Sentences with phrase «all about evaluation»

Yet the Bible does have much to say about evaluation.

But how about his evaluation of foreman Landry?

All you need to know about the evaluation of your child's development - physical, language, intellectual, social, and emotional.

The letter, written by a top Cuomo aide, says the student test scores are «unacceptable,» and asks Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch and outgoing Education Commissioner John King what to do about an evaluation system that rates just 1 percent of all of the teachers in the state as poorly performing.

State Department of Education commissioner Maryellen Elia said in a statement that her office is currently reviewing the new law and has «a number of questions» about evaluations, assessments and accountability.

«Never once did anyone say to me anything other than, «We have to think about the evaluation system.

BOX 23, A-15-4; 30219212 / 734979 SAPA Requests for Translations of SAPA materials, 1966 - 1968 Prerequisites for SAPA The Psychological Basis of SAPA, 1965 Requests for SAPA to be Used in Canada, 1966 - 1968 Requests for Assistance with Inservice programs, 1967 - 1968 Schools Using SAPA, 1966 - 1968 Speakers on SAPA for NSTA and Other Meetings, 1968 Suggestions for Revisions of Part 4, 1967 - 1968 Suggestions for Revisions of the Commentary, 1967 - 1968 Summer Institutes for SAPA, Locations, 1968 Summer Institutes for SAPA, Announcement Forms, 1968 Inservice Programs, 1968 - 1969 Consultant Recommendations, 1967 - 1968 Inquiries About Films, 1968 Inquiries About Kits, 1967 - 1968 Inquiries About Evaluations, 1968 Tryout Teacher List, 1967 - 1968 Tryout Centers, 1967 - 1968 Tryout Feedback Forms, 1967 - 1968 Tryout Center Coordinators, 1967 - 1968 Cancelled Tryout Centers, 1967 - 1968 Volunteer Teachers for Parts F & G, 1967 - 1968 List of Teachers for Tryout Centers, 1963 - 1966 Tucson, AZ, Dr. Ed McCullough, 1964 - 1968 Tallahassee, FL, Mr. VanPierce, 1964 - 1968 Chicago, IL, University of Chicago, Miss Illa Podendorf, 1965 - 1969 Monmouth, IL, Professor David Allison, 1964 - 1968 Overland Park, KS, Mr. R. Scott Irwin and Mrs. John Muller, 1964 - 1968 Baltimore, MD, Mr. Daniel Rochowiak, 1964 - 1968 Kern County, CA, Mr. Dale Easter and Mr. Edward Price, 1964 - 1967 Philadelphia, PA, Mrs. Margaret Efraemson, 1968 Austin, TX, Dr. David Butts, 1968 Seattle, WA, Mrs. Louisa Crook, 1968 Oshkosh, WI, Dr. Robert White, 1968 John R. Mayer, personal correspondence, 1966 - 1969 Teacher Response Sheets, 1966 - 1967 Overland, KS Oshkosh, WI Monmouth, IL Baltimore, MD Teacher Response Checklist SAPA Feedback, 1965 - 1966 Using Time Space Relations Communicating Observing Formulating Models Defining Operationally Interpreting Data Classifying (2 Folders) Measuring Inferring Predicting Formulating Hypothesis Controlling Variables Experimenting Using Numbers SAPA Response Sheets for Competency Measures, 1966

«If there are [budget] cuts, the rules... and the process should be clear,» says Carlos Fiolhais, a researcher at the Center for Computational Physics of the University of Coimbra who wrote about the evaluation extensively on his blog De Rerum Natura.

That is the question facing a new panel to be assembled by the InterAcademy Council (IAC) in Amsterdam, a composite board of many of the world's national scientific bodies, such as the National Academy of Sciences in the U.S. «This will be an independent review,» says physicist Robbert Dijkgraaf, president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the IAC co-chairs, about the evaluation requested by the U.N. and the IPCC.

Lynn says she takes the evaluations «very seriously» and talks to the students about the evaluations to get more feedback and specifics.

If we think about the evaluation process, it should come as no surprise that the person most qualified to evaluate our performance is the person most acquainted with our performance, and we are individually that person.

An interview with Patrick Wolf about his evaluation of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program and about its likely future is available here.

Susan Dynarski and Meghan Oster wrote about an evaluation of the ASAP program for Education Next.

School vouchers provide funds to parents to enable them to enroll their children in private schools and, as a result, are one of the most controversial education reforms in the United States (to see an interview with Patrick Wolf about his evaluation of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program and about its likely future please click here).

«A key point of contention about an evaluation system is how much it will identify teachers who are not good and don't improve,» Mr. Gates writes.

During Betsy DeVos» contentious confirmation hearings, she was asked few questions about her evaluation of the Obama administration's controversial interpretation of the law that bans sex discrimination in schools to include gender identity.

That year was the most challenging, she remembers, as teachers were not initially comfortable with sharing data and had to be reassured that it wasn't about evaluation.

A key point of contention about an evaluation system is how much it will identify teachers who are not good and don't improve.

So they changed their talking points: Now the teachers were upset about evaluations that would link their performance reviews with students» test scores.

Also includes a questionnaire to get students thinking more deeply about their evaluation.

The Administration is being dishonest about the evaluation data, which show strong positive effects for the recipients of the DC vouchers.

Teachers and administrators alike had been anxiously waiting for more details about the evaluations since Gov. Chris Christie signed a new tenure law that permits them to be evaluated, at least in part based on their students» test scores and other measurements of achievement.

It's fascinating how you go to one county, and no teachers were upset or freaking out about evaluation.

Are you or the teachers at your school concerned about evaluation initiatives?

Learn more about the evaluation process and the results of these evaluation studies by linking to the cohorts of schools below:

Overview of the PICCS external evaluation process >> 2007 Cohort — see five years of results >> 2010 Cohorts — see two years of results >> 2012 Cohorts — learn about the evaluation plans >>

I believe that evaluations, testing, and parent involvement are all key elements of our educational system, but we need to examine and invest deeply in the type of curriculum we are implementing before we can even begin talking about evaluations and testing.

Read more about Evaluation of Tennessee Pre-College Remedial Math Programs

When looking at what makes for an optimal teacher evaluation system, perhaps one of the key issues we face is that we think about evaluation and professional development as two separate endeavors.

In particular, they've noticed that teachers and others have expressed strong reservations about any evaluation system that relies too heavily on student test scores.

A related and critical question about any evaluation system is how it affects daily incentives and disincentives for students, teachers, and administrators.

They spoke about the evaluation of teachers by test scores, and he listened to her concerns.

As a member of EPAC for the past two years, my responsibilities have included reading research studies on teacher evaluation programs around the country, learning about evaluation tools and ways to manage data, and collaborating with educators from pilot districts.

Additional information about the Evaluation Toolkit is also available on the Pathways to College Network Web site at www.pathwaystocollege.net.

«What we've gotten to is this routinized, mechanized displacement of human judgment, and that's what I think you're seeing — that is the underlying issue that is the root of this agita about evaluations.»

The meeting was notable not for what Wakelyn said — his comments hewed closely to what the governor has said about evaluations in recent weeks — but because it happened at all.

Back in the halcyon era that was May, during the last weeks of the school year, I was invited to watch a group of Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) teachers talk about evaluations.

One new link is to a video featuring Ritz speaking into the camera about evaluation and dropping another bombshell — that her staff plans to revise Bennett - created rules that would have assigned teachers ratings of 1 through 4 based on the ISTEP test score growth of their students that districts could use as part of their evaluations.

According to brother Mulgrew, it is up to the body to decide if the minority should be heard so he allowed the Unity majority, including the large bloc of retirees who don't have to worry about evaluations, to close debate.

Michelle King, District 3 superintendent, said she investigated the matter, attending a meeting at the school in which the entire faculty aired concerns about evaluations and other issues.

The study examined the first year implementation of a set of three performance measures: observations of teachers» classroom practices; Read more about Evaluation of Performance Measures for Teachers and Principals -LSB-...]

Today, our research partners at American Institutes for Research (AIR) debuted a video about their evaluation of the BARR model with a look into its implementation at West Valley High School, in Hemet, CA.

I've asked Korn to tell me exactly where the law specifies this, and when I hear back from him, I will update this post.UPDATE: The teachers» union, to back up its assertion, is citing a memo from the state department to the Board of Regents last year which contains this background sentence about the evaluation law: «Tenured teachers and principals with a pattern of ineffective teaching performance — defined by law as two consecutive annual «ineffective» ratings — may be charged with incompetence and considered for termination through an expedited hearing process.»

Your last letter acknowledged our mutual concern about the evaluation of teachers by student test data.

But they are not likely to end a contentious, noisy debate about evaluation systems, and they are almost certain to be intensely debated, in part because of Gates» separate support for advocacy organizations that have already staked out positions on teacher evaluations.

They're talking about evaluation systems and pre-service training systems, even though there is no evidence that we can evaluate or pre-service train our way to better teachers.

Generally, the topic of student achievement and teacher evaluation has been more about an evaluation score and less about how teacher growth can affect student achievement.

Maintain open lines of communication and provide a consistent message about evaluation throughout the district;

In fact, The New York Times» own columnist Michael Winerip wrote about that evaluation system last year in this story, which noted that then - Superintendent Jerry Weast had rejected $ 12 million in Race to the Top money because it required districts to use test scores to evaluate teachers.

It is also really important to think about the evaluation process of your learners during 3D simulations.