Sentences with phrase «valid inferences about»

To make valid inferences about learning, teachers need to allow students to work to their strengths.

Vermont's state board also resolved that until Vermont has more experience with evidence from the SBACs, «the results of the SBAC assessment will not support reliable and valid inferences about student performance, and thus should not be used as the basis for any consequential purpose.»

Teacher or student anxiety can interfere with the drawing of valid inferences about what should normally occur in the classroom.

Although they agreed that it would allow them to make valid inferences about students» ability to construct grammatically correct sentences, they determined that it did not provide enough information to allow them to assess student progress in developing compelling arguments.

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.

A successful test would therefore require isolating enough of these scarce cells to make statistically valid inferences about the tumor, often at a stage when the tumor itself is growing and changing rapidly.

Not exact matches

Keynes's argument as to why these two assumptions are required for «valid inductive inference» is crucial for resolving the conflict about the role of the doctrine of internal relations.

The bottom line is to question and critically consume everything, and everyone who feels qualified to write about particular things without enough expertise in most everything, including in this case good and professional journalism, this area of educational research, and what it means to make valid inferences and then responsibly share them out with the public.

They do not want us to remember that the SBAC has not been externally validated and therefore, according to the Vermont State Board of Education, does «not support valid and reliable inferences about student performance.»

Making valid and consistent inferences about school effectiveness from multiple measures.

I admire scientists and the scientific way of knowing but I am not myself trained as a scientist, except inasmuch as my undergraduate training in sociology at a top U.S. university exposed me to statistical inference and standards of valid reasoning about social phenomena.