Sentences with phrase «assign a grade of»

For example, a person with stage 1 colorectal cancer may be assigned a grade of T1, N0, M0, meaning that the tumor may have grown into one of the muscle layers in the gastrointestinal tract but hasn't spread to nearby lymph nodes or other, more distant areas of the body.

My third piece of advice is to set high standards for the quality of work students should submit; provide clear feedback about the strengths and limitations of students» work products, assign grades of B + to work products that are solid responses to the assignment, and reserve grades higher than B + for work that is truly distinguished.

Parents were 50 percent more likely to assign a grade of B or below to a tough teacher than to a relatively easy teacher, after adjusting for the same controls as above.

The review assigned grades of C or worse to three quarters of the states.

Rick Wormeli on the Fallacy of the «Zero» Grade Education consultant and author Rick Wormeli discusses the fallacy of assigning a grade of zero to students, arguing that a minimum grade of 50 or 60 carries the same message — without making it mathematically impossible for students to bounce back.

A control tire is assigned a grade of 100.

PROCEDURE: One investigator reviewed radiographs and for each articulation (or group of articulations) that was visible assigned a grade of severity (0, 1, 2, 3) for DJD.

Respondents assigned grades of A, B, C, D, or F to each of these elements.

That is because the Better Business Bureau will assign a grade of A to F, and it will also provide you with more details regarding any customer complaints that the company has closed out within the past three years.

Not exact matches

The Vancouver Board of Trade, representing 5,000 business members across Greater Vancouver and B.C., has assigned an overall grade of «A» to B.C. Budget 2015, based on the government's steadfast commitment to balancing the books, reducing debt, and stoking a variety of sectors of our economy.

The Vancouver Board of Trade, representing thousands of businesses in British Columbia, has assigned an overall grade of «B +» to Economic Action Plan 2014, based on strong progress towards a surplus budget and overall focus on fiscal prudence.

On behalf of thousands of businesses across the Greater Vancouver region, the Board of Trade assigned an overall grade of «A» to the 2016 - 17 Provincial Budget, based on the government's commitment to disciplined spending, paying down direct operating debt, and improving B.C.'s tax competitiveness.

The Vancouver Board of Trade, representing thousands of businesses across the Greater Vancouver region, has assigned an overall grade of «A» to the 2016 - 17 provincial budget, based on the government's commitment to disciplined spending, paying down direct operating debt, and improving B.C.'s tax competitiveness.

VANCOUVER, B.C. — The Vancouver Board of Trade, representing thousands of businesses across Greater Vancouver and B.C., has assigned an overall grade of «A -» to Federal Budget 2015.

VICTORIA, B.C. — The Vancouver Board of Trade, representing 5,000 business members across Greater Vancouver and B.C., has assigned an overall grade of «A» to B.C. Budget 2015, based on the government's steadfast commitment to balancing the books, reducing debt, and stoking a variety of sectors of our economy.

These grades are assigned based on the breakdown of ingredients used, calorie count, in addition to a comprehensive list of healthier food alternatives.

VANCOUVER, B.C. — On behalf of its thousands of Members across the Lower Mainland, the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade has assigned an overall grade of «B» on its 2017 Federal Budget Report Card.

Thus we must assign the mode of causal efficacy to the fundamental constitution of an occasion so that in germ this mode belongs even to organisms of the lowest grade; while the mode of presentational immediacy requires the more sophistical activity of the later states of process, so as to belong only to organisms of a relatively high grade.

All of us fret and kick against the steel bands of institutionalism; the teacher against the grading system, the social worker against the artificiality created by the very fact of his being a professional representative of the state commissioned to deal with human needs, the worker something of whose very life is «bought» against the employer, and the sensitive employer who buys that portion of that life against the system, the public official against the role which political necessity assigns to him.

We must assign the mode of causal efficacy to the fundamental constitution of an occasion so that in germ this mode belongs even to organisms of the lowest grade; while the mode of presentational immediacy requires the more sophistical activity of the latter stages of process, so as to belong only to organisms of a relatively high grade (PR 261).

The majority of college assignments are often forgotten about once a grade has been assigned.

Zach Banner had a lot more wins vs the Bama pass rushers, then they had against him, and that's regardless of the bs grade that PFF assigns for pass pro.

When grades are assigned for the 2016 crop of coaching hires, no one's giving Jacksonville an «A,» not for elevating a coach whose career record remains under.500, not when that coach led the deficient offensive line of a 3 - 13 team for most of last year, and not when the makeup of the football operation looks similar (outside of one promotion and the return of an ex-employee in a senior advisory role).

At the Waldorf School of Baltimore, students are assigned homework beginning only in the middle of third grade.

I kept notes as I traveled, and assigned each pair of compression socks an informal grade based on how tight they were, how comfortable they were, and how sturdy they were during my travels.

Assign your grade - schooler a regular task to help take care of a pet.

Erie County was assigned a «D» grade for smog pollution in the most recent State of the Air report issued by the American Lung Association.

Last April, Standard and Poors downgraded the town's credit to junk status, citing a decade of deficits and weak financial management while Moody's Investor Services in January assigned the town its lowest investor grade ranking.

The voters should assign the grade in November by deciding if they want more of the same or someone with proven experience to lead a turnaround.

Interestingly, whatever percent is assigned to standardized testing will only affect a small minority of teacher evaluations as only 20 percent of teachers are in subjects and grades that have state testing.

CVs and research proposals were assigned up to five points each, whereas the suitability of their research environment was given a pass / fail grade.

After recruiting a sample of 587 demographically diverse parents and their first - grade children in the Chicago area, they randomly assigned some families to use a math - based iPad app that involved reading short stories and answering questions on topics such as counting, shapes, and problem solving.

Any decisions about assigning metrics like letter grades to drugs — a step floated by FDA personnel in the past to indicate the quality of different manufacturers and pressure companies to improve — was not part of the plan.

Mingguang He, M.D., Ph.D., of Sun Yat - sen University, Guangzhou, China, and colleagues conducted a study in which children in grade 1 from 12 primary schools in Guangzhou, China (six intervention schools [n = 952 students]; six control schools [n = 951 students], were assigned to 1 additional 40 - minute class of outdoor activities, added to each school day, and parents were encouraged to engage their children in outdoor activities after school hours, especially during weekends and holidays (intervention schools); or children and parents continued their usual pattern of activity (control schools).

To further investigate the fragmentation grade of the transcriptome in the absence of comprehensive genome data, we assigned orthologues by a recursive best mapping step to all taxa represented in the Uniprot database.

Study results report that after a median 3.4 - year follow - up, the 100 - day cumulative incidence rate of grade II to IV acute graft - versus - host disease was 36 % for the 15 - mg / kg group vs. 29 % for the 30 - mg / kg group; cumulative incidence rate of nonrelapse mortality was 9 % for patients assigned to the 15 - mg / kg dose vs. 19 % in the 30 - mg / kg group.

The necessary scoring is based on a pathologist's visual examination of a tissue biopsy specimen under microscope, but different pathologists may assign different grades to the same specimens.

«The Grade became the first app to use an algorithm to assign «grades» for user behavior,» he says, «thus creating a new level of accountability among users.»

Based on the overall quantity, quality and diversity of LGBTQ representation, a grade was then assigned to each studio: excellent, good, insufficient, poor or failing.

The opening weekend crowd — only 33 % of whom saw the movie in 3 - D — assigned the picture an average grade of B, according to market research firm CinemaScore.

If you can survive three waves of enemies, you complete the level and are assigned a grade, with S being the highest.

Those who saw the film assigned it an average grade of B +, according to market research firm CinemaScore.

Two other studies — one involving 79 pairs of teachers in Los Angeles (which I wrote with Douglas Staiger) and the Measures of Effective Teaching study involving 1,591 teachers in six different school districts (which I wrote with Dan McCaffrey, Trey Miller and Douglas Staiger)-- randomly assigned teachers to different groups of students within a grade and subject in a school.

She assigns each of her fourth - grade students an explorer to research — Columbus, Magellan, Ponce de Leon, or one of their questing contemporaries.

In a study of fourth - and fifth - grade students, we found that those randomly assigned to learn the WWWDOT framework became, as compared to their pre-test and to a control group, more aware of the need to evaluate information on the internet for credibility and better able to evaluate the trustworthiness of websites on multiple dimensions (Zhang & Duke, 2011).

Each public school is assigned a grade based on the performance of its students on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) in reading, math, and writing.

According to results from the 2010 EdNext - PEPG Survey released in this issue («Meeting of the Minds»), only 18 percent think the schools deserve an «A» or a «B,» while 25 percent assign them either a «D» or an «F.» These are the worst grades the U. S. public has given its schools since it was first asked to grade them back in 1981.

Because students in elementary grades are assigned to one teacher for most of the school day, advisory systems would be duplicative and are therefore not used by elementary schools.

Or he writes letters that distinguish between students in the quality of their work in ways that are not reflected in the grades he assigned.

«We don't block anything,» says Ron Canuel, director of the 7,000 - student district, which assigns every child a laptop starting in third grade.