Sentences with phrase «added measures focuses»
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.
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The mobile telecom gear maker said the new structure would consist of business units focused on type of customer and type of business, adding it had started to take measures on top of an ongoing savings programme in the face of a slow mobile broadband market.
«These measures will give renewed focus to supporting young people before they become sexually active so that we can delay the age at which young people start having sex,» Ms Primarolo added.
«If quality measures focused on age and health status, rather than age alone, we'd have better outcomes,» he adds.
«Importantly, whilst the community can not control extreme weather hazard, it can exert significant power over its exposure and vulnerability through appropriate regulation and development practice,» says the ICA submission, adding that primary efforts should be focused on mitigating measures aimed at reducing the «brittleness» of the built environment.
It is no longer enough to just focus on the countries where deforestation happens and the potential policy measures available there, he adds.
In 2011, Charity Navigator added 17 metrics, focused on governance and ethical practices as well as measures of openness, to its ratings methodology.
Teachers focused on resume virtues (scores and value - added measures) must look out for their own self - interest.
These «value - added» measures are subject to some of the same problems, but by focusing on what students learn over the course of the year, they are a significant improvement over a simple average test score (or, worse yet, the percentage of students that score above an arbitrary «proficiency» threshold).
There were the outcome, or value - added only, group, that tended to focus just on outcomes and say, «Look, the effort to try to measure practice is just opinions, and subjective, and hopeless.
States and districts should have been focusing on the real end goal — differentiating the best teachers from those who are merely satisfactory and those who continue to struggle — a task that would not have required complicated mathematical formulas designed to measure each teacher's «value - added» to student achievement.
From teacher evaluation systems to value - added modeling to the recent Vergara decision in California, reformers have increasingly focused on selecting, measuring, developing, evaluating, and firing teachers as the key to educational improvement.
«The MET findings reinforce the importance of evaluating teachers based on a balance of multiple measures of teaching effectiveness, in contrast to the limitations of focusing on student test scores, value - added scores or any other single measure,» Weingarten said.
We then added the variable measuring the district «s focus on accountability in order to determine the relative importance of state and district policy priorities at the school level.
More attention should be given to progress and value - added measures in school league tables (in England) so that schools are encouraged to focus on all their students, it adds.
The preliminary report focuses on two measures of teacher performance: value - added analysis and student surveys.
There is a growing body of research on the validity and reliability of value - added measures, but most of this research has focused on elementary grades.
Value - added measures do not capture all aspects of student learning that matter, and by giving teachers incentives to focus on outcomes that are measured, they may shortchange students on important outcomes that are not.
Recent Vamboozled posts have focused on one of the qualities of the achievement tests used as the key measures in value - added models (VAMs) and other «growth» models.
That «value - added (VA) measures of teacher quality show very consistent properties across different settings» is that on which Chetty et al. focus first and foremost.
A second piece of legislation, SB 1346, focuses heavily on requirements around English learners and adds a mandate to include reclassified English learners to the subgroups of pupils whose educational achievement must be measured by the state's Academic Performance Index.
The preliminary report released Friday focuses on two measures of teacher performance: value - added analysis and student surveys.
Critics of growth measures have said they can fluctuate depending on the variables and number of years of testing data added to the mathematical formula, making their validity suspect, and worry that grading teachers based on tests will cause them to focus more on test prep in their classrooms.
With a mix of human capital reforms, such as rounding out the teaching force with UCLA graduate students who have expertise in key subjects, added student learning and enrichment programs in and out of classroom, and a new focus on developing a college - going culture of high expectations, UCLA is setting out to take what is, by most measures, a struggling school and drastically improve academic outcomes for all students.
In particular, Hutt's work focuses on the numbers and metrics that are used to describe, define, and regulate American school systems and asks: Where did these numbers — whether grades, test scores, value - added measures — come from?
«The MET findings reinforce the importance of evaluating teachers based on a balance of multiple measures of teaching effectiveness, in contrast to the limitations of focusing on student test scores, value - added scores, or any other single measure,» AFT President Randi Weingarten said in a statement.
The panelists — including Arkansas's Fort Smith Public Schools Superintendent Benny Goodman and the National Center for Learning Disabilities's Laura Kaloi — also advocated for using multiple assessment measures to judge school quality, adding more flexibility for improving low - performing schools, maintaining a focus on holding schools accountable for the performance of student subgroups, tracking student growth, and ensuring states set high standards.
And research finds high levels of correlation between value - added measures based on test scores and high - quality, observation - based evaluation methodologies that focus specifically on instructional practice rather than outcomes.
«Focus more on student growth [i.e., value - added] in order to better measure the performance of schools.»
Table 2 shows the value - added benefit of afterschool programs that focused on one or more personal or social skills, measuring how many more youth would benefit from participation in these programs compared to participation in other, nonfocused programs.
ESC brings an added measure of handling confidence to the agility you expect in a Ford Focus.
That is to say, these new updates add a lot of value right off the bat since they focus on popular tech features such as Android Auto / Apple CarPlay smartphone integration and Honda Sensing safety measures.
As a camera manufacturer, we can understand why Samsung wanted to add its own design to the camera application, in fact it provides additional features: there is a macro focus mode to shoot from close, a metering option to measure the light in different spots, a timer, four shooting modes (single shot, Smile shot, panorama, action shot), and an exposure slider.
- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects
Faced with the daunting task of compiling that information, the 14 - member committee — headed by chair C. Elisia Frazier of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and vice-chair L. Jonathan Ross of Manchester, N.H. — focused its initial review on resolutions adopted between 2001 and 2005, some 280 measures sponsored by 74 different entities, as well as recently added resolutions from» 06.
We believe SEL is critical to the growth and development of our students and that there is the added benefit of helping our community focus on other measures of success — not just on state test scores.