Sentences with phrase «decisionmakers need»

Teachers and decisionmakers need to know how to interpret evidence, which means being able to navigate sample sizes, differences of impact, uncertainty, and reporting methods.

By: Marleny Arnoldi 26th January 2018 For operational sustainability in the mining industry, mining decisionmakers need to take a proactive approach to protect and promote worker health, supporting productivity and to reduce legal liabilities associated with occupational disease.

Not exact matches

If we really want to shift the national conversation for good, then we need to lay all solutions on the table for our decisionmakers to see.

-- The President shall establish an interagency United States Global Change Research Program to improve understanding of global change, to respond to the information needs of communities and decisionmakers, and to provide periodic assessments of the vulnerability of the United States and other regions to global and regional climate change.

Teams shall conduct applied regional climate research and projects to address the needs of local and regional decisionmakers for information and tools to develop adaptation and response plans to climate variability and change.

What needs to be pointed out is that these same local decisionmakers have always had the authority to put such programs in place, but have simply refused to do so out of a need to protect their power base.

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.

Following the tradition of James Q. Wilson, we need to understand the system of rewards and constraints within which local decisionmakers work.

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

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

Unfortunately, the disconnect between the source of funding and those who could make practical use of the findings means that the timelines of educational evaluations rarely align with the information needs of the decisionmakers (for instance, the typical evaluation funded by NCEE requires six years to complete).

Without these linkages across states and systems, critical decisionmakers in students» lives do not have the information they need to best support those students.

Teams shall conduct applied regional climate research and projects to address the needs of local and regional decisionmakers for information and tools to develop adaptation and response plans to climate variability and change.

-- The President shall establish an interagency United States Global Change Research Program to improve understanding of global change, to respond to the information needs of communities and decisionmakers, and to provide periodic assessments of the vulnerability of the United States and other regions to global and regional climate change.

Scientists are often hesitant to share their uncertainty with decisionmakers who need to know it.

Finally, and this is a big issue that I'll only touch on here — I'm not sure to what extent the proper role of the social sciences is to do research that is user - needs - driven by public officials and designed to help «decisionmakers» solve problems.

It is a very useful tool, but the importance of technology does not lessen the need to tell a convincing story to a jury or another decisionmaker.