Sentences with phrase «for expert judgments»

Regarding the former kind of issue (evolution and global warming are offered as examples), the authors argue that teachers should not remain neutral but rather teach specific respect for expert judgments and general respect for the expert «epistemologies» that support those judgments:

Evidence - based guidelines should allow for expert judgment to be applied to specific cases, not just blind adherence to algorithmic rules based on statistical averages.

Not exact matches

The appeals process is likely to drag on for years, and some legal experts predict that the judgment will ultimately be overturned or the award greatly reduced.

He is an expert for No Snap Judgments: The Addams Family Broadway Show - National Campaign to promote acceptance and tolerance amongst our youth.

And just as Emily, the woman mentioned in the blog post, experienced, rather than getting good guidance from the experts, parents end up insecure about their own capabilities, simply forgetting about the importance of their own judgment or even feeling guilty for having ideas and feelings that don't seem to match their noble motives.

The Notre Dame study used expert elicitation, a process of formalizing and quantifying experts» judgments to estimate Asian carp impact to Lake Erie fishery biomass, a method designed by co-author Roger Cooke, senior fellow with Resources for the Future.

Bone marrow transplants can cause deadly immune reactions, turning the decision to proceed into a perilous judgment call; HIV patients are better served with today's drug cocktails unless they need the transplant for another disease, experts say.

They first gathered judgments for the quantiles of the yield from a domain expert.

As a result, the Committee's recommendations for award levels are based more heavily on expert judgment than has been the case in the past.

Structured expert judgment has been used for decades in fields where scenarios have high degrees of uncertainty, most notably nuclear - energy generation, Oppenheimer explained.

Claudia Tebaldi, a project scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said that the researchers propose a much more robust method for evaluating the increasing volume of climate - change data coming out than experts coming up with «a ballpark estimate based on their own judgments.»

One sword hit will take you down, so you might find yourself partaking in a patient bout of mind chess as you tentatively look for a gap in your opponent's defenses, using your expert judgment to parry and disarm your nemesis as they go in for the kill, for example.

Given that there is no technically correct set of standards and given that expert judgment about the quality of standards has never been validated by better student outcomes, there is no reason for Arkansas to defer to the small group of national experts who drafted the Common Core standards.

Finance experts retained by the state modeled their practices after those of the Food and Drug Administration, Air Traffic Control Administration, and Veterans Administration, all of which have relied for years on professional judgment panels when faced with information deficiencies.

Currently, many teachers view observation as the same thing as evaluation when in fact these structures (informal, formal and walkthrough observations) provide a means for gathering what Charlotte Danielson, Dr. Robert Marzano and others experts refer to as a preponderance of evidence in order to make a reasoned judgment about a teacher's overall practice.

Similar to what we discovered for schools, however, not all teachers were found to be exemplary, at least according to the judgments of our expert ratings of teacher accomplishment.

Many teachers unions also favor getting rid of bad educators, not based strictly on test scores or the subjective judgment of principals, but through «peer review» plans which call for expert teachers to come into a school and work with struggling educators and in some cases recommend termination.

It may also be asked to support decisions about compensation, as policymakers are increasingly interested in tying compensation to judgments about teacher effectiveness, either by differentiating wages or by linking such judgments to specific responsibilities and salary increments for more expert teachers.

This is why «specific studies don't tell us what to do, even if they sometimes have large potential for informing expert judgment» (p. 138).

«Buy - in isn't here as a separate thing because expert judgment plays a part,» said Joanne Weiss, the department's Race to the Top director, noting that some states, for example, don't have teachers» unions.

They are the first single - book awards for adult books given by the American Library Association and reflect the expert judgment and insight of library professionals who work closely with adult readers.

The scepticism that I advocate amounts only to this: (1) that when the experts are agreed, the opposite opinion can not be held to be certain; (2) that when they are not agreed, no opinion can be regarded as certain by a non-expert; and (3) that when they all hold that no sufficient grounds for a positive opinion exist, the ordinary man would do well to suspend his judgment.

For Rob — projections and details vary; here, for example: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320711004460#FCANote «the best estimate (solid bar) and likely range (grey bar) for six SRES scenarios, based on both the model results in the left part of the figure and expert judgment derived from a variety of additional informatiFor Rob — projections and details vary; here, for example: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320711004460#FCANote «the best estimate (solid bar) and likely range (grey bar) for six SRES scenarios, based on both the model results in the left part of the figure and expert judgment derived from a variety of additional informatifor example: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320711004460#FCANote «the best estimate (solid bar) and likely range (grey bar) for six SRES scenarios, based on both the model results in the left part of the figure and expert judgment derived from a variety of additional informatifor six SRES scenarios, based on both the model results in the left part of the figure and expert judgment derived from a variety of additional information.

Easterbrook states «Verification and Validation for [Earth System Models] is hard because running the models is an expensive proposition (a fully coupled simulation run can take weeks to complete), and because there is rarely a «correct» result — expert judgment is needed to assess the model outputs.»

Indeed, there are examples in IPCC reports of willingness to acknowledge the importance of expert (subjective) judgment, if on a limited basis (e.g., see discussions of climate sensitivity, detection and attribution and climate and weather extremes in WGI report, assessment of response strategies in the WGII report of AR4; see also Knutti and Hegerl (2008) for futher details on the role of expert judgement in estimating climate sensitivity).

But if you firmly hold that you have a significant conclusion on this somewhat esoteric topic, the place to have that conclusion tested is in the published scientific literature - that's what peer review is all about, to provide a mechanism for an adjudicated evaluation and judgment of your argument by experts.

Attribution for these phenomena based on expert judgment rather than formal attribution studies.»

The Guidance Note for Lead Authors of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report on Consistent Treatment of Uncertainties impose upon the lead authors to assign subjective levels of confidence to their findings: «The AR5 will rely on two metrics for communicating the degree of certainty in key findings: 1 Confidence in the validity of a finding, based on the type, amount, quality, and consistency of evidence (e.g., mechanistic understanding, theory, data, models, expert judgment) and the degree of agreement.

Monster simplification is formalized in the IPCC AR3 and AR4 by guidelines for characterizing uncertainty in a consensus approach consisting of expert judgment in the context of a subjective Bayesian analysis (Moss and Schneider 2000).

However, the draft terms of reference have been criticised by Global Witness, the ITF and UN Panel of Experts on Liberia for its murky nature and confidentiality clauses stating that all information, including all notes and final judgments, could not be distributed without the direct permission of the Liberian government (iii).

The next thing I would do is recognize that experts tend to be too certain of their own judgments, so I would look to fund some technologies where there is no consensus that there are tractable research problems that would reduce critical barriers to widespread deployment, but for which the arguments of the naysayers appears not to be terribly compelling.

I should also add I think «expert judgment» can be a useful vehicle for policy advice to governments.

First principles subgrid models simply don't exist and so your only other altermative is expert judgment, which is a euphamisn for prejudice.

The only explanation for their confidence level is a heavy dose of expert judgment, as far as I can tell.

Our estimates of key climate model uncertainties are constrained by observations of the climate system for the period 1906 - 1995, 7 and uncertainty in emissions reflect errors in measurement of current emissions and expert judgment about variables that influence key economic projections.

There were many different representations of uncertainty (e.g., a range in models versus an expert judgment) in the TAR, and the consensus RF bar chart did not generate a total RF or uncertainties for use in the subsequent IPCC Synthesis Report (IPCC, 2001b)(Chapters 2 and 7; Section 9.2).

«The approaches used in detection and attribution research described above can not fully account for all uncertainties, and thus ultimately expert judgment is required to give a calibrated assessment of whether a specific cause is responsible for a given climate change.

According to CEN and CENELEC, «only the availability of a pool of recognised knowledgeable experts can guarantee that the European Court is able to take fully informed positions and judgments for every case at hand» (page 6).

In a recent case there were three experts and the other two were both criticised in his judgment by the judge for engaging in advocacy — but I escaped that accusation.

Instead, the case dragged on for two years; the docket sheet has around 80 entries; both sides hired computer experts, and in the end the case was dismissed on summary judgment, in a decision where the judge spent almost 40 pages analyzing every claim made by Healthcare and dismissing it only after rigorous and in - depth analysis which went, in my opinion, far beyond the call of duty.

Patent litigation, including managing electronic discovery efforts, working with expert witnesses to draft invalidity and non-infringement reports, drafting claim construction briefs and motions for summary judgment, and pre-trial preparations.

The state Supreme Court vacated the judgment of the superior court, holding that the plaintiff's expert's affidavit, combined with the documents that were available to the hearing justice, raised a material issue of fact as to whether Arden Engineering was responsible for Limoges's injury.

Reasons for judgment were released today by the BC Supreme Court, Vancouver Registry, excluding an expert report for failing to disclose a list of documents reviewed.

In the absence of expert testimony, there was no triable issue of material fact as to whether a defect in the speed control deactivation switch installed on a pickup truck was the proximate cause of a fire that damaged a brake shop, a federal court in Mississippi ruled, granting the pickup truck maker's motions for summary judgment on the business owner's products liability and negligence claims (the latter of which was subsumed by the products liability claim), and on the punitive damages claim (Mildemont, Inc. v. Ford Motor Co., January 13, 2017, Ozerden, H.).

It is for the courts, on a case by case basis, to make a judgment of the individual's qualities and to weigh the expert's evidence in accordance with this judgment.

Apple's winning streak continues for now: after (finally) obtaining a preliminary injunction against the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and winning by a wide margin a battle over a long list of expert reports, Apple has just been cleared of infringement of one of the three Samsung patents it was attacking in its very focused summary judgment motions.

On appeal, the plaintiffs argued that it was an error for the court to dismiss their defect and negligence claims because the only grounds to grant the motion for summary judgment relied on the trial court granting the defendant's request to exclude the expert's testimony.

Notable mandates: Represented physicians involved in providing care to Ashley Smith during the 2013 coroner's inquest; acted for Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne in a defamation action against Ontario Progressive Conservative party leader Tim Hudak and energy critic Lisa MacLeod; in Wise v. Iran, acted for a Canadian victim of a suicide bombing (executed by individuals who received material support from Iran) who sought leave to intervene in ongoing proceedings commenced by United States plaintiffs in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice seeking orders recognizing the enforceability in Ontario of judgments they obtained from a U.S. court against Iran totaling about $ 370 million; in Khadr v. Edmonton Institution, acted as lead counsel for an intervener, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, to argue that in interpreting Omar Khadr's sentence for the purpose of enforcing it in Canada, Correctional Services Canada was obliged to consider Khadr's right to liberty and principles of fundamental justice; acted for a physician in a malpractice claim in Moore v. Getahun, a precedent - setting case about restrictions on communication between counsel and experts in preparation of expert reports.

Marshalling over 100 years of complex title records and boundary evidence and testimony of surveying and title experts, obtained judgment for a developer following trial affirming title to and boundaries of 120 - acre subdivision.

Successfully argued a Daubert motion for a group of 12 defendants, resulting in exclusion of the plaintiff's expert and summary judgment for defendants.