This requirement sounds harmless enough, but in reality, such well-intentioned testing detracts from high-quality teaching and learning.
Testing -- well-intentioned but flawed measures of how much a child has learned.
Wouldn't it make more sense for the well-meaning well-intentioned uncle to test the nephew by giving him gift certificates and a debit card that could only be used to buy food and medicine, and to pay for doctors' visits and health care?
In creating a character who is probably not unlike many of her readers, Martin is trespassing too, leaving hints that suggest our own self-righteousness, however well intentioned, may not stand up when tested, as Chloe's won't.
A recent Education Week commentary explained the unintended damage done by the standardized testing craze, "A positive and well-intentioned determination to improve our nation's schools has become a devastating attack on good teaching".
Wegner said that therapies for the problem had never been scientifically tested, so any advice offered, however well intentioned, was likely to be unhelpful.
These well-intentioned experiments are tackling these problems through intense field testing.
For those unfamiliar, the system of standardized testing was brought about by the well-intentioned No Child Left Behind Act.
"While certainly well intentioned, it is having a harmful effect on legitimate survey research and message testing that really impairs our ability to do credible polling," Mr. Newhouse said.
Nick Clegg's plan to introduce tests for five-year-olds (Nick Clegg denies schools will be 'exam sausage factories', 17 July) may be well intentioned but is misguided on two counts: five is too late and tests are too blunt an instrument.
During the test, two well-intentioned nurses surreptitiously increased the amounts of oxygen the babies were being given, believing they were protecting their welfare.
