Sentences with phrase «thinking skills were tested»

Their memory and thinking skills were tested again roughly five years later.

Not exact matches

The result: By the time someone reaches the executive suite, their independent thinking and problem solving skills have never truly been put to the test.

Though some of these seemingly out - of - left - field questions can be difficult to answer, they «test a job candidate's critical thinking skills, see how they problem solve on the spot, and gauge how they approach difficult situations,» Glassdoor's head of global recruiting and talent acquisition, Susan Underwood, said in a press release.

But now, I'm thinking of at least opening up a demo account and testing out these skills!

Up front we have a few world - class players surrounded by some serious pretenders... Sanchez is by far the most accomplished player in our attack but the controversy surrounding his contractual mishandling could see him go before the window closes or most definitely by season's end... obviously a mistake by both parties involved, as Sanchez's exploits have never been more on display than in North London, but the club's irresponsible wage structure and lack of real intent have been the real undoing in this mess... Lacazette, who I think has some world - class skills as a front man, will only be as good as the players and system around him, which is troubling due to our current roster and Wenger's love of sideways passing... Walcott should have been sold years ago, enough said, and Welbeck should never have been brought in from the get - go... both of these players have suffered numerous injuries over their respective careers and neither are good enough to overcome such difficulties: not to mention, they both are below average first - touch players, which should be the baseline test for any player coming to a Wenger - led Arsenal team... Perez should have been played wide left or never purchased at all; what a huge waste of time and money, which is ridiculous considering our penny pinching ways and the fact that fans had been clamoring for a real striker for years... finally Giroud, the fact that he stills wears the jersey is a direct indictment of this club's failure to get things right... this isn't necessarily an attack on Giroud because I think he has some highly valued skills, but not for a team that has struggled to take their sideways soccer to the next level, as his presence slows their game even more, combined with our average, at best, finishing skills... far too often those in charge have either settled or chosen half - measures and ultimately it is us that suffer because no matter what happens Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke will always make more money whereas we will always be the ones paying for their mistakes... so every time someone suggests we should just shut - up and support the team just think of all the sacrifices you've made along the way and simply reply... f *** off

kondogbia for me all the way he has all the skills we need for d / m he schooled our midfield when we played them this season on his own, hopefully this would have had wenger rubbing his hands together with glee to watch such a class act who could run our midfield, so i think go straight in with # 30million for him straight off the bat, and test monaco's resolve and his to stay, or make him a star in our midfield he would have helped us drive the midfield forward from deep midfield and smash defensive teams like swansea.

TOUGH: Well, I think part of it has to do with education policy, that we've been so focused on standardized tests as the measure of whether a school is doing well that we're not giving schools the time and the incentive to work on these other skills.

Berlin and colleagues found that children who were spanked as 1 - year - olds tended to behave more aggressively at age 2, and did not perform as well as other children on a test measuring thinking skills at age 3.

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.

If it helps put it in perspective, think of all the new and scary times you've had where you were equipped with the coping skills of an adolescent or adult — a new job, a new relationship, learning a new language, giving a speech, taking a driver's test.

Some real - life changes, however, are being made in a number of schools around the country that focus on the critical - thinking skills of one student at a time instead of the collective test scores of a class, or a whole school, or a state.

Shaw and her colleagues briefly captured and banded 20 adult birds, which they trained to carry out six different tests to measure various skills thought to be linked to specific types of animal cognition (defined as the ability to acquire, process, and act on information about the environment).

«Repeated testing is a powerful practice that directly enhances learning and thinking skills, and it can be especially helpful to students who start off with a weaker academic background,» Gosling says.

Joseph Kable at the University of Pennsylvania and his colleagues have tested the popular Luminosity brain - training program from Lumos Labs in San Francisco, California, against other computer games and found no evidence that it is any better at improving your thinking skills.

They took tests of memory and thinking skills at the start of the study and again three years later, and were followed for an average of almost 13 years.

They were given thinking and memory skill tests, as well as ultrasound tests for measuring blood flow volume to the brain throughout the tests.

According their study, Italian researchers tested the effect of cocoa flavanols in 90 healthy adults between the age of 61 to 81 whose memories and thinking skills were in pretty good shape for their ages.

«We measured thinking skills by the number of words women remembered after being shown a list of 15 words, repeating this test three times,» said Kuh.

When I found this old shirt I thought it was perfect to test my true sewings skills and so I decided to turn it into a crop top.

10:00 am — TCM — Theodora Goes Wild Irene Dunne got a few chances to test her screwball comedy skills, and while I don't think Theodora Goes Wild is as solid as The Awful Truth on any level, it's still a fun showcase for Dunne's comedic talents.

And in a similarly placed story (on the Times front page) a couple of weeks before Rich's, colleague Pam Belluck reported that a new study in the journal Science had found that «after reading literary fiction, as opposed to popular fiction or serious nonfiction, people performed better on tests measuring empathy, social perception and emotional intelligence — skills that come in especially handy when you are trying to read someone's body language or gauge what they might be thinking.»)

Up against stiff international competition in the category, including the French Ministry of Education, judges commented that the MYP eAssessment «was impressive in how the examinations are designed to assess students» higher thinking skills which previously had been harder to do using paper testing» and that it «clearly demonstrates that it is possible to successfully deliver online summative assessment in schools anywhere in the world».

This is a real chance for pupils to test their logic and codebreaking skills; thinking strategically to help secure Britain's success in the Battle of the Atlantic.

Assessments that require higher - order thinking skills will likely to be better at differentiating teachers, but even the current low - level tests that states are using are valuable in identifying effective teachers.

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Whether you're using low - stakes writing in English, math, science, or history, and whether you want to develop your students» critical thinking skills or lead them to discovering specific facts on which they'll be tested, low - stakes writing engages your students, develops their voice, and fosters agency.

*** Includes 129 original reading passages and comprehension questions *** *** Includes 30 fluency passages *** *** Includes 11 Reading Posters *** - character, setting, realism and fantasy, main idea and details, cause and effect, author's purpose, compare and contrast, sequence, plot, theme, and drawing conclusions *** Includes four level charts for teachers, parents, or students, so that they can keep track of their progress *** *** Includes a roster - words correct per minute for each student / child for fall / winter / spring *** Skills addressed in this resource: # 1 - think and search # 2 - author and me # 3 - analyze text structure # 4 - identify setting # 5 - identify character # 6 - identify plot # 7 - make and confirm predictions # 8 - cause and effect # 9 - compare and contrast # 10 - retell # 11 - classify and categorize # 12 - alliteration # 13 - rhyme and rhythmic patterns # 14 - onomatopoeia # 15 - similes # 16 - repetition and word choice # 17 - sensory language # 18 - study skills # 19 - text features # 20 - genres This is GREAT practice for testing while also providing a lot of fluency praSkills addressed in this resource: # 1 - think and search # 2 - author and me # 3 - analyze text structure # 4 - identify setting # 5 - identify character # 6 - identify plot # 7 - make and confirm predictions # 8 - cause and effect # 9 - compare and contrast # 10 - retell # 11 - classify and categorize # 12 - alliteration # 13 - rhyme and rhythmic patterns # 14 - onomatopoeia # 15 - similes # 16 - repetition and word choice # 17 - sensory language # 18 - study skills # 19 - text features # 20 - genres This is GREAT practice for testing while also providing a lot of fluency praskills # 19 - text features # 20 - genres This is GREAT practice for testing while also providing a lot of fluency practice!

This is designed not to test knowledge but to test critical thinking skills.

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.

Riley: The national effort to test for basic reading and basic math skills for all students was something I thought would be very helpful, and we have not been able to get that approved.

The term intelligence has always connoted the kind of thinking skills that make one successful in school, perhaps because the first intelligence test was devised to predict likely success in school; if it was important in school, it was on the intelligence test.

The Second Step curriculum emphasizes impulse control (the ability to control and manage thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, including listening, focusing attention, following directions, using self - talk, being assertive, identifying and understanding feelings, respecting similarities and differences), empathy (conversation skills, joining groups, making friends), anger and emotional management (calming down strong feelings, managing anger, managing accusations, disappointment, anxious and hurt feelings, handling put downs, managing test anxiety, resisting revenge, and avoiding jumping to conclusions), and problem - solving (playing fairly, taking responsibility, solving classroom problems, solving peer exclusion problems, handling name calling, dealing with peer pressure, dealing with gossip, seeking help when you need it).

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.

While the curriculum at Success Academy may focus more on tested skills than that at some other schools, the notion that these skills are too basic to be meaningful and are unrelated to critical thinking just doesn't ring true.

Periodic international tests show that we are falling behind more and more countries and employers will tell you that young people coming out of college need better math, writing and thinking skills if they want the good jobs of the future.

Glynn's concern about New York's test is that teachers will react by focusing more on reading, and less on writing, speaking and listening, all skills that he thinks are critical.

She believes the tests are full of complicated instructions that are more likely to confuse kids than assess their problem - solving or critical thinking skills.

Not the joy - killing machines ruining childhood, as so many critics have portrayed standardized tests, but true measures of whether children were learning the key skills they would need as grown - ups: how to think critically, solve problems, make a convincing argument, and write a coherent paragraph.

«These positive results are based on a new college and career readiness assessment that is online, and expects students to demonstrate critical thinking and problem solving skills unlike the old, multiple choice tests they replace,» said State Board of Education President Mike Kirst.

The results are expected to be poor because the tests are intended to be harder than previous testing, and to test deeper analytic and thinking skills than previous fill - in - the - blank tests.

Student learning should be assessed more frequently — shorter, regular computer - based tests could test students» skills, knowledge, and thinking and provide immediate feedback.

Webs, concept maps, mind maps and plots such as stack plots and Venn diagrams are some of the types of graphic organizers used in visual learning to enhance thinking skills and improve academic performance on written papers, tests and homework assignments.

This turns a test that was based largely on formulaic writing into a test that is largely based on critical thinking skills.

As educators, we realize that the quality of a child's education can not be measured solely by scores on standardized reading and math tests, which by their nature do not assess students» conceptual thinking, their ability to do research and to evaluate and defend ideas, their skill at written and oral expression, or their success in collaborative or teamwork settings.

Guiding students in creating their own documentary films is a daunting proposition for social studies teachers who are responsible for teaching content and skills in a way that balances disciplinary skills and thinking with state - mandated tests that often emphasize a shallow understanding of content.

Some might dismiss the test results and say that Chinese students are good testers, but don't necessarily have the higher order thinking skills and creativity that other education systems try to cultivate.

«We're really being pressured to teach test - taking skills rather than higher - level thinking.

This unhealthy infatuation with standardized testing is robbing our children of instructional minutes where they could be learning to think creatively and critically, two skills that will be needed to compete in the creative, global economy that awaits them.

These new tests are funded by $ 330 million in stimulus money through the federal Race to the Top competition and are intended to measure critical thinking, particularly the critical skills emphasized by the Common Core State Standards, the set of educational standards most states have agreed to adopt.

Our primary goal is to develop our students» 21st Century skills and use of technology to test their ideas and thinking: to collaborate with each other and others around the world: and to communicate and creatively express their critical thinking.