Sentences with phrase «effectiveness ratings based»

Teachers in Tennessee are assigned one of five effectiveness ratings based on their job performance: Significantly Above Expectation, Above Expectation, At Expectation, Below Expectation, and Significantly Below Expectation.

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Perth - based data centre operator DownUnder GeoSolutions» fluid server - cooling technology has outperformed the effectiveness ratings of some of the world's largest tech companies.

The current vaccine's effectiveness rate is based on an interim study conducted nationally through Feb. 3 covering thousands of people, Schuchat said.

For the experiment, Ambady and Rosenthal showed muted, 10 - second video clips of professors teaching to participating undergrads, who rated the teachers on 15 dimensions of effectiveness, including warmth, optimism and professionalism, all based entirely on nonverbal cues.

To measure the effectiveness of each predictor, they each quarter rank stocks into fifths (quintiles) based on the predictor and then calculate the difference in average gross excess (relative to the risk - free rate) returns of extreme quintiles.

One way to look at the effectiveness over shorter investment horizons is through Base Rates: how often the strategy is outperforming the average stock in the universe on a rolling investment horizon.

Evaluation of the effectiveness of cell phone technology as community based intervention to improve exclusive breastfeeding and reduce infant morbidity rates

We measure the effectiveness of these drug combinations based on the patients» response rates.

[2] Doug Staiger and I discuss the idea of basing school effectiveness ratings on a combination of long - term and short term track records in Kane and Staiger (2002a) and Kane and Staiger (2002b).

A course effectiveness rating can be assigned based on the personal feedback that you receive from your learners, their test scores, and any input from your learners» managers.

Some analyses involving school factors were based on the school - level scores (e.g., school - level ratings, composite school effectiveness scores that had been summed across grade level) for each of the 14 schools.

School effectiveness rating: Based on three project reading measures and mean grade 3 percentile on district standardized test

This is also highly problematic in that where a teacher might be housed might determine more his / her ratings based not necessarily (or entirely) on his / her actual «quality» or «effectiveness» but his / her location, his / her rater, and his / her rater's scoring approach given differential tendencies towards leniency, or severity.

But the error rate of these «value - added measures» may be lower than the error rate of classifications based on traditional measures of teacher effectiveness such as licensure status or years of experience.

Researchers set out to explore the stability (or fluctuations) observed across 132 teachers» effectiveness ratings across 23 schools in South Carolina over time using both observational and VAM - based output.

NY legislation prohibits a teacher from being rated highly if their test - based effectiveness estimate is low.

The New York City school system announced Wednesday that it will release ratings for nearly 12,000 teachers based on student test scores, potentially giving the public an unprecedented window into the effectiveness of instructors at the nation's largest school district.

«Districts and unions also need to work together to provide parents with more and better information about teacher effectiveness — if not individual ratings, then at least school - level statistics, as teachers are the most powerful school - based factor in student academic success or failure,» he said.

It also will be recommended that local boards only grant tenure to teachers who achieve at least an «effective teacher» rating on the new multiple - measure teacher effectiveness evaluation, of which a significant portion will be based on student achievement data.

One reason D.C.'s education reforms attracted significant attention across the country was their timing: DCPS started using IMPACT to evaluate teachers during the 2009 — 2010 school year, just as the education reform organization The New Teacher Project (TNTP) released a report recommending that districts develop evaluation systems that rate teachers «based on their effectiveness in promoting student achievement.»

This is particularly important as illustrated in the prior post (Footnote 8 of the full piece to be exact), because «Teacher effectiveness ratings were based on, in order of importance by the proportion of weight assigned to each indicator [including first and foremost]: (1) scores derived via [this] district - created and purportedly «rigorous» (Dee & Wyckoff, 2013, p. 5) yet invalid (i.e., not having been validated) observational instrument with which teachers are observed five times per year by different folks, but about which no psychometric data were made available (e.g., Kappa statistics to test for inter-rater consistencies among scores).»

Maryland identifies a performance rating based on effectiveness levels: highly effective, effective, and ineffective.

Federal requirements include the use of multiple categories of teacher ratings, rather than just «satisfactory» or «unsatisfactory,» based on multiple observations, feedback, and the use of student test scores to assess effectiveness.

Also recall that one of the key reports that triggered the current call for VAMs, as the «more objective» measures needed to measure and therefore improve teacher effectiveness, was based on data that suggested that «too many teachers» were being rated as satisfactory or above.

But the association is disappointed that the new application allows districts» educator evaluation systems to base more than 50 percent of an educator's effectiveness rating on student test scores.

In addition, and as directly related to VAMs, in this study researchers also found that each rating from each of the four domains, as well as the average of all ratings, «correlated positively with student learning [gains, as derived via the Nevada Growth Model, as based on the Student Growth Percentiles (SGP) model; for more information about the SGP model see here and here; see also p. 6 of this report here], in reading and in math, as would be expected if the ratings measured teacher effectiveness in promoting student learning» (p. i).

Since PEAC last met, the notion that one can rate teacher's effectiveness based on student standardized test scores has been thoroughly debunked.

• Employs rubrics with effectiveness ratings of highly effective, effective, minimally effective, and ineffective (ratings will be updated based on final statute).

Teacher and principal evaluation systems now emerging in response to federal, state and / or local policy initiatives typically require that a component of teacher evaluation be based on multiple performance metrics, which must be combined to produce summative ratings of teacher effectiveness.

Curriculum - Based Measurement of Oral Reading (CBM - R) is used to collect time series data, estimate the rate of student achievement, and evaluate program effectiveness.

It's why the use of VAM (Value Added Measures) can not contribute valid or reliable data to a teacher's effectiveness rating — because VAM is a predictive model based on comparing a set of actual student test scores against a hypothetical group of scores.

Here, I am using ROE as a proxy for expected growth rate since the growth projections are generally unreliable, while the return on equity is a measure of how well the company uses its assets and capital and gives us a better understanding of the management effectiveness at growing the company from its current base.

It's not based on a numerical model of how oil would likely move and disperse if a well off Delaware really did have a major problem; that's a function of wind, tide, current, the properties of the oil, the rate and quantity of spillage, and of course the effectiveness of our efforts to contain the oil in such an incident.

Treatment Method Research Examined cognitive behavioral and reality - based treatments on sex offenders and effectiveness on recidivism rates.

Family Stabilization California Evidence - Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare Rates the effectiveness of programs to preserve, support, and stabilize families in crisis or at risk of child removal.

For example, a high rating (e.g., 5 stars) means that the program has a sound theoretical base and there is a substantial amount of high quality evidence (either research - or practice - based, or sometimes both) available to suggest its effectiveness.

Parent Partner Programs for Families Involved in the Child Welfare System California Evidence - Based Practice Clearinghouse for Child Welfare Describes parent partner programs reviewed and rated by the clearinghouse for their effectiveness in engaging parents to meeting their goals in safety, permanency, and well - being.

There are a number of evidence - based couples therapy modalities that have an effectiveness rate as high as 85 percent.

The mean relapse rate is 50 % at one year and over 70 % at four years.1 A recent prospective twelve year follow - up study showed that individuals with bipolar disorder were symptomatic for 47 % of the time.2 This poor outcome in naturalistic settings suggests an efficacy effectiveness gap for mood stabilisers that has resulted in a re-assessment of the role of adjunctive psychological therapies in bipolar disorder.3 Recent randomised controlled trials show that the combination of pharmacotherapy and about 20 — 25 sessions of an evidence - based manualised therapy such as individual cognitive behaviour therapy4 or family focused therapy5 may reduce relapse rates in comparison to a control intervention (mainly treatment as usual) in currently euthymic people with bipolar disorder.

Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect California Evidence - Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare Describes programs reviewed and rated by the Clearinghouse for their effectiveness in preventing child abuse and neglect.

An evidence - based approach with a proven effectiveness rate, EFT provides the therapist with a way of understanding relationship distress and a way to work with it that is of tremendous value.

Since in clinical practice the popularity of mindfulness - based interventions for ADHD is rising, future studies should focus on gathering empirically sound evidence for the efficacy and effectiveness of mindfulness - based interventions, preferably including ratings of independent observers as outcomes.

Interventions are drawn from family - focused interventions rated as Model Plus, Model, or Promising on the Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development Web site (http://www.colorado.edu/cspv/blueprints/) based on evidence of their effectiveness in reducing child externalizing behaviors, substance use, and / or delinquency.