Sentences with phrase «on random»

Every car is different, so choosing an oil based on a random recommendation is not the best way to choose the type of oil or brand to use in your specific vehicle.

We put an MP3 CD on random and turned up the volume to appreciate the 320 watts from this Monsoon audio system.

For example, students are asked to make inference based on random sample or determine if a circle graph is an appropriate representation.

Understand statistics as a process for making inferences about population parameters based on a random sample from that population.

My claim is based on a random - assignment evaluation of a large set of small schools in NYC.

Your goal is to call on random students and have every one provide a correct answer.

The siblings will remain on the school's waitlist but will be assigned a new waitlist position based on their random lottery number and any other preference they qualified for.

Admission is based on a random lottery.

Some got a voucher, some didn't, based on a random selection — a lottery.

The study has received a great deal of attention, in part because it is one of the few evaluations of school resources based on random assignment of students to test policy effects while controlling for other conditions, a method that is generally thought to be a high - quality research design.

When students» prior achievement was added as a control variable, the non-experimental methods generated impact estimates quite similar to the estimates based on random assignment.

Anyone interested in a more complete discussion of these 10 analyses and why it is important to focus on the random - assignment studies, should read Patrick Wolf's article in the BYU Law Review that has been reproduced here.

We may perceive reading comprehension as a content - neutral «skill» that can be taught, practiced, mastered, and tested in the abstract on any random topic, but this is deeply misleading.

«Can nonexperimental estimates replicate estimates based on random assignment in evaluations of school choice?

As Ashley Ford describes it, it was «some random thoughts on a random day.»

I explained the basic premise of an impromptu speech to my students: They would get a few short minutes to prepare a speech on a random topic and then they'd have the opportunity to give the speech, if they wished.

The sorting of children to public and private schools based in large part on random chance provides a unique opportunity to learn about the effect of choice on a variety of outcomes.

* Highlight a high - level vocabulary word on a random page and encourage students to find and define those words.

PowerPoint - Karaoke is a spin - off from traditional karaoke — instead of looking to the screen for song lyrics, people present an impromptu presentation based on a random set of slides that they've never seen before.

Published by EdSource, a nonprofit organization that monitors education in California, the study is based on a random sample of 257 elementary schools.

A doodle and creative drawing on a random topic will help reach most parts of their brain.

Most of the time, there are several gems buried in a list that tell me things about my students» preferences that I can easily address, whether regularly («Please don't call on me without warning») or on a random day («I challenge you to a Bananagrams match!»).

Instead, if a charter school in New York receives more applicants than it has places, it must enroll students based on a random lottery.

«Don't Stop Believing» by Journey just started on my random playlist when I opened up today's post....

The structures on the random side, with characters popping up and vanishing but theres an appealing honesty about it, and a freshness to the humour.

On random days between 9 am and 6 pm, a train can pass through the area.

After they reunite, they embark on a random bicycle trip around their childhood haunts, which will either exhaust or reinvent their relationship.

When the federal police show up to arrest him, Quaid kills an entire team in a few quick movements (Director Len Wiseman shows it in a fake one - take, a choice that makes infinitely more sense than the reliance on random slow motion shots and lens flares from randomly placed light sources that he shows through the rest of the movie).

However, we have come to expect absolutely no sense from the story, so we let the answer land on a random character, watch them awkwardly try to explain it with some flashbacks and then go away to watch a real movie.

The Maybe,» as it is called, will be taking place on random days throughout...

The game relies on a random tile system to keep things fresh.

The funnier moments seemed to be the times when director Jason Moore (Pitch Perfect) lets them they go off and riff on some random joke or punch line.

She helps her friend to laugh, to remember the good times, to go on a random adventure, and to be there for her family.

Fight, build, negotiate and technologically advance your way to utopia, in a deep single player campaign, on random maps and against friends in multiplayer.

In the game, he can not be seen delivering the mail, but can be seen flying above the town where he can be shot down with a slingshot at exactly 9:00 AM or 5:00 PM on random weekdays, and he will not be aware who shot him down.

This means he boozes up, drives around and finds himself blacked out on a random front lawn, his car nowhere in sight.

However, on random evenings after 8:00 p.m., a nearby light will be lit, and one of the cones will be pushed aside, allowing entry.

There's too much information, but also too much time spent on inconsequential scenes, like Batman's bizarre nightmare and Superman's heart - to - heart on a random snowy mountain with his dead Earth father.

A big aspect of the film relies too much on a random coincidence which is always a pet peeve of mine, leading to a subplot that could have been removed without any narrative consequence, but at the same time it's this part of The Drop that gives it a tender heart which allows for a deeper emotional meaning.

After a long night of partying in an attempt to free his mind from his recent breakup, Sutter wakes up on a random lawn to the sound of a timid girl named Aimee (Shailene Woodley) calling his name.

It all depends on the random sampling chosen for the nominating committee and who they are makes these very difficult to predict.

Lots of commercials, trailers, banner ads on random sites.

You basically have 5 turns of people landing on random capsule spaces.

Instead of crafting deft plot twists, the film relies on random behavior and a confusing structure designed to dole the story out in tiny bits over the entire running time.

This Week: Kevin marvels at the swatch of good movies coming out on a random weekend in January, which hopefully bodes well for the rest of the year.

Pascal will be at any of the bridges in town on random weekdays from 6:00 a.m. to midnight in Animal Crossing: City Folk.

«Sometimes that's in a press release, sometimes that's in San Diego Comic - Con — if everything comes together well — and sometimes that's on a random Tuesday at 11 a.m. in the morning.»

Young Sofia's ideas are all over the place: Zoe walks in on a random robbery of the hotel's safety boxes, she interviews a Middle Eastern sheik's nephew (a plot point reminiscent of Disney's Eloise at the Plaza TV movie), and attends a costume party.

Instead just turn on any random Disney Channel comedy.

From where it begins to where it ends is one of the scripts most interesting aspects as characters weave through one another's peripheral vision, all coming together on random nights at the town bar.