Sentences with phrase «use of survey measures»

Au joined MDRC's Survey Unit as a research assistant, helping to support and track data collection conducted by external survey firms, and then moved into a role dedicated to elevating the organization's use of survey measures.

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Luijke also suggests using, at the end of the hiring process, candidate satisfaction surveys — surveys that measure how well all candidates considered for a position felt about the process.

As detailed in a study by Harvard Business professor Dennis Campbell, TD revolutionized the way it measured the in - bank experience, streamlining its customer satisfaction survey and using a massive pool of customer data to find out not only how customers felt about their banking experience, but also what specific elements of «satisfaction» mattered most to them.

In a second survey involving 75,000 Facebook users, the researchers measured the use of profanity in online social interactions.

You could use social listening software (such as Hootsuite, SproutSocial, or SocialMention) to see how often your brand is mentioned on social media channels, news articles, or blogs, or you could conduct a wide - scale survey to see who has heard of your brand before and who hasn't, but these are indirect measures of a qualitative characteristic.

Our analysis is based on individual - level data from 1980 through 2011 from the Current Population Survey (CPS), the monthly survey conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics used to measure the unemploymentSurvey (CPS), the monthly survey conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics used to measure the unemploymentsurvey conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics used to measure the unemployment rate.

This measure, which is less widely used, adds up all of the incomes of the people surveyed and divides that figure by the number of people counted.

Finally, the survey used an objective performance measure to assess the application of the labelling systems.

Resident behaviors in the clinical setting were measured before and after the intervention using telephone surveys of breastfeeding mothers after a clinic visit with a pediatric resident.

BSM Media uses several tools to measure the success of Mommy Parties such as qualitative and quantitative surveys, coded links and coupons codes.

The project uses a series of survey experiments to measure how incidences of corruption and insecurity impact on public trust in government institutions, both at local and central levels.

At present, there are two principal measures of unemployment used by the Government: the International Labour Organisation (ILO) measure (the UK's version being known as the Labour Force Survey or LFS unemployment); and the Claimant Count.

Thankfully, you don't have to measure your household water use personally - it's easier to go by the estimate of the United States Geological Survey: the average person in the US uses 80 - 100 gallons a day.

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«When you measure the two of them together, you can use the strontium - calcium ratio to take away the temperature and that gives you a clear rainfall signal,» explains paleoclimatologist Nerilie Abrams of the British Antarctic Survey.

In a new study led by the University of Sussex, geoscientists from the British Geological Survey and the Technical University of Munich reveal that using a micro-seismic technique, which detects tiny earthquakes which cause cracks in the rock, alongside modern electrical imaging technology, which measures rock mass, would provide scientists with much earlier warnings of potential rock falls.

When I was in medical school, I spent a summer in an Indian Reservation in the Upper Peninsula [of] Michigan and went to University of Michigan, and there we did a survey of nutrition and found that half of the population, adult population, was diabetic and that really fascinated me; and I wondered why, and we also used some dietary assessment methods and found that actually we could learn a lot about what people were eating were some fairly simple ways of measuring diet; and so in some ways I have spent the rest of my career trying to unravel some of those questions.

The study — «Mental health nurses» emotions, exposure to patient aggression, attitudes to and use of coercive measures: Cross sectional questionnaire survey» — also revealed that, while individual nurses exposed to this behaviour were more approving of coercive interventions, this did not translate into an increased use of restraint or seclusion.

Mrs Wastenage said the survey results would be fed into current farming industry initiatives to measure and reduce use of antibiotics, such as those being run by RUMA and CHAWG.

They're not surprising findings, but the National Science Board, which oversees the National Science Foundation (NSF), says it chose to leave the section out of the 2010 edition of the biennial Science and Engineering Indicators because the survey questions used to measure knowledge of the two topics force respondents to choose between factual knowledge and religious beliefs.

The first survey evaluated an initial set of items measuring experiences, and the second was used to re-evaluate the experience items and to measure tornado risk perceptions.

Using data from the U.S. Congregational Life Survey, a national sample of religious congregations and members, Stroope and his team, composed of two researchers from Hope College and Baylor University, measured the dependent variable of college completion and the independent variables of individual biblical literalism and congregational biblical literalism.

Any effects were assessed using a survey and changes to the volunteers» skin conductance, a measure of physiological arousal.

For their work Maksym and co-investigators Guy Williams from the University of Hobart, Tasmania and Jeremy Wilkinson of the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, UK, used a robot known as an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to cruise under ice in three regions near the coast and measure the thickness directly over a much larger area.

Very wide and deep surveys, such as KiDS, are needed to ensure that the very weak cosmic shear signal is strong enough to be measured and can be used by astronomers to map the distribution of gravitating matter.

Participants also completed a survey that assessed their attitudes toward people who swear, which was used as a measure of each person's likelihood of being offended by profanity and the circumstances in which they might view it as acceptable.

The academics surveyed a total of 238 people in two studies using traditional measures of risk and new questions which included more activities which were rated as feminine by a group of 99 men and women.

The survey also measures attitudes about drug use, including perceived availability and harmfulness, as well as disapproval of specific drugs.

The survey asks teens about «any vaping» to measure their use of electronic vaporizers.

Gavazzi and a colleague used a marriage model first developed in 1965 to design a survey measuring the status of town - gown relationships.

In the study, the researchers used a survey to measure strength of family obligations and cultural orientation among 105 early adolescents (10 to 14 years) in rural Haiti.

The survey was adapted from the Massachusetts Food Establishment Inspection Report and measured hygienic food practices, use of utensils and gloves, protection from contamination, and time and temperature control.

The researchers used weekly surveys to measure how the motivation of college job seekers changed over time.

In order to examine the relationship between prejudice and mortality, the researchers constructed a measure capturing the average level of anti-gay prejudice in the communities where LGB individuals lived, beginning in 1988, using data on prejudicial attitudes from the General Social Survey, one of the primary sources of social indicator data in the social sciences.

The team from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) combined two different methods of using quasars and intergalactic hydrogen gas to measure the rate of expansion of the universe.

According to my correspondence with the Royal Observatory Edinburgh and the Space Telescope Science Institute, I am allowed to use the POSS - II / UKSTU data to create and display images for non-commercial purposes so long as I include this fine print for the SuperCOSMOS data: Use of these images is courtesy of the UK Schmidt Telescope (copyright in which is owned by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council of the UK and the Anglo - Australian Telescope Board) and the Southern Sky Survey as created by the SuperCOSMOS measuring machine and are reproduced here with permission from the Royal Observatory Edinburuse the POSS - II / UKSTU data to create and display images for non-commercial purposes so long as I include this fine print for the SuperCOSMOS data: Use of these images is courtesy of the UK Schmidt Telescope (copyright in which is owned by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council of the UK and the Anglo - Australian Telescope Board) and the Southern Sky Survey as created by the SuperCOSMOS measuring machine and are reproduced here with permission from the Royal Observatory EdinburUse of these images is courtesy of the UK Schmidt Telescope (copyright in which is owned by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council of the UK and the Anglo - Australian Telescope Board) and the Southern Sky Survey as created by the SuperCOSMOS measuring machine and are reproduced here with permission from the Royal Observatory Edinburgh.

I am also using large astronomical surveys to measure how rapidly galaxies are growing, and how this growth compares to the growth of dark matter halos.

Geoscientists can spend a large part of their time in the field, identifying and examining rocks, studying information collected by remote sensing instruments in satellites, conducting geological surveys, constructing field maps, and using instruments to measure Earth's gravity and magnetic field.

On November 1, 2010, a team of astronomers working with the NASA - UC Eta - Earth Survey revealed the detection of a super-Earth in a torch orbit with a minimum of 8.2 + - 1.2 Earth - masses around BD +26 2184, using radial - velocity measures from the Keck Observatory's High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES).

Shectman led the Las Campanas Redshift Survey (LCRS), the first galaxy redshift survey to use fiber - optic spectroscopy to measure the distances to hundreds of galaxies in each expSurvey (LCRS), the first galaxy redshift survey to use fiber - optic spectroscopy to measure the distances to hundreds of galaxies in each expsurvey to use fiber - optic spectroscopy to measure the distances to hundreds of galaxies in each exposure.

Scientists using NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer telescope were able to detect four such events by measuring the infrared glow of dust heated by the flares.

It is a surveying technology that uses lasers instead of radio waves to measure the distance of formations.

The questions we have used to measure online dating have evolved over the years, and as a result we can not directly compare the size of the total online dating population to some of our earlier surveys on the subject.6 However, the use of online dating sites7 has become steadily more prevalent in recent years.

After extensive research on teacher evaluation procedures, the Measures of Effective Teaching Project mentions three different measures to provide teachers with feedback for growth: (1) classroom observations by peer - colleagues using validated scales such as the Framework for Teaching or the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, further described in Gathering Feedback for Teaching (PDF) and Learning About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiplMeasures of Effective Teaching Project mentions three different measures to provide teachers with feedback for growth: (1) classroom observations by peer - colleagues using validated scales such as the Framework for Teaching or the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, further described in Gathering Feedback for Teaching (PDF) and Learning About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiplmeasures to provide teachers with feedback for growth: (1) classroom observations by peer - colleagues using validated scales such as the Framework for Teaching or the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, further described in Gathering Feedback for Teaching (PDF) and Learning About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiplmeasures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiple years.

Grit can be measured using a short survey, and it is a more accurate predictor of success than IQ or talent (Duckworth & Quinn, 2009).

The idea is to see if combining information from the tests, survey, and classroom observations could produce more stable measures of teacher contributions to learning than is possible by just using the state test.

Tom Kane, the lead researcher, concludes that the best evaluation system uses a combination of student - growth measures, evaluations, and student surveys.

Keep you eye on him and this line of research on using survey responsiveness and carelessness as measures of character skills with strong predictive power for student success.

LOSER: Those who've argued that measures of student performance and student surveys should not be used to assess educator effectiveness and that observations are the way to go.