I find it hard to judge the difficulty of PD clues when writing them; one is concentrating so much on creating clues that read well and are fair that the degree of difficulty seems almost irrelevant.
Senior examiners judge the difficulty of each paper by looking at samples of candidates' work from the current year and previous years, as well as statistical data about candidates' performance.
Because of these widely varying conditions, the water is usually assigned a rating, not unlike those given to ski slopes that help kayakers judge the difficulty level.
Thus, the PES raters judged the difficulty of exam questions based on 1) an understanding of what had been presented in the textbook and introduced in class and 2) extensive grading experience that made them alert to wording, context, level, and other issues that cause confusion or difficulty.
Comically enough, the Braves might have eked ahead in the misery department, and Tim Brown writes on Yahoo.com that they really hope you have been so fixated on the Red Sox that you haven't been judging the degree of difficulty of their cliff dive.
Stage 3 involved 35 teachers judging the level of difficulty of 40 descriptors with reference to 36 TEM student writing samples at pre-determined levels of proficiency, taken from four operational administrations of TEM.
What if we rank the most accomplished directors pound for pound, and then with an eye toward the context of their times, judging the levels of difficulty and sheer force of will to accomplish amazingly daring feats of directorial creation, as well as with attention to their impact on cinema history and other filmmakers, and also weigh the power of key works and greatness overall?
Right-handed subjects were asked to grasp and lift a smooth 300-g cylinder with one hand, before and after judging the level of difficulty of a "grasping for pouring" action, involving a smaller cylinder and using the opposite hand.
If two men are of nearly equal celerity and very unequal size, the big one will win nine times out of ten; what fooled me and the sportswriters and the crowd that backed Hickman in 1821 was the difficulty of judging the relative speed of two boxers who have never been in the same ring.
The early detection task addresses the difficulty of judging the nature of a hashtag using only the limited data available immediately before trending.
