Sentences with phrase «effective measures any system»

These may be the most expensive and least effective measures any system can take to improve student performance.

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[9] Using a different, continuous weighted scoring system — which admittedly was, like Byrd's scoring, «an unvalidated measure of CCU outcomes» — Harris et al. concluded that «supplementary, remote, blinded, intercessory prayer produced a measurable improvement in the medical outcomes of critically ill patients», and suggested that «prayer be an effective adjunct to standard medical care.»

AZO provides food processors, who are legally required to take effective safety measures against contaminants, with high - quality machinery and systems which help ensure that their products comply with the relevant standards.

What is difficult to accept is despite savings being made by way of an effective «pay freeze» and pensions contributions increase that on the back of those measures there are further proposed significant changes to the police remuneration system that could see up to 40 % of officers loosing up to # 4000.00 of pay in addition to that freeze.

«These measures are the next step in a comprehensive strategy building on the commitment that I made in July to transform the IND and boost its enforcement capability to ensure we tackle illegal immigration and provide a fair and effective immigration system fit for the 21st century,» said home secretary John Reid.

a. Licensee agrees to implement and maintain adequate and effective data security systems and measures, in line with international industry standards and best practice, to protect the security of the Licensed Materials from unauthorized disclosure or use.

Our system for financing the costly federal health care system subsidizes the overuse of advanced technologies while underfinancing highly effective and lower - cost public health measures.

Given that ACh is rapidly and efficiently hydrolyzed by the closely related hydrolytic enzymes acetyl - and butyrylcholinesterase (AChE, BChE)(2), measuring these enzymes» activity provides an effective biomarker of the immunosuppressive power of the autonomous nervous system.

This is important, because in the U.S. political system, where elected officials closely measure constituent feedback, meetings with real people are much more effective than letter or phone campaigns.

«National drought policies with effective early warning systems would be crucial in promoting vulnerability assessment and risk mitigation measures, particularly in light of the devastating droughts witnessed in Africa this year that have left more than 20 million people on the verge of starvation,» she added.

His MSc thesis (1987) dealt with the description and application of a system for calculating radiation doses due to long range transport of radioactive releases and his Licentiates's thesis (1998) studied the effective choice of NOx - emission control measures.

Immune system function varies significantly between individuals, and up to now there has been no effective means of measuring and describing these differences.

«We must be well prepared for the future, and national drought policies which are based on realistic vulnerability assessments and that have effective early warning systems and risk mitigation measures will be vital,» Barbut stressed.

The share awarded to value - added was the largest of any evaluation system in the nation, and at the top end of what the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Project research had recommended.

As the state notes of its system, «A central tenet of AchieveNJ is that educators are never evaluated on a single factor or test score alone, but on multiple measures of both effective practice and student learning.»

After extensive research on teacher evaluation procedures, the Measures of Effective Teaching Project mentions three different measures to provide teachers with feedback for growth: (1) classroom observations by peer - colleagues using validated scales such as the Framework for Teaching or the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, further described in Gathering Feedback for Teaching (PDF) and Learning About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiplMeasures of Effective Teaching Project mentions three different measures to provide teachers with feedback for growth: (1) classroom observations by peer - colleagues using validated scales such as the Framework for Teaching or the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, further described in Gathering Feedback for Teaching (PDF) and Learning About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiplmeasures to provide teachers with feedback for growth: (1) classroom observations by peer - colleagues using validated scales such as the Framework for Teaching or the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, further described in Gathering Feedback for Teaching (PDF) and Learning About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiplmeasures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiple years.

The winning states are making dramatic changes in how they do business — adopting common standards and assessments, building data systems that measure student growth and success, retaining effective teachers and principals, and turning around their lowest performing schools.

The new version of the law, he said, will need to ensure effective teachers and principals for underperforming schools, expand learning time, and devise an accountability system that measures individual student progress and uses data to inform instruction and teacher evaluation.

That's why we need an education agenda that strategically recruits, retains, and rewards the most effective teachers and principals; that builds incredibly high standards; that develops rigorous and useful assessments to measure progress against those standards; that builds data systems that allow teachers, principals, students, and parents to quickly and conveniently access those data for everyday use; and that focuses on dramatic intervention within our country's lowest - performing schools.

And centralized teacher - evaluation systems being pioneered by the Gates Foundation in their Measures of Effective Teaching effort were supposed to impose meaningful consequences for failure to perform well on those metrics.

For example, support for the improvement of student testing, for the development of improved databases and value - added measures, and for initial payments of expanded salaries under performance - based pay could provide important incentives for the states to move toward more logical and more effective funding systems.

The courts» role in this process is to outline in general, principled terms the expectation that the legislative and executive branches will develop challenging standards, fair and adequate funding systems, and effective programs and accountability measures, but to leave to the programs and the political branches the full responsibility for actually formulating these policies.

We have shown that our system is effective — it measures progress and assessment simultaneously, and creates easily understandable data and a structure for teaching.

So I organized an effort to put a measure on the ballot that would shift the state of California away from so - called bilingual education programs towards a simple and effective system of intensive English immersion.

Moe, for reasons I'll explain in a moment, thinks «reform unionism» is a pipe dream and that the only effective way to drive school improvement is by getting the system incentives to emphasize performance — which requires measures of student learning.

Alternative systems, competing across the board with government - operated schools, seem to have stimulated the latter to be more efficient (as measured by cost) and more effective (as measured by outcomes) than systems in countries where no such competition exists.

The Commission recommended more equitable school financing systems, measures to ensure effective teachers and curriculum, and access to high quality early childhood education.

Effective assessment systems provide balanced measures of a student's capacity in the foundational functions (recall, recognize, comprehend, apply in context, and follow routines) and the more complex functions (analyze, synthesize, compare, critique, investigate, prove, explain, and create), which more appropriately assesses a student's progress toward achieving college and career readiness.

The courts» role in this process is to outline in general, principled terms the expectation that the legislative and executive branches will develop challenging standards, fair and adequate funding systems, and effective accountability measures, but to leave to the programs and the political branches the full responsibility for actually formulating these policies.

An effective accountability system also requires that parents have a clear and concise measure of school performance.

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.

Teaching effectiveness measures have great potential to provide teachers with feedback as they work to hone their craft and to help school system leaders understand where support for better teaching and learning is needed, whether that support is effective, and, ultimately, how to design a system of supports to get better results.

Even so, the teachers in the most effective schools were very aware of the need to make sure that the groups were flexible, that students moved to another group when their performance (as measured by their internal school - based monitoring system) merited movement.

The end goal is to use the information to guide in the creation of more effective teacher evaluation systems that incorporate high - quality multiple measures.

In addition, some research, including an ongoing study of measures of effective teaching supported by the Gates Foundation, gives credence to the use of student achievement measures when combined with other measures, such as teacher observations and student feedback, as part of an effective teacher evaluation system.

High schools are seeking to build systems that ensure success for every student; this is being further emphasized by the Obama administration, which has identified the following four Race to the Top priority areas in the Race to the Top Executive Summary (2009): «adopting standards and assessments that prepare students to succeed in college and the workplace and to compete in the global economy; building data systems that measure student growth and success, and inform teachers and principals about how they can improve instruction; cultivating effective teachers and principals, especially where they are needed most; and turning around struggling schools» (p. 1).

The new system would enable the state to measure a full range of college - and career - ready knowledge and skills, shift toward personalized learning, and use meaningful student assessments to ensure effective academic support for students who need it.

Feedback for Better Teaching: Nine Principles for Using Measures of Effective Teaching: Brief from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation uses findings from Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project to set principles for designing high - quality evaluation systems http://k12education.gatesfoundation.org/resource/feedback-for-better-teaching-nine-principles-for-using-measures-of-effective-teaching/

Measuring these school - wide standards — such as effective communication, problem solving, or habits of work — must include establishing clear criteria (rubrics), designing authentic assessments (performance tasks), and a calibrated system of tracking student performance.

For example, an effective accountability system that tracks growth for all groups of students would also measure the progress of high - performing students.

Designing teacher evaluation systems: New guidance from the Measures of Effective Teaching project (pp. 278 - 302).

It implemented a performance - based compensation system combining student growth and achievement measures with 23 measures of school effectiveness, such as positive school culture, effective parent engagement, and teacher leadership.

They also show that, regardless of the exact mix of measures included, effective multimetric systems have five key lessons in common:

To help teachers successfully fulfill their role in this endeavor, effective teacher supervision and evaluation systems that inform teacher professional development and improve instruction are essential; however, disagreement over what those systems should measure remains, and some researchers caution against relying on student test scores as a valid metric (Baker et al, 2010)

Race to the Top funding will be used across the four required areas — adopting standards and assessments to prepare students to succeed in college and the workplace, using data systems that measure student performance and assist educators in using data to make instructional decisions, ensuring effective teachers and principals, and turning around the lowest performing schools.

As Dropout Nation noted last week in its report on teacher evaluations, even the most - rigorous classroom observation approaches are far less accurate in identifying teacher quality than either value - added analysis of test score data or even student surveys such as the Tripod system used by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of its Measures of Effective Teaching project.

In his State of the State speech in January, he derided the state's evaluation system as «baloney,» because even though only about a third of students were reading or doing math at grade level, as measured by state tests, more than 95 percent of teachers were rated effective.

Through the Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching initiative, the three sites and CMOs committed to giving teachers the feedback and support they need by incorporating multiple measures of teacher effectiveness — including classroom observations, student achievement measures, and student surveys — in their evaluation systems.

The use of multiple measures — administrator observation, school and student value - added measures, and student feedback on teachers — helps build confidence in the fairness and thoroughness of the system because they are an acknowledgment of the complexities and nuances of effective teaching.

Ideally, future work would rely on a detailed student database — such as student transcript data — to address centrally important yet understudied issues in math placement, including the identification of reliable and accurate measures of student outcomes, the establishment of protocols associated with growth in student outcomes, and the consequences of effective support systems for improving student learning.