Each of the data collection tools narrowly focus on specific effective classroom practices — data can be
collected by observers in short classroom visits of 10 minutes or more and shared.
As an example, one MSP leader described the Japanese practice of conducting research lessons, in which «the research evidence is
collected by the observers about what in the lesson enables learning and what does not.
The data
collected by observers over the past century allow researchers, conservation biologists and other interested individuals to study the long - term health and status of bird populations across North America.
Not exact matches
That is the ethnographic record, the
collected descriptions of all the ways people have actually lived written
by observers on the scene.
The veteran leftwinger has surprised
observers by collecting 40 nominations from local parties, just eight less than the bookmakers» favourite, Andy Burnham.
Citizen science may be a useful and cost - effective means to increase knowledge of shark populations on coral reefs, but scientists do not yet know enough about how data
collected by untrained
observers compares to results from traditional research methods.
«They and all the volunteer
observers before them are the backbone of our climate and weather data collection network,» he said, adding that the 100 years of data
collected has been used
by dryland farmers, water managers, WSU researchers and, of course, meteorologists.
Because the light being
collected is invisible, the human
observer is replaced
by an infrared detector at the mirror's focal point.
They also come to an agreement on things like what sort of data could be
collected for the teacher
by the
observer, when would be an appropriate time and what sort of duration they would need the
observer in the classroom for.
An
observer may use tracking methods to
collect data on movement in a classroom — such as
by recording on a map of the classroom the movement of a teacher during a lesson or of students during transition time.
This tool is used
by the
observer to
collect data for the cognitive level of each question the teacher poses during a lesson.
By collecting teacher performance data with these tools, the
observers then share the data with teachers and help them reflect on their practice.
Videotape observations
collected by seal hunt
observers indicate that between 7 % and 30 % (Daoust et al and IFAW, respectively) of attempts to kill seals
by shooting and clubbing were not successful in achieving unconsciousness on the first attempt.
He began
collecting accounts of humpback whales interacting with orcas, and found nothing short of 115 documented interactions, reported
by 54 different
observers between 1951 and 2012.