Sentences with phrase «than observations conducted»

* Observations conducted by outside observers are more valid than observations conducted by school administrators.

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As the years passed, Wells recorded more than 17,000 group sightings and conducted as many as 600 observations of specific individuals.

The telescope which is much stronger than Hubble — its predecessor — will operate in a very cold and dark environment ideal for conducting observations, says Sune Toft:

In order to identify false positives and confirm transiting exoplanets, we have assembled a follow - up network (KELT - FUN) to conduct imaging with higher spatial resolution, cadence, and photometric precision than the KELT telescopes, as well as spectroscopic observations of the candidate host stars.

Observations conducted using the Hubble Space Telescope indicate that this MU69, which has a diameter of approximately 20 to 30 miles, is as red — if not redder — than the splotches on Pluto.

We have conducted an all - sky survey for more than 94 % of the whole sky during cold phase of AKARI observation in 2006 Feb. — 2007 Aug..

Based on Kepler observations conducted from May 2009 to September 2010, the planet findings show a dramatic increase in the numbers of smaller - size planet candidates, where Earth - size and super-Earth-size candidates have increased in number by more than 204 and 136 percent, respectively, since the last Kepler announcement in February 2011.

Yet observations I have conducted in more than 300 classrooms in California, Minnesota, New York City, and Massachusetts over the past 15 years indicate that local school systems have commonly used bilingual education as a generic term referring to all three types of language - instruction programs.

Three quarters of sampled districts said administrators conducted between 40 and 80 classroom observations, with only one reporting less than 40 observations and three reporting more than 80 on average.

Manno and Firestone (2006) found that teacher leaders who were able to work directly in classrooms, such as conducting classroom observations and regular meetings with teachers, had a greater influence on teachers» implementation of curricula than teacher leaders who had limited or sporadic access to teachers.

Memphis officials realized that under the new rules, their district would need to conduct more than 28,000 classroom observations annually, a task that could overwhelm the city's school principals.

In a related study, Gigante and Firestone (2007) found that teacher leaders with content expertise were more likely than those without content expertise to provide support to teachers through strategies that occurred within the classroom, such as assisting in lesson planning or conducting classroom observation.

There is no better way to know this transfer takes place than to provide supportive follow up after professional learning experiences and providing feedback on teacher practice (e.g., through observations and videotaping) and teacher work (e.g., on teacher - created assessments and by conducting student interviews).

Additionally, TCTA pointed out that, given the fact that T - TESS contemplates more observations of teachers than under PDAS, which in turn may necessitate additional personnel to conduct the observations, the rules should require that anyone conducting observations must be trained and certified prior to doing so.

To conduct its analysis, GISS uses publicly available data from three sources: weather data from more than a thousand meteorological stations around the world; satellite observations of sea surface temperature; and Antarctic research station measurements.

However, I conducted an experiment in which I made observations that had a precision of 1 cm and found that the average of those measurements was much closer on three separate occasions to the average of the more precise observations than 1 cm.

I once again re-iterate this observation and request and ask people to focus more on the conduct of the inquiries and institutions than of the scientists and grant recipients.

The temperature analysis conducted by NASA draws data from more than 1,000 meteorological stations worldwide, satellite observations of temperatures at the surface of the oceans, and measurements taken by Antarctic research stations.

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.

Our observation that the improvement in both the ECBI intensity score, a measure based primarily on problem behaviours, and the SDQ (conduct) scores was significantly greater in the intervention than the control group provides confidence that the intervention was effective, at least as far as these aspects of children's mental health was concerned.