Sentences with phrase «appropriate level of difficulty»

As a result, the following three battles have been adjusted to offer an appropriate level of difficulty:

A program that offers differentiated instruction based on a fine - grained assessment of each student's comprehension level will ensure ELLs are working at an appropriate level of difficulty for their individual level of proficiency and understanding.

However, it is now clear that there are issues relating to how appropriate the level of difficulty was for each assessment.»

For example, ensure that homework is at the appropriate level of difficulty.

By selecting tasks at an appropriate level of difficulty, «computer adaptive» assessments of this kind provide more relevant assessment experiences and superior information about where individuals are in their learning.

«Multi-stage» testing of this kind is again intended to provide tests at appropriate levels of difficulty for individual students.

Not exact matches

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

• «The Magic Number» teaching concept to help mothers maintain their milk supplies while pumping • Breast massage and compression to help mothers increase breast milk yields and overcome breastfeeding difficulties • New, more - conservative guidelines on the use of galactogogues • Fenugreek, milk volume, and prolactin levels in mothers of preterm infants • The safety and efficacy of placenta consumption as a galactogogue • Preparation, cleaning, and sterilization of breast pump parts • Appropriate use of nipple shields to improve breastfeeding outcomes • The importance of the mother - infant relationship in babies» growth and development

Research indicates when instructional time is mainly devoted to academic subjects, when classroom time is well managed, and when curriculum and instruction is provided at a level of difficulty appropriate to the individual student — the subject matter matched to the readiness of the students to learn — then students will learn.

Teachers select and administer online PAT tests at difficulty levels appropriate to the students in their classes and at times of their choosing.

Ensure that a range of reading material is available at appropriate levels of interest and difficulty and balanced in its representation of culture and gender.

It then immediately adjusts the lesson and the level of difficulty, scaffolding, sequencing, number of hints, and pacing as appropriate.

Scenarios, rough draft writing samples, and items will be appropriate for third - grade students in terms of difficulty, interest, and reading level, as determined by the Content Review Committee.

The riddles cover a range of difficulty appropriate for children at 2nd through 5th - grade levels.

Scenarios, rough draft writing samples, items, and prompts will be appropriate for fifth - grade students in terms of difficulty, interest, and reading level, as determined by the Content Review Committee.

The difficulty level of the brainteasers in this mini collection is appropriate for beginner teens or adults, and even for smart kids.

Unless you restrict yourself to playing with level - appropriate Pokémon recruits, there is absolutely zero sense of difficulty progression.

After reading this, the reader ratchets up Dagwood's description of his difficulties to the level that the reader thinks is appropriate.

bk, c is the upper grade difficulty parameter (the point on the ability scale that corresponds to a probability of a certain response of 0.5) for category c of item k, and ak is the discrimination parameter (estimates how well an item can differentiate among respondents with different levels of ability) for item k. Acceptable ak should be above 0.5, and appropriate mean bk should be between — 3.0 and 3.0.39

Research indicates that depressed mothers, especially when their depression is chronic, are less sensitive with their infants and toddlers, play with and talk to their children less, and provide less supportive and age - appropriate limit setting and discipline than non-depressed mothers.4, 8,9 When mothers report more chronic depressive symptoms, their children are more likely to evidence insecure attachment relationships with them, show less advanced language and cognitive development, be less cooperative, and have more difficulty controlling anger and aggression.8, 9 Lower levels of maternal sensitivity and engagement explain some of these findings.

Autism is a developmental disability characterized by three core areas of impairment: difficulty relating socially to others; difficulty communicating effectively and at an age - appropriate level; and the use of repetitive and stereotypical patterns of behaviour (American Psychiatric Association 2000).