Sentences with phrase «assess school effectiveness»

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(b) Regularly monitor and assess effectiveness of policies and programmes on food security and nutrition of children, including school meal programmes and food banks, as well as programmes addressing infants and young children;

In a review of existing literature, Marteau did find descriptions of nudging being used to improve health behaviors — one study reports a 70 % increase in the amount of fruit bought by school children at lunchtime after fruit was placed by the cash register — but these interventions have not been evaluated on a large scale or assessed for cost - effectiveness.

Researchers from the University of York, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, South African Medical Research Council and Stellenbosch University carried out a Cochrane review to assess the impact and effectiveness of school - based intervenSchool of Tropical Medicine, South African Medical Research Council and Stellenbosch University carried out a Cochrane review to assess the impact and effectiveness of school - based intervenschool - based interventions.

Believing that all schools and academies in the country should have a reference point to assess their operational effectiveness, NASBM is encouraging practitioners to use the standards to assess their individual practice and to inform future CPD and career progression plans.

Amrein and Berliner also used trends on the SAT, the ACT, and Advanced Placement (AP) exams to assess the effectiveness of minimum - competency exams in the 18 states where students must pass such tests in order to graduate from high school.

The authors point out that the Cincinnati system of evaluation is different from the standard practice in place in most American school districts, where perfunctory evaluations assign the vast majority of teachers «satisfactory» ratings, leading many to «characterize classroom observation as a hopelessly flawed approach to assessing teacher effectiveness.»

We found that principals in a western school district did a good job of assessing teachers» effectiveness.

Without a rich repository of data to draw from (such as those maintained by research consortia in cities such as Chicago and New York), DC will not be in a strong position to assess the relative effectiveness of different community, school, and classroom policies and practices.

Model two would deploy «behavior modification» accountability methods, refined through decades of public sector reform, to force low - performing schools and districts to set goals, assess effectiveness, and do better.

The Ed School's work with practitioners through PPE, the Executive Education Leadership Program, and the Principals» Center provides an important opportunity for practitioners to connect with current research, assess leadership effectiveness, identify new strategies for personal and institutional success, and take time away from day - to - day work demands for professional growth and personal renewal.

In 2001 Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge, a Republican and school voucher supporter, indicated he would not support any increase in funding for the Philadelphia school district until an independent entity had assessed its financial practices and educational effectiveness.

In the work released Wednesday, researchers assess whether these test score gains are actually putting students on a path to better lives or simply the result of charter schools» effectiveness in «teaching to the test» for the MCAS.

Assessing the effects of this policy experiment involves comparing the effectiveness of New Orleans schools before and after the reforms.

If we are able to assess an educator's effectiveness accurately, we can improve the array of policies and practices that influence our teachers and school leaders.

The effectiveness of the project is also assessed by each school through the students» GCSE and AS results and their university applications.

When school systems begin to use measures of effective teaching to assess the effectiveness of their own efforts, teachers will understand that the burden for improving teaching does not sit upon their shoulders alone.

Lead Adviser: Edison Schools Inc., based in New York City, will offer overall management advice, including assessing the effectiveness of professional development; improving teacher and principal recruitment and retention; strengthening classroom management; and preparing an 18 - month action plan for the school system's incoming chief executive officer.

The ILT helps the school to identify where there are gaps in performance, analyze causes for the gaps, develop plans of action to address the gaps and monitor the plans to assess their effectiveness.

Playing by the Rules When the System Doesn't: Immigrant Families and Summer School in New York This report discusses findings from surveys conducted during the summer of 2000 to assess the implementation and effectiveness of the Year 2000 Summer program, an integral part of the New York City Board of Education's updated promotion policy.

The authors compared the effectiveness of extended teachers who transferred or exited to all teachers entering these schools to assess whether the quality of teachers improves as a result of the policy.

Improvements to how schools evaluate educators» effectiveness include assessing students in subject other than math and language arts to identify effective teachers in those non-standards areas.

Assessing the Effectiveness of School Leaders: New Directions and New Processes, A Wallace Foundation Perspective, 2009, 7 - 8.

If accountability and equity are two of your top priorities, school improvement needs to be an ongoing process, one in which school teams analyze, examine, assess and refine the effectiveness of processes and programs.

Pepler and Craig (2000) say that a whole - school policy is the foundation of antibullying interventions, and they recommend that a policy include the following: a schoolwide commitment to address bullying; a statement of rights and responsibilities for all members of the school community; a definition of bullying, including types and dynamics; the process for identifying and reporting bullying; expected ways for students and staff to respond to bullying; strategies that will be implemented; and a way to assess the effectiveness of antibullying efforts.

Sharing this effort across departments will allow all departments to monitor the status of all professional development offered throughout the school or district, and ultimately, assess its effectiveness.

It does us no good when we're trying to assess the effectiveness of schools.

Further empirical research is required to assess the effectiveness of the program, but it is clear that key decision makers at every level of Shanghai school education consider the empowered - management program to be key to improving performance and equity.

Using the highly diverse urban school district of Somerville, Massachusetts, as a case study, Schneider and his research team developed a new framework to more fairly and comprehensively assess educational effectiveness.

These roles may include, for example: team leader, who takes responsibility for team and student growth; reach teacher, who takes responsibility for larger - than - average student loads with the help of paraprofessionals; master educator, who develops and leads professional development and learning; peer evaluator, an accomplished educator who coaches other teachers, assesses teachers» effectiveness, and helps his or her colleagues improve their skills; and demonstration teacher, who models excellent teaching for teachers in training.11 According to the Aspen Institute and Leading Educators — a nonprofit organization that partners with schools and districts to promote teacher leadership — teacher leaders can model best practices, observe and coach other teachers, lead teacher teams, and participate in the selection and induction of new teachers.12

The 5Essentials Survey assesses five key effectiveness factors that are correlated with school success: Effective Leaders, Collaborative Teachers, Supportive Environment, Involved Families, and Ambitious Instruction.

For leadership and management inspectors must assess the school's use of performance management and effectiveness of strategies for improving teaching, the effectiveness of procedures for monitoring quality of teaching and learning and the extent to which underperformance is tackled.

From the middle of the 20th century, when states began experimenting with mandatory yearly testing through the Obama era and the «Race to the Top» program, we have seen states take a greater share of the power to assess learning and make decisions about student promotion, teacher ability, and school effectiveness based on these assessments.

Selection on Observed and Unobserved Variables: Assessing the Effectiveness of Catholic Schools

The Long Beach Unified School District's use of student scores to assess the effectiveness of programs, instructional strategies and teachers is a rarity in California, and state Supt. of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell called it a model for other California school districts during a hastily arranged round - table discuSchool District's use of student scores to assess the effectiveness of programs, instructional strategies and teachers is a rarity in California, and state Supt. of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell called it a model for other California school districts during a hastily arranged round - table discuschool districts during a hastily arranged round - table discussion.

However, the evidence also suggests that schools should rely on a combination of approaches to gain a fuller picture of teacher effectiveness, and that teachers should be assessed on their cumulative performance over several years rather than on the data from a single year.»

The objectives of the capstone technology course are that the preservice teachers will learn to employ computer - based technologies for analyzing mathematical content from secondary school curricula; that they will design, present, and assess the effectiveness of technology - enhanced mathematical learning activities; and that they will analyze mathematical content from secondary school curricula to interrelate topics, construct critical concepts, discover why relationships exist, discover why certain algorithms work, and apply useful topics to address real - life problems.

When test scores can not be used to determine program effectiveness, schools need to find other ways to document and assess results.

With five strands to help your team take advantage of the engaging, varied content, whether you're a teacher looking for strategies to foster social emotional intelligence; a school leader creating effective partnerships; an administrator assessing the effectiveness of your brand; or a board member hoping to diversify your fundraising strategy.

The fundamental purpose of setting school improvement goals is to assess the effectiveness of improvement efforts.

They use key metrics like student achievement, teacher effectiveness and teacher retention to assess the performance of schools and individual educators, and they put research - based teacher induction and instructional coaching programs in place that help everyone on the team to continuously improve.

Improving Leader Assessment Assessing Learning - Centered Leadership: Connections to Research, Professional Standards, and Current Practices, Learning Sciences Institute, Vanderbilt University, 2007 Assessing the Effectiveness of School Leaders: New Directions and New Processes, A Wallace Perspective, 2009 Leveraging Leadership Development through Principal Evaluation, National Association of State Boards of Education, 2008 Purposes, Uses, and Practices of Leadership Assessment in Education, Center for the Study of Teaching Policy, University of Washington, 2006 VAL - ED, Discovery Education Assessment (www.discoveryeducation.com /)

The overarching purpose of the School Safety Toolkit is to establish an outcome - based framework and methods for assessing any school or district's safety system with respect to student outcomes, safety, and cost - effectivSchool Safety Toolkit is to establish an outcome - based framework and methods for assessing any school or district's safety system with respect to student outcomes, safety, and cost - effectivschool or district's safety system with respect to student outcomes, safety, and cost - effectiveness.

For example, many voucher proponents point to other measures of voucher effectiveness, such as increased parent satisfaction.59 The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, a strong proponent for expanding voucher programs as a way to increase enrollment in parochial schools, wrote in a letter to Sen. Marco Rubio (R - FL) and Rep. Todd Rokita (R - IN) that «parental surveys, the number of families renewing scholarships, student graduation and matriculation, and basic accounting requirements, for example, are sufficient to assess and maintain the integrity of the program.»

In Part Two, the book focuses on conceptualizing, organizing, presenting, and assessing the effectiveness of schooling that will complement the developmental characteristics of young adolescents.

Through site visits at nearly all of those schools and analysis of longitudinal student data, the study aimed to assess whether schools with low API status and growth scores were truly underperforming (as best as possible given the limitations of the data), to get schools» perspective of their own performance, and to assess the effectiveness of the Similar Students Measure (SSM) in identifying underperforming schools.

Requiring each district to measure and track the efficiency and effectiveness of its ELT schools, including developing measurable goals to annually and longitudinally assess the implementation and impact of additional learning time on student achievement, retention, attendance, higher education attainment, and other relevant measures.

While researchers have consistently argued that school and principal accountability systems must adjust for student characteristics and resource allocation levels to accurately assess educator effectiveness, states continue to rely on systems that measure student characteristics more than educator effectiveness.

As a starting point, law schools should consider conducting an inventory to assess the level and effectiveness of current integration with the bar.

This report describes the results of an effectiveness study of interpersonalpsychotherapy for depressed adolescents (IPT - A) in school - based health clinics.The goal was to assess the feasibility, acceptability, and efficacy of deliveringIPT - A under prevailing resource constraints of urban public school — basedclinics.

Despite this associative evidence, to the authors» knowledge, existing systematic reviews assessing the effectiveness of school - based substance use interventions have not reported the effectiveness of universal resilience - based interventions on adolescent substance use.4 — 6, 37 Three existing Cochrane reviews have individually examined the efficacy of school - based tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug use programmes.4 — 6 Such reviews have not reported outcomes for universal resilience - based interventions specifically, but have included such interventions in broader categories of intervention type for subgroup analysis.