As just posted on Diane Ravitch's blog, Randi Weingarten, the current president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), has (finally) expressed her full opposition
against using value - added models (VAMs), the statistical measures of utmost interest on this blog, for teacher evaluation, accountability, and merit pay purposes.
The National Research Council, the American Statistical Association and the Rand Corporation have previously cautioned
against using value - added scores to make personnel decisions.
The American Educational Research Association became the latest organization to caution
against using value - added models — complex algorithms that attempt to measure a teacher's impact on student test scores — to evaluate teachers and principals.
Hoyt also cited a recent policy statement by the American Educational Research Association that cautions
against using value - added data in teacher evaluations and for high - stakes purposes.
Not exact matches
The income you take from the plan is not included in income totals the IRS
uses to determine how much you pay in taxes on your social security, and the cash
value doesn't count
against your kids when they apply for federal student aid.
This provides a unique angle to real estate investing, which often
uses leverage, whereby a buyer borrows
against most of a property's
value to gain income from the property, even though the buyer only put part of the money into the property.
With a
value of $ 400 when
used for statement credits
against travel, this is among the most valuable bonuses available to consumers.
CFD contracts are
used widely by institutional investors to hedge their positions
against undesirable upward or downward swings in market
values.
In this video I'm going to show you a great way to get better keywords out of the Google Adwords Keyword tool if you haven't seen the previous video you'll want to watch that video where I show you how to get better search volume numbers from both google adwords as well as some other sources to get better estimates for the amount of times that keyword is searched each month i'll put a link in the video here so that you can click that video if you haven't seen that yet let's get started now if you want better results from the Google Adwords Keyword planner you have to work a little differently than everyone else so most people come to the Google Adwords Keyword planner and they simply click on this search for new keywords
using a phrase, website, or category and then they just paste a bunch of keywords into this text box so let's say as an example that these were our starting keywords ok so let's say we have the keywords «fishing tips» «fishing tackle» «fishing for bass» «fishing rod» and «fishing reel» what most people do is that they would simply come here and they would copy this they would paste it into this field and they would hit Search and they would get back their results and that's fine but one little tip that will help you get much better results is only paste in one key word at a time so instead of pasting all these in just paste in the single keyword «fishing tips» and then proceed from there to pull that those results up and you'll get this back if you click right here you can download the ideas you'll notice they're 701 here listed so if we download these ideas will download them to a CSV file comma separated
value file you can open that with notepad you can open it with excel open office when you're finished putting all your ideas and individually you will now have a bunch of different common separate
value files containing the keywords and the search volume I've already gone ahead and done that just to save time on the video but i want to show you what happens when you
use this method versus just pasting in the keywords like most people do so here you'll see this column here represents these two columns here represent if we had pasted in all of the keywords at once and click search at google adwords keyword tool is one that showed you and you'll see we have a total of 706 results we got back when we did that this column this column here represents what happens when we paste one key word at a time and then download the file paste the second keyword download the file and then we just simply grab those terms and copy them and you'll see now we have a total of 1,915 keywords now what I've done with the highlighting here is to show you anything that's not highlighted in this column is a keyword we would not have gotten back had we pasted in all the keywords at once you can see there's lots and lots of keywords here we would not have seen know your competitors and the company's you're competing
against they're
using probably the simple method just pasting a bunch of keywords sitting search and then looking through those terms to find their terms if you will take the extra few minutes it takes doesn't take long to simply go in and paste one key word at a time you will get back a ton of great keywords that others aren't seeing because they're
using this other method and in actuality when I ran the numbers there's a total of 3.8 million searches represented by these keywords here that you would miss if you simply just copied and pasted those five terms and hit search the Google Adwords Keyword planner once you've
used the google keyword planner to find lots of new keyword ideas what do you do with all those keywords the biggest problem is that you can there are so many keyword tools out there you can get hundreds of thousands of keywords by spending a day
using the different keyword tools but what you do with all that information the answer is a cool tool called keyword grouper pro and Keyword Grouper Pro is completely free there's not even an opt in you just simply download the tool now at the top of this video there's a link if you click that i'll show you exactly how to
use keyword grouper pro doesn't matter where you got your keywords from i'm going to show you how to take those keywords group them into tight groups and then you can set up your campaigns and know exactly which groups represent buyers and once you know where the buyers are at you can simply focus your marketing in that area to make more profit in your business
Sorting methodically
using the same previously - mentioned techniques to match
value propositions
against link prospects
The U.S. has laws
against dumping — selling foreign goods below «fair
value» — and the federal government often
uses them.
Um also cautioned
against using either calculation in accessing BBM's
value.
So when you
use your post as a bashing tool
against God's people, and mock Christ's resurection from the dead as a comparison to creepy, ungodly, demonic «Halloween» practices, you only show your immaturity in putting your foot in your mouth about things you know nothing about, and your words are of no more
value then empty, silly ranting.
For those who argue
against her, what
value system are you
using to judge her position?
But Jesus stood
against the Pharisees who were finding worth and
value in orthodoxy and
using it to exclude others.
All of them
use the current
values of secular society as the point of reference
against which to present the moral teachings of the Catholic faith.
Against sacralism, liberation theologians point to the many ideological distortions of Christian faith to legitimate dominative power - complexes and
value - conflicts in which that faith is
used to victimize the poor, women, non-European races, the environment, and the defenseless.
The section on just war theory closed with a warm affirmation of the
value of a pacifist witness within the Catholic Church, claiming that it shares with just war theory «a common presumption
against the
use of force as a means of settling disputes.»
Mirror's premise is that
using contemporary
values, Andrew Jackson would be guilty of crimes
against humanity and that the US has a long history of what today we would consider criminal acts.
My point is that most of the resistance we run up
against when evoking non-traditional ideas is that our audience is evaluating those ideas
using real - time traditional
values.
Too often, self - righteous religious leaders
use their power to promote actions that go
against the core
values of their religion and religious texts.
C. S. Lewis» recognition of a fact -
value dichotomy within an argument
against ethical subjectivism in The Abolition of Man has no doubt contributed something to the frequency with which «
values» is
used by both Catholics and Protestants who want to defend «traditional
values.»
You maggots are attempting to undermine our religious liberty by
using our own
values against US.
I
used a barometric pressure
value from the Weather Channel to calibrate it, after checking that
value out
against other local reports.
Figures reveal Robert Parker's declining influence on Bordeaux wine pricing: Such is Parker's present effect on the Bordeaux market that The Wine Investment Fund
uses his scores as one of three pillars by which it measures the relative
value of one wine
against another...
Betting
Against the Public is one of the most popular and simplest methods
used by Sports Insights to maximize
value in the sports betting marketplace.
SportsInsights
uses proprietary information and sportsbook contacts to highlight plays that have excessive «Square» action — and thus should yield
value by «betting
against» the square bettors.
Unfortunately,
using a simple favorite versus underdog filter provided no additional
value, and betting
against road teams playing in their second game in as many nights actually produced a win rate above 50 %, but failed to cover the necessary vig needed to produce a winning system.
Using our Bet Labs software, we sought to determine whether we could find any historical
value by fading (betting
against) ranked teams following a loss.
This system was
used last week to indicate
value on the Vikings (they easily covered
against the Cardinals on Thursday night) and we have another system match this week on the Titans.
2nd you will loose on his much needed
value if you let him off for free next season instead of making good
use of this money to obtain a decent replacement someone like Mahrez or whom ever else would be a much better asset in that scenario plus Sanzhez being South American and all shall be very vocal about it and will throw tantrums and negative images through out the season for keeping him
against his will and will simply will act childish which we all saw is very capable of and this would seriously affect team spirit for no good reason if you can actually avoid all that and offload him for a decent price now
Taking advantage of shaded lines is one of the fundamental strategies we
use to increase
value by Betting
Against the Public.
MSF staff
use value - laden call - to - arms language in speaking out
against human rights abuses.
Separately, 16 state attorneys general, including those from California and New York, spoke out
against the executive order and warned that they will «
use all of the tools of our offices to fight this unconstitutional order and preserve our nation's national security and core
values.»
Cities are going to be the first line of defense
against a Trump Administration and his radical right - wing agenda, and I am thankful that we have a mayor who has pledged to
use the tools at his disposal to protect the
values that make New York City great.
Also, the latest line of attack of the NPP
against President Mahama's second term bid is to allege that the
value of all the infrastructural projects undertaken by the NDC administration had been over-bloated with the excess cash
used to line the pockets of individuals in government.
2011: David Jentsch, Edythe London, and Dario Ringach — Drs. Jentsch, London, and Ringach were honored for the rare courage they demonstrated in speaking out forcefully for the
value of the
use of animals in biomedical research, even in the face of grave threats and vicious acts of harassment and vandalism
against them and their families.
The Judgement - or J -
value, a new method pioneered by Professor Thomas that assesses how much should be spent to protect human life and the environment that has recently been validated
against pan-national data, would
value life about four times higher, closer to the
value used by the US Department of Transportation ($ 9.1 million in 2012).
Professor Thomas's team
used the Judgement or J -
value to balance the cost of a safety measure
against the increase in life expectancy it achieves.
We'll reduce it 40 percent by 2020, by 2020 everything we make we'll
use 40 percent less energy per dollar or per yuan of
value, okay; which is good, I mean, there's no argument to be made
against them doing it, but their own economic projections indicate that their economy is going to grow so quickly that they'll be producing more CO2 instead of less at the end of that period.
In contrast to the amino acid divergence and the ratio of non-synonymous to synonymous substitutions per site that we examined in the present investigation, they analyzed the proportion of most diverged genes by
using the E
value of the best hit when searching annotated honeybee genes
against the Genbank non-redundant protein database.
The lessons included are: Religion and life Abortion Euthanasia Death and the afterlife The origins and
value of the world The
use and abuse of animals The
use and abuse of the environment Revise, review and assess Existence of God and Revelation Design argument First cause argument Argument from miracles Arguments
against the existence of God Special revelation and enlightenment General revelation Attributes of the divine and the
value of revelation Crime and Punishment Crime and punishment Reasons for crime Aims of punishment Treatment pf criminals Suffering and forgiveness Death penalty Revision and assessment preparation Each lesson is fully resourced to a high standard, differentiated, challenging and engaging.
The lessons included are: Religion and life Abortion Euthanasia Death and the afterlife The origins and
value of the world The
use and abuse of animals The
use and abuse of the environment Revise, review and assess Existence of God and Revelation Design argument First cause argument Argument from miracles Arguments
against the existence of God Special revelation and enlightenment General revelation Attributes of the divine and the
value of revelation Revise, review and assess Each lesson is fully resourced to a high standard, differentiated, challenging and engaging.
However, we must be careful not to penalize those of us working with the highest - needs student populations, and we recommend
using a two - step
value - added model in order to ensure that there are no incentives
against teaching at - risk students, while identifying and rewarding those teachers that are most successful with such students.
«This low rate of parental exemption indicates that our parents and students see the
value of measuring the skills of all students
against the same standards the same way,
using one common yardstick, and one shared goal: learning,» Torlakson said.
In the following post (which also appeared on Huffington Post), Weingarten comes out firmly
against value - added methods of evaluating teachers, which basically
use complicated formulas that
use student standardized test scores to evaluate the «
value» a teacher adds to a student's learning.
More importantly, as Linda Raffaele Mendez and Howard Knoff of the University of South Florida have noted in a 2003 study, the
use of out - of - school suspensions has little
value as a deterrent
against violence in schools.
As per Diane Ravitch's blog, «The Tennessee Education Association filed a second lawsuit
against the
use if
value - added assessment (called TVAAS in Tennessee), this time including extremist Governor Haslam and ex-TFA state commissioner Huffman in their suit.
Even those who champion
value - added measures caution
against using them as the sole means of evaluating teachers.
Using multiple measures of teacher performance is one safeguard
against the shortcomings of
value - added analysis.