Sentences with phrase «evaluation efforts»

Critics said the union was backing a measure that would help fund the teacher evaluation effort while at the same time considering a lawsuit that could undo it.

Knowledge translation is a core value of our youth and young adult research & program evaluation efforts.

The expanded evaluation effort, encompassing a diversity of perspectives, makes it less likely that significant model errors are being overlooked.

But there is no sure way of knowing if these programs are effective, the report says, since evaluation efforts to date have been insufficient.

Starting evaluation efforts early doesn't guarantee positive results, but it does make evaluation more useful in the long run.

A decade of child maltreatment evaluation efforts: What have we learned?

Nobody can say that the teacher evaluation efforts are going well.

Given the nonevaluative nature of Peer Coaching, what actions might be taken to ensure that Peer Coaching remains separate from evaluation efforts in your school or district?

Having been involved in many evaluation efforts of federally funded programs, including Early Head Start, Head Start, and the National Evaluation of Home Visiting, Brooks - Gunn knows that any new program put in place, whether it is universal prekindergarten or something else, needs evaluation.

In this regard, it is good news that additional support for evaluation efforts comes this week from the U.S. Department of Education (ED).

MIECHV has launched an array of efforts to strengthen and facilitate states» efforts in tracking benchmark data, strengthening evaluation efforts, developing data systems, and implementing quality assurance systems.

Three documents to support evaluation efforts have been developed: a strategy map, which shows how systems work is connected; an evidence map, which includes questions and themes supporting the strategy map; and an indicators matrix, which identifies how progress will be measured.

This paper explores three case studies of monitoring and evaluation efforts by three human rights non-governmental organizations (NGOs): Amnesty International, The International Commission of Jurists, and Crisis Action.

IZZI HERNANDEZ - CRUZ is an associate consultant with Public Impact, conducting quantitative analyses of school and district performance metrics to support strong accountability and turnaround evaluation efforts in both traditional and charter schools.

Mr. Klein has since overseen a number of aggressive reform efforts, including a stringent evaluation effort for each of the system's 1,400 public schools and the introduction of value - added assessment of the city's...

The University of Florida Lastinger Center for Learning will provide professional development and support for teachers in Broward and Palm Beach counties; the University of South Florida St. Petersburg will investigate innovative approaches to professional development; and the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) at the University of Pennsylvania, which will lead the SunBay evaluation efforts.

The collaborative, cross-departmental evaluation effort utimately yielded greater understanding and buy - in for evaluation findings and identified meaningful outcomes, such as connections between special programming and subsequent visitor engagement and learning.

It has been the historical practice among North Dakota public schools to adopt and administer locally defined teacher performance evaluation efforts.

Connected Beginnings» evaluation efforts highlight our organization's commitment to integrating research and evidence - based practice, in the field of infant and early childhood mental health.

This model is designed to help teams develop stronger programs, optimize evaluation efforts, and engage in rapid - cycle learning.

A new evaluation effort of school voucher participants» academic outcomes is underway by independent researchers.

Developing Evaluation Evidence: An Evaluation Handbook for Educational Leadership Preparation was created to support a variety of program evaluation efforts that involve the collection of both formative and summative evaluation data.

Ohio also wanted to improve the consistency of how the program was implemented in each of the 88 counties, and strengthen evaluation efforts.

Evaluation efforts included observations, surveys, and focus groups with face - to - face as well as online course participants, and in addition to examining the unique outcomes for each course offering, compared findings across programs of different lenghts and formats.

The New Jersey Department of Education has produced a report on the status of its new teacher evaluation efforts.

Researchers are training artificial intelligence models to identify tuberculosis (TB) on chest X-rays, which may help screening and evaluation efforts in TB - prevalent areas with limited access to radiologists, according to a new study appearing online in the journal Radiology.

But The Daily News this morning says the call was a last - ditch effort to reach a deal on the contentious teacher evaluation effort.

We believe this scale holds particular promise if used as a measure in multivariate research and evaluation efforts that investigate outcome expectations alongside other constructs to understand public engagement comprehensively.

The program development and evaluation effort should be overseen by an independent, objective group of experts who will not only provide technical support, but will also ensure that the design, implementation, and interpretation of the work is scientifically sound as well as useful to educators and policymakers.

CEPR leads the research and evaluation effort, and measures effectiveness via outcomes including measures of TLP Participant achievement, attitudes, beliefs, practices, and job satisfaction, principal ratings, and overall retention.

«When Dad starts his new charter school network, I want to either start one of the schools or lead the research and evaluation efforts.»

In addition to returning to Pearson Digital Learning to lead design and evaluation efforts, she plans to promote the iDEA Innovation Center, a digital laboratory that democratizes formative evaluation.

Allowing administrators to waive subsequent observations and evaluations for math teachers who perform well early in the year, for example, could both gratify math teachers and free principals to focus their evaluation efforts where they may be more useful.

She oversees TNTP's research and evaluation efforts and chairs the Diversity Leaedership Council.

The evaluation effort included a week of beta - testing with 80 6th - 8th grade students at a charter school in Bloomington, Indiana.

In New York, the failure to account for these issues has destroyed the entire credibility of their new teacher evaluation effort.

No one dismisses the importance of developing more effective teacher evaluation efforts, but the convoluted and complex system being developed by Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor will have a massive impact on how local schools function.

Prior to returning to the School District of Philadelphia where she previously taught middle school, Lauren was the Research Analyst / Data Manager at the Philadelphia Education Fund, where she led the organization's program evaluation efforts and executed a research study on teacher networks.

This report is intended to assist these evaluation efforts.

After a brief review of the general community profile, the applicant will continue to the reporting portion of the application, which asks questions about the community's engineering, education, encouragement, enforcement and evaluation efforts.

Program evaluation efforts are aimed at developing and ensuring the quality of all court services and programs.

She additionally oversees BUILD's research and evaluation efforts, and manages the publication and dissemination of the BUILD Initiative's research and policy briefs.

Through its evaluation efforts, the Center also produces information on this initiative's effectiveness.

Improving Child Welfare Outcomes Through Systems of Care Grant Cluster — An Overview (PPT - 160 KB) This PowerPoint presentation from July 2006 provides information on lessons learned from the grantees and from the Center's technical support and evaluation efforts.