Sentences with phrase «best available measures»

While «it will take time to develop richer and more sophisticated measures of teacher effectiveness,» Haycock writes, «until then policymakers should use a combination of the best available measures.»

We think it's the best available measure.

In fairness, there remains considerable uncertainty in aerosol effects, but if there will be real progress in narrowing the credible range for climate sensitivity, it has to come from reducing the still too wide uncertainty in aerosol effects, not from flogging climate models which assume aerosol offsets inconsistent with the best available measured effects.

And thus, subject to the reduced timeframe and another (minor) modification, the ALJ «recommends that the Commission adopt the Federal Social Cost of Carbon as reasonable and the best available measure to determine the environmental cost of CO2.»

Not exact matches

The engineers viewed the ruse as a stopgap measure, Volkswagen has suggested, and hoped to abandon it when better technologies became available.

Pros: Adobe Marketing Cloud delivers perhaps the most robust offering of digital marketing tools available today, allowing businesses to engage with customers on a personalized basis throughout the customer journey, measure those experiences and better understand their customers.

The most reliable measures of individual stock valuation we've found are based on formal discounted cash flow considerations, but among publicly - available measures we've evaluated, price / revenue ratios are better correlated with actual subsequent returns than price / earnings ratios (though normalized profit margins and other factors are obviously necessary to make cross-sectional comparisons).

Despite my admitted stumble in the half - cycle since 2009, it's perplexing that the equity market is at the second greatest valuation extreme in the history of the United States, on what are objectively the most durably reliable valuation measures available, but it has somehow become an affront to suggest that this will not end well.

For instance, we used APY as a common measure to help determine the best savings accounts available to consumers.

The inverse of this ratio, the bank leverage measure mentioned earlier, was regarded as the best available indicator of bank riskiness: the higher the leverage, the riskier the bank.

MZM has become one of the preferred measures of money supply because it better represents money readily available within the economy for spending and consumption.

He also noted that member churches would be provided with MinistrySafe resources in order to have «the best training and safety measures available.»

In this article, Leslie Ford of the Heritage Foundation, a think - tank based in Washington DC, draws upon sociological evidence from the United States to suggest that the Catholic Church's vision of the married family is the best poverty - busting measure available to modern society.

Even if measures supported by the best available evidence (such as traffic light labelling on the front - of - food packaging and removing advertising junk food to children between 6 am and 9 pm as recommended in the Government's response to the National Preventative Health Taskforce) are implemented, regulation is no panacea.

(For example: American recipes might say «one stick of butter» - this translates to 8 tablespoons or 100 grams) You might find it worthwhile to invest in some «cups» and «measuring spoons» as well as a small kitchen scales (all readily available in most asda, tesco, etc) to help you get to grips with correct measurements.

The pH and nutrient concentration should be measured and adjusted daily and good meters are readily available.

This may be bad news for social mobility, since children raised by married parents typically do better in life on almost every available economic and social measure.

Her illustrations are available as prints (plus an original thrown in for good measure every once in a while), on pinback buttons, bookplates, postcards or calendars.»

These measures will lead to the best health, comfort and happiness available to a child.

What data are available to suggest that manual measurement of the pelvis leads to better outcomes and what outcomes were measured?

If you will be having multiple car seats in a row or you have a small car, it would be a good idea to measure your available space before purchasing a car seat.

It provides a single, seemingly straightforward measure of party performance that can tell us not only how well or badly a party has done as compared with four years ago, but also as compared with any previous local elections for which a PNS is available — even though the places in which local elections are held varies considerably from one year to the next.

The measures included expanding available treatment options as well as new penalties for the sale or distribution of heroin.

Most of us would like to think we are doing the best to stay healthy as individuals, but some of the most effective preventative measures are initiated at a national level by government — based on the best available evidence and research — and need to be taken up by all sectors of society including teachers, employers, designers, and businesses.

«Among the factors that define the quality of a wine, one of the most important is the quality of the grape as the raw material, but this concept is difficult to assess, due to problems such as subjective parameters, the short period of time available in the field to do the analysis during harvest time, the lack of measuring instruments and their high price, as well as the mixing of good quality and bad quality grape in the trucks.

The best - available preventive measures should include some versions of cascaded and embedded security in the form of hardware tags and advanced encryption.

That means all the technician could see was that they were there, but they were in too small quantities to be measured by the best available technology at the time.

Sticking with the bench press as an example, it may only consist of the pectoralis muscles, the deltoids and the triceps but the pectoralis is a massive muscle (comparatively for the upper body) but this explains why it is one of the best measures of upper body strength there is available.

This is the best technique available for measuring bone density.

Free T3 (Free Triiodothyroxine) measures free T3 hormone and is the best marker for measuring active thyroid hormones available to thyroid receptor sites.

It may be that parental education provides a better proxy for the level of parental support or student engagement than the available poverty measures.

It's exactly what one would want from a publication named Quality Counts: a nice, clear focus on academic results, namely student achievement, measured on the best yardstick available.

«The best way in my opinion to measure results of an online program would be keep your data organized and visual and always available», he says.

Key Measures Special educational needs key measures include a single assessment process (0 - 25) which is more streamlined, better involves children, young people and families and is completed quickly; An Education Health and Care Plan (replacing the statement) which brings services together and is focused on improving outcomes; An offer of a personal budget for families with an Education, Health and Care Plan; A requirement for local authorities and health services to jointly plan and commission services that children, young people and their families need; A requirement on local authorities to publish a local offer indicating the support available to those with special educational needs and disabilities and their families, and; The introduction of mediation opportunities for disputes and a trial giving children the right to appeal if they are unhappy with their Measures Special educational needs key measures include a single assessment process (0 - 25) which is more streamlined, better involves children, young people and families and is completed quickly; An Education Health and Care Plan (replacing the statement) which brings services together and is focused on improving outcomes; An offer of a personal budget for families with an Education, Health and Care Plan; A requirement for local authorities and health services to jointly plan and commission services that children, young people and their families need; A requirement on local authorities to publish a local offer indicating the support available to those with special educational needs and disabilities and their families, and; The introduction of mediation opportunities for disputes and a trial giving children the right to appeal if they are unhappy with their measures include a single assessment process (0 - 25) which is more streamlined, better involves children, young people and families and is completed quickly; An Education Health and Care Plan (replacing the statement) which brings services together and is focused on improving outcomes; An offer of a personal budget for families with an Education, Health and Care Plan; A requirement for local authorities and health services to jointly plan and commission services that children, young people and their families need; A requirement on local authorities to publish a local offer indicating the support available to those with special educational needs and disabilities and their families, and; The introduction of mediation opportunities for disputes and a trial giving children the right to appeal if they are unhappy with their support.

The authors justify their omission of half of the available evidence by claiming that math performance is a better measure of school performance than reading, since students likely get nearly all of their math instruction in school but much of their reading instruction at home.

This isn't a perfect indicator of a blog's influence (while daily or monthly readership measures might be better, they are not available for all blogs) but it does show the «authority» given to a site by other bloggers.

Transparency, as I see it, refers to measuring student performance regularly — annually is how we've been going about it, and should continue doing — and making the results available to the public, as well as to educators and policy leaders.

U.S. News is careful to acknowledge that this is not a perfect measure of low - income status but goes on to say, «Many experts say that Pell figures are the best available gauge of how many low - income undergraduates there are on a given campus.»

The guide provides school officials with a useful summary of the options available, as well as real world examples of where access control measures have proven instrumental in schools.

That might also help convince policymakers to make better data available to measure the share of low - income students enrolled in colleges and universities.

If such quality - control measures can be adopted in other communities, charter schools should be supported as a means to increase the supply of good schools available to poor children.

The three - year, $ 1 million study, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and released here last week, found that only a handful of the questions on major commercially available tests in mathematics and science, as well as on tests included in textbooks, measured the kinds of conceptual knowledge and problem - solving abilities reformers say should be integral to...

Although the similarity across measures suggests they are useful tools for decision - making, the variation suggests the benefit of being able to update decisions when new information becomes available; if a teacher appears relatively ineffective in one year, it is worth seeing her measure in another year as well.

The authors recommend four best practices in this area: (1) Get rid of the omnibus grade, which tells teachers little about the content measured or the difficulty level of the content; (2) If you can't get rid of the omnibus grade, provide scores on measurement topics in addition to the grade; (3) Expand the assessment options available to students; and (4) Allow students to continually update their scores on previous measurement topics.

This blog will review the available measures and how to select the best progress measure to match each student's instructional level.

In 2008 E3 Alliance, with United Way, Education Service Center Region 13 and San Marcos School District, led a collaborative of Pre-K and Kindergarten teachers, early childhood experts, and community members who worked for almost two years, taking the best measures available, to develop the first standard for school readiness in the history of the state of Texas.

Our latest report — Back to the Staffing Surge — measures US public school employment growth versus student growth as well as teacher salary fluctuations and student outcomes over the past 65 years using publicly available data that state departments of education annually report to the U.S. Department of Education.

We have made great progress in expanding the repertoire of measures available to examine reading acquisition, and we can credit much of that progress to better conceptual frameworks for understanding the acquisition process.

Additionally, states should collect data from teacher preparation programs that measure how well training programs are recruiting and retaining diverse candidates and make these data available to the public.

«Given the lack of broad - based stakeholder input into the waiver, the unrealistic timelines for implementing the teacher evaluation system under the waiver, the lack of research - based support for evaluating teachers based on student performance on state tests, and the dearth of vetted alternative measures of student learning available to use for teachers other than those teaching grades 5 - 9 reading and math, we recommend the Legislature delay taking action to implement the waiver's teacher evaluation system requirements, and urge the commissioner to continue to negotiate for more flexibility in the waiver regarding the teacher evaluation requirements, as well as to seek an extension from USDE regarding the timeline under which to implement the new system,» Eaton testified.