Sentences with phrase «arguing against testing»

I was not arguing against testing, I was arguing for correct testing, for testing that looks what is the real scientific content of the theories and hypotheses, and that is then testing those features using scientifically justified tests.

Instead of arguing against testing completely, we should be helping to outline more comprehensive measures of performance that begin with testing but include additional indicators that are not currently considered.

Not exact matches

Of course one could argue that the model was not back tested far enough and needs to be back tested against a larger amount of time but it is interesting none the less.

However, I can't argue against the fact that this system is a «Tested and Trusted» one.

But in the book I do argue against the intense national focus on standardized tests, which measure a fairly narrow range of cognitive skills and turn out to be not very effective predictors of the educational goals that I think we should care about, especially college - graduation rates.

Justice Holmes argued against the majority opinion by adding two adjectives to his test: «imminent» and «forthwith» as a better indicator of violation and called the leaflets «poor and puny anonymities,» and that any charge should be «the most nominal punishment» based on their radical views (Lewis 29).

Jones has been active in arguing against the privatization of schools and standardized testing.

Charter school leader Deborah Kenny's op - ed in today's The New York Times argues against the move by many states toward teacher evaluations based on multiple measures, including both student progress on achievement tests and the reviews of principals.

Most of the chamber's Republicans voted against the bill, arguing that the policies increased standardized testing and gave too much power to the Board of Regents in implementing the new evaluation system.

Premier League clubs have voted against the use of Video Assistant Referees (VAR) next season, arguing that more testing is required.

Given how long it is likely to take for new medications against epilepsy to be tested and approved, some experts argue that more patients with relentless epilepsy could benefit from recent advances in surgical techniques and various methods for stimulating neurons in ways that make them behave less erratically.

Now, I'm certainly not going to argue against «eating sensibly, exercising regularly, and having recommended medical tests and exams.»

I'm not arguing against 16PF5 or any other test, I'm critical of the blind «THIS IS THE ONLY THING THAT WORKS» mentality.

We know of no legitimate statistical text that argues it is irrelevant to use tests of statistical significance to guard against random fluctuations in the data - in this case, scores on tests of student performance.

Osborne takes a theory of decentralization, autonomy, accountability, and choice, tests that theory against real experience, and marshals substantial data to argue that the new systemic approach is succeeding.

Those who argue against using tests as the main indicator of success may dismiss the current grading system as fervently as they did pre-Katrina.

At the NBC Education Nation Teacher Town Hall on Sunday, some teachers argued against evaluations and standardized tests, saying that teaching students in poverty makes it harder to reach evaluation and testing goals.

In a recent letter to Sen. Lamar Alexander, who chairs the ESEA committee, parents argued against raising the cap on alternative testing.

(Calif.) A coalition of school districts led by the California School Boards Association has filed an administrative challenge against the state, arguing schools are owed at least $ 1 billion more for costs tied to implementing new computer - based testing.

He argues that, in a world of climate change, investors should urgently stress - test the business strategies of big oil against «carbon risk.»

Finally, making another key technical point, the Research Report argues against the use of reanalysis data in structural analysis since its use makes mathematically rigorous hypothesis testing virtually impossible.

So while I expect that climate scientists will argue against «empirical AR1» coefficients as too severe a pseudoproxy test, I, for one, do not think that «empirical AR1» coefficients are too severe a test — if anything, they are probably not severe enough.

It seems to me to be bizarre that modern scientific method (for instance backing up your statements with tests demonstrating that they have statistically significant support from the data — where data is available and the test is easily performed) seems optional for those arguing against the mainstream position.

Do you feel equally as comfortable to argue, paleosensitivity = 2 - 4.5 K Therefore, the net cloud feedback is positive If no, then you must admit that it would be hard to test a net negative cloud feedback against paleo data without having any models available that include such a feedback.

Defenses against a refusal charge are that the police arrested without probable cause to believe the defendant was in violation of the DWI law, that the defendant did not refuse (police will sometimes list inability to blow into the machine sufficiently as a refusal, when they should instead then offer a blood test), and that the refusal was reasonable (for instance, the defendant can argue whether the test runs counter to his or her religion, or whether the police followed up the implied consent statutory language with confusing commentary on it).

That evidence is never tested under cross examination nor can it even be argued against (say in closing argument) since the Judge's analysis only gets revealed for the first time in the actual decision.

Huang pushed back against those questions, arguing that any company developing autonomous vehicle technology should have paused testing on public roads following the Uber crash.