Sentences with phrase «while testing your skills»

Hordes of Enemies: Fight huge waves of peons while testing your skills and wit against the other famed generals that have also been eagerly sharpening their skills while awaiting your encounter.

However, for those who want have a shot of making 100x their buy in amount while testing their skills, it could be a great option.

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While Brito's prowess at cost cutting is unrivaled, his turnaround skills are being tested.

While I have infinite understanding, I have little sympathy because one of the best tests of someone's executive skill is their ability to control their time and set their priorities.

While colleges struggle to find ways to measure 21st century skills, students continue to be judged largely based on GPA and standardized test scores — metrics that we know are often biased and flawed.

Try to get a hole - in - one while testing out your science skills by using pipes, ramps, funnels, turntables and more at three different putting areas.

Available from Kiko Labs, the Thinking Time app helps children to test their memory capacity while improving their cognitive skills at the same time.

I decided to test out their new skills while out alone with them at a mall playground.

It weaves together aspects from Charlotte Mason's methods of natural education, and incorporates the ideas of Dr. Benjamin Bloom's research on thinking skills, while fully utilizing the time - tested approach developed by noted author and educator, Dr. Ruth Beechick.

While he still appreciates Canada's work, Tough feels the research indicates that ongoing success requires much more than the cognitive skills that students demonstrate on tests.

While tests such as throat swabs or sputum (mucus) samples can help with diagnosis, such investigations take time, so skill needs to be deployed to make these decisions.

About one - third of children in rural districts and about 37 percent in New York City were considered proficient in the skills they need in English and math, while just an average of 16 percent of students in upstate city schools performed well on the tests.

«It's a double win — we've created a platform for students to test their technology skills, while our seniors benefit from applications produced by those skills.

While some children were able to focus their eyes and adjust for their farsightedness, others who were not able to do this and struggled to see close - up had lower scores on tests of visual attention, visual perception and visual - motor integration (eye - hand coordination or copying skills).

A slew of studies in adults have found that nonusers beat chronic weed smokers on tests of attention, memory, motor skills and verbal abilities, but some of this might be the result of lingering traces of cannabis in the body of users or withdrawal effects from abstaining while taking part in a study.

While the Common Core standards emphasize development of reasoning and critical - thinking skills, the standards» perpetuation of a test - driven accountability system and teacher - directed learning environment compromises children's development of these higher - order skills.

«While sickle cell newborn screening is standard in the U.S., very few infants are screened in Africa because of the high cost and level of skill needed to run traditional tests,» says Dr. Little, Director of the Adult Sickle Cell Anemia Center, UH Seidman Cancer Center and Associate Professor at the School of Medicine.

However, Participants with PD and OH were far more susceptible to posture - related impairment on several tests, including those that measured math skills, the ability to produce words easily, keeping information in mind while working on it, paying sufficient attention so that later memory is efficient and searching for items quickly and accurately.

While chimps performed well on tests involving their physical environment and spatial reasoning, they did not do as well when it came to tests of cooperative communication skills, such as the ability to follow a pointing finger or human gaze.

It's the perfect way to build stamina while testing your coordination skills, too.

Kim Kardashian channeled Selena with blunt bangs and a red lip, while Patrick Ta put his makeup artistry skills to the test by dressing up as a Zombie.

The For Fun mode lets you join up with like - minded players for some lighthearted, items - on matches, while competitors looking to truly test their skills can square off in the bare - basics For Glory mode.

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.

Hemsworth has been described as a wooden performer, but the toughest test for any actor is comedy and here he demonstrates his skill in this area with aplomb, while also switching to portentous drama when he needs to.

11 playable characters aim to vary the experience, while four difficulty levels will test your piloting skills to their limit.

This games tests your old - school platforming skills while also mixing it up with a plethora of stages and powers.

After all we do this because we share common tastes and we do things trying to always have a good time, only to test our boundaries while improving our skills and having some fun, not for the credit.

That way, hardcore gamers can put their skills to the test while folks who are more inclined to slowly work through an adventure have something that appeals to them as well.

As a result, inequalities in access to a full, rich curriculum widened, while achievement dropped on measures assessing higher - order thinking skills, like the international PISA tests.

While one fifth saw their child's social confidence grow after being fitted with glasses, over half of parents saw an improvement in the performance of their child's social skills after a sight test.

Finally, while exam - school students have considerably higher fluid cognitive skills (as would be expected of students who gain admission via test scores and grades), attending one of these locally renowned schools in the company of other bright students confers no systematic advantage.

Teachers have to help students understand the fact that knowing your struggles and having strategies to combat them while taking tests is a life skill that may be applied to many areas outside of the classroom.

While these schools succeed in generating test - score gains for students of all cognitive abilities, it is still the case that students with strong fluid cognitive skills learn more.

You either hold back students and give them extra help to achieve the level, allow high achieving students to acquire other skills while the rest catch up, allow the higher achieving students to skip grades with scaffold testing or some more complex version of them all.

The teachers of the subjects with high - stakes tests want as much time as possible to work with students on those skills while social studies teachers want the same respect for their content and the time to teach it well.

While we estimated that, after one year, African - American students scored 7 percentile points higher on the math portion of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills than their peers in public schools, Barnard reports impacts of 6 percentile points for African - American students from low - performing public schools.

To take an example, imagine that a particular sub-group of students do more poorly than expected (based on their performance on other questions testing the same math skill) on a math item that uses the word «foyer,» while other groups of students do just as well as expected.

Recently, mounting evidence has suggested that measures of individual cognitive skills that incorporate dimensions of test - score performance provide much better indicators of economic outcomes — while also aligning the research with the policy deliberations.

Skills addressed in this resource: # 1 - Reading Standards for Literature # 2 - Reading Standards for Informational Text # 3 - Reading Standards: Foundational Skills # 4 - Language Standards This is GREAT practice for testing while also providing a lot of fluency practice!

*** 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!

While some critics have charged that changing to a four - day school week may have negative effects on student achievement, researchers at Colorado State University have completed a study indicating that the switch to a four - day schedule has «no effect» on achievement as measured by the Iowa Test of Basic Skills.

While such binary testing has its place in learning, learners should also be evaluated on their reasoning skills behind the responses.

«While a handful of SEL programs have been tested and shown to improve children's SEL skills as well as academic, mental health, and behavioral outcomes, the effect sizes are smaller than we would expect,» says Jones.

While many people blame standardized testing for narrowing the elementary school curriculum to reading and math, the real culprit is «a longstanding pedagogical notion that the best way to teach kids reading comprehension is by giving them skills — strategies like «finding the main idea — rather than instilling knowledge about things like the Civil War or human biology.»

Near the end of the 1999 - 2000 academic year, all of these students and their parents were invited to attend testing sessions where parents completed surveys while students took the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) survey version.

An additional $ 135 million was provided for college scholarships to 11th graders who scored high on the Stanford 9, despite concerns that the Stanford 9 tests mainly basic skills, while college - bound high schoolers are expected to take courses focusing on English literature and algebra.

While part of my job description and my Twitter account is «Really Good Listener,» I've noticed that lately my active listening skills have been mightily tested.

These observations can help educators make valuable inferences regarding students» mastery over skills, while offering new ways to assess factors not easily measured on multiple - choice tests, such as problem solving, critical thinking, collaboration, persistence, and creativity.

While standardized testing isn't going away, we can do more to make the learning journey more exciting and in fact more effective with a culture of high tech, project based learning where learners are immersed in 21st century learning skills from an early age.

Teachers used Information Communication Technology (ICT) most commonly to present information, while students most commonly used ICT to find information, practice routine skills, and take tests.