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Evaluating Life Expectancy Evaluations [PDF]

open access: yesNorth American Actuarial Journal, 2017
The quality of life expectancy estimates is one key consideration for an investor in life settlements. The predominant metric for assessing this quality is the so-called A-to-E ratio, which relies on a comparison of the actual to the predicted number of deaths.
Daniel, Bauer   +3 more
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Evaluating the evaluation

open access: yesClinical Epidemiology, 2015
Vance W Berger National Cancer Institute, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Biometry Research Group, Rockville, MD, USAZhang et al1 sought to determine which adjustment method is the best. That is a laudable objective, but their approach leaves quite a bit to be desired.
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Evaluating Students' Evaluations of Professors [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
Abstract This paper contrasts measures of teacher effectiveness with the students’ evaluations for the same teachers using administrative data from Bocconi University. The effectiveness measures are estimated by comparing the performance in follow-on coursework of students who are randomly assigned to teachers.
Michela Braga   +2 more
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Evaluating Evaluation Measures [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Proceedings of the 16th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics NODALIDA-2007. Editors: Joakim Nivre, Heiki-Jaan Kaalep, Kadri Muischnek and Mare Koit. University of Tartu, Tartu, 2007. ISBN 978-9985-4-0513-0 (online) ISBN 978-9985-4-0514-7 (CD-ROM) pp. 372-379.
Rehbein, Ines, van Genabith, Josef
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Evaluating how we evaluate [PDF]

open access: yesMolecular Biology of the Cell, 2012
Evaluation of scientific work underlies the process of career advancement in academic science, with publications being a fundamental metric. Many aspects of the evaluation process for grants and promotions are deeply ingrained in institutions and funding agencies and have been altered very little in the past several decades, despite substantial ...
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Evaluating Teacher Evaluation

open access: yesPhi Delta Kappan, 2012
Popular modes of evaluating teachers are fraught with inaccuracies and inconsistencies, but the field has identified better approaches.
Darling-Hammond, Linda   +3 more
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