Sentences with phrase «than an objective observation»

Thus, the above statement appears to be a value judgement, rather than an objective observation.

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So rather than just use other measures to evaluate those teachers — like observations — states encouraged the creation of «student learning objectives» to fill the gap.

Even though it is more objective than the current one, which is based on classroom observations alone, Friedman maintains that teachers still could be wrongly targeted on subjective grounds.

Georgia officials are still examining the quantitative portion of the pilot data, but preliminary reports on «student learning objectives» — district - determined common growth measures — showed more variability than did observations.

This could at its worst limit the information available to 3 objectives and no more than three lesson observations.

The method is meant to make observations more useful, uniform and objective, using evidence rather than opinions.

In the end (which is actually near the beginning of the manuscript), Goldhaber notes that VAMs are «distinct» as compared to classroom observations, because they offer «an objective measure that does not rely on human interpretation of teacher practices, and by design, [they offer] a system in which teachers are evaluated relative to one another rather than relative to an absolute standard (i.e., it creates a distribution in which teachers can be ranked).

Along with observations, scores on student learning objectives, and survey responses, [10] they might also include the value that teachers bring to student outcomes other than achievement test scores.

Another important finding of the study was that student surveys produced more reliable results from year to year than did objective measures of student achievement gains or classroom observations.53 In other words, student survey results were more stable.

Qualitative research, in contrast, seeks a deep, contextual understanding grounded in the participants» context.12 Researchers gather data through personal interactions or observations, rather than through objective instruments.13 Common qualitative data collection techniques include observation, interviews, and document review.14 Qualitative research is primarily inductive.15 Researchers begin by conducting a close study of the participants in context, and gradually develop themes and theories based on the participants» experiences.16 Researchers can not understand what it means to «do» legal writing without understanding the participants» experiences — the experiences of both writers and readers.

Researchers frequently assessed parent involvement by the parent's (or some other informant's) report rather than by observation or objective measure.

: Mothers with depressive symptoms were poorer, were less educated and rated lower infant bonding than mothers without depressive symptoms (p = 0.03), yet objective observation revealed no difference between the two groups regarding maternal interactive behavior (p = 0.57).

Results: Mothers with depressive symptoms were poorer, were less educated and rated lower infant bonding than mothers without depressive symptoms (p = 0.03), yet objective observation revealed no difference between the two groups regarding maternal interactive behavior (p = 0.57).

Second, the way parents perceive the temperament of the child, more than the child's actual temperament as assessed during objective observations, is found to shape the way parents parent the child (see Bögels and Brechman - Toussaint 2006).