Sentences with phrase «tests is meaningless»

Just passing the tests is meaningless if the students have not developed the kind of attitude that will help them overcome the challenges they would face in college.

A good allergist will advise you that antibody testing is meaningless without a corresponding clear correlation between food intake and symptom development.

These tests are meaningless unless students use school success in a way that is consistent with what Bill Gates views as the role of school: to prepare students for college, work, and citizenship.

The DC standardized tests are meaningless.

Not exact matches

The organic certification industry's «dirty little secret,» they write, is that «organic crops and livestock are not tested in Canada before they are certified, thus making organic certification essentially meaningless.»

Organic crops and livestock are not tested in Canada before they are certified, thus making organic certification essentially meaningless

They aren't motivated to memorize detail, which is usually what is found on tests, and they're likely to see rote memorization as meaningless.

«While in principle the abolition of statutory KS1 assessments is welcome, this will be largely meaningless if these tests are still available to schools on a non-statutory basis.

Meaningless or inaccurate tests can lead to medical interventions that are unnecessary or harmful.

Rama presents test subjects with two words, which are pronounceable but meaningless in most languages: bouba and kiki.

As far as allergies, if you got the diagnosis based on a blood test and not on a meticulous symptom review, any good allergy specialist will tell you that the results are meaningless.

But really... these test tube studies are almost meaningless when it comes to human health.

If it wasn't true, then testing new drugs on groups of people for common results and side effects would be meaningless.

Too often schools have failed this test miserably, sending home report cards that are meaningless and producing school transcripts that are incomprehensible.

-- but it's not logical to conclude that the test score gains are meaningless.

That hardly means that their test score results are meaningless.

Early Excellence, which was favoured by 11,000 + schools in 2015/16 told Schools Week that the new assessments would lead to test results that «will not accurately reflect what the children know and understand», and «provide data that is meaningless».

While we believe strongly in the promise and potential of the Common Core, and we've seen good implementation firsthand, these standards will be meaningless if policymakers keep reducing them to a test score.

While Rotberg says there's plenty to learn from pedagogy overseas, the differences in the students who take the tests in each country can make the test scores «meaningless as an indicator of the quality of education.»

They are preparing for the possible tidal wave of parents who will refuse to subject their children to invalid, overly long and meaningless tests.

The caveat to this study, which will make it completely meaningless in the eyes of some, is that student outcomes were measured by student test scores.

«It is impossible to do so with any accuracy until after the tests and examinations have been taken, so we should not put schools under any pressure to do so — it's meaningless.»

The tests to assess mastery of this arbitrary content are meaningless hurdles whose function is to produce scores by which schools, teachers, and students are ranked.

One after another, teachers used the words «meaningless» and «unfair» to describe the evaluations and the process used to arrive at those judgments... Another teacher said the majority of his autistic, special - needs students failed the SBA — a mandatory assessment test — yet he was judged «highly effective.

And now, a new test promising to revolutionize education will produce yet more meaningless data for adults starving to exploit children for self - gain, selfish career aspirations, blind ideological ploys, or for the purposes of establishing high property values on the backs of children, all the while sorting out which 8 year olds are on track to be «college and career ready».

If they are to be honest with students and families and communicate truthfully that the test scores are meaningless, they would have to acknowledge that the public has been misled (whether knowingly or not) by those promoting the assessments.

«There is a debate emerging around the adequacy of Australia's current vehicle - emission standards, but this debate risks being rendered meaningless unless a more relevant testing regime is put in place,» Bradley says in a statement.

A positive test result, by and of itself, is pretty meaningless.»

Fuel Tiracas is basically a test of reflexes, the type of easy pick - up and play game you give to your non-gaming work colleagues and then show them how pitiful and meaningless there life is by destroying their score.

It's the basis for producing or testing theories; without it results are meaningless.

What little they do disclose is 60 days after drilling takes place, too late for communities to test to show what was in their water before drilling, rendering the disclosure meaningless.

If the trends are meaningless at 8 years, they are most likely meaningless at 30 years also, as well as 800 years, 8000 years etc. etc; you have to take the scaling behaviour into account when forming the null hypothesis (and, unlike Gavin's illustrations, make sure you are not restricting the number of degrees of freedom at longer scales by applying the test on the same length of data!)

Selling meaningless guarantees and cheating on engine emissions tests are kindred spirits.

To most people, benchmark scores are meaningless, and we can confirm that the US version of the Galaxy S8 felt lightning fast while we were testing it.