Sentences with phrase «added measures especially»

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But «it is likely that the uncertainty surrounding the presidential election had a negative impact, especially among lower income consumers, and without that added uncertainty, the confidence measures may not have weakened,» said Richard Curtin, the leading economist of the University of Michigan's preliminary consumer confidence survey.

He added: «To those especially who are here from the first responders we say this: your dedication, courage and effectiveness are beyond measure.

We have also learned a lot about the alternatives to value - added measures — especially, classroom observations and student surveys — in the past three years.

The advent of more student testing, especially the spread of value - added measures of pupil and school performance, has given us both the technical ability to evaluate teachers by the results they produce and the moral imperative to do so.

While elements such as state standards, accountability measures, and value added measures are gaining acceptance, other important components, especially performance - based pay and increased choice options, are opposed by powerful forces — such as the politically connected teachers unions — with vested interests in the current system.

Testing, especially with value - added measures attached, functionally requires teachers to waste precious time on low - yield activities (practicing inferring; finding the main idea, etc.) that would be better spent building knowledge across subjects.

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.»

For district leaders, a key challenge in using measures of student growth, especially value - added ones, is creating communications to help minimize confusion and anxiety.

Fortunately, Amazon has added some safety measures to the Kindle Fire that allow you to turn off in - app purchases, but if you give your tablet to others (especially children) you should probably look into additional security options.

Because pet nutritional supplements are often sold in a powder form that is easy to measure and administer with each meal, many pet parents choose to add vital nutrients that could be missing from their dog's diets, especially if they are feeding their pooch a raw or homemade diet.

For the Online Game business, each title has a stable transition, especially Dynasty Warriors Online Z which had successful measures like having a PS Vita version added.

«In those days, it wouldn't have been especially surprising if the government had added an offence of being in wilful possession of an Irish accent within designated areas of the Home Counties to the panoply of absurd, panic - stricken measures adopted in the wake of terrorist violence,» he wrote for Proof, the new magazine of the Justice Gap which has as its theme «justice in a time of moral panic».

This is a sensible cost - cutting measure, especially considering that 3D Touch adds additional components, design complexity, and manufacturing challenges, but it's going to create some awkwardness in Apple's product offerings.