Sentences with phrase «best observation approaches»

Given all this, it is perhaps unsurprising that the biggest ever study on teacher evaluation, the Measures of Effective Teaching Project (MET), revealed that even the very best observation approaches had limited success in identifying the teachers also associated with the highest gains in pupil attainment.

Not exact matches

In contrast to this observational approach, Schmittner (as well as a number of other papers, like reference # 4 in this post) take advantage of both models and observations, and try to use the observations to constrain which feedback parameters in the model are consistent (e.g., an overly sensitive model with the same forcings as another model will produce too big of a temperature change than observations allow).

This new approach did not reject the earlier studies of thermodynamics; rather, it used a better theory of the basis of thermodynamics to explain these observations and experiments.

Insights from research There are however some general insights that have emerged from the research: first, the best professional learning programmes for teachers should involve multiple approaches for providing feedback (selected from the seven listed in the panel on this page); second, it is critical that teachers are properly trained as observers; and third, observations and feedback for professional learning should be a parallel and separate process to appraisals for performance management.

[12] This approach will work less well when part - time observers are used because they will have fewer observations.

The underlying approach of the CEL strategy is to start each teacher observation with the assumption that the instructor wants to do well by the students and is trying his or her best with the tools and strategies they currently have, Dassler said.

A number of states and districts have devised multiple - measures approaches to teacher evaluation that combine classroom observations with a basket of evidence about student learning, as well as evidence about professional contributions.

Would the coding or the viewing approach result in better alignment of teacher education students» observations with those of expert teacher - educators on a text - based posttreatment test of classroom observation?

using the Ofsted subject specific guidelines [to encourage them to be familiar with it] and our own school learning and teaching priorities to create their own agreed obs criteria for one of our observations [joint one with LM and LnT leader] We too have done away with grades for our other obs [joint LnT leader and random / chosen colleague] after a pleasant Ofsted in October and want to experiment with different plans / approaches to decide which tactics will best develop our learning and teaching over the next couple of years [in the happy knowledge that Ofsted won't bother us!]

No matter how you mix it, it's better to go with Value - Added, student surveys, or both: As Dropout Nation noted last year, the accuracy of classroom observations is so low that even in a multiple measures approach to evaluation in which value - added data and student surveys account for the overwhelming majority of the data culled from the model (72.9 percent, and 17.2 percent of the evaluation in one case), the classroom observations are of such low quality that they bring down the accuracy of the overall performance review.

Adopting a multidisciplinary approach to his work through painting, assembling of objects, installation, photography, video, and performance art, his artwork offers a distant conceptual observation of the political and historical events that have shaped his country as well as subjectivity in regards to their resulting impact on humanity.

All of his works share a poetic approach to everyday occurrences and observation, an engagement with the issues of time and the void, as well as underlying musicality.

Wouldn't the best approach be focusing on individual models and trying to find out, why they come up with tropospheric trends that don't seem to match the observations?

In particular, Annan and Hargreaves (2006) used a Bayesian statistical approach that combines information from both 20th century observations and from last glacial maximum data to produce an estimate of climate sensitivity that is much better constrained than by either set of observations alone (see our post on this, here).

Here lies some issues too: if a couple of studies being heavily relied upon are being used that have some unknown flaws the Bayes approach may or may not be able to correct for those, whereas direct empirical observations can better correct for such issues, and there are some other frequentist approaches, though much more tedious, can better control for such errors.

They also say that «Time series analysis offers a rigorous approach for extracting underlying cycles in a set of observations» — interpretation: it's a bit better then eyeballing a chart — but look: fancy math!

A third approach, by BEST, is to treat each change in observations as the end of one observation set and the start of a new independent one.

This manual observation approach worked well when the number of climate stations was small

It also seems unfair to say that the model - weighting approach is better because it doesn't rely on the existence of a linear relationship when you * chose * the variable to compare against observations on the basis of that variable providing a good linear fit to your predictand.

But the NASA researchers said their approach, described in the journal Nature Climate Change, is the first to test the idea using satellite observations, as well as direct temperature measurements of the upper ocean.

Because the models are not deterministic, multiple simulations are needed to compare with observations, and the number of simulations conducted by modeling centers are insufficient to create a pdf with a robust mean; hence bounding box approaches (assessing whether the range of the ensembles bounds the observations) are arguably a better way to establish empirical adequacy.

«Coupled models are becoming increasingly reliable tools for understanding climate and climate change, and the best models are now capable of simulating present - day climate with accuracy approaching conventional atmospheric observations,» said Reichler.

One approach is to estimate global temperature as a simple function of climate forcing and ENSO through a regression approach; perhaps the best - known example is Foster & Rahmstorf (2011), which found that when the impact of natural factors (volcanic eruptions, solar variations, and ENSO) is removed, the trend in global temperature has been remarkably steady since 1979 (when satellite observations of atmospheric temperature begin).

When we can not obtain conclusive root cause evidence by direct observation of the characteristics of the excursion, or direct analysis of performance data, the next best approach is to simulate the excursion by performing input / output (I / O) experimentation on the same or an equivalent system.

Anyways I agree: Probably energy balances approach leads to better observations over the next decennia, and better knowledge of climate.

Current UK government policies recognise the need for universal parenting support to complement targeted and indicated approaches29 — 33 and the English Department for Education is currently piloting the offer of free vouchers for parenting classes (the CANParent initiative) to all parents in three areas of the country.34 Such recommendations derive from observations relating to the prevalence of suboptimal parenting, 35 the inefficiency of targeting on the basis of identifiable risk factors36, 37 and the potential for realising change in high risk as well as whole population groups by reducing the stigma which may be attached to targeted parenting support.36 — 38 Given the range and prevalence of health and social outcomes on which parent — child relationships have an influence, 2, 3, 5 — 16 universal approaches are appealing.

The article concludes with the observation that the authoritative parenting style is the perfect balance and the best approach for both the parents and children.

Despite the fact that the approach to these topics has been rooted in lengthy and tediously demanding observations, the papers are demonstrating the power of ethological observations as well as longitudinal analysis with which the Grossmanns have spent much of the lifetime throughout their impressive careers.