Sentences with phrase «assess model quality»

Just like it takes multiple measures to get at teachers» effects, it takes multiple measures to assess model quality.

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Each of these models, noted Industrial Management contributors Stanislav Karapetrovic, Divakar Rajamani, and Walter Willborn, «stipulate a number of requirements on which an organization's quality system can be assessed by an external party (registrar)» in accordance with the ISO's quality system audits standard.

In order to assess the quality of the body of evidence relating to the following outcomes for the main comparisons of midwife - led versus all other models of care for childbearing women and their infants.

For example, when examining hurricanes and typhoons, the lack of a high - quality, long - term historical record, uncertainty regarding the impact of climate change on storm frequency and inability to accurately simulate these storms in most global climate models raises significant challenges when attributing assessing the impact of climate change on any single storm.

Although incidents of waterborne infections resulting from indoor plumbing are rare, the new model may help public health authorities assess drinking - water quality.

For the first time, a map of fecal viruses traveling our global waterways has been created using modeling methods to aid in assessing water quality worldwide.

Referring to the application of Geographic Information System (GIS) analytical methods in assessing the threat of shoreline erosion to archaeological sites in the Canadian Arctic, it details steps taken to review the quality of the GIS model in light of a discrepancy with rates observed during annual survey visits.

Design, Setting, and Patients We assessed the relationship between quality and racial disparity using multilevel multivariable regression models.

For example, imagine a videogame that teaches learners content as well as character qualities such as resilience and courage, and simultaneously assesses them based on a model of learning behind the scenes.

Despite their central role in authorizing principal preparation programs and issuing principal licenses, states lack strong models for assessing the quality of programs to promote improvement.

Together with Dr. Wesley Becker, he got involved with Project Head Start and a government study (Project Follow Through) that assessed the quality of educational models.

McCaffrey will take up the topic of value - added modeling (VAM), and will help us understand the ways in which VAM might — and might not — be useful for assessing the quality of teaching and teacher preparation.

At the school and district levels, the School Quality Measures (SQM) project aims to better model the diverse perspectives and experiences of a range of school stakeholders when assessing school qQuality Measures (SQM) project aims to better model the diverse perspectives and experiences of a range of school stakeholders when assessing school qualityquality.

We need to leave behind standardized testing as the sole measure to determine whether students and schools are succeeding or failing, and adopt new models that include rich, curriculum - embedded performance assessments and multiple measures of assessing school quality.

Her team in Washington came up with a system called IMPACT, which incorporates a «value added» statistical model to assess teacher quality.

The 6 +1 Trait ® Writing analytical model for assessing and teaching writing is made up of 6 +1 key qualities that define strong writing.

The authors recommend an approach of four successive steps that teachers can take with students to instill in them the ability to work independently and gauge the quality of their work: (1) establish clear learning goals and teach students to analyze the demands of tasks and learning goals; (2) provide students models of high - quality work and discuss what makes something exemplary; (3) teach students to monitor and assess the quality of their work; and (4) provide specific, meaningful feedback.

The evaluation of the model will assess the models feasibility (e.g., Education Directors» and teachers» ability to use the CQI tools and activities) and potential efficacy (e.g., achieved levels of classroom quality, gains in children's social - emotional and language skills).

This will allow us to assess the quality of the models and to provide information on the model - to - model variability, in particular with respect to our predictions.

Although the Hofmann law is an excellent fit to the Keeling curve, contrary to your claim, the quality of that fit does not enter into the computation of R2 when assessing the fit of my model to HadCRUT3.

The results were compared to FMI's long used model to assess the quality of the forecasts.

We conduct regional modeling experiments with the Weather Research Forecast model to assess the quality of current analyses, to understand the interactions between atmosphere and sea ice and to advance characterizations of clouds in the Arctic.

The main tasks of the systems include processing and quality assessing of climate modelling results as well as the long - term preservation and worldwide distribution of climate data:

The NSRDB accounts for any recent climate changes and provides more accurate values of solar radiation due to a better model for estimating values (more than 90 percent of the solar radiation data in both data bases are modeled), more measured data including direct normal radiation, improved instrument calibration methods, and rigorous procedures for assessing quality of data.

Method: We used consistent climate — air - quality — health modeling framework across three geographical scales (World, Europe and Ile - de-France) to assess future (2030 — 2050) health impacts of ozone and PM2.5 under two emissions scenarios (Current Legislation Emissions, CLE, and Maximum Feasible Reductions, MFR).

When assessing outcome quality models that do incorporate biological mechanisms prove to be more inaccurate, while correlative climate - biodiversity models become increasingly inaccurate.

For example, to assess confidence in model projections of the Australian climate, the metrics would need to include some measures of the quality of ENSO simulation because the Australian climate depends much on this variability (see Section 11.

And if there are differences, it allows the students to discuss the merits of different approaches.117 Providing sample or model email responses for students to review after class can allow students to self - assess their work and to improve for future email tasks.118 But students may struggle to understand what separates the quality of their work from the quality reflected in the model.119 So giving students multiple, annotated responses that highlight the positive aspects of the model and giving students the chance to review the model answers in groups can maximize the chances that students can learn from model answers.120 And a checklist or grading rubric can be another useful tool — either for the professor to effectively and efficiently assess student learning outcomes or for students to self - assess their own learning.121

• Exceptional mechanical aptitude aimed at controlling and operating complex machinery • Deep technical knowledge of CAD / CAM technology and how it is used for machine operations • Great physical stamina and dexterity to perform repetitive work activities and movements • Well - versed in reading and interpreting blueprints with a view to understand machine schematics and models • Demonstrated ability to learn new machine operations and adjust machine parts to meet specific instructions • Capable of working in a high noise environment • Able to monitor and assess performance of machinery and make needed adjustments • Proven ability to perform quality control analysis by conducting tests and inspections • Exceptional time management skills aimed at ensuring that machine operations are carried out in a time efficient manner • Excellent judgment and decision making skills; ability to consider costs and benefits of optimal machine operations • Critical thinking abilities aimed at identifying alternative solutions to machine operation problems • Complex problem solving skills targeted at evaluating possible machine operational issues • Able to plan, organize and schedule machine operations in sync with production agendas • Track record of prioritizing work activities in accordance to scheduled operating precedence • Skilled at dismantling, repairing and maintaining equipment • Knowledge of operating hand and power tools used in the production trade

The following criteria were used to decide on the number of classes to retain: Akaike information criterion (AIC), Bayesian information criterion (BIC) and sample - size adjusted BIC (adj BIC).54 Also, we used entropy to assess the quality of classification, as well as the Vuong - Lo - Mendell - Rubin (VLMR) adjusted likelihood ratio test for the hypothesis that a model with one less class performs just as well.

Although traditional models of primary care provide reactive and episodic care during doctor visits, new models require outreach, coordination, and education / empowerment with increasing teamwork provided by multidisciplinary staff including home visitors.22 As FCMHs and hospitals are increasingly being held accountable to population quality measures, interest in home visitation (HV) and community health worker models have increased.23 For instance, Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set quality measures that assess well - child visit attendance of a primary care practice's panel has increased interest in medical home outreach to families and home visitation strategies.

The outcomes included «middle - aged target» and «offspring reports» of positive and negative relationship quality, and these outcomes were assessed in separate models.

We estimated two multilevel models assessing differences in positive quality and negative quality.

Similarly, Michigan's Home Visiting Initiative developed its Home Visiting Quality Assurance System (HVQAS) to assess 19 dimensions of quality across five home visiting Quality Assurance System (HVQAS) to assess 19 dimensions of quality across five home visiting quality across five home visiting models.

In order to consistently provide the highest quality early childhood education that reflects the latest in evidence - based practices, the Ounce continuously evaluates its methods, assessing their effectiveness and collecting information that it can use to improve its models.

Parents as Teachers evidence based home visiting model meets the evidence based criteria of the Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness (HomeVEE), which assess the quality of the research evidence of models.

The COACH rating form is used to assess provider fidelity to the model and quality of implementation.

The tool is the first in the field to assess the quality of home visiting programs across different models and measures home visitor characteristics, program service delivery, program content and characteristics, program management and development, and monitoring.

Next, in order to assess whether drinking status had implications for negative marital quality beyond the amount of alcohol consumed, we estimated identical models with drinking status as well as the average number of drinks per week reported by both members of the couple as predictors of Wave 2 negative marital quality, controlling for negative marital quality in Wave 1.

This study focuses on older couples and uses actor — partner interdependence models (APIMs; Kenny, Kashy, & Cook, 2006) to assess whether within - person associations between alcohol use and negative marital quality vary by the alcohol use and gender of the partner.

Responding to the call for independent data in maternal depression research (Burt et al. 2005), separate informants were used to assess the four constructs in the model — maternal reports of their depressive symptomatology, observer ratings of the quality of mother - child interaction, teacher ratings of child emotion regulation, and peer nominations of child social preference.