In practice, the difficulty of the subject matter, toughness of the marking and pupils' performance all get bundled up together.
David Simon's new HBO series is called "Treme" and the title alone suggests the difficulty of the subject.
There is also a murky discussion of language and its relation to reality that reveals how little Gray understands the depth and difficulty of the subject.
Most doctors avoid talking about the "D" word because of the difficulty of the subject, lack of preparedness and training, lack of time and many other reasons mentioned by Dr. Spring.
There is a bright, insistent polish in the words familiar from political messaging shops in Washington — the language is partly explanatory, partly spin, but at least it is almost always clear and organized, given the difficulty of the subject matter.
They need to be aware of all the variables that an online grade graph can't possibly show: the quality of the students enrolled in the class, the level of difficulty of the subject matter, the resolutions many professors make at the end of the previous semester to be more (or less) demanding the next time around.
Motivation is especially important in human histology not only because of the conceptual difficulty of the subject, but also because of the difficulty of projecting the affective factors associated with its applications to medicine and other health sciences to the learning process [ 42].
It consists of 28 seven-point Likert-type items and is divided into four subscales: Affect (feelings concerning statistics), Cognitive Competence (attitudes toward intellect and skills applied to statistics), Value (attitudes toward the usefulness and relevance of statistics) and Difficulty (attitudes toward the difficulty of the subject matter).
Efforts to define sound mindedness (sophrosune) in the Charmides end in an impasse partly owing to the difficulty of specifying the subject of the knowledge that is the essence of this virtue.
The influence of early formed dietary practices on food choices and preferences during adulthood has often been assumed but rarely adequately demonstrated given the difficulty of studying the subject matter with conventional laboratory or observational research designs.
