Sentences with phrase «only valid test»

He shows that this is similar to Chesterton's approach and W.V.O. Quine's argument that «the only valid test of a belief is whether it fits into a web of connected beliefs that accords with our experience of the whole» (p. 63 - I would think that Newman's concept of the «Illative Sense» would dovetail with this.)

Paul Tillich suggests that creativity is the only valid test, inadequate as it is.

A Department of Education where the only valid tests of education are the national tests held every two years for 4th and 8th grade student and a Department of Education that will not release the 2009 results for Reading until 2010.

That is why I keep on insisting that the only valid tests are those that reproduce as closely as possible, the actual real life conditions of whatever phenomena is to be tested.

Not exact matches

Carbon - 14 is the only reasonably valid test for fossil dating, since we have an idea of the amount of carbon - 14 absorbed by living things (based on the amount of carbon - 14 in the atmosphere).

«If we're saying that the only thing that's a valid measure of student achievement is a test score, versus all the other work they do, it's going to be a sad day for the students of New York state,» Mulgrew said.

Our only interest is to learn how students respond to these test items so that we can design items that are valid measures of what students know about important energy ideas.

Now, of course, that is perhaps valid for if you only test these facts, and Dean asks, actually, whether there will be any other factor combinations that would allow reprogramming of keratinocytes?

In my practice the only valid and complete gluten assessment is a panel called the Wheat / Gluten Proteome Sensitivity and Autoimmunity test by Cyrex Laboratory in Phoenix, Arizona.

By contrast, of the 45,401 3rd graders in 2001 for whom we have valid test scores, only 9 percent were retained.

How valid is a screening test with only two questions, especially if all but two of the 50 subjects get both correct?

Pretty much the only valid argument for introducing a test is to ensure that schools step up their game in teaching the national curriculum requirement.

(That is — «OK, teachers, since we know that your students» test scores are not a sound or valid way to evaluate your effectiveness, we'll only base 30 percent of your evaluation on them.»

Unless such tests are shown to be developmentally appropriate, scientifically valid, and reliable for the purpose of measuring both student learning and a teacher's performance, such tests may not be used to support any employment action against a teacher and may be used only to provide non-evaluative formative feedback.Standardized tests, even if deemed valid and reliable, may not be used to support any employment action against a teacher.

Unless such tests are shown to be developmentally appropriate, scientifically valid, and reliable for the purpose of measuring both student learning and a teacher's performance, such tests may not be used to support any employment action against a teacher and may be used only to provide non-evaluative formative feedback.

There is no intention of valid national tests since these tests would only show too quickly the invalidity of the head of the Department of Education educational initiative of «test them until they drop» and «teach them to the test».

However, this type of equating is only valid if the new tests assess the same skills as the old tests.

Recall that the National Research Council, ETS, and RAND, as well as many others assert that test scores are not only not a valid and reliable way to evaluate teaching performance but actually damage learning by narrowing the curriculum.

What makes it attractive to educators is that, according to Drs. Marvin Berkowitz and Tom Lickona, CGI is, ``... to our knowledge, the only valid, reliable test of character virtues for middle and high school students.»

I asked SDE who will set the cut scores and how they can possibly have proof that these scores are valid representations of «mastery» when the test is new, as they will only have one year of results and it isn't designed to test mastery.

Amendment # 76 was offered by Chuck Pascal, a platform committee member from Pennsylvania, who, according to the C - SPAN video, said, «We should only be using standardized tests that are statistically valid.

There is a simple solution to the problem of overtesting and unfair attribution of test score: Evaluate teachers by test scores only if there is a valid test to do so — one that rigorously isolates a teacher's impact on student growth.

It must state that the incorrect form contains all the information needed for a valid DOT drug test, and that the incorrect form was used inadvertently or as the only means of conducting a test, in circumstances beyond your control.

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But, and this is a really important point, back - testing is only valid if the rules of the game are objective.

Eye certification (CERF #) is only valid for 1 year from date of examination, another reason why this test needs to be done annually.

Testing a number of hypotheses and choosing the only one that fits the data is a perfectly valid scientific procedure.

Leaking the CRU emails — for all we know the work of a genuine whistle blower — was the only way to (a) produce documents responsive to valid FOIA requests, (b) expose CRU's willful evasion of FOIA, and (c) subject CRU research products to the indispensable test of reproducibility.

Penetration tests are only valid for the moment conducted as new threats emerge in generic hardware and software daily.

However, the only «principles» that he could have been referring to are (a) those which describe the nature of the evidence that was required for a valid decision on the issue of whether the nurses» negligence was a factual cause and, then, (b) what test to use to decide if the evidence is sufficient on the balance of probability.

As the Supreme Court of Canada said...: «it will be only in rare circumstances that such a factor as religious conformance can pass the test of bona fide qualification»... The qualification, to be valid, must not just flow automatically from the religious ethos of Christian Horizons.

In the view of the Ontario Human Rights Commission, drug and alcohol testing is discriminatory and will only be permitted where valid reasons exist to justify the need for testing.

At least one of the negligent persons» conduct was, for law, not a cause not a probable factual cause, at least based on a valid application of the but - for test which we are told, again, is the only approved method of establishing factual causation.

In cases brought under the 1975 Act (one of the only means for individuals to challenge the terms of a valid will), the test is still what would have been reasonable financial provision for the claimant to receive in the circumstances of the estate, so it is common for a «luxurious» lifestyle to be taken into account in making a decision.

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