Sentence examples for spread of ability from inspiring English sources

Others arrange their bands to reflect the national spread of ability, or the ability range of the applicants, rather than the local context.

The Championship was the most competitive of Scotland's leagues last term, reflecting the fact that no side was dominant rather than a wide spread of ability.

The second method is to increase the spread of ability levels in the candidates.

It assesses students' understanding fairly and reflects a realistic spread of ability across a student cohort, thus identifying the best students.

There appears to be an adequate person separation index, which means that there exists a large enough spread of ability across the sample so that the measures adequately reflect functional ability.

Its proposed admissions policy for 2013 entry reveals plans to increase the number from outside its immediate area to 50%, and to test and "band" pupils so its entrants reflect the national average spread of abilities.

Barnard says that though all governing bodies need a spread of abilities to draw on, for academies in particular, "you've got to do a skills audit, and it will change every year: [it's about] knowing the expertise you've got, and knowing where are the gaps you have to fill".

Buckinghamshire County Council's comments came in response to a school wanting to use 11-plus results to admit a broad spread of abilities.

There was a good spread of interoceptive ability across the sample (mean error score = 26.51 %, SD = 13.61, range = 1.56 57.65).

A similar principle applies to the person reliability and person separation index, i.e., replicability of person ordering and sufficient spread of person ability across the continuum.

The proliferation of nuclear weapons, the spread of bomb-making ability, and the lack of proper investment in security is a recipe for disaster".