Sentences with phrase «evaluation schemes of»

There are other international evaluation schemes of note, operated by the Orthopedic Foundation for Animals (OFA) in the USA and Canada; the Fédération Cynologique Internationale (FCI), an umbrella organisation of more than 80 national kennel authorities in most of Europe, Russia, South America and parts of Asia, [13]; and the PennHIP scheme based at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.

What I meant to emphasize was that teachers and their unions are unhappy that politicians and now institutions — the LA Times — are imposing evaluation schemes of which they (teachers and union officials) disapprove.

The decision, which the state plans to appeal, is likely, the experts say, to increase the use of the comparable - worth concept in job - evaluation schemes of private and public employers — including public - school systems — nationwide.

Not exact matches

«After an extensive evaluation of all final proposals received, the Special Committee decided on the proposed scheme, which we believe is compelling and value - enhancing for all shareholders,» Seek Ngee Huat, chairman of GLP's board, said in a joint statement with the winning consortium.

It is this which gives Jesus his central place and role, and it is from this centrality, or particular «importance,» in our understanding and in our living, that the evaluation of Jesus himself, his significance in the total scheme of things, his continuing impact on successive generations of men and women, takes its rise.

Whilst we do not have rigorous evaluation evidence of the effectiveness of Ecole des Maris, testimony from the men involved, and from pregnant women and new mothers, indicates that the scheme has transformed attitudes towards healthcare, as well as substantially increasing the rates of attended labour in a country where maternal and child death rates at birth remain high.

The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) told inspectors that the stakeholder body set up by the Home Office had no «data gathering or evaluation function» and would therefore be unable to properly monitor the scheme.

However, there has been wide variation in development, experience and evaluation of route safety management schemes.

JCWI's independent evaluation of the pilot scheme found evidence of it, as did the Home Office's own evaluation of the scheme.

The state Supreme Court has overturned a Superior Court judge's controversial ruling that would have upended the state's educational - funding scheme and mandated a vast overhaul of teacher evaluations, educational standards and special - education...

The state Supreme Court has overturned a Superior Court judge's controversial ruling that would have upended the state's educational - funding scheme and mandated a vast overhaul of teacher evaluations, educational standards and special - education services.

Although it is likely that only a few advisers will take the initiative to work with you on a structured evaluation scheme such as the monthly progress monitor, most advisers should at least be willing to cooperate with you on such a project — especially if you have filled out the forms on your own so that the evaluation takes only a limited amount of your adviser's time.

«Our evaluation of the Wolong restoration project will have a guiding role in the restoration scheme areas across the entire area affected by the earthquake, Zhang said.

Lesson consists of Discussion based on Adolf Hitler and is he created in the image of God, the dialogue of Catherine of Siena and an evaluation exam question with structure and «hints», as well as mark scheme to peer assess.

Public school students and their teachers in Florida have been subject to endless test - based evaluation schemes and a massive expansion of school vouchers.

You can download examples of live theatre evaluations and the mark scheme from the exam board website to support this resource.

The resource includes: - A complete scheme of work - Script extracts from pantomimes - Powerpoint lesson resources - Evaluation sheet post-assessment

Malloy's «education reform» bill is the driving force behind the Common Core testing scheme and the unfair and inappropriate teacher evaluation system — a legislative package that passed the Connecticut House of Representatives 149 - 0.

For two years, teachers and public school advocates have been warning elected and appointed officials about the impending disaster that will be caused by the rollout of the Common Core, the Common Core testing scheme and the teacher evaluation program.

Thursday's LA Times editorial about the use of student achievement data in teacher evaluations around the country (Bill Gates» warning on test scores) makes some valuable points about the dangers of rushed, half - baked teacher evaluation schemes that count test scores as more than half of a teacher's evaluation (as is being done in some states and districts)...

If we really want to improve teaching, we should look to develop such models of effective evaluation rather than pursuing problematic schemes that mis - measure teachers, create disincentives for teaching high - need students, offer no useful feedback on how to improve teaching practice and risk driving some of the best educators out of the profession.

Though some prefer to focus on value - added and merit - pay schemes that so far haven't definitively improved classroom performance, I want to key in on one recommendation the report makes for making the best use of teacher evaluations: evaluating all teachers.

The NFER's Evaluation of the Arnold Foundation for Rugby School strongly endorsed its work, and there was demand for an organisation such as SpringBoard to work with other boarding schools to lead a national roll out of a similar scheme.

Facing an arbitrary 12/21/12 deadline imposed by Chancellor Walcott, a growing wave of bloggers have begun speaking out against any teacher evaluation scheme that harms teachers and ignores our voices in coming to an agreement.

Therefore, I call on the delegate assembly to (reading from resolution) resolve that the UFT should mobilize teachers, parents and students towards a repeal of the Education Law 3012c and the new evaluation scheme.

Malloy's unwavering commitment to the Common Core, the absurd Common Core testing scheme and the unfair and inappropriate teacher evaluation system has rightfully earned him the ridicule of parents, teachers and public education advocates across the state.

It seems to me that a lot of new evaluation schemes are attempting to hold teachers accountable for factors they don't control and penalize them for shortcomings for which they are not responsible.

What is not a sufficient part of teacher training and preparation nor required in most schemes of the evaluation of teachers is demonstrating (a) knowledge of the individual students, or (b) showing how one uses reflective practice to ensure that one is reaching the students.

Loss of Talented Teachers: The move toward using test scores as a key component of evaluations and «merit pay» schemes may well push many talented teachers out of the profession.

Rather than use the event to congratulate each other on the destruction of our public schools, Connecticut's elected officials should be explaining to Duncan that the Common Core and Common Core Testing scheme is a fiasco that needs to be repealed and that Connecticut must be allowed to develop its own effective teacher evaluation system that doesn't rely on the use of unfair, inappropriate and faulty standardized test scores.

Shavar Jeffries, the mouthpiece for a corporate funded, New York based, charter school advocacy group that calls itself «Democrats for Education Reform (DFER)» uses the space to urge Connecticut legislators to DEFEAT a bill that, if passed, would require Governor Dannel Malloy and his administration to develop an honest and effective teacher evaluation system rather than continue with Malloy's present program that is dependent on the results of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme.

At the same time, the legislature completed its 2016 session without addressing the fundamental problems associated with the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core SBAC testing scheme, nor did it step forward and require that the Malloy administration develop a teacher evaluation system that is not reliant on the scores of this failed and disastrous testing program.

Even outside of education, private industry behemoths such as, Morgan Stanley, Microsoft, Google, and Accenture have eliminated the use of numerical ratings for employees, an immovable piece of the Connecticut evaluation scheme.

While the decision is an important milestone on the school funding issue, Judge Thomas Moukawsher's Memorandum of Decision is nothing short of absurd, ill - conceived and simply wrong when it comes to Connecticut's special education programs, the state's illogical teacher evaluation system and the state's over-reliance on the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core SBAC and SAT testing schemes.

Perhaps worst of all is Malloy's limitless commitment to the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC testing scheme and his unwillingness to decouple those unfair test results from his deformed teacher evaluation program.

An evaluation of the Shanghai exchange scheme, published today by Sheffield Hallam University, found some changes in teaching practices and a perception by teachers that pupils were more engaged in maths learning, but all evidence is described as «anecdotal» or having limited reliability due to other curriculum changes occurring at the same time.

«Teacher evaluation will soon be in a state of flux given that the grand scheme to use teacher evaluation to «weed out» ineffective teachers and «reward» effective teachers has simply not worked because the movement was solely focused on measuring teachers as opposed to helping them grow.

As you read Peter Greene's piece on Cuomo, recall Malloy's unprecedented assault on teachers and the teaching profession and the failure of the Democrats in the Connecticut General Assembly to derail Malloy's unfair, inappropriate and counter-productive initiatives on teacher evaluation and the massive expansion of the Common Core Standardized Testing scheme.

Third Avenue, in its valuation approach, does not subscribe to a primacy of Resource Conversion over Going Concern in its evaluation of equity securities because of a view that Resource Conversion is more important or more commonplace necessarily in the overall economic scheme of things.

«That's what this guide focuses on: a mathematical evaluation of every scheme to pick the real winners.»

The Board would also provide input and evaluation of the Department's rules including whether the scheme actually prevents animal cruelty.

Johannsen, K.S., 2002: Combining voluntary agreements and taxes: an evaluation of the Danish agreement scheme on energy efficiency in industry.

Harrison, D. and D. Radov, 2002: Evaluation of alternative initial allocation mechanisms in a European Union greenhouse gas emissions allowance trading scheme.

Abstract: An evaluation of analyses sponsored by the predecessor to the U.K. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) of the global impacts of climate change under various mitigation scenarios (including CO2 stabilization at 550 and 750 ppm) coupled with an examination of the relative costs associated with different schemes to either mitigate climate change or reduce vulnerability to various climate - sensitive hazards (namely, malaria, hunger, water shortage, coastal flooding, and losses of global forests and coastal wetlands) indicates that, at least for the next few decades, risks and / or threats associated with these hazards would be lowered much more effectively and economically by reducing current and future vulnerability to those hazards rather than through stabilization.

Further research is also needed on the impact of traffic calming in other settings in which the background decline in injury rates might be less dramatic, particularly in low and middle income settings, where 85 % of road traffic related injuries occur3 and where there has been little evaluation of the impact of traffic calming schemes.16

Hartley v Northumbria [2009]- Employment Tribunal decision that the job evaluation scheme in the NHS, Agenda for Change, was a valid scheme under the Equal Pay Act and did not discriminate on the ground of sex.

The LSC has published an evaluation of CDS Direct (first phase expansion), announcing it to be a success despite not being able to confirm that the scheme is on target to deliver the promised financial benefits, and no peer review having yet been carried out.

Acknowledging that more data is required, the report concludes that, in view of the positive evaluations received to date, and the willingness of parties to participate (as demonstrated by the number of cases that were signed up initially to the scheme but which settled before trial), it would be appropriate for concurrent evidence to be included in CPR Pt 35.

«One of the main objectives of any health insurance scheme is to provide financial coverage (or risk protection) by reducing such burden while enhancing use of healthcare,» Dr Anup Karan of the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) and first author of the study, Extending health insurance to the poor in India: An impact evaluation of Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana on out - of - pocket spending for healthcare, told The Indian Express.

• Provide full range of financial services to clients based on evaluation of their financial needs • Devise and implement strategies to enhance loan selling • Fulfill daily, weekly and monthly sale targets and referral goals • Maintain highest standards of customer services, personal banking and SAFE mortgage Licensing requirements • Identify cross-sell opportunities and use the same proactively • Determine customer's financial needs and offer them with appropriate schemes and packages