Sentence examples for testing difficulties from inspiring English sources

The effect of all the hubbub surrounding the emissions testing difficulties, said Paul Billings, assistant vice president for governmental relations at the American Lung Association, is to create "a huge distraction" from the whole point of the enhanced inspection program -- to clean the air.

Rather, it is integrated with classroom instructions to help test-takers overcome their testing difficulties by, for instance, developing their cognitive and metacognitive processes.

Shapiro also argues that his detailed discussion of hypothesis testing difficulties for any multiple realization hypothesis reveals a flaw in Bechtel and Mundale's (1999) influential criticism (discussed in section 2 above).

Like other DA studies (e.g., Ableeva 2008; Ableeva & Lantolf 2011; Gibbons 2003), this study showed that with supportive interactions, for instance, in the pre- and while-testing phases, effective learning can take place and that targeting the activation of the learners' cognitive and metacognitive strategies to overcome the testing difficulties.

Due to testing difficulties, the number of RC column tested under bidirectional displacement with varying axial load is very reduced, and it is always associated with tests with constant axial load, as summarised in Table 1; thus, the few available results do not allow for solid conclusions to be drawn about coupling behaviour between biaxial bending and the varying axial force.

Due to testing difficulties and because there are still open questions regarding the cyclic behaviour both in biaxial bending with constant axial force and in uniaxial bending with simultaneously varying axial load, very few experimental studies have, as yet, tackled the more general problem of biaxial bending with varying axial force (CEB 1996; Coelho 1992), as can be seen in Figure 5.

Both of these indices allow easy translation to the effect size d equivalent (dhh for OR and dprobit for probit) and underestimate the true effect size much less and only at much more extreme test difficulties than dp or dphi [43].

The test assessed participant's ease to do the test, difficulties encountered to do the test and any concerns they had while collecting the sample.

Another popular topic of studies with vocabulary tests is the relationship between distractors and test difficulty.

This study focuses on the change of test difficulty by different types of distractors.

The item (or Rasch) map and the person and item separation indices indicate a good fit between the test difficulty and elementary student ability.