Word: methodic
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Gordon said the most important result of the arbitration was the establishment of a "preferred" method to determine average improvements in test scores...
According to Baine, low response rates and the tendency of only the highest scorers to reply led to unrepresentative findings. The panel agreed with Kaplan's allegations and decided that this method was flawed...
...preferred" method, which Kaplan employs, consists of sending postcards to a randomly selected sample of students, and then following up the mailing with telephone calls...
...centuries listeners have been trying to reconcile the ineffability of Mozart's music with the childishness and bawdy coarseness of the man who composed it. The easiest and most common method has been to regard Mozart as somehow not a man at all-to view him as a sort of child god whose works welled up spontaneously. In his biography Mozart, published in English in 1982, Wolfgang Hildesheimer succeeded to a large degree in scraping away the legends surrounding the composer, but now Maynard Solomon, in his extraordinary new study, Mozart: A Life (HarperCollins; 640 pages; $35), has gone much...
...grisly slashing of throats--the method of murder favored by Islamist militants--has instilled terror in the country's collective psyche. But Serkadji prison is also symbolic: it became infamous during the 1954-62 war of independence as the place where French forces tortured, imprisoned and guillotined Algerian guerrillas. Today it is where the government holds 1,000 of as many as 30,000 Islamists reportedly jailed around the country. One former inmate told TIME he had been held for six weeks of solitary confinement in a dark, rat-infested underground cell, tormented by two prison guards...