Sentences with phrase «educational data as»

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Their license is very specific about who authorized users are, exclusivity, and how data products can not be used such as «in the pursuit of any contractual or income - generating venture either privately, or under the auspices of the educational institution».

There may be something to be said for the academic grind as a way of obtaining a minimal collection of important data, but there is nothing to be said for turning the whole educational enterprise into a deadly routine.

To help you get the facts straight on eco friendly diapers, I've looked for recent data from credible sources such as government agencies and educational institutions (you'll find sources footnoted).

How local authorities should report data for the annual special educational needs survey, commonly known as SEN2.

Besides, the results of Gijsbers et al. showed that the educational program based on written advice in booklets as well as data delivered orally about all the aspects of breastfeeding and milk storage and expression proved effective in improving EB rates up to 6 months for pregnant women of a child with an asthma predisposition, visited twice before the birth of their babies and once afterwards [20].

In other words, each of the 270,000 people who were paid to install the app also gave up a significant amount of data about their Facebook friends as well — meaning that from the original 270,000 subjects, Kogan managed to obtain as many as 50 million profiles, including information like locations, job and educational histories, and pages liked.

«It's not that these are some projections of some crazy green group; these are the utilities» own data,» said Malcolm Woolf, senior vice president of policy at Advanced Energy Economy, which runs AEEI as its educational affiliate.

Through my experience as an ambassador, I was reminded that invention takes place in many forms and disciplines,» said Smith, who has helped educational institutions around the world to include data science, artificial intelligence and green technologies in their course offerings.

The available sociological and historical data show that what we believe in is mainly based on social and educational factors, and not on cognitive styles, such as intuitive / analytical thinking.

Analysis conducted by Giovanni Peri of the University of California, Davis, cites economic data demonstrating that immigrants, even poorly educated ones, help economic growth as businesses absorb more labour, creating new jobs for natives — often better ones as natives capitalise on educational and language advantages.

In 2008 I begun to use my spare time to process data in order to produce astronomical images for educational use for the European Southern Observatory as well.

The NCBR also serves as a portal to access chimpanzee brain atlas tools, data repository, bibliography of publications, educational information, and links to other chimpanzee brain resources and datasets on the Internet.

It would also have a negative impact on the use of such resources by scientists working on other organisms — often motivated by hunches from other MODs — more casual users or those who lack significant funds, such as researchers at under - resourced institutions and those using such data repositories for educational purposes.»

While it is now widely recognised that social - emotional wellbeing is a protective factor for wellbeing and mental health, as well as a key to educational success, the current emphasis on academic achievement and data - driven accountability in schools tends to relegate social and emotional learning to one side.

Where such tools are adopted, the balancing act must always be about the holistic improvement of educational provision and not using the data produced as the proverbial stick to beat teaching staff with.

This year's results on the Index will provide baseline data as we continue to track confidence in educational technology in future reports.

In our recent report, «Schools and Software,» small - and medium - size school systems talked openly about their desperate need for a data warehouse solution to act as middleware that simplified their management of the explosion in educational software.

o To keep costs low, the system must rely primarily on existing data (such as student achievement, grade retention, attendance, graduation, college going and student log files from educational software providers).

Gershenson and Papageorge examined data on educational attainment as well as survey results containing multiple teachers» predictions as to how far in school students were expected to go, such as to finish high school, start college, or earn a degree.

College students benefit greatly from IPEDS data as they work through their educational plans.

However, this is without adjusting the data for background characteristics that may affect students» level of civic knowledge, such as their parents» educational level.

According to the Higher Education Act (HEA) of 1965, all institutions receiving Title IV funds must submit specific data about their educational programs, student population, enrollment, attrition, and completion rates, staff and faculty, financial information, tuition and fees, and allocation of all student financial aid (NCES, n.d.) IPEDS HistoryIn 1995, NCES established the National Postsecondary Education Cooperative (NPEC) as a «voluntary organization that encompasses all sectors of the postsecondary education community including federal agencies, postsecondary institutions, associations, and other organizations interested in postsecondary education data collection» (NPEC, n.d., p. 4).

Even where technology has not been blocked, much of the digitized educational materials and records are just examples of using computers to collect old stuff (such as data or lesson plans) in old ways (by filing).

New data published today (29 March) shows almost 222,000 children and young people with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) have had their care reviewed, as part of the government's introduction of new Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans.

They can regularly upgrade their textbooks, leverage Big Data, and experiment with educational trends that may soon become a must - haves with adaptivity as well.

Often, educational facilities have rooms that are only in use during particular times of the week and the occupancy data provided by access control systems can draw attention to these areas, giving the crucial information needed to determine which utilities need to be maximised and those that need to be minimised, such as Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) or lighting requirements.

We are weary of educational policy experts who are so distant from interactions with children that they see human beings as data points.

Such report shall be submitted in a manner prescribed by the commissioner, on or before the basic educational data system (BEDS) reporting deadline or such other date as determined by the commissioner.

The commissioner may require a school district or board of cooperative educational services to submit such reports and data as the commissioner deems necessary to monitor the implementation of the corrective action plan.

ACER draws on its expertise as a leader in educational research, assessment, and data collection and analysis to provide professional learning for educators and system leaders, policy makers, psychologists and human resources professionals, and others to support improved learning.

«There are few who are as strong as Darling - Hammond in using and analyzing statistical data and scholarship... and in fighting for educational equity; when she talks about leaving no child behind, she truly means it.

However, as states implement educational choice policies, the demand for information will increase and schools that refuse to share their data will be at a competitive disadvantage.

These data may also be used as part of a larger multi-institutional state or national database that could capture trends in educational leadership preparation.

As states and districts across the country aim to create a robust set of educational options including alternative settings, they must be able to effectively collect and use the most relevant and reliable data to develop accountability systems.

Accordingly, even though their data for this part of this study come from one district, their findings are similar to others evidenced in the «Widget Effect» report; hence, there are still likely educational measurement (and validity) issues on both ends (i.e., with using such observational rubrics as part of America's reformed teacher evaluation systems and using survey methods to put into check these systems, overall).

What started as an exciting interest in public charter school performance eventually evolved into work at a research - based advocacy organization that collects data and publishes reports about educational choice and reform initiatives in K — 12 education.

His diverse background in education, applied data analysis, the humanities, and sports includes working as a program evaluation analyst at City Year, a national educational non-profit.

His passion is to use data to improve educational outcomes, so he jumped at an opportunity to work in the Louisiana Department of Education, serving as a project manager for the new teacher evaluation platform.

Schools collect it and the federal government explicitly allow schools to share this data with outside contractors, such as a data storage company or an educational software vendor, without getting parental permission first.

Highly Qualified Teachers Enrolled in Programs Providing Alternative Routes to Teacher Certification or Licensure (2015) summarizes state - and district - level data on the numbers of full - time equivalent (FTE) highly qualified teachers who were enrolled in alternative route programs for three groups of teachers --(1) all teachers, (2) special education teachers, and (3) teachers in language instruction educational programs for English learners (ELs) under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA)-- as well as for teachers in high - poverty and rural school districts.

Established in 1992 as an independent, state - funded entity, FCMAT supports California's local educational agencies in fulfilling their financial, management, and data management responsibilities by providing fiscal advice, management assistance, data management assistance, training, and other related school business and data management services.

With Intellify Learning as the foundation, educators and providers focus on generating and applying educational intelligence, not data management.

As a follow - up to Every Student Counts: The State We're In 2016 - 2017, we've developed a new set of data visualization tools that allow users to access local data on educational equity and filter it based on factors including poverty and race.

The Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act, passed in 1974, is widely seen as outdated because of its limited definition of a «student record» in a world where states, educational service vendors, and others are gathering new and diverse types of data about students.

As part of our service to school parent - teacher groups (PTOs and PTAs, etc.) and as part of our business offerings to select third - party clients, PTO Today may make aggregated educational data available to clients offering relevant programs to school parent groupAs part of our service to school parent - teacher groups (PTOs and PTAs, etc.) and as part of our business offerings to select third - party clients, PTO Today may make aggregated educational data available to clients offering relevant programs to school parent groupas part of our business offerings to select third - party clients, PTO Today may make aggregated educational data available to clients offering relevant programs to school parent groups.

Her research focuses on social network analysis and text data mining in the field of educational leadership and policy, as well as school technology leadership.

These assessments are intended to play a critical role in educational systems; provide administrators, educators, parents, and students with the data and information needed to continuously improve teaching and learning; and help meet the President's goal of restoring, by 2020, the nation's position as the world leader in college graduates.

And the most recent data show that nearly 740,000 students across the country have Section 504 plans under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which provide students with disabilities educational services such as accommodations.

15:20 Dr. Montecel closes her speech: «The Quality Schools Action Framework speaks to the need and possibility of engaging citizens, leaders and policymakers around high quality data that call all of us as members of the community to act, to establish common ground, to strengthen education, and finally and most importantly and fundamentally, to align our values with our investments in the school system: fundamentals and features that we know are needed — from teaching quality, to engaged students, engaged parents and families, and a high quality, authentic curriculum so that students in every neighborhood and of every background can in fact have equal educational opportunities.»

As Michael J. Schmoker notes in his 2006 analysis of the American educational system, Results Now: How We Can Achieve Unprecedented Improvements in Teaching and Learning, providing teachers with time to meet regularly to carefully examine assessment data, set goals, share and create lessons, develop common formative assessments, and review student work will ultimately lead to a better end result.