Sentences with phrase «additional indicator»

Instead of arguing against testing completely, we should be helping to outline more comprehensive measures of performance that begin with testing but include additional indicators that are not currently considered.

Three mechanical gauges are placed on the driver side with additional indicators located near the door.

The system will enhance local control by giving districts the option of choosing additional indicators that work best for their students, their parents, their teachers and their communities.

Sure, there have been calls to build additional indicators, beyond test scores, into school grading systems.

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In the back, additional indicator lights monitor the router's USB connections.

Pursuant to the new ESSA requirements, states should select school climate as the required additional indicator for their statewide accountability systems, and also include a review of discipline disparities by race, disability, gender, as one of the ways school climate is evaluated.

Allow states to use additional indicators of school quality, beyond those that are federally required, in meaningful ways that recognize and incentivize schools for their progress on these measures.

Building on Phase I of the Pew Home Visiting Data for Performance Initiative, Chapin Hall identified additional indicators in two critical performance areas: parental capacity and child development.

First, ESSA moves beyond NCLB's focus on test scores and graduation rates to a broader view of student and school success by requiring additional indicators and emphasizing the importance of a more holistic approach to accountability.

The number of missing teeth could be a useful additional indicator for general medical practitioners, when individual risk factors for chronic diseases are assessed, researcher John Liljestrand states.

Our design provides school communities the opportunity to select additional indicators and measures in every component through discussion of what matters most to them, to share that publicly, and to commit to work that addresses goals the community develops.»

Minnich said he anticipates that states may embrace additional indicators of a school's success — such as the percentage of a high school's students who not only enroll but also persist in college — as they devise systems to measure them.

These indicators are periodically revisted to determine if additional indicators need to be included.

Kia provides the industry's slickest and most useful blind spot detection by placing additional indicators in the head - up display.

This special status may now be overburdening the forecasting ability of the slope of the curve, especially when its use is widened to include stock performance forecasting (at least when used without additional indicators).

I liked this book, but there is room for a second book in this area — one of additional indicators passed over (I have a bunch!)

States are being asked to adopt at least one additional indicator for the way they measure school success.

The letter commends the committee for providing states with the flexibility to use additional indicators of student proficiency in H.R. 5, its ESEA reauthorization bill, but asks to add language to the bill that will take into account the broad array of measures beyond standardized test scores.

In a additional indicator of stress amid the country's loan companies, Greece's Eurosystem funding reached a 13 - thirty day period substantial of $ 104bn in February as banks turned ever more reliant on the ECB's emergency resources.

The Isofix connectors have an indicator for correct installation and there is an additional indicator on the support leg.

An additional indicator of AC joint separation is experiencing pain while raising the arm upward.

Because there are various extraneous influences that can affect body temperature, it's important to also monitor your pulse as an additional indicator of thyroid function.

The definition of AYP must also include graduation rates for high schools and an additional indicator for middle and elementary schools.

No Child Left Behind lets states use attendance as an additional indicator of adequate yearly progress, and 37 states do that.

Under ESSA, states will establish new accountability systems that will include additional indicators of success that reflect a broader picture of how schools are serving all children.

The proposed method for assigning weights renders the additional indicator (s) effectively meaningless for purpose of determining where to focus improvement efforts, which further undermines the multiple measures focus in the ESSA statute.

It provides only that a state's system of meaningful differentiation must: (1) give «substantial weight» to test scores, graduation rate, the additional K - 8 academic indicator, and EL progress and (2) provide, «in the aggregate, much greater weight» to these indicators than to the additional indicator (s) selected by the state, including the state - determined school quality indicators.

In the absence of the specific regulatory definition, states would therefore have substantial discretion in developing methodologies that give the academic indicators «much greater weight» than the additional indicator (s).

This evidence, in combination with a new federal requirement that state accountability systems include an additional indicator of school quality or student success not based on test scores, has sparked widespread interest in the possibility of incorporating such «non-cognitive» or «social - emotional» skills into school accountability systems.

The observation protocol has additional indicators included to assess the teachers» use of strategies that engage English language learners, something stressed by language acquisition expert Dr. Jim Cummins.

Our teachers overwhelmingly suggested using social - emotional learning indicators or a school climate indicator as the additional indicator of student success for the state accountability system.

Additional indicators would include college enrollment, college remediation rates, disciplinary information, AP and IB test data, and data on bullying incidents and substance abuse.

College dropout rates are also higher for students of color and low - income students, so persistence rates for all student groups are important data to collect.16 Additional indicators of readiness for college and careers are detailed in CAP's «Making the Grade» report.17

The indicators include: student growth and achievement in reading and math; graduation rates for high schools; English language proficiency; for elementary and middle schools, an additional indicator on student growth such as science achievement, and at least one indicator of school quality or success, such as career and college readiness.

«The Department should allow states to make their additional indicators of school quality and opportunity to learn important and meaningful in their state accountability systems,» Dr. Darling - Hammond noted in her prepared remarks, adding that there should not be provisions that «would in effect discourage the use of these potentially powerful indicators for states and rollback community efforts underway to address the root cause of educational inequity.

Congress is also requiring states to choose an additional indicator for K - 8 achievement.