The survey found that 57% of members agreed with linking salaries to appraisals carried out by headteachers, but a much larger majority were opposed to linking pay to pupils' test and exam results.
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).
This is in contrast to test and exam results in the United Kingdom, which have tended to show ongoing progress - to the extent that GCSE results in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, published this week, have improved for 12 consecutive years.
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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The test is a multiple-choice exam used to test judgement in clinical scenarios.
One test of the exam makeover will be the impact of removing modular exams from the curriculum.
Walcott was taking his theory test for his driving exam when the announcement was made.
Which reminds me: Can we, as the GOP base, demand an IQ exam as well as a test of basic knowledge from our congressional and presidential candidates?
The responsibility for issuing high school equivalency certificates or diplomas rests with states, and they've relied on the General Education Development exam since soon after the test was created to help returning World War II veterans.
The American Cancer Society suggests men in their 50s take this test yearly (along with a digital rectal exam), but there are two potential flaws.
The abstract nature of the exam actually makes it more susceptible to test preparation, some argue.
This year there was no test of memorised basic knowledge in the Chinese language exam in Shanghai - only reading comprehension and creative writing.
Monday's briefing will also confirm that Mr Gove has dropped plans for a two-tier exam system - with more academically-able students taking an O-level type exam and the rest taking an easier test.
On test day, who is the proctor in the Regents Exam testing room?
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Some also expressed concern that not all students will have the necessary skills to take the exam on computer, and the new GED test won't be offered on paper.
Of 9, 600 police officers who took the entrance exam in July, only 205 passed the written test.
Like the Pap test, it consists of a simple swab taken during a pelvic exam.
Under the court's supervision, the city has been working to create a new firefighter exam, and candidates are expected to begin taking the new test later this month.
Liponis says that Canyon Ranch is also working with Biophysical on developing other, more specialized tests, such as an antiaging exam, measuring different biomarkers from those found on the 250 test.
And they performed a "WIGGLE" test. (I know you will find this hard to believe, but that is NOT an acronym for Wire Integration Gross Gyration Looseness Exam -- it's just a plain old wiggle test.) In any case, the wires all checked out -- and on went the flow toward a January 19 launch.
Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch said in a news release that without the change, New York would have had to pay the GED test maker twice as much or limit the number of test takers because state law bars residents from being charged to take the equivalency exam.
When he took the test at 22 years old, Christensen became the youngest person ever to pass the exam until his best friend, Ivan Carter, now the most famous elephant hunter in the world, did so at age 21 a few years later.
Beginning in late February, INSEAD will offer an alternate exam, created in-house with help from Prep-Zone, a test-prep company founded by two INSEAD alums.
In 2008, the Graduate Management Admissions Council, which runs the GMAT entrance exam required by many business schools, tracked roughly 245, 000 people taking the test, the busiest season ever.
Mr Sindall said that many grammar schools already offered "test familiarisation" sessions so that children from poorer families did not turn up at the entrance exam never having encountered those type of questions before.
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