Sentences with phrase «scores of recent articles»

Scores of recent articles have been pointing out that much of the extra virgin olive oil market is being filled with fraudulent olive oil!

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In a recent article (see «Valuing Teachers,» features, Summer 2011), Eric Hanushek argues in favor of dismissing the bottom 5 percent of teachers based on their VA scores.

In fact, Brookings Institution released an article stating that recent research on voucher programs in Indiana and Louisiana found that those students who took advantage of vouchers to attend private school, rather than their local public schools, received lower scores than their public school peers.

Accordingly, and also per the research, this is not getting much better in that, as per the authors of this article as well as many other scholars, (1) «the variance in value - added scores that can be attributed to teacher performance rarely exceeds 10 percent; (2) in many ways «gross» measurement errors that in many ways come, first, from the tests being used to calculate value - added; (3) the restricted ranges in teacher effectiveness scores also given these test scores and their limited stretch, and depth, and instructional insensitivity — this was also at the heart of a recent post whereas in what demonstrated that «the entire range from the 15th percentile of effectiveness to the 85th percentile of [teacher] effectiveness [using the EVAAS] cover [ed] approximately 3.5 raw score points [given the tests used to measure value - added];» (4) context or student, family, school, and community background effects that simply can not be controlled for, or factored out; (5) especially at the classroom / teacher level when students are not randomly assigned to classrooms (and teachers assigned to teach those classrooms)... although this will likely never happen for the sake of improving the sophistication and rigor of the value - added model over students» «best interests.»

However, a recent article published in the Albuquerque Journal indicates that, now according to the NMPED, «only three types of test scores are [being] used in the calculation: Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers [PARCC], end - of - course exams, and the [state's new] Istation literacy test.»

The extensions for this path include a short, accessible article from the NCTE's Council Chronicle, which presents different perspectives on «robo - grading,» and a more in - depth examination of the issue in NCTE's recent Position Statement on Machine Scoring.

A recent news article suggests that math scores may also be relatively low because while the standards for math were adopted in 2010, the State Board did not provide a list of recommended math materials for grades K — 8 until 2014 (Harrington 2016).

Bradley Metrock produced the iBooks Author Conference from 2015 through 2017, before Score Publishing acquired Digital Book World, and has authored many articles on the state of the publishing industry and recent trends.

However, a recent Wall Street Journal article about the company suggests that they target consumers with credit scores around 760, potentially making their product out of reach for borrowers who have poor credit.

One of the significant effects of receiving this information is the recent Review Article about the Perfect 200 Scores, published in the July Review Issue.

David Bernstein at The Volokh Conspiracy questions the premise of a recent law review article asserting that law schools» overemphasis on rankings and LSAT scores is hurting black enrollment.