Sentences with phrase «on particular skills rather»

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Fair call, but isn't she commenting more on the particular character / presence / emerging stardom of Vera in Up in the Air, rather than their relative acting skills?

This suggests that improvements in state scores often reflect test prep that helps students score higher on one particular test, rather than genuine improvements in students» academic skills.

Three widespread practices in particular are in need of major revision: teacher evaluation and tenure systems that do not distinguish effective teachers from ineffective ones; forced placement, where teachers are assigned to schools based on seniority rather than the match of teacher skills to school preferences and needs; and LIFO (last in first out), by which teacher lay - offs are based entirely on seniority rather than teacher effectiveness.

What's more worrying is that this particular test, PISA, is not focused on rote memorization but rather on the ability to use skills to solve real - world problems.

Most practically, given that high - stakes tests will emphasize close reading, it's a safe bet that English teachers will feel pressed to spend plenty of time teaching this particular skill rather than focusing on a more traditional approach to teaching literature.

I suspect that many, although perhaps not all, of the climate models are idiot - savant models, tuned to fit a hypothesized pattern that tells a particular story on past data, but rather lacking predictive skill.

-- The Law Society [of England & Wales] is currently «developing new forms of examination and assessment of those values, skills, and knowledge [that a solicitor should possess on his first day of practice],» which are «intended «to ensure that qualification to practice law is based on an individual's knowledge and understanding of law and legal practice and their ability to deliver legal services to a high quality, rather than on their ability to complete a particular course or courses of study.

The conversation helped me to focus on some of the issues with myself and my interviewing skills rather than how that particular interview went and whether I messed up a couple questions or not.

Use a functional resume format, which focuses on particular skills and experience rather than just the chronological order of your employment history.

It may be that the most important mastery we achieve early on is not the mastery of a particular skill or particular piece of knowledge, but rather the mastery of the patience and persistence that learning requires, along with the ability to... Read More