Sentences with phrase «about program quality»

Without meaningful differences in outcomes between programs, policymakers, school districts, potential candidates, and programs themselves have little information about program quality.

The data also can be used to inform decisions about program quality improvement, such as professional development opportunities for staff.

The data can also be used to inform decisions about program quality improvement, such as professional development opportunities for staff.

However, such general evaluations provide little insight about program quality or which programs may work well to achieve particular goals for particular students.

Evaluations should be informed by data about program quality and outcomes but state systems for collecting and interpreting data are often too limited to support such an approach (i.e., they lack direct measures of program quality and outcomes and the available data for indirect measures are insufficient or of low quality); and

PEAR provides trainings and assessment tools that inform educational programs and professionals about program quality in schools and afterschool settings to help bridge the resource gap in high poverty and underserved communities.

PEAR provides trainings and assessment tools that inform educational programs and professionals about program quality in schools and afterschool settings.

The QSAR Tool provides after school programs serving older youth with a clear and concise way to start important conversations about program quality.

In a July 2011 letter to NCTQ, former chancellor of California State University, Charles Reed, questioned whether the data collected was a «valid approach for drawing conclusions about program quality and effectiveness.»

Almost every state has a Quality Rating and Improvement System, or QRIS, designed to measure and improve the quality of early childhood programs and inform parents and the community about program quality.

While the specific goals of each QRIS might vary, they are designed to serve three purposes: to assess program quality; to inform parents about program quality; and to provide a mechanism for program quality improvement.6

For more information about program quality and to download the TX Standards for High Quality Afterschool, Summer and Expanded Learning Programs, visit the Program Quality webpage.

Evaluations should be diagnostic in nature, drawing on data about program quality to inform inquiries into the sources of success and improvement, as well as areas of concern.

The purpose of implementing Delaware Stars is to help families make informed decisions during their search for childcare by having access to information about program quality.