The first phase of the project (the phase covered by this grant) proposes a large -
scale data collection effort in a handful of urban centers and will focus on two goals.
The design was based on a review of more than 40 outcomes - related
data collection efforts from more than 30 governmental agencies, non-profit organizations, and educational institutions.
As with many of the problems with value - added, this one can be addressed with
better data collection efforts and careful attention to how the measures are created.
Washington — Statement of AFT President Randi Weingarten on the growing privacy and security concerns regarding inBloom's database and other
data collection efforts by parents, teachers and others.
All schools, regardless of group assignment, will be asked to take part in
data collection efforts as part of the Design2Learn study.
The CEC - A15 tracks fuel sales at the retail level, station by station, but since the current number of stations is constantly changing and the full station population is unknown, staff uses the total known BOE gasoline and diesel sales figures as a benchmark to achieve
in data collection efforts.
Information collected at the facility is part of a wider
Caribbean data collection effort known as COCONet, and is used as input to produce more accurate weather forecasts.
While the
federal data collection efforts include some verification and data cleaning, the data is generally only as accurate as states» record - keeping and reporting allows.
So far,
Louisville data collection efforts demonstrate that afterschool programs that focus on enhancing program performance and practices are, in fact, improving their quality.
She manages a range of survey projects that focus on teacher perceptions and school climate, and
oversees data collection efforts to catalog charter school closure actions and develop a national database of authorizers and their schools.
Meanwhile, we began talking with state education agencies (SEAs) and AACTE state chapters and member institutions to gauge their interest in consolidating these state and
institution data collection efforts in a national - level instrument.
09/12/2013: LULAC sends letter to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan regarding the Department's
ELL data collection efforts following a report from the Government Accountability Office highlighting lack of reporting and shortage of data on charter schools.
Within education, Krueger noted the demise of inBloom, the ambitious
student data collection effort backed by the Gates and Carnegie foundations that ceased operations last spring in the face of public concerns over student privacy and the potential mining of student data.
In addition, as part of our 2025 Save Them All initiative that started last year, we launched an
enormous data collection effort to examine the country's shelter numbers county by county.
That understanding will be advanced by new and more
extensive data collection efforts, improvements to methods used to synthesise that data, and more extensive and collaborative use of climate model simulations over this period — both to understand the forcing / response of the climate, but also to serve as testbed for the various reconstruction methodologies.
We believe that the increase seen in the graph until about 1995 is explained partly by better reporting of disasters in general, partly due to
active data collection efforts by CRED and partly due to real increases in certain types of disasters.
Led
RF data collection effort to help validate the RF models, which required integrating specialized hardware into a cohesive
It covers: the principles of good indicator definition; common use of indicators; examples of indicators for adolescent health and social development; existing global data to describe - and populate indicators of - adolescent health and social development; and how to
improve data collection efforts.
That's why in recent years, GreatSchools has
expanded data collection efforts in every state to include various types of school quality data broken down by student groups, including students from low - income families, diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, and students with disabilities.
We think this results in colonies collapsing and spreading mites to neighboring colonies that are otherwise well - managed for mites,» said Nathalie Steinhauer, a graduate student in the UMD Department of Entomology who leads
the data collection efforts for the annual survey.
«Bees are good indicators of the health of the landscape as a whole,» said Nathalie Steinhauer, a graduate student in the UMD Department of Entomology who leads
the data collection efforts for the annual survey.
Like
any data collection effort, the CRDC comes with challenges, and there is room for improving efficiency.
Data collection efforts to date include focus groups with principals and parents, surveys of principals and parents, and analysis of program application data.
During the question and answer period, participants quizzed the panelists on some of the mechanics of
the data collections efforts, especially the funding sources.
Schools in both groups, regardless of randomization group, will participate in
all data collection efforts [4].