Proponents, including the Obama administration, say assessments are necessary to ensure students are learning and that teachers' effectiveness is properly measured.

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In order to enhance the effectiveness of the learning process, the course was designed with the intention of encouraging learners to identify with the characters on screen.

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Is there evidence that we regularly monitor and assess the effectiveness of the state programmes on ICT-mediated teaching and learning?

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The company claims that its learning algorithms can be used to process data for a wide variety of applications, from predicting the effectiveness of sales promotions to fraud detection to molecular modeling to astronomy.

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