Not only would
this lower the quality of the data, but it would also raise the stakes of the tests: If you think the stakes are too high now, imagine being a fifth grader in a school where your score determines the results of the entire school.
Also
the lower the quality of the data the less elaborate the procedures that should be applied.
Would physicists or chemists, biomedical researchers or engineers accept
this low quality of data in most other specialties??
Not exact matches
For example, if a driver gets a
low rating and is accused
of speeding or driving unsafely during the ride, Uber could look at the driving
data to determine what happened.Though Uber could reserve looking at the
data only when there is a complaint, nothing prevents it from actively monitoring its drivers to regularly conduct
quality control and make sure there's no unsafe behavior.
T - Mobile, which is majority owned by German carrier Deutsche Telekom, said in the past when it offered a choice to let customers turn off the
lower - resolution video while using more
of their
data allowances, 99 % opted to stick with the
lower quality.
Vancouver, Wash. — Jan 11,2017 — Global, high - growth companies are more likely to invest in account - based strategies, cold calling, rigorous sales training, and
data quality initiatives than their
lower growth counterparts according to a survey
of 200 sales and marketing organizations conducted in November 2016 by DiscoverOrg, the world's leading marketing and sales intelligence solution.
«We repeatedly hear from sales and marketing organizations that the overwhelming abundance
of data available today — mostly
low -
quality and unverified — actually makes it harder for them to do their job effectively,» said Katie Bullard, DiscoverOrg Chief Growth Officer.
«Through the intense focus our 285,000 colleagues bring to helping people live healthier lives and helping make the health system work better for everyone, we have grown to serve more people in more ways than ever, including through innovative uses
of advanced technologies,
data analytics, and modern clinical approaches that improve
quality,
lower cost and advance consumer and care provider satisfaction,» David S. Wichmann, CEO
of UnitedHealth Group, said in a conference call.
When Mindell and her fellow researchers examined
data on babies in Asia who slept alone, the
quality and duration
of their sleep were just as
low as babies who co-slept with parents.
Excluding type 2 diabetes (because
of insufficient
data), we conducted a cost analysis for all pediatric diseases for which the Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality reported risk ratios that favored breastfeeding: necrotizing enterocolitis, otitis media, gastroenteritis, hospitalization for
lower respiratory tract infections, atopic dermatitis, sudden infant death syndrome, childhood asthma, childhood leukemia, type 1 diabetes mellitus, and childhood obesity.
We could pool heart rate
data following injections for only two studies (n = 186); we considered this evidence to be
of low quality due to insufficient
data.
Individual patient clinical
data for very
low birth weight infants from the California Perinatal
Quality Care Collaborative were linked to hospital - level
data on DHM availability from the Mothers» Milk Bank
of San Jos for 2007 to 2013.
There has been slight improvement in study reporting or
quality, with 44 out
of the 73 trials that contributed
data (60 %) reporting an approach to allocation concealment that we considered to be at
low risk
of bias compared to 26
of the 52 trials (50 %) in the previous review (Renfrew 2012b).
The
data used in the project covered the period 2000 - 2008 and considered such factors as premature death,
low birth weights, and self - reported information regarding health - related
quality of life and poor physical and mental health days.
Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper will focus on
data collection, water
quality sampling, and implementation plans in the five prioritized sub-watersheds
of the Niagara River region: Upper Tonawanda Creek,
Lower Tonawanda Creek, Buffalo River, Smoke (s) Creek, and Eighteenmile Creek.
«Our study group has spent decades studying the health effects
of diet
quality and composition, and now this new
data also suggests overall dietary habits can be important to
lower risk
of coronary heart disease,» said Eric Rimm, Sc.D., senior author and Associate Professor
of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School
of Public Health and Associate Professor
of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School.
The voluntary survey had a much
lower response rate — 68 % versus more than 90 % for the previous mandatory questionnaire — making the
data collected
of much
lower quality.
«The overall significance is that although we already know that reducing methane emissions can bring great societal benefits via decreased near - term warming and improved air
quality, and that many
of the sources can be controlled at
low or even negative cost, we still need better
data on emissions from particular sources,» Duke University climate sciences professor Drew Shindell said.
Ancient food webs are particularly difficult to reconstruct because
data about them is usually limited and
of low quality.
A concern is that not adjusting readmissions
data for poverty or other socioeconomic factors could mislead the public into thinking that hospitals with a large share
of disadvantaged patients provide
lower -
quality care than hospitals with more affluent patients.
Typhoon's laser scanner enables you to generate high -
quality data through linearity
of signal response, quantitative accuracy, and extremely
low detection limits (as
low as 3 pg).
Using good
quality data from a large number
of people, the experienced scientists conducting this research found that people who took certain types
of arthritis drugs had a
lower risk
of dementia than people not taking this treatment.
These technologies are still emerging and many face problems that the larger the quantity
of data produced, the
lower the
quality.
A comparison
of the effects
of high and
low -
quality plant and animal protein sources is out
of the scope
of the study (and probably not possible with the existing
data).
To sum up, comparable
data for 1990 and 2009 on youth reveals that
low - educated women are in more disadvantage than in the past while
low - educated men are worse in the
quality of jobs they access to but not in terms
of unemployment.
The state Department
of Education may consider investing in high
quality formative assessment and
data analysis programs as a tool for
low performing schools to use in focusing instruction and preparing students for the MCAS.
Ideally, system leaders use this information — along with other
data on school
quality — to increase the number
of high -
quality seats (e.g., by adding seats to desirable schools or opening more schools like them) and reduce the number
of low -
quality seats (e.g., by closing
low - performing, undesirable schools).
Using the same
data on Tennessee's high schools, I created lists
of «
low - performing schools» based on how the schools ranked on different measures
of school
quality.
Such buy - in does make up a sizable chunk
of points, but 48 percent
of points are attached to the
quality of a state's plan in four key areas: standards and assessments,
data systems, teacher and principal effectiveness, and turning around the
lowest - achieving schools.
The ultimate goal
of formal and final regulations should be to ensure that the HEA Title II requirements around reporting and accountability have the effect that they were intended to — providing meaningful
data on program
quality and ensuring that
low - performing programs are identified and improved.
In using ARRA funds, states and school divisions must advance core reforms identified in the legislation, including: implementation
of college - and career - ready standards and assessments for all students; establishment
of preschool to postsecondary and career longitudinal
data systems; improvement in teacher
quality — especially for students most at risk
of academic failure; and improvement
of low - performing schools through effective interventions.
And considering the
low -
quality of subjective classroom observations that are the norm for traditional teacher evaluation systems, the state laws and collective bargaining agreements governing teacher performance management discourage school leaders from providing more - ample feedback, and that the use
of objective student test score growth
data is just coming into play, few teachers have gotten the kind
of feedback needed to build such expertise in the first place.
Meanwhile the
data also points to this reality: The promise
of high -
quality curricula standards can be undermined by
low proficiency targets and cut scores.
That's why in recent years, GreatSchools has expanded
data collection efforts in every state to include various types
of school
quality data broken down by student groups, including students from
low - income families, diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, and students with disabilities.
High -
quality assessments generate rich
data and can provide valuable information about student progress to teachers and parents, support accountability, promote high expectations, and encourage equity for students
of color and
low - income students.
Gordon MacInnes shows that it's possible for high - poverty schools to do a much better job
of teaching
low - income youngsters to read, through the tale
of how a package
of reforms, including high -
quality pre-K and intensive,
data - driven literacy instruction in the early grades, dramatically improved reading performance for children in some
of New Jersey's highest - poverty, most troubled districts.
We use North Carolina
data to explore whether the
quality of teachers in the
lower elementary grades (K - 2) falls short
of teacher
quality in the upper grades (3 - 5) and to examine the hypothesis that school accountability pressures contribute to such
quality shortfalls.
Based on
data from a post-student teaching survey, we find consistently strong evidence
of large effects
of being assigned to high versus
low index placements, particularly in terms
of teacher candidates» perceptions
of the
quality of instruction
of their cooperating teachers and the quantity and
quality of the coaching that they received.
The administration has focused on better methods
of evaluating and improving teacher
quality, expanding high - performing charter schools, building better
data systems, and turning around the
lowest - performing schools.
The report looks at
data from the 20 states that received more than $ 1 billion in federal aid to make
quality education accessible to high - needs preschool children — those from
low - income families or those in need
of special assistance, including children with disabilities or developmental delays.
No matter how you mix it, it's better to go with Value - Added, student surveys, or both: As Dropout Nation noted last year, the accuracy
of classroom observations is so
low that even in a multiple measures approach to evaluation in which value - added
data and student surveys account for the overwhelming majority
of the
data culled from the model (72.9 percent, and 17.2 percent
of the evaluation in one case), the classroom observations are
of such
low quality that they bring down the accuracy
of the overall performance review.
Of the four OPSB schools reported to utilize student performance based application data, each received the highest school quality rating of A in the 2014 - 2015 school year; additionally, the percentage of special education students in these four schools averaged 4.7 %, lower than the 7.0 % average for OPSB schools (OPSB, 2016
Of the four OPSB schools reported to utilize student performance based application
data, each received the highest school
quality rating
of A in the 2014 - 2015 school year; additionally, the percentage of special education students in these four schools averaged 4.7 %, lower than the 7.0 % average for OPSB schools (OPSB, 2016
of A in the 2014 - 2015 school year; additionally, the percentage
of special education students in these four schools averaged 4.7 %, lower than the 7.0 % average for OPSB schools (OPSB, 2016
of special education students in these four schools averaged 4.7 %,
lower than the 7.0 % average for OPSB schools (OPSB, 2016).
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Project Gutenberg PrePrints was launched in January 2006 to collect items submitted to Project Gutenberg which were interesting enough to be available online, but not ready yet to be added to the main Project Gutenberg collection, because
of missing
data,
low -
quality files, formats which were not handy, etc. 379 ebooks were available in December 2006, and 2,020 ebooks in February 2009.
The fund has invested around 20 %
of its corpus in Debt securities, as per Valueresearch
data, the debt portion falls under «
Low»
quality and «high» interest rate sensitivity block, you may have a look.
Curry suggests that the ERSST
data is likely to be less careful or
of lower quality than the already available HadSST3
data.
The
data showed fast deterioration
of air
quality as cities in
low - income countries grow unchecked and smog and soot from construction sites, transport, industry, farming and wood - burning in home exacerbates air conditions.
«Major improvements include updated and substantially more complete input
data from the ICOADS Release 2.5, revised Empirical Orthogonal Teleconnections (EOTs) and EOT acceptance criterion, updated sea surface temperature (SST)
quality control procedures, revised SST anomaly (SSTA) evaluation methods, revised
low - frequency
data filing in
data sparse regions using nearby available observations, updated bias adjustments
of ship SSTs using Hadley Nighttime Marine Air Temperature version 2 (HadNMAT2), and buoy SST bias adjustments not previously made in v3b.»