By participating in all the different assignments and projects, I really got to
think beyond measures.
Not exact matches
For the intuitive small business owner, navigating a fast - moving industry, a well -
measured failure or miss of goals (the key phrase being «well -
measured») can provide insights that will drive future success well
beyond what we first
thought possible.
But the conflict also flows in great
measure from scientific
thoughts failure to move
beyond the «sensationalist» doctrine of perception.
If you're
thinking about trying it, I can tell you it is NOT complicated at all and the benefits to your gut are
beyond measure.
Here are a few
thoughts on how we've seen
measuring training reaches far
beyond checked - boxes.
Just as he taught his college - bound daughters to
measure twice and cut once, he encouraged his students to
think beyond shop class.
These people offered thoughtful, nuanced perspectives on the issues facing our students in urban communities: these perspectives helped to elevate
thinking and provide a platform for exploring
measures by which to enact sustained, productive changes both in and
beyond the classroom.»
The dysfunctional nature of how urban schools teach students to relate to authority begins in kindergarten and continues through the primary grades.With young children, authoritarian, directive teaching that relies on simplistic external rewards still works to control students.But as children mature and grow in size they become more aware that the school's coercive
measures are not really hurtful (as compared to what they deal with outside of school) and the directive, behavior modification methods practiced in primary grades lose their power to control.Indeed, school authority becomes counterproductive.From upper elementary grades upward students know very well that it is
beyond the power of school authorities to inflict any real hurt.External controls do not teach students to want to learn; they teach the reverse.The net effect of this situation is that urban schools teach poverty students that relating to authority is a kind of game.And the deepest, most pervasive learnings that result from this game are that school authority is toothless and out of touch with their lives.What school authority represents to urban youth is «what they
think they need to do to keep their school running.»
In addition, the law creates flexibility for state and local leaders to
think creatively —
beyond just test scores and graduation rates — about how to
measure school quality.
Other things equal, I believe giving parents more ability to exercise educational choice is a good thing, and I
think this is true above and
beyond other
measures of performance or quality.
The transition aims to harness the power of technology to move
beyond simplistic multiple - choice questions, using interactive questions and adaptive techniques to
measure students» critical
thinking and problem - solving skills.
Using multiple
measures such as teacher evaluations, classroom observation and student test scores, TNTP rated about half the teachers in their 10th year or
beyond as below «effective» in core instructional practices such as developing students» critical
thinking.
«We
think it's a much more honest, much more comprehensive, much more holistic [
measure] that goes way
beyond an artificial focus on one test score,» Duncan said.
Beyond simply
measuring word recognition, reading speed, and accuracy, STEP also evaluates comprehension and critical
thinking.
There are a variety of resources that can assist university personnel, administrators, and coordinators of gifted programs at state and local levels in implementing the new CCSS for gifted learners, including assessments that
measure the depth and breadth of a student's knowledge within a domain of talent development; curriculum units of study that are already differentiated and research - based; instructional strategies that employ the use of higher - order
thinking skills; and programming options that include acceleration, enrichment, and extended learning
beyond the classroom.
But the committee was also instructed to
think about output
measures themselves, and to look
beyond traditional
measures like bar passage and employment rates.
Right — I
think popularity still is their goal, but the folks at Hulu must be realizing at some point that they have to have some above and
beyond measures and controls in order to create continued relevance to the content producers.
If basic augmented reality creates a flat layer of digital information on your smartphone screen —
think Pokémon Go, with the game content built on top of your real world — Tango goes
beyond that, to the point where it interprets and
measures spaces and objects around you and then lets you interact with digital things as though they're really, physically there.