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What is the Rice Purity Test? How it works and what your score means

For many students and young adults, hearing about the Rice Purity Test can be a bit confusing. You might have seen friends posting their scores on TikTok, Instagram, or Reddit and wondered, “What ...
Reading Eagle

How Berks students performed on PA assessment tests

Students across Pennsylvania — including in Berks County — continue to perform below expectations on state standardized tests. The state Department of Education earlier this month released ...
The New York Times

Reading Skills of 12th Graders Hit a New Low

High school seniors had the worst reading scores since 1992 on a national test, a loss probably related to increases in screen time and the pandemic. Their math scores fell as well. By Dana Goldstein ...
Government Executive

OPM implements years-in-the-making update to federal hiring process

The Office of Personnel Management on Monday finalized regulations more than a half decade in the making aimed at giving federal hiring managers greater flexibility in selecting applicants for federal ...
AOL

Functional Lab Tests Are Everywhere. But How Many Biomarkers Do You Really Need Tested To Be Healthy?

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." It may feel nearly impossible to scroll through social media these days without seeing ads for trendy, ...
NorthJersey.com

NJ assessment tests for K-12 students become 'adaptive' this year. Here's what to expect

New Jersey's public school students will be taking a new, adaptive, standardized assessment next spring. The key word here is "adaptive," which refers to computerized tests in which each student sees ...
Wyoming News

Cheyenne tech company helps create AI early detection tool for cognitive decline

CHEYENNE — Local information technology company Lunavi and Florida-based digital tool developing company i-Function have partnered for the second time to produce an online test using artificial ...
SciELO

Use of aquatic environment for assessing functional tests: feasibility, benefits, and challenges compared to land-based tests

Aquatic therapy or aquatic exercises are an important treatment option for individuals with physical disabilities 1. Its potential has been demonstrated since ancient Egyptian and Greek medicine, ...
bmjopensem.bmj

Lower extremity functional performance tests and their measurement properties in athletes: a systematic review and narrative synthesis

Objective To identify functional performance tests (FPTs) with potential to identify athletes at risk of lower extremity injury (LEI) and assess their measurement properties. Design Systematic review ...
Stars and Stripes

Ranger School scrapping traditional pushups and situps for functional fitness test

ATLANTA — The first day of the Army’s famously grueling Ranger School will get a little tougher next month, according to the service’s infantry commandant. The Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade at ...
Los Angeles Times

Before you conceive, you need to pass a test in the semi-chilling ‘The Assessment’

A popular if snarky response to the horrible behavior of someone else’s kids goes a little like this: You need a license to own a pet, but they’ll let anybody have a child. Bring on the cinema of ...