However, schools investigator Edward Stancik did not criticise the increased emphasis on test scores, it said.
Nowadays, scientists generally rely on test-tube results for initial screening of experimental pharmaceutical drugs.
The government will not certify spacecraft, nor will passengers be allowed on test flights.
Into it went information on test scores, classes taken, schedules, grades, attendance, demographics and, soon, bus routes.
In England the cards could save us from simplistic league tables and an over-reliance on test scores.
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On test day, who is the proctor in the Regents Exam testing room?
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For now, we tend to build our accountability systems on test scores, maybe graduation rates, and not much else.
Parents in Washington state and New York City have kept kids home from school on test day in protest.
Yet Pfizer is actually spending that much on test for one new medicine to raise good cholesterol and clear clogged arteries.
One of those was meant to be Worcester's Chris Horsman, but the tight-head misses out over a row on Test dates.
Thirty three states have laws to measure teacher performance though most rely on test based systems in large part because they are cheaper.
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Now, in my home state of Arizona, the legislature has ended tenure for teachers, and next year will begin rating them based on test scores.
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In a follow-on test, 60 participants were given the same pitch books except some contained this footnote explaining that the school had ceased affirmative action.
Bopara hit 34 on Test debut in Sri Lanka 14 months ago but was dropped after recording three successive ducks in the two matches that followed.
If they missed school, the schools would lose money, and the teachers would panic about impact on test scores that they need in order to keep their jobs.
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They find a a positive effect on test scores, compulsary school grades, choosing an academic high-school track, high-school grades, probability of attending college, and average education by age 24.
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The results, based on test performances of samples of 9, 13 and 17 year olds, suggest that apart from maths, average school standards have not risen since the early 1990s.
The parties are held weekly or even multiple times per day just before a launch, with releases that are almost ready for the public but still running on test servers.
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"An update on test results from throughout the food industry will be published by the FSA next Friday, with a further update to be published on Friday 1 March, " he said.
He said doctors were waiting on test results for tens of other possible cases but said so far fewer than 30% percent of suspected cases had been shown to be cholera.
Then I did it in my second Test match at Edgbaston and someone wrote into dear old Brian Johnston on Test Match Special and he let the cat out of the bag.
"To see any team win from that position is quite something but when they are the underdogs it is something truly special, " said BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew on Test Match Special.
Developed by engineers at the Northrop Grumman Corporation, it has gone on test flights and may eventually be able to set off on a preprogrammed flight plan, identify enemy targets and fire weapons.
An employer should be able to demonstrate that those who do well on the test do well in performing the job and those who score poorly on the test perform poorly on the job.
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There was also strong opposition to a number of other proposals, including whole-school performance bonuses based on test and exam results (76% disagreed with this) and the "fast-tracking" of bright graduates onto higher salaries (54% were opposed).
Brickyard Crossing, which used to host a Senior PGA event, is truly one-of-a-kind: four holes play inside the infield of the oval track, often with loud cars running by on test laps, linked by a tunnel to the fourteen holes just outside the stadium.
In this case, they compared perceptions of someone with two years of relevant experience who scored highly on a test of leadership achievement, versus someone with no relevant experience who scored highly on a test of leadership potential. (Both candidates had equally impressive backgrounds in every other way).
There are certainly people who fall into different camps on certain issues, for example people who want to use pay for performance based on test scores, school-choice advocates, people who think reading should be taught by using phonics, people who think there should be no homework, and on and on and on.
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