One of the dirty secrets about MOOCs — massive open online courses — is that they are not very effective, at least if you measure effectiveness in terms of completion rates.
Additionally, the effect size (d) was calculated to measure effectiveness of the training.
Pragmatic trials measure effectiveness; they measure the degree of beneficial effect in real clinical practice.
Effect size is a way to measure effectiveness and to compare clinical interventions.
But efforts to measure effectiveness are improving too.
Its heart treatment is now in phase two F.D.A. trials, which measure effectiveness.
Results indicators are, at best, seen as a tool to ensure that services are delivered, not to measure effectiveness.
Performance reviews aren't the only ways to measure effectiveness, to be sure.
"Our nature is to count things, and in the past, that's how we measure effectiveness -- by numbers of things destroyed," said one senior Air Force general.
Patients may sign up hoping for a cure, but the real mission of Phase I trials is not to measure effectiveness.
The tallies are slightly behind those for the corresponding period last year, but numbers alone rarely measure effectiveness, Agent Barnette said, adding: "Imagine squeezing a water balloon.
