Sentences with phrase «flawed measure of»

What the NFVS show is that if a child is exposed to the severest forms of violence by parents (e.g. use of knives or guns, kicking, fists), they are l0x more likely to become abusive adults (on their very flawed measure of abusive adult) and if they were merely exposed to «normal» abuse, they are 3 to 6x as likely to be abusive as adults (in their classification).

As a fellow educator, I find it difficult to understand how those in my profession can not see how the current NYS Assessment system is a flawed measure of student achievement and hurts our children.

Inflation Driver # 1: Rising CPI The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a notoriously flawed measure of inflation.

The NEPC report uses badly flawed measures of school performance that provide little information about how much students learn as a result of attending K12 schools.

Further, many tests (at least in New York state), have proven to be flawed measures of student learning.

Not exact matches

Rabidoux also mentions the RBC measures have other «flaws» that contribute to the overestimation of affordability.

«Start with a polarizing stereotype, saturate with unapologetic flaws, and then add in a dash of humanity for good measure,» Monson told us in a phone interview.

Kathy Fairbanks, spokeswoman for the «No on 61» campaign, said of the ads, «All the antics from «Yes on 61» are an attempt by them to take attention away from their flawed measure.»

We have the model of Christ as a goal so our flaws or variance from good is easy to see and measure.

And yet, even in my flaws and secrets, my selective memory and story - telling, I still yearn to see God, to be truthful, to be fearless, to be vulnerable, to learn how to fling open the windows and the doors, and invite every one to the table to receive the measure of grace and goodness and salvation that I have received.

But other scientists say the research is deeply flawed, and does not measure the effect of same - s3x parenting at all.

The general religiousness of that nation, so different in cultural character from that in North America, has contributed both to a measure of forgiveness and mutual trust within a highly plural body politic, These attitudes to be sure are both flawed and fragile, but they have made a difference.

Critics of cry - it - out methods argue that these studies are flawed — they don't have the right measures of harm, they fail to determine whether the parents actually used cry - it - out methods to sleep train their babies, and they rely on parents» reports instead of observation.

Researchers supporting co-parenting identified a number of fundamental methodological flaws of recent studies that challenge co-parenting of infants and young children: the failure to interview both parents, small and non-representative samples and use of unreliable and invalid measures, and the fact that even these studies have actually found no significant differences in child outcomes in single versus co-parenting families.

But opponents of the measure said the episode only served to show how the bill was approved in haste and with flaws.

Your measure of the american interest for the constitution is flawed.

If you were a local school board member would you like to enter into a teacher removal legal proceeding knowing (1) Pearson's tests are flawed, (2) NYSED's use of test results is inappropriate, and (3) major professional groups like the American Statistical Association have stated that value added measures can do great harm?

Commenting on the announcement of the draft Scottish budget for 2013/14, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the fastest growing teachers» union in Scotland, said: «While the Scottish Government has been placed in a difficult position by the Westminster Government's imposition of its austerity measures, it is deeply disappointing that the Scottish Government has chosen to follow the Coalition's flawed economic policies by imposing another year of pay freeze on public sector workers.»

But she felt that his decision to veto the bill was «something that we pushed back against» and said that it was «irresponsible» for the governor to claim the Council's passage of the measure was «flawed.»

To this end, three of the five main political parties in Ghana, who accounted for nearly 50 % of the presidential votes in 2012, have called for a new register and proposed measures to tackle the flaws encountered in compiling the 2012 register.

Siegel says that ocean color, which indicates the presence of ocean life near the surface, was once thought to be too subtle a phenomenon to measure with the flawed sensor.

Calling the study «flawed,» the Sugar Industry Association said that the fact that so many of the participants lost weight during the study «makes it impossible to separate the effects of weight loss from dietary changes on the health variables measured.»

To make a long study short, they say that past comparisons of food costs were flawed because they only looked at price per calorie; whereas, comparing cost per average portion is a better measure in their opinion, and one which, incidentally, shows fruit and vegetables to be cheaper than most moderation (e.g. junk) foods.

This is flawed as TSH only measures the pituitary hormone, which is only one of the many factors involved with thyroid conditions.

It's important to bear in mind that the glycemic index is only one tool used to measure the healthfulness of fruits and vegetables, and it has a number of flaws.

No one measures up to their expectations, so they get to be thoroughly fabulous, in the isolated ivory tower, looking down on a sea of flawed people, dating no one... (also not sexy...)

Gleeson is incredible as the realistically flawed and straightforward priest, dispensing sage wisdom and sneering condemnation in equal measure, and he is bolstered by a supporting cast of great Irish actors (Chris O'Dowd, Brendan Gleeson's son Domhnall) who flesh out this operatic drama with aplomb.

The ways in which most think tanks and researchers rank charter school laws are flawed, and charter school ranking systems should be designed to evaluate how well schools measure up to the original mission of the movement, suggests a report by two researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

The NEPC report paints a dismal picture of student learning at K12 - operated schools, but the fatal flaw of the report is that the measures of «performance» it employs are based primarily on outcomes such as test scores that may reveal more about student background than about the quality of the school, and on inappropriate comparisons between virtual schools and all schools in the same state.

Instead we need to be doing what an increasing number of schools like another Arizona - based school, the Carpe Diem Collegiate High School and Middle School, are doing and disrupting that flawed paradigm by implementing online learning to create a student - centric system — not to increase costs for the community through bond measures or otherwise, as the article reports — but to use existing resources to prioritize student learning and achieve great results.

Much of the fevered discussion of the PISA results suffers from a pretty big flaw — which is that most observers don't really understand what these international tests measure.

But if the scores are flawed, biased, or incomplete measures of learning or teacher effectiveness, the models won't pick that up.

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It would make matters more difficult because the most important flaw of the No Child Left Behind accountability system is its reliance on the level of student achievement at a single point in time as a measure of school performance.

And yet the PM in New Orleans is making judgments about school closure based on a flawed measure that effectively punishes schools for trying to serve a high concentration of kids who are too disadvantaged.

A change of this nature would allow for a new way to measure the progress of school systems that discards the flawed reliance on test scores and looks for integral and diverse relationships within the school and the greater world.

But, in fact, the NCES study's measures of student characteristics are flawed.

Our analysis of its workings in Florida reveals it to be badly flawed and not as accurate as the measuring stick employed by the state of Florida for similar purposes.

And might not the use of current measures, despite their potential flaws, help drive the development of new and better ones?

Critics, including many teachers unions and some policy experts, say the method is based on flawed tests that don't measure the more intangible benefits of good teaching and lead to a narrow curriculum.

Opponents of the new grading system who spoke at the meeting stressed a criticism they voiced during a January meeting: the new formula relies on statistically - flawed measures that could hurt schools.

Btw, interesting that you recognize the inherent flaws in the methods used to measure teachers, including this supposed «normal» first few years of a new standard or a new test.

«We really believe one of the flaws is we're trying to use one measure, which is a student growth measure, for multiple purposes,» Eiler said.

Flawed as they are, value - added measures appear to be better predictors of student achievement than the teacher characteristics that we currently use for high - stakes employment and compensation decisions.

In January, a Richmond, Virginia judge ruled in Virginia SGP's favor, despite the state's claims that Virginia school districts, despite the state's investments, had reportedly not been using the SGP data, «calling them flawed and unreliable measures of a teacher's effectiveness.»

«My sense is that all of the measures are flawed, but they all also are useful.

This became clear last month when the NAACP and its legal defense fund came out on the pages of Education Week in favor of the strong accountability measures that No Child represents (even as it considered the law's sanctions to be «deeply flawed»).

Opinion Miami Herald November 14, 2015 Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho is gearing up for the next round of a months - long battle with the state over flawed standardized student tests that will also determine school grades and measure teacher performance.

The Park View Educational Trust, which runs three of the schools put in special measures, accuses the government of «deliberately misrepresenting» schools and describes inspections as «woefully shoddy» and «fatally flawed».

The new measures were adopted, according to the education department, as a direct result of a state Board of Regents report from a work group recommending such changes, titled «Adjustment Options to Common Core Implementation,» detailing the flawed roll - out of Common Core and members» reasoning for such a drastic shift.