Sentences with phrase «evaluation measure in»

Elia's selection comes at a crucial time for education policy in New York: State lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo approved a new teacher evaluation measure in the 2015 - 16 state budget last month, a move that was deeply opposed by the state's teachers unions for its weakening of tenure.

Furthermore, research has revealed that core self - evaluations measured in childhood and in early adulthood are linked to job satisfaction in middle age (Judge et al., 2000).

Not exact matches

The Company considers EBITDA to be an important measure used to evaluate operating performance, and the measure is frequently used by securities analysts, investors and other interested parties in the evaluation of companies in the industry, but this figure should not be considered in isolation.

The measures will be based on evaluation of the potential losses triggered by the U.S. trade actions, the ministry said in a statement on its website Friday.

The company considers NAREIT FFO an important supplemental measure of our operating performance and believes it is frequently used by securities analysts, investors and other interested parties in the evaluation of REITs, many of which present NAREIT FFO when reporting results.

Evaluation measures include progress against business model and growth strategies, client relationship management, staff retention, and the evolution of asset allocation and product strategy in line with investor needs.

impact summary — I capture and summarize four areas of impact in my evaluation — business impact (potential for the usual — revenues, profit, etc.), social impact (that which can be counted), qualitative impact (impact that is difficult to measure, but can be captured through stories), and macro impact (the broader systems - level impact they are trying to achieve, but may be difficult to trace directly to the company)

If the Nominating & Governance Committee determines that an additional or replacement director is necessary or advisable, the Nominating & Governance Committee may take such measures that it considers appropriate in connection with its evaluation of a potential director candidate, including interviewing the candidate, engaging an outside firm to gather additional information and making inquiries of persons with knowledge of the candidate's qualifications and character.

Management uses certain of these non-GAAP measures, including Adjusted EBITDA and segment Adjusted EBITDA, as key metrics in the evaluation of underlying Company and segment performance, in making financial, operating and planning decisions and, in part, in the determination of cash bonuses for its executive officers and employees.

The churches» seemingly separate futures will in no small measure depend on evaluations of the vitality and limitations of their diverse legacies.

Purely formal evaluations of the meaning of an event or a person in the immediate historical sequence are of course necessary; but a judgment of value depends upon a point of view which the writer imports into the history and by which he measures the historica1 phenomena.

The Southampton match gave us one of those opportunities to fully assess the Arsenal players on the fringes and take proper evaluation of their development in a proper competitive environment rather than just in an Under - 21 game which can not be used as real measure or test for a team of Arsenal's pedigree.

And I think as you said, the fact that they have stuck close with their draft philsophy has not only straightjacked them into missing out on evaluation tools, but not allowing them to forego these measures in the face of authentic talent.

The first and only FDA - approved concussion - specific tool designed for individuals ages 5 - 11, ImPACT Pediatric provides health care professionals with objective measures of neurocognitive functioning for evaluation and management of concussion in younger children.

Current research includes: co-leading organisational case studies in Birthplace in England, a national study of birth outcomes in home, midwife led, and obstetric led units; investigating the relationship between measures of safety climate and health care quality in A and E and intrapartum care; and conducting nested process evaluations of two trials of obesity in pregnancy behavioural interventions.

Once attached to a player's helmet (a hockey version is available now, versions for football, lacrosse, and ski and snowboard helmets will be introduced in 2012) The ShockboxTM sensor measures the G - Force of a hit to the helmet from any direction, and then sends the data wirelessly via Bluetooth to the athletic trainer, coach or parent's smart phone to alert them when the athlete suffers a traumatic head impact that may be concussive so they can be removed from the game or practice for evaluation on the sideline using standard concussion assessment tools, such as the Standardized Assessment of Concussion, Sports Concussion Assessment Tool (SCAT2) or King - Devick test.

An evaluation of Hawaii's Healthy Start program found no differences between experimental and control groups in maternal life course (attainment of educational and life goals), substance abuse, partner violence, depressive symptoms, the home as a learning environment, parent - child interaction, parental stress, and child developmental and health measures.25 However, program participation was associated with a reduction in the number of child abuse cases.

Given the heterogeneity in the choice of outcome measures routinely collected and reported in randomised evaluations of models of maternity care, a core (minimum) data set, such as that by Devane 2007, and a validated measure of maternal quality of life and well being would be useful not only within multi-centre trials and for comparisons between trials, but might also be a significant step in facilitating useful meta - analyses of similar studies.

Resident Care Evaluation: ACGME Core Competencies — This form can be used to measure the residents» proficiency in providing breastfeeding care according to the ACGME Core Competencies.

Infant health was measured by: whether an infant stayed in an intensive care unit for more than 3 days or whether an infant had special needs or medical problems based on a pediatrician evaluation [28].

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Given the heterogeneity in the choice of outcome measures routinely collected and reported in randomised evaluations of models of maternity care, a core (minimum) dataset, such as that by Devane 2007, and a validated measure of maternal quality of life and wellbeing would be useful not only within multi-centre trials and for comparisons between trials, but might also be a significant step in facilitating useful meta - analyses of similar studies.

Republicans in the state Senate have introduced a «same as» bill that would decouple state - based standardized examinations from teacher and principle evaluations — suggesting the measure strongly backed by the state's teachers union stands a strong chance of advancing in Albany.

The measures are predominantly opposed by the teachers unions, who say Cuomo's posture — especially on making it easier to fire educators who do not perform well in evaluations — as essentially anti-teacher.

Lawmakers last year agreed to linking Common Core - based testing to the results of teacher performance evaluations, a measure that was sought by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and linked to a boost in school aid.

Cuomo's proposed education measure focuses more on teacher evaluation and has little to do with eliminating the so - called last in, first out state law.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos indicated that the 33 - member Republican conference was in no rush to approve Gov. Andrew Cuomo's measure that would allow parents to view their child's teacher's evaluation.

The Institute makes the call in response to a Treasury consultation on how to increase the supply of capital to growing, innovative firms.1 The CIOT's response focuses on steps the Government could take to make current tax reliefs more efficient and effective, to provide the best support in line with their policy objectives.2 The CIOT advocates greater post-legislative review and evaluation of tax measures, including tax reliefs.

No Child Left Behind was not great for us either, but certainly Race to the Top» ratcheted everything up, because it became clear that for districts in need to get money that they would have to make all these kinds of measure and punish ideas that they'd put across, like the teacher evaluation piece and all of that.

A task force by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is reversing a number of policies in the Common Core standards, including parts of a measure on teacher evaluations pushed by Cuomo less than a year ago.

«They provide an evaluation of student mastery of content and skills in various courses of study, serve as a tool for measuring the degree to which students are on track to graduate high school college - and career - ready, and help shape future instruction.»

«New York City's results prove that Governor Cuomo's evaluation system measures teacher effectiveness when implemented in good faith — making it a critical tool to improve schools for kids.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a news conference this morning did not mention the women's agenda as potential measures he'd like to push in the spring, but did note the Dream Act, public financing of political campaigns and changes to the teacher evaluation law were items he wished were in the budget.

What makes this year different is that Cuomo is pushing for education reform measures in the budget — including a tougher teacher evaluation criteria and a receivership program for struggling (AKA «failing») schools.

«I agree with the sentiment and the opinion that we should have an objective evaluation strategy for layoffs, but also in general, that seniority alone is not the best measure.»

The measure comes after the state budget included a new evaluation criteria that includes both one state test and an in - classroom observation.

Under the measure approved in the budget, school districts must adopt the evaluation criteria by Nov. 15 or risk losing a boost in state education aid.

Enacting the evaluation measures by November will give school districts a planned boost in education aid.

ALBANY — On the last night of the legislative session, lawmakers in Albany passed a flurry of bills, including a measure that would lower New York City's speed limit from 30 to 25 miles per hour, and alter the state's current teacher evaluations system.

To avert a situation where New York is forced to return hundreds of millions of sorely - needed federal dollars, we urge you to consider introducing «shot clock» style measures to ensure that all school districts will fully implement the state's new teacher evaluation framework in accordance with the Race to the Top timeline.

New York State United Teachers, in a statement, says the measure will «keep teacher personnel records confidential» andstop «the shameless media exploitation and distortion of evaluation information».

Charter school leader Deborah Kenny's op - ed in today's The New York Times argues against the move by many states toward teacher evaluations based on multiple measures, including both student progress on achievement tests and the reviews of principals.

The Governor's framework outlined a reasonable and rigorous evaluation system based on multiple measures of performance and fulfilled the commitment made by New York in its application for Race to the Top grant funding.

Still, state lawmakers in both chambers are supporting changes to the education measures approved in the budget last month, including reforming the contentious teacher evaluation criteria and the regulation - making process.

The Yonkers Democrat vowed to back an increase in education spending and touted her conference's opposition to education policy measures that sought to link teacher evaluations to Common Core - based test results.

A task force by Gov. Andrew Cuomo is reversing a number of policies in the Common Core standards, including parts of a measure on teacher evaluations pushed by Cuomo less than a year ago.

Fariña said factors such as attendance and collaboration should be considered in measuring teachers» performance, noting that test scores were being de-emphasized across the country in teacher evaluations.

And, what's more exciting, improving strategic retention doesn't have to take forever - DCPS initiated its IMPACT teacher evaluation system in 2009, just over a year before these results were measured.

But unions and the State Education Department have battled over how districts should handle teacher evaluations in the absence of test scores, with the union saying scores should be thrown out entirely and the state saying a backup measure should be used.

Whatever the parties negotiate or King decides, the evaluation system will be based 20 percent on standardized test scores when applicable, 20 percent on other evidence of student learning and 60 percent on classroom observation and other measures of teacher effectiveness, in keeping with the 2010 state law on teacher evaluation.