Sentences with phrase «evidence of the added value»
A limitation of the study was that because the aim was to provide evidence of the added value of radiofrequency denervation in a multidisciplinary setting, as done in daily practice, participants and clinicians were not blinded.
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Results from two studies, involving a total of 2892 Italian employees, provide evidence of the added value of a more comprehensive approach to the assessment of self - efficacy at work.
There is also evidence of some added value from active management.
Not exact matches
Where the hell is the evidence that the «refinement» of nationality on the grounds of race adds value?
The ICAN President said: «These momentous achievements are testimonies not only to Governor Ambode's enviable track record of service to the good people of Lagos State, but they are also indelible evidence of the value that chartered accountants can add to governance.
The findings, from a multisite study led by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine, add to a growing body of evidence supporting the value of parents» involvement in anorexia treatment.
«Our study adds to this evidence by demonstrating the value of MRD assessment in the context of morphologic induction failure.»
There's strong evidence that college adds real value in terms of students» skills, knowledge, and career preparation, value that translates into higher earnings.
Some Learning and Development Departments will still need to have more concrete evidence for the value of the 70:20:10 model and how it will add value to their company and so be a worthwhile financial investment.
The report also reviews the evidence discouraging the use of value - added modeling in teacher evaluation practices.
Aggregate improvement is one useful piece of evidence in the absence of full value - added information, but it is subject to error when used in isolation.
The closest the NYT comes to citing any evidence on the «value added» of Detroit charters is to mention an evaluation of a few charter schools run by one charter management organization:
The study provides suggestive (but not conclusive) evidence that there might be minor side effects — the value - added scores of schools absorbing displaced students fall slightly.
There is already considerable evidence from several places — such as Tennessee and Florida, where value - added analysis has been used for accountability purposes — that low - achieving students are the main beneficiaries of the changes that occur when these techniques are implemented.
But in order to know what activities truly add value and help to achieve goals, measuring results and providing evidence of success is vital.
Behind closed doors, insiders may or may not have exchanged their opinions on value - added evaluations, but since the evidence required for a meaningful debate over the real world effects of those evaluations did not exist, I wonder if the lack of research on the policy implications of value - added was considered.
In sum, there is now substantial evidence that value - added estimates capture important information about the causal effects of teachers and schools.
He interprets such a correlation as evidence that teachers» value - added merely reflects the preparedness of the students they are assigned.
The question should instead be, «If scales from a testing regime are used within a value - added process, is there evidence that measures of student progress are influenced by the distribution of student achievement levels in schools or classrooms because of a lack of equal - interval scales?»
All of this is tangibly evidenced by her value - added data, which has consistently been high.
Her paper titled, «Evidence of Grade and Subject - Level Bias in Value - Added Measures» can be accessed (at least for the time being) here.
Today's reports add to a growing body of evidence and a much - valued resource that school leaders can draw on to improve the educational achievement of our most disadvantaged pupils.»
Using Evidence for Teacher Education Program Improvement and Accountability: An Illustrative Case of the Role of Value - Added Measures
As described in an earlier brief, some research provides evidence that value - added measures — at least those that compare teachers within the same school and adjust well for students» prior achievement — do not favor teachers who teach certain types of students.
The study, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, provides some of the strongest evidence to date of the validity of «value - added» analysis, whose accuracy has been hotly contested by teachers unions and some education experts who question the use of test scores to evaluate teachers.
As further evidence of this, we estimated value - added to math scores in middle schools controlling only for prior reading scores — prior math scores were ignored.
For example, while we have ample evidence of unintended consequences of test - based accountability — as well as evidence of some potential benefits — we know less about the consequences of using value - added measures to encourage educators to improve.
There is less evidence on the uses of value - added measures at the school level.
They found correlations of 0.7 for math and 0.6 for reading — evidence that teachers» value added for English learners is similar to their value added for students who already speak English, though again, they found that some teachers are somewhat better with one group than with the other.
These examples are largely hypothetical because we lack evidence on the validity and reliability of measures other than value - added.
We have summarized the research on how well value - added measures hold up across years, subject areas, and student populations, but the evidence is based on a relatively small number of studies.
How many have produced evidence of their tests instructional sensitivity or of the educational significance of the distinctions made by the value - added models they use?
A recent study finds evidence that teachers who teach different types of students also systematically differ in the stability of their value - added estimates.
It is important to note, however, that even if the conclusions from these studies are right, they provide evidence about whether value - added measures are valid on the average across large numbers of teachers.
All of this evidence reinforces the general conclusion that almost all the other measures now being considered are positively correlated with value - added measures.
The null results from most studies contrast with some recent evidence suggesting that programs that combine value - added with other measures of performance, or which use only other measures, can lead to improvement.
This brief reviews the evidence on each of these mechanisms and describes the drawbacks and benefits of using value - added measures in these and other contexts.
When properly controlled, or adjusted, estimates yield «evidence of moderate bias;» hence, «[t] he association between [value - added] and long - run outcomes is not robust and quite sensitive to controls.»
[24] He finds some evidence of an increased likelihood of schools firing teachers with frequent absences and / or lower value - added scores.
While a fair amount of evidence suggests that value - added measures adequately adjust for differences in the background characteristics of students in each teacher's classroom — much better than do most other measures — value - added measures are imprecise.
The evidence on the validity and reliability of value - added estimates is evolving and may be misunderstood.
The weight of evidence about the impact of teacher quality on measurable student outcomes shows that teacher quality is dwarfed by out - of - school factors, and the evidence on value - added methods of determining teacher quality is not valid.
Editors» introduction: The use of teacher value - added measures in schools: New evidence, unanswered questions, and future prospects.
Rather, the evidence trail is already quite saturated in many respects, as study after study continues to evidence the same things (e.g., inconsistencies in teacher - level ratings over time, mediocre correlations between VAM and observational output, all of which matter most if high - stakes decisions are to be tied to value - added output).
This overwhelming evidence prompted Tennessee's State Board of Education, one of the first adopters of the so - called Value Added Model («VAM»), to now abandon the use of VAM in any decisions to license or fire teachers.
Assessments that provide direct evidence of what students can do related to the specific curriculum they are taught can be more accurate and productive than the value - added metrics based on state test scores that are currently popular.
The study, funded by the the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, provides some of the strongest evidence to date of the validity of «value - added» analysis, whose accuracy has been hotly contested by teachers unions and some education experts who question the use of test scores to evaluate teachers.
This goes to the long - term work of improving school data systems and implementing the use of value - added assessment and perhaps, (despite my skepticism and historic evidence that it doesn't work) even peer review.
«What I'm seeing is there are a lot of places that got way out ahead of the evidence and passed policies saying we should fire teachers based on value - added.
Economist Luke Sibieta, programme director for education at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, also gave evidence to the education select committee and said it would take «a matter of minutes» to make the pupil premium part of the national funding formula, adding he didn't see much value in having «one factor with different values in different formulas».