Sentences with phrase «analysing decades of data»

In 1992, an economist called Eric Hanushek reached a remarkable conclusion by analysing decades of data on teacher effectiveness: a student in the class of a very ineffective teacher — one ranked in the bottom 5 % — will learn, on average, half a year's worth of material in one school year, whereas if she was in the class of a very effective teacher — in the top 5 % — she would learn a year and a half's worth of material.

Not exact matches

The study, published in Economics of Education Review, analysed annual workplace data from the past five decades to gain insight into how male teacher numbers were faring in Australia's three main school sectors, namely government, independent and Catholic.

«We have to be cautious until our data has been properly analysed as part of a climate model, but this does suggest that the Arctic might be ice - free in summer for a day at least by the end of the decade,» Laxon told BBC News.

I have analysed the Gomez Dome d18O data, kindly provided to me by Paul Dennis, and found that the high correlation with the Gomez d18O record arises only during the first half of the Faraday record; the correlation is pretty low in the last few decades.