Sentence examples for prior ideas from inspiring English sources

From the point of view of interactionist theory, all one's perceptions of and reactions to the external world are mediated or influenced by prior ideas, valuations, and assessments.

"Nearly every patent that contains a combination of prior ideas is at risk because the court has dramatically broadened the standard of obviousness," said Cynthia Kernick, an intellectual property lawyer at Reed Smith in Pittsburgh.

This study provides evidence that assessments used to diagnose students' prior ideas can actually present information that influences their understanding.

Words like constructivism and formative assessment can seem strange and unfamiliar to LAs, and they may have few prior ideas to relate to this terminology.

Another approach is to use multiple-choice items in which the incorrect responses, or distractors, are linked to students' prior ideas or intuitions.

Rather, these students base their interpretations on erroneous prior ideas about the organisms, such as habitat, morphology, behavior, etc. (Gregory 2008; Halverson et al. 2011).

The new Standards of Care potentially allow the RLE to be abolished entirely, but speaking for myself, I would not have committed to anything irreversible (as did Miranda Ponsonby, transitioning via private healthcare in 1994) without some prior idea of the ramifications of living as female, or some sense that a professional would look after me where necessary.

The prior idea of generating keys directly out of biometric templates was presented in a patent by Bodo [76].

What it does demonstrate is that our prior idea of digital privacy not existing was correct and that a select cadre in the government is consistently falsely presenting the capabilities of this nation's digital surveillance.

"I had no prior idea of how to plan systematically for problems that I face everyday.

The selected subjects were asked to send their approval and phone number for follow-up contact and appointment; otherwise, they were requested to mention the reason of refusal with the purpose of obtaining a prior idea on the reasons of non-participation.