Sentences with phrase «driven by my evaluation»

Invariably, though, my opinions are driven by my evaluation of the Market Climate, not the other way around.

Not exact matches

It's simple — by going against the evaluation - driven, centralized model that much of the Western world uses.

The Regents, under emergency regulation, imposed a four - year moratorium on the evaluation law in December 2015, driven by backlash from both educators and parents.

An evaluation of «IL4I1 augments CNS remyelination and axonal protection by modulating T - cell driven inflammation», recently published in Brain.

This system evaluation creates a constant feedback loop such that requirements are always science - driven and informed by societal needs.

Recognizing the potential implications of a general method of altering the traits of entire populations, Kevin and colleagues have detailed ways to control, block, or even reverse changes made by gene drives and emphasized the importance of careful evaluation and regulatory reform.

Extended day and year, a relentless focus on academic achievement, value - added evaluations for teachers, data - driven decision - making, and others were scooped up by schools impelled to keep up with the Joneses» College Prep.

As I've argued before, the federal requirement that is driving the over-testing concern isn't the mandate that states test students annually in grades 3 — 8; it's the mandate (dreamed up by Arne Duncan as a condition of ESEA waivers) that states develop teacher - evaluation systems that include student achievement as a significant factor.

The new report did not capture a precise measure on what proportion of tests were required by teacher evaluation, but it does point out that many states have put in place new assessments «to satisfy state regulations and laws for teacher and principal evaluation driven by and approved by U.S. Department of Education policies.»

Meanwhile, initiatives across the country, sparked by the federal Race to the Top competition, which link teacher evaluations in part to student achievement, have pushed our data - driven system into new frontiers.

The critiques are many, including that teacher evaluation does not: measure teachers accurately with its drive - by observations by principals and third parties; take into account teachers» varying roles and working conditions; reveal measurable differences among teachers (absence of actual differences would make the profession unique on planet Earth); lead to better professional development; and more.

A Lasting Impact High - stakes teacher evaluations drive student success in Washington, D.C.. By Thomass Dee and James Wyckoff

I explained why the predictable result of value - added evaluations, even when balanced by «multiple measures,» would be driving talent out of the most challenging schools.

Driven by student and teacher growth - oriented evaluation systems, many districts have formalized the process and now require goal setting at least once a year.

United Teachers Los Angeles accused Deasy of breaking a binding agreement by requiring that «data - driven» measures of student achievement be given a «weight limited to 30 percent» of a teacher's final evaluation.

Our program evaluation and research agenda are driven by a single guiding question: How can we support teachers so that their students achieve at high levels?

Don't do «drive by» evaluations, but instead, create a culture of continuous feedback and improvement.

The controversial National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ)-- created by the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute and funded (in part) by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as «part of a coalition for «a better orchestrated agenda» for accountability, choice, and using test scores to drive the evaluation of teachers» (see here; see also other instances of controversy here and here)-- recently issued yet another report about state's teacher evaluation systems titled: «Running in Place: How New Teacher Evaluations Fail to Live Up to Promises.»

* Updated April 12 Driven by mounting urgency to improve struggling schools and widespread dissatisfaction with California's school evaluation tool, LA Unified board members voted Tuesday to create an assessment framework that will allow parents to more easily compare schools as well as select the measures by which to evaluate them.

Become part of the first cohort of schools and districts using the evaluation process to drive student outcomes by signing up to learn more about the pilot program below.

* We should demand the transformation of educator preparation programs into customer - driven institutions by developing assessments of them that are grounded in output - and performance - based criteria, so that Texas becomes the model for value - added evaluation of such programs.

Changes to teacher evaluation methods have been driven in part by claims that traditional teacher evaluations and classroom observations were deeply flawed, failing to identify ineffective teachers.

Driven partly by the Federal «Race to the Top» program that required states to adopt new teacher evaluation systems, how well students perform on the standardized test has in many states a direct influence on a teacher's performance evaluation.

The push to change teacher evaluations has been driven largely by nonprofit groups and politicians, and it follows research demonstrating that teacher effectiveness is the most important in school - factor affecting student performance.

The traditional picture of teacher evaluation is what I call «drive - by» teacher evaluation.

What also has not helped, she said, has been the push in recent years, as evidenced by the Vergara v. California ruling, to make it more difficult for teachers to get tenure, and making it easier to fire them, along with a national drive to link teacher evaluations to student test scores.

In a relatively short time, a stunning number of accountability - based leaders have been forced from office on a tide of voter resentment even while, as documented by historian Diane Ravitch, the likes of Gates, Broad, and hedge fund billionaires continue their corporate - style push toward school closures, choice, data - driven student and teacher evaluation, and high - tech innovation.

Testing, coupled with the evaluation of teachers by scores, is driving its implementation.

The researchers of this evaluation find that this large effect is driven by even larger significant, negative effects for students who started in earlier grades — first through third grades — and somewhat smaller nonsignificant, negative effects for students who started in later grades: fourth through sixth.19

Oklahoma State Representative Scooter Park said that «HB2957 is a step in the right direction — driven by the support of Superintendents across the state, we can continue to remove the costly and time - consuming portions of the TLE system such as unnecessary data collection requirements as well as open the door for local school districts to develop their own qualitative evaluation system for their teachers according to their choice of a valid, reliable, research based and evidence - based qualitative measure.»

All the hullabaloo over PARCC its first year — driven not by student need but by NJEA's distaste for tying student outcomes to teacher evaluations — has died down.

To simplify labor - intensive HR processes, Jeremy began searching for a talent management system that would drive efficiency, streamline evaluations and empower informed recruiting — and TalentEd by PeopleAdmin repeatedly appeared in his research.

The opposition of the two unions to performance - based pay and objective data - based teacher evaluations using student test score growth data is driven more by the realization that the teacher dismissal restrictions they support are inherently impediments to professionalism than by an ideological belief that standardized testing has no value in measuring teacher performance.

The expert evaluation included driving on a set course, a 170 - mile real - world drive and extended driving by an authentic, in - market family shopping for an -LSB-...]

A jury of 82 motoring journalists from around the world selected the finalists by secret ballot based on their evaluation of each vehicle at exclusive drive events staged by the award's organizer.

Portfolio construction is driven by bottom - up stock selection decisions made on the basis of our evaluation of a company's valuation, quality and other factors as described above; this process is not influenced by benchmark weights.

The findings of the Census of Marine Life Tagging of Pacific Predators project, published online today in the journal Nature, are particularly significant because they come just days after another evaluation of the world's oceans pointed to severe disruption driven by over-exploitation, rising carbon dioxide concentrations, torrents of nutrients choking coastal waters and rising temperatures.

The paper incorporates data - driven estimates of the value of fuel economy into an automotive market simulation model that has three components: a consumer demand function that predicts consumers» vehicle choices as functions of vehicle price, fuel price, and vehicle attributes (the new estimates of the value of fuel economy are used to set the parameters of the demand function); an engineering and economic evaluation of feasible fuel economy improvements by 2010; and a game theoretic analysis of manufacturers» competitive interactions.

Past events showed that flood relocation is primarily driven by economic evaluations and mostly occurs after catastrophic events which makes the reconstruction costs of the same magnitude of buying a new property (Kick et al. 2011; López - Carr and Marter - Kenyon 2015).

The General Circulation Models (GCM) driving the regional models chosen are rated in the top 25 %, according to a performance evaluation of CMIP5 models carried out by Perez et al. (2014), in their ability to reproduce spatial patterns and climate variability over the north - east Atlantic region, that is the most influential on the European weather patterns.

Our Impact Evaluation survey completed by participants each quarter tells us the NWEI process drives awareness, a sense of personal responsibility and new and strengthened actions from eating habits, to curbing consumption, energy use and civic action.

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The determination by the expert is not conclusive of the ultimate question of whether the accused was driving while impaired by a drug; their task is to determine whether the evaluation indicates drug impairment; the expert evidence can not presume the ultimate issue of guilt; it is «merely one piece of the picture for the judge or jury to consider.»

What kind of responsibility do the states have to act — not only by instituting better testing and evaluation of older citizens, but also by helping to plan for options and substitute services that will be needed as millions of the elderly become unable to drive?

In fact, NTSI's Arizona Defensive Driving Course is the only course that has been studied by the Arizona Supreme Court in their study Defensive Driving Program Recidivism Evaluation.

As a Sales Engineer, you will work in a high - performance team environment to drive business development and sales growth by acting as a product and technical resource and provide product evaluation support to prospective customers and the Onit sales team.

The student can get his / her driver's license same day as the last lesson and final evaluation by Cantor's Driving School, an authorized third party provider.

• A refusal or positive test result will result in a referral by CDL Technical & Motorcycle Driving School to a Substance Abuse Professional (SAP) evaluation, referral, and education / treatment program set forth in 49 CFR Part 40 Subpart O, and in applicable FMCSA regulations.

Possess equivalent experience as evidenced by previous driving experience, including military training and experience, completion of recognized tractor - trailer refresher course, and / or demonstrated performance on a road evaluation and no more than (24) months has elapsed since holding a full - time driving position, the applicant may be considered for employment.

If you are charged with DUI, Reckless Driving, Possession, or BUI, you may be required to complete an evaluation by court, probation, or your attorney.