Sentences with phrase «poor measure»

This makes static test scores poor measures of a school's overall performance because students perform better on state tests the longer they are enrolled.

Multiple - choice tests are poor measures for whether a student can think and problem - solve in a subject area.

-LSB-...] Morgan Polikoff and dozens of scholars and policy analysts explained in a letter submitted to your department on July 22, proficiency rates are extremely poor measures of school -LSB-...]

Proficiency is a very poor measure of how a school is performing because it is not measuring value added.

The emerging alignment of K — 12 schools with colleges and legislators builds on a growing consensus among educators who believe that longstanding benchmarks like grades, SATs, AP test scores, and even homework are poor measures of students» skills and can deepen inequities between them.

However, as many of us online know, comments can be an extremely poor measure of web traffic and readership, and certain demographics online tend to comment more than others, so I personally question this approach of gauging audience.

It is also a «very poor measure» of achievement gaps.»

Strength of conviction is not only a poor measure of truth but it leads to violence and war in the name of the «truth».

Calling himself an early detector, he said the poor measures of health in his borough deeply troubled him.

I agree it's a poor measure technically but it was intended for shock and propaganda and indeed worked since it shocked me:)

The evaluation system pushed by Cuomo as part of this 2010 re-election campaign devotes half of a teacher's evaluation on their students» performance on standardized test scores that teacher unions argue is a poor measure of a teacher's ability.

Writing in the journal Nature the week of Dec. 16, Yale's Pincelli Hull and colleagues from the Smithsonian Institution argue that modern extinction rates may be a poor measure of whether we're in the midst of a mass extinction event today — something many scientists suspect may be happening.

Market economics and globalization are lifting the bulk of humanity out of extreme poverty, but special measures are needed to help the poorest of the poor

BMI is a poor measure of health and well - being and weight also seems a poor indicator.

BMI is often a poor measure of body fat % especially in certain ethnic groups, Asians being one of them.

Consequently, the pituitary levels of T3 and the subsequent level of TSH are poor measures of tissue hypothyroidism, as almost the entire body can be severely hypothyroid despite having a normal TSH level.

By scientific standards, PDK's «at public expense» question is a poor measure of voucher support.

For all its virtues, the National Household Education Survey has poor measures of parents» religious involvement.

But they've had to make do, to the chagrin of most educators, who — at least in these early - implementer districts — believe that their current state tests are poor measures of student understanding relative to the new standards and may even detract from proper implementation.

That being said, poorly designed tests will give us poor measures of teaching and learning.

But they've had to make do, to the chagrin of most educators, who — at least in these early implementer districts — believe that their current state tests are poor measures of student understanding relative to the new standards and may even detract from proper implementation.

There is good evidence that California's standardized tests are a poor measure of student achievement.

Poor measures of effectiveness — whether they are based on qualifications, observations, surveys, or student test performance — will lead to substantial misclassification.

No, we feel that we have a right to know if a doctor is a «bad doc», and we are using a poor measure (number of lawsuits) to determine this.

A single test measure used for all teachers will, in some cases, also be invalid for particular students or a poor measure of the specific curriculum being taught.

Test scores are a poor measure of a child's quality and an even worse measure of the quality of teaching.

From the results of the studies mentioned above, we might at first conclude that value - added on one test is a poor measure of a teacher's effectiveness at teaching the content and skill measured by other tests.

Sounding a bit like some of his opponents who lead teachers unions, Enlow argued that test scores are a poor measure of educational quality.

Praise from friends and family may give us all the warm fuzzies but it's a poor measure of your writing ability.

«Even if you knock your launch out of the park and manage to hit # 1, the unfortunate reality is that — for most authors — topping the charts is a poor measure of success, and an increasingly ineffective promotional strategy.»

But even if you knock your launch out of the park and manage to hit # 1, the unfortunate reality is that — for most authors — topping the charts is a poor measure of success, and an increasingly ineffective promotional strategy.

Recognizing that dividends are a poor measure of a company's cash flows, Shiller and Campbell used a ratio of real (net of inflation) market price relative to 10 - year average of real earnings — which they called the cyclically adjusted PE, or CAPE, ratio — to reach the same conclusion.

Looking at the returns for your financial institution investment account over the past year is a poor measure of their skill.

It states: ``... measures of model fidelity that are effective at narrowing the distribution of future projections... may be poor measures of the likelihood that a model will provide an accurate estimate of climate sensitivity.»

You can certainly use the cap rate formula backwards and make it calculate return but it's still a poor measure of return.

NOI does not include interest on loans or taxes and is a poor measure of how much you are actually making in cash.