Sentences with phrase «test only their judgment»

By using this technique, the researchers hoped to overcome the bees» intrinsic responses to sucrose and quinine and test only their judgment of the new smells.

Not exact matches

For example, ESSA only slightly broadens the focus from test scores, does nothing to confront Campbell's Law, * doesn't allow for reasonable variations among students, doesn't take context into account, doesn't make use of professional judgment, and largely or entirely (depending on the choices states» departments of education make) continues to exclude the quality of educators» practice from the mandated accountability system.

By a 10 - 2 vote, the Senate education committee approved a bill last week that would not only change the state tests students take, but also erase several years» worth of judgments about school effectiveness that have been made based on the test scores.

Human judgment also may reduce teachers» concerns about being assessed only by test scores or being subjected to statistical procedures they don't trust or understand.

Unlike oral reading, which had to be tested individually and required that teachers judge the quality of responses, silent reading comprehension and rate could be tested in group settings and scored without recourse to professional judgment, (only stop watches and multiple choice questions were needed).

States and schools plan to use the new tests to not only determine how well students are mastering the new standards, but also to make judgments about school and educator performance.

It was only two years ago that Lord Hope, in the House of Lords, rejected the introduction of a proportionality test into possession claims on the grounds that: «It lacks any firm objective criterion by which a judgment can be made as to which cases will achieve this standard and which will not.

Smith LJ, giving the Court of Appeal's only judgment preferred Caparo v Dickman [1990] 2 AC 605, [1990] 1 All ER 568 and its three - stage test: proximity, foreseeability and whether imposing a duty would be fair and reasonable.

The case focuses on the test for jurisdiction of a Canadian court to enforce a foreign judgment when the only connection to the province is the presence of a wholly - owned subsidiary of the foreign parent corporate defendant.

Having face validity does not mean that a test really measures what the researcher intends to measure, but only in the judgment of raters that it appears to do so.