Opponents reply that success is a better motivator than failure, and cite evidence that mastery of basic skills is not a prerequisite for dealing with higher ones.
In general, the Committee believes that an Honors Thesis should demonstrate the student's capacity for quality research and should give evidence of mastery of the material.
Professor Pfeffer concluded: "There is little evidence that mastery of the knowledge acquired in business schools enhances people's careers, or that even attaining the M.B.A. credential itself has much effect on graduates' salaries or career attainment".
But what gets tested is what gets taught, and so we need 'Accountability 2.0.' All students should have digital portfolios to show evidence of mastery of skills like critical thinking and communication, which they build up right through K-12 and postsecondary.
We also documented overall high levels of adaptive forms of science motivation (self-efficacy, interest, mastery goals) and provided evidence that students did indeed perceive the pharmacology enrichment program as aligned with our motivational design principles.
Indeed, it assumes that judges, with their specialized training and their mastery of the rules of evidence, are much better equipped than jurors to put aside emotion and ignore evidence that might bias a decision.
Ms. Varda's modesty is evidence of her mastery, just as her playful demeanor is the expression of a serious and demanding aesthetic commitment.
The play asks us to take on faith Frost's understanding of "the power of the close-up," instead of giving us real evidence of his mastery of the medium.
It's a big dam holding back the deluge, and that power, held in check behind her eyes — what she withholds, or lets you wait for — is evidence of real mastery".
In 1966 Barron published The Silver Coins of Samos, a substantial work showing his mastery of various types of evidence - not just the coins themselves, but also fragments of papyrus, inscriptions on stones and references by later writers - and of their complicated relations.
