Measurement instruments for assessing the performance of ...

Why this tool? For more than a decade education practitioners have promoted the professional learning community ... shared values and vision, collective learning and appli­ ... such cases the task is not measurement related but involves modeling and analyzing plausible links between what PLCs produce by way of improved instructional practices ...

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Missing-data imputation

In R, missing values are indicated by NA’s. For example, to see some of the data ... To decide how to handle missing data, it is helpful to know why they are missing. ... on sex, race, and education—but this is a lot more plausible than assuming that the probability of nonresponse is constant, or that it depends only on one of these ...

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Assessing risk of bias in included studies

•plausible effect size (continuous outcomes) •reasons related to study outcomes •e.g. recovered, adverse event, refusal ... •imputation of missing values •assumptions may be inappropriate - consult a statistician •it may be possible to re-include some excluded data .

  Value, Plausible

Social Class - British Social Attitudes Survey

why are we still working class? ... boom time of the 2000s with rising house values, a surging economy and a surplus of public money to be spent on the provision of social ... time working, and zero-hours contracts, these ideas seem rather less plausible. Nevertheless, many reputable sources have catalogued the decline of the working class in ...

  Value, Plausible

01-20-81 Inaugural Address

Their values sustain our national life. Now, I have used the words ``they'' and ``their'' in speaking of these heroes. I could say ``you'' and ``your,'' because I'm addressing the heroes of whom I speak -- you, the citizens of this blessed land. Your dreams, your hopes, your goals are going to be the dreams, the hopes, and the

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Limit of a Function

The number 1Lis said to be the left-hand limit of as x approaches a. Similarly, if can be made arbitrarily close to a number L 2 by taking xsufficiently close to, but not equal to, a num- ber a from the right, then L 2 is the right-hand limit of as approaches x a and we write (4) The quantities in (3) and (4) are also referred to as one-sided limits. Two-Sided LimitsIf both the left-hand ...

The Scientific Revolution and The Death of Nature

516 FOCUS—ISIS, 97 : 3 (2006) founded in 1976, and the History of Science Society. Indeed, Mitman’s own work has been at the forefront of these linkages.8 In The Death of Nature, a bridge between the history of science and environmental history was developed most explicitly in Chapter 2, “Farm, Fen, and Forest,” on the eco-

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Practice Guidelines - University of Washington

Forensic Interviewing in Cases of Suspected Child Abuse APSAC Practice Guidelines 6 B. Learn as much as possible about the child’s cultural background, practices and language proficiency prior to the interview, and adapt the interview accordingly. 1) If the child’s family has recently immigrated, try to ascertain the degree to which the child and family have assimilated into the …

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