Sentences with phrase «primarily on basic skills»

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These conditions can be largely met if technology is built primarily on natural human and renewable local resources, if it can be linked to traditional skills, crafts and techniques, and if it is geared to production that will meet the basic needs of the poor» (Faith Science and the Future.

He observes that assessment in many schools is still primarily designed to measure students» grasp of basic skills and factual knowledge, even as educators are placing a growing emphasis on more complex capabilities like conceptual understanding and long - term transfer skills.

As a result, policies that increase the stakes of standardized assessments necessitate schools increase the amount of time spent on basic skills — reading and math, primarily — to the exclusion of a broad range of other skills, experiences, and competencies.

As such, universal family - focused preventive intervention efforts to date have focused primarily on teaching parenting skills such as parental monitoring and the use of appropriate discipline techniques that have been demonstrated through basic and applied intervention research to be related to adaptive adolescent outcomes such as delayed initiation of substance use (Kumpfer and Alvarado 2003; Taylor and Biglan 1998).