Sentences with phrase «fail objective tests»

I know of no God based religion that doesn't fail objective tests.

Not exact matches

Yes, the path is rocky, they say, but peer review, competition between researchers, and the comforting fact that there is an objective reality out there whose test every theory must withstand or fail, all conspire to mean that sloppiness, bad luck, and even fraud are exposed and swept away by the advances of the field.

With respect to the research on test - based accountability, Principal Investigator Jimmy Kim adds: «While we embrace the overall objective of the federal law — to narrow the achievement gap among different subgroups of students — NCLB's test - based accountability policies fail to reward schools for making progress and unfairly punish schools serving large numbers of low - income and minority students.

Teaching with the objective of assuring higher standardized test scores has failed to produce well - rounded, knowledgeable students able to do well in College and beyond.

Since it takes 3 years of poor MEAP tests to be labeled a «failing school», we should at least wait until students in these schools take three years of comparable objective tests like Michigan's MEAP test to check their progress before expanding the EAA to the entire state.

The agency's goal was to develop one or more maneuvers that showed the most promise as repeatable and reproducible roll and yaw performance tests for which objective pass / fail criteria could be developed.

Scientific findings flourish or fail by the cold, objective, rational method of hypothesis testing, peer review and replication.

-- break and enter: John Doe, [2007] B.C.J. B.C.J. No. 2111, 228 C.C.C. (3d) 302 (B.C.C.A.), acquittal set aside, new trial ordered; accused testified that he had been fasting in the woods for 60 days when he entered the house to be warm and to eat; the trial judge erred by not correctly applying the modified objective test to the first two components of the defence of necessity — the existence of an imminent peril or danger and the absence of any reasonable legal alternative, had to be assessed on a modified objective standard; the trial judge erred by failing to determine whether the accused's perception of his situation, and the absence of any lawful alternatives, had an objectively reasonable foundation; the verdict would not necessarily have been the same had the trial judge properly applied the law on the defence of necessity.

The notion of an «authorisation or qualification» suggested some kind of objective standard which the qualifying body applied, an even - handed, not to say «transparent», test which people might pass or fail.