Sentence examples for notion of testing from inspiring English sources
"The notion of testing four-year-olds in exam hall conditions is clearly ludicrous.
Just when it seemed the poll tax would be buried beneath the predictions of Nigel Lawson (and others) that it would prove an unworkable catastrophe, Letwin latched on to the notion of testing it out in Scotland.
In 1989, Thornburgh said he tried to find common ground between the Supreme Court case and baseball, but as he wrote in his essay: "It was clear that Bart was deeply troubled by what he saw as firm opposition in important quarters to the notion of testing major leaguers for using illegal substances.
The notion of testing ideas out in advance of commitment to investment or change is a powerful one in a competitive environment.
And so, like the obedient little patient that I was, and not without an unsettling level of unease, I put aside the notion of testing for the BRCA genes and went back to staying home as much as possible during the month of October.
The western notion of testing and disclosure of results for HIV and AIDS has always been individualistic in that results are confidential.
Accordingly, Davies et al. (1999) argue that "the notion of test appeal is a practical consideration which test designers cannot afford to overlook" (p. 59).
Therefore, Bachman and Palmer (1996) proposed the notion of test usefulness to make Messick's work more manageable to language testers.
The other common notion of test reliability, namely internal consistency, was not questioned by Gilks and Trejos and was therefore not the main focus of this study.
The present findings supported the notion of test anxious students as viewing themselves in a broader social evaluative academic context including both self- and other-referenced self-related cognitions.
The psychosocial impact of the test results seems to be related to people's motivations for and preconceived notions of testing (Bolnick et al. 2007; Elliott and Brodwin 2002; Shriver and Kittles 2004; Winston and Kittles 2005).
