Sentences with phrase «about outcomes»

What I said one year ago would be a good summary for this year, though Buffett was more upbeat about outcomes this year, with BRK's book value advancing while the S&P 500 fell on a total return basis.

Pay off the credit card debt, maybe even earlier if possible, then that flexibility will be there, the divorce proceedings may have an end in sight, and therefore you'll know more about any outcomes from that.

Getting emotional about outcomes, both wins and losses, is undesirable as both of these should ideally be analyzed together as part of the learning process.

It's just caring about them, caring about the outcomes in their lives, and figuring out a way to help them.

I may care about the outcomes for my friends, because I care about my friends, but it's hard for me to get worked up because some dude I don't know just signed a contract for books that will come out in 2014.

Therefore, making definitive claims about the outcomes of such programs remains a challenging task.83 Some studies find no link between financial incentives for student achievement and higher test scores, while others see higher achievement for students in systems with performance bonuses.84 A large - scale 2014 study on TIF presented findings on early implementation from 153 districts.

This constant «experimenting» makes me wonder about outcomes and the «guinea pigs» included in the experiment.

You can read about outcomes from the leadership labs here.

The policy brief, A Blueprint for Better Information: Recommendations for a Federal Postsecondary Student - Level Data Network, outlines how a secure student - level data network managed by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and informed by data already held by federal agencies can yield more timely, high - quality and complete information about outcomes for today's postsecondary students.

Following these seven batched inspections, Ofsted reported concerns about the outcomes for pupils and accused some of the trusts of sitting on large sums of cash that should have been spent on pupils.

The students and adults involved believed that this route would provide a vital accountability loop to students about the outcomes of their contributions, and validate student voice.

In order to prompt thinking about the outcomes that graduates with a primary specialisation may achieve, this stimulus paper has been developed to identify possible features of graduates with a primary specialisation.

As the date for the releases of the test scores approached, we received many notices of «talking points» to inform our communities about the outcomes, with explanations of new baselines and how these tests do not reflect the efforts of students and teachers this year.

Nobody would disagree that young people need to master the basics before leaving primary school and nobody would disagree that it is essential for every school to have effective and robust assessment systems in order to make secure judgements about these outcomes.

Click here to learn about the outcomes of the project in the areas student academic impact and teacher professional development!

[20] But, again, we know little about the outcomes of this practice.

It always seems the debate about education revolves around inputs (funding) and never about outcomes (results).

We hold ourselves accountable to the public for the trust they have in our ability to represent and educate them about the outcomes of our actions which requires that we engage in ongoing evaluations of our efforts.

When we think about the outcomes of Meaningful Student Involvement, it's important to identify the original motivation for action.

[21] Inertia, ignorance about outcomes, and a powerful teachers» association are all part of the story here.

What is exceptional about these outcomes is that are being achieved in remote settings, where a high percentage of students probably do not continue schooling past Year 8,» the review authors comment.

Having some faculty teach and others test «helps our faculty think really clearly about outcomes of their work,» says Holtschneider.

In short, Americans are not unduly optimistic about the outcomes produced by their local schools, but they do systematically understate the resources to which those schools have access.

If we can wrap our minds around this core proposition — that accountability is about outcomes, not inputs, practices, curriculum, staffing arrangements, budgets, uses of time, etc. — and the related proposition that families have the right to choose the schools they think best for their daughters and sons, we can save ourselves an awful lot of grief, not to mention many regulations and much bureaucracy.

If we want charter schools to earn a broad base of popularity, we need to build stronger authorizing systems that enable school leaders to drive innovation while setting clear expectations about outcomes and accountability.

Conversations about outcomes have the potential to make all involved uneasy, especially if team members disagree about what the outcomes should be.

Outcomes The feeling at our recent focus group was that although the government talks about local choice and autonomy, these measures will all be about outcomes (linked to the new Ofsted framework).

There are some good stunts and action sequences, but you don't really care about the outcomes, and the pacing is sluggish, meaning everything feels slow and

On top of that, I honestly felt for each of the characters and I cared about their outcomes.

«In practice, this could mean that medical staff analyzing a new patient's Cervigram could retrieve data about similar cases — not only in terms of optics, but also pathology since the dataset contains information about the outcomes of women at various stages of pathology.»

In response, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the Medical Research Council (MRC), the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs), and the Wellcome Trust commissioned the new review, which asked all 72 researchers who had received funding for research with NHPs between 1997 and 2006 to answer a questionnaire about the outcomes of their work.

It was interesting to read about the outcomes predicted by climate models for the year 2100 based on crucial decisions...

He has recently followed up with 13 of the children from his study — now teenagers — and is about to publish an article about their outcomes.

«As more people are surviving their cancer diagnosis, we need to learn more about the outcomes 10, 20, 30, even 40 years later and how to take care of their long - term medical needs.»

To guide the spending of that money, the National Institute of Medicine made a priority list of situations for which data about outcomes are badly needed — for instance, comparing the effectiveness of various medical and behavioral interventions to prevent the elderly from falling (the complications of which are a leading cause of death), comparing assorted drugs and surgeries alone or in combination in the treatment of specific cancers, comparing the effectiveness of different implants and devices for treating hearing loss, and so forth.

We will also publish healthcare data on a prison - by - prison basis, so there is proper transparency about outcomes and performance.

«Teachers in state schools are passionately concerned about the outcomes achieved by their pupils.

Then there's concern about outcomes.

«Our goal was to design a dataset that could help to reliably inform health care providers, policy makers, and families about the outcomes of midwifery care in all birth settings, and the characteristics of normal physiologic birth,» said Geradine Simkins, CNM, MSN, Executive Director, Midwives Alliance of North America.

A retrospective survey was used to obtain information about the outcomes of intended home birth, including hospital transfers, as well as practice protocols, risk screening, and emergency preparedness.

That's a good question... and then what about the outcomes?

I care about outcomes like alive and healthy.

What matters is that homebirth midwives mean well, so stop asking us about outcomes.

I mean, there are times when I think the NCB and HB movements have more do with giving «the man» the finger, and being all anti-establishment, than actually caring about outcomes for women and babies.

I knew a woman who chose this birth center about a year ago, and I'm sure she had no idea about these outcomes.

There is, in fact, already a large and growing body of research about the outcomes of home birth (p 8).»

Her work in systematic reviews has consistently addressed tough topics and has included documenting harms of episiotomy, the limitations of data about outcomes of fetal surgery, inconsistencies in results of programs designed to reduce use of cesarean, marginal effectiveness of medications for overactive bladder, and the burden on cervical cancer prevention programs introduced by liquid cytology collection for pap testing.

Let's focus more what the Apgar zero paper says about the outcomes of midwives» deliveries in the hospital.

Caring about outcomes tends to generate thoughts and emotions, especially when things go wrong.

Nobody is perfect, but if our entire mindset is that there are no universal laws of morality, therefore I should not worry about the outcomes of my actions, then that person can go fuck themselmes.