Sentence examples for readiness test from inspiring English sources

But Ms. Palin brought one huge risk: that voters would judge her two years in statewide elected office inadequate to meet the presidential readiness test that every nominee invokes as a paramount consideration.

"When you control for those differences, you find that if all things were equal -- if the moms going back and staying home had the same income levels and the same lack of depression -- then staying home for nine months might result in a couple extra points on the school readiness test.

Most teachers misinterpreted the responses on the readiness test of grade 6 students in mathematics and sciences.

Topics assessed by the readiness test include functions, rates of change, linear functions, exponentials, logarithmic functions, and systems of equations.

Students enrolled in introductory biology at the University of Arizona must demonstrate a certain level of proficiency in pre college algebra skills through an online math readiness test, Assessment and Learning in Knowledge Spaces (ALEKS; www.aleks.com).com

Total points for the semester, as used in the analysis, were made up of the best two of three midterm exams (each worth 100 points), the final exam (100 points), class participation points (25 points), points for passing the readiness test (25 points), and extra credit points (16 points).

We know this because children from rich and poor families score very differently on school readiness tests when they enter kindergarten, and this gap grows by less than 10 percent between kindergarten and high school.

FOR some parents, the new research finding that children of mothers who worked full-time scored lower on school readiness tests may evoke the old story about the blind men who tried to describe an elephant: One told of touching the smooth hard ivory tusk, another the snake-like trunk, a third the leathery skin and a fourth the ropy tail -- but none captured anything like the whole picture.

The new analysis examined the number of hours the mother was employed rather than the number of hours the child was in care -- and found that maternal employment of 30 hours a week or more by the time a baby was 9 months old was associated with lower scores on school readiness tests at age 3. "We really looked at different questions," Ms. Waldfogel said.

Data were gathered from national test scores, readiness tests, teachers' interviews, teachers' self-assessment and classroom observation.

There have been three so-called New York Times readiness tests, in which the science team interpreted fake data on the fly, under time constraints, and produced press releases meant to be headline-worthy.