Sentences with phrase «lack of specificity»

Another problem I noted was with lack of specificity in goals such as having 90 % of students score proficient or advanced.

I gave the recipe 4 stars for lack of specificity.

As it is now apparent, the grounds for much of this opposition and subsequent criticism of TEKS — its vagueness, subjectivity, lack of specificity of objective knowledge, overlap from grade to grade, and lack of sufficient rigor — seem to have been borne out by our experience in student achievement in the ensuing ten years of its use.

«Hope» and «change» were tremendously attractive ideas, in part because they were simultaneously amorphous and positive: their almost calculated lack of specificity let each supporter layer his or her own expectations onto them freely.

Despite widespread disillusionment, initially at least, because of a perceived lack of specificity and focus, the document has a lot of gems in its 283 paragraphs (XIII).

The intentional lack of specificity in Sigurdardottír's work speaks to a larger trend of globalization.

The photographs have an extreme lack of specificity - no clue is given as to the photographs» location - and this is part of their charge and interest.

Many national and state standards documents, including the NCTE / IRA Standards for English Language Arts (1996), have been criticized for lack of specificity (Ravitch, 1995).

Lack Of Specificity In The Resume.

In many ways, it's this lack of specificity that defined the Ford campaign.

Note the lack of specificity of that claim.

My only problem with this (and every other banana bread) recipe is the lack of specificity about banana quantity.

«A lack of specificity regarding potential savings actions makes it difficult to determine whether the proposed savings can be achieved,» the report found.

But this has led to a lack of specificity from the Spitzer campaign, so I don't know how well he may do in office.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo said talks about a special session are continuing in «good faith» and «good spirit,» and that people complaining about the lack of specificity in the process shouldn't complain.

«Social media information is of particular concern given the fluid nature of online engagement, the lack of specificity in this notice, and the potential impact on applicants for inadvertent failure to disclose information,» the letter said.

«And I'm very interested in trying to improve upon this enzyme because it's both slow and it also suffers from a lack of specificity.

For big companies that are advertising many positions, your lack of specificity may land your résumé in the recycle bin.

This lack of specificity allows the enzymes to bind to different chemical precursors, which is the reason for a larger number of products.

Some have argued that the lack of specificity is a consequence of the false positive rate of any objective diagnostic test.

Yet, this classic diagnostic strategy has widely recognized shortcomings that reflect both a lack of sensitivity in identifying preclinical disease and a lack of specificity in defining disease unequivocally.

«There are various reasons for the discrepancies, but one main cause is the lack of specificity within the diagnosis codes of administrative claims data,» Dr. Trickey explained.

Yet, this time ‐ honored diagnostic strategy has significant shortcomings that reflect both a lack of sensitivity in identifying preclinical disease, and a lack of specificity in defining disease unequivocally.

There is a lack of specificity that plays throughout the film that is quite apparent early on.

I think my overall intrigue with the genre kept me more invested than I should have been considering the lack of specificity and attention paid to this case.

If you or your administrators are concerned about the lack of specificity involved in grading with a single - point rubric, Jennifer Gonzales of Cult of Pedagogy has created an adaptation that incorporates specific scores or point values while still keeping the focus on personalized feedback and descriptions of successful work.

A lack of specificity about the quality of the boy's work — as well as «quite a lot of comments like pleasant and co-operative and so on» — meant the parents were left feeling that the report was vague at best.

In particular, CAP's review of the 27 second - round waiver proposals reveals a lack of specificity regarding state efforts to ensure equitable access to effective teachers, help districts and schools engage in comprehensive school turnaround approaches, and reduce reporting duplication and burdens on districts and schools.

Research has found that professional development (PD) that is unrelated to teacher content and pedagogy produces minimal results due to insensitivity to individual differences among teachers, lack of specificity and intensity, insufficient hands - on practice and feedback, little or no follow - up, not enough time built into teachers» schedules for PD, and not enough time and training built into school leaders» administrative tasks to support teacher learning.

A lack of specificity in how schools spend money may lead to wide variations in quality, which can, in turn, undercut arguments that schools make about needing resources.

One of the limitations of CFIs that annotations exposes is the lack of specificity when you have multiple renditions of the content.

But if you state your goal too broadly, the lack of specificity may dilute how you think about achieving it.

And remember, they have reached this stratospheric levels despite the Paulson rescue package, despite an alphabet soup of new Fed facilities that accept GSE paper as collateral (as the discount window did) now in place (although there were raspberries all around for the bailout bill, due to its failure to make any changes in the operation, management, or policies of the GSEs and its lack of specificity as to triggers and what mechanism would be used).

Consumers have to specify all of these things or lenders can pretty much say whatever they want, then provide different figures when the customers come in and blame the lack of specificity.

Disadvantages of laser therapy include the lack of specificity for acupoint stimulation in areas where multiple points are close together and lack of stimulation of deeper acupoints.

but the lack of specificity isn't all that reassuring.

There's a kind of large of embrace of land, space, ideas in abstract painting that's thrilling and satisfying, but in some ways a lack of specificity.

His emphasis on pattern, lack of specificity, and cool, formal compositions suggest a dialogue with the more formalist concerns associated with Pop Art.

These meditations on landscape are captivating for their lack of specificity as much as their relation with this part of the world, which is an easy association.

That lack of specificity, Doig says, helps usher the viewer into another world.

Those scenarios typically demonstrate a lack of specificity about the costs and potentially enormous impacts of such technologies, which makes their ready and convenient acceptance of a currently hypothetical capability disturbing.