Jesse Mermell Executive Director, FairTest Boston, March 15 , 2009 To the Editor: What a disgrace that the talented Ginette Cain, who directs the high school program for English learners in your article, needs to waste valuable class time teaching immigrant students how to memorize disjointed facts so they will pass required standardized tests.
The MUST Trial required standardized, masked evaluation of color fundus photographs of the eyes with uveitis among the patients enrolled in the study across multiple clinical centers to reliably assess the structural complications of intraocular inflammation and the morphological effects of treatment.
The bill would decrease the test load from 15 to five required standardized exams before graduation, with the hopes of opening up vocational options, Aycock told KUT.
Task-shifting required standardized protocols that include simplified clinical guidelines, recording and reporting systems, and monitoring and evaluation.
Power calculations based on our primary end point (peroneal NCV) indicated that at least 55 patients would be required (standardized difference 0.75; 80% power, 5% significance level).
Therefore, the first step will require standardizing placebo treatments for specific patients by collecting in-depth data on how and for whom physicians are using placebos now.
However, it became soon clear that this concept was not feasible because the administration of vaccines to humans requires standardizing doses, and establishing measures of quality control for purification and formulation [ 36].
Many English-language universities require standardized language testing.
To make it easier for consumers to comparison shop and to encourage price competition among insurers, the state gives each plan on the exchange an actuarial rating and requires standardized contract terms within four tiers named for metals: bronze, silver, gold and platinum.
Comparison of effectiveness of various interventions requires standardized diagnostic methods.
