Sentences with phrase «than the grades given»

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Republican professors allegedly give more grades at both ends of the spectrum than do their Democratic counterparts, and also seem to give marginally lower grades to African - American students.

I get confused about what excellence can mean from institution to institution, given the American practice of grading colleges; even the much less than superlative schools claim to be excellent.

All the better that I felt similarly about another task which I was given (again without asking), in the same year (1925 - 26) to help A. N. Whitehead grade papers, hence listen to him lecture, and read what he wrote as a philosopher, rather than just a logician, mathematician, and physicist.

The world's leading blogging reviewers gave my MODERN AND AMERICAN DIGNITY an A +, a higher grade than the one earned by many timeless classics and perennial favorites....

Second, empirical data show that, generally, the larger an event, the longer its duration.7 Given that higher grade occasions are larger than lower grade occasions, it follows that their durations should be longer.

White evangelicals indicated the most frustration toward the press, pollsters, and the Democratic Party, giving each a lower grade than their fellow Christians or American voters overall did.

Meanwhile, more than a quarter of white evangelical voters gave him a failing grade of a D or F. Trump's overall campaign grade is the lowest among any presidential candidate — winning or losing — since Pew began collecting data in 1988.

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.

Given a list of beef grades and brands by name, awareness for the Certified Angus Beef brand name rose to 92 %, which is 5 points higher than in 2007.

i would agree with you on most of your grading apart from Arshavin, thee little Russian has some really good statistics to be given the grading you gave, its normal to have players who are more forward minded than defensive minded, Arshavin is one such player.

Rather than giving your child a boost, you are demonstrating that you can complete a project at a grade level you probably completed long ago.

Despite this, in her book Ryan initially gave Obama a lower grade than Clinton in her Presidential report card on tackling race relations in America.

«Well, there, 61 percent of Buffalo likely primary voters give the government a grade of no better than fair or poor.

She gives the example of a school with five fifth grade classes, where students in one classroom score much better on the math tests than the other four.

Less than one - third of students in the third through eighth grade, around 31 percent, passed the new math and English exams given for the first time this year, says Regents Chancellor Merrill Tisch, who made the announcement on a conference call.

Less than one third of students in the third through eighth grades, around 31 %, passed the new math and English exams given for the first time this year, says Regents Chancellor Merrill Tisch, making the announcement on a conference call.

Graded keys give a real piano feel with lower keys heavier in touch than higher ones.

In a Michigan State study, students who were given a rationale for why learning is important from their peers got much better final grades than students who were given the same rationale from the teacher.

Burning low - grade heating oil is probably the worst, giving off more soot than all the cars and trucks there combined.

The report gave the nation as a whole a B grade — up from a C in 2008 — observing that less than a quarter of all states still need significant improvement.

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.

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.

Scott Tobias gives the film the same «B +» grade as his colleague, but acknowledges that he thinks it's Malick's worst film, even though he found it affecting in its attempt to «give expression to the ineffable and show us something beautiful, reminding us that we live in a world that's larger than ourselves and crafted by that invisible hand.»

Moving on, UGO Entertainment goes on to give Mario Party 9 an «A - «grade, which is more than what I would give the game, but the review makes a valid point nonetheless.

I have to admit, I like Circle of Iron more than I give it credit for, and despite my giving it just a passing grade, it's one of those movies that I have enjoyed on multiple occasions.

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.»

To tell us that your child simply must be given a higher grade than he or she earned so that he or she can get into the college of his or her choice, press 20.

He added: «You can bring the best examiners and best markers into one board and that will give you what you what we want more than anything, which is a higher level of consistency in marking and consistency of grade awarding.»

One strategy is to not give more homework than you can grade.

Actual excess capacity at these grade levels is probably much smaller than 15,000 seats, given the unique constraints in many of the buildings and the extra space requirements of specialized programs; but it's clear that there is significant slack.

Nevertheless, studies have found that, after controlling for the size and structure of the school and the social background of its students, schools in provinces with external exams taught their students a statistically significant one - half of a U.S. grade - level equivalent more math and science by 8th grade than comparable schools in provinces that did not give curriculum - based external tests.

In math the graduates of the University of Florida, the state's premier university, outperformed the other institutions at teaching students in fourth to eighth grade by as much as 10 percent of a standard deviation, even though NCTQ gave it no better rating than Florida State or Florida Atlantic.

The grade given to each state is based on how much easier it was to be labeled proficient on the state assessment than on the NAEP.

When rating the nation's schools, only 18 percent of those surveyed in both polls gave the nation's schools either an «A» or a «B» and, more than a quarter gave the schools a rating of a «D» or an «F.» In both polls, grades are roughly the same as those reported by Ednext and PDK in 2009.

By contrast, we gave just four states — Alaska, California, New York, and South Carolina — grades that were at least a full letter grade worse than they received in 2007.

Grading thousands of projects has taught me that feedback given after a project is completed has much less of an impact than conferences and consultations that take place during the project's stages of creation.

Respondents always give much higher grades to schools in their communities than to schools in the nation as a whole.

Given the underrepresentation of students who enter during early grades, this difference suggests that the average effects of attending a charter school across all grades, 4 through 8, may be less negative than indicated by our final analysis, at least for math.

My students have noted this in every end - of - course evaluation I've given them: the fact that they can change their grade by mastering the material is so much more enabling than bringing in a box of Kleenex for ten arbitrary points.

SO much more fun than grading those old grammar tests I used to give so very long ago.

For starters, the school district's computer couldn't accept SOF's narrative - style report cards, which evaluated students» proficiency in the core competencies rather than giving them traditional numeric grades in individual subjects.

Given the accountability pressures in schools, we worry that this development could reduce the experience of practical work for students, particularly if the separate mark for this element is viewed as less important than the A-level grade, a real worry.

A three - year study of teaching and learning in more than 400 third -, sixth -, and eighth - grade classrooms in Chicago found that when students were given writing and mathematics assignments calling for more authentic work, they performed better on tests used to judge basic skills.

Less than 20 percent of whites and African Americans accord the nation's schools an «A» or a «B,» and only around 40 percent give the schools in their community one of these two top grades.

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.

A new study fills this gap by using data from five school districts in California that measure growth mindset for students in 3rd to 8th grade to assess the extent that students with stronger growth mindset learn more in a given year than those without.

No less than 65 percent of those surveyed are willing to give the school they identified as their local elementary school one of the two highest grades, and 55 percent are willing to give one of those grades to their local middle school.

Reform Agenda Gains Strength The 2012 EdNext - PEPG survey finds Hispanics give schools higher grade than others do By William G. Howell, Martin R. West and Paul E. Peterson

For example, when helping students prepare for mock exams, you can go through the paper they've submitted via the app and give them audio feedback on each section, rather than just assigning a grade at the end.

In the upper grades, teachers tend to do more whole group instruction than small group instruction and find it difficult to give that critical feedback.