Sentences with phrase «more meaningful tasks»

The Performance Assessment of Competency Education (PACE) replaces multiple - choice questions for more meaningful tasks that encourage students to apply what they have learned in sophisticated ways and to use critical thinking and problem solving skills.

Instead of concentrating on the biologically more meaningful task of attempting to understand the microevolutionary processes that have created the rich genetic diversity within groups, «molecular anthropologists» still hanker after global explanations.

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I vowed that on the last day of my experiment, I would be more intentional and designate my morning hours for a specific task — pure brainstorming (instead of checking off items that were only slightly more meaningful than «I'm available Friday afternoon for the call.»)

When you delegate meaningful work to a subordinate, they feel more important, and are more likely to give that task their utmost effort.

«I guess I would hope that — as some of the maybe more mundane tasks are alleviated through technology — people find more and more creative and meaningful ways to spend their time,» he said.

For difference makers, it's about more than money — it's about meaningful work and being a part of something bigger than the task at hand.

Here the ethic, which in Buddhism is also identical with the teaching of salvation — perhaps even more than it had been in the Brahmanic system — has much more latitude; it has a task that is metaphysically meaningful — suspending at one point the cosmic law, unraveling it, as it were.

Following Aristotle and Whitehead, it is unreasonable to expect a datum to submit to a more rigorous degree of specification than is appropriate to the complexity of the datum.32 At the same time, some religious discourse is more meaningful than other discourse, and it is precisely the task of theology to discover the most adequate symbolic forms using the three principles of verification outlined above.

Either way, having very specific tasks and objectives for these community partners is crucial to making their connection not only more valuable, but also more meaningful.

It gets you, the teacher, out of your comfort zone, but in return enables you to spend more time coaching your students as they engage in meaningful tasks and interactions in class.

While technology can certainly make math tasks more meaningful and enjoyable, we will also explore how iPads can be used to collect useful student assessment data and organize it to allow students, teachers, and parents to better understand urgent student learning needs and develop strategies for success.

Chip Wood goes way beyond the simplistic «more time on task» solutions and offers teachers and administrators meaningful ways to transform the quality of teaching and learning for all children.»

Another teacher at the end of the institute day highlighted the advantage that performance tasks provide to hone in on more meaningful knowledge and skills, «I appreciate the opportunity to assess deeper knowledge as compared to typical standardized testing.»

However, as a result of low reading scores, a task force was formed and has recently adopted a more balanced reading approach that includes building phonological awareness along with the reading of meaningful and engaging texts.

When these characteristics are addressed through the design of tasks, scoring tools, and grading and reporting practices, assessment plays a much more meaningful role in the learning organization.

During the Apple launch event this morning, it was clear to see how easily this pairing could be used to benefit your health while helping researchers and healthcare professionals to gather more meaningful data (asking patients to recall pain levels days or weeks later during scheduled appointments can be difficult, whereas a ResearchKit app can capture data or make users perform ongoing tasks that will provide useful details).

You will have more obvious and logical decisions, meaningful conversations, new unusual tasks, greater interactivity.

The goal five years ago was to build momentum to «seal the deal» on a binding climate treaty — a fruitless task given the divisions among the world's nations — while this conclave was centered on a more modest, but more concrete, achievement — «to raise political momentum for a meaningful universal climate agreement [notice there's no mention of the word «binding»] in Paris in 2015 and to galvanize transformative action in all countries to reduce emissions and build resilience to the adverse impacts of climate change.»

Rather, it tasks us to examine why exactly parts of the science have become so tied up with ideology, and how to re-frame and depoliticize the physical science itself (the policy response, alas, will always be somewhat hostage to ideology, but a better acceptance of the basic science will at least engender a more meaningful debate).

Learning to say no can help you decrease your stress, stay more focused on necessary tasks, and enforce meaningful boundaries in your personal and professional relationships.

It expands capacity to do things faster while still requiring lawyers to train, teach and review; creating the opportunity for lawyers to focus on more meaningful work (instead of voluminous, routine and mundane tasks).

It means to accomplish more tasks in your current role in order to beef up your profile with relevant and meaningful accomplishments.

Tapping back into the true purpose of your job will make your daily tasks and accomplishments more meaningful.

Because lactate measurement offered no meaningful change in the predictive validity beyond 2 or more qSOFA criteria in the identification of patients likely to be septic, the task force could not justify the added complexity and cost of lactate measurement alongside these simple bedside criteria.

Because there would be obvious consequences to their partner if they stopped doing the frustrating task (i.e., the partner would have to take over), the sacrifice here was even more meaningful than in the previous study (where stopping the task only meant the partner didn't win anything).