Sentence examples for testing contractors from inspiring English sources

Ms. Maffei said the authority will begin a pilot project next year offering rebates to homeowners who retrofit their homes, but the agency will not address the issue of training and testing contractors, she said.

Recriminations will be directed at state departments of education for not providing sufficient curriculum materials, at district leaders for not preparing students and teachers adequately, at testing contractors for logistical snafus and at federal bureaucrats for interfering with state standard-setting.

He said some states did not ask their testing contractors to generate an erasure analysis, while others did receive them but did not use them.

But even the modest gain in reading scores was clouded by a dispute between the city and its testing contractor over the validity of one of the tests.

Officials said the board and its testing contractor, CTB/McGraw-Hill, had made the decision to omit the score as a way of settling a dispute over its validity.

Much of the planning effort for a well test lies in the interaction between the well test engineer and the well test service contractors.

The well test engineer coordinates the activities of well test service contractors and liaises with resource company and MODU management to put into effect the plans and processes prepared for the well test.

All of us read the passages submitted by the test contractor, a major publisher that had won a multimillion-dollar contract from the Department of Education.

Nearly two years later, I was surprised to learn that the passages approved by our committee had subsequently been evaluated yet again by the test contractor's "bias and sensitivity review" panel.

Re "Reading Scores Drop Sharply in 8th Grade Testing" (news article, July 11): Testing is not an exact science, which is why we agreed with our test contractor not to use one of the recent results in the same manner as others.

Consider that the test contractor, Riverside Publishing, is responsible for one of the most esteemed tests in the nation, the Iowa Test of Basic Skills; consider that it assembled a reputable and experienced group of people to conduct the bias and sensitivity review.