Sentences with phrase «limited number of observations»

«I still think it is a good piece of work, puts a limited number of observations in a solid context, does not overinterpret, and does not say this was caused by climate change.»

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Cuomo's proposal seeks to limit the number of teachers who receive high ratings under the system, since the subjective observations component is seen as an area where administrators have the opportunity to inflate teachers» scores.

The technique produced only a limited number of direct observations.

There are some caveats with their study: The global climate models (GCMs) do not reproduce the 1930 - 1940 Arctic warm event very well, and the geographical differences in a limited number of grid - boxes in the observations and the GCMs may have been erased through taking the average value over the 90 - degree sectors.

While we track CMEs with a number of instruments, the sheer size of the solar system means that our observations are limited, and usually taken from a distance.

For example, some require mandatory newborn observation in the nursery for 4 hours after birth, require all newborn baby care procedures to be performed in the nursery without the parents present, or limit the number of birth companions during the birth.

This is particularly true considering the limited number of cases reported in this study, their heterogeneity and the limited time of observation.

For a number of reasons — limited reliability, the potential for abuse, the recent evidence that teachers have effects on student earnings and college going which are largely not captured by test - based measures — it would not make sense to attach 100 percent of the weight to test - based measures (or any of the available measures, including classroom observations, for that matter).

If we limit the analysis to the 5th - grade applicants for whom we can compute value - added estimates, the number of student - year observations included immediately falls by about 85 percent.

The advantages come at the price of concerns about the limited number of country observations, the mostly cross-sectional character of available achievement data, and possible bias from unobserved country factors such as culture.

Given Project STAR's limited number of Hispanic, Asian, and Native American participants, I edited these data to include only those observations from black and white non-Hispanic students with black and white non-Hispanic teachers.

There are a number of potential explanations for this finding, including a limited supply of effective teachers (it's rational to keep a mediocre teacher if the likely replacement will be no better), a lack of administrator ability to discern teacher quality (their observations are less predictive of value - added than those of outside observers), or a simple unwillingness to make the unpleasant decision of firing someone.

Additional limitations of the analysis highlighted in the paper and simply repeated by the reviewer are that the number of country observations is limited to 28 OECD countries and that the available measure of teacher performance pay is imperfect.

For a number of reasons limited reliability, the potential for abuse, the recent evidence that teachers have effects on student earnings and college going which are largely not captured by test - based measures it would not make sense to attach 100 percent of the weight to test - based measures (or any of the available measures, including classroom observations, for that matter).

Students used RCE as one source among a number of possible sources they were encouraged to draw upon in the course, including (but not limited to) classroom observations, readings, personal experiences, past careers, and video exemplars.

MORE also was highly critical of the Danielson observation system in the resolution saying it «subjects teachers to a cookie - cutter observation system that limits professional autonomy and reduces teaching to a series of numbered scores.»

There are some caveats with their study: The global climate models (GCMs) do not reproduce the 1930 - 1940 Arctic warm event very well, and the geographical differences in a limited number of grid - boxes in the observations and the GCMs may have been erased through taking the average value over the 90 - degree sectors.

Actually, for the first quarter of the last century, solid data concerning the polar region are limited and rely only on a number of single expeditions and interpretation of secondary observations.

Such field measurements are sparse, however, and the record of remotely sensed ocean color observations — the chief source of global biogeochemical data today — is limited to the sea surface and does not include a number of key variables.

For example, Campbell et al. (1976: p. 199 - 207) compared fluctuations in domain satisfaction in a limited number of cases in which external circumstances had significantly changed (between observations).