Sentences with phrase «evaluation methods included»

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The group was used as a lab to experiment with various group techniques including buzz groups, post-session evaluation techniques, opinionaires, brainstorming, and dialogue - stimulating methods.

This can include evaluation and validation of the method with each specific matrix that the assay would encounter in your facility, thus ensuring the most accurate results and avoiding costly recalls.

This has included curriculum development, training for health care workers at clinic and community levels, enhancing reporting and surveillance systems, monitoring and evaluation, and supportive supervision, including novel methods for peer support.

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.

It includes guidelines to identify when an evaluative case study is an appropriate method and when to consider other evaluation methods.

The authors propose policy solutions including increasing investments in MPA management, prioritizing social science research on MPAs, and strengthening methods for monitoring and evaluation of MPAs.

88, Ed.D.» 91, along with researchers from Abt Associates, Inc., and other institutions of higher learning, worked with Facing History's evaluation staff — including Terry Tollefson, Ed.D.»89 — to carry out the study using rigorous methods.

Evaluations should not be based exclusively on test scores but should — as a new agreement in New York State affirms — use a combination of evaluation methods that include test scores and other observational methods.

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).

Despite the need to keep the focus on academic achievement, the Teacher Advancement Program acknowledges that research has identified pedagogical methods that help students learn, so it includes evaluation of classroom skills as part of its teacher compensation system.

Dan, who teaches courses in quantitative methods and program evaluation, has won multiple teaching awards throughout his career, including the Kennedy School's Carballo Award.

Topics explored in the Prevention Research Strand include program design and evaluation and research methods and data analysis.

These studies still leave plenty of open questions, including whether the estimated effects are robust to more rigorous methods of evaluation, and whether the reforms affect student outcomes beyond grades in the «gateway» college - level course.

Here are some psychology essentials, a booklet on how to answer the exam questions with a lot of focus on evaluation, a booklet on methods of effective revision and how to do it this includes structures, models and a step by step with a top tips section before the exam.

SEDL provides a continuum of services to develop the capacity of educators to evaluate school improvement efforts, including using evaluation designs, methods, and analyses to help plan and implement programs, policies, and practices.

(a) Each plan shall be developed annually and shall include program objectives, activities, program development and maintenance planning, school counseling curriculum, professional development planning, evaluation methods based on data analysis of program results and closing the gap analysis reports to inform program improvement, and assessment of the resources necessary to support positive student outcomes.

She leads a number of studies that evaluate education programs using rigorous econometric methods, including randomized control trials, propensity score matching methods, and other quasi-experimental evaluation designs.

The programs use multiple methods, including surveys of students, graduates, and employers, external reviews, focus groups and the examination of data, such as pass rates on tests, college GPA, and evaluation on various performance rubrics.

In this program, you will: — Train in the theory, methods and practice of education policy research and evaluation — Work closely with nationally and internationally recognized faculty members, including award - winning scholars and researchers — Engage in systematic analyses of education policies in a variety of real - world settings — Produce policy briefs, reports and scholarly articles — Deepen your knowledge of education policy based on an area of specialization

However, lacking any other method, such as extensive peer review, student - driven teacher evaluation, impartial audit, longitudinal outcome evaluation, or the like, we need to have some basis to establish whether or not everyone in the educational system, including students, are doing their jobs.

States and districts should require that principal licensure programs include evidence of knowledge of methods of teacher evaluation and evidence of proficiency in supervision of instruction as core competencies.

Hundreds of districts, including Chicago, Denver, New York City and Washington, D.C., are using such methods as a way to strengthen their teacher evaluations by factoring in student performance.

Her skills include evaluation design, mixed - methods research, data analysis, and sharing findings with diverse audiences.

Major efforts are under way to come up with methods for doing that, many of them combining the use of data to measure student performance with other ways of measuring classroom performance, including more systematic evaluations by principals.

The focus of this report is on one piece of this very large set of transformations: the multiple measures and multiple methods used in new teacher evaluation systems, including the weighting of these measures, to determine a composite score of teacher effectiveness.

The final report also included proposed evaluation methods and instruments (for classroom, gallery and curriculum materials) and aligned research questions.

In addition to the 11 participating states and the Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation, the Dynamic Learning Maps consortium includes faculty from several other departments and research centers within KU, including the Beach Center on Disability, Center for Research on Learning, Center for Research Methods and Data Analysis and Department of Special Education.

The New Jersey Supreme Court has found that a multitude of factors play a vital role in the quality of a child's education, including effectiveness in teaching methods and evaluations.

The LEA will adopt and use proper methods of administering each program including enforcement of any obligations imposed by law on agencies responsible for carrying out programs and correction of deficiencies in program operations identified through audits, monitoring or evaluation.

Gates is the leader of education philanthropy in the United States, spending a few billion dollars over more than a decade to promote school reforms that he championed, including the Common Core, a small - schools initiative in New York City that he abandoned after deciding it wasn't working, and efforts to create new teacher evaluation systems that in part use a controversial method of assessment that uses student standardized test scores to determine the «effectiveness» of educators.

In passing the bill, Illinois becomes the latest in a slew of states including Florida and Wisconsin to overhaul the union rights and evaluation methods of public - school teachers in light of large budget gaps, looming layoffs and pressure from the Obama administration to focus on teacher accountability.

(e) The board shall establish the information needed in an application for the approval of a charter school; provided that the application shall include, but not be limited to, a description of: (i) the mission, purpose, innovation and specialized focus of the proposed charter school; (ii) the innovative methods to be used in the charter school and how they differ from the district or districts from which the charter school is expected to enroll students; (iii) the organization of the school by ages of students or grades to be taught, an estimate of the total enrollment of the school and the district or districts from which the school will enroll students; (iv) the method for admission to the charter school; (v) the educational program, instructional methodology and services to be offered to students, including research on how the proposed program may improve the academic performance of the subgroups listed in the recruitment and retention plan; (vi) the school's capacity to address the particular needs of limited English - proficient students, if applicable, to learn English and learn content matter, including the employment of staff that meets the criteria established by the department; (vii) how the school shall involve parents as partners in the education of their children; (viii) the school governance and bylaws; (ix) a proposed arrangement or contract with an organization that shall manage or operate the school, including any proposed or agreed upon payments to such organization; (x) the financial plan for the operation of the school; (xi) the provision of school facilities and pupil transportation; (xii) the number and qualifications of teachers and administrators to be employed; (xiii) procedures for evaluation and professional development for teachers and administrators; (xiv) a statement of equal educational opportunity which shall state that charter schools shall be open to all students, on a space available basis, and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, creed, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age, ancestry, athletic performance, special need, proficiency in the English language or academic achievement; (xv) a student recruitment and retention plan, including deliberate, specific strategies the school will use to ensure the provision of equal educational opportunity as stated in clause (xiv) and to attract, enroll and retain a student population that, when compared to students in similar grades in schools from which the charter school is expected to enroll students, contains a comparable academic and demographic profile; and (xvi) plans for disseminating successes and innovations of the charter school to other non-charter public schools.

WRT getting rid of ineffective teachers, the problem as I see it is that every evaluation method seems to include student test scores as one of (if not the only) criteria for... judging efficacy.

The evaluation method would have to be used consistently across a district's schools, with information about the tool posted on the district's website, including research backing its use and the qualifications of the person who created it, among other things.

Include (1) methods of assessing student growth; (2) consideration of control factors tracked by public school information system that may affect teacher performance, such as student characteristics, attendance, and mobility; and (3) minimum requirements for evaluation instruments and procedures.

These continuous capacity building opportunities could also focus on topics that are core to Meaningful Student Involvement, including student / adult relationship building; inquiry - based learning; service learning; project planning; curriculum development; teaching skills; evaluation techniques; decision - making methods; and advocacy skills.

Even credit cards with zero interest are included in the new method of evaluation, so while it may make good financial sense to keep money in an interest bearing account and make smaller payments on this debt, bringing balances down will improve the trending data profile.

This evaluation includes a quality assessment review of the hospital's facility, medical equipment, practice methods, and pet health care management.

Faculty and staff are expanding ways in which MRI can help patients, similar to methods used by medical physicians in imaging people, including cardiac and abdominal organ evaluation.

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We voluntarily participated in a comprehensive evaluation which included a quality assessment review of the veterinary hospital's facility, medical equipment, practice methods and pet health care management.

The evaluation includes a quality assessment review of the hospital's facility, medical equipment, practice methods and pet health care management.

Testing and evaluation methods by CPS to determine harness safety included measurement of canine excursion, hardware / webbing migration, and hardware / stitching integrity.

Interns work closely with C3 staff to learn about the management of an interactive educational space, including strategies for visitor engagement and methods for evaluation.

This includes an evaluation of low - cost methods for undertaking floating - to - floating heavy lift operations, a study to identify cost - effective technologies and strategies for monitoring and inspection, and another to assess the impact of larger turbines (up to 15 MW) on floating foundations.

«Major improvements include updated and substantially more complete input data from the ICOADS Release 2.5, revised Empirical Orthogonal Teleconnections (EOTs) and EOT acceptance criterion, updated sea surface temperature (SST) quality control procedures, revised SST anomaly (SSTA) evaluation methods, revised low - frequency data filing in data sparse regions using nearby available observations, updated bias adjustments of ship SSTs using Hadley Nighttime Marine Air Temperature version 2 (HadNMAT2), and buoy SST bias adjustments not previously made in v3b.»

The Outlook also underscored important lessons for improvements in future efforts, including: a need for additional work on remote sensing of spring and summer sea ice conditions; sea ice thickness data; and more formal forecasting and evaluation methods.

Seven single - site statistical downscaling methods for daily temperature and precipitation, including four deterministic algorithms [analog model (ANM), quantile mapping with delta method extrapolation (QMD), cumulative distribution function transform (CDFt), and model - based recursive partitioning (MOB)-RSB- and three stochastic algorithms [generalized linear model (GLM), Conditional Density Estimation Network Creation and Evaluation (CaDENCE), and Statistical Downscaling Model — Decision Centric (SDSM — DC] are evaluated at nine stations located in the mountainous region of Iran's Midwest.

But A. Scott has herein pointed to the root raw data is already publicly available, that Watts listed sources, and that Watts has explained his method, including reference to a published station evaluation criteria.

This paper focuses on participatory methods for technology development and diffusion in urban agriculture, including use of multiple sources of knowledge in the identification and screening of promising technologies, the development, participatory testing and adaptation of the most promising technologies under local urban farming conditions, use of adult education techniques in technology evaluation, participatory diffusion of the results of the technology development and adaptation process; public - private partnerships in technology development and diffusion in urban agriculture.