Sentences with phrase «accurate measures»

«Women are generally denied for mortgages more often despite their superior payment performance... we need to develop more robust and accurate measures of risk to ensure that we aren't denying mortgages to women who are fully able to make good on their payments.»

Thus it remains unclear which child characteristics most impact parent stress, supporting the need for specific and accurate measures of both child behaviour and core ASD symptoms to be included in studies [43].

Enforced effective group control techniques and utilized accurate measures to maintain safety of children

Rather, Employment Screening Resources uses behavioral - based interviews that focus on a candidate's past behaviors, which helps to uncover more accurate measures of past performance beyond what candidates put on their résumés.

For larger legal projects, though, I think as managers we must accept that we will rarely have truly accurate measures.

Known now as the biggest journalistic investigation to date, the Panama scandal will surely push for better and more accurate measures on tax minimization in the long term, but for now, Bloomberg states that «in the short - term, this will be accompanied by even stronger resistance to the kind of political unity that is needed in several countries to deliver high growth and genuine financial stability.»

I'll say again... Lindzen, Spencer, and some others catch a lot of heat for attempts to verify climate models by some of the more modern, more accurate measures, but I believe they are moving in the right direction.

Moreover, for many current scientific fields, claimed research findings may often be simply accurate measures of the prevailing bias (emphasis added).»

etc. next to temperature sensors do not meet accpeted standards nor make for accurate measures of temperature that should be used in a global computations or grids, assuming accuracy is important.

etc. next to temperature sensors do not make for accurate measures of temperature that should be used in a global grid, and do not meet accepted siting standards.»

Deliver accurate measures of student and class progress and standards achievement to schools and districts

Although these biases have persisted for more than 100 years, test scores are still misperceived as accurate measures of intelligence.

We believe our systems of assessment and accountability need the flexibility and capability to capture all of that human messiness (in all of its beauty and power) if they are to provide fair and accurate measures of any aspect of education.

By design, SGP models do not purport to provide causal estimates of teacher effectiveness (though this does not necessarily imply that they are less accurate measures); they are intended as a descriptive measure of what is — of test score gains relative to other students who scored similarly in the past.»

But accountability simply means that states are responsible not only for adequate inputs like sufficient funding, ambitious course content standard, and high - quality instruction, but also for outputs like accurate measures of student learning and teacher effectiveness.

Yet, what appears to be the case is that the invalid tests are being falsely promoted as accurate measures of «college and career readiness.»

As a consequence, researchers have documented a number of problems with VAM models as accurate measures of teachers» effectiveness.

[2] States and districts, of course, want to make sure they have accurate measures of these contributions.

Project 2061 produces assessment items and instruments that are effective and accurate measures of students» understanding of science learning goals and can be used to diagnose students» conceptual difficulties.

Ideally, future work would rely on a detailed student database — such as student transcript data — to address centrally important yet understudied issues in math placement, including the identification of reliable and accurate measures of student outcomes, the establishment of protocols associated with growth in student outcomes, and the consequences of effective support systems for improving student learning.

There is no evidence that any of these scales are valid or accurate measures of «teacher effectiveness.»

More accurate measures of teacher effectiveness can lead to better decisions by school and district leaders.

Other differences come from the tests on which the value - added measures are based; because test scores are not perfectly accurate measures of student knowledge, it follows that they are not perfectly accurate gauges of teacher performance.

However, they assert that they can provide accurate measures of individual teacher effectiveness nonetheless.

Deliver accurate measures of student progress and standards achievement to schools and districts

2) Accurate measures.

A: SGOs can be based on assessments that teachers currently use to evaluate their students, as long as they are fair and accurate measures of their students» performance (see SGO guidebook for guidance on this).

The logic behind the Common Core was not just that we'd be getting lower scores; it was that we'd be getting common and more accurate measures of student progress.

Multiple studies have used the ATUS to generate more accurate measures of how much time teachers spend working.

These testing and accountability systems don't provide accurate measures of individual academic growth.

As outlined in the iNACOL Quality Assurance Performance Metrics, states, authorizers, and researchers should adopt more accurate measures of individual growth, such as the pre - and post-assessment measures typically used by national online learning support organizations (for example, the Measures of Academic Progress [MAP] or the equivalent).

So these single measurement tests simply are not accurate measures of anything.

Without accurate measures, the most perfect, tried and tasted recipe can turn into a disaster.

So for accurate measures, logging your workout gets a lot more tedious.

We test the sensitivity of the morphological parameters used to create these 3D models, demonstrating that the parameters defined here are robust and can provide accurate measures of cortical thickness, relative bone density, trabecular orientation, trabecular thickness and degree of anisotropy.

For now, the Harvard researchers will attempt to get more - accurate measures of actual vitamin D concentrations in the patients reported on this week.

It is time to stop spending tens of millions of health research dollars collecting invalid data and find more accurate measures,» he said.

Project 2061 produces assessment items and instruments that are effective and accurate measures of students» understanding of science learning goals and can be used to diagnose students» conceptual difficulties.

We recognise that pragmatically, the assignment of tax revenue would be best considered, and subsequently implemented, at a time when there are clearly defined accurate measures of revenue attributable to Scotland.

Accurate measures of each of these areas will take great strides in preventing against leaks and getting a comfortable fit for your baby.

The FWRA set out to collect more accurate measures based on data directly from participating companies, working with non-profit think - tank BSR as its research partner.

At present, unofficial exchange rates appear to be the most accurate measures.

This again is why it is crucial that you do not rely on P / E ratios as accurate measures of value here.

In February and March, alone, 317,000 jobs were created — a more accurate measure of Trump's influence.

Ginsberg, however, suggests that the most accurate measure of probability actually lies in commercial betting websites, such as Irish bookmaker Paddy Power's.

Global stockpiles are always an issue when markets turn and there is no accurate measure of how much tantalum is sitting in Yokohama warehouses.

The regular report is the most accurate measure and comparison of wireless carriers around the world, which is probably why the Canadian industry and its allies don't want the public to see it.

It is the proposal to replace the current Consumer Price Index (CPI) with a more accurate measure of...

When we kicked off this blog back in 2016, my very first post discussed the misconception of using a fund's volume as an accurate measure of liquidity.

Only with a real grasp on the true cash flows of the business can one get an accurate measure of the future cash flow growth implied by the stock's valuation.