Sentences with phrase «national quality measures»

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We should not get too caught up in viewing national titles (or advanced stats) as be-all, end - all measures of quality.

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.

«The contaminants were well below national standards,» said David Kwasiborski, an air quality specialist from ECS Midwest who pointed out there could be benzene in the air but the amount was not enough to be measured by their instruments.

The UK Government and the devolved administrations published the Air Quality Strategy for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland on 17 July 2007 - setting out a way forward for work and planning on air quality issues and the air quality standards and objectives to be achieved; introducing new policy framework for tackling fine particles and identifying potential new national policy measures which modelling indicates could give further health benefits and move closer towards meeting the Strategy's objeQuality Strategy for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland on 17 July 2007 - setting out a way forward for work and planning on air quality issues and the air quality standards and objectives to be achieved; introducing new policy framework for tackling fine particles and identifying potential new national policy measures which modelling indicates could give further health benefits and move closer towards meeting the Strategy's objequality issues and the air quality standards and objectives to be achieved; introducing new policy framework for tackling fine particles and identifying potential new national policy measures which modelling indicates could give further health benefits and move closer towards meeting the Strategy's objequality standards and objectives to be achieved; introducing new policy framework for tackling fine particles and identifying potential new national policy measures which modelling indicates could give further health benefits and move closer towards meeting the Strategy's objectives.

Most of our commonly used measures also are endorsed by the National Quality Forum, which is the most rigorous national vetting process for performance mNational Quality Forum, which is the most rigorous national vetting process for performance mnational vetting process for performance measures.

In 2013, the National Quality Forum highlighted the importance of region - level performance measures that promote timely, high - qualitQuality Forum highlighted the importance of region - level performance measures that promote timely, high - qualityquality care.

And the HRPPP must have a local, iterative process for quality improvement, the success of which will most likely be measured by voluntary, private accreditation at the national level.

Jagai and her colleagues used the U.S. EPA's Environmental Quality Index, a county - level measure incorporating more than 200 of these environmental variables and obtained cancer incidence rates from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program State Cancer Profiles.

EPA, together with the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the Department of Health and Human Services, today announced a nationwide competition to develop new, highly portable sensors that can measure air quality while monitoring a person's physiological response to air pollution.

If wellbeing is adopted as a national outcome measure, it's important to understand the factors constituting the nation's wellbeing and this study indicates the quality of jobs available in the UK and personal relationships are key factors.

National Quality Forum (NQF) is a nonprofit organization that operates to improve the quality of American healthcare by building consensus on national priorities and goals for performance improvement and working in partnership to achieve them; endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance; and promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach pNational Quality Forum (NQF) is a nonprofit organization that operates to improve the quality of American healthcare by building consensus on national priorities and goals for performance improvement and working in partnership to achieve them; endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance; and promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach prQuality Forum (NQF) is a nonprofit organization that operates to improve the quality of American healthcare by building consensus on national priorities and goals for performance improvement and working in partnership to achieve them; endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance; and promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach prquality of American healthcare by building consensus on national priorities and goals for performance improvement and working in partnership to achieve them; endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance; and promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach pnational priorities and goals for performance improvement and working in partnership to achieve them; endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance; and promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach pnational consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance; and promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach pnational goals through education and outreach programs.

The American College of Surgeons» National Surgical Quality Improvement Program is an outcomes - based program to measure and improve the quality of surgical care across surgical speciQuality Improvement Program is an outcomes - based program to measure and improve the quality of surgical care across surgical speciquality of surgical care across surgical specialties.

Looking across our analyses, we see that under IMPACT, DCPS has dramatically improved the quality of teaching in its schools — likely contributing to its status as the fastest - improving large urban school system in the United States as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

As outlined in the iNACOL Quality Assurance Performance Metrics, states, authorizers, and researchers should adopt more accurate measures of individual growth, such as the pre - and post-assessment measures typically used by national online learning support organizations (for example, the Measures of Academic Progress [MAP] or the equimeasures of individual growth, such as the pre - and post-assessment measures typically used by national online learning support organizations (for example, the Measures of Academic Progress [MAP] or the equimeasures typically used by national online learning support organizations (for example, the Measures of Academic Progress [MAP] or the equiMeasures of Academic Progress [MAP] or the equivalent).

If the socioeconomic status and demographic characteristics of the classrooms taught by National Board teachers differ from those of noncertified teachers, measures of teacher quality that rely on student performance may be biased.

The conclusions of this emerging body of research are clear: education quality, as measured by test scores, is positively related to the earnings of individuals, national productivity, and economic growth.

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).

REVIEW: Water Science for Schools examines a wealth of water topics such as water properties, how much water is there on earth and where, how water quality and stream flow are measured, the water and water - use cycles, national maps showing how water is used by state, surface and ground water, pesticides in ground water, aquifers, and glaciers and icecaps.

We also investigate two measures of research quality — one based on a measure of the relative importance of a scholar's research in the field, and the other a measure of national or international prominence as reflected by major awards.

Among a number of other measures, Gibb outlined the introduction of a new National Teaching Service (NTS) which will aim to recruit high quality teachers and place them in challenging schools.

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg is also expected to announce four other measures concerning educational policy, including the protection of spending per - pupil, a guarantee ensuring all teachers in state - funded schools will be qualified by September 2016, the establishing of a Royal College of Teachers and a National Leadership Institute to promote high quality leadership in schools in deprived areas.

In a national report that measures access, quality and investment in public preschool programs, California ranks high for the number of 3 - year - olds and 4 - year - olds enrolled in programs, but low on quality standards.

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At the same time, proficiency rates are the only quality measure available for a national sample of schools.

The level variable is highly correlated with the school quality measure (percent proficient) used in the national analysis, but the correlation between the growth variable and percent proficient is considerably weaker.

A report out this week from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) found that California is just one of five states that has no formal policy requiring that teacher evaluations be tied in some way to student achievement measures.

Participants heard from national experts on chronic absenteeism, early warning systems, and the Success Mentor strategy, and asked questions about using chronic absenteeism as an indicator to measure school quality or student success in Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) plans.

We should remember that there is no correlation between the quality of state standards (as measured by any of three different organizations — Fordham Institute, the American Federation of Teachers and Education Week) and scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Attempting to maintain support among the very teachers it is supposed to represent — and looking to show that it cares about elevating the teaching profession it debases through its defense of quality - blind seniority - based privileges and reverse - seniority layoff rules — the NEA gave $ 73,500 to the National Network of State Teachers of the Year; that the selection of teachers of the year is usually more of a popularity contest than one based on objective measures of teacher performance is often conveniently ignored by all but the most thoughtful of observers, and thus, serves as a good way to spend union funds.

According to a report from the National Council on Teacher Quality, 30 states require that teacher evaluations include some measure of student achievement.

A comparison among the 50 largest U.S. school districts reveals that Chicago teachers now rank among the top three highest - paid groups of teachers in each of the three categories of teacher pay measured by the National Council on Teacher Quality.

For the first time, the District will be comprehensively addressing principal quality throughout the system by using national benchmarks in how principal success is measured and matching accountability for student growth and achievement.

Previous work shows that higher levels of education quality (as measured by international student achievement tests) increases growth rates of national income.

Twenty - eight states now require annual teacher evaluations, compared with just 15 in 2009, and the number of states requiring student achievement measures as part of teacher evaluations has soared from 15 to 41 over the past four years, according to the National Council on Teacher Quality.

I have reviewed the next of nine articles (# 3 of 9) here, titled «Exploring the Potential of Value - Added Performance Measures to Affect the Quality of the Teacher Workforce» as authored by Dan Goldhaber — Professor at the University of Washington Bothell, Director of the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), and a Vice-President at the American Institutes of Research (AIR).

The panelists — including Arkansas's Fort Smith Public Schools Superintendent Benny Goodman and the National Center for Learning Disabilities's Laura Kaloi — also advocated for using multiple assessment measures to judge school quality, adding more flexibility for improving low - performing schools, maintaining a focus on holding schools accountable for the performance of student subgroups, tracking student growth, and ensuring states set high standards.

Building on our participation in a national quality initiative, 5 CT teams tested national SBHC performance measures over the last 12 months.

In 1996, the National Commission on Teaching & America's Future (NCTAF) published an influential report entitled What Matters Most: Teaching for America's Future, outlining a vision of reform for teacher preparation programs, among other measures, to improve teacher quality (Hunt, 1996).

The long - standing K — 12 academic standards developed by individual states have come under increasing scrutiny and criticism because of the standards» varying quality and the resulting wide disparities in student proficiency as measured under No Child Left Behind and highlighted by National Assessment of Educational Progress scores.

It is likely to influence the roiling national debates about the importance of quality teachers and how best to measure that quality.

National Public Radio notes that ESSA requires states to cite five measures of school performance, with four focused on academic achievement and a fifth tied to a «non-academic» measure of school quality or student success.

To view DOT performance across an array of safety, state of good repair, economic competitiveness, quality of life, environmental sustainability, national security preparedness, and organizational excellence measures, refer to the current DOT Performance Summary tables.

(h) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, it shall not be an unlawful employment practice for an employer to apply different standards of compensation, or different terms, conditions, or privileges of employment pursuant to a bona fide seniority or merit system, or a system which measures earnings by quantity or quality of production or to employees who work in different locations, provided that such differences are not the result of an intention to discriminate because of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, nor shall it be an unlawful employment practice for an employer to give and to act upon the results of any professionally developed ability test provided that such test, its administration or action upon the results is not designed, intended or used to discriminate because of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

[21] In 2008, measured ambient concentrations near drilling sites in Sublette County, Wyoming were frequently above the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) of 75ppb and have been recorded as high as 125 ppb.

Guidelines for the National Grid DER Program were established to provide robust performance and to ensure, as far as possible, that measures would support durability and air quality.

The 2012 budget cut funding for the measure of industrial emissions, closed an oil spill monitoring facility in British Columbia and a global water quality monitoring centre in Ontario, slashed funding for atmospheric research — resulting, among other things, in the partial closure of a vital research station in the High Arctic — and killed the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, which had been created by the Mulroney government.

In announcing his appointment, IEA Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven said that Mr. Millard's work at DECC «resulted in the production of quality data meeting both national and international needs, as well as establishing new approaches for monitoring energy efficiency policies, improving the timeliness of data, e.g. quarterly renewables data, and new analysis such as diversity measures in oil and gas imports».

Participation in CMS National Provider Call Mr. Balasa participated in the October 24, 2012, CMS National Provider Call «In - depth Overview of Stage 2 Clinical Quality Measures for the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs for Eligible Professionals.»

Stage 2 also requires that eligible professionals select «clinical quality measures» from at least three of these six National Quality Strategy dquality measures» from at least three of these six National Quality Strategy dQuality Strategy domains.

Because hands - on, psychomotor competencies can not be measured conclusively by a paper - and - pencil or computer - based test, the mandatory education requirement — which must include a practicum of 160 hours or more — distinguishes the CMA (AAMA) from all other medical assisting credentials, and provides employers, patients, malpractice insurance carriers, and third - party accrediting bodies such as The Joint Commission and the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) with tangible evidence that CMAs (AAMA) are not only knowledgeable about the multifaceted dimensions of the profession, but also competent in the clinical and administrative duties that are required in ambulatory care delivery settings.