Sentences with phrase «meaningful evidence of»

Absent some meaningful evidence of a meeting of the minds between counterparties, it is hard to conclude that we are getting the mutual gains from trade we hope contracts produce, and a mere click isn't very good evidence of assent to particular terms.

«We're pleased to partner with Boston Public Schools and help educators gather meaningful evidence of student learning.

«This partnership makes it easier for districts to gather meaningful evidence of student learning through well - aligned, high - quality assessment content.

Not exact matches

By focusing on outcomes for Canadians and making evidence - based decisions that are anchored in meaningful data and indicators, the Government is moving to a culture of measurement and impact, and is putting in place the tools to deliver on priorities, align resources to programs and activities that deliver real value for Canadians, and provide meaningful information to Canadians and Parliament.

«We did that review by increasing engagement with communities, by meaningful consultation with Indigenous Peoples, by looking at the science and the evidence and also looking at the project in the context of our climate plan, and we approved that project,» she said in Victoria.

While each of these attacks is a tragedy, there is hardly any evidence that virtual currency has any meaningful connection to them.

The prehistoric and historic record of equity markets provide ample evidence of overvaluation and high probability of meaningful corrections.

Finally, there is limited evidence of a meaningful tightening in credit conditions in Canada.

Perhaps you should think about what evidence you are accepting instead of regurgitating it as if it's somehow meaningful.

How can one have a «meaningful» relationship with someone who is invisible, doesn't speak back, and has given zero evidence of existing?

An FIA statement said: «The stewards heard from Marcus Ericsson, the driver of car # 9 and the team representative and reviewed the video evidence which clearly showed that the driver attempted to set a meaningful lap time after passing through a double waved yellow marshalling sector, contrary to the requirements set out in the race director's event notes (10.1) in breach of article 12.1.1 i.»

A court will rely on this attendance as evidence of a meaningful relationship.

The research network will produce meaningful impacts that will significantly extend the evidence - base of home visiting.

The candidate's quoted as seeing Twitter as a «way to regularly communicate with the thousands of people we are supposed to represent,» but the evidence of his successful use of the tool is a brief media hit — was that his goal and does it advance his candidacy in a meaningful way?

I do see that they have a public duty — although, frankly, I see little evidence that they uphold this in any meaningful sense — to be free to report the truth, however unpalatable it might be, and that a free press is vital for the continuation of a democracy.

While the legislative session still has six weeks to go, there is scant evidence that the governor and the state legislative leaders are focused on a package of meaningful measures that would reduce the risk of corruption in New York.

«Does that mean that people are getting access to safe and efficacious interventions or is there basically unapproved human experimentation taking place where people are going to these businesses and receiving experimental investigational cell - based interventions without being given a meaningful account of the lack of knowledge and evidence that they're being charged for?»

One of the best hopes for meaningful privacy protection in the future is for businesses to compete on privacy, and there is some evidence that this is starting to happen.»

The special cholera section of the Journal also includes evidence that cholera vaccine has a role to play in fighting the epidemic, despite the many challenges to achieving meaningful coverage in Haiti.

In the following pages, you'll learn tools to identify the hallmarks of irrational thinking, evaluate evidence, recognize your own biases and develop strategies to transform shouting matches into meaningful discussions.

«Now that spinal stimulation has been successful in four out of four patients, there is evidence to suggest a large cohort of individuals, previously with little realistic hope of any meaningful recovery from spinal cord injury, may benefit from this intervention.»

The capacity of the stand - alone physician to produce high - quality, evidenced - based care, yielding meaningful and lasting change in lifestyle behaviors, has proven elusive.

Although the balance of the evidence indicates that bariatric surgery is safe and effective for the typical patient with severe obesity, Dr. Arterburn said, individual patients and their doctors need to have meaningful shared decision making conversations about the long - term benefits, risks, and uncertainties of bariatric surgery so they can each choose the best treatments for them.

«The overall evidence that sugar exerts a meaningful risk for diabetes beyond its supply of calories is simply not supported by existing evidence, including from randomised trials.

Likewise there is no evidence to document the long term effectiveness of PRI interventions on meaningful data e.g. injury rates.

Children as young as five can have meaningful conversations that bring in... viewpoint, evidence, relevance... all of those things are really relevant in the classroom.

There is scant robust evidence of what actually works whether it is how to observe colleagues, to provide meaningful feedback or to help change the practice of fellow teachers for the better.

«At the same time, there is a strong evidence - base indicating that the use of dramatic enquiry — a drama - based practice where the teacher and pupils work in roles within a fiction to explore a story in a particular setting with developing characters — as well as the creation of a «community of writers», where the teacher writes alongside the children as a role model, can make the process of writing more meaningful for children.»

It is hence meaningful to gather as much behavioral evidence during an interview to arrive at an objective assessment of the candidate's ability to perform the job.

The authors also stress the importance of collecting meaningful, raw evidence when observing a classroom, and to do it without judgment.

But in more affluent parts of the city there was some evidence of meaningful progress, both in terms of student learning and in community buy - in.

One might take the challenges faced by the consortia - designed assessments as evidence of the impossibility of creating meaningful standards for which educators and students can be held accountable.

Longitudinal studies can overcome some of these difficulties, thereby providing meaningful evidence comparing one method with another.

It is currently developing a meaningful way to collate evidence of the positive impact of play spaces installed by API members and will be submitting evidence to the new All - Party Commission on Physical Activity to highlight the role for play in tackling the physical inactivity epidemic and improving child health outcomes.

Despite initial scepticism about what it would be possible to demonstrate using pre-existing school data, the analysis revealed widespread evidence that meaningful engagement in the Greenhouse Sports programmes was associated with a range of positive outcomes for students when compared to students who did not participate.

In addition, there is no evidence from the experience of these school districts that it will make any meaningful impact.

A decade ago we had them pinned under the weight of the incontrovertible evidence of the achievement gap and their resistance to any meaningful change.

We find strong evidence that this system causes meaningful increases in teacher performance,» said James Wyckoff, professor of education at the Curry School and co-author of the study.

Behind closed doors, insiders may or may not have exchanged their opinions on value - added evaluations, but since the evidence required for a meaningful debate over the real world effects of those evaluations did not exist, I wonder if the lack of research on the policy implications of value - added was considered.

and they have not yielded evidence of meaningful change in teacher performance.

Bartell argued that Pearson's sample sizes (60 students) were too small for solid conclusions to be drawn from them; that there was no evidence that Waterford and not other factors caused the gains; and that the gains were too small to be meaningful in any case, or to be representative of the district as a whole.

As Heckman and Carneiro point out, the evidence on the benefits of competition within education is limited - a necessary consequence of the lack of serious experimentation with meaningful choice - based reforms.

But it does seek to make certification meaningful by building exacting standards into the process, standards that rely on evidence of knowledge and performance rather than a checklist of courses taken.

There is no meaningful measure to dis - incentivize Common Core, the teaching of which is harming our children, as evidenced by the NAEP scores that show Alabama has dropped from about 26th among the states before common core to dead last as of 2015 — reversing a trend of improvement.

The framework is designed to help providers measure the effectiveness of their principal preparation programs in an evidence - based and meaningful way.

We deliver actionable, meaningful research and development that advances the field of educational assessment and evaluation, promotes effective and equitable education policy, and improves evidence - based inferences.

Accountability The funding system should promote accountability, including meaningful consequences linked to evidence of student progress and achievement of state standards.

«Statistical methods are like the telescope and a microscope that enable us to explore education data that provide more meaningful understanding of educational issues, and also to utilize data - based evidence to improve school and student outcomes,» he says.

Teachers who use formative assessment as part of their everyday classroom toolbox... quickly identify important evidence of student learning and separate it from distracting information, readily perceive meaningful patterns among their students» responses to questions and tasks, implement a broad range of formative assessment strategies automatically and flexibly as part...

The program targets low - income, one / two star schools with meaningful levels of additional funds to support evidenced - based, proven methods of increasing student achievement.