Sentence examples for covert selection from inspiring English sources
"They are exercising covert selection," said Sir Peter.
Even the National Union of Teachers, no friend of academies, sees no evidence of covert selection.
This insidious mix of overt and covert selection wreaks havoc on the entire system.
More demanding performance measures and a fragmented school landscape are, they believe, increasing the risk of covert selection and the exclusion of certain types of pupils to help schools climb the league tables.
Prof Tomlinson argues: "The evidence seems to pinpoint to the conclusion that while overt selection of pupils by 'ability and aptitude' continues, there is much covert selection of the most 'desirable' pupils.
Some academy schools have been accused of manipulating admissions to improve results and using covert selection methods, according to a major report into the programme, which also warns that the government's push to boost the number of academies is not leading to a consistent rise in standards.
Many other schools in those areas feel obliged to introduce some sort of partial, aptitude or covert social selection by faith in order to compete.
There are 482 denominational schools, which use religious criteria, but also on occasion interview parents—a practice that some left-wingers regard as a form of covert social selection.
In a second step, passive listening to number words was compared to the non-numerical control task passive listening to pseudowords to evaluate to what extent the intraparietal activation during the tasks with numerical stimuli indeed involved access to the representation of numerical magnitude rather than non-numerical factors such as attention and covert response selection.
In line with this, recent studies examining the time course of covert and overt selection have suggested that capture occurs when selection is initiated quickly.
Lifting the requirement for sixth forms to comply with the code will make the mix of covert and overt selection post-16 even worse.
