Instead, education officials across the world believe that by setting clear, achievable, higher standards, aligning the curriculum, and assessing outcomes, learning can be increased for all students, and more students can succeed than the 50 percent who are defined to be above or below grade level by norm referenced standards.

Instead, it referred to the process of one's training-the strengthening of the body and the mind, the learning and the perfection of one's skills-rather than to what was being trained.

# Active learning: Instead of assuming that all of the training examples are given at the start, active learning algorithms interactively collect new examples, typically by making queries to a human user.

Instead of the accumulation of knowledge, a time-based, conditioning function he identified with the past, he stressed observation as a continuous process of learning, a timeless process that happens always in the present.

Instead of limiting students to attending courses or reading printed manuals, students are able to acquire knowledge and skills through methods that are much more conducive to individual learning preferences.

Instead of learning from his mistake, Beechcroft comes away with the idea of repopulating the world in his image.

Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever must be learned.

Instead, he turned to Buddhism and became a monk learning under Daoan ( Ch.

Instead of formal instruction in reading and math there are lessons on nature, animals, and the “ circle of life ” and a focus on materials-based learning.

Instead of learning his trade Tropinin secretly attended free drawing lessons in the Imperial Academy of Arts.

Instead, experiental learning is designed to improve one's understanding by giving one the freedom to explore and find the learning path that is most suitable for him or her.

Instead, they collect the learning material by themselves from the example material supplied by the user or programmer.

Instead, an HVC develops just above the basal ganglia, and this appears to be the area of the bird brain most concerned with learning complex tasks.

Instead, Stephen Colbert was doing a humorous piece on the threats of Orangutans learning to use iPads.

Instead, Egger maintained, service learning mainly involves the inculcation of communitarian political ideologies.

Instead of delivering it to the Master Librarians, Nepenthe decides to transcribe it herself ; she soon becomes obsessed with learning the book's outcome.

* Instead of characters learning spells individually, characters gain " spirits ", of which there are eight total-Fire, Earth, Water, Air, Sphere, Sky, Heart, Light.

Instead of learning ideas directly from parents into the Parent, or experiencing simple emotion as the Child, children begin to be able to explore and examine the world and form their own opinions.

Instead, learning can be seen as something that takes place on an on-going basis from our daily interactions with others and with the world around us.

Instead, these schools emphasize learning as a natural by-product of all human activity.

Instead, these schools place emphasis on learning as a natural by-product of all human activity.

Instead Mayer proposes learners should be " cognitively active " during learning and that instructors use " guided practice.

Instead of learning the output vectors directly, the semidefinite programming aims to find an inner product matrix that maximizes the pairwise distances between any two inputs that are not connected in the neighborhood graph while preserving the nearest neighbors distances.

Instead of the expected `` annoyances '' due to the nature of his mission, he received many calling cards and invitations from `` gentlemen of mark, on whom I had no sort of claim, & have had many more invitations than I could accept ''.

Instead, the audience can sit back at ease and, from the perspective of an enlightened time which no longer believes in such things, enjoy the dead seriousness with which the characters in the play take the witches and devils which are under discussion.

Instead of her old confidence in the simplest, purest, most moving musical expression, Miss Schwarzkopf is letting herself be tempted by the classic sin of artistic pride -- that subtle vanity that sometimes misleads a great artist into thinking that he or she can somehow better the music by bringing to it something extra, some personal dramatic touch imposed from the outside.

Instead of starting from theory and applying theory to a particular case, casuists start with the particular case itself and then ask what morally significant features ( including both theory and practical considerations ) ought to be considered for that particular case.

Instead the Annales focused attention on the synthesizing of historical patterns identified from social, economic, and cultural history, statistics, medical reports, family studies, and even psychoanalysis.

Instead, providence is a power that emanates from the heavens to the sublunar region, and is responsible for the generation and destruction of earthly things, without any direct involvement in the lives of individuals.

Instead, the Celts that dwelled along the ocean were reported to venerate twin gods ( Dioscori ) that appeared to them coming from that ocean.

Instead of the light being placed at right angles in relation to the line of vision, Both started moving it to a diagonal position from the back of the picture.

Instead of the gradual transition through the capillaries from arteries to veins that is typical of normal functioning vasculature, AVMs cause direct associations of the arteries and veins.

Instead, the philosopher encounters a problem :" Now, if the ' to be ' of a thing could be conceived apart from that which exists, it should be represented in our mind by some note distinct from the concept of the thing itself ....

Instead of reviewing music videos, they reviewed ( custom-made ) pages from other Marvel Comics — in one with Ghost Rider, Beavis tries to avoid using the word " fire " to describe the character's fiery skull.

Instead, he proposed that other pieces of Germanic literature contain " kernels of tradition " from which Beowulf borrows and expands upon.

Instead it generates the sequences of many thousands of small DNA fragments ( ranging from 35 to 900 nucleotides long, depending on the sequencing technology ).

Instead, from 1 January 1923, almost all the remaining companies were grouped into the " big four ", the Great Western Railway, the London and North Eastern Railway, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the Southern Railway companies ( there were also a number of other joint railways such as the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway and the Cheshire Lines Committee as well as special joint railways such as the Forth Bridge Railway, Ryde Pier Railway and at one time the East London Railway ).

Instead a minority Labour government was formed under Harold Wilson but with no formal support from Thorpe.

Instead of deploying their margin advantage as a defence of mutuality, from 1980 building societies, in behaving like profit maximising banks, set mortgage rates with reference to market clearing levels.

Instead, Blue Angel pilots tense their muscles to prevent blood from rushing from their heads and rendering them unconscious.

Instead, the forms of service that were to be included in the Book of Common Prayer were drawn from the Missal ( for the Mass ), Breviary for the daily office, Manual ( for the occasional services ; Baptism, Marriage, Burial etc.

Instead of blacks, slave traders looked for others sources of cheap labour, such as Chinese colonists and Indians from Yucatán.

Instead of asking how a man's actions and experiences result from what he saw, remembered, or believed, the dynamic psychologist asks how they follow from the subject's goals, needs, or instincts.

Instead of listing every single element, sometimes an ellipsis ("...") is used, if the writer believes that the reader can easily guess what is missing ; for example, presumably denotes the set of integers from 1 to 100.

Instead, they developed a daily and weekly service of readings from the Torah, and possibly also the Prophets, followed by commentary.