Sentence examples for written items from inspiring English sources

But no amount of wizardry can create a good test out of poorly written items, just as no chef can create a tasty meal from rotten food.

Most teachers conveyed primarily additive and formulaic meanings for slope and rate of change on written items.

Participants responded to a photo-questionnaire that included images of alternative design treatments for the roadside and written items dealing with visual quality.

The system rapidly performs the difficult work of grading written items that for the past 30 years have been used in science education research and practice (for a review, see Nehm and Ha [2011]).

The ten items included four questions taken from the instrument used in study 1 without modification, two questions based on items from that instrument but with some modifications, and four newly written items designed specifically to test material from the module, to help instructors confirm that students had completed the module (Additional file 1: Table S11).

Our draft items were: 1) 29 legacy items from original or commonly used measures and instruments: items could be used with both parents and children; 2) 28 legacy items for adults that need revised wording for children, or vice versa; and 3) 26 newly written items created as a result of focus group discussions.

This misconception appeared as a distractor in three different items (one newly written item, one item revised from the study 1 instrument, and one item identical to the study 1 instrument; see Additional file 1: Table S11).

Earnest young man who had been writing items from Washington asked Mr. Brisbane about them.

The New Yorker, June 11 , 1927P. 9 Earnest young man who had been writing items from Washington asked Mr. Brisbane about them.

They are writing items for Slate and New York Magazine, op-ed pieces for The Los Angeles Times, The New York Post and The Daily News, and blogging for The Huffington Post and others.

Often, the magazines will do as Mr. Hay does -- writing items blind -- or will feature a particularly biting, pseudonymous author, like Scoop Drummond, the writer of the Deeds and Don'ts column in Hamptons Cottages and Gardens.