Sentences with phrase «comparing evaluation data»

This is done by comparing evaluation data year over year to determine whether professional development is actually improving teacher performance.

Not exact matches

Other strengths of the underpinning cohort study include high participation by midwifery units and trusts in England; the minimisation of selection bias through achievement of a high response rate and absence of self selection bias because of non-consent; and the ability to compare groups that were similar in terms of identified clinical risk.12 The economic evaluation was conducted according to nationally agreed design and reporting guidelines.15 26 Collection of primary unit cost data was thorough and accounted for regional differences in care patterns.

For the purposes of this economic evaluation, the forms were initially used in a related study funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) research for patient benefit programme «assessing the impact of a new birth centre on choice and outcome of maternity care in an inner city area,» which will be reported in full elsewhere, comparing the costs of care in a free standing midwifery unit with care in an obstetric unit in the same trust.16 The data collected included details of staffing levels, treatments, surgeries, diagnostic imaging tests, scans, drugs, and other resource inputs associated with each stage of the pathway through intrapartum and after birth care.

New York, NY — StudentsFirstNY today issued a brief analysis comparing the difference in teacher effectiveness between New York City's high poverty and low poverty districts following the State Education Department's recent release of teacher evaluation data.

«We retrospectively analyzed the data from the DTI sequence to derive measures of white matter integrity, which we compared to clinical measures and subsequent outcome measures 6 months to 2.5 years after the initial evaluation.»

Each evaluation study often uses a different model and / or data set, making it impossible to directly compare the performance and computational efficiency of various approaches that simulate the same aerosol process.

In 2015, Brazil's school assessment exams, the National Education Evaluation System (SAEB in Portuguese), will provide the first data on how schools in Amazonas have fared since receiving the IDB loan, and while this will be a useful tool for evaluating the performance of rural students compared to their urban counterparts, Perez says the exam may not be an entirely accurate measurement of the success of PADEAM and the Media Center.

The initial government evaluation gathered data through 2008 - 09, so the graduation rate analysis is only based on about 300 students (as compared to 1,300 students from multiple grades included in the test - score analysis).

Her site asks board members to evaluate themselves — asking, for example, if they know the key promises that they made to their authorizer — and encourages them to compare their board to others in the BoardOnTrack network by using the self - evaluation data.

The Educational Development for Planning and Conducting Evaluations (ED PACE) was a three - year research project funded by the U.S. Department of Education to develop, implement, and refine a set of research tools and methods that would enable project personnel at the state and local level to compare student outcomes and achievement data using a quasi-experimental design.

Teachers won't embrace the power of data if they're worried that it will be used to rate them or compare them to their peers, and administrators will be similarly cautious if they're led to believe that their entire evaluation hinges upon their school's performance data and that data alone.

Further, the evaluation of the D.C. voucher program only assessed one year of achievement data; however, these are similar to the longer - term impacts found in the other three recent rigorous studies compared here.

The evaluation is compiled and compared with aggregated national driving data, and then can be sent to Progressive insurance via Progressive's Snapshot program.

rhhardin Uncertainty evaluation is at the core of the scientific method of hypothesizing models and comparing them against data.

If I was going to test M&W's evaluation of the proxy data, probably the first thing I would do is create simulated proxy data by adding various amounts of noise to the thermometer record and then compare the noisy thermometer record to random data using M&W's method.

The study analyzes data from randomized controlled trials and less rigorous evaluations to compare treatments, treated populations and findings across programs.

When possible, all data were compared with publicly available documents, such as legislative reports, agency budget documents and evaluation reports.

Evaluation of model fit was based on multiple criteria, including the theoretical meaningfulness of the model, absolute - fit indices (how well a model fits the data, without comparing to a baseline model), incremental fit measures (how much better the model fits than a baseline model) and model cross-validation (how the model can be replicated with an independent sample).

Methods: The IBM was compared with data from a structured marital interview based on the Self - Evaluation of Social Support Schedule (SESS).