"Challenge assumptions" means not accepting things as true or correct without questioning or exploring them first.
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In addition to promoting early action, the analysis of chronic absence data often
challenges assumptions about attendance and reveals unknown attendance patterns of individuals and groups of students.
Many contemporary artists, architects and creative practitioners are
challenging the assumptions made about rural life, providing a new vision of the countryside grounded in everyday experience.
There is also a lot of practical advice on goal setting, behaviour management and motivation that
often challenges assumptions made by schools.
The poor relationship outcomes for partners with low combined self - control
further challenge the assumption that individuals similar in every way will experience the most optimal relationships.
A firm that is unwilling to at least review the rule book can not adapt — at a time
when challenging assumptions seems ever - more critical to securing business sustainability and growth.
And finally, we work with organizations to continuously evolve their perspective and
challenge their assumptions so they can solve increasingly complex problems.
He argues that developments in the cognitive sciences and behavioural
ecology challenge the assumption that the pursuit of scientific knowledge demands an abandonment of values.
This collection of substantive yet entertaining
essays challenges assumptions and shakes the trees of conventional wisdom with advice that is straightforward, intuitive, and easy to apply.
A 2006 study not only «
challenged assumption of private school superiority overall» but also found substantial differences among various kinds of private schools.
We are never going to improve education overall if we are not asking the tough questions, considering all sides and
challenging assumptions made in the field.
A media - centric, consumeristic celebrity culture, the erosion of civic responsibility, & the effectiveness of machine /» gangster» politics on a dynastic scale all contribute
in challenging the assumption that a government of the people, by the people, & for the people can sustain itself in the long run.
A report in the journal Nature cites the discovery of a new planet, WASP - 18b,
which challenges assumptions about tidal interactions — it's too close and orbiting too fast not to have collided with its star, according to current knowledge.
The most extensive reconstructions of individual eel
journeys challenge an assumption that Europe's freshwater eels (Anguilla anguilla) migrate and spawn as a group, says behavioral...
Promoting Productivity: Lessons from Rural Schools In this essay author Marguerite
Roza challenges the assumption that rural districts are less productive than their urban or suburban peers by discussing rural districts can «beat the odds» by increasing student results without increasing per - pupil expenditures.
Further, Roza and Heyward's
analysis challenges the assumption that rural schools must be funded differently to ensure that they offer services in the same way as more densely populated areas.
Despite the fact that an opinion can not be «wrong», as it's all a matter of personal perspective, when
someone challenges our assumptions this typically evokes a strong emotional response.