Sentences with phrase «improve accountability measures»

The color of the bubble reflects a metric composed of factors that taken together are warning signs that a district's alternative schools are of poor quality or that a district may be using alternative schools to improve accountability measures.

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Finally, what about other measures to improve electoral legitimacy and accountability?

UPMC Presbyterian Hospital's infection prevention teams have improved hand washing and sanitizing compliance at the hospital to nearly 100 percent among clinical staff through accountability and educational measures.

But the proposal's pitfall is that it assumes colleges will respond to accountability measures by improving teaching and maintaining rigor rather than simply lowering standards in the interest of pushing students through.

Performing near the national average in standards and accountability, the state could improve on its assessment and accountability measures.

Clearly, accountability systems that rely on short - term, quantifiable measures to drive improved performance can lead to unintended consequences.

One of only 16 states to reward high - performing or improving schools, South Carolina also fares well on measures of school accountability.

Results from annual standardized tests can be useful for accountability purposes, but student progress must be measured on a far more frequent basis if the data are being used to inform instruction and improve achievement.

First, student performance on the available measures, usually state tests, improves after accountability reforms are introduced.

For all indicators in their accountability system, state leaders should ask, «what do these components measure and how will they improve student outcomes?»

It must be understood that every school in Australia is a «government funded school» therefore accountability must be the same for all schools and any measures of improved performance must be developed in consultation with the profession.

The use of a proficiency index or providing schools credit for students at different points in the achievement distribution improves the construct validity of the accountability measures over the NCLB proficiency rate measures (Polikoff et al., 2014).

Together, these two changes — measuring performance levels using a performance index with as many categories as possible and weighting growth more heavily than status — will go a considerable way toward improving the design of accountability policy and reducing unintended consequences.

And I suspect that even improved measures may be useful for research purposes but never robust enough to use for accountability.

Instead, teachers are being driven into the ground by problems such as failing accountability measures that do little to improve children's education.

The results show that students in high - accountability states averaged significantly greater gains on the NAEP 8th - grade math test than students in states with little or no state measures to improve student performance.

Upon reflecting on what each of these experts said, the good news is that the core principles of accountability that have guided progress in our schools are still widely agreed to: setting high standards, assessing regularly to those standards, measuring improvement, and providing supports for students and consequences for schools that don't improve.

This was made clear this week in Ahn's and Vigdor's study on the impact of AYP on improving student achievement in North Carolina, a new version of research developed last year for the American Enterprise Institute on the impact of No Child's accountability measures.

For example, while we have ample evidence of unintended consequences of test - based accountability — as well as evidence of some potential benefits — we know less about the consequences of using value - added measures to encourage educators to improve.

Kane simply does not realize (or acknowledge) that this «echo chamber» continues in its persistence because of those who continue to preserve a stronger accountability for educational reform logic, and who continue to reinvent «new and improved» accountability measures and policies to support this logic, accordingly.

During his tenure, he made the MTA the voice of the profession and established the teachers union as a partner in developing and implementing state and federal policy such as teacher - evaluation frameworks, new curriculum standards, district and school accountability measures, while strengthening labor - management collaboration focused on improving student achievement.

As I have noted, stronger standards alone aren't the only reason why student achievement has improved within this period; at the same time, the higher expectations for student success fostered by the standards (along with the accountability measures put in place by the No Child Left Behind Act, the expansion of school choice, reform efforts by districts such as New York City, and efforts by organizations such as the College Board and the National Science and Math Initiative to get more poor and minority students to take Advanced Placement and other college prep courses), has helped more students achieve success.

Promote evidence - based practices and accountability for student success by improving the use of data, research, and evaluation to assess longitudinal student outcomes, improve school and program results, and otherwise measure progress toward consistently delivering high quality programs and services.

Assessment and Accountability for Improving Schools and Learning calls for replacing the one - shot tests used to impose sanctions under NCLB with multiple measures that better support high - quality teaching and increased student achievement.

Pro-voucher groups aren't trying to fight accountability, but are working to make sure that an equitable process is developed to measure the success of school choice programs in improving academic achievement, says Jim Bender, executive director of School Choice Wisconsin.

As such, the inclusion of Science assessments in accountability measures helps to maintain a holistic balance, improving the overall fidelity of the accountability metric and better equalizing the allocation of resources between the subjects.

The ESSA requires states to measure school quality and improves on the No Child Left Behind Act by allowing states and districts to round out their accountability rubrics with measures beyond test scores.

The board would be created by a constitutional amendment and be charged with approving all administrative rules related to the DPI; design and issue a new state report card and audit the DPI's accountability measures to «ensure DPI is effectively using, but not abusing, its authority to help low - performing schools and teacher preparation programs improve.»

As the North Carolina General Assembly opens its long session on January 25, WakeEd Partnership has released its Public Policy Agenda (PDF) with an emphasis on teacher talent management, improving school accountability measures, and ensuring student equity for all...

A more measured approach, as seen in Kentucky, could have helped build educator support and buy - in and could have improved the process without the fear that comes with instant accountability for a previously unused standard.

California's school funding model is based on a powerful idea: improve outcomes by directing more resources to high - need students and use a multiple - measure accountability system that supports local decision - making.

Joseph Martineau joined the Center as a Senior Associate in January 2014, and has led and contributed to work on growth models, prepared for and analyzed the effects of interruptions of online testing, developed and improved testing and accountability systems, measured achievement gaps, conducted standard setting, evaluated test security, designed comprehensive assessment systems, conceptualized high school assessment under ESSA, designed educator certification testing, and implemented educator evaluation systems.

Federal accountability policy (embodied in No Child Left Behind) has long emphasized status measures of student achievement and assumed that public reporting of information on performance, coupled with consequences, will motivate individuals to work harder to improve performance.

In New Mexico, she's working to keep up the pressure on schools to improve, including deciding that the state would not suspend its accountability measures even as the state adopted new tests.

While many state policymakers are continually drawn to accountability measures that rely on sanctions and rewards, effective school and district leaders know that true accountability can only be attained when teachers have the necessary knowledge and skills to improve student learning.

Following an introduction of the latest Index findings, a panel will discuss the state of the rule of law, particularly in the context of Sustainable Development Goal 16 (SDG 16), which calls for all countries to measure and improve the accountability of their institutions, security of their citizens, and the accessibility of justice for all of their people.

As the province has not yet disclosed the actual proposed language for the PHIPA revisions, it remains to be seen whether they can live up to the Ministry of Health and Long - Term Care's promise that these measures will «improve privacy and accountability» in Ontario.

Established and maintained inventory and supply checklist for clinic and teaching purposes: New measures improved accuracy and accountability and save the Veterinary Clinic $ 2,000 per year.

Develop and implement processes that improve staff accountability, reporting consistency and measure results, while binding the overall global corporate strategy to country - specific needs and regulations.

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This impatience manifests as frustration at the perceived lack of achievement, or in the suggestion that Indigenous people must somehow be at fault because of the persistence of the disadvantage (the lack of progress being blamed on «waste» and perceived lack of accountability of Indigenous organizations), [63] a growing intolerance to commitments being made at the highest levels to concrete measures to redress such disadvantage, and in more extreme cases, a return to discredited views which suggest that the only way to improve the situation of Indigenous peoples is for them to assimilate into mainstream society.

On June 26, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed into law a measure that strengthens the state's home visiting programs and establishes a system of accountability that will help ensure strong outcomes such as improved health for mothers and infants, and children being better prepared to learn when they start school.

The full report provides details about the kinds of measures that can be used to support a focus on SEL — for use in a state accountability system, which reveals how different groups of students may be experiencing school and how they are being supported; and for use at the school or district level, to help educators improve classroom and school practices.

Our members have worked hard to expand and preserve existing programs, and as a result we saw measures passed this session that improve accountability and, in the case of home visiting, increase funding.