Sentences with phrase «additional indicators of»

In doing so, the law recognizes that test scores do not tell the whole story and shines a spotlight on additional indicators of student performance.

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.

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.

As a result, states should consider including additional indicators of interest once they have collected data for several years and confirmed that new instruments, such as climate surveys, are valid, reliable, and can be disaggregated for all student groups.

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.

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.

Fairbairn's work is instructive to us only as an additional indicator of how widespread the centrality of love was becoming over a century ago for understanding the divine nature, even though he did not address in any helpful way how this challenges traditional understandings of divine power.

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.

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

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.

Together, these indicators have to carry much more weight (i.e., count much more) than the additional indicator of school quality or student success.

In addition to a set of «substantially weighted» academic indicators, states are to add to them «at least one additional indicator of school quality or student success beyond test scores.»

Not exact matches

The contraction in this margin partly reflected the growing popularity of loans secured by residential property, which have a lower indicator rate than other loans and in most cases no additional risk margin.

Management believes that the non-GAAP measure of Adjusted EBITDA is useful as an indicator of an oil and gas exploration and production company's ability to internally fund exploration and development activities and to service or incur additional debt.

Our pricing package scales up based on the number of transactions on your marketplace — an indicator of your marketplace's growth — and we don't charge additional transaction fees.

Researchers interested in exploring the relationship between macroeconomic performance and the quality of monetary institutions should consider augmenting the Fraser and Heritage data with additional institutional indicators, such as measures of central bank independence, the use of monetary policy rules, freedom to use competing forms of money, and exchange rate regimes.

Our estimates are indicators of the point at which we would want to check in with a group to ensure that they have used the funds they've received and are still able to absorb additional funding.

Finally, an additional possible «pro-life» indicator was extracted from the way a speaker at the annual antiabortion «March for Life» rally in Washington, D.C., was introduced: «Susan is one of ten children.

The additional LED indicator ring uses different colors to tell the level of your baby's voice when the volume is turned down.

«Nonethless, if any additional, prospective studies confirm our finding that dizziness may indicate protracted recovery,» said Lau, «clinicians should consider using separate, specific dizziness tests for dizziness» such as the Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI), «rather than relying on postural / balance tests [such as the BESS] as indicators of dizziness.»

While we acknowledge two additional projects sampled had not submitted job reports by the time of the audit, both of which have since complied, it is regrettable that what was arguably the most significant indicator when evaluating SIDA's performance in the audit didn't garner a single mention in the article.

«While there were many positive indicators that came out of the OCFS audit, there were also additional effects that have created logjams and case backlogs that are unsustainable but still growing.

«We're trying to find better prognostic indicators of outcomes so that only patients who will benefit from additional therapy receive it.»

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.

This conclusion has subsequently been supported by an array of evidence that includes the additional large - scale surface temperature reconstructions and documentation of the spatial coherence of recent warming described above (Cook et al. 2004, Moberg et al. 2005b, Rutherford et al. 2005, D'Arrigo et al. 2006, Osborn and Briffa 2006, Wahl and Ammann in press) and also the pronounced changes in a variety of local proxy indicators described in previous chapters (e.g., Thompson et al. in press).

Especially for kids with allergies, eczema or asthma, this small step can often make a big difference (and in some cases, these children may need additional supplementation as well - this article explains how to look for symptoms of low magnesium and why blood tests are not a good indicator...)

Enhancing valuable AMPK activity can improve memory while suppressing the formation of beta - amyloid plaque and tau tangles — both indicators of Alzheimer's disease — and can cause an additional 20 percent increase in lifespan.

Process measures, such as indicators of student engagement, are an additional quality control option that could be complementary to an overall balanced approach.

We will measure additional outcome measures of interest, including indicators of student behavior and transferability of empathy to other situations, both before and after the intervention, which will improve the precision of our estimates.

If states add in additional components, like extended graduation rates, other school quality or student success indicators, additional subjects or assessments, they might quickly double the number of cells.

Hannah added: «Educationists tend to see having English as an additional language as a positive indicator of educational outcomes because a lot of those immigrant communities take education incredibly seriously.

Specifically, the proposed regulations provide that the additional K — 12 indicator (s) that a state uses can not «change the identity of schools that would otherwise be identified» unless a school is making «significant progress» on at least one of the academic indicators — test scores, graduation rate, additional K — 8 academic indicator, and EL progress.

If, in the second year of improvement, the school fails to make AYP with a different accountability group for which the school is subsequently designated for improvement or is subsequently designated for improvement for a different accountability performance criterion or indicator, the school shall modify the plan consistent with the highest accountability category and also address the additional group (s), criterion or indicator;

The bill replaces AYP standards with a requirement for states to annually measure all students and individual subgroups by: (1) academic achievement as measured by state assessments; (2) for high schools, graduation rates; (3) for schools that are not high schools, a measure of student growth or another valid and reliable statewide indicator; (4) if applicable, progress in achieving English proficiency by English learners; and (5) at least one additional valid and reliable statewide indicator that allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance.

If, in the second year of corrective action, the school fails to make AYP with a different accountability group for which the school is subsequently designated for corrective action or is subsequently designated for corrective action on a different accountability performance criterion or indicator, the school shall modify the plan consistent with the highest accountability category and also address the additional group (s), criterion or indicator;

Recommendation: We recommend striking § 200.18 (d) for the proposed regulations, to ensure that the final regulations do not prescribe too narrowly the discretion of states to weight indicators when determining schools in need of additional support in a manner consistent with the statute.

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).

District leaders developed a set of indicators to track demographic changes and performance, and they used these indicators to designate certain schools as at - risk of declining performance, thus qualifying for additional district support (e.g., staffing, program, funding).

We're looking very carefully at our admissions code, which has already changed to allocate places for pupil premium [additional funding for schools to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils] and other disadvantage indicators, and overcome the stigma from some families that grammar schools are not for them.»

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.

However, when paired with additional indicators, supporting concurrent - related evidence of validity (link to glossary), such inferences may be more appropriate.»

Once a framework had been established, committee tasks were to then: (1) «zoom in» and break down specific targeted sections of the draft LPFs into what we called more detailed «mini progressions» for a smaller grade span, often adding some additional «interim steps» (progress indicators) to the mini progressions; (2) use the more detailed and focused mini progressions to design sample instructional modules (with a series of 4 ‐ 6 detailed lessons) illustrating how a teacher in the general education classroom might move students along this smaller grain ‐ sized learning progression using best practices in instruction; and (3) draw from best practices in instruction for students with significant cognitive disabilities to incorporate suggestions to each lesson plan for how to make the academic content more accessible for all students.

These measures provide insight into students» learning mindsets and skills, without bearing the additional cost of testing and scaling new indicators.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires states to have, apart from four academic indicators of school success, an additional nonacademic indicator (the so - called «Fifth Indicator») that assesses school quality or student success.

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.

Research clearly shows that family and community engagement is a leading indicator of student achievement and valued at an additional $ 1,000 per pupil funding.

States are required to establish new accountability systems that include annual test scores, graduation rates for high schools, an additional academic indicator for pre-secondary schools and a measure of how well English learners are achieving proficiency.

A number of on - track indicators have emerged from research on college and career readiness, and are increasingly used to identify learners in need of additional support.

On the other hand, in order to comply with ESSA, states may use additional academic subjects such as science and social studies as the second academic indicator for elementary and middle schools, or as an indicator of school quality or student success for any schools, according to initial feedback from the Education Department.26 The analysis in this brief excludes these measures when identifying and weighting measures of school quality or student success.

Accountability measures for «alternative» charter schools need to be carefully worked out as part of their authorization contracts, with additional evaluation measures clearly laid out to go along with traditional performance indicators, according to a new report from the National Association of Charter School Authorizers.