Sentences with phrase «decisionmakers about»

However, more research needs to be done to inform decisionmakers about the effects of mobile learning on student achievement.

Not exact matches

... Among all these decisionmakers, students and workers are the most disadvantaged, for they typically command insufficient resources to uncover any but the most rudimentary information about trends in potentially interesting fields.

At a minimum, it would require advocates of experimentation to be explicit about the real limits of their preferred technique, to engage their critics in open dialogue about the critics» objections to randomization, and to assert that experiments will be improved by paying greater attention to program theory, implementation specifics, quantitative and qualitative data collection, causal contingency, and the management needs of school personnel as well as of central decisionmakers.

And decisionmakers lose valuable information about where there may be bright spots to learn from and where improvement or intervention is needed.

After a great deal of red tape, frustration, bureaucratic snafus, and downright thoughtless actions by decisionmakers down south of the border, my little «Princesa» joined the family in Virginia in late October (about five months after we had hoped and planned).

«In their role as decision support tools, scenarios have to compete with other ways in which decisionmakers may reason about the future.

Decisionmakers at all scales (individuals, firms, and local, national, and international governmental organizations) are concerned about reducing their vulnerability to (or the likelihood of) unexpected events, «surprises.»