Sentences with phrase «reports is the gold standard»

Consumer Reports is the gold standard for quality measurement (chart above).

«We've been told this report is the gold standard,» said Canadian global - warming skeptic Donna Laframboise, who runs the NoConsensus.org site and who organized the online effort to examine the U.N.'s references in the report, commonly known as the AR4.

Not exact matches

Here is what you wrote — «Despite the fact that a Fall 2012 Cochrane Library Review (considered the gold standard of independent inquiry and scientific objectivity) reports that home birth is as safe or in many cases actually safer than hospital birth, the American obstetrical community continues to publicly oppose homebirth, citing safety concerns as their main argument.»

Despite the fact that a Fall 2012 Cochrane Library Review (considered the gold standard of independent inquiry and scientific objectivity) reports that home birth is as safe or in many cases actually safer than hospital birth, the American obstetrical community continues to publicly oppose homebirth, citing safety concerns as their main argument.

That report recommended a 5 - year renewable term rather than a 6 - year term for the NASA Administrator based on how the Navy's nuclear reactor program is run, the «gold standard» for technical government programs, he said.

The gold standard, however, remains the comprehensive literature reviews periodically carried out by the IPCC — the Assessment Reports essentially summarize and synthesize the professional literature (which is where the true «scientific debate» takes place).

These studies were actually surveys of individuals self reported diet habits and weight loss, so are interesting but not the gold standard of proof researchers prefer to see (14).

NAEP, called «the nation's report card,» is managed by the Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics and is currently the «gold standard» of assessments.

While NAEP, the Nation's Report Card, scores are the gold standard for measuring student achievement and serve as a yardstick for state comparisons, NAEP results are generally not known by students and their families, who rely on their state test results to know how they are performing.

Prior to the IES report, there have been 15 empirical studies examining academic outcomes for students participating in private school choice using random assignment, the «gold standard» of defensible social science:

These findings, as noted above, are unusual when compared to more than a dozen gold standard reports showing positive academic achievement for voucher students.

More than half of all states have a 30 - point or more differential between their own reported proficiency rates and the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP), which is commonly considered the gold standard of assessments by groups ranging from the liberal American Federation of Teachers to the conservative Heritage Foundation.

To see how states compare, ECF has published charts showing the percentage of students deemed proficient in various subjects and grade levels and compared them to percentages reported for each state by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP, or «The Nation's Report Card»), considered to be the gold standard.

Many individuals consider the credit reports to be gold standards.

When she came back on the line, she reported that Park Hyatt Paris Vendome had told her that the hotel was sold out of standard rooms, and that what we were seeing was special guaranteed availability for Hyatt Gold Passport Platinum and Diamond members, which was for cash only, not points.

The gold standard, however, remains the comprehensive literature reviews periodically carried out by the IPCC — the Assessment Reports essentially summarize and synthesize the professional literature (which is where the true «scientific debate» takes place).

EPDs, or Environmental Product Declarations, are currently the gold standard in determining and reporting carbon footprints.

The inclusion of the hockey stick on the front cover was an indication that the graph would also be highlighted in the gold standard of global warming reports — the IPCC's 2001 Third Assessment Report (IPCC TAR).

Are you referring to the highly touted, taxpayer funded IPCC AR4 report, which was supposed to be the «gold standard» but was filled with exaggerations, distortions, understated uncertainties and inaccuracies — all leading in the direction of AGW fear mongering?

I still believe in the spirit of what William Wordsworth wrote, and I remember reading on the front cover of Nature when that magazine really was the gold standard of scientific reporting.

But you keep quiet about the publication of IPCC's supposedly «gold standard» AR4 (WGI, WGII and WGIII) climate report, which is loaded with «totally wrong» assumptions, estimates and projections.

Of course there's the scandal that just broke regarding the «gold standard of peer reviewed science» that climate alarmists always reference, who's data is used as the basis for many other climate studies, as well as IPCC reports, and even US EPA guidelines - The Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, UK.

BOTH COMPARISONS ARE BOGUS, M carey, but one of the two is in the supposed «gold standard» AR4 climate report by IPCC while mine was just a joke to point out how silly the IPCC comparison really was.

«[The report's] recommendations to eliminate Library of Congress Subject Headings and use «fast turnaround» time as the «gold standard» in cataloging, are particularly unjustified,» he wrote.

At present it is clear that there is no cheap and easily available gold standard measurement of unsupervised exercise - based rehabilitation adherence and so, even with its inherent problems, self - report remains an important option.

Self - reported medication adherence is perhaps the most advanced in the field with questionnaires having been developed and validated although there remains no gold standard measure.9 A recent review of adherence measures for antihypertensive medication suggested 39 % of measures indicated some level of reliability and validity, but 33 % had undergone no psychometric testing.74

Adolescents» behaviour may vary from one context to another, or from one interaction partner to another, and informants» reports may be affected by their own perspectives.13 Because there is no gold standard for psychiatric disorders, and reports from different informants tend to correlate only moderately, using information from multiple informants seems the best strategy to chart mental health.14 Among other things, adherence to this first principle is expressed in the use of child (Youth Self - report; YSR), and parent (Child Behavior Checklist; CBCL) questionnaires on child / adolescent mental health, which are part of the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA), 15,16 and the use of a teacher - report (Teacher Checklist of Psychopathology), which was developed for TRAILS on the basis of the Achenbach Teachers Report Form.17 It is also expressed in the use of peer nominations to assess adolescents» social status at sreport; YSR), and parent (Child Behavior Checklist; CBCL) questionnaires on child / adolescent mental health, which are part of the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA), 15,16 and the use of a teacher - report (Teacher Checklist of Psychopathology), which was developed for TRAILS on the basis of the Achenbach Teachers Report Form.17 It is also expressed in the use of peer nominations to assess adolescents» social status at sreport (Teacher Checklist of Psychopathology), which was developed for TRAILS on the basis of the Achenbach Teachers Report Form.17 It is also expressed in the use of peer nominations to assess adolescents» social status at sReport Form.17 It is also expressed in the use of peer nominations to assess adolescents» social status at school.