Mr. Finn likened the tests to "a second opinion from a doctor or mechanic".
The prosecutor's office gave lie detector tests to a handful of nurses, all women except Mr. Cullen.
The government contracts out the responsibility for carrying out these tests to a company called Atos, which in turns employ "health professionals" to conduct the assessments.
The goal is to move the schools away from rote learning — and those weak, multiple choice bubble tests — to a writing-intensive curriculum that emphasizes problem-solving skills.
But some experts are concerned that Genomic Health and companies with similar business models perform all the testing in their own laboratories, rather than selling or licensing the tests to a variety of hospital and commercial labs.
Dean Metz, falls specialist physiotherapist at the hospital, explains that the process includes everything from blood pressure and vision tests, to a full balance-and-strength assessment with follow-up programmes devised to help.
His lawyer, Maggie Moss, said that the test was faulty, that Asmussen was not allowed to send the urine and blood tests to a laboratory of his choosing for independent verification, and that they disputed the results.
Next year, for the first time, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which administers reading, math and science tests to a sample of 15-year-old students in more than 50 countries, will add an electronic reading component.
"As soon as we started to fill that gap," she says, "we've been overflowing .Its low-cost model relies on keeping medical tests to a minimum and ensuring that doctors do not waste time on tasks that nurses can do.
From early childhood reading tests, to a system of self-evaluation for schools, to a requirement that parents, teachers and the principal work together on setting academic goals in each school, Dr. Rizzo, her admirers say, focused on small but lasting changes in school culture.
Wane was giving final fitness tests to a couple of injury doubts at Friday's training session, but Josh Charnley, Michael McIlorum and Jeff Lima are all expected to play, leaving the scrum-half Thomas Leuluai as the only high-profile absentee.
