Sentences with phrase «robust measures»

Student achievement remains a far more robust measure of teacher quality than many others available.

Imagine states utilizing robust measures to reward providers who help struggling students succeed, for example.

I've tried various combinations to find the most accurate and robust measure of long - term growth.

Use it all to get a more robust measure.

In addition, the out - of - level achievement tests used by Talent Search programs have been selected or designed as robust measures, giving a more complete picture of the gifted child's ability.

Gill presented on the implementation and validation of a behavioral test that provides robust measures of learning and memory.

Because minimum temperatures in the stable boundary layer are not very robust measures of the heat content in the deep atmosphere and climate models do not predict minimum temperatures well, minimum temperatures should not be used as a surrogate for measures of deep atmosphere global warming.»

R2 is a very robust measure in that regard, it is invariant under any linear change of scale.)

In order to understand how the most robust measures can be put in place to prevent these attacks, it's important to learn how cyber-crooks operate and where the problem areas are.

There was plenty of talk in the weeks leading up to the speech of an»em ergency brake» and other robust measures which weren't to be found in its text.

Rossiter - McLaughlin measurements of a large sample of transiting planets from Kepler will provide a statistically robust measure of the true distribution of spin - orbit orientations for hot jupiters in general.

«The NASUWT has already called upon the Scottish government to introduce a duty on schools to record and monitor incidents of hate crime to identify the scale of the issue and to put in place robust measures to address it.

A second reason is that many of the features of dynamic, innovative learning systems are hard to measure - we don't have agreed indicators on many of the relevant dimensions let alone robust measures.

· Create robust measures that utilize all of the data [and related indicators] available via required reporting at the U.S. Department of Education such as: the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and related reporting with the SPP, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the Civil Rights Data Collection.

«Robust measures need to be put in place to ensure applications are only being made by those with the authority to do so.

«When I look at the American legislation, I don't see such robust measures or a robust legislative framework [as the EU],» she told me.

The PIML proved to be a psychometrically robust measure of children's representations of their relationships with parents and peers, representing an important advance in the measurement of attachment in middle childhood.

Not only does the law encourage states to include more robust measures of student success, it is becoming abundantly clear that the U.S. Department of Education is going to give states wide latitude in designing their accountability systems.

And the designation would highlight key areas that can be protected by more robust measures, including establishment of SMAs.

As part of the state's Race to the Top grant, the DDE incorporated «robust measures of student achievement» into its existing system.

KAMENETZ: Well, the hope is that over time we'll develop better, more robust measures that incorporate different kinds of data.

This unique methodology makes the Russell 2000 Dividend Growth Index a robust measure of the performance of dividend - oriented US small - cap stocks.

Total OHC is not a robust measure.

This thought experiment illustrates that the EF not only fails to provide a robust measure of ecological sustainability, but also offers poor guidance for policy - makers in identifying and evaluating options to improve use and management of natural capital.

However, measured anthropometrics are more accurate than self - report and are thus more robust measures, justifying our focus on this reduced sample.

Using a robust measure of psychiatric caseness, Marriott et al selected carers with a clinically important level of psychological distress and found that the intervention was potent enough to decrease distress to a non-clinical level.

Since its launch, the CPGI has become internationally recognized as a robust measure of gambling behaviour.

Part of this variation is likely due to the diverse definitions and operationalizations of the constructs adopted in previous research and the lack of psychometrically robust measures.

The Canadian Problem Gambling Index is internationally recognized as a robust measure of gambling behaviour.

Future work examining these mechanisms using more complex and robust measures of both parent and child identities are needed.