Sentences with phrase «credible research evidence»
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Well I decided to research certain things and upon further examination I found more and more credible evidence for God existing, I started to think that maybe, just maybe, God could exist.
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A book I was reading the other day had a list of at least 10,000 credible, phD, research scientists that believed evolution was bunk and creationsim was a better way to explain ALL of the evidence.
Sian Porter, Chairman of the BDA's Communications Board said: «With so many people online claiming to be «experts» in the field of food and nutrition, it is vital that people have a point of contact where they know that information being given out and promoted is credible, evidenced - based and based on solid scientific research, as opposed to personal opinions and people trying to sell you all kinds of products.
Physicians have a primary responsibility for translating research and evidence into guidance for parents and children, and they are credible and influential voices for advancing public education and policy concerning population health.
However, the strong evidence that supports the climate science and human causation of climate change doesn't warrant equal weight with minority claims, often disputed by other research, that are not credible, they add.
Research shows no credible evidence that a single abortion causes psychological problems in women
We believe that all educators - from those standing in front of a roomful of students to those leading state educational agencies - should be able to participate in and use research effectively: to distinguish between random sampling and random assignment, differentiate between credible evidence and anecdotal claims, and apply scientific conclusions for the benefit of their respective «teams.»
Among his arguments, Sireci found that the College Board's research on how well SATs taken with and without extended time predict college grades was «inconclusive» and criticized the professional testing standards themselves, including their failure to define what would constitute «credible evidence.»
To facilitate such examination, this brief reviews credible research exploring: the feasibility of combining formative assessment (a basis for professional growth) and summative assessment (a basis for high - stakes decisions like dismissal); the various tools that might be used to gather evidence of teacher effectiveness; and the various stakeholders who might play a role in a teacher assessment system.
«All credible research finds the same evidence about the STEM workforce: ample supply, stagnant wages and, by industry accounts, thousands of applicants for any advertised job.
On this note, and «[i] n sum, recent research on value added tells us that, by using data from student perceptions, classroom observations, and test score growth, we can obtain credible evidence [albeit weakly related evidence, referring to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's MET studies] of the relative effectiveness of a set of teachers who teach similar kids [emphasis added] under similar conditions [emphasis added]... [Although] if a district administrator uses data like that collected in MET, we can anticipate that an attempt to classify teachers for personnel decisions will be characterized by intolerably high error rates [emphasis added].
The strength of the evidence based upon the causal validity of the research designs used to test the model's impact (e.g., how reliable and credible is it?).
Together, he cautions, the combination of these forces threatens scientific research generally, and in particular, jeopardizes the effort to generate independent, credible evidence that is needed to inform and guide our efforts to improve education.
The work to fulfill the requests, headed by Nancy Love looked into the most credible research and best practice evidence at the time, and forged ahead in what was then a vast, barren landscape of data use by school practitioners to develop the processes, tools, and resources that have helped thousands of schools use their data to increase achievement, change teaching practices and inform school and district decisions impacting every aspect of service to their students.
Perhaps you have some credible evidence to back up the claim that similar melts happened during the recent past, could you post links to such research to show that these claims are not egregious?
It may be asking a for a lot of research to put that together, but I think a non cherry picked set of graphs would be a more credible demonstration that although the earth appears to have been warming at a rate of around 1 degree F per century since the end of the Little Ice Age in the mid 1800s, there's no convincing evidence that this warming is anything other than a natural process.
Without there being credible evidence for some real effect few responsible researchers would see this as a field of research that they would want to get involved in.
About Blog RacismReview intends to provide a credible and reliable source of information for journalists, students and members of the general public who are seeking solid evidence - based research and analysis of «race,» racism, ethnicity, and immigration issues, especially as they undergird and shape U.S. society within a global setting.
«Some proponents have claimed that research exists that supports their methods, or that their methods are evidence based, or are even the sole evidence - based approach in existence, yet these proponents provide no citations to credible scientific research sufficient to support these claims (Becker - Weidman, n.d. - b).