Sentences with phrase «judgments about that evidence»

What is not so certain are some of his judgments about that evidence.

Not exact matches

«I can at most venture a personal judgment, based on some examination of the historical evidence, that the initial effects [on employment] of a higher and unanticipated rate of inflation last for something like two to five years; that this initial effect then begins to be reversed; and that a full adjustment to the new rate of inflation takes about as long for employment as for interest rates, say, a couple of decades.»

National data is surprisingly sparse — too sparse, probably, to make meaningful judgments about return on investment — but the available evidence indicates that PSM graduates are finding work, and it's mostly well - paid.

Formulation of recommendations was based on the quality of the evidence and judgment (incorporating values and preferences) about the balance of benefits and harms.

Hennekens and Bjorkman advise doctors that, based on the current totality of evidence, in the primary prevention of vascular disease and cancer, any judgments about prescribing long - term aspirin therapy for apparently healthy individuals should be based on individual clinical judgments between the doctor and each of his or her patients.

States will also benefit from supporting Peer Assistance and Review models that identify teachers who are struggling, provide them with intensive, expert assistance from mentor teachers in their content areas, and make a timely judgment about continued employment that is grounded in useful evidence, intensive support, and due process.

After working with the district's rubric, each candidate is given a sample paper to assess; the task involves first providing the evidence to support the candidate's judgment about the developmental level of the 5th grader's performance.

The dismissal of the «professional judgment» approach eliminates a rational way of thinking about a hypothetical situation when research and statistics have not addressed the issue with any definitive conclusions.The authors are more supportive of the «successful schools» approach because it is based on some evidence of relative performance.

Evidence suggests that Americans have been wise enough to ignore the woefully misleading information about student proficiency rates generated by state testing systems when forming judgments about the quality of their state's schools.

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.

Stories are the evidence that allow us to make judgments about what serves us well, and it is the stories about schools that allow communities to build a narrative about the effectiveness of education.

Learn what the research says about how to develop expertise in this genre of writing — building an understanding of (persuasive) schema; developing stronger writing prompts for the 3 argument types (fact - based, judgment - based, policy - based); and teaching students how to find and use the most relevant evidence (text, data, etc.) needed to support each argument / opinion type.

While choices about the mix of measures should be made partly based on evidence, they also require value judgments.

Is there a way to engage in the essential work of formative assessment, feedback, and differentiated instruction, while still gathering enough summative evidence for a twice - a-week standard to make a professional judgment about learning?

They learned to keep their focus on evidence, not judgment, and to express «wonderings» about what they saw, allowing for open discussion of the classroom evidence.

They learned to base their noticings and their questions about instructional practice on evidence while avoiding judgments.

Presented with conflicting accounts, different viewpoints, and divergent recollections, I have had to make judgments about the credibility of different sources and choose which of the many strands of evidence seem to run closest to reality.

In other words, evidence or argumentation is about reasoning, using facts, the true judgment, the scientific data used to persuade the reader in the truth of what the essay is about.

Even if they disagreed about it, judges can and do make judgments on cases where technical evidence is presented.

We might say, in the statistical sense, that the chance of rolling snake eyes on a pair of dice is about 3 percent; subjective probabilities, by contrast, come into play whenever we make a personal judgment based on available evidence.

«The confidence metric provides a qualitative synthesis of an author team's judgment about the validity of a finding, as determined through evaluation of evidence and agreement.

Guidance developed by Moss and Schneider (2000) for the IPCC on dealing with uncertainty describes two key attributes that they argue are important in any judgment about climate change: the amount of evidence available to support the judgment being made and the degree of consensus within the scientific community about that judgment.

I preface this comment by saying that I know nothing about the evidence in the Law Society of Upper Canada's prosecution of Torys LLP lawyers Darren Sukonick and Elizabeth DeMerchant, other than what is disclosed in the reasons for judgment of the Hearing Panel dated October 17, 2013 [Ed.

... and the Working Group agrees that there is not yet sufficient evidence from other jurisdictions from which to make proper judgments about the effect of public ownership on professionalism.

[35] The concern about copying in the judicial context is not that the judge is taking credit for someone else's prose, but rather that it may be evidence that the reasons for judgment do not reflect the judge's thinking.

Also, you should note What exactly they were convicted of, whether you (john doe) testified, whether evidence was given pertaining to Doe's alleged defrauding, whether the judgment refers to Doe as a victim, whether Doe was contacted by victim witness services and afforded counseling about rights of restitution.

In the Alberta Court of Appeal ruling reported as R v Wagar, 2015 ABCA 327 Justice Brian K. O'Ferrall, speaking for a unanimous court, made short shrift of Justice Camp's judgment, at p. 1: ``... [W] e are satisfied that the trial judge's comments throughout the proceedings and in his reasons gave rise to doubts about the trial judge's understanding of the law governing sexual assaults and in particular, the meaning of consent and restrictions on evidence of the complainant's sexual activity... We are also persuaded that sexual stereotypes and stereotypical myths, which have long since been discredited, may have found their way into the trial judge's judgment.»

The fact that they knew all about the amendments in their capacity as directors meant that they were also held to have had this knowledge in their capacity as guarantors; the judgment states that «in any event, the evidence supports the view that there was consent to the variations», though this was not decisive in the case since the amendments were within the scope of the indulgence clause.

As a result the trial record in this proceeding is incomplete and unbalanced on crucial issues including: (1) the widespread suicidal ideation initially experienced by persons with disabilities responding to their disabilities; [8](2) relevant exploitation and abuse to which people with disabilities and the elderly are subjected; [9](3) prejudice faced by persons with disabilities in society at large and in the medical community; [10](4) the impact the lack of palliative care and support services has on suicidal ideation; [11](5) the impaired agency of persons with disabilities in dependent circumstances; [12](6) evidence of clinicians about the impact resulting from a state sanctioned paradigm shift legalizing assisted suicide and euthanasia («AS / E»); [13] and (7) the impact on the judgment of doctors of functioning in an environment of increasing health costs and budget constraints.

[51] In her judgment Andrews J referred to examples of the type of evidence required to attract legal advice privilege, to include a qualitative assessment of the evidence or any thoughts about its importance or relevance to the inquiry, or indications of further areas of investigation that the author of the notes considered might be fruitful.

The judgment accepts the evidence of experts and others who testified about the ways in which solitary confinement triggers and exacerbates mental health conditions, and increases risks of self - harm and suicide.

Mummery LJ pointed out that at the material meeting the substance of the relevant evidence of all the councillors was that they were left to make their own decisions and to exercise their own judgment about voting on the business in question.

[68] The substantive elements of the termination that the Board found unreasonable included: the principal ordering Mr. Dorval to use codes given the evidence that policy (of RSCHS and Edmonton Public School Board) supported involvement of teachers» professional judgment and consultation; the order being simply announced with little or no consultation; questions or concerns being ignored; little or no communication to students and parents about the codes or their enactment; the failure of the principal and the appellant to respect the professional rights and duties of the teacher regarding assessment of his students; and the discriminatory singling out of Mr. Dorval for discipline when other teachers who also challenged and refused to follow the principal's order were not disciplined.

The decision is peppered with occasions when the Tribunal makes judgments about their view of the matter and, although... the Tribunal specifically states that they have not substituted their own opinions for that of the evidence, we are bound to say that that direction is more honoured in the breach than the observance» (per Pugsley J, London Borough of Sutton v Kester).

While the judgment is not seen as «exceptional» in terms of the dollar amount — to MacDonald it's the fact it will help prevent counterfeiters from putting in evidence and «shouting about credibility to stop you from getting a summary judgment.»

In the Lam case, MacDonald put forward a Supreme Court of Canada decision — Hryniak v. Mauldin — that talks about proportionality, affordable access to justice, and the fact these kind of summary trial rules should be given a broad latitude and if a judge, in his or her discretion, feels they can grant judgment on the evidence before them they should be allowed to do so.

I preface this comment by saying that I know nothing about the evidence in the Law Society of Upper Canada's prosecution of Torys LLP lawyers Darren Sukonick and Elizabeth DeMerchant, other than what is disclosed in the reasons for judgment of the Hearing Panel dated October 17, 2013.