Sentences with phrase «useful measure of its value»

While statistics about usage can be helpful, just knowing how often a book is borrowed is not, in itself, a useful measure of its value.

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Accounting book value is meant to measure the potential assets available to investors in the event of liquidation, and that's simply not a very useful measurement for most equity investors.

Teachers should be rewarded for producing useful student outcomes, most notably, student learning gains, measured by value - added standards (i.e., improvement) rather than by levels of achievement at the end of a course.

When they insist that ideas like school choice, performance pay, and teacher evaluations based on value - added measures will themselves boost student achievement, would - be reformers stifle creativity, encourage their allies to lock elbows and march forward rather than engage in useful debate and reflection, turn every reform proposal into an us - against - them steel - cage match, and push researchers into the awkward position of studying whether reforms «work» rather than when, why, and how they make it easier to improve schooling.

Given the imprecision of value - added measures and their inability to provide information about specific teaching practices, we might logically conclude that they can not be useful tools for school improvement.

[12] The imprecision of the value - added measures alone suggests that combining them with other measures would be useful for these kinds of decisions.

Value - added measures of improvement are more precise measures for groups of teachers than they are for individual teachers, thus they may provide useful information on improvement associated with practices, programs or schools.

By Dan Goldhaber How might value - added measures be useful to assess the performance of teacher prep programs?

While value - added models based on student test scores are problematic for making evaluation decisions for individual teachers, they are useful for looking at groups of teachers for research purposes — for example, to examine how specific teaching practices or measures of teaching influence the learning of large numbers of students.

While useful for management purposes such as scheduling students and staff, the value of seat time as an accurate measure of student learning is limited.

Renewables are often only as useful as the grid they feed Measuring the value of next - generation wind and solar 17 August 2016

1950s: Research on military applications of radar and infrared radiation promotes advances in radiative transfer theory and measurements = > Radiation math — Studies conducted largely for military applications give accurate values of infrared absorption by gases = > CO2 greenhouse — Nuclear physicists and chemists develop Carbon - 14 analysis, useful for dating ancient climate changes = > Carbon dates, for detecting carbon from fossil fuels in the atmosphere, and for measuring the rate of ocean turnover = > CO2 greenhouse — Development of digital computers affects many fields including the calculation of radiation transfer in the atmosphere = > Radiation math, and makes it possible to model weather processes = > Models (GCMs)-- Geological studies of polar wandering help provoke Ewing - Donn model of ice ages = > Simple models — Improvements in infrared instrumentation (mainly for industrial processes) allow very precise measurements of atmospheric CO2 = > CO2 greenhouse.

It turns out that easily measured things like the ability to run fast are not the useful statistics to use when assessing whether to recruit a player and how much to pay, but: «As bad as they may have been, the statistics used to evaluate baseball players were probably far more accurate than anything used to measure the value of people who didn't play baseball for a living.»

Students will be exposed to basic data collection techniques in legal settings, simple metrics useful in measuring legal operations, methods to manage discrete projects and portfolios of matters, staffing opportunities, process mapping, process improvement techniques, client engagement, measuring value exchanges, and simple legal service delivery technologies.

Erica - Irene Daes's final report on Indigenous Peoples and their Relationship to Land, (54) contains a list of objectives that «may be useful for assessing the value and appropriateness of proposed principles and other measures or endeavours relating to the rights of indigenous peoples to lands and resources».