Sentences with phrase «than grades because»

Some even said they found comments more useful than grades because the comments provided them with guidance on how to help their children.

Feedback that helps students clearly understand areas of proficiency and areas that need additional attention is generally more useful than grading because students are still practicing and refining competencies, and premature grading or judgment creates an environment that feels unsafe for students to engage in learning.

Not exact matches

Restaurant shops usually take a little longer than others because usually you are grading every little detail.

◾ The average GPA for students who were frequently physically harassed because of their sexual orientation was half a grade lower than that of other students.»

She had to wear long winter underwear and heavy overshoes in bad weather; she remembers vividly how in grade school her teachers would let her start getting ready to go home five minutes earlier than the rest of the class because of all the layers she had to put on.

The software gave these brownies a nutrition grade of D. I can only imagine what the nutrition facts of regular brownie recipes are out there would be because they for sure use much more sugar, white flour and butter rather than olive oil.

Recognizing this, in October 2011 the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) issued new guidelines recommending that women be tested for cervical cancer with Pap tests (not HPV tests) every three years rather than annually because more frequent testing leads to overtreatment of low - grade changes that would in all likelihood not turn out to be cancerous.

Miami grades out higher and has a better A-game than the Gamecocks, because the Hurricanes can actually play defense from time to time.

Because of that, and because of the PSU offense's early inconsistency (and full - season inefficiency), the defense graded higher per S&P + (14th) than the offense Because of that, and because of the PSU offense's early inconsistency (and full - season inefficiency), the defense graded higher per S&P + (14th) than the offense because of the PSU offense's early inconsistency (and full - season inefficiency), the defense graded higher per S&P + (14th) than the offense (18th).

Winning the academic rat race is not worth your child's psychological health and happiness, because ultimate success rests on far more than just grades.

Because of its high quality, it is classified as USP (pharmaceutical) grade, a higher rating than cosmetic - grade zinc oxide.

These bottles also feature a medical - grade, silicone nipple designed to more closely simulate breastfeeding because of variations in the nipple's thickness and a wide base measuring more than 2 inches in diameter... MORE The nipple also adjusts as your baby sucks, just like a human breast does as a baby nurses, which helps to promote proper oral development and healthy teeth.

It is very important to use a hospital - grade pump when you are unable to nurse, because it is much more effective than a commercial grade pump.

He and his wife chose to opt out their fifth grade son from taking the Common Core - aligned exams this year because they believe the tests were used for other purposes than what they were meant for, such as teacher evaluations and school funding.

This test may be particularly useful for patients with high grade serous ovarian cancer because the mutated cancer gene TP53 is found in more than 99 per cent of patients with this form of the disease.

Because gadolinium is larger than glucose it only detects 70 to 80 percent of high grade tumors — those with major disruption of the BBB, i.e. with holes large enough for gadolinium to penetrate.

Approximately equal numbers of women and men enter and graduate from medical school in the United States and United Kingdom.1 2 In northern and eastern European countries such as Russia, Finland, Hungary, and Serbia, women account for more than 50 % of the active physicians3; in the United Kingdom and United States, they represent 47 % and 33 % respectively.4 5 Even in Japan, the nation in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development with the lowest percentage of female physicians, representation doubled between 1986 and 2012.3 6 However, progress in academic medicine continues to lag, with women accounting for less than 30 % of clinical faculty overall and for less than 20 % of those at the highest grade or in leadership positions.7 - 9 Understanding the extent to which this underrepresentation affects high impact research is critical because of the implicit bias it introduces to the research agenda, influencing future clinical practice.10 11 Given the importance of publication for tenure and promotion, 12 women's publication in high impact journals also provides insights into the degree to which the gender gap can be expected to close.

Everything from batteries to solar panels need to be made with this natural high - grade flake graphite because what is the point of powering your home with the sun or charging your car if the products themselves do more harm than good to the environment when produced.

«When I was younger,» she says, «I had always bad grades in school because I was more passionate about watching animals outside than doing homework.»

The authors showed that MELK expression is higher in high - grade breast cancers (Figure 2B), thus it is not clear whether MELK expression is higher in in BCC because there are more high - grade tumors in the BCC sub-types than the other 4 sub-types in the dataset used for the analysis.

We looked long and hard for the best supplements on the market and chose USANA Health Sciences because of their pharmaceutical - grade manufacturing practices, which is a higher standard than organic.

Because of a lack of industry standards and a lack of regulation on terms such as «natural» or «pure», much of what you find at the drug store is NOT a therapeutic grade of essential oil and may lack real quality or even contain contaminants or adulterants (way more common than you'd think).

▻ matcha is a type of green tea that is grown in Japan ▻ matcha is technically a «loose - leaf» tea, but it's different than other standard teas because the tea leaves that have been ground into a powder ▻ because the entire tea leaf is consumed, you get more nutritional benefits than regular steeped tea (like vitamins, minerals & antioxidants) ▻ matcha has less caffeine than coffee and the effect is said to be gentler and more gradual on the body ▻ when making matcha, make sure you select a high quality, ceremonial grade matcha that is shade grown from Japan

Other than the green beer, today my only thoughts of St. Patty's Day are reminiscent of the days of my youth coloring in shamrock outlines in grade school and looking forward to receiving milk chocolate candies wrapped in metallic gold foil because, apparently, only children can make off with a leprechaun's gold without consequence!

I refuse to give this game a grade lower than 10 because I am really excited about avp, and it will raise the average rating.

This is glorious, grade - A cheese that never disappoints because it's never trying to be anything other than a dumb, fun, low - stakes action movie.

Little Fockers isn't necessarily a better film than Killing Them Softly (I wouldn't watch it again anyway), but because that film doesn't challenge viewers» perceptions, the grade is higher.

The MPAA has given the blockbuster the latter grade, citing that parents should attend screenings with audience members younger than 13 because of «sequences of sci - fi action and violence.»

Even though the ps4 couldn't hold a candle to even the weakest of mid grade gaming pc, the casual gamer will still go for a PS4 because it has better specs than my favorite console the Wii U and my least favorite xb1.

This is critical for teachers to understand when they attempt to teach grit — and especially for those who are required to grade it — because being gritty is something that you are rather than something you obtain.

That's because in both New York and Denver more students with IEPs enter charter schools in grades after kindergarten than exit them.

It grows in part because students enrolled in district schools are considerably more likely to be classified as having a specific learning disability in early elementary grades than are students enrolled in charter schools, and also because students without disabilities are more likely to enter charters in non-gateway grades than are students with disabilities.

In fact, because the letter grade is based on the percentage of students scoring above certain thresholds and not on the average score in each school, the high - scoring F schools actually have slightly higher initial reading and math scores than do the low - scoring D schools.

Because these low - scoring students are either exempted from taking the standardized test, or re-take the same grade - level test two years in a row, the districts test scores appear much higher overall than they actually are.

My school's staff was cracking under intense scrutiny, because fewer than 30 percent of our students were on grade level.

Two completed teacher surveys are available for 21,324 of the 8th - grade students — a bit smaller than the full sample of NELS students because some teachers did not complete their questionnaires and some students did not have a class in one or both of the academic subjects randomly assigned to their school for which teacher surveys were administered.

And because of them book - based learning, lectures, stand - up teaching, grades, and all the other paraphernalia of the 20th century will fade away faster than we imagine.

This rate uses an average of three years of enrollment to smooth out the bump in ninth grade enrollment that happens because students are retained, but the rate is sensitive to migration trends — for example, if a state or district had more students move out than in, the rate will be too low.

Because the studies use data from a single school year to contrast students in middle schools and K — 8 schools, most of the available research can not reject the possibility that differences between the groups of students, rather than in the grade configuration of their schools, are actually responsible for the differences in behavior and achievement.

And he answers, «certainly not because I have any direct self - interest — no... I'm not profiting from my involvement in charter schools (in fact, I shudder to think of how much it's cost me), and I have little personal experience with the public school system because I'm doubly lucky: my parents saw that I wasn't being challenged in public schools, sacrificed (they're teachers / education administrators), and my last year in public school was 6th grade; and now, with my own children, I'm one of the lucky few who can afford to buy my children's way out of the NYC public system [in] which, despite Mayor Bloomberg's and Chancellor Klein's herculean efforts, there are probably fewer than two dozen schools (out of nearly 1,500) to which I'd send my kids.»

Georgia's fourth - grade reading proficiency rate dropped from close to 100 percent in 2013 to less than 40 percent in 2015 — not because the kids were doing worse, but because the state's measure of how they were doing was getting closer to the truth.

Do high grades encourage them to do better than they otherwise would do, or do such students do worse because they live in a fool's paradise, ignorant of their true capacities?

, peer grading teaches them that some assignments don't matter; that they don't have to work too hard on those assignments because the teacher will never see them anyway; and that they can ease their embarrassment about their own errors by teasing those whose scores are a little lower — or significantly higher — than their own.

Because of this, schools could see a larger number of pupils than usual get lower grades in that subject.

Some professors were hesitant to «teach online» because they felt they were teaching themselves out of a job, somehow proving that they were nothing more than grading machines and forum monitors.

One of the 6th - grade classes has won the right to either a pizza party or an ice cream party, because more of their parents attended parents» night than the parents of any other class.

Because those low correlations could be due to the fact that the Common Core is just addressing material in a different grade than in a given state, the researchers then aggregated across grades 3 - 6 and 3 - 8.

Among Hirsch's insights is that disadvantaged kids quickly fall behind in reading because of inadequate background knowledge; therefore, imparting such knowledge in the early grades is even more important than conveying basic reading skills.

First, elementary and middle schools may have more of an incentive to respond to competitive pressure than high schools because the scholarships cover a greater share of private school tuition and fees in the early grades than they do in the high school years.

«That simple request cut the number of requests from 30 down to fewer than ten,» said Younger, noting that the need for such requests has dropped even more this year because the fifth - sixth grade teams have adopted a team - teaching model.