cuba but is denounced by other Hispanics for his hard - line stance on immigration, especially policies involving undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children, known as «Dreamers.»

When Mr Moon was last in government, in the early 2000s, South Korea had a «Sunshine Policy» which meant co-operation with North Korea, a policy which was abandoned as North Korea tested nuclear wePolicy» which meant co-operation with North Korea, a policy which was abandoned as North Korea tested nuclear wepolicy which was abandoned as North Korea tested nuclear weapons.

John Redwood has the commonsense and grit needed to road test policies and get them through Whitehall with out the civil service hierachy making mischief.

Redwood should have a real role in road - testing the policies, now, so when it comes to briefing the civil servants, there are fewer holes and gaps for them to have to cover with difficult compromises and messy law.

It's a reversal of a controversial policy that helped lead to a widespread boycott of the third through eighth grade tests associated with the former Common Core program.

«The test for those arguing that the UK must remain in the EU and for those pressing for our departure is to come up with a clear vision of our future, inside or out,» the CBI's chief policy director Katja Hall said.

The Green Party candidate is strongly against Common Core standards and high stakes testing, as well as distribution of school aid policies that rank New York among those states with the poorest records.

I've just noticed that Andrew Adonis (a former education policy adviser who was made a Lord so he could be education minister, and is one of the people most responsible for the Government's obsession with league tables, testing and Academies) has been made Minister of State in the Transport Department, about which he presumably has little or no expertise.

Alex Salmond has dismissed Boris Johnson as a «court jester» but said the real «test» will be whether Theresa May allows cabinet members with more gravitas to shape her policies.

Signaling a profound turn away from the education policies of the Bloomberg administration, newly appointed schools chancellor Carmen Fariña promised to retreat from an emphasis on standardized testing and preparation, to re-focus on arts, social studies and science, and to implement changes that «happen with people, not to people.»

Mr Laws has also called for limits on European Union powers, an end to the Common Agricultural Policy and a smaller role for the state in welfare provision, with an end to means - testing.

Wanting to test the away - from - the - bench waters without losing all chance of returning to academia's fold, American Amanda Staudt took a 1 - year science policy postdoc with the National Research Council.

Indeed, rivalry exists among the various authorities, with Beijing deliberately encouraging a degree of «policy competition» to test differing approaches to see which works best.

We have elaborated upon these principles with respect to current policy debates on the uses of predictive genetic test results in health insurance, and present these ideas below:

His study, conducted with U-M cardiologist Brahmajee Nallamothu, M.D., M.P.H. and team at the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, looked at the type of stress test known as SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging, which can use Tc - 99m or, less precisely, thallium - 201.

Today I'm working with scientists, physicians, and policy - makers on implementing new HIV testing strategies, evaluating the adoption of new hepatitis medications, and assessing the impact of genome sequencing in society.

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.»

As a consequence, scientists and policy makers are now scrambling to set up guidelines for how much information from such testing to share with patients and for how best to help them deal with the inevitable incidental findings.

With a variety of needs, structures, and progress represented by these institutions, NSF has a rich test - bed on which to analyze the kinds of policies and practices that work and to define the settings in which they do so.

The Moodle quiz tested, among others, the ability of learners to determine rules for patterns and functional relationships using flow diagrams, tables, formulae and equations in line with the current National Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement for Grade 7 - 9.

«In addition to gains in achievement test scores we also saw improvements in engagement with school, such as an increase in attendance of about 2.5 weeks per year» said Jonathan Guryan, Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University and Co-director of the University of Chicago Urban Education Lab.

«Our study demonstrates that policy changes such as the one in Utah that required CMV testing after failed newborn hearing screening can improve the identification of infants with hearing loss, even those without congenital CMV,» said Marissa Diener, lead author and associate professor at the University of Utah's Department of Family and Consumer Studies.

A more policy - relevant test of commitment might be a scenario with emissions decaying with some lifetime that reflects natural capital turnover (15 to 50 years).

It's being boycotted by Canadian health authorities and laboratories in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, challenged by the French government in a heated patent dispute, and has provoked deep animosity in Britain as the company negotiates with the National Health Service over testing policy.

The researchers wanted to test the prediction that if individuals with lower - pitched voices are better leaders, then they also should be more persuasive when making policy appeals.