Sentences with phrase «reliable evidence»

In the current data - driven reform environment, more and more education policymakers are asking for reliable evidence of the effectiveness of new and existing policies and programs.

Scientific research supposedly provides reliable evidence for physicians to apply to treating patients.

But reliable evidence on the effects of those policies can be hard to find.

Fire has been part of the human toolkit for between 50,000 and 100,000 years, with reliable evidence of at least occasional human use going back hundreds of thousands of years earlier.

Finding reliable evidence which tells us what these schools have achieved is a major challenge given the plethora of newspaper headlines and extensive media coverage.

Collective human judgment informed by reliable evidence is a much better way to assess teaching and learning in schools than data - driven judgment based on high - stakes standardized tests.

And there is a fierce hunger for reliable evidence about what works, creative solutions to long - standing problems, and strong leaders who can enact transformational change in schools and school systems.

But there is a reason why, at law, eye witness testimony is the least reliable evidence available and nearly always is a thing of last resort.

There may be a local increase in bullying or awareness of bullying, but even this statement requires more reliable evidence than a few striking cases.

Impact data for the small group of students from other backgrounds are too noisy to produce reliable evidence.

But they were not particularly well preserved and because he found them in loose blocks of rock they were not considered reliable evidence.

Learn how to collect, organize, and present reliable evidence of learning and communicate about that learning to a range of audiences.

Self - reports of dreams provide the only reliable evidence that a person can dream.

Despite this general optimism, designing a placement protocol that ensures success for all is a big challenge, especially when many districts are still working to establish reliable evidence - based measures.

This lack of clarity about where to find reliable evidence means that both policy makers and practitioners can fall for the smooth presentations of new programmes and approaches.

What if that sponsor was self - employed in a country where tax returns and thus reliable evidence of income are hard to come by?

Therefore, don't be so certain in asserting what society thinks or understands about the work of criminal defence lawyers without substantial reliable evidence.

Moreover, it is of primary importance to include your personal opinion; however, your statements should be supported with reliable evidence.

Collective human judgment informed by reliable evidence is a much better way to assess teaching and learning in schools than data - driven judgment based on high stakes standardized tests.

But this interpretation too is highly speculative in so small a group and on outcomes on which the study was not designed to provide reliable evidence.

He could not find reliable evidence to separate the two species.

Providing this type of feedback to teachers requires a commitment from administrators to frequently visit classrooms and collect accurate and reliable evidence of teaching practice.

Only superior and more reliable evidence can top the biased use of evidence.

And those kinds of endorsements, which are said to be basically illogical to use as reliable evidence of any kind.

The front page of today's Globe and Mail sports a big photo of Ontario MPP Lisa MacLeod attached to the article «Can a busy female politician give reliable evidence?

(5) A judge should take appropriate action upon learning of reliable evidence indicating the likelihood that a judge's conduct contravened this Code or a lawyer violated applicable rules of professional conduct.

The recorded maps, however, are reliable evidence supporting the thesis of paramagnetic oxygen transport to high - latitude conversion into stratospheric ozone, and the detailed MLS data may be obtained from NASA.

When we look at the world we can see reliable evidence for God.

@ Cap — the atheist position is simply this: I do not believe in your god because YOU — who is asserting the existence of said god — ha failed to provide sufficient reliable evidence to prove the existence of said god.

Well - trained Bayesian police would use the formula known as Bayes» theorem to calculate that given a 10 percent prior probability, 90 percent reliable evidence yields an actual probability of guilt of only 50 percent.

Since only random chance, and not parental motivation, determines who gets private school choice and who doesn't, gold standard experimental evaluations produce the most reliable evidence regarding the effectiveness of choice programs.

Jane Frost CBE, ceo of the Market Research Society (MRS), explains how market research can help to answer these questions: «In the era of educational choice and competition, using reliable evidence is invaluable, providing insights that those working in the sector wouldn't be able to get any other way.»

In response to growing policy concerns regarding online safety for children as well as a lack of reliable evidence in Europe, researchers have sought to develop better knowledge of European children's experiences and practices regarding risky and safer use of the Internet and new online technologies, and thereby to inform the promotion of a safer online environment for children.

In criminal and regulatory cases, it is a breach of fundamental justice to penalize someone without reliable evidence that they committed an offence.

This is hardly reliable evidence.

The National Council on Alcoholism estimates six and one - half million, whereas the Rutgers University Center of Alcohol Studies holds that our most reliable evidence points to an estimate close to five million.

It was hard for me to imagine the situation getting much uglier, until yesterday's email presented the truly bizarre spectacle of the very people dedicated to preparing healthful school meals seeking to discredit reliable evidence that kids actually like those meals.