Sentences with phrase «growth measures system»

The Tennessee Fine Arts Growth Measures System is voluntary for districts, but if a district signs on, all arts educators must participate.

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System - wide sales growth and comparable sales are measured on a constant currency basis, which means that results exclude the effect of foreign currency translation and are calculated by translating prior year results at current year monthly average exchange rates.

The standard proxy for growth in debt - servicing capacity is GDP growth, but this is only valid in economies in which GDP growth data is a systems output that measures the underlying performance of the economy.

Recent policy actions, including today's rate reduction, coordinated interest rate cuts by central banks, extraordinary liquidity measures, and official steps to strengthen financial systems, should help over time to improve credit conditions and promote a return to moderate economic growth.

The Russell 2000 Growth Index is a subset based of stocks selected based on a «probability» of growth as measured by their Institutional Brokers» Estimate System (I / B / E / S) forecast of medium - term growth (2 year), and sales per share historical growth (5 Growth Index is a subset based of stocks selected based on a «probability» of growth as measured by their Institutional Brokers» Estimate System (I / B / E / S) forecast of medium - term growth (2 year), and sales per share historical growth (5 growth as measured by their Institutional Brokers» Estimate System (I / B / E / S) forecast of medium - term growth (2 year), and sales per share historical growth (5 growth (2 year), and sales per share historical growth (5 growth (5 year).

They set about constructing an alternative way of measuring economic growth, one that took account of the whole system.

As the Indiana Senate concluded the 2015 legislative session, Senate President Pro Tem David Long (R - Fort Wayne) applauded the passage of key measures to support Indiana's education system, promote economic growth and protect Hoosier taxpayers.

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«The intent of our work was to develop a new apparatus to measure root growth in a greenhouse production setting using a system / technique similar to the Horhizotron ™ but with a different purpose, design, and construction components,» Judd said.

«The ability to repeatedly and non-destructively measure root systems in the mini-Horhizotron can provide valuable insight into the process of root growth and development and the factors that influence it,» the scientists said.

He has tracked the children's growth and measured their immunoglobulin levels to see if their immune systems are healthy.

We assessed diauxic growth in medium containing glycerin and glucose online with the SFR vario system (from PreSens), which optically measures oxygen, pH, and biomass in an Erlenmeyer flask.

Human growth hormone is not to be dosed to people based on their weight — alcohol tolerance and resistance to anesthesia are at times measured that way because a heavier person has a larger volume that can dilute the alcohol / anesthesia before it hits the system in a way to effect changes in the capacity for normal body function — changes that will only last for a set number of hours.

Burst training can make you stress resilient and raise growth hormone, and I'm a big fan of measuring heart variability to assess your nervous system and capacity for training.

The impact that opt - out in conjunction with this rule has on teacher evaluations in New York in the future will depend on whether the rule remains part of the newly revised evaluation system and on the specifications of the performance measures used for teachers without growth ratings.

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.

The winning states are making dramatic changes in how they do business — adopting common standards and assessments, building data systems that measure student growth and success, retaining effective teachers and principals, and turning around their lowest performing schools.

Tom Kane, the lead researcher, concludes that the best evaluation system uses a combination of student - growth measures, evaluations, and student surveys.

This points to a desperate need to move toward a competency - based learning system that measures and rewards individual student growth, as well as an underlying shared learning infrastructure that allows the country to identify each unique student in a consistent way — so that when he or she moves geographies, the student's record does as well — and to keep track of what that student knows and can do in a consistent way across geographies.

These testing and accountability systems don't provide accurate measures of individual academic growth.

Second, proportional growth measures provide useful system - wide instructional signals and allow underperforming schools to seek out high - performing model schools working in similar educational contexts.

Today's «years of growth» measures are often tricky though — both to equate to a state's accountability system as well as to understand what they really mean.

With better measures of academic growth and a little extra money, states could attract providers to underserved populations, rather than discouraging them as a result of the requirements of current accountability systems.

That is, even when we measure the extent to which schools contribute to student test - score growth — something that test - based accountability systems rarely do — we can not consistently predict which programs or schools will help students be more successful later.

Thus, simply arguing «growth measures good, current law bad» may in the end not be very helpful to the deliberations on Capitol Hill and could well undermine the efforts of those who favor only those growth systems that can meet tough standards for rigor, reliability, and inclusion of all students.

In our recent article for Education Next, «Choosing the Right Growth Measure,» we laid out an argument for why we believe a proportional growth measure that levels the playing field between advantaged and disadvantaged schools (represented in the article by a two - step value - added model) is the best choice for use in state and district accountability syGrowth Measure,» we laid out an argument for why we believe a proportional growth measure that levels the playing field between advantaged and disadvantaged schools (represented in the article by a two - step value - added model) is the best choice for use in state and district accountability sMeasure,» we laid out an argument for why we believe a proportional growth measure that levels the playing field between advantaged and disadvantaged schools (represented in the article by a two - step value - added model) is the best choice for use in state and district accountability sygrowth measure that levels the playing field between advantaged and disadvantaged schools (represented in the article by a two - step value - added model) is the best choice for use in state and district accountability smeasure that levels the playing field between advantaged and disadvantaged schools (represented in the article by a two - step value - added model) is the best choice for use in state and district accountability systems.

For Term 2, 2018, it covers resource allocation, production possibility curves, market and mixed economic systems • demand and supply analysis • price elasticity • market failure • social and private costs and benefits, business organization, costs and revenue •, costs and revenue, competition, inflation and deflation • employment and unemployment • GDP, economic growth and recession • GDP and other measures of living standards etc..

At present, the desired performance standard of a country is measured by what is accomplished only in the economy using as reference the size and progress of the growth of GDP (Gross Domestic Product) ignoring the other systems.

If you follow the increasing use of Value - Added Measures (VAMs) and Student Growth Percentiles (SGPs) in state -, district -, school -, and teacher - accountability systems, read this very good new Mathematica working paper.

And it could have helped avoid widespread conflict about the precise weighting of student growth in teacher evaluation systems and the adoption of additional tests to measure student performance.

In 2009, most states lacked basic data systems linking teachers to their students over time, and few had growth models in place that could be used to measure teacher performance.

ED's press release explains, «The administration's proposal for fixing NCLB calls for college and career - ready standards, more great teachers and principals, robust use of data and a more flexible and targeted accountability system based on measuring annual student growth.

And student growth would have been introduced thoughtfully into teacher evaluation systems based on new measures aligned to the new standards.

The CORE Districts are a collaboration of large urban school districts in California that began measuring social - emotional skills, including Growth Mindset, as part of an innovative multiple - measures data system under a No Child Left Behind flexibility request.

ESSA also requires state accountability systems to include «a measure of student growth, if determined appropriate by the State; or another valid and reliable statewide academic indicator that allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance.»

We all fantasize about a world in which student learning growth on math and reading tests is calculated and used by central authorities to judge quality, but the reality is that very few school systems actually rely heavily on value - added measures (VAM).

States could also create entirely separate accountability systems for alternative schools, weighting existing measures differently (e.g. placing less emphasis on proficiency and placing more emphasis on academic growth) and using different indicators, such as high school completion rates instead of cohort graduation rates.

It's also crucial that any decision - making system that considers student growth and achievement uses them as one of several measures.

Because the content and assessments will be the same from state to state, a unified system of measure can be used to compare student growth from one part of the country to another.

Although the other approaches to measuring student growth may have benefits in other contexts, when one considers the key policy objectives of evaluation systems in education, the «leveled playing field» property of the two - step approach is highly desirable.

Leveling the playing field between schools is a desirable property of a student - growth measure couched within the context of an educational evaluation system.

As stakes become attached to school rankings based on growth measures, systems that disproportionately identify high - poverty schools as «losers» will make positions at these schools even less desirable to prospective educators.

High school reform should include making sure that we are measuring the relevant skills; allowing states the flexibility to design systems that produce results; using multiple measures to assess achievement; allowing the use of growth models; including commonsense flexibility for students with special needs; involving educators in planning; and effectively addressing dropout rates.

Some civil rights advocates have voiced similar concerns about accountability systems that rely exclusively on growth measures, which could allow schools serving disadvantaged students to avoid sanction even if their students» academic progress is insufficient to close achievement gaps.

A comprehensive assessment system measures growth toward mastery of state standards and a student's capacity to: transfer and adapt learning, from application in one situation to new situations; analyze and synthesize standards related content; evaluate standards related to content for utility and efficacy; and create new content beyond standards - based materials.

Beyond the issue of measuring performance levels, the law and regulations offer states considerable discretion as to how much they weight growth versus status in their systems.

To complete its work, the Task Force, with the support of staff from the Department of Education, reviewed the latest research on educator evaluations, examined systems in use both in - state and across the nation, and studied a range of issues related to the development of high - quality evaluation systems, such as observation protocols, growth measures, and special education considerations.

Base any accountability system designed to measure school and / or state performance on multiple measures of student growth and learning.

As part of this system, the state has committed to developing measures of student growth as required under the TEACHNJ Act signed into law in August 2012.