selectivity

Example Sentences

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In Boston and New York, similar measures with identical motivations are attacking the selectivity of elite public high schools.

From Washington Post

For purposes of analysis, he has created three groups of respectable schools with different selectivity rates.

From Washington Post

When the selectivity of an institution increases, that obviously doesn’t mean that the education the school provides is getting better.

From Washington Post

For cultural institutions tasked with collecting, preserving, ordering and exhibiting, utility is derived from selectivity: not everything can be saved, or it would prove so overwhelming as to render everything inaccessible.

From Salon

These results throw into question some aspects of this idea known as the socioemotional selectivity theory.

From Scientific American