Sentences with phrase «different measures of progress»

Not exact matches

We used to consider total number of deals in the pipeline as a standard measure for evaluating sales progress — it turns out, a different metric, pipeline velocity, was actually a much better predictor of monthly and quarterly numbers.

It is required valid and consistent estimates of the prevalence of diabetes over time to assess the effects of the implemented interventions, to compare the trends among the different countries and to measure the progress towards achieving the goal agreed by UN.

«If we want to be disruptive and allow for education to have a different experience in the United States, we need to recognize the long - term nature of this work and stop using short - term yardsticks to measure progress.»

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) measures achievement in different grades and attempts to put it on a common scale.

The free school was put in special measures after the inspection, which found students showed «a lack of respect and tolerance towards those of different faiths, cultures or communities», while safeguarding procedures, recruitment processes and academic progress in writing skills were also insufficient.

The law allows states to experiment with different types of teacher training academies and with measures of student progress other than just standardized tests.

A DfE commissioned comparability study into the different Baseline Assessment providers has concluded that the differences between providers are too great for Baseline Assessment to provide any meaningful measure of a child's progress through their primary education.

«These are folks trying to do something different, for academic progress and social and emotional progress, and measuring things like that are hard,» said Betheny Gross, who is leading a study of personalized learning at the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) in Seattle.

We should remember that there is no correlation between the quality of state standards (as measured by any of three different organizations — Fordham Institute, the American Federation of Teachers and Education Week) and scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

The waiver includes provisions to measure student progress by a number of different metrics and to evaluate teachers based, in part, on student progress.

The Lab also hoped to identify a small set of common quantitative measures that could provide some cross-city comparison of progress, but this proved impossible given the range of initiatives and focus on different age groups.

Well - designed accountability policy, on its own, does four things well: first, it requires participants to believe that all students can learn and succeed; second, it measures the academic progress of all students over time; third, it highlights gaps between different groups of students (be they racial, geographic, socio - economic, special education and gifted students, or English language proficiency); and fourth, it assigns consequences for not meeting goals around student progress.

Incorporate more, and different, kinds of data on student progress and school performance into accountability measures.

Researchers found large differences in the pupil progress gap between different types of schools, and have now called on the government to consider new policies including requiring schools to publish their progress measures for disadvantaged pupils on their website, and for that measure to be included in performance league tables for multi-academy trusts.

We need to develop an entirely different set of criteria to measure our career progress.

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