Sentences with phrase «data on the academic»

Collection of data on academic outcomes among Indigenous students is a necessary step towards bridging the education gap between Indigenous and non-indigenous students, according to a new report...

And the federal government collects much more detailed, regular data on the academic achievement of younger students.

The Racial Equity Report Cards use public data on academic achievement, school discipline and juvenile court involvement to provide a picture of all 115 North Carolina school districts and the state.

In 2015, a mere 25 percent of high school seniors were proficient in the subject, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, which produces the most reliable data on academic competency.

The first goal is defined as follows: As data on academic achievement and other student outcomes are disaggregated and analyzed, one sees high comparable performance for all identifiable groups of learners, and achievement and performance gaps are virtually non-existent.

As data on academic achievement and other student outcomes are disaggregated and analyzed, one sees high comparable performance for all identifiable groups of learners, and achievement and performance gaps are virtually non-existent.

You can use State of Our Cities and review Pleasantville's city report to see data on academic outcomes, district trends, school finance, college and career pathways, school characteristics and environment.

In this paper we analyze 25 years of data on the academic ability of teachers in New York State and document that since 1999 the academic ability of both individuals certified and those entering teaching has steadily increased.

However, the tests must be aligned with the state academic content standards, address the depth and breadth of such standards, and be equivalent in content coverage, difficulty, and quality to the state - designed assessments AND must provide comparable, valid, and reliable data on academic achievement, as compared to the state - designed assessments, for all students and for each subgroup of students among all local school districts within the state.

Data on academic competence, behavioral self - regulation, and social competence was measured through several scales.

Not exact matches

Calls for new digital privacy rights in American law have increased after disclosures that the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica obtained data on more than 87 million Facebook users from quizzes that were supposed to be for academic research.

He also posted testimony apologizing for Facebook's role in false news, data privacy leaks and foreign interference in elections, as his company announced that it would form an independent commission of academic researchers to study social media's impact on elections.

The Bespoke data builds on the findings of academic researchers, who have documented the existence of the gap, without being able to entirely explain its cause.

Facebook will give a committee of senior academics independent access to its data, allowing researchers to study the social network's effect on democracy and elections.

Brittney Kaiser, a former employee for Cambridge Analytica — who left the company in January and is today giving evidence in front of a UK parliament committee that's investigating online misinformation — has suggested that data on far more Facebook users may have found its way into the consultancy's hands than the up to 87M people Facebook has so far suggested had personal data compromised as a result of a personality quiz app running on its platform which was developed by an academic working with CA.

We look beyond traditional credit scores and tap into student academic data to expand student lending opportunities that empower borrowers on the path to success.

We are also announcing an expansion of the PTO Edison Scholars Program, which will bring distinguished academic experts to the PTO to develop — and make available to the public — more robust data and research on the issues bearing on abusive litigation.

The move comes in the wake of a Guardian and Observer investigation which alleged that in 2013 that academic Dr Aleksandr Kogan used a quiz app to harvest the data of 50 million users, before passing it on to data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica.

Matt Hall, cofounder and president of Hill Investment Group, introduces his 2016 book, Odds On: The Making of an Evidence - Based Investor, by stating that: ``... the evidence - based movement has been studying market data and academic research to identify the groups of stocks and other investments that provide better odds of long - term success.

«Facebook's defense that Cambridge Analytica harvesting of FB user data from millions is not technically a «breach» is a more profound & damning statement of what's wrong with Facebook's business model than a «breach,»» said University of North Carolina academic Zeynep Tufekci, who is influential on social media topics, on Twitter.

This joint project will allow the Plato Partnership and Imperial to work together to share their knowledge and data with top - quality academics conducting independent research on market structure and technology issues.

The Reports present detailed waste management data and analysis that is drawn on by governments, industry and academics as a key information resource.

• The majority of parents (53 %) are positive about the impact of schools collecting data on their child's academic performance and behavior.

The event convenes leaders from industry, government, academics and NGOs to focus on online safety, privacy issues and data protection.

Then it goes on to explain how research projects need IRB approval, so that's why they set up their program that connects «[m] idwives, mothers, and others interested in conducting research with MANA Stats data but who do not have academic affiliations» with a mentor who has IRB approval.

NHERI executes, evaluates, and disseminates studies and information (e.g., statistics, facts, data) on homeschooling (i.e., home schooling, home - based education, home education, home school, home - schooling, unschooling, deschooling, a form of alternative education), publishes reports and the peer - reviewed scholarly journal Home School Researcher, and serves in consulting, academic achievement tests, and expert witness (in courts and legislatures).

The «unexpected deaths» were based on data from an industry - funded, academic - researcher - run clinical trial described in two papers published in 1999 and 2000.

EFA has been also been working with provider associations during the 2014 to 2015 academic year on improving the quality of data received at R04 and R06.

For the 2016 to 2017 academic year, this will be allocated on the basis of the number of pupils recorded in the January 2015 school census data.

Institutions should continue to apply these principles when completing their data returns during the remainder of the academic year, reflecting the very latest position of which students have EHC plans, or which students local authorities expect will or will not go on to receive EHC plans.

EFA is currently looking at ways of allocating place funding in the academic year 2016 to 2017 and encouraging institutions to focus on recording accurate data on high needs students in 2014 to 2015.

For the 2016 to 2017 academic year, element 2 will be allocated on the basis of the number of students recorded in the 2014/15 ILR R14 data.

Cambridge academic Aleksandr Kogan and his company Global Science Research created an app called «thisisyourdigitallife,» which used psychological tests to gather data on users.

Whistleblower Christopher Wylie, who worked with Cambridge Analytica, claimed it amassed the data of millions of people without their consent through a personality quiz on Facebook called This is Your Digital Life that was created by an academic for Global Science Research.

However, Robert Ford & Matthew Goodwin, academics (Manchester and Nottingham respectively) whose book on where support for UKIP comes from is published next month, present similar data for UKIP converts since 2010 (Con 47 %, Lab 10 %) but very different data for converts between 2005 and 2010 (Con 39 %, Lab 43 %).

We have spent the last two years collecting a huge range of data on UK democracy from a variety of sources, including the Electoral Commission, the Office for National Statistics, the House of Commons Library, the Greater London Authority, Electoral Office of Northern Ireland, Scottish Government, along with the work of other academics.

Academics at Essex University have analysed the 2010 general election results together with survey data on voters» second and third preferences, and estimated that the Lib Dems would have gained an extra 32 seats under AV.

On Friday, the company announced that it had suspended Cambridge Analytica, its parent firm Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL), Wylie (who left the company in late 2014), and the Russian - American academic Aleksandr Kogan, who originally collected the data using a Facebook app that asked users to complete a personality test - like survey.

His colleague, MIT professor and Data - Pop Alliance academic director Alex «Sandy» Pentland, has called for a «new deal on data,» a set of workable guarantees that the data needed for public goods are readily available while, at the same time, protecting personal privacy and freeData - Pop Alliance academic director Alex «Sandy» Pentland, has called for a «new deal on data,» a set of workable guarantees that the data needed for public goods are readily available while, at the same time, protecting personal privacy and freedata,» a set of workable guarantees that the data needed for public goods are readily available while, at the same time, protecting personal privacy and freedata needed for public goods are readily available while, at the same time, protecting personal privacy and freedom.

The widget builds on work published 2 June in Current Biology (http://bit.ly/TAZQA8) in which the study's three authors — all early - career computational biologists — used PubMed data to study the influence of some 200 factors on academic scientists» career trajectories.

The report calls for a battery of government and institutional measures to better support scientists on short - term contracts, including gathering comprehensive data on their working conditions, helping them devise career plans, creating more academic jobs, and encouraging them to apply for permanent positions.

Clauset and co-authors reported on the conclusions they drew from «complete and hand - curated data on the placements of nearly 19,000 tenure - track or tenured faculty, among 461 North American departmental or school - level academic units, in the disciplines of computer science, business, and history -LSB-, which]... represent highly distinct scholastic traditions.»

For all its promise, though, big data also poses a real danger to academic science, warns Jake VanderPlas, a postdoc in astronomy and computer science at the University of Washington, in an illuminating essay on his Pythonic Perambulations blog.

In 2005, SHRP began building a coalition between human rights groups, scientific societies, and academic associations working on domestic human rights issues in the United States in order to foster better communication among groups producing scientific data and those looking to use such data.

On 25 February 2002, a group of prominent academic and industrial scientists, funders, and journal editors gathered at the National Academy of Sciences headquarters in Washington, D.C., to discuss the sharing of scientific data and materials.

Companies that sponsor academic research projects frequently place restrictions on what can be said about the resulting data.

In recent years, researchers in artificial intelligence (AI) have used this computational firepower on the scads of data accumulating online, in academic research, in financial records, and in virtually all walks of life.

«Even when medical journals mandate data sharing, only 10 — 27 % of authors provide their dataset on request from external academic researchers.»

At the same meeting, Molly E. Reusser of Academic Network in Portland, Ore., and David A. McCarron of the University of California, Davis reviewed data on hypertension.

Data on graduates of MSTPs indicate that these programs are successful in producing productive researchers, who obtain NIH grants and are promoted through the ranks of academic medicine.