Sentences with phrase «use gallup»

The district uses the Gallup student poll, a 20 - question survey that seeks to measure levels of hope, engagement and well - being.
Spring 2017 marked the second year that our Teacher Advisory Group used the Gallup employee engagement survey to evaluate Oakland public school teacher satisfaction.
We also used the Gallup - Healthways Well - Being Index to determine the percentage of those who are uninsured in a city.

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The organization, along with three economists from Columbia University, the University of British Columbia and the London School of Economics» Center for Economic Performance, created the report using data from the Gallup World Poll to reveal which countries are happy and why.
They reminded me of the 12 statements Gallup uses to determine employee engagement.
A recent Gallup poll finds that 58 percent of Americans support legalization for adult use, up from 36 percent ten years ago.
This report is based on extensive work with organizations in a wide variety of industries and our study of more than 195,600 employees, using data collected through the Gallup Panel, Gallup Daily tracking and Gallup's employee engagement database.
Sure, a recent Gallup poll found that people under 30 are much more likely to use their cellphones to text rather than to talk.
Gallup developed State of the American Workplace using data collected from more than 195,600 U.S. employees via the Gallup Panel and Gallup Daily tracking in 2015 and 2016, and more than 31 million respondents through Gallup's Q12 Client Database.
This recent Gallup poll shows 2014 and 2015 to have slightly higher numbers of people involved in the market, though it uses a different definition than the Federal Reserve for its figures.
According to national pollster Gallup, 64 % of respondents in its Oct. 2017 survey favored the idea of legalizing marijuana in the United States, which compares to just 25 % who felt the same way in 1995, the year before California became the first state to legalize medical cannabis for compassionate - use patients.
Like other social scientists who use survey data, we trusted Gallup poll results because we knew they employed sound sampling methods.
(Reuters)-- Half of Americans now support legalizing marijuana use, a record level, amid growing support for decriminalization that could build pressure to eventually change U.S. laws on the drug, a Gallup poll showed on Monday.
A Gallup poll showed that 67 % of parents use actual names to refer to male and female body parts.
According to a new Gallup poll, a majority of Americans continue to say marijuana use should be legal in the US, with 58 percent in support, tying the high point in Gallup's 46 years of polling on the subject.
More than half of Americans lack confidence in Donald Trump's ability to «prevent major scandals,» «handle an international crisis,» and «use military force wisely» once he becomes president, according to a Gallup poll released today.
This question used identical wording to a Gallup poll back in 1955, and showed a significant fall in support for the use of nuclear weaponry since the height of the cold war — back in 1955 only 16 % of people would have opposed using the H - Bomb in response to a nuclear attack on Britain, while today 32 % would oppose nuclear retailiation.
After 12 — 38 days of this regimen, 5 of 7 monkeys passed a version of Gallup's original mark test, using the mirror to touch an odourless mark applied to their faces.
«Cool Dudes,» a bloc that stands out in the crowd McCright and Dunlap's analysis used polling data on climate change denial from 10 Gallup surveys from 2001 to 2010.
«Our data suggest that contagious yawning is a by - product of the ability to conceive of yourself and to use your experience to make inferences about comparable experiences and mental states in others,» Gallup told New Scientist.
The Gallup poll used in the study took place between December 2011 and January 2012 and was part of the Gallup - Healthways Well - Being Index, which includes health - and lifestyle - related polling questions.
The study used data collected in the Gallup World Poll, which conducts surveys in more than 150 countries, interviewing approximately 1,000 citizens (age 15 and older) per country.
We use a scientific matching system that leverages 29 DIMENSIONS ® based on features of compatibility found in thousands of successful relationships — Gallup dating has never been more real.
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Americans» support for using public funds to pay for students to attend private schools apparently was growing even before the U.S. Supreme Court's June decision upholding the Cleveland voucher plan, findings from this year's Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup poll on public attitudes about education suggest.
A Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup poll and a survey by the Center for Education Reform suggest that there is rising support for using government money to pay for students to attend private schools.
Last year, Gallup's annual national survey on education reported that 22 % of respondents thought the increased use of testing over the past decade has helped school performance and 36 % thought it had hurt.
In «Cooking the Questions» (Check the Facts, Spring 2002), Terry Moe criticizes Phi Delta Kappa and the Gallup Organization for using survey questions that are biased against vouchers.
A 2014 PDK / Gallup poll found that 76 percent of teachers continued to support the goals of Common Core, but only 9 percent supported using those test scores to evaluate teachers.
When Gallup, NBC and the Wall Street Journal, and the Associated Press used the same language to ask Americans about the direction of the nation as a whole while our survey was in the field, less than one - quarter reported that it is on the right track (Q. 5).
Martin West says the public wants teachers evaluated using test scores #frizzle ow.ly / BBVQO [But PDK Gallup says otherwise]
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Advocates claim there is great public demand, despite the fact that a 2013 Gallup poll indicated that opposition to the use of public funds for private schools is at 70 %, its highest level ever recorded in that survey.
The poll, which is conducted annually by Phi Delta Kappa International (PDK) in conjunction with Gallup, asked Americans about using stimulus money to save teachers» jobs, investing in early childhood education, and other public education issues.
Gwinnett County, Prince George's County, Md., and Springfield, Mass., for example, are among those using screening tools, such as Gallup's PrincipalInsight, that allow them to quickly gather information on why a candidate wants to be a school leader and his or her likely ability to foster collegiality, or motivate teachers, students and parents.20 To ensure that would - be candidates genuinely want to lead schools and not just get a salary bump that comes with an advanced degree, Chicago, St. Louis and Springfield, Ill., require would - be leaders to agree to serve as principals for a set number of years.
The article, primarily a pep talk for teachers, uses a recent Phi Beta Kappa / Gallup poll as its motivating source.
The short survey — developed by Gallup and used by thousands of organizations — will provide a reliable and common measure of our satisfaction and engagement.
The identification system has used best practices and theory from Frasier, Sternberg, and Lohman to more than double the number of identified students and dramatically increase representation of Gallup's majority Navajo population in services.
Too often, they selectively use the results as verification of their preconceived position that educators are lazy, incompetent, or controlled by their union — positions which, incidentally, are not supported by the annual Gallup Poll survey question that asks parents to grade the schools their children attend.
The results of the 1992 Gallup Poll indicated that 71 % of public school parents favored requiring public schools to use standardized tests to measure the academic achievement of students.
These Gallup data include, as pertinent here, self - report data on how teachers feel about using students» test scores to hold them accountable.
According to the September 2015 47th Annual PDK / Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes toward the Public Schools, only 31 % of Americans favor allowing vouchers to be used to pay for private and religious schools.
38 percent of Americans and 31 percent of parents favor using student performance on standardized tests to evaluate teachers (PDK / Gallup 2014, pt.2, p. 50).
Last month, the results from the second part of the 46th annual PDK / Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools demonstrated that the public is growing more skeptical of using student standardized test scores to evaluate teachers.
60 percent of Americans, 62 percent of public school parents, and 76 percent of Republicans oppose having the teachers in their «community use the Common Core State Standards» to guide what they teach (PDK / Gallup 2014, p. 12, table 3).
And the policy remain steadfastly unpopular with the American people — according to the 2013 PDK / Gallup poll, 70 percent of the public are opposed to using taxpayer money for private school enrollment.
I found his whole story fascinating: the way he was first recruited at Gallup to leak public opinion and political polling data to British intelligence, and then brought into the BSC to use his expertise in counter espionage work, and later used the same techniques to make a fortune on Madison Avenue.
The good news for the city is that the Gallup index is the most forward - looking of the measure we used, so the best may be yet to come.
The «Jacob Marley Christmas Debt Chart,» developed using data compiled separately by Gallup and the Federal Reserve, is designed as a tool to educate consumers about wise use of credit cards at the holidays.
A 2015 Gallup poll found that «Almost a third of Americans, 32 %, believe animals should be given the same rights as people, while 62 % say they deserve some protection but can still be used for the benefit of humans.»
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