Sentences with phrase «questions of the rigor»

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Even the need to question, challenge, and understanding directives — an expectation in their military experience — fits well with the rigor of startup culture.

Additionally, if beliefs do not stand up to the rigors of scientific investigations and reason, then one would reasonably think that it is the beliefs that should be in question, and severely so, more than the science.

While at times community colleges have been criticized for a lack of academic rigor, there can be little question that they have made formal education more readily accessible to larger segments of our population, and fostered a sense that education is an ongoing, lifelong process.

High profile security failures in critical government systems caused the NSA to question whether there may be a lack of scientific rigor in cybersecurity engineering...

PARIS — A medical scandal involving a diabetes drug has raised questions about the rigor of France's regulatory system and has embarrassed politicians from both sides of the political aisle.

«He does bring more scientific rigor to this question than anyone else in the past, and he does do state - of - the - art footprint analysis,» notes David R. Begun, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Toronto.

«We need to adopt a questioning attitude [and] improve the rigor of decisionmaking,» Maria Korsnick, CENG's chief operating officer, told the NRC staff at the Baltimore meeting.

I introduced the guest journal once again, but to increase the rigor, instead of an object, my students were to bring in a news article for discussion and then ask the class an open - ended question relating to society.

The three strategies detailed in this post can help you in addressing those PBL skeptics who question the rigor in PBL and who think that simultaneously addressing rigor and authenticity is too grand of a challenge.

Many policy questions simply can not be answered with hard evidence, at least entirely, regardless of rigor and methodology, because they're the kinds of questions that have to be answered by common sense, ideology, and plain old experience.

Influential figures including UPenn dean Andy Porter, UVA professor Daniel Willingham, and Texas Commissioner of Education Robert Scott have raised questions about the coherence, rigor, and value of the standards.

Still others have to deepen their level of questioning and rigor.

We have designed the program to provide the other soft and hard skills they will need to work successfully with school agencies: translating practitioners» questions into tractable research questions, understanding when and where randomization and quasi-experimental designs are feasible, negotiating the fine points of a data security agreement, preserving relationships while reporting results with rigor and objectivity.

The program promotes a sense of confidence in answering a variety of test questions while also preparing students for the rigors of academic testing.

As parents and educators question whether the rigor of the new curriculum is developmentally appropriate, school officials are reporting that they lack the resources to help teachers learn the new material.

As parents and educators question whether the rigor of the new curriculum is developmentally appropriate, school officials say they lack the resources to help teachers learn new material.

But it also found that there was little variance in the scores resulting from those observations, raising questions about the rigor of the process.

Some of the questions the Commissioner spoke to were on topics such as the number of days of instruction, community schools, increasing the number of charter holders in the state, and rigor as it pertains to the STAAR test.

Using the foundation learned in the first stage, teachers» planning and instruction adds a focus on rigorous instruction, questions, learning activities, grade - level assignments, and assessments in the second stage, Increasing the Rigor of Learning - Focused Lessons: Higher Order Thinking, Reading and Writing.

Moreover, the questions should reflect both the rigor and format of the state test if they are to guide teachers about how much students are expected to know and be able to do.

Collectively, these recordings equip this teacher with a data set that helps him explore how to increase the rigor of his questions during class discussions.

Many of the courses are online and only require students to demonstrate basic proficiency in the subject, which has caused some to question the academic rigor of the online courses.

The district spent $ 15 million on credit recovery programs in each of the last two years, including on online options — the rigor of which has been questioned after it was discovered students could test out of much of a course if they can score 60 percent on a pre-test.

Some dual enrollment skeptics have questioned whether the rigor of these high school college courses actually matches that of a traditional college course.

Analyze lessons for rigorous Learning Goals and Lesson Essential Questions that reflect the rigor of standards

If I were to consider HSA - McKinley Park as an option for my child, I wouldn't question the rigor of the curriculum, the quality of the facility or the dedication of the teachers and staff.

Teachers worry * the new Common Core tests still rely heavily on multiple - choice - type questions that don't reflect the rigor of the IB curriculum or, for that matter, the Common Core standards.

Naturally, after completing Design Question 2, we should move right into Design Question 3, Helping Students Practice and Deepen New Knowledge, which is all about increasing the rigor of our understanding of our previous learning.

Questioning for cognitive rigor is an instructional method that supports teaching and learning for higher order thinking, depth of knowledge, and language development.

By the end of this training, participants will recognize what are the 8 different kinds of good questions that promote cognitive rigor and how they can use these good questions to set the instructional focus and serve as assessments to deeper student - centered learning experiences.

The bold cluster is rephrased into a cognitive rigor question that sets the instructional focus and serves as the assessment for student learning, asking them to examine and explain how and why can the place value system be understood and used to determine the value of multi-digit numbers.

All CFA questions match the specific levels of cognitive rigor in the «unwrapped» concepts and skills (determined by educators through reference to the revised Bloom's Taxonomy and Webb's Depth of Knowledge).

How to Promote Cognitive Rigor Through Classroom Questioning, will explain what exactly is depth of knowledge and how Webb's DOK levels serve as the following:

The author also questioned the rigor of the courses, specifically the structure and how concepts were presented.

Participants will be introduced to the concept of good questions and how they promote cognitive rigor by challenging students to do the following:

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The increased rigor in the 2010 English Standards of Learning (SOL) requires students to answer text - dependent questions.

We then think about these same questions related to measurement, rigor, meaning, and engagement once we have evidence of student work on the task.

The rigor of those tests has typically rarely risen beyond recall of information on multiple choice questions.

Rigor can be assessed through tools such as a Depth of Knowledge Wheel, Bloom's Taxonomy, or by assessing a student's Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) to ensure that questions, activities, and expectations are yielding high - level responses.

When used in our platform, teachers will be able to modify the Playlists by drawing on a bank of digital learning activities and assessment questions tagged to levels of rigor.

The dramatic increase in the graduation rate has turned some heads in the academic world, with some experts questioning the validity and rigor of online credit recovery courses.

Years later, after submitting the same novels to the rigors of good editing, I came to see that the two agents in question were probably what's known as throw - it - against - the - wall agents.

The IdeaTab's plastic build proved somewhat flexible when held in two hands, and left us questioning whether it would be able to stand up to the rigors of frequent use.

The high school students will surely have plenty of questions for their older counterparts, from navigating the I - YEL program as a youth intern and helping with CFC programming, to managing the rigors of high school classes and tackling the big question, «what comes after graduation?»

It should make one question the rigor of abstraction and excess.

Youngblood has an MFA from UCLA where she studied photography with James Welling and Catherine Opie so the rigors of critical theory and questions about representation have come into play.

The exceptional photographic practice of the artists, recent graduates from the Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig, is linked by a studied objectivity and conceptual rigor which runs alongside an in ‐ depth knowledge and active questioning of the photographic medium.

Kristalova is part of a generation of artists who came of age in the 1980s and 90s when the cerebral, impersonal rigors of modernism were being questioned.

I've addressed this question before in various ways, but was prompted to dig into my ideas and feelings about the building greenhouse effect with new rigor when two very different magazines, Issues in Science and Technology (the magazine of the National Academies) and Creative Nonfiction, invited me to write an essay on my 30 years of climate inquiry.