For the last several years, our foundation has been working with more than 3, 000 teachers on a large research project called Measures of Effective Teaching, or MET.
Drawing input from 3, 000 classroom teachers, the project highlighted several measures that schools should use to assess teacher performance, including test data, student surveys and assessments by trained evaluators.
John Ratcliffe of the Countryside Council for Wales - also partners in the squirrel conservation project - said half measures were not possible and it wanted to return more of the area to dunes.
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To identify the most interesting goods on the site, the researchers on the Discover project wrote an algorithm that measures factors including how much people interact with a listing (clicking on it, returning to it, forwarding it to friends), seller history (the seller is known to offer interesting things) and textual analysis (a longer seller's description of the product indicates more passion about the item).
The project also found that using multiple measures to understand a teacher's performance -- including classroom observations, student surveys and growth in student achievement -- provides a richer and more reliable picture of a teacher's strengths and areas for improvement than any one measure alone.
Funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research, project leaders envision "smart underwear" that measures a soldier's sweat for warning signs and automatically trigger an appropriate medical dosage.
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The Sentencing Project recently released a useful report about various legislative measures in 24 states designed to reduce prison populations and spending.
"We believe that the government will react to this weaker-than-expected GDP growth rate by introducing more policy measures to boost lending, speed up project starts, encourage consumption, and support property sales, " Jun Ma, Deutsche Bank greater China chief economist said.
The aim of the project is to further develop successful integration strategies with practical measures at the municipal level.
Individual assistance programs were not affected by this, nor was any protective measures, or any debris clearance or any project that had already been approved.
In a bid to help the struggling solar companies, the grid operator unveiled a number of measures last week to ease pressures facing solar project operators in connecting power plants to the electric grid.
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The 2011 Index of Economic Freedom, which is a joint project of The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal, ranked 183 countries based on 10 measures that evaluate such things as openness to trade and investment, government size, fiscal soundness, business and labor regulation, property rights, corruption, monetary stability and financial competition and transparency.
This film presents the most interesting facts on the history of Otrar and gives information on the safeguarding measures and conservation works undertaken by the team of Kazakh and international experts, under the UNESCO project.
They were a tiny group of civil servants, far more fascinated by the precise details (weights, measures, sizes, costs) of the engineering feat they were attempting than the human courage that the project required.
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