Sentences with phrase «tests in a narrow range»

My concern is that if the interventions show little or no increase in performance in tests in a narrow range of subjects then creative subjects will be downgraded further.

Not exact matches

* I put «answered» in quotation marks because science never completely answers the question but simply rules out more and more incorrect hypotheses until it becomes clear that the answer most probably falls into a narrow range of possibilities in a well - tested theory.

But in the book I do argue against the intense national focus on standardized tests, which measure a fairly narrow range of cognitive skills and turn out to be not very effective predictors of the educational goals that I think we should care about, especially college - graduation rates.

Concerned that high - stakes testing was narrowing student assessment down to a few scores, teachers and administrators in one Illinois district developed a system to assess a range of skills — including critical thinking and social - emotional skills — they wanted students to master by the time they left school.

And as well as being of questionable effectiveness, incentive schemes often result in unintended and undesirable behaviours on the part of teachers and schools, ranging from the narrowing of the school curriculum, to withholding less able students from testing, to providing inappropriate assistance to students during tests.

Beyond Standardized Testing: District Focuses on Assessing the Whole Child Concerned that high - stakes testing was narrowing student assessment down to a few scores, educators in one Illinois district developed a system to assess a wide range of skills — including thinking skills and social skills — they wanted students to Testing: District Focuses on Assessing the Whole Child Concerned that high - stakes testing was narrowing student assessment down to a few scores, educators in one Illinois district developed a system to assess a wide range of skills — including thinking skills and social skills — they wanted students to testing was narrowing student assessment down to a few scores, educators in one Illinois district developed a system to assess a wide range of skills — including thinking skills and social skills — they wanted students to master.

The booming private tuition market is a symptom of the problem with an education system that is becoming too heavily focused on attainment in exams and tests and in a narrow range of so - called «core» subjects.

Based on what we see in films and television, it would seem that assessment in schools is restricted to a narrow range of tests: How often do we watch students in fictional classes being told they have a pop quiz tomorrow or see them practicing fill - in - the - bubble SAT questions?

Anyone who wants to test this theory out across even a narrow range of scorpions is in for a big surprise, one they might not even live to regret.

Yesterday's steep decline halted before a test of last week's lows, but the largest digital currencies failed to bounce substantially, with most of them being stuck in narrow ranges today.