Sentences with phrase «political science test»

Example: Imagine that you are preparing for a political science test.

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• Tulane political science professor William Gwyn told SI that he has seen admission test scores of Tulane athletes and that they are «immeasurably below standard.»

A Senior Lecturer at the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana, Dr. Ransford Gyampoh, who subjected the allegations of a bloated register to the litmus test, insisted that the claims are hollow, selective and baseless.

Political philosophy is not a science; it does not offer testable hypotheses and it can not be tested against the world.

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Rosalind Arden, a research associate at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), said: «We know that children who score higher in IQ - type tests are prone to living longer.

Converting primary schools into academies has failed to raise standards, with pupils in primary academies doing no better in Key Stage 2 tests than those at comparable schools, according to a new study from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Our findings come from assessments of performance in math, science, and reading of representative samples in particular political jurisdictions of students who at the time of testing were in 4th or 8th grade or were roughly ages 9 10 or 14 15.

From Schoolhouse to Courthouse brings together experts on law, political science, and education policy to test these claims.

Instead, the basic strategy of the Gates Foundation is to use science (or, more accurately, the appearance of science) to identify the «best» educational practices and then use political influence to create a system of national standards, curricular materials, and testing to impose those «best practices» on schools nationwide.

For example, the passing scores for the Praxis II English Language, Literature and Composition: Content Knowledge; Government / Political Science; and World and U.S. History tests are set just around the 8th percentile.

WILL's March 1 report, Apples to Apples: The definitive look at school test scores in Milwaukee and Wisconsin, authored by WILL research director Will Flanders who has a PhD in political science, compared, for a single school year (2015 - 16), the average levels of student proficiency in math and English in K - 8 schools and the averaged ACT college entrance exam scores for schools» high school juniors.

Deven Carlson, a political science professor at the University of Oklahoma who studies how states are integrating the Common Core into their existing accountability systems, sees the teacher evaluation system as one of the central grievances of the New York parents and students, who — with some help from educators and the teachers union — orchestrated the largest sit - out of annual state tests since the 2001 federal No Child Left Behind Act that mandated them.

I mean, one of the things that I've tried to do over these last four years and will continue to do over the next four years is to make sure that we are promoting the integrity of our scientific process; that not just in the physical and life sciences, but also in fields like psychology and anthropology and economics and political science — all of which are sciences because scholars develop and test hypotheses and subject them to peer review — but in all the sciences, we've got to make sure that we are supporting the idea that they're not subject to politics, that they're not skewed by an agenda, that, as I said before, we make sure that we go where the evidence leads us.

This has created a situation where one of the main political parties has been taken over by forces who make into a litmus test rejection of the widely - agreed mainstream climate science findings by the leading credentialed experts.

Data correlating «ordinary science intelligence» (as measured by a standard nine - question test), political ideology, and tendency to agree with the statement «there is «solid evidence» of recent global warming due «mostly» to «human activity such as burning fossil fuels»» suggests that conservative Republicans become less likely to agree with the scientific consensus on climate change the more educated they are.