It is well understood that stress has a major measureable impact on each of these factors, which: introduces confounding, affects animal well - being, and increases number of animals used. (vetmed.umn.edu)
Last week, my colleagues and I released a report on how new teacher evaluation systems deployed in four urban school districts are performing in their goal of reliably and validly differentiating teachers on the basis of measureable differences in classroom performance, the kind of differences I imagine would have distinguished Mrs. Askew and Mr. Larkin from those whose names I can't forget but won't divulge. (educationnext.org)
The authors recommend a shift in focus for TFA from a program of mixed impact to one that makes measureable changes in the quality of education in America. (utahpubliceducation.org)