If, for example, a student is a competitive applicant for early admission — meaning his G.P.A., rank, test scores, course rigor and other factors are in the midrange of the previous year's early admission admits — then applying early decision might provide the boost needed for admission, since ED is binding and schools are often at least slightly less competitive in the ED review.
Methodological rigor is a fundamental factor in the validity and credibility of the results of a meta-analysis.
Kitson and colleagues [ 33] remind us of the need to be mindful that while clinical effectiveness agenda stress the level and rigor of evidence as the most important factor for consideration, other factors may be critical.
For those of us who think that intellectual rigor and fairness are the crucial factors, no matter which party the president hails from, there is no question that Judge Sotomayor should be confirmed.
Despite their usefulness, these assays lack quantitative rigor as the result of two main factors.
While these factors form impediments to statistical rigor, they can to a large extent be overcome by restricting the analysis to moderate ion counts and by applying robust statistical methods.
Growing skepticism among parents and policy makers about the rigor of high school coursework has been a factor, experts say, in the rapid growth of Advanced Placement, the College Board's program of college-level courses.
He taught me about the essential rigor of process, it is the single defining factor in making meaningful work.
The largest factor contained items from the domain Rigor of Development as well as the first two items in Scope and Purpose.
Many critics of higher education point to ideological imbalance within the faculty, grade inflation and diminishing academic rigor, or the increased corporatization of the university as factors that prevent it from fulfilling this crucial function.
