Sentences with phrase «empirical measures of achievement»

Kozol feels it unnecessary to rely on empirical measures of achievement because they «don't speak of happiness.»

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Existing empirical evidence, however, does not find a strong role for measured characteristics of teachers — such as teacher experience, education, and test scores of teachers — in the determination of academic achievement of students.

The measures of teacher quality that are used by most public school systems to screen candidates and determine compensation — certification, experience, and education level — have been well researched, but there is little definitive empirical evidence that these characteristics, defined in general terms, are associated with higher student achievement.

I can't prove that Santa is real, but with enough persistence can I come up with a rigorous empirical analysis that measures the causal effect of Christmas on student achievement?

A recent review (McCarty & Wiley, 2011) notes that «there is compelling empirical evidence that strong, additive, academically rigorous Native language and culture programs have salutary effects on both Native language and culture maintenance / revitalization and student achievement, as measured by multiple types of assessments.»

Eliminate the 25:1 student - to - teacher ratio for virtual charter schools — a measure based on no convincing empirical evidence that it raises student achievement — and take virtual charters out of the category of independent study.

I have yet to see a testing company offer empirical research or any other guarantee backing the use of student achievement tests for measuring teacher effectiveness.