The spat in Seattle comes as districts nationwide wrestle with how best to use student test scores to rate teachers.
Scott Fitzgerald got off his famous observation about the test of a first-rate mind.
At the same time, Obama said, schools should be judged on criteria other than student test performance, including attendance rate.
The real false positive rate for this test is not known yet.
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The study authors, Dr Murray Mittleman and colleagues at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, measured kidney function using a recognised test called the glomerular filtration rate (GFR).
If one in 1, 000 people have a disease and the false-positive rate for a test is 5%, then the probability that a person testing positive has the disease is at most 2%.
He added that the School of Management accepts GRE test-takers at the same rate as it accepts GMAT-submitting applicants.
Among many other potential effects we examined family socioeconomic background, intelligence as measured by the Graduate Management Admissions Test, emotional intelligence, participation rate in athletics and other activities, whether people started working a part-time job early in life, and military service, if any.
With Test cricket played at a much faster rate these days, I would think it would be easier to make a batsmen fidgety by drying up the runs than it was 20 years ago - but North and Haddin were not made to work hard at all.
Even though the test was self-applied, the detection rate actually improved, with 24% of the 1, 000 women participating found to have the infection.
"It is a long tour with two lots of back-to-back Test matches and we all know what the rate of attrition of fast bowlers can be, which is why we selected an extra one, " said convenor of selectors Joubert Strydom.
Similarly, a small but statistically significant downward trend of 3.3% was observed in the rate of women who reported getting a Pap test within the last three years.
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For that reason Biophysical recommends that people over 40 and in good health take the test every two to three years, the better to measure the rate of change in values over time.
The test will be how much of a reduction can be achieved in the rate at which prisoners re-offend within 12 months.
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Nielsen admitted that his team were concerned that a continuing slow rate might lead to skipper Ricky Ponting being banned for a Test match.
The case was a challenge to a firefighter test that had a wide range of difference between the pass and failure rate of different groups.
The ICC has the power to ban captains for slow over rates and Ponting ran the risk of receiving a one-Test suspension had he stuck with his pace bowlers, given the slow rate they were managing.
Unknown to the participants, Dr Halevy and Dr Galinsky had conducted an independent test, using 58 people not involved in the main study, to rate how demeaning, humiliating, degrading, embarrassing and uncomfortable each of the ten possible activities actually was.
If you are unable to do the treadmill test, the technician will instead inject you with a chemical that will elevate your heart rate without physical exertion.
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In 2000 King acquired a research outfit that is working on an injectable stress-test drug for heart disease suspects who are unable to hit the treadmill to get their heart rate up.
He also signaled his determination to increase the rate at which this V-22 is purchased by the Pentagon -- the next major test for this aircraft and its supporters.
Some test samples of Katrina victims were sent to laboratories in November, and "ICMP achieved a 100 percent success rate in obtaining DNA profiles" of those samples, the commission said in its statement.
Tendulkar maintained a steady scoring rate, whipping Morkel wristily through the leg-side for successive boundaries, while Sehwag reached his 19th Test century in suitably fine style, carving Parnell to the point boundary.
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