Sentences with phrase «subjective criteria»

They argue that annual testing is critical for tracking how effectively schools are educating poor and minority students and that evaluations based only on subjective criteria like observations typically fail to identify weak teachers.

Some might question whether such subjective criteria as «beauty» and «harmony» belong in science, where theories can be evaluated objectively by whether they fit the data.

Provide training to all school personnel on how to apply subjective criteria in making disciplinary decisions.

The manual notes that distribution of the 60 points based on classroom observations and other subjective criteria must be negotiated between districts and their unions.

Yet they are commonly prescribed using subjective criteria, leading to wide variation in clinical practice.

But any purely statistical measure liberalism is necessarily based on subjective criteria that leads to some quirks.

What is more, effects on the patients are often evaluated using subjective criteria.

A legislative background document published by the Canadian government and provided to the court by counsel for Canada notes that the declaration describes a broad right, that the terms used to describe it, such as «grievous and irremediable medical condition», are not defined but could include conditions that are not life - threatening or terminal, and that the declaration is framed largely in terms of subjective criteria [1].

The court can also impose more subjective criteria such as the value of the services provided by each parent, the amount of time the child spends with each parent, and the potential earning capacity of each parent regardless of their employment status.

While housing affordability and income growth were big factors in their ranking, this study also included subjective criteria like «family friendliness» and which cities were easy for families to get around.

Beyond the actual star rating for every broker in every category, there is additional commentary that gives analysis and sometimes more subjective criteria that are either hard to specify in a simple star rating or that might depend on what kind of trader you are.

Eugenics, which reached its height in the 1930s, was a pseudo-scientific movement which led the way in forced sterilizations of people deemed «unfit» or «undesirable» based on subjective criteria like social class, low I.Q., high sex drive.

While discounting subjective criteria such as eye and skin color, the site scores users out of 10 according to a specific algorithm that «takes into account many factors from neoclassical beauty, modern research papers, and our own scientific studies,» the company said.

Are not subjective criteria already operative here in designating the ground as God and not Satan, that God is and Satan is not?

The difficulties inherent in applying the h - index, or even a suite of more complex impact measurements, especially to junior job candidates, make it unlikely that such quantitative measures will supplant well - established subjective criteria any time soon.

Because this is an implicit target for any climate model development and tuning, the selection of such subjective criteria mimics a suite of models, which will be treated by other modellers as suitable for climate studies.

Similarly, you rely on subjective criteria in distinguishing between those who do and do not sufficiently reflect a Bible - based view of the process of creation.

Leap Days are just a mathematical anomaly, one created based on subjective criteria by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 to align the calendar with the spring equinox.

We all have our opinions on players and often these are based on subjective criteria as opposed to objective analysis; a player's style and grace or diminutive stature or lack of pace may distract us from the measurable effectiveness of the same player.

However, your distinction is between those ID proponents who self - profess as Christians, i.e. Johnson, Minnich, Behe, Meyer, Demski, etc, and those who sufficiently fall within your subjective criteria and are therefore worthy of being called Christian.

In fact, they are the ones ascribing to an ideology — merely the most recent of many in human history — that attempts to rationalize discrimination and oppression against some of us based on subjective criteria, this time with victims the least able to defend themselves.

In the campaign the candidates specifically targeted sectors of the electorate based on a number of subjective criteria: this makes it very likely that the polls merely represents the candidates» marketing campaign strategy and not some deeper truth.

He said people talk to him a lot about «the constant fluctuation in how policy is determined and implemented» and that they feel «a lot of it is left to subjective criteria.»

«Currently a majority of patients undergo colon resections for large polyps that don't harbor any cancer cells, which means in many cases a person's colon is being removed for noncancerous reasons, based on subjective criteria,» said lead study author Emre Gorgun, MD, FACS, FASCRS, a staff surgeon in the department of colorectal surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Ohio.

After reading each poem, they gave an assessment based on four subjective criteria: vividness of the imagery (e.g. «like a spreading fire»), valence (positivity or negativity of the theme), emotional arousal and aesthetic appeal (i.e., how much a person likes the poem).

That's kind of our subjective criteria but most people that are going into the doctor maybe are sitting at 3 or 4 or 5.

Where the Fusion trumps them is in the handling department, the breadth of the lineup, and the styling — although the latter is obviously a subjective criterion.

[1] During a 2 - month testing period, Ward's editors evaluate each engine according to a number of objective and subjective criteria in everyday driving situations — there is no instrumented testing.

Fund selection was determined by the subjective criteria of the author.

The scoring is typically based on a mix of objective and subjective criteria.

«Me, My, Mine» implies that subject matter is nothing more than a personal gathering of inspired fragments to be treated as mostly formal elements — that a depicted image is selected spontaneously based on subjective criteria and its relevance to a viewer need not extend beyond the simple fact of its authorship.

Based on some subjective criteria it can be judged as uninformative or informative in a particular application.

Partners in a great many law firms have recognized the value of creating a two - tier partnership structure — as opposed to the «up or out» alternative - for dealing with those long - tenured associates the firm has invested a lot of money in developing, yet do not satisfy all of the objective and subjective criteria to become equity partners.

Develop objective and subjective criteria to evaluate the non-equities professional performance and personal characteristics, so that the equity partners may offer constructive recommendations concerning their performance and career development.

The old guard lawyer rating services have always had subjective criteria that are not easily discernible other than being a popularity contest, or worse, simply pay - to - play.

Instead, the Pennsylvania Legislature has published a list of 17 subjective criteria that the courts must consider at 23 Pa.C.S.

They give an absolute value on a mix of facts and subjective criterias, and do not disclose their procedure.

Unlike, many International countries where admissions are based on objective test scores, U.S. colleges use mix of objective and subjective criteria to evaluate an applicant's profile and to guide their decision process.