Sentence examples for narrow test from inspiring English sources

Anne Begg, the select committee chairwoman, asked Duncan Smith how wider lessons could be learned from this narrow test.

Last week, a Texas jury used a similarly narrow test to decide that Andrea Yates was legally insane when she drowned her five children in a bathtub, allegedly to save them from being tormented forever in hell.

Mr. Bush made it clear last week that he was more in the Roosevelt than the Reagan mode of the responsible commander in chief, offering a narrow test of presidential responsibility in the Sept. 11 context.

Recent events in Iraq and Syria suggest in fact that strengthening rule of law in this way fails even its own narrow test and does not reduce the threat to western interests.

These exams then yield narrow test scores, and league tables built on those basis – which then generates a demand for the kind of narrow teaching that produces this tutoring arms race.

Add in the mantra that litigation costs jobs and makes companies fearful of going public, and any recommendation to tinker with the Supreme Court's narrow test for securities fraud is likely to fall on deaf ears.

But many other techniques are under development or already on the market for doing such narrow testing.

One of the guaranteed ways of getting high marks is through rote-learning because the out-dated, rigid and narrow testing methods encourage such practices.

Russell Hobby, general secretary of NAHT, said: "Teacher assessment provides a richer, more accurate source of information to parents than the current crude and narrow tests and the equally unhelpful league tables they feed.

In the end, we get what we ask for when we assess students with a one-size-fits-all approach: simple skills driven by accountability approaches defined by narrow testing.

Officials say this is a much narrower test.