Identifying Alberta's Best Schools

Identifying and investigating the “best” schools: A network-based analysis on Nepal’s public education system

Are Public Schools Really Losing Their “Best”

Most studies that have fueled alarm over the attrition and mobility rates of high-quality teachers have relied on proxy indicators of teacher quality, which recent research finds to be only weakly correlated with value-added measures of teachers’ performance. We examine attrition and mobility of teachers using teacher value-added measures for early-career teachers in North Carolina public schoo...

Identifying Strategies and Best Practices

About NACo – The Voice of America's Counties The National Association of Counties (NACo) is the only national organization that represents county governments in the United States. Founded in 1935, NACo provides essential services to the nation's 3,066 counties. NACo advances issues with a unified voice before the federal government, improves the public's understanding of county government, assi...

Identifying Best Interventions through Online Importance Sampling

A causal graph G(V, E) specifies causal relationships among the random variables representing the vertices of the graph V . The relationships are specified by the directed edges E ; an edge Vi ! Vj implies that Vi 2 V is a direct parental cause for the effect Vj 2 V . With some abuse of notation, we will denote the random variable associated with a node V 2 V by V itself. We will denote the par...

Identifying Best Interventions through Online Importance Sampling

Motivated by applications in computational advertising and systems biology, we consider the problem of identifying the best out of several possible soft interventions at a source node V in an acyclic causal directed graph, to maximize the expected value of a target node Y (located downstream of V ). Our setting imposes a fixed total budget for sampling under various interventions, along with co...