Sentences with phrase «given academic data»

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The historical app audit was announced in the wake of last month's revelations about how much Facebook data Cambridge Analytica was given by app developer (and Cambridge University academic), Dr Aleksandr Kogan — in what the company couched as a «breach of trust».

Facebook will give a committee of senior academics independent access to its data, allowing researchers to study the social network's effect on democracy and elections.

Brittney Kaiser, a former employee for Cambridge Analytica — who left the company in January and is today giving evidence in front of a UK parliament committee that's investigating online misinformation — has suggested that data on far more Facebook users may have found its way into the consultancy's hands than the up to 87M people Facebook has so far suggested had personal data compromised as a result of a personality quiz app running on its platform which was developed by an academic working with CA.

Aleksandr Kogan, the academic who allegedly collected private information from up to 87 million Facebook accounts and then gave the cache to political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, also bought access to Twitter data, according to a Sunday report from Bloomberg.

Many academics partner with Facebook because the social network will not give them access to the data they seek unless the research is conducted jointly, and some researchers have raised concerns that Facebook is creating a conflict of interest for them.

Given Britain's involvement in an international research consortium formed to create the most detailed and medically useful picture of human genetic variation to date, tonight's other discussion points include the scientific value of the information and the regulatory implications of providing public access to personal genome data through academic research projects, as well as through commercial organisations.

He'd presented the app to Facebook and to its users as a project gathering for academic research, but then had turned around and given it to a company that had not been named or identified, and which sought to use the data for political, not academic, purposes.

Clancy thought that quantitative data would give her work in this area more clout, so she and several other researchers collaborated to conduct a more formal survey and interview study, which they called the Survey of Academic Field Studies (SAFE).

Individuals can earn tokens by giving pharma and biotechs and academics access to their data.

Dr. Chuang: My short - term goal is to find an academic position that will give me the opportunity to integrate genetic data for personalized treatment selection for patients.

As a result, teachers were trained to use data to identify patterns of strength and weaknesses, and each student is now given an academic plan that is tracked by the teacher.

Given such a profound role of LA in each individual's academic performance, the question arises on the effective input of data into the LA tools for the sake of precise, comprehensive analysis, and prediction of individuals» learning.

Simple organizational management has given way to continual data - analysis ~ professional development and academic content knowledge.

The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation said last week it is giving $ 10 million to help Texas create a $ 60 million data system to track student performance, giving educators access to academic, attendance, disciplinary, and state testing records for individual students.

The school report card (SRC) combines accountability ratings, data from the Texas Academic Performance Reports (TAPR), and financial information to give a broad view of campus performance.

With 17,300 students, the district receives an abundance of information, including data from PARCC tests, districtwide pre - and post-common assessments in all content areas, Measures of Academic Progress in elementary and middle schools, Eureka Math and Achieve 3000 achievement scores, and professional - development surveys given to all teachers.

Moreover, the data the computer programs provided gave a better sense of students» academic needs.

It gives parents the tools to evaluate individual programs using academic and demographic data to decide what might be best fit for their child.

Our data - driven approach allows us to adjust curriculum by school and classroom, prepare and coach teachers, provide daily enrichment activities to aid students in need of academic support, and grant high - performers the ability to continue growing toward their full God - given potential.

Over the past few decades, improved academic - achievement data have given us unprecedented insight into the strengths and weaknesses of America's system of education.

As the new school year is beginning, every school and district has been given the data to identify these students, called Long Term English Learners (LTELs), and hopefully will have plans to accelerate their language and academic growth.

Not only is it spending more than $ 75 million a year on advocacy, but it is also simultaneously bankrolling the development of policy by funding academic researchers and district data specialists and giving money to think tanks and media organizations that examine their handiwork.

For example, college readiness measures like Advanced Placement classes and college entrance exams are available in most high schools but not elementary or middle schools, and student or academic progress data that looks at year - over-year progress may be less likely to be available in a high school where state standardized tests are only given in one grade.

Since student perception data is empirically linked to and predictive of academic outcomes, understanding students» experiences in their K - 12 classes can give educators and school leaders rapid feedback to inform instructional practices.

One study followed the academic progress of 2,300 students in New York City who were enrolled in a dual credit program focusing on occupational training, and the other, much larger, study focused on 33,000 students in Florida, a state that collects extensive data on students from kindergarten through college, giving researchers an unusually rich set of material for analysis.

These data are similar to what researchers observed when the now defunct Kindle DX was given to students at campuses across the country to test their value for academic reading.

Given the growing number of products, data availability and academic research suggesting investors may not need to sacrifice return, one could argue it is no longer just a «feel good» exercise and that it has become more mainstream.

Since the early 1980s, some NMSs, other organizations and individual scientists have given or sold us (see Hulme, 1994, for a summary of European data collection efforts) additional data for inclusion in the gridded datasets, often on the understanding that the data are only used for academic purposes with the full permission of the NMSs, organizations and scientists and the original station data are not passed onto third parties.

Consider that although Phil has lost all the documents years ago, he remembers that they * all * allow him to give data to academics, but that they must withhold the data otherwise.

Given that funding agencies rely on academic journals to ensure that authors archive data (improperly abdicating their own responsibilities), the moral of this should be that the -LSB-...]

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Facebook says it initially gave out the data to a researcher who claimed it would be used only for academic purposes.

Many academics partner with Facebook because the social network will not give them access to the data they seek unless the research is conducted jointly, and some researchers have raised concerns that Facebook is creating a conflict of interest for them.

What is surprising is that an academic researcher could so flagrantly violate the spirit and the terms of the data - sharing policies Facebook has in place by taking that data and giving it to a firm that was never authorized to have it in the first place for the purposes of political targeting.

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Kickboard, a startup that gives teachers dashboards for tracking academic and behavioral data, is $ 2 million richer.

But if we see on a surface, resume writing is the most easiest and simple task, because in a resume you only have to give details about your academic and professional qualifications, which are nothing but factual data.

Additionally, given the research base linking SEL competencies with academic outcomes, we must continue to provide improved assessments and data tools to educators so they can effectively identify, and develop, the social and emotional competencies of our 64,000 students.