Sentences with phrase «evaluation model for»

As such, this trial is a best practice implementation and evaluation model for professional home visiting in Australia.

In this series on the Marzano School Leader Evaluation Model, we're looking at the power that school districts and schools gain when they implement the leader model together with the Marzano Teacher Evaluation Model for a fully aligned system.

For some, there is a single evaluation model for the entire state, which very different from the pilot program in New Jersey, where each district can choose from a menu of options.

At Douglass Middle High School in Oklahoma City, Dr. Brian Staples, principal, says the school has successfully used the Marzano Causal Teacher Evaluation Model for three years.

Dr. Robert Marzano worked closely with consultants at Learning Sciences Marzano Center to develop the model, which is designed to integrate and build upon the Marzano Teacher Evaluation Model for a coherent and aligned system.

Learning Sciences International has worked extensively to articulate the Marzano teacher evaluation model for aligned focus on raising student achievement and teacher effectiveness.

On the recommendation of the Oklahoma Commission for Teacher and Leader Effectiveness (TLE), the Oklahoma State Board of Education has approved the Marzano School Leadership Evaluation Model for all Oklahoma districts implementing leadership evaluation during the 2012 - 2013 school year.

Learning Sciences International is the official provider of the Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation Model for state departments of education, school districts, and school level redevelopment and implementation services.

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The model is enriched with Barra Descriptors, the building blocks of the model's factors, which are available for the first - time ever for U.K. equity investors as a valuable tool for alpha research and strategy evaluation.

Of course, we do have a model norm for the evaluation of sexual deviancy.

Rather, the problem was that bishops adopted a psychological model that excluded canon law, and they routinely sent priests accused of sexual abuse for psychological evaluation and treatment.

This one day course run by Simon Forrest will cover information, participatory work and discussion on the variety of models, structures and methods for the evaluation of projects, programmes and initiatives which target fathers.

Guidance Materials: The State Board of Education and the Illinois Nutrition Education and Training Program provides districts with wellness policy resources, including a Local Wellness Policy Toolkit (2005) that includes an action plan checklist, a needs assessment and annual evaluation tool, a model policy developed under a USDA Team Nutrition grant, and other resources for developing local wellness policies.

Professor Vedam's scholarly work includes critical appraisal of the literature on planned home birth, evaluations of innovative models for fetal assessment, and development of the first US registry of home birth perinatal data.

We calculated these transition probabilities using data from the longitudinal National Health and Nutrition Evaluation Survey, which assessed a cohort of women in 1987 and the same women again in 1992.25 Several limitations of these data affect our model: 1) because this national survey lacks data on women before age 35 years, women in our model could not develop hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, or MI before age 35 years; 2) because longitudinal survey data were only available for a 5 - year interval, we assumed that transition probabilities were stable within the 5 - year intervals and converted these probabilities from 5 - year to 1 - year intervals; 3) because the survey data were too few to provide stable estimates by year of age, we used transition probabilities for women in three age groups: aged 50 years and younger, 51 — 65 years, and 65 years and older.

In other words, even when home visitation programs succeed in their goal of changing parent behaviour, these changes do not appear to produce significantly better child outcomes.21, 22 One recent exception, however, was a study of the Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) model with low - income Latino families showing changes in home parenting and better third - grade math achievement.23 Earlier evaluations of HIPPY found mixed results regarding program effectiveness.

Policymakers should continue to expand access and funding for parent support and child development services delivered through home visiting, paying attention to resources that not only support the delivery of home visiting services but also support the rigorous evaluation of current evidence - based models and promising approaches in operation across the country.

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.

Future trials in this area would benefit from drawing on a framework for trials of complex interventions which explicitly requires theoretical modelling between processes and outcomes in the pre-trial stage, and a process evaluation of the trial (Anderson 2008).

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.

Lifton opposes adding an optional state standardized test as a component for the evaluations, and she's not sure about a new «matrix» model for evaluations that the State Education Department will be required to develop under Cuomo's plan.

A state Supreme Court Justice has ruled in favor of a Great Neck teacher who sued the state over its teacher evaluation model after she received an «ineffective» on the rating tied to students» test performance — one year after being rated «effective» for similar scores.

In March last year, the then General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers Christine Blower called for Ofsted to be replaced with «A new model of school accountability, one that involves school self - evaluation and is designed in discussion with the profession.»

Completing a system - wide staffing evaluation and assessment; leading the way to developing models for sharing staff resources, and thereby easing the transitions caused by attrition - based staffing reductions;

That system was also to serve as a potential model for an evaluation system that would eventually apply to all city teachers.

The inability of the two sides to agree on an appeals process had been the reason why talks on a new evaluation system for 33 schools in the restart and transformation models had broken down and the reason that the mayor gave for saying he had no choice but to close those schools.

Conducting a system - wide staffing evaluation and assessment; leading the way to developing models for sharing staff resources, and thereby easing the transitions caused by attrition - based staffing reductions.

Richard Curreri, Director of Conciliation for PERB, wrote that «given that the parties have unquestionably bargained to impasse regarding evaluation procedures under the Transformation / Restart model, I find that the appointment of a mediator at this juncture is appropriate.»

On Jan. 15 the UFT was informed by the mediator appointed by the state's Public Employment Relations Board that the city and the Department of Education have refused to take part in mediation designed to help us reach an agreement on a new model for teacher evaluations.

On Jan. 13, after the Department of Education had walked out of talks on the evaluation process for 33 schools that were to be part of schools improvement models known as Transformation and Restart, UFT President Michael Mulgrew formally asked that PERB appoint a mediator, an appointment that in effect would mandate that the DOE restart the talks.

The Daily News praises Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott and teachers union president Michael Mulgrew for finding a compromise on teacher evaluations in 33 low - performing schools, saying it should be a model for all of them.

The evaluation stems in part from the AAAS logic model and theory of change for public engagement with science, which describes short -, medium -, and long - term outcomes for individuals and for society more broadly.

BOX 23, A-15-4; 30219212 / 734979 SAPA Requests for Translations of SAPA materials, 1966 - 1968 Prerequisites for SAPA The Psychological Basis of SAPA, 1965 Requests for SAPA to be Used in Canada, 1966 - 1968 Requests for Assistance with Inservice programs, 1967 - 1968 Schools Using SAPA, 1966 - 1968 Speakers on SAPA for NSTA and Other Meetings, 1968 Suggestions for Revisions of Part 4, 1967 - 1968 Suggestions for Revisions of the Commentary, 1967 - 1968 Summer Institutes for SAPA, Locations, 1968 Summer Institutes for SAPA, Announcement Forms, 1968 Inservice Programs, 1968 - 1969 Consultant Recommendations, 1967 - 1968 Inquiries About Films, 1968 Inquiries About Kits, 1967 - 1968 Inquiries About Evaluations, 1968 Tryout Teacher List, 1967 - 1968 Tryout Centers, 1967 - 1968 Tryout Feedback Forms, 1967 - 1968 Tryout Center Coordinators, 1967 - 1968 Cancelled Tryout Centers, 1967 - 1968 Volunteer Teachers for Parts F & G, 1967 - 1968 List of Teachers for Tryout Centers, 1963 - 1966 Tucson, AZ, Dr. Ed McCullough, 1964 - 1968 Tallahassee, FL, Mr. VanPierce, 1964 - 1968 Chicago, IL, University of Chicago, Miss Illa Podendorf, 1965 - 1969 Monmouth, IL, Professor David Allison, 1964 - 1968 Overland Park, KS, Mr. R. Scott Irwin and Mrs. John Muller, 1964 - 1968 Baltimore, MD, Mr. Daniel Rochowiak, 1964 - 1968 Kern County, CA, Mr. Dale Easter and Mr. Edward Price, 1964 - 1967 Philadelphia, PA, Mrs. Margaret Efraemson, 1968 Austin, TX, Dr. David Butts, 1968 Seattle, WA, Mrs. Louisa Crook, 1968 Oshkosh, WI, Dr. Robert White, 1968 John R. Mayer, personal correspondence, 1966 - 1969 Teacher Response Sheets, 1966 - 1967 Overland, KS Oshkosh, WI Monmouth, IL Baltimore, MD Teacher Response Checklist SAPA Feedback, 1965 - 1966 Using Time Space Relations Communicating Observing Formulating Models Defining Operationally Interpreting Data Classifying (2 Folders) Measuring Inferring Predicting Formulating Hypothesis Controlling Variables Experimenting Using Numbers SAPA Response Sheets for Competency Measures, 1966

«Complex models are needed to effectively evaluate PMed study designs, and this proof - of - concept trial validates the dog with cancer as a model for clinical evaluation of novel PMed approaches,» said Dr. Melissa Paoloni, the study's lead author and former director of the COTC.

Evaluation and improvement of the current 3D earth model is the subject of current research, for example using the Jan. 4, 2018 M 4.4 Berkeley earthquake that was widely felt around the northern Hayward fault.

Evaluation of the CROPGRO - Cotton and CERES - Wheat modules within the cropping system model of the Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer, or DSSAT, for the region was one of the objectives of the latest study.

Any results that are reported to constitute a blinded, independent validation of a statistical model (or mathematical classifier or predictor) must be accompanied by a detailed explanation that includes: 1) specification of the exact «locked down» form of the model, including all data processing steps, algorithm for calculating the model output, and any cutpoints that might be applied to the model output for final classification, 2) date on which the model or predictor was fully locked down in exactly the form described, 3) name of the individual (s) who maintained the blinded data and oversaw the evaluation (e.g., honest broker), 4) statement of assurance that no modifications, additions, or exclusion were made to the validation data set from the point at which the model was locked down and that neither the validation data nor any subset of it had ever been used to assess or refine the model being tested

Scott recently collaborated on a global Zika modeling project led by Simon Hay, head of the geospatial science division at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle, Washington.

In this new evaluation, the authors found support for the traditional model of an Ornithischia - Saurischia split of Dinosauria, but also noted that this support was very weak, and the alternative idea of Ornithoscelida is only slightly less likely.

The study aims to design and develop standard models and procedures for consistent and reliable evaluation of fingerprint readers and is funded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

And this information is also invaluable for profitability forecasts and for the evaluation of business models,» says Marco Jahn, coordinator of the ALMANAC project at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT.

The NSPCC is reviewing the Letting the Future In model based on the evaluation findings, particularly around providing additional support for both older and younger children to sustain the intervention's effect.

But the U.K. Met Office (national weather service), the U.S.'s National Center for Atmospheric Research and other partners around the globe aim to change that in the future by developing regular assessments — much like present evaluations of global average temperatures along with building from the U.K. flooding risk modeling efforts — to determine how much a given season's extreme weather could be attributed to human influence.

The screening procedure — used in the U.S. to model and study virus replication — allows for continuing evaluation of new antivirals or anti-Ebola drugs, since there is a likelihood of future Ebola outbreaks.

«In this study, a new «source analysis» method was used for the first time to measure functional networks in the infant brain: with the help of a computer model, the measured EEG signals were interpreted as activity in the infant cortex, which enabled the evaluation of the functional networking of neurons in a very versatile manner on the cortical level,» says Sampsa Vanhatalo, a professor in clinical neurophysiology and the head of the study.

IDMIT will contribute 1) To the development and validation of assays based on flow cytometry and mass cytometry for the evaluation of immune responses in humans and animal models; these tools will be particularly relevant for the identification of signatures of vaccine efficacy; 2) To the animal model platform, in particularly by providing access to NHP models and to new technologies for in vivo imaging infections and host responses; 3) To networking activities, in particular by organising a workshop on in vivo imaging.

Because of a lack of standardised and harmonised preclinical studies, there is limited information we can so far obtain from literature on the relative predictive value of different animal models and alternative methods for vaccine evaluation.

Research will aim to improve the predictive value of animal models for vaccine evaluation, provide consultancy on the selection of appropriate models, and develop innovative approaches to characterise in vivo antigen behaviour and host responses whilst reducing animal use.

W. Bogers: PhD in immunology and 20 years of experience with NHP models for the preclinical evaluation of HIV vaccine candidates as well as testing antivirals.

Other humanized mice have no spontaneous phenotype and can be combined with either genetic spontaneous or inducible models of chronic inflammatory diseases yielding preclinical efficacy evaluation platforms for Rheumatoid Arthritis, Intestinal Inflammation, Psoriasis and Multiple Sclerosis.