Sentences with phrase «more subjective observations»

Having used it almost daily for the last month, I thought some more subjective observations on its use might be helpful to prospective buyers.

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This last reason is a bit more subjective, but in my observation it seems to be the case that religion in decline tends to increase religious participation.

When compared with such crude indicators, the combination of student achievement gains on state tests, student surveys, and classroom observations identified teachers with better outcomes on every measure we tested: state tests and supplemental tests as well as more subjective measures, such as student - reported effort and enjoyment in class.

We contend, however, that evaluations based on observations of classroom practice are valuable, even if they do not predict student achievement gains considerably better than more subjective methods like principal ratings of teachers.

Focusing on the systems as a whole also would have encouraged districts to be more honest in their observation ratings rather than creating the incentive for subjective observation ratings to compensate for value - added results that, by definition, grade teachers on a curve.

Even though it is more objective than the current one, which is based on classroom observations alone, Friedman maintains that teachers still could be wrongly targeted on subjective grounds.

This process combines the outcomes orientation of student test scores with the more subjective elements of classroom observations.

Teachers in the city tended to do best in the more subjective portions of their evaluations, which included principals» observations of their work.

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.

More importantly, observations are inherently biased because they are based on subjective determinations by school leaders and others who are prone to think that their approach to teaching is superior to anyone else's (even if teachers being evaluated have demonstrated that they improve student achievement as measured by test score growth).

During the academic years, Sociology scholars are taught about the two main approaches in this subject namely Qualitative and Qualitative where the former uses the statistics to make the general claim, and the latter relies more on the observation and subjective accuracy.

This inquiry stands at the core of the work of Canadian artist Kapwani Kiwanga whose practice interweaves a research - based investigation influenced by her earlier training in social sciences, with a more subjective and fictional observation of culture.

The scientific method, with its emphasis on replicable, quantifiable empirical observations, is powerfully suited to the investigation of objective phenomena, but has a more difficult time with the investigation of subjective phenomena.