In government, professionalization is vested in the corps of civil servants whose positions have generally been obtained through the passage of tests based upon merit.
As any armchair anthropologist will tell you, young men have long engaged in tribal rites of passage to test courage and toughness.
External evaluations have shown that Teaching Fellows play a key role in long-term gains too, erasing achievement gaps in passage of standardized tests, on-time high school graduation, and college enrollment.
AmeriCorps members at Citizen Schools build academic skills--a recent external evaluation showed Citizen Schools students erasing achievement gaps in passage of standardized tests, on-time high school graduation, and college enrollment--but they also do the kind of educating that we don't measure much on standardized tests.
As we await the next one, Clinton-bashing will, for the Republican contenders, continue to serve as a rite of passage, a test of mettle, a civil (or uncivil) religion.
The rock festival as teenage rite of passage and test of endurance always comes into its own as tents start to sink out of sight, and cleanliness is left behind for the weekend, along with mum and dad.
This paper reports on the results of in situ vibration measurements that have been performed within the frame of the CONVURT project at a site in Regent's Park on the Bakerloo line of London Underground during 35 passages of a test train at a speed between 20 and 50 km/h.
A movement toward high school exit exams has swept the nation in recent years, with almost half the states now requiring, or soon to require, passage of a standardized test as a condition of graduation.
Only the passage of time will test the merits of this idea through its propagation, but the photographic impressions of his work is being widely disseminated to a generation that is growing up on the virtues of giving back to nature.
In a typical study using these "prequestions", individuals read passages of text and then complete a test over the material.
