Sentences with phrase «in giving grades»

Each tandem pod can accommodate 180 students and eight instructors in a given grade, who navigate 10 distinct learning environments within a total of 5,500 square feet.

The results of this analysis confirm that the relationship between higher teacher turnover and lower average valueadded in a given grade is stronger as principal quality rises.

* Resolving test schizophrenia: Many people look to assessments as «summative» instruments that determine after the fact whether students in a given grade or school have learned what they should.

If, as has been the case in a number of places, the comparison group is all the teachers in a given grade in the school district — with, say, the top 15 percent of the 4th grade teachers receiving an award — what is the significance of a big or small school?

Further, the state only requires schools with at least 10 students in a given grade to report scores publicly for that grade.

A new report suggests they are surprisingly common — in some cases, nearly half of all students in a given grade.

If there are more applications than spots available in a given grade, a waiting list is created.

To get everyone in the school working toward the same goal of preparing every child for college and career readiness, teachers must adhere to the same standards and assessments for all students in a given grade level and content area.

In a given grading period, a student gets a score on each one of those topics — we tend to use a rubric - based approach — which can be combined into an overall grade if you absolutely have to give one.

What will be the testing window — how long do we have to test our students in a given grade?

As seats become available in any given grade level, the school will extend offers based on the order of the applicant pool, as determined by the lotteries.

The «evidence - based» claim implies that decisions about why students must learn this and not that in a given grade are backed by scientific research.

The Denver meetings start with two days of training on the Common Core standards and on detailed outlines of what students at each of the five performance levels should be able to do in a given grade or subject.

Not exact matches

By comparing a student's transcripts against a database of tens of millions of past student records, Brightspace's Degree Compass feature can tell what letter grade he or she will get in any given course with 92 % accuracy — before the first class starts.

That's the same grade respondents gave to U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan when polled in 2005 about his upcoming retirement.

In a recent report, the group gives online retailers a grade of «needs improvement» on their product return processes.

Staff writer Jeff Beer gives the rundown on gadgets, with both good and bad grades for Apple, while Bryan Borzykowski checks in with the best and worst performers on the stock market.

Given the experience with private - sector involvement (PSI) in Greece and the intentions expressed by euro area officials around the development of the ESM, Moody's believes that the debts of euro area sovereigns that are fully dependent upon official sources to fund their borrowing requirements represent speculative - grade risk.

When asked about his revival plans for Dell, which he initiated when he returned to the CEO seat in 2007, Dell said that «If I had to give it a grade, I'd give it an incomplete.»

Fitch and S&P joined DBRS at the end of 2017 in giving Portugal's debt an «investment grade» after years of considering it «junk.»

The results are dismal: The report gave 20 of the 25 companies failing grades for not effectively responding to a «growing public health threat by publicly adopting policies restricting routine antibiotic use» in meat.

Despite working in an industry with demographics that fall drastically short of matching those of the U.S. workforce, nearly 95 % of those surveyed gave the industry, their companies, and their teams a passing grade.

Through the years, the Kelley School has fashioned a reputation as a true MBA innovator, from being one of the few programs that give a single grade for the entire core curriculum to having a series of first - year academies that provide experiential learning, consulting projects and coaching to students interested in six core areas that range from capital markets and strategic finance to consulting and supply chain management.

Considering all this, if a Ph.D student submitted the CEA analysis as a term paper in public finance, I would be hard pressed to give it a passing grade.

When I was in grade school, my Father gave me some wise advice: «if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.»

They would probably give the budget a failing grade in judging its overall fiscal credibility.

Given their pessimism, a substantial weight in investment grade bonds would be in order.

If you don't understand that the total angular momentum of a gas cloud is an aggregate quantity, but in fact there are local variations which can give rise to counter-spinning moons, and that in any case gravitational interactions between objects can produce retro - grade orbits then how in heavens name can you pretend to understand something as complex as evolution.

I often give a little 3 - book starter pack of this book as a gift for beginning readers in grade 2 or 3.

First, she claims that the sacrament of ordination to the priesthood would not be threatened since «the unity» of the sacrament resides in the bishop: Scripture gives him the authority to delegate as necessary, and Tradition allows for several grades within the sacrament.

In Whitehead's view, the initial or ideal aim given by God includes alternatives; 43 these are «graded» according to their relevance; 44 the creature can modify his initial subjective aim, i.e. the ideal aim given by God.45 Thus, a creature could use his freedom in order to actualize the ideal aim given him, or he could modify this aim to such an extent as to choose the worst alternative open to him, or his actualization could fall anywhere in betweeIn Whitehead's view, the initial or ideal aim given by God includes alternatives; 43 these are «graded» according to their relevance; 44 the creature can modify his initial subjective aim, i.e. the ideal aim given by God.45 Thus, a creature could use his freedom in order to actualize the ideal aim given him, or he could modify this aim to such an extent as to choose the worst alternative open to him, or his actualization could fall anywhere in betweein order to actualize the ideal aim given him, or he could modify this aim to such an extent as to choose the worst alternative open to him, or his actualization could fall anywhere in betweein between.

All the better that I felt similarly about another task which I was given (again without asking), in the same year (1925 - 26) to help A. N. Whitehead grade papers, hence listen to him lecture, and read what he wrote as a philosopher, rather than just a logician, mathematician, and physicist.

There is probably even an earlier anticipation in his account of the «multiplicity of Platonic forms» which is «given» for a particular actual entity: «This ordering of relevance starts from those forms which are, in the fullest sense, exemplified, and passes through grades of relevance down to those forms which in some faint sense are proximately relevant by reason of contrast with actual fact» (PR 43fC).

For Whitehead, God is the non-temporary actual entity ordering the «eternal objects» by his conceptual understanding, giving the potentialities «graded relevance» and in this way structuring the realm of potentialities.

This depends upon there being a brain, an arrangement of cells in a particular part of the body which by reason of its peculiar coordination makes the given routing able to «know» in a distinctively human manner — quite different from, although certainly continuous with, the sort of «knowing» that is possible for the higher grades of animal life.

Thus when we ascribe mass to an entity, we are asserting a kind of limit on its dynamics.12 Bringing this back to the preprojective, we are saying that insofar as a high - grade society objectifies a given nexus by virtue of the Category of Transmutation in the flattened form that is mass, the dynamics of that nexus are bounded, at least with regard to its extensive relations with the world.

Begin giving them little doses of Latin in first grade and continue as they grow.

In one of the first surveys after the 2016 presidential election, the Pew Research Center asked voters to weigh in on what grade Donald Trump (and others) should receive, what he should do first, and whether they will give him a chance to succeeIn one of the first surveys after the 2016 presidential election, the Pew Research Center asked voters to weigh in on what grade Donald Trump (and others) should receive, what he should do first, and whether they will give him a chance to succeein on what grade Donald Trump (and others) should receive, what he should do first, and whether they will give him a chance to succeed.

MORRISONVILLE, Ill. — Matt McCormick was in the seventh grade when Father Alvin Campbell gave him a ride home from a baseball game.

Meanwhile, more than a quarter of white evangelical voters gave him a failing grade of a D or F. Trump's overall campaign grade is the lowest among any presidential candidate — winning or losing — since Pew began collecting data in 1988.

Among white evangelicals voters — one of Trump's strongest demographics — one in five (20 %) graded the president - elect's conduct during the campaign at an A, while a plurality (31 %) gave him a B, according to new Pew Research Center data provided to CT..

When you give everything a subjective aim, and make this apply right down the scale, you are using language which is very difficult to make intelligible, except in the case of what Whitehead calls «high grade organisms.»

The Ukrainian leaders with whom I'm in regular contact give the post-Maidan government grades ranging from B - minus to C - minus; they give Ukrainian civil society an A, for both its steadfastness and its patience amidst sluggish reform, Russian aggression, and a massive refugee crisis.

The better the grade of oat the better the taste, and since Provena grow their oats in the middle of the Finnish countryside (known for having one of the lowest levels of air pollution in Europe); they give their oats the best shot of becoming wonderful!

I put all my recipes in there — it gives you a nutrition box and a grade.

My son was in 6th grade when he came home one day and gave me a big hug and said he loved me SO SO much!

In fact Mom rated it an A +, not a grade she gives often!

I think the CSWBG movement might have evolved through a scenario rather like this: probably under the mistaken truism that more expensive is automatically better in all things, somebody started buying high - grade steak and carefully hand - slicing it into tiny, uniform, fat - free cubes, then sauteeing them into a rich gravy without too much of those old Mexican spices that have given chili such a good (or bad) name over the years.

I remember as a young child in grade school, art classes around this time of year were always focused on colorful leaves, turkeys, and giving thanks.

Given the fact that I spend the majority of my time in our residence, a place has to actually feel like a home to me, and many places just do NOT make the grade.