Sentences with phrase «most valid measures»

Not because the school board says so, or the principal says so, or because you think so, but because The Times says it's the most valid measure and it's what is published.

Not exact matches

Your baby's weight gain and diaper output is the most valid tool to measure.

Unfortunately, cardiovascular fitness is not exactly something you can measure precisely with what you've got lying around your house, «A maximal treadmill test is considered to be the most valid method of measuring cardiovascular fitness, [but it requires] collecting and analyzing expired air during the test [to] directly measure VO2 max.»

This is probably the strongest objection to the Common Core and, alas, it's probably the most valid, thanks in large measure to our over-zealous Education Secretary and the President he serves.

Below is a breakdown of the lesson objectives: * All students will know the main measures of an economy * Most students will have an idea of what the UK economy is currently like * Some students will know how different factors can effect the UK economy The lesson looks at the basics of the following macroeconomic concepts with definition, examples and valid video links: * Inflation * Unemployment * Economic growth * Gross domestic product (GDP) * Balance of payments * Exchange rates The lesson concludes with a nice multiple choice quiz to test students on the lessons theory.

If it receives the required 650,000 valid petition signatures and carries a statewide vote, probably on the November 1992 ballot, the measure would give California residents the most sweeping educational - choice program in the nation.

To help educators select the best SEL assessment tools for their needs, the Raikes Foundation recently commissioned a report to examine a wide variety of SEL assessments to determine which were the most reliable, valid and usable for schools to measure SEL program effectiveness over time.

A valid measure of teacher performance is one designed to capture how well teachers contribute to the student outcomes we value most.

I also believe, although the survey will be a small part of teacher evaluation, it will be viewed as one of the most valid and reliable measures that we use.

More specifically, the district and its teachers are not coming to an agreement about how they should be evaluated, rightfully because teachers understand better than most (even some VAM researchers) that these models are grossly imperfect, largely biased by the types of students non-randomly assigned to their classrooms and schools, highly unstable (i.e., grossly fluctuating from one year to the next when they should remain more or less consistent over time, if reliable), invalid (i.e., they do not have face validity in that they often contradict other valid measures of teacher effectiveness), and the like.

Villar's claim that SBAC is «our most valid and reliable» measure of student learning reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of what standardized tests can and can not do.

We conclude that the most valid model of the spatial pattern of trends in land surface temperature records over 1979 — 2002 requires a combination of the processes represented in some GCMs and certain socioeconomic measures that capture data quality variations and changes to the land surface.

However, despite the frequency of this practice, there is currently no standard way of measuring gambling participation across research projects, and very little known about the most reliable and valid way of assessing gambling participation.

Yet in the same polls, we find most do not track the conversion ratio from the leads they do generate, so they have no way to measure whether a lead source is valid.