Networks were scored as either effective or ineffective based on a combination of the score on the aggregated questionnaire data and the statements made in the interviews.
Kirschner et al. (2006) has pointed out that unguided learning is ineffective based on examples from science and medical education, and insisted on the necessity of guidance in discovery learning.
Under the city's new standards, teachers are rated on a four-point scale as highly effective, effective, developing or ineffective, based on students' tests scores, classroom observations, feedback from parents, and other factors.
Another third is to be set aside for aid to poorer European regions subsidies characterised in a recent World Bank report as "ineffective, based on incorrect or at least unsubstantiated economic theory, badly designed, poorly carried out and in most cases a source of wrong incentives".
"You draw all the wrong conclusions over whether some school or district was effective or ineffective based on comparisons that can't be indicators of those changes".
The law, titled SB7, makes teacher tenure and layoffs contingent on student achievement and makes it easier for school districts to dismiss tenured teachers deemed ineffective based on student performance.
The bill also gives Chicago Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel the power to extend his city's school day and makes it easier to dismiss teachers deemed ineffective based on student achievement.
But a recent law passed in Illinois would make teacher tenure contingent on student achievement, give Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel the power to extend his city's school day and make it easier to dismiss teachers deemed ineffective based on student achievement. That law passed in state with a Democrat-controlled legislature and Democratic governor.
Willpower was still considered to be the most important adjunct to quitting by most participants although some others regarded willpower as ineffective based on previous unsuccessful attempts at quitting.
Programs were classified as "effective," "emerging," "ineffective," or "unclear" based on the strength of evidence, generalizability of results to developing country settings, and replication beyond the initial pilot.
