Sentences with phrase «point about the incentives»

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The real sticking point is he gets his money whether he shows up or not so what incentive does he have to care about voluntary workouts?

As the committee chairman, Bernard Jenkin, rightly points out, they might not have much incentive to tell the truth when asked about their intentions when quizzed by officials.

Most people are very happy to talk about their work and, although it might sound cynical, they could even be looking to earn some «brownie points»: Some companies offer incentives to staff that encourage potential employees to apply to work for them.

But most public parents have no incentive to be well informed about specific private schools (or even other public schools), so it is not surprising that they can't point to specific schools where they'd like to send their kids.

Helen Ladd seems to agree that sanctions are effective at inspiring school improvement, suggesting that we agree on my fundamental point about the crucial role of incentives in school reform.

On the panel, Koedinger, a co-founder of Carnegie Learning, confirmed the point when he talked about how once he and his team had brought their research - informed product to market, the majority of the market incentives encouraged them not to improve the product along its ability to help students learn.

And she's not right to fail to note that the Common Core would have been — at least at this point in time — a sort of ambitious pilot program involving a smallish number of states that were serious about the implementation challenges, until the feds blundered into the middle of it with «incentives» that turned it into a sort of national piñata.

Even though those things don't need to be mutually exclusive — and without starting a huge political argument about what those things mean in the educational environment — I would simply point out that there is huge incentive to choose against quality in the name of reducing cost.

Accordingly, there is much research about how such survey data can be gamed and manipulated by instructors (e.g., via the use of external incentives / disincentives), can be biased by respondent or student background variables (e.g., charisma, attractiveness, gender and race as compared to the gender and race of the teacher or instructor, grade expected or earned in the class, overall grade point average, perceived course difficulty or the lack thereof), and the like.

Related, and on this point we agree, «teacher pay incentives is one area that we know a good deal about, based on analysis of actual policy variation, and the results are not terribly promising... experiments generally show performance bonuses, a particular form of pay for performance, have no significant student achievement effects, whether the bonus is rewarded at the individual teacher level» (p. 89).

When asked about Atlanta, noted school reform apostate Diane Ravitch pointed the finger at the federal No Child Left Behind law, saying that, when high - stakes incentives are attached to test scores, we are «virtually inviting» teachers to cheat.

Q2 incentive spend was about 12 percent, down two full percentage points from Q1.

The price point should be about the same as Verizon's, we'd imagine, though we're hoping they give some kind of incentive for grabbing one of these over a Tour, which can currently be had at Best Buy for $ 99.

In other words, I don't feel like I have any incentive to rehab at this point in my life (I'm 46 years old, graduated from veterinary school about five years ago, and never worked in my field, if that matters.)

Not the best incentive to add an authorized user, since 10,000 Hilton points are worth about 45, and you have to spend $ 1,000 to get it.

About exploration and incentives: that's a good point.

When the information / feedback environment is not as conducive to evaluating agent success or failure, and / or when the people paying the bills (or giving status) rewards care about things other than accurate and useful predictions, then «skin in the game» is a bad thing for truth and usefulness, because the incentives may point in other directions.

In the case of Wills, this is simply a matter of long standing tradition with the force of law, and there is no real solid substantive reason that it should be treated otherwise, other than the difficulty of proving which Will was real and which was the last one when the author is dead and can't clear up that point, and lots of people have large economic incentives to lie about the question.

At this point, you likely don't have depositions or interrogatories under oath, and you likely haven't yet shown the defendants an incentive to hand over information about other potential defendants.

Classes and battle points form a better system all - around compared to Battlefield 2015, and give you an incentive to care more about your place on the battlefield at any given time.