Sentences with phrase «evaluators find»

«Wild cards» are projects that the grant evaluators find exciting, ambitious and just a little crazy.

As a result, independent evaluators find that the students can not explain what they have just read — meaning they actually can not read (McNeil & Valenzuela, 2001).

The evaluators found that during the intervention, fathers read on average for around five days in each week.

Henry Levin likewise asserts that «the evaluators found that receiving a voucher resulted in no advantage in math or reading test scores for either [low achievers or students from SINI schools].»

In a study of the Alaska Statewide Mentorship Program, our researchers and evaluators found that new teachers who were provided with experienced mentors were more likely than their peers to still be on the job after three years — and students in their classrooms were performing better in math and reading.

The evaluator found that the narrative documentation accurately depicted and situated the studies» findings, and identified the relevant strengths and limitations of each study's methodology.

Pupils in year 5 made an extra two months» progress in English and science, including free school meal pupils, Sheffield Hallam University evaluators found.

Again, free school meal pupils seemed to benefit more, but the pool was too small to be sure, evaluators found.

If the substance abuse evaluator finds that addiction poses a threat to your child, the judge may enter a temporary or permanent order altering your custody arrangement.

... After concluding his investigation, the evaluator found that mother had a «seriously impaired capacity for reality testing» and met the diagnostic criteria for a «Delusional Disorder of a persecutory (nonbizarre) type»; that the two older children had become enmeshed in mother's battle against father; that the children were not credible reporters because they were colluding with mother to generate false allegations against father; and that the extent of mother's enmeshment and role reversal with the two older children constituted a form of emotional child abuse.

The evaluator found that the oldest child was following mother's lead in applying pressure to her younger siblings to alienate them from father.

Not exact matches

Yet when the program evaluator flew in from Rome, Good was shocked to find that none of her colleagues was willing to admit the scope of the problem.

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The study also found that having a trusted social tie between the entrepreneur and the evaluator is more important for women than men.

The landmark agreement between the Alliance, founded by the American Heart Association and the Clinton Foundation, and the beverage companies, calls for an independent, third - party evaluator to track progress toward the goal of reducing beverage calorie consumed per person by 20 percent by 2025.

Until Lynch shows he can draft four starters with 5 picks like Pace just did, or get a top 3 running back with a 5th round pick, or find a top 10 SS in the 5th round I'll just assume Pace is the better evaluator of talent.

Independent evaluators have found that schools embracing EL Education programs significantly advance students» reading and math abilities in comparison to other schools.

One of the best ways to find out about good evaluators is through talking to other parents.

A court - appointed evaluator in 2013 found that State Sen. Tom Croci, who chairs the Senate Ethics Committee, had «taken advantage» of his elderly aunt for his own financial benefit and recommended that the court reject Croci's attempt to control her assets.

A divided state Board of Regents on Sept. 16 proposed three changes to the state evaluation system aimed at making the process fairer: an appeals process to address aberrations in growth scores, ensuring that privacy protections to bar the release to the public of individual teachers» growth scores will remain in force and the creation of a hardship waiver for school districts who find it difficult to hire outside evaluators.

Short for Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator, EVE is tasked with finding vegetative life on Earth after humans all but destroy it and jump ship.

While the evaluators are cautious about this figure (noting the impact might have been between 0 and +2 months» additional progress), this may indicate some potential if ways can be found to ensure more parents attend.

We have found that this stimulation overload can make it difficult to perform a proper assessment as an evaluator.

The trial was delivered by researchers from the University of Bristol and Harvard University and independent evaluators from Queen's University Belfast found that pupils receiving the intervention made an additional month's progress in maths compared with a similar group whose parents didn't get the texts.

You can pick a classroom project to fund on DonorsChoose.org or use charity evaluator website like JustGive.org, Charity Navigator, or GuideStar to find a perfect charity to donate to in honor of your teacher.

However, The independent evaluators from National Centre for Social Research found that the children who received the Switch - on intervention in this larger trial made no more progress than the children in the «business as usual» control group.

by Tom Kane, Amy Wooten, John Tyler, and Eric Taylor This study of Cincinnati's teacher evaluation system finds that the teachers who receive high ratings from trained evaluators who observe them are also more effective at promoting gains in student test scores.

In a 2004 report, its second with negative findings, the evaluators said, «There were no statistically significant differences on reading assessments between students who were exposed to the courseware and comparable students who were not exposed to the courseware.»

Using data from the Department of Education, the education advocacy group StudentsFirst wrote in a blog post that 32 percent of ATR teachers were in the pool due to a legal or disciplinary case; 25 percent had been in the pool for six years or more; and the percentage of teachers in the ATR who were found by evaluators to be «Ineffective» or «Unsatisfactory» was 12 times that for the overall teaching force for the 2014 - 15 school year.

Education Northwest researchers and evaluators will share their findings in 12 sessions.

The Republic also provides tools for parents to find and research schools, including the Association's Education Evaluator, which offers information on all public schools and lets parents compare enrollment - information, student - achievement and student - funding data.

The Education Evaluator is an easy transparent way to find and compare public schools - district and charter - in your neighborhood.

Thought leaders across the country will use the findings and recommendations published by our team of researchers and evaluators to challenge assumptions, deepen understanding and highlight innovation in teaching and learning.

As I also testified, one of my goals (and I believe this to also be a goal of the plaintiffs» writ large) is to (a) get the state of New Mexico to release the data to an external evaluator to evaluate the models» functionality (this person certainly does not have to be me) or (2) release the data to the «expert witnesses» on both the plaintiffs» side (i.e., me) and the defendants» side (i.e., Thomas Kane of Harvard), so that we can both examine these data independently, and then come back to the court with our findings and overall assessments regarding the model's overall strengths and weakness, as per the actual data.

The U.S. Department of Education should support ongoing research to establish the validity and reliability of comprehensive teacher evaluation programs, further examine the efficacy of value added models of teacher evaluation, and support adequate training and professional development of evaluators to insure fidelity of implementation of evaluation models found to be effective in improving teaching and learning.

Education Northwest researchers and evaluators will share their findings at seven sessions addressing achievement gaps among Pacific region students, leadership to promote equitable outcomes, out - of - school time learning, and implementation of new programs.

A poll of the group, most of them veteran teachers, found that nearly half worried about the objectivity of their evaluators.

The D.C. union survey of teachers found that 94 percent believed there was a «lack of consistent understanding» among both teachers and evaluators of the observation framework's expectations.

A new study finds that the usefulness of teacher evaluation feedback and the credibility of the evaluator are important characteristics in how teachers perceive and respond to evaluations.

If an evaluator concurs with a principal's finding that a teacher is ineffective for a second consecutive year, city officials can begin a new, expedited termination process.

From a high - level perspective, the positive dispositions found for the practicing science and technology educators, principal investigators and evaluators, and technology infusion faculty in this study can be viewed as a target level toward which one might hope the middle school students and the preservice teachers might evolve.

The commission found the school's evaluators were unqualified because they did not have special education training.

The National Research Council, an organization chartered by Congress, conducted the review and found some promising evidence of improvements, but the evaluators identified many persistent disparities, and noted a lack of comprehensive, accessible data.

The 10 Mindframes, which should underpin every action in schools, are founded on the principle that teachers are evaluators, change agents, learning experts, and seekers of feedback who are constantly engaged with dialogue and challenge.

Researchers at the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality (Little et al., 2009) found that a «reliable classroom observation protocol may be wildly inaccurate or inconsistent in the hands of an untrained evaluator» (p. 21).

These powerful mindframes, which should underpin every action in schools, are founded on the principle that teachers are evaluators, change agents, learning experts, and seekers of feedback who are constantly engaged with dialogue and challenge.

After each observation, the evaluator and teacher meet to discuss the findings and to make a plan for ongoing growth.

The two evaluators then get together with the teacher being reviewed to go over their findings, give positive feedback, and discuss what areas may need improvement.

The study was funded by the National Education Association, which sought to assure the autonomy of the evaluators by giving them full control over publication and dissemination of their findings.