Sentence examples for a spread of abilities from inspiring English sources
Barnard says that though all governing bodies need a spread of abilities to draw on, for academies in particular, "you've got to do a skills audit, and it will change every year: [it's about] knowing the expertise you've got, and knowing where are the gaps you have to fill".
Buckinghamshire County Council's comments came in response to a school wanting to use 11-plus results to admit a broad spread of abilities.
It assesses students' understanding fairly and reflects a realistic spread of ability across a student cohort, thus identifying the best students.
The Championship was the most competitive of Scotland's leagues last term, reflecting the fact that no side was dominant rather than a wide spread of ability.
It will have to abandon selection, but believes that the fair banding system free schools use will enable it to get a spread of pupils from throughout the ability range.
Its proposed admissions policy for 2013 entry reveals plans to increase the number from outside its immediate area to 50%, and to test and "band" pupils so its entrants reflect the national average spread of abilities.
There appears to be an adequate person separation index, which means that there exists a large enough spread of ability across the sample so that the measures adequately reflect functional ability.
Others arrange their bands to reflect the national spread of ability, or the ability range of the applicants, rather than the local context.
There was a good spread of interoceptive ability across the sample (mean error score = 26.51 %, SD = 13.61, range = 1.56 57.65).
Though eighth gear does give a very restful and relatively frugal cruise, having eight gears is too many for an engine with such a broad spread of huge pulling ability, so I tended to use the paddleshift manual mode on twisting roads to stop the endless upshifting and downshifting that is especially irksome in the Sport mode.
