Sentences with phrase «with subjective ratings»

Using data from a midsize Florida school district, this paper explores both questions by calculating teachers» «value added» and comparing those outcomes with subjective ratings of teachers by school principals.

Not exact matches

Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

Anyone's calculation intrinsic value necessarily comes up with a highly subjective figure that will change both as estimates of future cash flows are revised and as interest rates move.

Their actual hazard ratings are very subjective, some chemicals are listed under two different names with different scores, and they often treat data gaps as a GOOD thing (but not consistently!).

The reason, he thinks, is that rating supervision «is very subjective, and often PhD students have low expectations to begin with.»

Given findings linking subjective ratings of desire to dorsal anterior cingulate activation, psychophysiological interaction analysis was conducted with dorsal cingulate as the seed region (coordinates x y z = 0 8 38 mm, radius = 10 mm) contrasting explicit — exciting videos.

Of the elementary and middle schools the survey respondents rated, 14 percent received a grade of «A,» 41 percent received a «B» grade, while 36 percent received a «C.» Seven percent were given a «D» and 2 percent an «F.» These subjective ratings were compared with data on actual school quality as measured by the percentage of students in each school who achieved «proficiency» in math and reading on states» accountability exams during the 2007 - 08 school year.

Many educators feel that this method, combined with teacher narrative, better reflects student progress because it makes allowances for individual differences in learning rate and style, emphasizes real learning over test scores, and minimizes subjective considerations.

Within a state's accountability plan, «substantial weight» would have to be given to quantitative measures, such as graduation rates and performance on state tests, with much less weight allotted to subjective measures, such as school climate and educator engagement.

Artificial inflation is a term I recently coined to represent what is / was happening in Houston, and elsewhere (e.g., Tennessee), when district leaders (e.g., superintendents) mandate or force principals and other teacher effectiveness appraisers or evaluators to align their observational ratings of teachers» effectiveness with teachers» value - added scores, with the latter being (sometimes relentlessly) considered the «objective measure» around which all other measures (e.g., subjective observational measures) should revolve, or align.

Also, teachers» subject knowledge, teaching skill, and intelligence are most closely associated with both the overall subjective teacher ratings and the teacher value added.

We also find that the discrepancies in retention rates are mainly driven by the fact that students with well - educated mothers are more likely to be promoted based on subjective exemptions such as teacher portfolios.

It is an utterly subjective rating system, and I suppose the only kind that makes sense in the mass - market approach Amazon takes with the book reading public.

Anyone's calculation intrinsic value necessarily comes up with a highly subjective figure that will change both as estimates of future cash flows are revised and as interest rates move.

And yes ratings arent an absolute thing they are subjective, but as long as you do nt claim your review is absolute truth there is nothing wrong with using them imo.

Individual responses continue to be based on a range of methods: statistical, numerical models, comparison with previous rates of sea ice loss, composites of several approaches, estimates based on various non sea ice datasets and trends, and subjective information (the heuristic category).

Individual responses continue to be based on a range of methods: statistical, numerical models, comparison with previous rates of sea ice loss, estimates based on various non-sea ice datasets and trends, and subjective information (the «heuristic» category).

If people can lie about their methods, if we can do subjective rater studies now with intensely biased raters breaking independence and blindness in an online forum, mocking the participants they're rating, then hell, all bets are off.

Individual responses continue to be based on a range of methods: statistical, numerical models, comparison with previous rates of sea ice loss, estimates based on various non-sea ice datasets and trends, and subjective information (i.e., the «heuristic» category).

No social scientist would ever submit the results of a subjective rating study where he alone did all the ratings and had an ideological conflict of interest with respect to the outcome.

Of course «best» is subjective because it's hard to quantify the value of having a local agent that has a brick and mortar office in your neighborhood and one that you may have a close personal relationship with but we here we will compare important information such as; financial ratings, prices and length of time in business.

Both self - rated health and subjective well - being demonstrated the improving level of health with seniority of grade and with less hours worked.

The Greek version of Subjective Happiness Scale (SHS; Lyubomirsky & Lepper, 1999; Avgoustaki, Dimitriadou, & Stalikas, 2012) was used to examine the subjectivity of persons» global happiness using four items rated on a 7 - point Likert scale with higher scores reflecting greater happiness (e.g., «Some people are generally very happy.

The SHS is a 4 - item scale rated on a 1 to 7 Likert - type scale that measures global subjective happiness by means of statements, with which participants either self - rate themselves or compare themselves to others.

Specifically, we illustrate the potential value of this new approach by identifying a taxonomy of dyad - level subtypes that differ in how their emotions (i.e., multiple within - day ratings of happiness — chosen here as an exemplar variable with variance properties useful for methods development) vary through normal daily life, and examine how that taxonomy is related to a set of theoretically meaningful variables — subjective health, dyadic adjustment (agreement on amount of time spent with partner), and relationship satisfaction, all of which constitute important characteristics of older couples» well - being (Hoppmann & Gerstorf, 2016).

One of the issues with rating properties A, B, or C is that it is entirely subjective.