Sentences with phrase «absence as an indicator»

At the same time, the adoption of chronic absence as an indicator can present a hurdle for schools, because it requires daily data collection and many data collectors.

The speakers focused on the many states working to comply with the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) are adopting chronic absence as an indicator of school quality or student success.

Remarkably, more than 70 percent of states chose some form of chronic absence as an indicator.

As states work to comply with the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), one of the most positive developments is the frequency with which they are adopting chronic absence as the indicator of school quality or student success.

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Conversely, the absence of bankruptcy declarations is not an indicator of success, as many businesses fail without going through bankruptcy proceedings.

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In the absence of such measures, funding is based on indicators of research inputs, such as grant income.

Even measures of growth in test scores or VAM are not rigorously identified indicators of school or program quality as they do not reveal what the growth would have been in the absence of that school or program.

Holding schools accountable for student attendance is ramping up under the Every Student Succeeds Act, as most states so far intend to use some measure of attendance (or absence) as an indicator of school quality.

A growing consensus of research points to chronic absence — defined by the national policy group Attendance Counts as missing 10 percent of school or more — as one of the strongest and most often overlooked indicators of a student's risk of becoming disengaged, failing courses, and eventually dropping out of school.

Family engagement is key to both effective transitions from pre-K to elementary school and successfully addressing chronic absence, a goal many states propose as part of an accountability indicator.

However, if a state is committed to a positive attendance measure, our next recommendation is to use two indicators: satisfactory attendance, defined as attending 95 percent or more of school days, and chronic absence, again, defined as missing 10 percent or more of school days.

For this reason, and others we have outlined in our policy brief, Chronic Absence: Our Top Pick, Attendance Works believes that the chronic absence indicator, defined as missing 10 percent or more of school days, is the best bet for state accountability sAbsence: Our Top Pick, Attendance Works believes that the chronic absence indicator, defined as missing 10 percent or more of school days, is the best bet for state accountability sabsence indicator, defined as missing 10 percent or more of school days, is the best bet for state accountability systems.

As this chart shows, the majority — 14 out of the 17 officially submitted ESSA plans — includes some variant of chronic absence as an accountability indicator and many other states with plans in preparation seem likely to follow suiAs this chart shows, the majority — 14 out of the 17 officially submitted ESSA plans — includes some variant of chronic absence as an accountability indicator and many other states with plans in preparation seem likely to follow suias an accountability indicator and many other states with plans in preparation seem likely to follow suit.

Because of the objectivity of using chronic absence as a measure, it's a popular choice for states to use as their fifth indicator.

* California uses chronic absence as an academic indicator.

And as early as sixth grade, chronic absence has also been identified as an indicator that a student will later drop out from high school.

Due to its strong measurement qualities and significant impact, more than 70 percent of states will use chronic absence as the «fifth» ESSA indicator, often in combination with factors such as school climate or college and career readiness.

besides, the absence of mistakes in this period is also important and may be considered the indicator of an excellent essay, as in any case the person is free to implement the task and be sure that it is done properly,

Everywhere in the twenty - seven works of photography, video, sound, sculpture, and installation were those trace markers that function simultaneously as indicators of presence and ciphers of absence: photograms («that subspecies of photo,» according to Krauss, «which forces the issue of photography's existence as an index») showing hands

In MM05b -LCB- E&E], we interpreted this result as only demonstrating the falseness of MBH claims of robustness to presence / absence of all dendroclimatic indicators, not as an alternative reconstruction.

What is very clear is that MBH98 is not robust to the presence / absence of all dendroclimatic indicators, as was claimed (since it is not robust to the presence / absence of bristlecones).

The issue of bristlecones was not even on the table, because Mann said that their results were robust to the presence / absence of all dendro indicators, so who would have thought to wonder about bristlecone validity as an important issue in assessing this study?

MBH clearly attempted to give the impression that their reconstruction was robust to the presence / absence of dendro indicators without limiting their claim to the AD1760 network, as shown in the review in the head blog post here.

Monaghan et al. further note «recent literature suggests there has been little overall change in Antarctic near - surface temperature during the past 5 decades» and «the absence of widespread Antarctic temperature increases is consistent with studies showing little overall change in other Antarctic climate indicators during the past 50 years such as sea ice area and snowfall.»

But regardless, if Mann et al knew that the AD1400 network was not robust to the presence / absence of dendroclimatic indicators (which they did), then they had an obligation not to omit this fact (just as they had an obligation not to omit reporting the failed verification r2 statistics for networks prior to AD1820.)

Here as a post-script it is noted that lawful grounds for a breath sample CAN be based upon as combination of factors that might not include a driver's prior admission of consumption of alcohol or the smell of alcohol on a driver's breath BUT the absence of those indicators (in MOST cases) will make it VERY LEGALLY DIFFICULT for a police officer to legally force a driver to provide a breath sample.

A set of three diagnostic indicators in the child's symptom display will be identified that can reliably identify the presence or absence of parental alienation as the cause of the child's rejection of a relationship with a parent.

It may be that alternative measures are more sensitive indicators of emotional climate in staff - patient relationships, such as the absence of a positive relationship.

In other words, the higher Self - Directedness of the father may be an indicator of his absence from the home because of his over-commitment to work; as a result, he is unlikely to be helpful in child - rearing, which leads to problems when the mother is not a calm, resourceful caretaker herself.