Sentences with phrase «develop effective measures»

The methodology used in this study offers great potential for adaption to additional taxonomic groups and geographical areas, helping to develop effective measures to conserve biodiversity over the coming century.

At the moment, Khan is working closely with Ofsted and headteachers to make it mandatory for schools to develop effective measures to help prevent knife crime and support students and parents in the event of an incident.

Develop effective measures and meaningful standards, establishing both short - term milestones and long - term targets

Not exact matches

IT consulting firms can help you develop effective password configurations and train your staff to use the enhanced security measures.

Your Coach will use the quantified mechanics of your swing to guide and measure changes that develop a more effective golf swing.

As experience in this field develops and further research is undertaken, we look for clearer guidelines in measuring the role of religion — as asset and liability — in developing effective treatment and rehabilitation programs.

Western offers a nationwide network of expertise that building owners, engineers, architects and property managers can count on to develop cost - effective, corrective measures that can add years of useful life to a variety of structures including: industrial, commercial, healthcare, historic, educational and government buildings, parking structures and sports stadiums.

Toine Timmermans, Project Coordinator for EU - FUSIONS: «Measuring the level of food waste in a structured way is critical for developing effective strategies that focus on reducing food waste and monitoring progress at the business, national and EU level, as well as contributing to the achievement of SDG Target 12.3.

Nestlé Waters is willing to assist in this process, is committed to developing our business in a way that facilitates effective water stewardship in the geographies that we source from and operate within, and we are committed to focusing on measures that are cost effective and relevant within a watershed.

(1) in collaboration with FAO, and taking into account the work undertaken by the Codex Alimentarius Commission, to develop guidelines for clinicians and other health - care providers, community health workers and family, parents and other caregivers on the preparation, use, handling and storage of infant formula so as to minimize risk, and to address the particular needs of Member States in establishing effective measures to minimize risk in situations where infants can not be, or are not, fed breast milk;

The defensive measures put in place as a result of advanced persistent threats have forced attackers to develop more complex capabilities to remain effective.

If a teacher receives a rating of Developing in Measures of Student Learning and Effective in Observations, the final rating would be Effective.

Scientific methods and technological tools can be employed to document, investigate, and ultimately understand heritage loss in order to create more effective humanitarian and policy responses and to develop preventative measures.

These waves look very different in the cyclic model, and those differences could be measured — as soon as physicists develop an effective gravity - wave detector.

Without estimating costs or including them in decisions about using measures, there is limited incentive to develop cost - effective measurement strategies.

As an executive branch fellow, Soneja will develop advanced metrics for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in the Global Development Lab to measure which projects and investments are effective.

We must strengthen infection control measures, focus on households, health centres, and communities to prevent tuberculosis spreading from person to person, and develop more effective diagnostic tests to rapidly and accurately detect drug resistance.»

The fundamental purpose of this work was to provide information critical to protect public health and to develop measures effective against future influenza pandemics.

In future, it may be possible to measure BCR - ABL levels in individual cells in the clinic — this will help us identify the resistant high BCR - ABL cells and better understand how patients develop resistance to imatinib treatment with the aim of combatting this resistance to make response more durable and the treatment more effective.»

Brodsky was part of a team that developed the modified Ham test that measures levels of components of serum,, a protein - rich liquid in blood, and showed it was effective in diagnosing atypical hemolytic - uremic syndrome (aHUS), a genetic disorder in which abnormal blood clots form in small blood vessels in the kidneys.

Congress initiated the creation of the U.S. Military HIV Research Program (MHRP) to develop effective preventive measures against HIV for the US and its Allied Forces.

Virginia Tech faculty members James Hawdon and Samarth Swarup helped develop a computational model to assist policymakers in identifying more - effective criminal justice reform measures.

Kate Copping - Westgarth Primary School, Victoria Using Data to Develop Collaborative Practice and Improve Student Learning Outcomes Dr Bronte Nicholls and Jason Loke, Australian Science and Mathematics School, South Australia Using New Technology for Classroom Assessment: An iPad app to measure learning in dance education Sue Mullane - Sunshine Special Developmental School, Victoria Dr Kim Dunphy - Making Dance Matter, Victoria Effective Differentiation: Changing outcomes in a multi-campus school Yvonne Reilly and Jodie Parsons - Sunshine College, Victoria Improving Numeracy Outcomes: Findings from an intervention program Michaela Epstein - Chaffey Secondary College, Victoria Workshop: Developing Rubrics and Guttman Charts to Target All Students» Zones of Proximal Development Holly Bishop - Westgarth Primary School, Victoria Bree Bishop - Carwatha College P - 12, Victoria Raising the Bar: School Improvement in action Beth Gilligan, Selina Kinne, Andrew Pritchard, Kate Longey and Fred O'Leary - Dominic College, Tasmania Teacher Feedback: Creating a positive culture for reform Peta Ranieri - John Wollaston Anglican Community School, Western Australia

After extensive research on teacher evaluation procedures, the Measures of Effective Teaching Project mentions three different measures to provide teachers with feedback for growth: (1) classroom observations by peer - colleagues using validated scales such as the Framework for Teaching or the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, further described in Gathering Feedback for Teaching (PDF) and Learning About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiplMeasures of Effective Teaching Project mentions three different measures to provide teachers with feedback for growth: (1) classroom observations by peer - colleagues using validated scales such as the Framework for Teaching or the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, further described in Gathering Feedback for Teaching (PDF) and Learning About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiplmeasures to provide teachers with feedback for growth: (1) classroom observations by peer - colleagues using validated scales such as the Framework for Teaching or the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, further described in Gathering Feedback for Teaching (PDF) and Learning About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiplmeasures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiple years.

That's why we need an education agenda that strategically recruits, retains, and rewards the most effective teachers and principals; that builds incredibly high standards; that develops rigorous and useful assessments to measure progress against those standards; that builds data systems that allow teachers, principals, students, and parents to quickly and conveniently access those data for everyday use; and that focuses on dramatic intervention within our country's lowest - performing schools.

The courts» role in this process is to outline in general, principled terms the expectation that the legislative and executive branches will develop challenging standards, fair and adequate funding systems, and effective programs and accountability measures, but to leave to the programs and the political branches the full responsibility for actually formulating these policies.

Districts from California to Texas to North Carolina are tapping into these new funds to address two of the thorniest issues in education today: how to develop fair and accurate ways to measure effective teaching, and how to find sustainable strategies to balance the distribution of experienced teachers, who now tend to be disproportionately represented in high - performing (and typically more affluent) schools.

He recently partnered with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on the «Measures of Effective Teaching» (or MET) project, which was intended to develop metrics capable of determining which teachers are faring better than others, and to determine what factors help determine success.

Our approach to achieving this goal focuses on three objectives: (1) to develop a reliable, predictive panel of biomarkers (including both biological and bio-behavioral measures) that can identify children, youth, and parents showing evidence of toxic stress, and that can be collected in pediatric primary care settings; (2) to conduct basic, animal and human research on critical periods in development and individual differences in stress susceptibility, thereby informing the timing and design of a suite of new interventions that address the roots of stress - related diseases early in the life cycle; and (3) to build a strong, community - based infrastructure through which scientists, practitioners, parents, and community leaders can apply new scientific insights and innovative measures to the development of more effective interventions in the first three postnatal years.

With Günther Fink from the Harvard [T.H. Chan] School of Public Health, I've developed a new measure for the 0 — 3 age range that uses caregivers» reports of children's motor, language, cognitive, social, and emotional skills to capture these complex processes in fast, cost - effective ways.

Developing and disseminating the most effective tools for measuring population - level development for children under age 3 (2016)

Our goal is to develop multiple measures of effective teaching that teachers design and endorse, that unions agree are fair, that don't cost very much, and that help all teachers improve.

NCTE is developing valid measures of effective mathematics teaching to be shared with practitioners, policymakers, and researchers.

The Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project, which will be implemented over the next two academic years, seeks to develop an array of measures that will be viewed by teachers, unions, administrators, and policymakers as reliable and credible indicators of a teacher's impact on student achiMeasures of Effective Teaching (MET) project, which will be implemented over the next two academic years, seeks to develop an array of measures that will be viewed by teachers, unions, administrators, and policymakers as reliable and credible indicators of a teacher's impact on student achimeasures that will be viewed by teachers, unions, administrators, and policymakers as reliable and credible indicators of a teacher's impact on student achievement.

The Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project was designed to find out how evaluation methods could best be used to tell teachers more about the skills that make them most effective and to help districts identify and develop great Effective Teaching (MET) project was designed to find out how evaluation methods could best be used to tell teachers more about the skills that make them most effective and to help districts identify and develop great effective and to help districts identify and develop great teaching.

The courts» role in this process is to outline in general, principled terms the expectation that the legislative and executive branches will develop challenging standards, fair and adequate funding systems, and effective accountability measures, but to leave to the programs and the political branches the full responsibility for actually formulating these policies.

Above all, it presents an enormous learning opportunity for the field — a chance to study not only the properties of the measures when administered at scale and how, if at all, they change once stakes are attached, but also schools» role in developing non-cognitive skills and effective strategies to improve them.

If we really want to improve teaching, we should look to develop such models of effective evaluation rather than pursuing problematic schemes that mis - measure teachers, create disincentives for teaching high - need students, offer no useful feedback on how to improve teaching practice and risk driving some of the best educators out of the profession.

This report provides a broad overview of state efforts, as of the 2011 - 12 school year, to monitor equitable access to qualified and effective teachers among schools; develop and adopt multiple measures of teacher performance to rate teachers among at least three performance levels; and implement targeted strategies for promoting equitable access to qualified and effective teachers.

Using multiple measures such as teacher evaluations, classroom observation and student test scores, TNTP rated about half the teachers in their 10th year or beyond as below «effective» in core instructional practices such as developing students» critical thinking.

McCaffrey oversaw RAND's efforts as part of the Gates Foundation's Measures of Effective Teaching study to develop and validate sophisticated metrics to assess and improve teacher performance.

Kane became the lead adviser to the Gates Foundation in developing its «Measures of Effective Teaching,» which has spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to develop the formula for the teacher who can raise test scores consistently.

With support from Lumina Foundation for Education and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Evaluation Toolkit was developed for two purposes: (1) To develop a freely accessible, research - based resource that will enable outreach programs to more readily and systematically use data and outcome measures to improve service delivery, and (2) promote research that will identify effective program models across outreach programs and document the collective impact of programs by using the evaluation data generated through a common assessment framework.

Obtaining screening information on a variety of measures that include academics and social skills behavior can help schools develop and provide more comprehensive and effective interventions.

States and districts are grappling with the data needed to make policy decisions on defining «effective teachers», measuring equity gaps, and developing policies that lead to more sustainable change.

Policies that create increasingly valid measures of teaching effectiveness — and that create innovative systems for recognizing, developing, and utilizing expert teachers — can ultimately help to create a more effective teaching profession.

But instead of leaving teacher effectiveness completely up to local educators, its Encouraging Innovation and Effective Teachers Act (PDF) surprisingly requires states and districts to develop teacher evaluation systems that use multiple measures of evaluation; incorporate student achievement data; include more than two rating categories; are tied to personnel decisions; and are developed with input from parents, teachers, and other staff.

While measuring teachers» effectiveness is a significant first step, more important will be to use this information effectively and strategically to develop, retain and reward effective teachers.

As of 2012, the vast majority of districts still had a salary schedule in place, and only 11 percent of districts used pay incentives to reward teachers for excellent performance, though the practice is increasing.78 And as states develop more effective ways to measure teacher quality, districts should be better able to incorporate performance data when making compensation decisions.

The new system rates teachers as highly effective, effective, developing or ineffective based on a mix of classroom observations, students» growth on state exams and locally developed tests or measures.