It is an insane notion for school officials to think that this situation can be remedied by the extensive use of standardized tests which result in their misuse in order to close down neighborhood schools, fire teachers, and come up with the gimmickry of charter schools, "digital" learning, performance bonuses, and vouchers.
Despite extensive use of laboratory tests and long consultations one is often left with a non-specific diagnosis of headache, back pain, or abdominal pain.
For prostate, data from the period prior to extensive use of PSA testing (1975 to 1991) were used to fit an APC model (with a logarithm link) to predict rates in the absence of extensive PSA testing for 2004 2007.
The extensive use of multiple small test improvement cycles accompanied by measuring achievements and reflection on actions is the main improvement approach [ 10, 66, 67].
They suggest more extensive use of the likelihood ratio test (LRT) test for covariate evaluation and selection when shrinkage is large, which is much more time consuming than selection from EBEs.
The model has been calibrated using an extensive re-examination of literature data and extensive use of specially commissioned field tests.
He said he believed that the company's extensive use of computerized simulations to test various systems could also save time and help it get back on schedule by 2011.
Another way to obtain independent clues is the extensive use of bioinformatics that can test whether groups of genes were obtained randomly or not.
In the doping report, the Russian track federation's athletes and officials were accused of "extensive" use of performance-enhancing drugs, obstructing doping tests and helping to cover up drug use.
For some teachers, even this advanced notice was insufficient to overcome logistical issues, such as the extensive use of school computers for high-stakes testing.
