Sentences with phrase «emphasis was on test»

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«Shanghai scored high on PISA in 2012, but this was largely due to the local government's emphasis on the test,» Xiong said.

The emphasis is on staying nimble and speedy, rapidly revising assumptions, assembling the MVP and testing the redesigned offerings in order to elicit customer feedback.

The 1938 report Doctrine in the Church of England says that «every individual ought to test his or her belief in practice and, so far as his or her ability and training allow, to think out his or her own belief and to distinguish between what has been accepted on authority only and what has been appropriated in thought or experience».23 Such an emphasis has to allow for variety of belief and view within the community.

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With our culture and our nation's emphasis on high academic achievement, the perception that in order to get into college kids need straight As and perfect test scores, increased course work and more complex curricula, teachers are feeling the pressure to cover more material, and to prepare kids for the next grade.

(or a class of «behavior challenged» Middle Schoolers who could care less about taking a test) Sad that this is what education has come to in an effort to make sure that no child is «left behind»... This is the underlying issue right here ~ too much emphasis on penciling in the correct letter circle and not enough student driven cirriculum.

In an education system that places so much emphasis on perfect test scores and behavior, it's refreshing that the performing arts typically don't involve set rules.

They discuss the current emphasis on these kinds of skills in American education, and the emphasis on standardized testing, and then turn our attention to a growing body of research that suggests we may be on the verge of a new approach to some of the biggest challenges facing American schools today.

And especially in this moment when we really care a lot about accountability in schools, there has been an increasing emphasis on finding measures — like a student's standardized test scores — to tell us if a teacher is a good teacher.

The early grades are seeing increasing pressure from standardized tests and homework and more emphasis on academics.

And they won't like to be told that exposing their children to stress or cosseting and placing an excessive emphasis on academic testing may condemn their progeny to similarly bleak outcomes.

Increasing numbers of families are discouraged by the standardization of public school materials and the enormous emphasis on standardized tests.

He «dissents strongly from the Bloomberg [education] legacy, starting with how teachers have been treated,» saying that educators have been «demonized and blamed» and that they «need to get the tools they need,» rather than «punished» by the «emphasis on high - stakes testing.»

Greater emphasis is to be placed on learner motorists» ability to drive without direction from the examiner under proposed changes to the driving test which aim to improve road safety.

At the time, Senator Seward was able to successfully reduce the emphasis on standardized tests as compared to the governor's original proposal.

He agrees there should be less emphasis on high - stakes testing.

«The Common Core Task Force Report has 21 common sense recommendations we've been seeking for several years including reducing the amount of testing and testing anxiety, making sure curriculum and exams are age appropriate and not placing such a heavy emphasis on teacher evaluations and student performance on the standardized test scores.»

Examinations will test extended writing in subjects such as English and history, have fewer bite - sized and overly structured questions, and in mathematics and science there should be a greater emphasis on quantitative problem - solving.

The mass granting of waivers to delay the new teacher rating system comes as political leaders, including President Obama and his Education Secretary Arne Duncan, are shifting away from an emphasis on standardized testing.

But Ravitch said the emphasis on testing student progress to evaluate the effectiveness teachers was misguided to begin with.

There is already over-testing in our classrooms - a greater emphasis on testing, in my opinion, will not yield an accurate or fair assessment of our educators» or children's abilities.

Teachers, parents, union leaders and even some school superintendents and board members in New York are clothed in blue to show their concern for what they see as an overemphasis on testing, an under - emphasis on state education funding, and inequitable spending between districts.

Three new regents elected by the legislature this week are expected to help lead an ongoing reversal in education policy in New York to less emphasis on controversial standardized tests.

Now one agency that helps addicts is putting more emphasis on a harm - reduction technique called a «test shot.»

Collaboration with parents is vital to improving struggling schools, promoting educational equity, addressing the over emphasis on high - stakes testing, and increasing charter school accountability.»

Still, teachers and administrators prefer that the emphasis be on classroom observation as opposed to testing.

In a phone interview, Dr. Rosa, 64, said she believed there was too much emphasis on standardized tests as measures of students» and schools» performance.

Thankfully, we are moving away from the emphasis on high - stakes tests and toward the creation of more authentic student learning measures.

«There was too much emphasis from the people who developed the Common Core on using testing as a sort and select mechanism.»

He says, «Companies are really putting a huge emphasis on making sure that what we do — in as many ways as we can test — is safe for patients.»

«Prior to this, there has never been an easy way to measure teachers» knowledge of student thinking, while we have probably been placing too much emphasis on testing for advanced scientific knowledge.

The Emphasis sensors have been developed and tested on faeces - rich wastewater in the lab and will be tested in real sewers next year.

Lucero feels that there is not enough emphasis on science in classes at LES, and students typically have a poor showing in achievement tests on science and math compared to the national average.

Scholarly articles published by over 20 researchers in Monographs, titled «The Relation of Childhood Physical Activity to Brain Health, Cognition and Scholastic Achievement» indicate that while physical activity in schools has diminished in part because of a growing emphasis on student performance and academic testing, decreased physical activity is actually related to decreased academic performance.

Laughlin places particular emphasis on the cosmological implications of their ideas and the fact that these can, in principle, be tested with table - top experiments.

Unfortunately, as Western medicine has evolved, the focus has been on more «sophisticated» testing procedures without much emphasis on effective solutions.

Good nutrition can solve so many problems faster than medication ever will, which is why we put such an emphasis on personalized testing and health coaching.

On the other hand, the authors acknowledge that «adrenal insufficiency [emphasis ours] is a real disease diagnosed through blood tests.»

One of the few tests that is more closely linked to an increased risk of infection is a lower salivary immunoglobulin A (IgA) level.71 - 80 Interestingly, consuming carbs around exercise ``... has little effect on decrements in salivary IgA output...» While eating around exercise can generally help reduce the drop in the number of circulating immune cells, it has almost no effect on ``... T cell and natural killer cell function [emphasis mine].»

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The less - than - involving atmosphere is compounded by a storyline that grows increasingly surreal as it stumbles along, with the emphasis on is - it - real - or - is - it - just - in - their - heads shenanigans exacerbating the picture's far - from - terrifying vibe and ensuring that one's patience is tested to a progressively palpable extent.

Research suggests that the whole - class weekly spelling test is much less effective than an approach in which different students have different sets of words depending on their stage of spelling development, and emphasis is placed on analyzing and using the words rather than taking a test on them (see Palmer & Invernizzi, 2015 for a review).

Lisa Goochee, former teacher in Brazil and now at Stanford Learning Design added, «The most outdated and destructive vestigial feature in the modern K - 12 space is the emphasis on standardized testing along with the college admissions and enrollment processes which rely on these testing conventions.

But it is refreshing that Driscoll does not falsely invoke science to justify his emphasis on standards and testing.

Emphasize that because this is almost test - taking time, the emphasis is not on how pretty the final product is, but on how much information is conveyed.

There's a strong emphasis on identifying gifted students, which is typically done through the use of I.Q. tests.

I hear that many of the best colleges are now placing far greater emphasis on student maturity, our independence of thought, and our breadth of potential talent than on test scores.

A new emphasis on something that educators have known for decades: Skills not measured by standardized testing are important to children's development.

Consequently, though we support the goal of reducing the emphasis on testing, we encourage states to be deliberate in their approach.

Targets seemed to force teachers increasingly to teach to the test, sacrificing the «broad and balanced curriculum» and the emphasis on creativity that is essential if primary children are to learn.