Sentences with phrase «standard of rigor»

They just shouldn't be confused with weighty scientific tomes which obey a high standard of rigor; I am sure their authors don't intend them as such.

It is demanding a standard of rigor individually, from our peers, and from our platforms... It's Doreen Garner excising medical histories in silicone and glass.»

Unfortunately, very few meet even a minimum standard of rigor.

Not only does MCP require proteomics data to be of good quality and to be held to a high standard of rigor, but MCP also requires authors to demonstrate clearly the biological or biochemical significance of their data.

Scientists are well within their rights to dismiss a publication or an association as «no evidence» because it does not meet their standards of rigor.

This model has the advantage of specifying at least a portion of the curriculum explicitly, ensuring that it meets standards of rigor, complexity, and richness.

The project is resulting in changes to educator licensing that support multiple pathways to the teaching profession while upholding high standards of rigor.

Turns out, the humanities are a discipline and have their own standards of rigor.

Not exact matches

«Our students are taught by the same Wharton faculty who hold them to the same standards of performance and intellectual rigor,» says Anjani Jain, Wharton's vice dean of MBA Program for Executives.

In response to this overall assessment of the FWT's methodological motives and behavior, I first want to address Griffin's contention that FWTs display the tendency to utilize a double standard when discussing evil — that they don't allow their «Own positions to be judged with the same rigor, and in terms of the same criteria, as the other positions.»

Even had Griffin succeeded in showing that the standard view of omnipotence is incoherent (which he did not), rigor would require that yet another negative thesis be established, viz., that the selective view of omnipotence is unacceptable.

This has enforced high standards of scholarly rigor, and this has had its advantages.

IRRI and our partners strictly adhere to the standards of scientific rigor and to every regulatory requirement of our target countries.

Personally, I find it rather ironic that you're lecturing the blog author on the rigor of language, when, faced with the need to support the claims made by a documentary that has faced absolutely no real standards of intellectual rigor or merit (the kind of evidence you apparently find convincing), you have so far managed to produce a study with a sample size too small to conclude anything, a review paper that basically summarized well known connections between vaginal and amniotic flora and poor outcomes in labor and birth before attempting to rescue what would have been just another OB review article with a few attention grabbing sentences about long term health implications, and a review article published in a trash journal.

Baechler quickly learned that standard strollers were not meant to handle the rigors of a jogging speed, and so he designed a specialized product equipped to take the stress of running.

Capacity: The new two - story facility, with a capacity of 1,600 students (an increase of 400 from the former campus), allows for the standard middle school configuration of Grades 6 - 8 on one campus... which provides sixth - graders with greater opportunity for academic rigor, fine arts and career electives and athletic and extra-curricular activities, as well as 30 additional minutes of instructional time each day, compared to an elementary schedule.

«The rules adopted today by the Board of Regents maintain the rigor of our graduation requirements, while providing a new mechanism for students with disabilities to demonstrate they've met the State's graduation standards.»

Mr. Brizard emphasized the need for academic rigor, participation, and partnership to help raise the standards of education for our children.

He not only found that a significant percentage of the academic units still need to come into compliance with the standards, but that there was sufficient concern about academic rigor to warrant consideration of issuing a third warning.

These are core matters for how a professional discipline establishes standards for assessing the rigor and accuracy of its methods and instrumentation, and how it applies those methods in an ethically acceptable manner.

Also, «Registered Reports are setting new standards in terms of statistical power and methodological rigor, which sends the signal that your work reaches the highest methodological standards, with potential benefits in terms of professional credibility and citations,» he adds.

As to «questionable rigor,» it was the first modern laboratory experiment of the phenomenon, so I naturally pointed out ways in which future studies could be improved — that is a standard part of science writing.

Prices and trading volumes reflect many factors, including differences in the rigor of emission caps, enforcement standards, project monitoring and auditing.

Papers will be accepted solely on the basis of scientific rigor, adherence to technical and ethical standards, and evidence that the data support the conclusions.

At the film festival: Bruce LaBruce's subversive masterpiece, Gerontophilia, a lovely rom - com in which everybody fucks one another across all age and gender borders — desire shall bind us together; Juno Mak's Rigor Mortis, a touching albeit grim look at loss and damnation in the form of a Chinese hopping - vampire movie, with many a nod to the subgenre's clichés and conventions; Jealousy, Philippe Garrel's latest tale of love ground down by the mill of daily life, raw and naked even by his ascetic standards; Hayao Miyazaki's troublesome The Wind Rises, which frames the story of a fighter - plane designer as a grand romance of struggle and failure, with animation's supreme living master contemplating the price mankind can sometimes pay in the name of one dreamer's self - fulfillment, and the willful blindness and egocentricity it takes to realize one's vision; and finally to Yorgos Lanthimos's Necktie and Athina Rachel Tsangari's 24 Frames Per Century, their contributions to the Venice 70: Future Reloaded omnibus, not to mention the untitled pieces by Jean - Marie Straub, Monte Hellman, Amit Dutta, and Haile Gerima.

It provides a Rosetta stone for Anderson's career to this point, Pynchon's work serving as a template for an artist crossing genres while holding true to a certain standard of intellectual rigor, a certain florid prosody, a specific interest in telling true the story of whatever the times may be.

During the debate over the federal «annual yearly progress» standard, many of the proposals that would have included other indicators as measures of a school's annual yearly progress were simply thinly disguised attempts to eradicate any rigor from the system.

But the proposal's pitfall is that it assumes colleges will respond to accountability measures by improving teaching and maintaining rigor rather than simply lowering standards in the interest of pushing students through.

The statewide standards, and now the Common Core, with its national scope and rigor, will, some say, bring more uniformity to the mixture of instruction that for so long characterized U.S. math pedagogy.

It will take a lot to make public schools more effective for all students: greater academic rigor, higher standards of conduct, more parental involvement, meaningful professional development for teachers, stronger incentives for the students themselves, and, of course, more access to health and social services for the many students who are in need of such.

Indeed, the waivers — as well as CCSS expectations — may help to account for the increasing rigor of state standards since 2011.

One challenge in working with this outcome is that course grades can reflect the difficulty of a subject and rigor of an institution's grading standards.

A more complete and accurate conception, in line with the colloquial meaning of the term, recognizes that standards also refer to the desired qualities of student work and the degree of rigor that must be assessed and achieved.

In the human performance field, rigor is a measure of personal performance, not a standard to quantify how much information has been learned.

Authors Paul Peterson and Peter Kaplan find that even though 37 states and the District of Columbia (D.C.) received a waiver from the U.S. Department of Education as incentive to join the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) consortia and raise their standards in 2009, standards still declined in rigor in 26 states and D.C. between 2009 and 2011.

Not surprisingly, perhaps, board members who are or were educators (27 percent of the total surveyed) believe that funding is a barrier and that the focus on student achievement is misplaced; these beliefs were held «regardless of the actual level of funding in the district,» «regardless of the actual teacher salaries» in the district, and «even after controlling for the type of student population that the district serves and the actual rigor of academic standards» in the district.

Since NCLB was enacted into law, Education Next has used this information to identify the rigor of state proficiency standards each time the results from state and NAEP tests have become available.

However, there is consensus among three key federally funded agencies (What Works Clearinghouse, National Center on Student Progress Monitoring, and Florida Center for Reading Research), as well as several peer - reviewed journal articles that review research on education products, that Accelerated Reader has met high standards of scientific rigor with positive effects and no contrary evidence.

In this report, as in previous ones, we assess the rigor of standards that states set.

In other words, citizens appear to be evaluating schools based on local comparisons or on information provided by their state testing system without taking into account the relative rigor of state standards.

The study is the sixth in a series of articles ranking the rigor of states» proficiency standards.

Thus, simply arguing «growth measures good, current law bad» may in the end not be very helpful to the deliberations on Capitol Hill and could well undermine the efforts of those who favor only those growth systems that can meet tough standards for rigor, reliability, and inclusion of all students.

The reversal in the overall trend is, however, driven wholly by an improvement in the rigor of reading assessments, which set expectations that are higher by 0.49 standard deviations in 4th grade and by 0.26 standard deviations in 8th grade.

States nonetheless seem to be continuing their trajectory of convergence toward standards of similar rigor in math (which, given the slipping standards noted above, constitutes a downward convergence), but are more divergent in reading since 2007, particularly in 4th grade.

So varied are state standards that the relative rigor of a state's proficiency definition is a better predictor of the percentage of schools said to be «failing» (not making AYP) than the overall quality of student performance in the state, as estimated by average NAEP scores.

And because all of the states showing strong improvements have adopted Common Core State Standards (CCSS), the authors say there is a strong likelihood that Common Core induced this sudden improvement in the rigor of states» standards.

-- Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, and Oklahoma earned the lowest grades for the rigor of their proficiency standards.

Even if educators manage to skate past the dizzying array of standards and value - added evaluations, they must still contend with this fundamental divide: academic rigor, with its unflinching emphasis on measurable success, seems strangely at odds with emotional intelligence, a soufflé of moods and feelings.

The SAT is valuable for two main reasons: 1) It provides colleges with a common standard against which to evaluate students who attend high schools with varying grading policies and levels of rigor, and 2) it partially predicts students» grades during their freshman year of college, a measure of how prepared they are for higher education.

«To be clear, higher academic standards are necessary, and the rigor of the Common Core State Standards must be the new minimum in classrooms.»