Sentences with phrase «added measure»

Finally, we ran our analysis including value - added measures of teacher effectiveness for the subset of teachers we are able to link to individual students.

All schools invited to apply must have good value added measures for their disadvantaged pupils too.

All schools also must have good value added measures for their disadvantaged pupils.

Finally, we consider how the current body of knowledge, and the gaps in that knowledge, can guide decisions about how to use value - added measures in evaluations of teacher effectiveness.

On their own, value - added measures do not provide teachers with information on effective practices.

At least one report has criticized teacher value - added measures because they do not line up closely enough with other measures.

As we describe below, the evidence shows that there are differences in the validity of value - added measures across grades for two primary reasons.

In a large mixing bowl, add the measured amount of cereal.

The good news is that your breasts can pretty much keep themselves clean, with just a few added measures from your side.

There is less evidence on the uses of value - added measures at the school level.

Adding a measure like this to any reading rate assessment would take very little time, but would greatly improve fluency instruction.

Without added measures four to six hours, with primer, powder and setting spray a full work day of around ten hours.

Indeed, researchers using this value - added measure approach have sometimes found low - income schools have a high number of teachers who teach students with below - average test score gains.

Given that the properties of value - added measures differ across grades and subjects, policymakers should consider using different methods for calculating and using value - added in different grades and subjects.

Critics of value - added measures frequently cite year - to - year volatility as a primary reason for not using such measures for evaluating individual teachers.

Granted, there are mechanisms in place to evaluate teacher performance, but many of these value - added measures feel more like punch lists than professional reviews.

That's why value - added measures initially seem so attractive.

We have also learned a lot about the alternatives to value - added measures especially, classroom observations and student surveys in the past three years.

Finally, how do value - added measures compare to other gauges of teacher effectiveness?

In summary, value - added measures vary for the same teacher from year to year, subject to subject, and student group to student group.

The decision to use value - added measures depends not on whether they are perfect — all measures are flawed.

Researchers studying the validity of value - added measures asked whether value - added gave different results depending on the type of question asked.

The Fit adds a measure of fun - to - drive and holds the promise of more tech just down the road.

Running a VIN search of this type will yield an exhaustive search and give you an extra added measure of security.

The only data I've ever seen where the airbag adds a measure of safety is in a very severe accident where it can prevent you from breaking your jaw on the steering wheel.

The primary rationale of employing value - added measures in evaluating teachers is to inject (at least) a degree of objectivity into the process.

Sure, there are issues with value added measuring.

The researchers assessed teacher quality by looking at value - added measures of teacher impact on student test scores between the 2000 — 01 and 2008 — 09 school years.

He introduced the idea of measuring teacher quality through the growth in student achievement that forms the basis for the development of value - added measures for teachers and schools.

As noted, value - added measures do not tell us which teacher practices are effective, whereas other measures of performance, such as observations, can.

This overlap might be more or less reasonable when comparing the classroom observation and value - added measures because both are mostly capturing classroom instruction, broadly defined [19].

However, other factors at the secondary level such as higher number of students and growing prevalence of standardized tests for secondary students could strengthen the value - added measure at the secondary level.

The stability of value - added measures differs between teachers.

It also tells us how important it is to calculate value - added measures by student sub-group.

Yet here we are in 2015 with Governor Cuomo having successfully browbeaten the state Assembly and Senate into passing a budget that makes value added measures based on test scores effectively half of the evaluation system for teachers, and with a new Commissioner who is pondering what percentage is «correct» for such measures.

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Moving to a glass design would let the next round of iPhones adopt the glossy look while adding some measure of durability.

This easy - to - use home dental product is provided to the pet by simply adding a measured amount of Vetradent Water Additive to the pet's drinking water.

We found that the teachers identified by principals as being in the top category were, in fact, in the top category according to the value - added measures about 52 percent of the time in reading and 69 percent of the time in mathematics.

Value added measures used for merit pay and teacher pay, sounds fair, but the reality can be quite different.

And beyond the school and district accountability provisions spawned by No Child Left Behind and its kin, many states have upped the ante to incorporate teachers» contributions to their students» test performance into teacher evaluation systems, and these value - added measures require testing large numbers of students.

You then add the measured cup of water and flaxseeds and allow them to stand up to 15 minutes before heating.

Even though value - added measures accurately gauge teachers» impacts on test scores, it could still be the case that high - VA teachers simply «teach to the test,» either by narrowing the subject matter in the curriculum or by having students learn test - taking strategies that consistently increase test scores but do not benefit students later in their lives.

Flawed as they are, value - added measures appear to be better predictors of student achievement than the teacher characteristics that we currently use for high - stakes employment and compensation decisions.

Value - added methodology is being applied to the evaluation of teachers in tested grades and subjects, but the vast majority of the research on value - added measures focuses on elementary schools only.