Sentences with phrase «high effectiveness value»

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Long a staple in the ecommerce store owner's toolkit, blogger outreach is valued for its effectiveness in bolstering brand awareness and in building high quality links, contributing to that much coveted web authority.

In addition to typical applications in industrial goods, its compatibilization effectiveness creates added value for post-consumer package recycling programs by enabling higher value applications for the recycled material.

Those looking at the NHS big - picture realise that, facing a period of rapid change and the challenge of providing safe, high - quality care within restricted budgets, what's needed is a workforce that focuses on medicines - their safety, their effectiveness, their value - for - money.

(7) instructs the shadow Sponsor Board and Delivery Authority and their statutory successors to apply high standards of cost - effectiveness and demonstrate value for money in the business case, to report back to Parliament with up to date costings and a realistic timetable for the duration of the work, and to include measures to ensure: the repair and replacement of mechanical and electrical services, fire safety improvement works, the removal of asbestos, repairs to the external and internal fabric of the Palace, the removal of unnecessary and unsightly accretions to the Palace, the improvement of visitor access including the provision of new educational and other facilities for visitors and full access for people with disabilities;

Drs. Rajkumar and Kantarjian say other reasons for the high cost of cancer drugs include legislation that prevents Medicare from being able to negotiate drug prices and a lack of value - based pricing, which ties the cost of a drug to its relative effectiveness compared to other drugs.

Our basic value - added model measures the effectiveness of a principal by examining the extent to which math achievement in a school is higher or lower than would be expected based on the characteristics of students in that school, including their achievement in the prior year.

Securing value for money (economy, efficiency and effectiveness) releases resources for higher priorities within an academy trust.

Start salaries high enough to attract the highest performers and reduce rewards for experience and for additional degrees and licenses, which have little demonstrable value on teacher effectiveness.

If the teacher's high value - added in school A reflects her teaching ability, then the performance of students in grade 4 in school B should go up by the difference in the effectiveness between her and the teacher she is replacing.

The correlation between teacher effectiveness (as demonstrated by value - added student growth measures) and student life outcomes (higher salaries, advanced degrees, neighborhoods of residence, and retirement savings) is staggering; it's not an exaggeration to say that great teachers substantially improve students» future quality of life and those students» contributions to the common good.

In the wake of high - profile evaluations of teachers using their students» test scores, such as one conducted by the Los Angeles Times, a study released last month suggests some such methods, called «value added» measures, are too imprecise to rate teachers» effectiveness.

* The value - added model that the MET project employs, while common in the literature, is also not designed to address how the distribution of teacher effects varies between high - and low - performing classrooms (e.g., teachers of ELL classes are assumed to be of the same average effectiveness as teachers of gifted / talented classes).

ALD4ALL successfully demonstrated the value of job - embedded professional learning, with results of 70 % of participating teachers improved their effectiveness by one or two levels and / or maintained a rating of effective or higher.

In addition to the fact that the tests are narrow and do not measure higher - order thinking skills, researchers have found that value - added models of teacher effectiveness are highly unstable: Teachers» ratings differ substantially from class to class and from year to year, as well as from one test to the next.

After creating value - added to student attendance, I further investigate how this new dimension of teacher effectiveness influences student high school graduation and dropout above and beyond teachers» impact on student test scores.

On this note, and «[i] n sum, recent research on value added tells us that, by using data from student perceptions, classroom observations, and test score growth, we can obtain credible evidence [albeit weakly related evidence, referring to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's MET studies] of the relative effectiveness of a set of teachers who teach similar kids [emphasis added] under similar conditions [emphasis added]... [Although] if a district administrator uses data like that collected in MET, we can anticipate that an attempt to classify teachers for personnel decisions will be characterized by intolerably high error rates [emphasis added].

This is especially important when observational (and value - added) data are to be used for high - stakes accountability systems in that the data yielded via really both measurement systems may be less likely to reflect «true» teaching effectiveness due to «true» bias.

But perhaps this problem has never been stated as starkly as in a recent paper examining the distribution of teacher quality in Washington state: «We demonstrate that in elementary, middle school, and high school classrooms (both math and reading), every measure of teacher quality — experience, licensure exam score, and value - added estimates of effectiveness — is inequitably distributed across every indicator of student disadvantage — free / reduced lunch status, underrepresented minority, and low prior academic performance.»

(R values measure the effectiveness of insulating materials: the higher the better.)

It is important to them to have a science - approved stamp to their dogma (Western techno - civilisation has hurt mother Gaia, and it is really time that we repent from our sins and go back to a «natural» way of life (that will be extensively described by their prefered high priest, usually involving actions ranked more from symbolic value than effectiveness in reducing CO2.