Research shows that even a single instance of exclusion can undermine well-being, IQ test performance and self-control.
At the same time, Obama said, schools should be judged on criteria other than student test performance, including attendance rate.
Many schools have pushed up the start date to provide more instructional time in hopes it will improve test performance.
Rather than rely on periodic test performance, instructors can analyze what students know and what techniques are most effective for each pupil.
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The research, based on the US-wide National Education Longitudinal Survey, found that a teacher's gender had "large effects on student test performance".
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Fresh from an encouraging Test performance in Sri Lanka, and having showed some promising form in One-Day Internationals over the past few years, Bangladesh faced a Zimbabwe side demoralized after a thrashing in the Caribbean.
An especially significant 2011 study, reported on by Live Science, found that chewing gum before taking a test improved performance, but chewing gum throughout the test did not.
On Thursday US regulators said they would allow Boeing to carry out test flights of 787 Dreamliner planes to test battery performance.
If your sales organization has not stepped up to the high velocity sales model, perhaps it is time to put a foot in the water and test the performance of this concept within your company.
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The spec-bumped version is called the Grand X IN -- it's due out next month and we've just had a chance to run some early benchmarks to test the performance of its vanilla Android 4 OS and new Intel engine.
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The stress test is a repeat performance of the resting test, with the addition of 10 minutes on a treadmill.
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For instance, in one performance test of 16 GB SanDisk Mobile Ultra microSDHC card vs.
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Speed skaters test human-performance limits--and smash records--with better training, better skates, faster ice.
For product features on an existing business, this is a performance test that compares various web page presentations against one another.
Because X Co. intends to pay the 2012 accrued bonus liability prior to March 15, 2013, the payments will not be treated as deferred compensation, and thus satisfy the economic performance test.
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"Strategies to improve test and examination performance, coupled with teaching that focuses heavily on preparation for the qualifications, does not equip pupils for their futures, " says the booklet destined for secondary schools.
Development of the G650 survived a crisis in 2011, when one of the jets crashed during a takeoff performance test in New Mexico, killing two Gulfstream pilots and two flight test engineers.
The 11 finalists were culled from 42 semifinalists Thursday afternoon, with spellers advancing based on a formula that combined their scores from a computerized spelling and vocabulary test with their performance in two onstage rounds.
The field was whittled down from 42 semifinalists Thursday afternoon, with spellers advancing based on a formula that combined their scores from a computerized spelling and vocabulary test with their performance in two onstage rounds.
Just the other day, I had a client that was coming under attack by ISS on its pay for performance test, with ISS claiming that the company was overpaying relative to the peer group that it had independently selected.
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It is too early to determine if the initiative is the reason that we are meeting out desired outcomes, but early data does support that Phase One teachers are seeing increases in student learning from state test scores to performance-based measures.
Other issues she will have to deal with include the implementation of the teachers' workload agreement for England and Wales, the growth of specialist schools and city academies, plans for optional extended school hours - and the government's repeated failure to meet its targets for England's test and exam performance.
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Despite losing both the Test and abandoned one-day series, England will be pleased with their overall performance against Test cricket's in-form team.
Your focus will mainly be on performance testing and developing performance measurement test tools.
For now the correlation between test results and course performance is .45 (roughly the same as between SAT scores and college GPA).
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Factors that could cause actual results to differ include: in-orbit test or satellite failures, performance degradation, in-orbit risks and anomalies, or improper orbital placement of ViaSat-1.
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It's clear that systems that gauge student, teacher and school performance on standardized test scores put intense pressure on those results and inevitably tempt people to finagle them.
Drawing input from 3, 000 classroom teachers, the project highlighted several measures that schools should use to assess teacher performance, including test data, student surveys and assessments by trained evaluators.
The test, though, is performance rather than wishful advertisements.
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