Sentences with phrase «year tests measuring»

The researchers then measured these scores alongside assessments of the teachers» positive engagement with their students, and against end - of - year tests measuring students» academic growth.

End - of - year tests measure students» total knowledge, no matter when or where they acquired it — in preschool years, in the family, during the summer, in previous grades, or in previous schools.

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During a testing period that will run through this year, Eyeo and Flattr will further develop the algorithm that will allow Flattr Plus to measure readers» engagement with articles, and distribute their monthly donations accordingly.

Together over the course of the past year, Uber and Lyft have spent up to $ 9 million in a vain effort to overturn the city's proposed safety measure, viewing Austin as an important test case in the broader struggle between local regulators and Silicon Valley upstarts with novel business models and global ambitions.

But I can find a reason to be optimistic: both the income sprinkling and passive income measures are constructed as extensions to existing tax measures that have been tested in courts and in practice for years.

While we don't know all the link attributes measured by the engines, through analysis of patent applications, years of experience and hands - on testing, we can draw some intelligent assumptions that hold up in the real world.

To test robustness of findings, they: (1) account for one - way trading frictions ranging from 0.02 % to 0.05 % across assets; (2) consider five subperiods to test consistency over time; and, (3) perform out - of - sample tests using the first part of each subperiod to select the best rules and roughly the last year to measure performance of these rules out - of - sample.

During their sophomore year of high school, the twins did several ergometer tests on a rowing machine to measure their speed and found to their surprise that their scores ranked them in the top 20 nationally among junior rowers.

To investigate, we test whether a simple measure of the volatility risk premium (VRP) for T - notes predicts returns for the iShares 7 - 10 Year Treasury Bond (IEF) exchange - traded fund.

Instead, Amorim applies the technology in laboratory - controlled batch testing as part of its quality control measures for the 4.2 billion corks it produces each year — and at the same time worked to improve the technology so it could be used in production.

Instead, Amorim applied the technology in laboratory - controlled batch testing as part of its quality control measures for the 4.2 billion corks it produces each year — and at the same time worked to improve the technology so it could be used in production.

Up front we have a few world - class players surrounded by some serious pretenders... Sanchez is by far the most accomplished player in our attack but the controversy surrounding his contractual mishandling could see him go before the window closes or most definitely by season's end... obviously a mistake by both parties involved, as Sanchez's exploits have never been more on display than in North London, but the club's irresponsible wage structure and lack of real intent have been the real undoing in this mess... Lacazette, who I think has some world - class skills as a front man, will only be as good as the players and system around him, which is troubling due to our current roster and Wenger's love of sideways passing... Walcott should have been sold years ago, enough said, and Welbeck should never have been brought in from the get - go... both of these players have suffered numerous injuries over their respective careers and neither are good enough to overcome such difficulties: not to mention, they both are below average first - touch players, which should be the baseline test for any player coming to a Wenger - led Arsenal team... Perez should have been played wide left or never purchased at all; what a huge waste of time and money, which is ridiculous considering our penny pinching ways and the fact that fans had been clamoring for a real striker for years... finally Giroud, the fact that he stills wears the jersey is a direct indictment of this club's failure to get things right... this isn't necessarily an attack on Giroud because I think he has some highly valued skills, but not for a team that has struggled to take their sideways soccer to the next level, as his presence slows their game even more, combined with our average, at best, finishing skills... far too often those in charge have either settled or chosen half - measures and ultimately it is us that suffer because no matter what happens Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke will always make more money whereas we will always be the ones paying for their mistakes... so every time someone suggests we should just shut - up and support the team just think of all the sacrifices you've made along the way and simply reply... f *** off

The capacities that develop in the earliest years may be harder to measure on tests of kindergarten readiness than abilities like number and letter recognition, but they are precisely the skills, closely related to executive functions, that researchers have recently determined to be so valuable in kindergarten and beyond: the ability to focus on a single activity for an extended period, the ability to understand and follow directions, the ability to cope with disappointment and frustration, the ability to interact capably with other students.

Each year public school children are subjected to standardized tests to measure their achievements in comparison to all other public - schooled kids.

The main reason end of the year standardized tests are given is to measure how well students have learned the skills that are expected to be taught at a particular grade level.

Over an eight - year period from 2008 to 2016, researchers evaluated the women's iodine, perchlorate, and thiocyanate, measuring the levels using urine testing.

Berlin and colleagues found that children who were spanked as 1 - year - olds tended to behave more aggressively at age 2, and did not perform as well as other children on a test measuring thinking skills at age 3.

They also found that some of the athletes, none of whom suffered diagnosed concussions, didn't do as well as predicted on tests of learning and memory at the end of the season, although the study did not find «large - scale, systemic differences» in the brain scan measures, which the authors found «somewhat reassuring» and consistent with the fact that millions of athletes play contact sports for many years without developing progressive neurodegenerative disorders.

The outcomes were measured by a global hyperactivity aggregate (GHA), scores based on parent and teacher observations, and for 8 and 9 year olds, a computerized attention test.

Over the period from 8 to 18 years, sample members were assessed on a range of measures of cognitive and academic outcomes including measures of child intelligence quotient; teacher ratings of school performance; standardized tests of reading comprehension, mathematics, and scholastic ability; pass rates in school leaving examinations; and leaving school without qualifications.

Babies born to mothers who had higher blood levels of DHA scored better on the attention tests until 6 months of age, and they scored better on different tests designed to measure visual learning in older babies at 1 year and 18 months.

BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson commented, «The European court applied exactly the same tests and measures that we have been advocating for years.

Lawmakers last year agreed to linking Common Core - based testing to the results of teacher performance evaluations, a measure that was sought by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and linked to a boost in school aid.

For the next year, New York state will allow testing of self - driving cars on public highways thanks to a measure in this year's state budget.

The Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) is currently consulting on new measures that mark the most significant revision of the test for 20 years.

He said the State Education Department is currently identifying nearly $ 4 million in cost - saving measures to ensure that its testing program remains in the green for the rest of the year.

Cuomo pushed a package of water quality measures last year, culminating in a budget appropriation of $ 2.5 billion for water infrastructure, new testing requirements for smaller water systems like the one serving Hoosick Falls and state authority to set new limits for toxic chemicals like the one found in the Rensselaer County village.

Most of the state's school children did not measure up in new tests administered last year.

The measure would extend tests for self - driving cars for another year.

This year alone, the groups saw major elements of their platforms come to pass, such as tying teacher evaluations more closely to test scores, adding hurdles to earning tenure and increasing the number of charter schools, measures all unpopular with the unions.

Those local tests would be administered several times a year to measure student growth.

Union - appointed experts reviewed exam items released last year and concluded that the great majority were valid measures of student achievement and age - appropriate for those tested.

Even so, the city pledged $ 21 million to a three - year plan to fight Zika that includes funding for research and testing of mosquitoes as well as preventive measures.

HAWC researchers tested how positrons travel through space by measuring gamma rays, or high - energy light, from two nearby pulsars — Geminga and Monogem — around 900 light - years away.

In the NeuroImage study, 60 older men (aged 64 - 75 years) underwent an exercise test to measure their aerobic fitness.

As part of a close collaboration between Empa, SR Technics and FOCA experts have spent years developing a standard test setup and method that can be used to measure fine particulate emissions from aircraft engines.

Cadmium stays in the body for long periods, so the tests measured amounts the children were exposed to over years.

Despite having been vaccinated against the disease in 1989, which was 3 years before Sousa and her colleagues examined them, 58 % of the Indians had a weakened or nonexistent immune reaction in skin tests that measure cell response to the tuberculosis bacterium.

The researchers recruited healthy young adults (ages 18 - 35 years) who underwent a treadmill test to measure aerobic capacity.

Students» self - reported emotions were measured by questionnaires, and their achievement was assessed by year - end grades and scores on a math achievement test.

It took three years for astronomers to test this theory by measuring, during an eclipse, how the sun shifted light from a star.

To evaluate whether the experimental treatment is safe and whether it might be able to reduce frailty, Maharaj plans to run a battery of baseline testing on each clinical trial participant before they get their first infusion of young plasma and then monitor their changes for two years: That means cognitive exams, questionnaires about their quality of life and their indicators of frailty, and tests to measure biomarkers he believes are linked with aging, such as telomere lengths and DNA methylation.

For a paper published in the International Journal of Psychophysiology, the researchers observed the EEG measures of 13 autistic children and 13 neurotypical children (children with a mean age of 10 years old without an intellectual deficiency or sleep problem and who were not on medication) and found that disruptions in protective brain waves during sleep are associated with lower results on verbal IQ tests.

Research in recent years has suggested that young Americans might be less creative now than in decades past, even while their intelligence — as measured by IQ tests — continues to rise.

Measured by a simple blood test, c - reactive protein (CRP) has vexed scientists for years.

When test flights begin next year, Eve and SpaceShipTwo will be equipped with National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration instruments to measure carbon dioxide, methane and other heat - trapping gases in the upper atmosphere.

Later this year, the team will explore in more detail how light, noise and temperature affect employee performance, as measured by tests of executive function and productivity, surveys of perceived productivity and physiological measures.

For the study, they examined 44,000 brief samples of text collected over 25 years from the Washington University Sentence Completion Test (WUSCT), a measure of the stages of ego development.

Over a three - year period, Charles Santerre of Purdue University and his colleagues tested metal levels in catfish, trout and crawfish grown in aquaculture facilities across the southern U.S. Levels of mercury in these fish measured on average 40 to 100 times lower than the one - part - per - million limit set by the Food and Drug Administration.

To test this idea, the researchers statistically analyzed the relationship between Lynn and Vanhanen's 2006 data and 2004 data on infectious disease burden from the World Health Organization, which measures potential years of healthy life lost to premature death and illness as a result of 28 infectious diseases, including malaria, hepatitis, and tetanus.