Sentence examples for a federal test from inspiring English sources
But the plan said a federal test, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, would be used to confirm the state results.
On the other hand, two members of the so-called stolen generation had their claims for reparation dismissed last month in a federal test case.
Critics of the state tests have said that they have become too easy, a view bolstered this week by the results of a federal test that showed New York State students had barely improved since 2007.
Still, the facts remain: the population has risen 16percentt in the past decade, according to census data, and the water table, measured in a federal test well, has dropped 10 feet.
The National Assessment Governing Board, which is appointed by Congress and the president, uses panels of educators, business leaders, politicians and other citizens to define basic, proficient or advanced scores on a federal test, the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
Re "Education for Profit" (editorial, Feb. 13): Interboro Institute's mission is to provide quality higher education to students who have not graduated from high school but who can be accepted into college by passing a federal test.
I serve on the board of a federal testing agency, the National Assessment Governing Board, which is directly responsible for reviewing all test questions on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
She does not reverse her position that a single federal test is a more objective measure of progress than is any number of state exams.
Mr. Miller has said he does not support a mandated federal test but does favor public reports on how college students are learning as measured through testing.
Nearly two years into the planning of a head-to-head federal test of two expensive widely used cancer drugs, not a single patient has been enrolled in the study.
Last year, the superintendent of public instruction issued a release noting that federal test scores, while above average, remained mostly flat.
