Sentences with phrase «informal surveys»

The problem with participating in these informal surveys is that in doing so you may be ina...

And informal surveys suggest that uninsured rates in Hidalgo County - particularly near the border area - may be substantially higher.

For the purpose of finding an average fee across the country for cat grooming, the Professional Cat Groomers Association of America (PCGAA) conducted informal surveys through its national membership and at seminars held at trade shows throughout 2014.

and it's consistent with my own informal surveys — people with e-readers tend to buy and read a lot more books.

Topics for these «Share Out» sessions are taken from informal surveys that seek input from educators on sessions they want to learn about or are willing to speak on, all aligned to current school goals.

In fact, studies of informal surveys of principals (see «When Principals Rate Teachers,» research, Spring 2006) and teacher ratings by mentor teachers find that these more - subjective evaluation methods have similar power to detect differences in teacher effectiveness as the TES ratings.

Lacking definitive research on the optimal scale of a sustainable city, I've nonetheless made informal surveys of expert colleagues that suggest that four to 30 stories is the optimal range for buildings in a sustainable city.

The committee began its work in 1994 and delivered its report in March 1998, having conducted three informal surveys of selected major research universities to gain insights into campus policies and practices governing postdoctoral education.

«As a member of the Stuyvesant High School Black Alumni Diversity Initiative, I have spent the last six years conducting informal surveys of specialized high school Black and Latino alumni.

The program's main features arise directly from the study group's reading, conversations and informal surveys of core constituencies.

Use Twitter for contests, informal surveys, or to spark conversation.

An informal survey of the entire office may suggest something entirely different, though, and it's important to not assume before spending $ 5000 or more on a bolted - in desk.

I've done an informal survey here, and apparently it won't,» the conservative talk show host said.

I once took an informal survey at a speaking event.

Stanford University's continuing studies program on cleantech entrepreneurship recently conducted an informal survey.

As a purely informal survey, I regularly check the Public Service of Canada's jobs.gc.ca job board.

It is based on an informal survey of 21 lenders operating across the United States.

In the spring of 1985, the Board of Ordained Ministry decided that it was time to «take the temperature» of Minnesota United Methodist clergy and conduct an informal survey of the 400 pastors under appointment within the state.

But in an informal survey conducted by a sociologist it was revealed that the people who benefit most by TV are our industrialists.

The informal survey of college and university chaplains does not suggest that this phenomenon is merely one more manifestation of the national turn toward more traditional values, although that factor is certainly involved.

Ken Arnold, editor of Cross Currents, recently conducted an informal survey of some successful pastors.

(In our informal survey, almost never did a welfare worker know the regulations or the standard of benefits in another department.)

And that seems pretty accurate based on a more informal survey of typical NBA veterans.

An acknowledgment that the postpartum stretch shouldn't feel, as it did for so many of the American women who took part in my informal survey, like one long sleepless night.

Here are, based on my informal survey of other fathers of the bride, the top wedding dance songs for that father - daughter dance at the wedding celebration.

Perhaps we should start talking about what makes for a healthy marriage in high school; at least that's what the majority of responders in an informal survey Susan Pease Gadoua and I offered as part of our research for our book, «The New I Do,» indicated.

I conducted an informal survey of every educated Panamanian I met:

Judith Enck, a former regional administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency who is working with Bennington College on the informal survey, welcomed the additional efforts by the state and characterized the timing of the agency's announcement on Tuesday as «curious.»

In an e-mail read at a town board meeting last month, UCSPCA Executive Director Adam Saunders suggested asking residents in the affected areas how they felt the TNR program had worked, adding that his own informal survey in the community had deemed the effort a success, save for a heavy concentration of feral cats at a Warren Street residence.

So I conducted an informal survey to find out how many of them intended to vote in the General Election next May.

An informal survey of people who witness these things reveals that Joe Ganim, the mayor of Bridgeport, has been the star of the speaking circuit.

In an informal survey, Dilling found that physicians who have used this strategy report no dehiscence problems.

The move follows pilot tests of the software that have confirmed high levels of plagiarism in articles submitted to some journals, according to an informal survey by Nature of nine science publishers.

Oklahoma Insurance Commission spokeswoman Kelly Collins said the agency was curious to see if there has been a jump in coverage for earthquakes and did an informal survey.

The pioneering psychologist Amos Tversky once did an informal survey over a period of years, asking people how confident they were that they were going to take such a job offer.

The FASEB Science Policy Committee carried out an informal survey of [11] institutions, including a few government institutions, to determine provision of health benefits to postdocs, as well as access to retirement programs,?

In an informal survey of recruiters and academic scientists on hiring panels, most said that a candidate's decision to participate or not in social media wouldn't change their hiring decisions.

If much of the CPD that chartered scientists carry out is part of their normal working life, and the only employers who responded to my informal survey were either oblivious or indifferent, then why become a CSci?

Something all can agree on, however, is that misconduct in the United Kingdom, particularly in the area of medical research, is an endemic problem: An informal survey released by BMJ at the meeting showed that out of 2700 responses by BMJ subscribers, 13 % of medical and academic researchers had witnessed misconduct and 6 % were aware of possible research misconduct at their institution that hadn't been properly investigated.

According to an informal survey of Friedman students, a majority (64 %) believe that handing out Halloween candy neither helps nor hurts public health nutrition policy, and only 55 % do not believe it is our responsibility as nutrition professionals to shift our current candy - centric Halloween culture.

However there is a catch, as explained by Bloomberg: «There's a tipping point for what they're willing to shell out: no more than $ 15 a month, according to an informal survey of about a dozen millennials.

Our informal survey (through questionpro.com) plus information garnered from Pew Research on Christian black singles using Christian Black Singles Services revealed the following:

I mean it, I've done an informal survey, and I think women like the movie a little more than guys.

An informal survey of students about Oregon's online testing system shows they find computer - based testing faster and more enjoyable than the paper - and - pencil variety, and they report feeling that they perform better on computerized assessments than on traditional tests.

The findings come from an informal survey of the group's 26,000 members on a variety of education issues, which drew 1,139 responses.

An informal survey of several state Chapter 2 coordinators last week also revealed that while many officials approve of the Reagan Administration's proposal to increase funding for the program by approximately 50 percent, they do not think it will translate into many significant education - improvement efforts at the local level.

Parent Voice: The Gifts Teachers Really Appreciate: Explore takeaways from one parent's informal survey about the gifts teacher really want to receive for Teacher Appreciation Week.

Joyce Slaton Lollar, a parent who cares, shares the results of her informal survey about the gifts teachers really want to receive for Teacher Appreciation Week.

The informal survey of 354 school districts, released this month, does not focus on experiments with such companies as Education Alternatives Inc., the Edison Project,...

This was a strictly informal survey from which I collected anecdotal comments.