Sentences with phrase «other measures designed»

Without venue reform, other measures designed to protect innovators from patent trolls can backfire, simply giving trolls further incentive to sue in the most troll - friendly courts.

Anti- and pro-Airbnb forces have each scheduled media buys and other measures designed to grab the attention of Clinton and Democratic delegates in Philadelphia this week.

This move should be coupled with other measures designed to equalize economic opportunities and benefits for every American.

Betting among veteran observers from banks and think tanks is that he will lean this time toward selective tax breaks and other measures designed to encourage companies to hire and invest, rather than another big round of direct spending.

What's more, the international trend is toward signing bilateral investment treaties and other measures designed to stimulate investment.

Not exact matches

Physicists could look for evidence of other universes using tools designed to measure ripples in spacetime — also known as primordial gravitational waves — that would have been generated by the universe's initial expansion from the Big Bang.

Judged by other measures of the exchange rate designed to capture competition with imports or against export competitors, it has shown a small increase in competitiveness.

Experts worry that the United States» actions could ignite a trade war, noting that Chinese economic officials have a keen understanding of the American system and are good at designing targeted retaliatory measures against American agricultural products and other exports.

The new legislation is designed to improve the federal government's effectiveness in promoting religious liberty by, among other measures:

Previous attempts to evaluate the Baby Friendly Initiative within an observational study design have often been limited by small sample size or reliance upon ecological measures of confounding factors.16, 17 The advantage of the Millennium Cohort Study is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding practices, via area or individual population differences.

Place of birth research has been plagued with controversy over study design, variables to be measured, cohort definition and other factors specific to this context.

The measures are designed to ensure that children have meaningful interactions with those from other backgrounds.

Others - like measures on driverless cars and a spaceport - are just watercooler moments, designed to distract us from the lack of content elsewhere.

The project, which started construction in 2013, has bioswales designed to absorb flood waters, drainage and other measures intended to make the area more resilient in case another Hurricane Sandy hits the borough.

Science can help measure the scope, scale and impact of illegal wildlife trade, map illicit networks and assess the effect of social marketing and other interventions designed to reduce demand.

But anyone who reads Foundations of Computer Science will realise that using C + + to make a large program work reliably after it has developed problems is a desperate measure; reading Interactive System Design would instead make sure you programmed the right thing sooner, and hence relied a lot less on reusing other programmers» possibly bodged efforts.

«By carefully selecting, in evidence - based ways, certain important design upgrades when creating a new hospital, the design upgrades will cost more, e.g., single rooms, measures to reduce noise, but they pay back rather quickly by shortening stays and reducing other costs.»

In the meantime, it cautions parents who use them in that age group to, among other things, carefully follow dosing directions, only use measuring spoons or cups that come with or are specifically designed to be used with the drugs, and remember that the drugs, at best, temporarily mask symptoms of but neither cure nor shorten the duration of colds or coughs.

In other words, a battery of different, well - designed tests appears to be measuring overall intelligence rather than simply how well a person does on each individual test.

«Using multiple tools for measuring reading ease, we found that IPCC reports are designed for grownups, but they are not harder to read than other science documents, including those written for the public by professional writers,» said co-author Chris Field, who served as the co-chair of the second IPCC Working Group.

The $ 750 million UARS mission was designed to measure ozone and other chemical compounds found in Earth's ozone layer in order to better understand how the upper atmosphere affects our planet.

That decision bypassed U.S. government and other safety measures designed to protect human study participants.

Other research measures announced by Flaherty included $ 72.75 million for a forestry and environmental genomics competition at Genome Canada; $ 63.78 million over 5 years for the Canadian Space Agency's plan to develop the RADARSAT Constellation Mission, which proposes to generate radar images using multiple satellites; and $ 17.46 million over 5 years «to commence the pre-construction design phase» for the proposed Canadian Arctic Research Initiative.

Like Robosoft, Gecko also designed its robot to connect with third - party medical monitoring systems that measure blood pressure and sugar, pulse rate, and other medical information, which it sends to physicians via the Internet.

All the testing was done in one ear, while the children had the other ear free to listen to cartoons they brought — a measure designed to keep them engaged.

Together, the measures were designed to decrease carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, particulate matter and other compounds in the air that are considered major public health concerns, playing a role in an estimated 1.4 percent of deaths worldwide, and 2 percent of all cardio - pulmonary deaths worldwide.

The students then rated statements designed to measure how they felt about their group (e.g., «I feel part of this group of participants,» «I feel a sense of loyalty to the other participants»).

When striving to adjust client programs based on other stressors in their lives, assumptions have to be made, program designs may have to be adjusted and the personal trainer must be able to measure the results of these changes.

Those surveys were designed to measure five types of outcomes: 1) whether the school tour helped create cultural consumers (students who want to return to museums and engage in other cultural activities), 2) whether the school tour helped create cultural producers (students who want to make art), 3) whether the school tour increased student knowledge about art and history, 4) whether the school tour improved student critical thinking about works of art, and 5) whether the school tour altered student values, like empathy and tolerance.

Still other institutions employed a variety of assessment measures, such as the Rorschach test, James Cattell's 16 Factor Personality test, the Guilford - Zimmerman Temperament Survey, the Thurstone Temperament Schedule, and a host of other batteries designed to explore the teacher's behavior, personality, and attitude.

Every other component of the evaluation (methods, sampling, instruments, measures, analysis) flows from this basic design.

Because NAEP is well - designed, well - respected, and zero - stakes for anybody, it is less susceptible to corruption than most other measures in education.

Researchers need to consider ways to measure other outcomes that are meaningful in the debate, such as by designing studies with long follow - up periods to enable future research on high school graduation, college - going, and labor - market outcomes.

The KIPP charter school network and other schools are testing student report cards designed to measure key character traits.

The primary aims of this study are to document the process of moving towards new, integrated systems in each of these cities; to highlight which strategies moved the cities forward in creating these systems and what barriers the cities encountered; to examine how these cities incorporated the needs of students with disabilities, English language learners, and students from different economic backgrounds into their system designs; to understand how students, teachers, and parents, and others experience elements of the new system and how these experiences differed for students with special needs; and to document quantitative outcomes on a range of measures, disaggregated by student subgroup.

Mobile learning is not designed to be an educational tool that works in silo, but as a tool that complements other training measures such as classroom style training and virtual classes.

-- Motivation, Creativity, and Other Skills Despite what some see as problems and controversies, tests are very successful in measuring the things they are designed to measure.

Some are designed to predict student performance, while others are designed to measure a student's knowledge as compared to peers across the country.

The value - added measures are designed to provide estimates of the independent effect of the teacher on the growth in a student's learning and to separate this from other influences on achievement such as families, peers, and neighborhoods.

No other country in the economic coalition has committed to measure achievement that way, a method designed to ensure schools do more to help underperforming children.

Although proper attribution is an important precondition to learning, further development needs to take place to design instruments that measure actual reading gains, as measured on statewide assessment tests and other vehicles.

It is based on a comparison of two different value - added scores for teachers: one derived from the regular state assessment (which varies by participating district) and the other from an alternative assessment that is specifically designed to measure students» depth of higher - order conceptual understanding in each subject.

If you were to design a comparative study of differences in student achievement between school environments that use annual standardized tests and those that do not, what measures of achievement or other outcomes would you examine to reveal differences, and why?

For instance, university researchers at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education's John W. Gardner Center recently partnered with the California CORE districts — which include the Los Angeles Unified, Oakland Unified, Fresno Unified, Long Beach Unified, Santa Ana Unified, Sanger Unified, Garden Grove Unified, and Sacramento City Unified school districts — to design a new local school accountability system that included measures of students» social - emotional learning, growth mindset, self - efficacy, and school climate.51 Researchers found that these measures were predictive of students» test performance and correlated with other important academic and behavioral outcomes.52

Norm - referenced tests — Standardized tests designed to measure how a student's performance compares with that of other students.

Evaluating teachers based on student results on tests and other student assessments that were never designed to rate educators is neither a scientifically or educationally sound way to be used for a Measure of Student Learning portion of a teacher's rating.

Any doctoral student who has taken courses in Research Methods and Design can tell you that these tests are inappropriate measures of anything other than their stated purposes, none of which includes the purpose of overall school success.

They also complain that the SAT and ACT are designed to measure college readiness, while the Smarter Balance assessment is aimed at measuring high school achievement, thus, one test can not substitute for the other.

Renewed calls for improved teacher training have inspired a number of organizations to create lists of the professional skills new teachers need and to design rubrics and other instruments to measure how well candidates are mastering such basic capabilities as designing lessons, interpreting student work, and creating a safe learning environment.

Trenton would need to admit that Student Growth Percentiles can not be fairly attributed to teacher input when they were never designed to find that in the first place, and the problems with Value - Added Models in other states mean that growth measures in general should be rejected.