Sentences with phrase «valid measure»

The key issue is the availability of valid measures of teaching effectiveness.

On one side, there are those who argue that tests are not valid measures of teaching or learning.

As well, the air of respect and high levels of student engagement are palpable in these schools and should be counted as valid measures of success.

Use multiple valid measures in determining teacher performance levels, including as a significant factor student growth data for all students.

I have long said that the health of the states is a more valid measure of the health of the nation than looking at national statistics.

Yet the number of words read correctly per minute in a connected text from grade level material is one of the most valid measures of literacy.

Just as a math test asks you to solve math problems, not just describe your math ability, a truly valid measure of grit would include some opportunity to demonstrate that skill.

Second, this equation assumes that the tests are linked to meaningful standards and are therefore valid measures of student achievement relative to those standards, assumptions yet to be supported by reputable research.

• an interest in valid measures of student engagement — although systems focus on academic outcomes, some try to capture school culture as well.

Just as a math test asks you to solve math problems, not just describe your math ability, a truly valid measure of grit would include some opportunity to demonstrate that skill.

School leaders will be able to make retention decisions based on valid measures such as student - achievement growth and classroom observations and student evaluations.

NCTE is developing valid measures of effective mathematics teaching to be shared with practitioners, policymakers, and researchers.

Curriculum - based measures that are not normed often are not particularly valid measures of a student's skills.

Policies that create increasingly valid measures of teaching effectiveness — and that create innovative systems for recognizing, developing, and utilizing expert teachers — can ultimately help to create a more effective teaching profession.

Manage performance of schools, by defining and tracking valid measures of implementation of defined non-negotiables.

We need valid measures of well - being, happiness, positive mental health and flourishing that can be understood and used by people in many different roles.

Generally, deviation measures such as diurnal deviation seem to be more valid measures compared with single measures to capture possible changes in the hypothalamus - pituitaryadrenal axis, measured using salivary cortisol.

The shortcoming of self - report measures is overcome in the current study with the use of a projective picture system, the Adult Attachment Projective (AAP)[29], a construct valid measure that makes use of unconscious defensive processes.

The concept ignores the fact that standardized tests in schools today were not designed as teacher assessment tools and aren't valid measures, but that isn't stopping a headlong rush into implementation in school districts across the country.

For many years the WISC has been considered the most valid measure of intelligence because it had both language and symbol based items and performance - based items.

In all cases, the conclusions are wholly consistent with those in the CBA Futures Report, «[i] f the goal of CPD is to improve competence, then more valid measures of the process would be outcomes rather than inputs (hours of study).»

Valid measures of teacher stress (psychological and physical symptoms, and burnout), self - efficacy and emotion regulation were included; other teacher measures and measures relating to classroom functioning or child behaviour were excluded.

Are google searches a valid measure of popular opinion?

Is glycaemic index (GI) a valid measure of carbohydrate quality?

Nielsen, for example, points to McIntosh's «wheezing woozle» — her claims that infant wheezing is a valid measure of stress caused by being away from the mother overnight.

Unfortunately, in a meta - analysis of 139 studies with 13,835 children, the AQS was only found to be valid when trained observers did the rating after observing the mother and child interact for several hours: «It is concluded that the observer AQS, but not the self reported AQS, is a valid measure of attachment» (IJzendoorn et al., 2004, p. 1206).

The EPDS is a reliable and valid measure of mood in fathers.

Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa says the board wants to make certain the tests continue to provide a valid measure of student achievement.

Union - appointed experts reviewed exam items released last year and concluded that the great majority were valid measures of student achievement and age - appropriate for those tested.

«If we're saying that the only thing that's a valid measure of student achievement is a test score, versus all the other work they do, it's going to be a sad day for the students of New York state,» Mulgrew said.

«As financial incentives change in the U.S. health care system, valid measures of care quality are increasingly important for ensuring transparency and accountability.

Our only interest is to learn how students respond to these test items so that we can design test items that are valid measures of what students know about important energy ideas.

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.

Future studies should include more objective measures of vision, neuroimaging data, and valid measures of disease progression and disability.

«We can't even agree on a valid measure of intelligence among humans,» he said.

Trying to develop a valid measure of intelligence that could be applied across many different species is virtually impossible, Fox said.

It's not a valid measure of performance change, it is simply another tool in the toolbelt of helping people learn and engage - but not a valid assessment of real learning... that you'll see on the job.

As such, it gives the appearance that PDK is seriously trying to get a valid measure of voucher support.

You'll get the «eye roll» if you attempt to convince leaders, with formal business educations, that «training ROI» is valid measure.

A variety of standardised reliable and valid measures can be used by schools to conduct this assessment.