Sentences with phrase «validity data from»

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If anything else emerged from the exercise, we would have reason to doubt the validity of the data.

The Toddler Attachment Q Sort has validity only if the data is gathered by trained observers who gather information from observing the interactions of mothers and their children over a period of hours.

To test the validity of the model, the scientists ran simulations using data from a second group of 120 MS patients.

In the first study, investigators from Inova Health System in Virginia sought to determine the validity of two sources of information for quality metrics — ACS NSQIP clinical data and administrative claims data used for billing purposes.

The lessons progress through a range of tasks that engage student's interest, encourage them to: -: interact and share what they know -: develop their abilities to extract information from text and graphics -: view information critically -: check the credibility and validity of information -: develop online research skills -: use web based tools to create surveys and data visualisations The lessons cover a range of topics including: -: Advertising and how it influences us -: Body language and how to understand it -: Introverts and extroverts and how they differ -: Emotional intelligence and how it impacts on our relationships -: Facts about hair -: Happiness and what effects it -: Developing study skills -: The environment and waste caused by clothes manufacturing -: Daily habits of the world's wealthiest people -: The history of marriage and weddings Each lesson includes: -: A step by step teachers guide with advice and answer key -: Worksheets to print for students

Students can assess the validity of the data acquired from primary sources versus secondary sources using tertiary sources.

Assessing Elemental and Structural Validity: Data from Teachers, Non-teachers, and Mathematicians.

Using data from California's CORE districts, we show that SEL and CC measures demonstrate reliability and validity, distinguish between schools, are related to other academic and non-academic measures, and also illuminate dimensions of student achievement that go beyond traditional indicators.

An analysis of the data confirmed the validity of the 6 factors that emerged from the initial set of interviews and a set of interesting questions was developed to assist school leaders in prioritizing the success factors based on the needs of individual buildings.

My CEPR colleagues and I have used data from the 2014 - 15 field test to perform preliminary analyses of the reliability of students» survey responses and their validity, when aggregated to the school level, as an indicator of school performance.

For example, many states have adopted the research - backed Teaching Strategies GOLD assessment, which prompts teachers to collect observational data ranging from children's physical and social - emotional development to their literacy and math skills.Do - Hong Kim, Richard G. Lambert, and Diane C. Burts, «Evidence of the Validity of Teaching Strategies GOLD ® Assessment Tool for English Language Learners and Children with Disabilities,» Early Education and Development 24 (2013): 574 — 595, doi: 10.1080 / 10409289.2012.701500; Teaching Strategies, Teaching Strategies GOLD Assessment System: A Technical Summary, 2013.

Accordingly, even though their data for this part of this study come from one district, their findings are similar to others evidenced in the «Widget Effect» report; hence, there are still likely educational measurement (and validity) issues on both ends (i.e., with using such observational rubrics as part of America's reformed teacher evaluation systems and using survey methods to put into check these systems, overall).

Spillane et al. (2001) drew from multiple sources of data and described data analysis strategies that support the validity of the findings.

Confidence in the validity of findings from both studies was strengthened by descriptions of data analysis methods and the triangulation of data in analysis.

Several of the studies summarized in this section included detailed descriptions of data collection strategies and triangulated information from multiple sources of data, increasing the confidence in the validity of these findings (Feldman and Tung, 2002; Heller & Firestone, 1995; Spillane & Camburn, 2006; Wettersten, 1994).

This new law will provide a measure of protection for our teachers, districts and students from consequences for student test scores on a standardized test whose validity and reliability as a tool for measuring their performance is not supported by data.

What determines the validity of the assessment is whether the data from the tests can be used to improve instruction.

Validity evidence is important because it tells whether conclusions reached from the data are appropriate, meaningful, and useful.

Thomson said his order prevents PED from enforcing its evaluation system until «a trial on the merits where the court can be assured of the statistical validity of the data collection and reporting that feeds into the system.»

Test scores derived from tests that have no demonstrated technical adequacy are useless data points, and plans to collect evidence of validity and reliability provide no assurance that technical adequacy will be established.»

Using elementary and secondary school data from North Carolina and Florida, this paper investigates the validity of this assumption.

The validity of the findings from Howe and Stubbs (2001) and Fanscali (2004) was not established, with threats arising from missing data that is not explained in analysis (Fanscali, 2004) and the absence of reports on the reliability of data collection (Howe and Stubbs, 2001; Fanscali, 2004).

There's a long history of concerns about the validity of the MSU2 / AMSU5 data (aka: the MT), going back to Spencer and Christy's work published in 1992 in which they introduced the TLT (or LT) as a correction for the MT.. It was their claim at the time that the MT is contaminated by emissions from the stratosphere, which has a well known cooling trend.

Until and unless Dr Forest demonstrates that the model data used in Forest 2006 was correctly processed from the raw model simulation run data, I can not see that much confidence can be placed in the validity of the Forest 2006 results.

Early on in my following of the global warming issue I became aware of the Surface Stations Survey, which led me to be very skeptical of the validity of the most recent temperature data trends, as I have never seen any convincing explanation as to how data from the many urban heat island and «corrupted» temperature monitoring sites are properly corrected.

Frank Lansnser goes on to show data from Goddard Institute of Space Science (GISS) July polar views and compares this with graphics of Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) data for July 2010 to cast doubt on the validity of the GISS gridded values in the Arctic region.

That is what I see going on this case, although, it should not be construed as hard evidence for the validity of the data or conclusions drawn from it, one way or the other.

Nothing I have done or studied or forecasted or hindcasted the past 24 years has come true, and everything I have projected and extrapolated the past 24 years has been falsified by real data, or proven to have come from bad programs, post-hoc edits, and exaggerated sources of no reasonable validity.

However, if this was correct reasoning one could claim with equal validity, using the same data set and time period, that there has been global warming over the recent 20 - year period, since the trend is also not statistically significantly distinguishable from the trend estimate over the time period since 1979 («global warming» is the Null - hypothesis in this case), which itself is highly statistically significantly different from a Zero - trend (RSS: 0.124 + / -0.067 deg.

As destructive as the fire was, it means that the group could collect real - world data to test the validity of predictions from their computer - model synthesis and then adjust it to be more useful to city and county planners responsible for mitigating the risk of post-fire flows.

Further it is shown that carbon cycle modelling based on non-equilibrium models, remote from observed reality and chemical laws, made to fit non-representative data through the use of non-linear ocean evasion «buffer» correction factors constructed from a pre-conceived idea, constitute a circular argument and with no scientific validity.

Good post and I understand your skepticism and certainly I will be looking at more data and calling a friend of mine who is more qualified than I to speak about nano diamonds, but if more looking into this confirms these nano diamonds, and this could happen quite quickly, the validity of the hypothesis will increase and from there of course the burden of necessary evidence is still great as you mentioned.

The Canadian rules tend to require a written response from government; we do not yet have data on whether the electronic petitions are significantly outnumbering the paper ones and thus causing excess work — a reason to check their validity more carefully.

This commenter noted that the requirement that each site would need to undertake a separate minimum necessary review for each disclosure would erect significant barriers to the conduct of research and may compromise the integrity and validity of data combined from multiple sites.

The personal data that we collect from you will also be used for the purposes of enabling a third party data processor to which we subcontract data processing services (Goalover Limited) to assess such data in order to provide data veracity, integrity and validity services to RED Driving School.

Australian and US data from a large multi-instrument comparison survey were used to conduct tests of convergent, predictive and content validity using as comparators five other multi-attribute utility (MAU) instruments — the EQ - 5D, SF - 6D, Health Utilities Index (HUI) 3, 15D and the Quality of Well - Being (QWB)-- as well as four non-utility instruments — the SF - 36 and three measures of subjective well - being (SWB).

Some researchers have attempted to increase the validity of self - report data by measuring parent involvement from more than one source (parent, teachers, students).

As a result, data from 176 rural older adult participants were used to measure the Older Adult Service Usage Assessment's (OASUA) reliability, content and construct validity (convergent and discriminant), and factor structure.

The purpose of this paper is to review the evidence base for three widely - used home visiting programs that have met the federal criteria for evidence - based to highlight the limits to both the internal and external validity of the evidence and to provide a case study as a point of comparison using data from a large, statewide implementation effort.

The data from these reviews are summarized in Table II (which includes reliability and validity data) and Appendix A (which includes primary references for the measures, a statement of purpose for each measure, the applicable age range, the number of items, the address for obtaining the manual and measure, and the EBA classification for each measure).

New data from the Addiction Severity Index: Reliability and validity in three centers.

Data from studies 3 and 4 explore the construct validity of the SRLTAS though both convergent and discriminant strategies.

A second data collection was performed to examine the criterion validity of the VAWI against the NorVold Abuse Questionnaire (NorAQ).23, 28 Statistics Sweden sent out the VAWI and NorAQ between November 2009 and January 2010 to 20 % (n = 92) of the respondents from the initial data collection.

In the original paper, Lyubomirsky and Lepper23 report results from 14 studies with convergent and discriminant validity and psychometric data supporting the SHS.

Two reviewers will independently assess the suitability of the preference - based instruments for measuring outcomes in palliative care using the ISOQOL, minimum standards for patient - reported outcome measures (conceptual and measurement model, reliability, content validity, construct validity, responsiveness, interpretability of scores, translation of measure, patient and investigator burden), 43 and the CREATE checklist (descriptive system, health states values, sampling, preference data collection, study sample, modelling, scoring algorithm).44 The ISOQOL minimum standards were chosen as these standards were developed from a systematic review of published and unpublished guidance on patient - reported outcome measures, including the COnsensus - based Standards for the selection of health Measurement Instruments (COSMIN).46 To the authors» knowledge, the CREATE checklist is the only published guidance on what key components should be reported in a valuation study.44 Information on how the contents of the instruments were developed, psychometric properties and valuation will be used to assess the suitability of the instruments for the palliative setting; instruments will be scored on whether the domains or dimensions were developed using input from informal caregivers of people receiving palliative care (yes / no) and whether each of the reporting checklist items has been evaluated for this population (if yes, then a score of one will be allocated) and a total score calculated.

To the extent that data that were gathered from different sources all suggest benefits for Early Start, there are grounds for suggesting that the open nature of the trial was not a major threat to study validity.

Drs. Williams and Volberg are tested the reliability and validity of the draft instrument by (1) comparing six months of weekly logs of gambling behaviour from an online panel with panel members» self - report data on the Gambling Participation Instrument at the end of the six month period; and (2) comparing self - report data on the Gambling Participation Instrument with actual gambling data from an online gambling website.

This report presents the findings from a series of studies conducted to examine the validity of the child outcomes data produced through the Child Outcomes Summary (COS) process.

For example, many states have adopted the research - backed Teaching Strategies GOLD assessment, which prompts teachers to collect observational data ranging from children's physical and social - emotional development to their literacy and math skills.Do - Hong Kim, Richard G. Lambert, and Diane C. Burts, «Evidence of the Validity of Teaching Strategies GOLD ® Assessment Tool for English Language Learners and Children with Disabilities,» Early Education and Development 24 (2013): 574 — 595, doi: 10.1080 / 10409289.2012.701500; Teaching Strategies, Teaching Strategies GOLD Assessment System: A Technical Summary, 2013.