Sentences with phrase «multiple measures means»

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The climate change «hockey stick» is a graph first published in 1998 by Michael Mann et al. that attempted to reconstruct the mean surface temperature on the planet during the period A. D. 900 to the present, using multiple proxies, such as tree rings, to measure temperatures before formal instrumentation was in use.

To examine this question, we preregistered a series of analyses using Multiple Indicator Multiple Causes (MIMIC) models (Jöreskog & Goldberger, 1975; Kievit et al., 2012) to relate the mean and slope estimates for fluid intelligence to the various brain measures, and asked:

I have a child with special needs who wakes multiple times in the night, and therefore so do I. I've been trying to lose weight and limiting myself to 1400 calories per day (meticulously measured and recorded in a food diary) which should mean I lose about a pound a week, but I'm losing half that if at all some weeks.

To reduce barriers to accurately measuring the knowledge, skills, and engagement of learners with diverse needs, assessments should also provide multiple means of representation, expression, and engagement to optimize choice, autonomy, relevance, value, and authenticity.

A 2013 white paper noted that the existing progress reports» overreliance on state tests meant that «some educators have felt pressure to engage in test prep, narrowing the curriculum,» and that «finding the right balance of multiple measures is critical.»

This is meant to complement, but not replace, other school quality measures that include multiple factors, such as student growth rates.

Pushes school reform in the wrong direction Undermines multiple measures and improving assessments: Since it is widely recognized that no one measure is adequate (indeed, multiple ought to mean more than even two measures), under Title I states are to use multiple measures.

Although it may seem as though having more assessments will mean we are more accurately estimating student achievement, the use of multiple measures does not, by itself, translate into high - quality evidence.

The term multiple measures can mean many things.

That means earnings per share by multiple measures are high for most of the leading companies, but justifiable if they continue to expand their profitability.

The «R» in R - Multiple stands for «Risk» and, thus, means that the R - Multiple measures your trades in terms of risk units.

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The advantage of error reduction that comes from multiple sampling begins to degrade when the «single» quantity being measured produces a set of random errors that has a Gaussian distribution about the mean that is significantly broadened by regional or spatial variations of the mean over the sample space.

A realistic test of a climate model would be to initialize it to conditions around 1850 - 1880 (which would mean making multiple runs with random starting data) and see if the average model outputs follow the measured trend from 1900 onwards.

Setting multiple cooking timers means you stay in control of what you have in the oven, you can ask for weights and measures conversations on the fly, while also managing your playlist.

When one is dealing with someone whose personal wealth is measured in multiple billions, a multimillion Australian dollar fine — which is what The Australian, that august organ that calls itself the voice of the nation or some such, claims Facebook may face — means nothing.

The current study's procedure was different from previous studies on treatment fidelity in PMTO (Forgatch and DeGarmo 2011; Forgatch et al. 2005; Hukkelberg and Ogden 2013) in a number of ways: the present study (a) included multiple outcome measures of PMTO instead of only parenting practices or externalizing behavior; (b) examined the FIMP dimensions separately instead of using a mean or a single construct; and (c) examined the association between fidelity scores and treatment outcome at different assessment points.

For the empirical example, this meant the repeated measures variables were arranged in a long - format data table with multiple rows per dyad and with separate columns for each dyad member's repeated ratings of happiness.