Sentences with phrase «increased validity of data»

It may seem unrelated to some industry watchers, but the fact that consumers still prefer and buy more print than digital actually speaks to the increased validity of data about how self - published authors are faring in the market.

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Several of the studies summarized in this section included detailed descriptions of data collection strategies and triangulated information from multiple sources of data, increasing the confidence in the validity of these findings (Feldman and Tung, 2002; Heller & Firestone, 1995; Spillane & Camburn, 2006; Wettersten, 1994).

These examples include assessment audits, implementing systems to collect, manage, and analyze assessment data, supporting assessment literacy, increasing transparency and timeliness, increasing communications about the purpose of statewide assessments, making assessment results more usable and understandable for educators and parents, improving the quality of assessments, and increasing the validity and reliability of statewide assessments.

Good post and I understand your skepticism and certainly I will be looking at more data and calling a friend of mine who is more qualified than I to speak about nano diamonds, but if more looking into this confirms these nano diamonds, and this could happen quite quickly, the validity of the hypothesis will increase and from there of course the burden of necessary evidence is still great as you mentioned.

Some researchers have attempted to increase the validity of self - report data by measuring parent involvement from more than one source (parent, teachers, students).

The strengths of the study include: a naturalistic setting, which increases the external validity of the findings, a multimethod assessment of two outcomes (parenting and child problem behavior), availability of four data points, minimal attrition across waves, and LGM analyses that specified and tested a theoretically based potential mediator of program effects.