Sentences with phrase «particular focus on testing»

This practice encompasses many forms within visual communication with particular focus on testing the boundaries between art and design and draws on hugely varied sources and art histories.

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There's no shortage of tips and tricks out there to help you learn faster and recall more, but nearly all them focus on how to study — try spacing out study sessions a particular way, for instance, or test yourself rather than reread.

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

In addition, many studies have focused on sensitization to a particular antigen (ie, positive serum IgE or skin testing) rather than clinical disease.

To get a clearer picture of what effect posture has, researchers would have to test each child's math skills without having them pay particular attention to posture and then test them again after asking them to focus on sitting up, says Marjorie Woollacott, a neuroscientist studying motor control at the University of Oregon, who was not involved in the research.

However, if you have a particular interest in one area, for example cardiovascular fitness, feel free to focus on that particular test.

Schools were assigned an overall rating based on the pass rate of the lowest - scoring subgroup - test combination (e.g., math for whites), giving some schools strong incentives to focus on particular students and subjects.

Some of the criticism of NCLB in its latter days focused on the core failings of test - based accountability — in particular, the extent to which the pressure to raise scores had come to dominate schooling.

So now we have an opportunity to be the voice of reason when we are given not - so - great curricula and when we see a hyper or distorted focus on a particular standard or with a particular test.

The legitimacy of test score increases in District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS), in particular those at Crosby S. Noyes Education Campus, are the focus of the latest installment in USA Today's «Testing the System,» a multi-part series exploring the extent and causes of cheating — by teachers, principals and schools — on standardized tests.

Ensuring Fairer and Better Tests Under Title I - A The first proposed regulation focuses on ensuring states continue to administer tests that are fair measures of student achievement for all students, with particular focus on ensuring states appropriately capture and measure the progress of English Learners and students with disabiliTests Under Title I - A The first proposed regulation focuses on ensuring states continue to administer tests that are fair measures of student achievement for all students, with particular focus on ensuring states appropriately capture and measure the progress of English Learners and students with disabilitests that are fair measures of student achievement for all students, with particular focus on ensuring states appropriately capture and measure the progress of English Learners and students with disabilities.

In particular, observers have expressed concerns that the lowest - performing schools have responded to the policy by simply focusing on test preparation.

In particular, many school and system leaders are experimenting with complementary indicators that focus on social - emotional learning and career - readiness, topics that resonate with parents and can help place standardized test scores in context.

The single - subject focus was necessary in this case because the focus was on improving scores on a particular standardized test.

In particular, Hutt's work focuses on the numbers and metrics that are used to describe, define, and regulate American school systems and asks: Where did these numbers — whether grades, test scores, value - added measures — come from?

Tutoring and other support for learning, such as TRiO programs, should be more available, with particular focus on students with low test scores and low incomes.

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.

The example suggested that if students do not know the meaning of a particular word in a test item, they would be taught to replace it with an «X» and focus instead on grasping the logic of the question phrasing that will give them a better chance of selecting the correct answer.

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.

Although game - based learning only lets you focus on a particular learning goal, it can be a good way to test the waters before deciding to develop a fully gamified solution.

Yet even as they surfaced possible misconceptions, the new teaching strategies these data teams came up with focused on helping students perform better on those particular test items, rather than on improving instruction (Horn, Kane, & Wilson, 2015).

Porsche says that the current round of tests focuses on the hybrid units of the new Cayenne derivative in particular.

We're definitely looking forward to hearing how the Gundam Versus team does plan on specializing this particular version for the home market as the alpha test focused primarily on the 2v2 core gameplay the VS series has become well known for.

Because the readership is well - informed, they are more likely to welcome a focus on the particular hypotheses in question than on theories of hypothesis testing, or the proper way to conduct science, both of which they probably already understand quite well.

Whether they are business - related or focused on a particular ability, competitions test your resilience and give you experience of new situations.

• Provided support in performing laboratory tests, placing particular focus on the integrity of results.

Spearheaded the launch Provided solutions to optimize operational performance across a broad range of areas with particular focus on IT Security with the implementation of CyberArk, mobile banking technology, new product development, IT testing and IT Data Center server integration; managed the migration teams in various cites for roughly twenty mid sized bank mergers over the past eighteen years.

Behavior therapy is considered probably efficacious for childhood depression, and a number of other experimental interventions show promise but require further evaluation.12 Currently, only 2 research groups have focused on psychosocial interventions for childhood bipolar disorder.13 - 15 Hence, increased attention to creation and testing of treatments specifically targeting depression and bipolar disorder in children is needed.16 In particular, studies should focus on children's developmental needs, address comorbidity, involve family members in treatment, demonstrate treatment gains as rated by parents and clinicians rather than children themselves, and compare experimental interventions with standard care or treatment as usual (TAU) rather than no - treatment or attention control groups.12, 17,18 In addition, parental psychopathology may affect treatment adherence and response.