Sentences with phrase «review by independent researchers»

Based on a review by independent researchers, the Education Commission of the States is discounting the conclusions of a small study that showed teachers from Tennessee who received national board certification did not markedly affect their students» achievement.

Not exact matches

Currently in production on its third season, the show will now be postponed to make some changes ordered by PBS and WNET, including hiring an additional researcher / fact checker and employing an independent genealogist to review episodes for accuracy.

«As someone who used SCIgen to expose the lack of editorial and peer review of a suspect journal, anyone with a modicum of English language proficiency should be able to detect a paper written by SCIgen or similar software,» says Philip Davis, an independent researcher who consults for the publishing industry.

Sifting through some half a million studies, nine independent research teams from around the globe created a landmark scientific consensus report reviewed by 21 of the top cancer researchers in the world.

According to the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the primary overseer of research within the Department of Education, «scientifically based research» fits the following criteria: It randomly assigns its test subjects to comparable groups; it yields reliable, measurable data; if the study makes any claims about what causes its effects, it «substantially eliminates plausible competing explanations»; its methods are clear enough that other researchers can repeat or extend them; and, finally, the study has been accepted by a peer - reviewed journal or equivalent panel of «independent experts.»

UCEA offers a number of in - depth peer - reviewed analyses of specific public policy issues written by Independent UCEA Researchers.

They publish the results in peer - reviewed journals, and the results regarding what has been going on along the Greenland coast have been verified by independent researchers.

Followed by: «Researchers examining the recently released data from HadCRU centre's Dr Phil Jones have found that the series showing warming last century has been based on cherry picked data, and adjustments made by Dr Jones that have never been subjected to independent peer review or audit.

A reputable scientist, in my book, would not need to be FORCED to do what is necessary to enable his reviewers to do the things which peer reviewing of scientific papers is supposed to be about — checking that the methods used in the paper is not completely wrong, and that the experiment performed is repeatable by independent researchers.

Their independent variable was readability, as measured by the Flesch Reading Ease score calculated by Microsoft Word.127 For federal appellate and state supreme court briefs, the researchers coded control variables for federal or state court, standard of review, presence of a dissenting opinion (present or absent), and readability of the opinion deciding the appeal.

So far, only three published studies have analyzed the association between brief readability and case outcome, 50 and no studies have analyzed that association in the trial courts, where most lawyers practice.51 Long and Christensen sampled 882 appellate briefs from the Supreme Court, federal appellate courts, and state supreme courts.52 Their dependent variable was the outcome of the appeal (affirmed or reversed), while their independent variable was readability measured by the Flesch Reading Ease score as calculated by Microsoft Word.53 For federal appellate and state supreme court briefs, the researchers coded control variables for federal or state court, standard of review, presence of a dissenting opinion, and readability of the opinion deciding the appeal.54 For United States Supreme Court briefs, the researchers coded control variables for constitutional issue, criminal or civil case, presence of a dissenting opinion, and opinion readability.55 They found no statistically significant correlation between readability and outcome in the briefs in their study.56

Audiotapes and transcripts of the groups were reviewed for major themes by 3 independent researchers using grounded theory and immersion / crystallization technique.

In a review of literature relevant to repeated attachment secure priming, researchers expressed reservations regarding the effects of attachment secure priming being independent of dispositional attachment insecurities (Gillath et al., 2008); this suggestion is based on a research (Mikulincer et al., 2002) which reported a clear interaction between the subliminal activation of the attachment system (by presenting the word «abandonment») and chronic attachment orientations.