Sentences with phrase «higher levels of performance accountability»

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«Transparency, accountability, the truth and personal discipline are needed if we want to move Ghana into a higher level of performance and give our people the opportunity to enjoy a world - class standard of living in our lifetime,» he said.

One study by Martin Carnoy and Susanna Loeb of Stanford, which was based on state - level NAEP data, found that the within - state growth in math performance between 1996 and 2000 was larger in states with higher values on an accountability index, particularly for African American and Hispanic students in 8th grade.

While the push for higher levels of academic achievement and accountability continues to increase, more people have realized that a single test can not provide a comprehensive evaluation of student performance.

Achieve, which normally assesses accountability systems at the state level for «quality and coherence,» praised the Montgomery County assessments as rigorous, high - quality measures that are good predictors of students» performance on state - level tests.

More than a decade of research, at Harvard and elsewhere, on accountability, school improvement, and school organization has become «increasingly specific,» he said, «about the conditions that promote high - level learning and performance in educational institutions,» within classrooms and in systems as a whole.

We also used accountability to determine which schools and districts we held up based on their high level of performance.

He stated that charter schools are held to a high level of accountability and argues that a school's academic performance should be the ultimate determination of its fiscal responsibility.

To reach this higher level, next generation accountability must embrace a wider vision, distribute trustworthy performance information, and build support infrastructure, while eliciting the assent, support, and enthusiasm of citizens and educators» (p. vii).

The report examines progress in the performance of students in high - poverty schools, the development of state standards and assessment systems, accountability systems and school improvement efforts, the targeting of Title I funds, Title I services at the school level, support for family involvement, services for students in private schools, and services provided under the Even Start, Migrant Education, and Neglected and Delinquent programs.

All of California's public schools are held to higher levels of accountability to improve the academic performance of these subgroups.

In Data - Driven High School Reform, Lachat writes, «Putting student learning at the center of school accountability requires the capacity to assess and use data to monitor student performance and to evaluate the extent to which new structures and approaches to curriculum, instruction and assessment result in higher levels of achievement» (2001).

«Educators, parents, students, and policymakers are voicing growing frustration with the current models of high - stakes assessments used across the United States, which rely too heavily on low - level end - of - year tests,» said Bryan Goodwin, president and CEO of McREL International, and co-author of the new white paper, Re-Balancing Assessment: Placing Formative and Performance Assessment at the Heart of Learning and Accountability.

We find that an accountability system based on a low - level test of basic skills apparently led to reduced performance by high - achieving students, while an accountability system based on a more challenging criterion - referenced exam apparently led to improved performance in college on mathematics and other technical subjects.

Though you may not have held formal accountability over hiring, performance evaluations, and / or merit increases, maybe you have led large - scale onshore / offshore teams and sustained high engagement levels and generated a superior ROI during periods of significant change and restructuring.

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In 2015, that sense of teamwork and the cadence of accountability created by the scoreboards helped lift the company to the highest performance level in their relocation business.