Sentences with phrase «produce meaningful skills»

One is that high value - added scores in the initial year reflect teacher efforts to «teach to the test» rather than to produce meaningful skills.

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Without the latter skills, nutrition education is merely academic and unlikely to produce meaningful lifestyle changes.

This resource challenges the students and engages them in the area questioned and allows them to develop the skills to apply the knowledge in a meaningful and mark producing manor.

Effectively, the skills to develop are being able to follow and produce a set of relevant and meaningful instructions as precisely and succinctly as possible.

Results indicated that instruction in the reading strategy produced meaningful, lasting, and generalizable effects on students» story comprehension skills.

We fool ourselves if we think that it is possible to produce meaningful work without learning the skills and lessons of the masters.

Statistical method or methods used in an established hard science should: 1 — produce meaningful quantitative results 2 — these quantified results should have quantifiable statistical confidence measures, e.g. sd, r2, skill, whatever.

And this element of skill training appears to be crucial; as Catalano and colleagues (2004) write, «To produce meaningful effects on specific target behaviors, it also appears necessary to include opportunities in social competence promotion programs for students to practice and apply learned skills to specific, relevant social tasks (Hawkins and Weis 1985).»

Parents should be taught the skills to change their own behaviour and become independent problem solvers in a broader social environment that supports parenting and family relationships.40 A small increase in parental exposure to an evidence - based programme can produce meaningful change at a whole population level rather than individual improvement at an individual case level.3, 9