Observational measures also may not adjust well for different teaching contexts and even when educators use these protocols, additional, less formal feedback is necessary to support teachers» development.
Not exact matches
I will agree that BMI is not a good indicator of lean mass, which the study
also mentioned could not be
measured due to the nature of the study being
observational.
She
also notes that if her system contradicts teachers» value - added scores, this too should «raise red flags» about the quality of the teacher, although she does not (in this article) pay any respect or regard for the issues not only inherent in value - added
measures but
also her
observational system.
Regardless of the tests, however, all of the secondary
measures to be used to evaluate Alabama teachers (e.g., student and parent survey scores,
observational scores) are
also to be «correlated with impacts on student achievement results.»
This is true not only for stability, but
also for issues of bias (another claim commonly leveled against VAMs that may well apply to
observational and student survey
measures).
While the use of an
observational design to
measure parent - child interactions has several advantages (e.g. ecological validity, qualitative data collection), it
also bears some limitations.
There was
also agreement across interview, questionnaire, and
observational measures that AD children were less likely to regulate their emotions than non-AD children.
That said, our two
observational measures were
also unrelated to each other.
Observational measures such as the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development, the Mullen Scales of Early Learning, and the Strange Situation procedure are
also frequently used in infant studies.