Sentences with phrase «valid indicator of»

While a breathalyzer test is recognized as a valid indicator of alcohol impairment at the time the test is administered, nothing currently matches its efficacy in regard to cannabis.

If the first r PC's pass an F test, then at least one of them is a valid indicator of temperature.

There is NOT possible for a «greenhouse effect», as the «greenhouse theory» describes, to exist whilst Temperature is NOT even a valid indicator of supposed UNNATURAL «Climate Change».

Second the use of GDP as any kind of valid indicator of economic health is, I think questionable.

If what has always happened in the past is a valid indicator of what it likely to happen in the future, most of the investors who today refer to themselves as Buy - and - Hold investors will abandon the Buy - and - Hold approach when stock prices revert to more moderate levels.

The bottom line: This year's online testing may be useful for testing the platform and working out bugs, but it is not a valid indicator of student progress or teacher performance.

And, as you well know, the tests are not directly linked to curriculum so they are not a valid indicator of what children have learned in school.

(Calif.) A biennial state survey of junior high students and teachers can serve as a valid indicator of middle school climate, according to new federal analysis released this week.

CEA President Sheila Cohen said, «All indications are that this test is not a valid indicator of student knowledge and skills.

CEA President Sheila Cohen told reporters at a press conference this morning at the Legislative Office Building that SBAC is not a valid indicator of student knowledge and skills.

The three - year survey of 3,000 teachers in seven school districts by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation found that the controversial method of measuring student academic growth, known as value - added, was a valid indicator of whether teachers helped boost student achievement.

«We simply can't trust the published literature to be a reliable and valid indicator of a finding's replicability,» Chartier said.

However, the presence of an AP program in a high school is not necessarily a valid indicator of a school's quality...

The conventional wisdom believes that the plunge in China's shares is a valid indicator of forthcoming Chinese economic performance.

The assemblymembers» letter says the current ELA and math assessments are not valid indicators of college or career readiness, are not improving learning or instruction, and are not a reliable measure of a teacher's ability.

But establishing valid indicators of teacher competence has proven to be controversial.

It does not mean eliminating measurement of academic attainment and growth; it means coupling those with rigorous, reliable and valid indicators of school organization and other nonacademic factors.

Find some valid indicators of risk and monitor them closely.

In selecting his team to carry us forward into a future in which the weather and climate patterns of the past can no longer be assumed to be valid indicators of future climate conditions affecting the economy and society, we hope the next President will swiftly and skillfully select a set of strong «climate leaders» with honesty, integrity, and dedication to bringing the best scientific and technological intelligence we can muster to bear on the host of climate change challenges we face.

Together, they comprise valid indicators of successful outcomes in foster care (Berridge, 1998).

Both scores are stable and valid indicators of peer relations (Bukowski & Hoza, 1989; Gottman, Gonso, & Rasmussen, 1975) and are standardized to z - scores within gender for each class to allow for analysis.

If measures of EE are valid indicators of the quality of staff - patient relationships, as in the case of familial research, there should be evidence of associations between high EE and staff distress or burden.47 There is no consistent evidence of associations between EE and staff stress.

In sum, the BGMC questionnaires are reliable and valid indicators of BGM affect for youths and parents.

Not exact matches

Needless to say, the rise in the «leading indicators» is not a valid indication of an upturn in my view, apart from the fact that statistically, the leading indicators are fairly poor predictors of economic turns anyway.

The absence of valid and reliable indicators to assess complementary feeding practices has been a major impediment to assessing progress and stimulating action.

«These test results are not reliable, valid, or accurate indicators of either student learning or teacher effectiveness.»

In this study, suicidal ideation was used as the indicator of suicide risk because too few patients reported a history of suicide plan or had made a suicide attempt for statistically valid conclusions to be made.

If anything is a valid and accurate indicator of your body's immediate nutritional requirements, it's your subconscious instincts and urges.

Not that it's easy to identify measures beyond reading and math scores that are valid and reliable indicators of school success.

ESSA also requires state accountability systems to include «a measure of student growth, if determined appropriate by the State; or another valid and reliable statewide academic indicator that allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance.»

ECAA: States must establish «a system of annually identifying and meaningfully differentiating among all public schools in the State» that include student proficiency and graduation rates, in significant part, plus at least one other «valid and reliable indicator of school quality,» but states are free to weight factors as they choose and omit student growth.

Annually measures, for all students and separately for each subgroup of students, the following indicators: Academic achievement (which, for high schools, may include a measure of student growth, at the State's discretion); for elementary and middle schools, a measure of student growth, if determined appropriate by the State, or another valid and reliable statewide academic indicator; for high schools, the four - year adjusted cohort graduation rate and, at the State's discretion, the extended - year adjusted cohort graduation rate; progress in achieving English language proficiency for English learners; and at least one valid, reliable, comparable, statewide indicator of school quality or student success; and

The bill replaces AYP standards with a requirement for states to annually measure all students and individual subgroups by: (1) academic achievement as measured by state assessments; (2) for high schools, graduation rates; (3) for schools that are not high schools, a measure of student growth or another valid and reliable statewide indicator; (4) if applicable, progress in achieving English proficiency by English learners; and (5) at least one additional valid and reliable statewide indicator that allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance.

When considering which indicators to use at the state level to classify schools, states should use valid and reliable indicators, such as rates of chronic absenteeism and measures of college and career readiness, but be cautious about using new indicators;

If VAM estimates of teacher effectiveness are valid, there should be research - based evidence (and some commonsense) that proves that all similar indicators collected at or around the same time are together pointing towards the same proverbial truth.

The federal law that replaces the No Child Left Behind Act requires states» accountability systems to include at least one «nonacademic» indicator of «school quality or student success» that «allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance» and «is valid, reliable, comparable, and statewide» alongside academic data (Ujifusa, 2016).

Finding indicators supported by valid and reliable» data has been difficult as well as configuring a workable formula for using those indicators as a measure of school success.

In looking at what the Chamber is actually grading our states on, there are valid concerns about some of the indicators.

ASCD believes that the current indicators for evaluating students are limited and do not provide a valid assessment of their skills.

Brookings, one of the nation's oldest and most respected non-partisan think tanks, reports that attendance fulfills ESSA demands that the fifth indicator provide meaningful differentiation between schools, and also that it deliver valid and reliable data that can be drawn statewide across all schools and grade spans.

As a result, states should consider including additional indicators of interest once they have collected data for several years and confirmed that new instruments, such as climate surveys, are valid, reliable, and can be disaggregated for all student groups.

ESSA requires indicators to be valid — or measure what they purport to measure; reliable — measure a specific result consistently over time; and comparable — measure the same element of performance across different schools.22

For example, implementation at the district level may determine that an indicator of interest is valid and reliable but does not differentiate well between schools.

To be valid, each indicator in the system must be an accurate measure of what it intends to measure.

As states select indicators for their school classification systems, which are just one part a comprehensive accountability system, they should include measures that are valid, reliable, and drive behavior at the local level, such as rates of chronic absenteeism and measures of college and career readiness.

«I am intrigued by recent research indicating that they may be valid as one element of an approach that incorporates multiple indicators,» he wrote in an email.

Any other measure of growth as determined by the state (not necessarily based on state assessments), or another «valid and reliable indicator that allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance» for all non-high schools.

In so doing he discovered that the hockey stick is not a global pattern, it is driven by a flawed group of US proxies that experts do not consider valid as climate indicators.

By your argument, we should accept — in 3.5 years — the 17 - year trend starting in 1998 as an efficient indicator of whether or not the cAGW theory is valid.

2) Is the level of frequentist coverage a valid indicator for the lack of bias or non-infomativeness of the prior?