Not exact matches
Any failure to develop or maintain
effective controls, or any difficulties encountered in their implementation or improvement, could harm our operating results, cause us to fail to meet our reporting obligations, result in a restatement of our financial statements for prior periods or adversely affect the results of management
evaluations and independent registered public accounting firm audits of our internal control over financial reporting that we will eventually be required to include in our periodic reports that will be filed
with the SEC.
This bit is worth quoting in its entirety: The issuing committee «stresses that the participation of young people, in cooperation
with other stakeholders, such as parents, in the development, implementation and
evaluation of the programmes is vital for comprehensive sexuality education to be
effective.»
«Implementation of these reforms, along
with ongoing
evaluation of export processes and identification of further opportunities for improvement may assist the Department of Agriculture to develop a more efficient and cost
effective system for ensuring welfare of exported livestock,» the report said.
An important component of each monitoring and
evaluation plan involves the establishment of
effective partnerships in environmental water delivery, including
with environmental water managers, land and catchment managers, local environmental water management groups and community members.
Independent
evaluation shows that HTGC,
with the opportunity it provides for dads to learn alongside — and from — other fathers, is
effective at giving fathers greater confidence and skills, and encouraging them to be more supportive to mothers.
In FY11 the contractor has been funded to provide individualized, grantee - specific guidance around research and
evaluation topics; begin analyzing and synthesizing challenges faced by grantees around research and
evaluation; develop comprehensive, user - friendly synthesis of guidance for tribal grantees; and work
with grantees on efforts to disseminate and share the knowledge they are building regarding
effective home visiting in tribal communities.
More comparative studies and impact
evaluations are needed within countries to determine which strategies are most
effective at promoting and supporting EBF
with different populations.
It was under Prof Mills and President Mahama that the procurement law was strictly applied
with internal auditors placed to ensure
effective monitoring and
evaluation.
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.
The strategy was
effective; nearly every school district implemented the
evaluation system by Cuomo's January 2013 deadline,
with New York City as a notable exception.
With the cash at stake, the sides agreed in July to create a new four - category
evaluation system that would rate teachers as «highly
effective,» «
effective,» «developing» or «ineffective.»
«It would be helpful to have research looking to see whether screening interventions coupled
with strategies to increase uptake of recommended
evaluations and treatments may be more
effective in improving outcomes,» Chou said by email.
A wealth of psychology research has shown that comparisons
with other people can be used as an
effective means for self -
evaluation, and conversely, people base judgments of other people on knowledge of their own traits.
o Food allergy
evaluation is recommended for children under five - years - old
with persistent moderate to severe atopic dermatitis despite
effective treatment or who have a history of reaction after eating certain foods.
The choice of
evaluation method is always yours and your physical therapist will work
with you to develop an
effective evaluation and treatment plan.
Given all this, it is perhaps unsurprising that the biggest ever study on teacher
evaluation, the Measures of
Effective Teaching Project (MET), revealed that even the very best observation approaches had limited success in identifying the teachers also associated
with the highest gains in pupil attainment.
Effective leadership is a pre-requisite for a successful school; in successful schools head teachers and senior leaders understand the changing needs of their schools and their staff, continually communicate their ideals, vision and expectations, use robust monitoring and
evaluation, balance support
with challenge and plan ahead to sustain excellence.
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 multiple years.
Professor Thomas Kane and the team at the Center for Education Policy Research are experts at working closely
with districts and harnessing big data to identify
effective policies and practices in teacher preparation, teacher
evaluation, and learning technologies.
What if the reason that teacher
evaluation reform was so disappointing —
with 98 percent of teachers still rated
effective — was because we misdiagnosed the problem?
The same stance characterized the Gates Foundation's Measures of
Effective Teaching report last winter,
with its effort to gauge the utility of various teacher
evaluation strategies (student feedback, observation, etc.) based upon how closely they approximated value - added measures.
«In collusion
with the District «s governing boards and superintendents,» the petition says, the teachers» union has blocked lawful
evaluation of teachers and the «corrective action» needed to ensure that students get
effective teachers.
Peer review also seems to be more
effective than administrative
evaluation in the remediation or removal of veteran teachers
with serious performance problems.
In essence, TAP provides a detailed plan for how teachers can be
effective in the classroom, furnishes a formula to evaluate all teachers, and links positive
evaluations along
with achievement - growth measures to bonus pay.
In addition, Kim consults, speaks, and teaches courses for school leaders,
with a special focus on teacher supervision and
evaluation, time management, the
effective use of student assessments, and curriculum unit design (in collaboration
with Jay McTighe and Associates).
Accountability systems have worked well
with other reforms — such as
effective choice policies, the expansion of early - childhood - education and other school - readiness programs, and efforts to improve the teaching force through
evaluation and tenure reform — to improve education for children around the country.
Leave them
with copies of newsletters, memos, parent letters or articles you've written, public relations and school marketing ideas, newspaper clippings,
evaluations about your work, and anything else that is
effective, affordable, and memorable.
Third, the
evaluation process could create more opportunities for conversations
with other teachers and administrators about
effective practices.
While little impact -
evaluation research exists on the efficacy of early - warning indicator systems in reducing the use of exclusionary discipline, implementation research suggests that if early - warning systems are not paired
with a behavioral - support approach, they are unlikely to be
effective.
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.
In this video, originally streamed on Facebook Live, she sits down
with Elizabeth Rich, Education Week Commentary editor, to discuss making
evaluations more
effective and relevant.
To earn tenure, a new principal, assistant principal, or vice principal must be rated either
effective or highly
effective in two annual summative
evaluations within the first three years of employment,
with the first
effective rating on or after completion of the second year.
She also stressed, as did many other witnesses, that school districts
with effective mentoring and
evaluation programs have successfully identified and helped poor - performing teachers.
Despite all the pilot projects, studies, and
evaluations, not enough is known
with certainty about the essential elements of
effective pre-K education and how to make those effects last.
Evaluation tools in iObservation are directly linked to definitions of core
effective practices to align observations and feedback
with desired outcomes.
The new
evaluation scale replaces the binary grading system of «satisfactory» and «unsatisfactory»
with a spectrum ranging from «ineffective» to «highly
effective.»
Go «Behind the Scenes»
with the Flamboyan Data and
Evaluation Team to learn about the process and surface - level findings of in - depth interviews
with families that shed light on
effective family engagement.
Dr. Robert Marzano, researcher and author, «I am honored by the Department's selection, and will work closely
with my partner, Learning Sciences International, to serve the needs of Florida's districts
with our model that incorporates contemporary research in
effective teaching practices, the development of expertise over time and the key concept of deliberate practices to districts» teacher
evaluation systems.»
The SEP3 Toolkit begins
with a guide that lays out a set of design principles to which all
effective program
evaluation systems should adhere, and introduces a model program
evaluation process.
Although several
effective teaching strategies have evolved that decrease the paper load, such as peer
evaluation with rubrics and cooperative learning, students must eventually get teachers» feedback.
President Obama has struggled mightily to institute
effective teacher
evaluations, and the NEA has opposed him
with all its might.
In addition, some research, including an ongoing study of measures of
effective teaching supported by the Gates Foundation, gives credence to the use of student achievement measures when combined
with other measures, such as teacher observations and student feedback, as part of an
effective teacher
evaluation system.
The school district chose The Art and Science of Teaching by educational researcher Dr. Robert Marzano as its
evaluation model, feeling that, as part of a fair and consistent
evaluation process
with specific feedback to improve skills, this provides the most feedback for teachers on
effective instructional practices and outlining specific, high probability teaching strategies shown to lead to higher student achievement when implemented correctly.
Tying teacher tenure to the new
evaluation system,
with three «
effective» or two «highly
effective» ratings within the first five years leading to tenure.
Use teacher
evaluations to make teacher tenure decisions,
with teachers granted tenure after receiving two Highly
Effective or three
Effective ratings within a five - year period.
Her IMPACT teacher
evaluation system gives teachers the chance to improve, and that is what is happening
with more than 700 D.C. teachers judged «minimally
effective» on last year's IMPACT
evaluations.
Evaluation tools in the system are directly linked to definitions of
effective practice to align observations and feedback
with desired outcomes.
With the Marzano Causal Model, districts can transform their teacher
evaluation system from an exercise in compliance into an
effective engine of incremental growth, one that reflects parallel gains between teacher assessment and student performance.
This method of
evaluation aligns
with cutting - edge Gates Foundation research, led by Harvard economist Tom Kane, called the Measures of
Effective Teaching project.
Include a process for monitoring and evaluating the
effective and consistent use of the
evaluation criteria by employees
with evaluation responsibilities.