Sentences with phrase «year preparing for these tests»

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After months of missile and nuclear tests that raised tensions on the Korean Peninsula, Kim suddenly extended an olive branch, saying in his New Year's address on Jan. 1 that he would prepare for his country's participation in the Feb. 9 - 25 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics hosted by South Korea.

After almost a year of work behind the scenes, the tech giant at a price recently on 7.5 billion dollars, has introduced a tool designed to test the performance of the main Blockchainów, which are currently being prepared for formal submission to the Hyperledger consortium, whose leader is the Linux Foundation.

As hosts of the 2018 World Cup, you will not need to qualify, but just have one year to find your best squad and prepare yourself for a big test.

This is the time of year when many kids are preparing for high - stakes testing.

As they prepared to begin testing young children for lead poisoning this week, school officials in Newark, NJ acknowledged that water in the city's schools had contained elevated levels of lead for years.

The new spelling and grammar test for eleven year olds has been prepared to an excellent standard, as set out in this technical paper, and the new provision for teaching multiplication tables by the age of eight, for most pupils as crucial to success in maths as phonics are to success in English, has not attracted the widespread criticism that our opponents expected.

Following a school year marked by statewide protests to recent changes in the testing procedures and teacher evaluation methods — with 20 percent of New York's students opting out of standardized tests — administrators at Minerva Central are preparing for a year of growth and collaboration, Farrell said in an interview.

It is very difficult as I enter my final year of graduate school to think about filling out applications and preparing for the LSAT exam, so I have decided to take a year or two after graduate school to test the waters before enrolling.

«Given the current uncertainty about FY [fiscal year] 2017 funding, the Census Bureau will not continue expending resources to prepare for the FY 2017 field tests, only to receive insufficient resources to conduct them,» her memo reads.

Asian countries did not participate in the latest test, however, citing the intense pressure on their students in the senior year to prepare for college entrance exams.

For several years now the weapons labs in the US have been preparing for a ban on nuclear testiFor several years now the weapons labs in the US have been preparing for a ban on nuclear testifor a ban on nuclear testing.

These devices worked in monkeys, and Hochberg and Nurmikko recently received a grant to prepare them for human testing within the next two years.

The story then jumps ahead six years to Linda preparing for a polygraph test, per request of her publisher as she is about to release a book on her experiences.

The film opens on a tutoring session between childhood friends Amanda (Olivia Cooke) and Lily (Ana Taylor - Joy), who have drifted apart over the years but have been pushed back together to help Amanda prepare for high school standardized tests.

The school's leadership team had the option to view the year's assessments well beforehand to be sure the school's lesson plans and pacing would prepare kids for the district's year - end tests.

I explain to them — in complete seriousness, of course — that this will be the hardest test of the entire year because they have not prepared in class for the test.

Then after three years obviously we'll test those four scenarios again and look to see whether they're still relevant, whether we can see indications of those stories coming true, in which case then we continue on in the same direction and look at step two - building on the foundations to shift and move the school, and what we do in the classroom and what teachers actually do to prepare ourselves for that future.

Test scores are reorganized according to new classroom assignments so that teachers can use those data in preparing for the year ahead.

These topic - focused SATs questions at the end of a unit will help to test and extend students» understanding as well as helping them to prepare for SATs next year.

He spent the spring working with Singer, testing the program and preparing it for implementation during the 2007 - 2008 school year.

It's quite something else to expect them to prepare students for tests six to eight times during the year.

Key evidence - based features of what three - and four - year - old children need to learn to prepare for becoming strong early readers have provided the core for a number of new published curricula, some of which have been rigorously evaluated and reported on; others are now being tested and evaluated.

For example, Kaplan (where I am chief learning officer) possesses a huge amount of data — billions of records — from people taking practice tests over many years as they prepare for exams like the MCFor example, Kaplan (where I am chief learning officer) possesses a huge amount of data — billions of records — from people taking practice tests over many years as they prepare for exams like the MCfor exams like the MCAT.

The discovery that teachers in some schools may have kept copies of last year's exams and used them to help students prepare for this year's tests, which ask the same questions, knocks off track, at least temporarily, state efforts to raise student achievement through greater school accountability.

This will mean approximately 15, 000 students will have to undertake the tests despite already being under press preparing for their year 11 GCSEs.

How can districts prepare their students and teachers for the common - core - aligned tests this year?

He said he would start preparing students for assessment tests from the beginning of the school year, changing the curriculum to incorporate test material.

Staying Focused and Balanced Despite the demands of preparing for high - stakes tests, Parkville has made time for the past 11 years for a movement and dance program that touches on timely issues and involves students from other communities.

But some schools are finding that assessing students throughout the year with short tests can improve learning and better prepare kids for the big tests.

The publisher's editorial teams have perfected themselves for years in a traditional way of designing information layout and preparing exercises and tests.

«The use of before and after tests to measure improvement has been perfected for over 50 years,» unlike other methods, he writes in a paper prepared for the American Federation of Teachers.

American high school students are no better prepared for college than they were 10 years ago, according to a new study by ACT, one of the two big organizations that offer college entrance tests.

Her school and administration were so intensely focused on standards and developing lessons that prepared students for end - of - year testing that there was little room for the use of technology.

Another survey of parents of grammar - school pupils carried out three years ago suggested that almost half had paid for tuition for their children when they were preparing for the 11 - plus test.

This review is standards - based and will help prepare students for the rigors of high stakes testing in the upcoming years

With the second half of the school year in full - swing, many educators are starting to think about preparing their students for standardized testing.

As we return from spring break and students engage in state testing for accountability, it is a good time for administrators to work on their master schedule, prepare for end - of - year activities, complete observations, and write year - end evaluations of their teachers.

Although it is hoped that some of the pupils may apply to join our Lower School in Year 7, the project is not designed to prepare pupils for tests for 11 + entry to any particular secondary school.

«The teachers in our study confirmed what we at Teach Plus have learned from previous research and from speaking with thousands of teachers over the past five years: that alignment between assessments and curriculum, access to highly valued activities, and the autonomy to choose what's right for students all contribute to how teachers perceive the value of activities they use to prepare their students for tests, and are all factors that can be changed to reduce wasted time and increase valued instructional time.»

What, exactly, has the state Department of Education been doing all year, if not preparing all systems for the tests?

The amount of time students spend preparing for and taking standardized tests has been a political issue for years.

In many U.S. schools, efforts to meet individual students» needs may take less priority than efforts to ensure that all students work toward grade - level standards, progress at the same pace as their grade - level peers, or prepare for grade - level tests at the end of the year.

As 2014 neared, states were spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year on testing and on test preparation materials; the schools in some districts and states were allocating 20 percent of the school year to preparing for state tests.

Research and past experience suggests that teachers should be prepared for greater year - to - year variability in their value - added ranking for a few years after the change when districts use both old and new tests for value - added calculations.

As much as we educators don't want to talk about «teaching to the test», if we are authentically ensuring that students are being given every opportunity to be knowledgeable about what are the essential learnings, they should be well prepared for end of the year assessments.

He's instructed his staff to prepare materials for families telling them not to put much credence into the Florida Standards Assessments scores and school grades this year, particularly in light of a recent validity study that raised many questions about the test's reliability.

They spent about $ 500,000 preparing teachers and students, collaborating with educators in other states and buying materials and computers for a new Common Core test, finishing a year in advance.

The study found that in primary schools, many teachers report that the amount of time spent on the core subjects of English and maths increases in Year 6 in order to prepare for the Sats tests taken by 11 year olds, with other areas taught less, or not at Year 6 in order to prepare for the Sats tests taken by 11 year olds, with other areas taught less, or not at year olds, with other areas taught less, or not at all.

Students and teachers have more time to prepare for tests when the school year starts earlier, and there is less time in school after tests when students may not be fully focused on school.

Edinformatics has designed a two part science test for end of year 8th grade which contains material necessary to prepare students for higher level science courses.