Sentences with phrase «added measures appear»
Flawed as they are, value - added measures appear to be better predictors of student achievement than the teacher characteristics that we currently use for high - stakes employment and compensation decisions.
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Earlier on Tuesday, there appeared to be two possible outcomes: The Senate would either sign off on the $ 659.2 billion increase in defense spending and add in a parallel increase in domestic spending, or lawmakers would strip the measure of all extra defense spending and send yet another «simple» stopgap bill back to the House.
«Examining developmental changes in the brain over a critical period of reading appears to be a unique sensitive measure of variation and may add insight to our understanding of reading development in ways that brain data from one time point, and behavioral and environmental measures, can not,» said Chelsea Myers, BS, lead author and lab manager in UCSF's Laboratory for Educational NeuroScience.
Provided the movement of teachers in and out of a grade has not changed the makeup of students enrolled in that grade, this finding supports the conclusion that measured value - added of teachers is an unbiased predictor of future test - score gains, as there appears to be no other explanation for the resulting improvement in test scores.
Also, it seems likely that classroom context will affect observation measures just as it appears to affect value - added measures.
A weighted average of value - added and classroom observations also appears to improve validity and reliability compared with using either measure alone.
Several countries have had higher ratios with a meltdown, he suggested, adding that in Canada in the last three years that measure has climbed at half the speed than that of the pre-crash era in the United States, making it appear less threatening.