Sentences with phrase «evaluation measures include»

10.2 Evaluation measures include a review of program implementation ratings (based on observable and measurable data).

Evaluation measures include progress against business model and growth strategies, client relationship management, staff retention, and the evolution of asset allocation and product strategy in line with investor needs.

Not exact matches

Under this initiative, senior Company human resources, compliance, credit, and legal personnel compiled and analyzed extensive information about the Company's incentive plans, including plan documents, eligibility criteria, payout formulas and payment history, and held extensive interviews with business line managers to understand how evaluation of business risk affects incentive plan performance measures and compensation decisions.

If the Nominating & Governance Committee determines that an additional or replacement director is necessary or advisable, the Nominating & Governance Committee may take such measures that it considers appropriate in connection with its evaluation of a potential director candidate, including interviewing the candidate, engaging an outside firm to gather additional information and making inquiries of persons with knowledge of the candidate's qualifications and character.

Management uses certain of these non-GAAP measures, including Adjusted EBITDA and segment Adjusted EBITDA, as key metrics in the evaluation of underlying Company and segment performance, in making financial, operating and planning decisions and, in part, in the determination of cash bonuses for its executive officers and employees.

Current research includes: co-leading organisational case studies in Birthplace in England, a national study of birth outcomes in home, midwife led, and obstetric led units; investigating the relationship between measures of safety climate and health care quality in A and E and intrapartum care; and conducting nested process evaluations of two trials of obesity in pregnancy behavioural interventions.

Examples of focal areas include: developing and implementing a rigorous evaluation of home visiting; selecting, adapting, and developing culturally appropriate data collection tools and measures; tracking and measuring benchmarks; developing and modifying existing data systems; continuous quality improvement; data protection and privacy; and ethical dissemination and translation of evaluation findings derived from research with AIAN to external audiences.

But much of that added spending is tied to backing Cuomo's education policy changes, including more stringent teacher evaluation measures and strengthening the state's charter schools.

The contract for the marketing campaign should be re-evaluated until the state government can adopt a «corrective action plan» by Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, Muprhy said, which includes specific benchmarks for success, a regular schedule for program evaluations and specific performance measures for which marketing has had a positive impact.

Silver said any agreement would be different from the Assembly's measure and will likely not include teacher evaluation alterations.

The Institute makes the call in response to a Treasury consultation on how to increase the supply of capital to growing, innovative firms.1 The CIOT's response focuses on steps the Government could take to make current tax reliefs more efficient and effective, to provide the best support in line with their policy objectives.2 The CIOT advocates greater post-legislative review and evaluation of tax measures, including tax reliefs.

Alternate methods of teacher evaluations are under discussion at the state Capitol, including a «matrix» or «grid,» which include a variety of «boxes» or categories for measuring educators» performance.

A task force by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is reversing a number of policies in the Common Core standards, including parts of a measure on teacher evaluations pushed by Cuomo less than a year ago.

And DiNapoli notes that state lawmakers had little time to consider changes to the state's education policy — which included measures aimed at new teacher evaluation criteria, changes to teacher tenure and plans to close schools deemed to be struggling or failing.

What makes this year different is that Cuomo is pushing for education reform measures in the budget — including a tougher teacher evaluation criteria and a receivership program for struggling (AKA «failing») schools.

The measure comes after the state budget included a new evaluation criteria that includes both one state test and an in - classroom observation.

Speaking to the Westchester Business Council last week, Flanagan was critical of Cuomo's budget proposal this year that included a variety of policy measures linked to spending, including changes to the state's education policy and teacher evaluation criteria.

ALBANY — On the last night of the legislative session, lawmakers in Albany passed a flurry of bills, including a measure that would lower New York City's speed limit from 30 to 25 miles per hour, and alter the state's current teacher evaluations system.

Charter school leader Deborah Kenny's op - ed in today's The New York Times argues against the move by many states toward teacher evaluations based on multiple measures, including both student progress on achievement tests and the reviews of principals.

Still, state lawmakers in both chambers are supporting changes to the education measures approved in the budget last month, including reforming the contentious teacher evaluation criteria and the regulation - making process.

A task force by Gov. Andrew Cuomo is reversing a number of policies in the Common Core standards, including parts of a measure on teacher evaluations pushed by Cuomo less than a year ago.

The new evaluation system will provide clear standards and significant guidance to local school districts for implementation of teacher evaluations based on multiple measures of performance including student achievement and rigorous classroom observations.

De Blasio also offered some measured criticism of Cuomo's plans to overhaul education, including a plan to increase the role of testing in teacher evaluations, which is also opposed by the city's schools chancellor and teachers» unions.

Speakers from AJWS will discuss how its decision to use outcome harvesting aligned with AJWS's approach to research, learning and evaluation, including a dedication to feminist research and meaningful measures of progress when addressing issues that have complex root causes.

Based on these results, we believe that evaluation of obesity in patients with leukemia should include direct measures of body composition.»

These measures reflect public outreach and engagement, an area that funders and institutions now include in academic performance evaluations.

«Our investigation includes one of the most robust analyses of physician adherence to AUA guidelines on the management of BPH / LUTS in the published literature, and represents the first published analysis to our knowledge of the rate of performance of measures that are challenging to extract from administrative data (i.e., subjective symptom description, I - PSS, sexual function evaluation, performance of a physical examination and specific examination maneuvers),» says Dr. Auffenberg.

Rule monitoring, which is not commonly tested during neuropsychological evaluations, is a measure that should be included in clinical assessments of memory performance in this population.

They completed five visits over nine weeks; evaluations included the neuropsychological testing, sleep variables, and mood measures.

At the end of each month, the men underwent extensive evaluations, including energy expenditure testing, muscle and fat biopsies, and PET / CT scanning of an area of the neck and upper back region to measure brown fat volume and activity.

For this reason, even modest evaluations should include multiple measures (a variety of sources of information) and multiple methods (both a quantitative and qualitative approach).

I've revised and updated my baseline test to include measuring across the four main attainment areas of Making Skills, Ideas, Knowledge and Evaluation.

Evaluations of any educational technology program often confront a number of methodological problems, including the need for measures other than standardized achievement tests, differences among students in the opportunity to learn, and differences in starting points and program implementation.

According to the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), the number of states requiring objective measures of student achievement to be included in teacher evaluations nearly tripled from 2009 to 2015, from 15 to 43 states nationwide (see Figure 1).

And each of the 43 states to which the Obama administration has granted a waiver from No Child Left Behind is now in the process of implementing evaluation systems that employ multiple measures of classroom performance, including student achievement data.

A good teacher is now recognized as someone whose students learn and grow, with 38 states revising their policies on educator effectiveness to include measures of student growth or achievement as one of multiple factors in teacher evaluations.

Now Tomberlin is working with teachers on several areas that could be included in the evaluation system: content pedagogy, participation in professional learning communities, student surveys, teacher work product, teacher observation, student learning objectives, and value - added measures to determine if students have achieved a year's work in their subject.

A: The TEACHNJ Act — New Jersey's teacher tenure law — requires educator evaluations that include multiple measures of student learning.

· Base teacher evaluations on multiple measures of performance including «value - added» data on student academic progress.

Assemblymember Shirley Weber's AB 2826 would have strengthened California's teacher evaluation law to remove any possible uncertainty over the state's requirement that teachers be evaluated in a fair and meaningful way, using multiple measures, including student progress.

Critics also contend that standardized tests are only one measure of student performance, and must be considered alongside other assessment tools, including classroom work, student portfolios, and teacher evaluations.

The authors examine a range of issues, including how to identify, measure, and distribute costs; how to measure effectiveness, utility, and benefits; and how to incorporate cost evaluations into the decision - making process.

According to the Executive Order, its recommendations were to include measures of student achievement (representing at least 50 % of the evaluation); demonstrated practices of effective teachers and leaders; and weights for the various components.

The Texas Teacher Evaluation and Support System (T - TESS) supports teacher instruction and student performance through multiple measures that include teacher observations, self - reflection and goal setting and student growth.

OCR strongly encourages schools to develop «high - quality evaluation systems» that «use multiple measures, including student growth.»

The critiques are many, including that teacher evaluation does not: measure teachers accurately with its drive - by observations by principals and third parties; take into account teachers» varying roles and working conditions; reveal measurable differences among teachers (absence of actual differences would make the profession unique on planet Earth); lead to better professional development; and more.

Brian Jacob's research from Chicago shows that principals dismissed more non-tenured teachers when a new system made it as easy as clicking a button in a computer system, and that those dismissals were related to measures of teacher performance, including evaluations.

Implement evaluation systems that incorporate multiple measures of effectiveness including significant attention to student growth

Implement a comprehensive evaluation system for teachers and principals based on multiple measures of effectiveness, including student achievement

As districts grapple with implementing statutory requirements for annual evaluation, a common pain point has been the use of student growth and assessment data, including properly understanding what the legislation requires, which measures to use, how to aggregate growth measures for teachers and administrators, and reliably scoring for 25 % of an effectiveness rating.