Sentences with phrase «make valid inferences»

We're talking such a short period of time, it's not possible it seems to my admittedly untrained mind, to make valid inferences with respect to whether the climate's doing anything unusual..

To make valid inferences about learning, teachers need to allow students to work to their strengths.

That is, you can not make valid inferences from a student's test score unless the test is reliable.

The bottom line is to question and critically consume everything, and everyone who feels qualified to write about particular things without enough expertise in most everything, including in this case good and professional journalism, this area of educational research, and what it means to make valid inferences and then responsibly share them out with the public.

Although they agreed that it would allow them to make valid inferences about students» ability to construct grammatically correct sentences, they determined that it did not provide enough information to allow them to assess student progress in developing compelling arguments.

Conducting assessment item analysis to make valid inferences that will drive subsequent teaching and learning;

And yet the last 13.7 years of non-statistically significant warming is suitable for making valid inferences...?

Not exact matches

The «valid inductive inference» pattern (2.1)-- abstracted from the passages prior to the passage mentioning the uncertainty of analogy — suggests that Whitehead's meaning was simply that if there is analogy, a further condition for making the inference is still required, viz., the internal relationships between entities and environments.

A successful test would therefore require isolating enough of these scarce cells to make statistically valid inferences about the tumor, often at a stage when the tumor itself is growing and changing rapidly.

Rather, research evidence must support their uses, otherwise valid inferences can not be made, or more importantly accepted as valid.

Now to be clear, here, I do think that not just «grossly ineffective» but also simply «bad teachers» should be fired, but the indicators used to do this must yield valid inferences, as based on the evidence, as critically and appropriately consumed by the parties involved, after which valid and defensible decisions can and should be made.

Making valid and consistent inferences about school effectiveness from multiple measures.

This too has implications for validity in that, again, teachers or teachers» value - added estimates should fall in the same ranges, if and when using similar tests, if any valid inferences are to be made using value - added estimates.

Looking over the short note on climate matters by John Reid that was promoted on Quadrant Online recently — it is very clear that a collection of notions do not a valid scientific inference make.