Sentences with phrase «relatively weak form»

Statewide assessments across the US are essentially «final exam» tests to find out how much kids have learned, rather than diagnostic tests designed to help teachers teach [except in an after - the - fact way to perhaps adjust instructional practice for the next group of kids, a relatively weak form of diagnostic testing for individual teachers].

Water with a little bit of tritium in it is often released from nuclear reactors, notes Gizmodo, and tritium in general (which emits a relatively weak form of radiation) is not dangerous unless it's ingested.

They are accused of making a disturbance, of risking violence; but their activities have been a relatively weak form of power, in intention nonviolent, against the institutionalized violence of the police system of many a community, against the pervasive intimidation that is the next thing to violence.

Not exact matches

For the first several years» worth of recovery, that took the form of relatively rapid job creation paired with very weak wage growth due to the large stock of unemployed workers.

The outer shock forming behind this flattened cloud could then quickly blow out the tenuous poles because relatively little matter would stand in the way — like a strong gust of wind blowing out a weak spot in a sail.

They also found that people who learned that their risk was lower than expected felt relatively good in the face of feedback and formed relatively weak intentions to take preventive action.

In Dragon Age, you start as a relatively inexperienced, weak character, but it is the dynamic relationships that you form with other characters that define the experience more than the enemies you slay, and it is those interactions that make you stronger.

With regards to the DTAS, due to the relatively small sample size of each group, three new groups were formed: theist (comprised of strong, de-facto, and weak theists, 51.7 %), agnostic (11.7 %), and atheist (comprised of strong, de-facto, and weak atheists, 36.6 %).