Sentences with phrase «valid data about»

This is a problem for a simple reason: the state has an obligation to provide parents with comparable, valid data about their child's academic progress.

Not exact matches

In the European Union another twist to this story is that Facebook's data transfers between WhatsApp and Facebook for ads / product purposes were quickly suspended — the CNIL confirms in its notice that Facebook told it the data of its 10M French users have never been processed for targeted advertising purposes — after local regulators intervened, and objected publicly that Facebook had not provided users with enough information about what it planned to do with their data, nor secured «valid consent» to share their information.

But I do realize that the atheist rant is pointless, especially where it tries to argue from an empirical / scientific standpoint because spirituality isn't about trying to figure things out from the outside in through research and data collection — it's when we see things from the inside out and the only valid instrument of measurement is our own being.

She expressed concerns about the subjectivity she believes would shape the selection process and the lack of data or study indicating what constitutes a valid personal net worth.

Regrettably, we could not specifically compare immigrant and native Hispanics; there are not enough data about older U.S. - born Hispanics to generate statistically valid estimates of total life expectancy for the purposes of comparison.

Each new test item and the three grade - level assessments will be pilot - and field - tested with students, and a complete statistical analysis of the data will be used to ensure that the tests are valid measures of what students know about energy.

There is scope for questioning the students about reliability of results and whether this is a valid way of collecting data.

This type of data is needed to accurately describe changes in diversity as students move between sectors because there is significant variation in student demographics at the school level that is often obscured when examining the issue at higher levels of aggregation (e.g. comparing charters as a group to surrounding school district or metropolitan area) and can complicate the drawing of valid inferences about the relationship between public school choice and racial sorting.

Overall, the measurement research on literacy assessment reform suggests that there is still uncertainly about the ability of performance assessments to provide reliable and valid data for accountability.

While all of these are valid sources of information about each student's skills, they are not all going to provide scores or other data that can easily be compared.

As the report notes, despite widespread calls for connecting evidence of new teachers» effectiveness back to their preparation programs, «there has been no coordinated effort to provide these programs with valid, reliable, timely, and comparable data about the [educators] they prepare» (p. 2).

Each assessment produces valid, reliable data and can be completed in about a third of the time it takes to complete other benchmark and interim assessments.

Upon further review though, I found that their data seems very valid (anecdotally) and that their data has many negative things to say about charter schools as well.

Oh ok I didn't know about tablets and insurance but my point is still valid it's cheaper that way to just add 14 bucks and use hotspot / tether, cause your using data anyway so you might as well use the data your already paying for instead of opening another contract and you use it when you need it.

To ensure the links that the service generates stay valid, the organizers behind Perma envision using a distributed network to store the cached sites, with partner libraries about the country creating copies of the data to ensure redundancy.

Well, the available statistically valid data does not support the paranoia about piracy.

But the Nationwide data was not presented in a way that would allow for valid conclusions about that.

I actually responded to an entry made about this post but I thought it was a valid contribution to the general thread of debate here: The general feel I have for services like Twitter is that they provide a very easy and very simple way to get the information and thoughts out there for people who don't want the responsibility of running a blog, want to avoid the invasive data - mining of the social network and very quickly fire off something witty, something silly, something topical or genuinely answer that all important Twitter question... What are they doing?

Though I do have my doubts about there being adequate data to draw a valid, long - term conclusion, the prudent action would seem to be to hedge the bet and move toward reducing CO2 emissions.

Despite much (valid) concern about amplifying climate - methane feedbacks and leaks from «fracking» activity, the isotopic data suggest that the increase of CH4 emissions is more a result of agricultural emissions.

It seemed obvious to me that it was Hansen to which Brandon was referring to but Joshua's point about the physics of global warming and the CO2 connection used by AGW supporters being now in conflict with the data (assuming the absence of lags) seemed to be a valid one.

Experts at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) have concluded that while the emails «do raise some valid concerns about scientific integrity, they do not indicate that climate data and research have been compromised.»

While the emails do raise some valid concerns about scientific integrity, the email content being quoted does not indicate that climate data and research have been compromised.

Sir Paul asks the American NASA «expert» about climate change models and is shown a double screen comparison of weather forecasting a few days ahead with actual satellite data (no proof that the same model is valid for predicting climate a hundred years hence).

The main prior discussion was about the lack of valid data for the pre-1978 period.

But I would caustion about applying least square error methods to raw data, for which that might not be a valid method.

2) they've said nasty things about certain colleagues work (but still cited it) 3) they've discarded some data for reasons they should have better explained (reasons that were valid — it wasn't properly calibrated)

1) they're guilty of not properly responding to a FOIA request 2) they've said nasty things about certain colleagues work (but still cited it) 3) they've discarded some data for reasons they should have better explained (reasons that were valid — it wasn't properly calibrated)

So the questions raised by Drs Spencer and Courtney about the outcome and the real influence of manmade CO2 and the caveats about data (huge) uncertainties remain valid.

This modules demands that students comprehend and amass data about forensic process and the law as well as introducing them to some of the basic scientific premises upon which valid and reliable forensic science must be built.

A quick assessment of accuracy — T - shirt sizing style — can tell you something about the likelihood that the data point is valid.

The primary purpose is to give stakeholders the appropriate and valid data needed to make choices about certifications and licenses related to individuals, educational and career counselors, corporations, private sector, and government.

Furthermore, many states wanted to use their data for program improvement, so they needed valid information about child outcomes to identify program strengths and weaknesses.