Sentences with phrase «worst outcomes of the tests»

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Being rich or poor is a worse predictor of test outcomes in Canada than in almost any other country.

If simply learning that one is biomarker positive causes a person to perform worse on cognitive testing, then primary outcomes data of AD trials may not be valid.

Inquiry and innovation - this is one of the most important outcomes of this model - students, as they work together, will need to learn how to solve problems, where to look for good information, how to distinguish good information from bad, how to confirm their hypothesis before coming to conclusions, how to test those conclusions, and more.

Yes, there might be other schools that are just as bad at life outcomes that are not closed because they achieve better test scores, but so long as we are closing schools that are not delivering great life outcomes, and opening schools that have a better chance of achieving great life outcomes, this seems like a worthwhile tradeoff.

The authors demonstrate that the effects of high - stakes testing pro- grams on outcomes, such as retention and graduation, are different from the results of using grades alone, and that some groups of students who are already faring poorly, such as African Americans and Latinos / Latinas, will do even worse if high - stakes testing programs are used as criteria for promotion and graduation.

I base that claim on the evidence from other research that the main tool for portfolio management — test scores — are simply not strong enough predictors of later life outcomes to allow even benevolent managers to accurately identify bad schools for closure and good schools for expansion.

Achievement tests are useful but they are not nearly strong enough predictors of later life outcomes to empower a portfolio manager to close a significant number of schools because he or she «knows» that those schools are «bad.»

«In other words,» he said in a statement, «teacher evaluations based on observed state test outcomes are only slightly better than coin tosses at identifying teachers whose students perform unusually well or badly on assessments of conceptual understanding.

A group of four minivans recently tested by the Institute for protection in small overlap front crashes shows some of the worst possible outcomes for this type of crash, with only one vehicle performing acceptably.

This can occur due to a lack of consideration of the disease process, inadequate use of diagnostic testing, client pressures or the perceived need to «do something» — the perception that if veterinarians don't use antibiotics and a bad outcome results, it's the practitioner's fault, but the drug is at fault if a complication from antibiotics develops, Weese added.