So often disparaged for its air of cosy provincialism – what we might call The Nigel Mansell Years – this time around the BBC's flagship sporting award show can present itself to the world as a celebration of genuinely grand-scale achievement.
Regardless of the term used, the literature on scale score equivalence in large-scale achievement tests has received considerable attention (e.g., Ercikan [2002]; Hambleton [2002]; Oliveri et al. [2012]).
Second, and more importantly, we generalize the model to include a multilevel structure (i.e., students within countries) and include an external variable (achievement) so as to simultaneously study the covariance structure of the attitudinal scales, achievement, and ERS both within and between countries.
Higher standards--Entering freshmen had to present successful completion of 16 academic core courses in high school and a sliding-scale achievement on both grade-point average and standardized tests.
The times demanded industrial-scale achievements, not limited to industry itself; Hoover was a public-service superman, a mega-bureaucrat.
Command systems, on the other hand, are marked by their capacity to mobilize resources and labour in ways far beyond the reach of traditional societies, so that societies with command systems typically boast of large-scale achievements such as the Great Wall of China or the Egyptian pyramids.
Besides, factors restricting the yield improvement and application of lab-scale achievements to industrial applications have also been discussed.
The last part of the paper has a two-fold nature: (a) classifying the information about achievements in the area of thermal-hydraulics which are relevant to scaling: the concepts of 'scaling-pyramid' and the related 'scaling bridges' are introduced; (b) establishing a logical path across the scaling achievements (represented as a 'scaling puzzle').
It is a scale of achievement that reflects a major improvement in talent identification.
I have shed tears of wonder and awe at the scale and achievement of NASA's manned spaceflight program, but not for its inexorable end.
The award, which is presented to living American authors whose "scale of achievement in fiction, over a sustained career, places him or her in the highest rank of American literature", is worth $25,000£18,00000).
