Standardize
verb
To make things the same or consistent.
The company standardized their processes for better efficiency.
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- standardize processes
- standardize procedures
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Technical
verb
To change something so it aligns with a standard or model.
We need to standardize the samples before testing them.
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- standardize samples
- standardize testing
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Formal
Academic
verb
To establish a standard for something.
The coding rules were standardized across all development teams.
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- standardize rules
- standardize coding
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Technical
verb
To cause something to conform to a standard.
The curriculum was standardized to ensure all students had the same level of education.
Often appears as...
- standardize curriculum
- standardize education
Usage tips
Academic
verb
To make things the same or consistent.
The company standardized their processes for better efficiency.
Often appears as...
- standardize processes
- standardize procedures
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To change something so it aligns with a standard or model.
We need to standardize the samples before testing them.
Often appears as...
- standardize samples
- standardize testing
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
verb
To establish a standard for something.
The coding rules were standardized across all development teams.
Often appears as...
- standardize rules
- standardize coding
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To cause something to conform to a standard.
The curriculum was standardized to ensure all students had the same level of education.
Often appears as...
- standardize curriculum
- standardize education
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Industry Efficiency
Standardize in business often relates to efficiency and uniformity across practices.
To improve service, restaurants will standardize recipes.
Pro Tip 2/2Consumer Expectation
Consistency is key for consumer products; standardizing ensures expectations are met.
Smartphone manufacturers standardize interfaces for user familiarity.
Pro Tip 1/2Industry Efficiency
Standardize in business often relates to efficiency and uniformity across practices.
To improve service, restaurants will standardize recipes.
Pro Tip 2/2Consumer Expectation
Consistency is key for consumer products; standardizing ensures expectations are met.
Smartphone manufacturers standardize interfaces for user familiarity.
Pro Tip 1/2Industry Efficiency
Standardize in business often relates to efficiency and uniformity across practices.
To improve service, restaurants will standardize recipes.
Pro Tip 2/2Consumer Expectation
Consistency is key for consumer products; standardizing ensures expectations are met.
Smartphone manufacturers standardize interfaces for user familiarity.
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pi helps us understand periodic or oscillating systems like clocks, electromagnetic waves, and even music. In statistics, pi is used in the equation to calculate the area under a normal distribution curve, which comes in handy for figuring out distributions of standardized test scores, financial models,
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Does grammar matter? -...
For much of history, the vast majority of language was spoken. But as people became more interconnected and writing gained importance, written language was standardized to allow broader communication and ensure that people in different parts of a realm could understand each other.
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Chinese officials used them to determine aptitude for various government posts. The subject matter included philosophy, farming, and even military tactics. Standardized tests continued to be used around the world for the next two millennia, and today, they're used for everything
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A brief history of dogs...
these dog types were standardized into breeds, with many new ones bred purely for appearance. Sadly, while all dog breeds are the product of artificial selection, some are healthier than others. Many of these aesthetic characteristics come with congenital health problems,
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The hidden power of...
and tried to measure their success and well-being throughout their life. By measuring the students' smiles, researchers were able to predict how fulfilling and long-lasting a subject's marriage would be, how well she would score on standardized tests of well-being,
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principles of industrialism and conformity and you strangle it with a culture of standardized testing which bleeds the life out of teachers and students alike don't be surprised if this is not a cordon of creativity and vitality and don't be surprised if in
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How to escape...
The role of a teacher is to facilitate learning. That's it. And part of the problem is, I think, that the dominant culture of education has come to focus on not teaching and learning, but testing. Now, testing is important. Standardized tests have a place.
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Grit: the power of...
Turns out that grittier kids were significantly more likely to graduate, even when I matched them on every characteristic I could measure, things like family income, standardized achievement test scores, even how safe kids felt when they were at school.
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The strongest predictor...
Turns out that grittier kids were significantly more likely to graduate, even when I matched them on every characteristic I could measure, things like family income, standardized achievement test scores, even how safe kids felt when they were at school.
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The Science of a Happy...
than grade point average and standardized test scores all put together. And what it predicts in the early 30s are major life outcomes. It predicts physical health it predicts the likelihood of substance abuse.
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The infinite life of pi...
pi helps us understand periodic or oscillating systems like clocks, electromagnetic waves, and even music. In statistics, pi is used in the equation to calculate the area under a normal distribution curve, which comes in handy for figuring out distributions of standardized test scores, financial models,
Video examples
Does grammar matter? -...
For much of history, the vast majority of language was spoken. But as people became more interconnected and writing gained importance, written language was standardized to allow broader communication and ensure that people in different parts of a realm could understand each other.
Video examples
Should we get rid of...
Chinese officials used them to determine aptitude for various government posts. The subject matter included philosophy, farming, and even military tactics. Standardized tests continued to be used around the world for the next two millennia, and today, they're used for everything
Video examples
A brief history of dogs...
these dog types were standardized into breeds, with many new ones bred purely for appearance. Sadly, while all dog breeds are the product of artificial selection, some are healthier than others. Many of these aesthetic characteristics come with congenital health problems,
Video examples
The hidden power of...
and tried to measure their success and well-being throughout their life. By measuring the students' smiles, researchers were able to predict how fulfilling and long-lasting a subject's marriage would be, how well she would score on standardized tests of well-being,
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Expanding our definition...
principles of industrialism and conformity and you strangle it with a culture of standardized testing which bleeds the life out of teachers and students alike don't be surprised if this is not a cordon of creativity and vitality and don't be surprised if in
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How to escape...
The role of a teacher is to facilitate learning. That's it. And part of the problem is, I think, that the dominant culture of education has come to focus on not teaching and learning, but testing. Now, testing is important. Standardized tests have a place.
Video examples
Grit: the power of...
Turns out that grittier kids were significantly more likely to graduate, even when I matched them on every characteristic I could measure, things like family income, standardized achievement test scores, even how safe kids felt when they were at school.
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The strongest predictor...
Turns out that grittier kids were significantly more likely to graduate, even when I matched them on every characteristic I could measure, things like family income, standardized achievement test scores, even how safe kids felt when they were at school.
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The Science of a Happy...
than grade point average and standardized test scores all put together. And what it predicts in the early 30s are major life outcomes. It predicts physical health it predicts the likelihood of substance abuse.
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Darell Hammond
American Businessman
We are raising today's children in sterile, risk-averse and highly structured environments. In so doing, we are failing to cultivate artists, pioneers and entrepreneurs, and instead cultivating a generation of children who can follow the rules in organized sports games, sit for hours in front of screens and mark bubbles on standardized tests.
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Henry Petroski
American Author
I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My worst subjects were those that generally involved a lot of reading - English and history. So, having good test scores in math and mediocre ones in reading, I was naturally advised to major in engineering in college.
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Stacey D'Erasmo
American Novelist
The railroads needed standardized time; as a result, the technology of train travel shaped the way everyone gets up, eats, goes to sleep, calculates age, and, perhaps of no small importance, imagine the world as a whole, ticking reliably, with reliable deviations, according to the beat of one central clock in a physical location.
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Ken Robinson
English Educator
Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not.
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Angela Duckworth
American Psychologist
The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right? There are so many things that kids care about, where they excel, where they try hard, where they learn important life lessons, that are not picked up by test scores.
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Randi Weingarten
American Activist
Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn't measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student.
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Richard Grasso
American Businessman
It should strengthen investors' confidence. This is done through transparency, high quality financial reports, and a standardized economic market. This is not just for China, but also for the world market as a whole.
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Indya Moore
American Actor
I think of makeup as more like a design, decoration, or jewelry. I mean, it's literally paint; it's art. I don't prefer to use it as concealing anything because it influences the illusion of standardized perfection.
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Jean Giraudoux
French Dramatist
I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.
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Amber Heard
American Actress
I don't imagine myself, my work, or my life, fitting into any kind of standardized path. In fact, the idea of there even being a standard freaks me out a lot.
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Darell Hammond
American Businessman
We are raising today's children in sterile, risk-averse and highly structured environments. In so doing, we are failing to cultivate artists, pioneers and entrepreneurs, and instead cultivating a generation of children who can follow the rules in organized sports games, sit for hours in front of screens and mark bubbles on standardized tests.
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Henry Petroski
American Author
I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My worst subjects were those that generally involved a lot of reading - English and history. So, having good test scores in math and mediocre ones in reading, I was naturally advised to major in engineering in college.
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Stacey D'Erasmo
American Novelist
The railroads needed standardized time; as a result, the technology of train travel shaped the way everyone gets up, eats, goes to sleep, calculates age, and, perhaps of no small importance, imagine the world as a whole, ticking reliably, with reliable deviations, according to the beat of one central clock in a physical location.
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Ken Robinson
English Educator
Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not.
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Angela Duckworth
American Psychologist
The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right? There are so many things that kids care about, where they excel, where they try hard, where they learn important life lessons, that are not picked up by test scores.
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Randi Weingarten
American Activist
Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn't measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student.
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Richard Grasso
American Businessman
It should strengthen investors' confidence. This is done through transparency, high quality financial reports, and a standardized economic market. This is not just for China, but also for the world market as a whole.
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Indya Moore
American Actor
I think of makeup as more like a design, decoration, or jewelry. I mean, it's literally paint; it's art. I don't prefer to use it as concealing anything because it influences the illusion of standardized perfection.
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Jean Giraudoux
French Dramatist
I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.
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Amber Heard
American Actress
I don't imagine myself, my work, or my life, fitting into any kind of standardized path. In fact, the idea of there even being a standard freaks me out a lot.
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