Conducting assessment under this assumption allows test professionals to detach student performance from tasks and develop inferences regarding student ability (Deville and Chalhoub-Deville 2006).
By real-world application changes, no longer will reading and Math be detached from students' educations.
Among the fears and myths of online learning is that students will now become detached from their faculty and fellow students -- that technology will further isolate and fragment the academic community.
In his book, The End of Education, the American cultural critic Neil Postman argued that students detach from school and "amuse themselves to death" because what they learn in school is neither relevant nor meaningful; to re-engage students, we need to let them have an impact in their community as well as a say over what they learn.
"Zero tolerance" policies detach these vulnerable students from the only structure many of them know and place them directly into the waiting clutches of the drug dealers and gangs who prey on the disenfranchised and disaffected for their next sale or worse yet, staff recruits.
The experimental writer Tao Lin knows his audience: "My target demographics include hipsters, depressed teenagers, depressed vegans, happy but sensitive teenagers, people of any age who are severely detached from reality, Europeans, all college students, and I think sarcastic vegans".
College students today are more detached from their peers than ever before.
He has been accused of marginalizing needy students, shortchanging major departments and acting detached and even dismissive.
Yes, we became detached, the exact opposite of what all medical students are taught.
"In this class, you can't be detached from what you're talking about," said one student, Sira Franzini, who is from Italy — especially when "the professor is part of that history".
