Sentences with phrase «about system performance»

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Don't just implement KPIs; think about implementation of Balanced Scorecard or a similar business performance management system.

Siri will also likely get smarter and Apple will spend considerable time talking about the many enhancements it's made to the operating system's performance.

In Bring Back the Bureaucrats, I crudely calculated that we need about one million more full - time federal workers by 2035 in order to serve the public, stop draining its purse, start improving performance, and create an actual system of national public administration.

For the rotation system you've written about where you purchase the top performer over the past 3, 6, 12 month periods, are you simply using the mean of the 3, 6, 12 month performance to calculate the top performer?

It nonetheless raised some disturbing ideas about our «we - are - a-Christian-community» slogans (since we were to apportion salary solely according to performance rather than also, say, on need) and about our endorsement of responsible family and church involvement (since the new system would tempt people financially to neglect these other responsibilities in order to work harder at school)

«Some of the biggest names in American business have come here to visit to learn about the Kahiki Performance System.»

This is where We / Arsene Wenger needs to do introspection.We need a more adaptable system that'll enhance the cohesion and performance of our players performing at par of the potential they show for their country rather than leaving us wondering most of the time about the credibility of our players.

A more robust performance and award system would allow you to send strong messages about the standards and behaviour that you expect under your command.

The intent was to bring Eastwood in for up to a year, and in about three to four months, publish a report of how the systems within the district function, and what could be changed to improve student performance.

With this system, they've taken everything they know about sound quality and performance and made it just right for your car.

To a manager making unwarranted assumptions about his or her ability to monitor employees, a dysfunctional performance measurement system looks just fine — measures are increasing.

«This is the first time that any hardware design has been proposed — it hasn't been built yet — that would give you this level of security while only having about a factor of three or four overhead in performance,» says Srini Devadas, the Edwin Sibley Webster Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, whose group developed the new system.

«By investigating these limits and characterizing them, you can gain quite a bit of insight about the performance of these schemes and how you can leverage tools from other fields, like coding theory and so forth, for designing and understanding security systems,» says Flavio du Pin Calmon, a graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science and first author on all three Allerton papers.

Several performance reporting systems now report publicly on aspects of quality such as surgical outcomes, 8 adherence to evidence - based quality measures, 9,10 and patients» assessments of care, 11 but few public reports about the quality of health care organizations have also assessed the equity of care provided by those organizations.

From the results of a first observing run, we show that the use of matched filtering improves our adaptive optics system performance, with increases in on - sky H - band Strehl measured up to about a factor of 1.1 with respect to a conventional centre of gravity approach.

A large body of research has explored how adaptation in sensory systems (e.g. vision and proprioception) affects motor performance, however we know little about how motor learning affects the function of sensory systems.

Check out this folded sheet for detailed facts about the project, including performances of the instruments and adaptive optics systems.

These missions gathered data on the physical conditions during entry for clues about the performance of the sample return capsule's thermal protection system and about the manner of breakup during controlled re-entries of spacecraft lacking such thermal protection.

Join in for our courses in English and learn about parallel programming for high - performance computing (HPC) systems.

While many different schools of health and performance have unique philosophies about how to reestablish harmony and ideal function in the human system, most modern practitioners of the health sciences are shifting some of their focus to ancient views — namely, that a healthy gut is the foundation of longevity and vitality.

During sustained high - intensity sports lasting about an hour, small amounts of carbohydrate, including mouth - rinsing, enhance performance via central nervous system effects.

Our studies have shown that when you build up that amount of CarnoSyn ® within your system, about 90 grams, is when you really start to see the performance benefits - building more muscle faster, by extending endurance, expediting recovery, and enhancing mental focus.»

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But if you're into fitness, exercising, or mental and physical performance, if you're concerned about the effect of sleep on appetite regulation, fat loss or muscle gain, or if you want to optimize things like tissue repair, nervous system health and growth hormone release then you may want to think again, and keep reading.

Ontario, Canada About Blog Squash Canada provides a high performance system for athletes, coaches and officials, and sets standards for squash in Canada.

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San Francisco, CA About Blog Young Minds Advocacy uses strategic advocacy and communications to help youths and their families access mental health services and supports, and improve mental health system performance and accountability.

Critic Consensus: Though its politics are as obvious as its outcome, American Violet is an earnest docudrama about the justice system with a powerful performance from Nicole Behairie.

Tony Kaye's film about America's failing school system isn't subtle, but it has a fierce emotional punch and he draws knockout performances from his eclectic cast.

In this episode of the podcast, she talks with Paul Peterson about how the IMPACT system promotes teacher retention and performance through pay.

In challenging the use of value - added models as part of evaluation systems, the teachers» unions cite concerns about the volatility of test scores in the systems, the fact that some teachers have far more students with special needs or challenging home circumstances than others, and the potential for teachers facing performance pressure to warp instruction in unproductive ways, such as via «test prep.»

Naturally, parents are most interested in finding the best schools for their own children; they have less incentive to care about the overall performance of an entire system of schools.

Buoyed by the promise of federal funding and a burgeoning dialogue about teacher effectiveness, districts are beginning to overhaul their evaluation systems to provide more finely grained information on teacher performance.

To better understand the debate about tying teacher effectiveness to student test performance, look at the VAMs system and how it is used.

As part of this agenda, and in line with the report, we are attempting to solve the problem of information in the system: families have imperfect information about the actual performance of their kids in the school.

A unitary accountability system enables the state to fairly and transparently monitor program compliance and inform the public about performance; make difficult decisions about withholding funds, intervening with local boards, and taking over schools and districts; and uniformly and thoroughly administer federal programs.

There will not be enough information about teachers who are new to a school system to obtain reliable estimates of their effectiveness based on past performance — they will simply be deemed «average.»

But not for all the usual reasons that people raise concerns: the worry about whether we've got good measures of teacher performance, especially for instructors in subjects other than reading and math; the likelihood that tying achievement to evaluations will spur teaching to the test in ways that warp instruction and curriculum; the futility of trying to «principal - proof» our schools by forcing formulaic, one - size - fits - all evaluation models upon all K — 12 campuses; the terrible timing of introducing new evaluation systems at the same time that educators are working to implement the Common Core.

I've written about this as well, but from your perspective, what's wrong with «dashboard» type systems that simply describe performance on a range of metrics rather than trying to categorize schools into some summative rating?

... You'll see the rollout of a statewide data system that will give a lot more useful information to teachers and principals about student performance and a lot more useful data for policymakers.

With the emphasis on high - stakes testing, we have learned a great deal about who is succeeding and failing, and which schools and school systems are meeting targeted performance standards.

Data systems, which are ways of collecting and tracking information about school, student, and teacher performance, are key elements in driving the Obama administration's reform effort.

Ten or fifteen years ago, the Secretary of Education was having wall charts about each state's SAT performances — as if that was a measure of school and school - system success.

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.

We have grave concerns about this because the performance appraisal system for teachers is inconsistent across the country.

I was very surprised [about the performance levels]-- I think we all were, said Debra E. Owens, a research associate with Vanderbilt University who participated in a study of the system.

My main recommendation, therefore, is to maintain the law's current annual testing requirements, while restoring to states virtually all decisions about the design of their accountability systems, including how schools and teachers are identified as under - performing and what should be done to improve their performance.

By asking this question to clients about their business problem, we help them also transition from merely putting up a few courses on the Learning Management System just because they have to, to considering performance outcomes.

By instructional leadership, we mean the principal's capacity to: 1) offer a vision for instruction that will inspire the faculty; 2) analyze student performance data and make sound judgments as to which areas of the curriculum need attention; 3) make good judgments about the quality of the teaching in a classroom based on analysis of student work; 4) recognize the elements of sound standards - based classroom organization and practice; 5) provide strong coaching to teachers on all of the foregoing; 6) evaluate whether instructional systems in the school are properly aligned; and 7) determine the quality and fitness of instructional materials.

The modernization of teacher evaluation systems, an increasingly common component of school reform efforts, promises to reveal new, systematic information about the performance of individual classroom teachers.