Sentences with phrase «direct measures of the quality»

While there are no direct measures of the quality of colleges across countries, there is indirect evidence.

Not exact matches

Given that collecting, processing, analyzing, and reporting quality data are costly in time and resources2 — resources that are often taken from direct patient care when these activities involve physicians and other clinicians — there has been an increasing call to rein in the proliferation of measures by identifying a small set of high - priority measures.

Moreover, it is a direct measure of what policymakers want in teacher quality, not a proxy for student achievement fashioned by education's internal stakeholders.

Nevertheless, critics continue to question the NBPTS's method and focus for measuring quality teaching and to call instead for what they believe should be simple and direct measures of effects on student achievement.

As noted above, student achievement, which provides a direct measure of later quality of the labor force, is strongly related to economic growth.

A direct measure of family social background would be better than one that mixes in such factors as books in the home and the quality of peers at school.

The NSRDB accounts for any recent climate changes and provides more accurate values of solar radiation due to a better model for estimating values (more than 90 percent of the solar radiation data in both data bases are modeled), more measured data including direct normal radiation, improved instrument calibration methods, and rigorous procedures for assessing quality of data.

Direct Focus Corporation (Vancouver, WA) 2001 — 2004 Senior Software Engineer / Development Lead • Led development team in design, creation, and launch of critical web - based financial applications • Implemented automated settlement and funding system eliminating all human transactional errors • Reduced staffing needs and significantly increased financial transaction processing efficiency • Directly responsible for 99.98 % website up - time through implementation of quality control measures • Managed design team priorities, product lifecycle, and evaluated staff and product performance • Gathered business data and created functional specifications and technical design documentation • Utilized ASP.Net, C#, VB.NET,.

ING US Financial Services (Atlanta, GA) 5/2006 — 2/2009 Six Sigma Black Belt • Responsible for identifying, defining, and implementing continuous improvement (Six Sigma) projects • Communicated quality management tools and methodologies to project teams • Established and directed process improvement group reporting process • Cut annual process budget by 20 % by reducing testing / production errors through process standardization • Saved $ 350K of annual business contract production costs through vendor consolidation and elimination of manual product assembly • Identified $ 2 million in potential annual savings by developing a check processing distribution strategy • Reduced annual expenses by $ 1.7 million through cost avoidance by optimal vendor selection processes • Minimized business risk and legal mitigations by tracking / confirming contract delivery to clients and standardizing marketing forms practices and control measures • Mentored Green Belts and team members on their roles and responsibilities

Second, recent studies of other dimensions of mother — child relationship quality have found that direct measures are stronger predictors of depressive symptoms than are indirect measures of the same construct (Suitor, Gilligan, & Pillemer, 2011).