The Los Angeles teachers union agreed earlier this month to use test scores in evaluations after a protracted fight with the district, and Chicago teachers staged a seven-day strike this past fall, in part, over efforts to judge them on students' test results.
We can have a more sophisticated use of metrics and if we must use an eye test, use the coaches who have trained their eyes for decades and made their living analyzing teams.
Governments thus face a choice between banning the use of test results and destroying the industry, or allowing their use and creating an underclass of people who are either uninsurable or cannot afford to insure themselves.
He picked CRP because it was the easiest measure to use to test for inflammation.
There is no doubt that the recent focus on evaluating teachers through the use of test scores is bad policy.
The spat in Seattle comes as districts nationwide wrestle with how best to use student test scores to rate teachers.
In the case of the maths scores of fourth-graders, there was a consistently negative relationship between computer use and test scores.
Some states use this test called the McNaughton Test that we were talking about: Were you able to know what you were doing?
The Replicator ships with a small plastic square its makers use to test the printer in order to make sure that everything is running well.
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Within the next few weeks, the Federal Aviation Administration will issue its regulations surrounding the "experimental permits" that private spacecraft owners will use to test their rockets.
However, cardiac CT scans are often marketed directly to patients interested in finding out how much plaque they have in their arteries, even though there's no evidence to show that this is an appropriate way to use the test, Hausleiter says.
The arrangement is consensual, and companies often use internships to test potential recruits.
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Particularly contentious is a plan to use pupils' test scores to help identify ineffective teachers as in need of retraining.
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The CDC is also recommending the use of a test that detects the virus within eight to 10 days of infection.
Concern over teachers cheating on behalf of students has grown as states increasingly use students' test scores to grade teachers and close schools.
Embryonic stem cells have also caught the eye of drug companies, which aim to use them to test potential drugs for effectiveness and toxicity.
But the Department for Transport said it had no plans to install in-car breathalysers in cars - or to use them to test drink-driving offenders.
Bronx Science is one of the city's eight elite public high schools that use a single test to determine admissions, drawing 3, 000 students from the five boroughs.
Iranian officials said the next test will use enriched uranium, but it's not clear when the test will be held or when the facility will be fully operational.
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"Some companies have purchased thousands of keywords, and they use them to test multiple products against multiple words, " says Sheryl Sandberg , director of the wildly successful Adwords program.
The task force is also the only federal health agency to have the explicit legal authority to consider cost as one criterion in recommending whether patients should use a medical test or treatment.
"We were looking through a peephole, " says Nelson, who is one of 3, 500 primary care doctors in an Aventis-funded study of the drug that will use the A1C test to measure which diabetes treatments are most effective.
Last month, New York, Montana and New Hampshire announced they were switching to a new high school equivalency exam, and California officials began looking into amending regulations to drop the requirement that the state only use the GED test.
In an interview last week, Allen Murray, a scientist who was working on an EPO test the IOC opted not to use, speculated that once a test was developed, Aranesp might actually be worse for athletes trying to evade detection.
And the ICC's board, made up of the 10 chairman from the Test-playing nations, approved 13 recommendations relating to the use of the technology in Test matches and the 2011 World Cup at its annual meeting in Singapore on Thursday.
Meanwhile, Comcast said it was launching a test of use-based pricing in unspecified markets.
The University of Missouri researchers now aim to use their findings to test various climate-change models.
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At the moment, most governments restrict or prohibit the use of genetic-test information by insurers.
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