Sentences with phrase «virtual twin»

Jeanne Allen, the center's president, issued a statement saying that the Stanford report «fails the most important and most objective test of student data analysis through their use of virtual twins to replicate real student growth by creating «straw men» subjects.»

«Virtual twins share environments but not genes,» she says, «and that makes them the inverse of monozygotic twins reared apart.»

«Virtual twin in ten minutes.»

For example, many Christians adopt as a mission, not due to infertility, so you see virtual twinning.

Both kinds of twins — fraternal as well as identical twins such as the Heim girls — are compared with sets of virtual twins.

She has assembled a group of what she calls «virtual twins.»

To see how this so - called kin selection theory might apply to adoptive parents, researchers compared data on 135 pairs of «virtual twins» — siblings about the same age consisting of either one adopted child and one biological child or two adopted children.

And both K12 and Connections schools use adaptive pre - and post-assessments that provide a more accurate picture of individual student progress than the virtual twin method used by CREDO.

CREDO used a «virtual twin» approach to attempt to measure the effectiveness of online charters by comparing the test score growth of students learning online to that of matched students in traditional schools.

Using its highly regarded «matching» technique in which each charter student is paired with a district - based «virtual twin,» CREDO consistently provides the best, most deliberate analysis we have of reading and math performance in charter schools.

CREDO controlled for the unique characteristics of students enrolled in virtual charter schools by comparing their performance to a «virtual twin,» a student with the same demographic characteristics and similar prior achievement enrolled in a traditional public school.

Of course, the CREDO analysis is not perfect: test scores aren't everything and the virtual twin methodology may miss unobserved differences between students.

That doesn't sound as precise as CREDO's methodology, which compares each student's growth to a «virtual twin» — a more robust way of controlling for demographic differences.

A well - publicized critique of the CREDO approach relates to their use of «virtual control records» that are generated from the records of up to seven public school «virtual twins», instead of one - to - one matching.

The analysis of charter management organizations is based on a «virtual control record» method, in which students in those schools are compared to «virtual twins» who attend regular public schools the charter students would otherwise have attended.

Analysts there created statistical «virtual twins,» enabling them to compare charter school performance to that of its «virtual» traditional public school.

The team has developed an innovative method of comparing results for charter students against their «virtual twins» in district schools, and translating hard - to - understand standard deviation measures into a more easily digestible «additional days of learning.»

They were able to compare charter students who had left traditional public schools with «virtual twins» who had stayed.

It matched «virtual twins,» students with similar backgrounds and test scores, some of whom went to charters and some of whom stayed in the traditional public school system.

The virtual twin methodology is not perfect, because not all factors can be matched.

Virtual twin method — one way to minimize the impact of selection bias The CREDO team at Stanford University came up with a method called «virtual twin» to try to make better comparisons.

The strength of this approach is that it addresses the issue that comes in to play with the Virtual Twin methodology — selection bias, and it gets around some of the main issues of randomization including only looking at over-subscribed schools.

To ensure apples - to - apples comparisons, CREDO uses a «virtual twin» approach that matches charter students with Boston Public Schools students who look just like them and attend schools that have lost students to charter schools.

The researchers used a «virtual control record» in which students in charter schools are compared with their «virtual twins» who attend regular public schools that the charter students would have otherwise attended.

The researchers make estimates by comparing charter school students to «virtual twins» — students who look similar on paper — enrolled in district schools.

The outgoing model was the virtual twin to the Ford Fusion, but the new version gets a completely different set of duds and, boy, are they sharp.

For 2015, Sport is a virtual twin of the 2014 model sans the bigger engine option.

For mobile games such as first - person shooters, virtual twin - sticks can feel very frustrating most of the time, and this has resulted in games adopting alternative gameplay mechanics, such as moving you along on rails, whilst you swipe to aim and tap on on your enemies to shoot.