Young Sirayans saw this as an opportunity to break the age-grade system and leapfrog their elders for power. From Wordnik.com. [Reconstructing post-1949 Nationalist History in Taiwan] Reference
Working to ensure the proper implementation of the school funding norms and standards, and the age-grade norms and assessment policy in schools, will contribute significantly to improving internal efficiency in the system. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Poneke, Wellington age-grade teams, and the province's B team. From Wordnik.com. [Stuff.co.nz - Stuff] Reference
The Benin age-grade system has also withstood the test of time. From Wordnik.com. [Thisday Online] Reference
Statistics of the age-grade status of the children in 318 cities. From Wordnik.com. [The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale] Reference
Criticize the age-grade method of measuring intelligence and propose a substitute. From Wordnik.com. [The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale] Reference
He used to play against Pocock at age-grade rugby and was much better than him at the time. From Wordnik.com. [WalesOnline - Home] Reference
At least his first provisional scale, published in 1905, was not made up according to the age-grade plan. From Wordnik.com. [The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale] Reference
This is also why we have reports from New Zealand and South Africa of appalling parent behaviour at age-grade matches. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Rugby | Rugby Union News] Reference
Paralympic swimming star Sophie Pascoe has broken another world record at the national age-grade championships in Wellington. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Harley ticked all the right boxes in an age-grade international career that brought caps at under-17, under-18 and under-20 levels. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Numerous studies of the age-grade progress of school children have afforded convincing evidence of the magnitude and seriousness of the retardation problem. From Wordnik.com. [The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale] Reference
Apparently the idea of an age-grade method, as this is called, did not come to Binet himself until he had experimented with intelligence tests for some fifteen years. From Wordnik.com. [The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale] Reference
He added: He certainly made a name for himself as a 10 playing for Neath, and when he was growing up through the age-grade sides he certainly was an absolute talent, and he still is. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Standard - Home] Reference
Another splinter group also will put up an appeal to a native court, another to their age-grade union praying it to force Diette Spiff to climb down and let their man climb up to the mantle of power. From Wordnik.com. Reference
It follows also that if the I Q is a valid expression of intelligence, as it seems to be, then the Binet-Simon "age-grade method" becomes transformed automatically into a "point-scale method," if one wants to use it that way. From Wordnik.com. [The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale] Reference
Although 'Elder' might seem like an age-grade title, anyone over a certain age qualifying for the title when they get their 'silver discount' card, the reality is that we expect more of an 'Elder' than just longevity and grumpiness. From Wordnik.com. [Neuroanthropology] Reference
Hawaii's Keanu Asing, who won the Under-16 division at the 2009 World Championships in Ecuador and is looking to become the first to score the double by winning the older age-grade this year, said the conditions were mellower than expected. From Wordnik.com. [New Zealand Herald - Top Stories] Reference
Although Binet nowhere gives any account of the steps by which this crude and ungraded scale was transformed into the relatively complete age-grade scale of 1908, we can infer that the original and ingenious idea of utilizing age norms was suggested by the data collected with the 1905 scale. From Wordnik.com. [The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale] Reference
The supplementary data, including the teachers 'estimates of intelligence on a scale of five, the teachers' judgments in regard to the quality of the school work, and records showing the age-grade distribution of the sexes, were all sifted for evidence as to the genuineness of the apparent superiority of the girls age for age. From Wordnik.com. [The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale] Reference
(b) the age-grade progress of the children; (c) the quality of the school work; (d) the comparison of older and younger children as regards the influence of social environment; and. From Wordnik.com. [The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale] Reference
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