Sentences with phrase «judged by the evaluation»

This was judged by the evaluation to be a statistically significant, medium effect size.

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As judged by a third party test, when possible, or using one's own evaluation technique when not possible.

According to Forbes, studies conducted by University of Florida professor Timothy Judge found that «people with high core self evaluations, or positive self - concepts, had increased levels of job satisfaction, better job performance, higher income, higher work motivation and reduced stress and burnout.»

There always is the risk that an evaluator will come to some quirky or unfavorable recommendation, or that a judge will be influenced by an evaluation that, in your view, clearly is biased.

The Manhattan judge who has been getting the best of an unlimited sick time policy for nearly three years could be making a comeback as he faces an evaluation by court officials and the state agency overseeing judicial conduct, his lawyer said.

«The teacher evaluation system we have in place already, and it's actually negotiated according to each school district,» Klein said, «but, again, I think it's difficult for them to be judged by the standards of Common Core when Common Core wasn't implemented properly.»

People's lives are being judged by this instrument, so you want the instrument in the evaluation to be correct.»

A judge has temporarily blocked the state from withholding approximately $ 250 million in school aid from New York City as a penalty for the city's failure to reach agreement with the UFT on a new teacher evaluation system by the Jan. 17 deadline.

Nonetheless, insofar as teacher - evaluation programs are judged by their ability to meaningfully differentiate between the performance of different teachers, New Mexico's system is a success.

They also argue that it is unfair for teachers in nontested subjects to be judged by the scores of students they don't even teach, as some states» evaluation systems require.

To judge by the quality of the educational evaluation work I know best — on school desegregation, Comer's School Development Program, and bilingual education — the average quasi-experiment in these fields inspires little confidence in its conclusions about effectiveness.

First, the latest IES evaluation of the D.C. school - voucher program, which showed that voucher users lost ground (compared with non-users) during their first year in private schools, when judged by test scores.

The risk with these competitions when carried out by the Office of the Secretary is that they become politicized, that they are judged by review panels without methodological competence, and that they are overseen, once awarded, by career staff in program offices that do not have the background to monitor what is, at root, a program evaluation grant.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant had ordered L.A. Unified to show that it was using test scores in evaluations by Tuesday after ruling earlier this year that state law required such data as evidence of whether teachers have helped their students progress academically.

Superintendent John Deasy said this morning that he expects a tentative agreement with UTLA over a new system of teacher evaluations, as mandated by the court in Doe v. Deasy, at some point in the next four days — just before the deadline set by the judge.

While teacher unions like UTLA have resisted efforts to tie teacher evaluation to classroom performance, 43 percent of voters said teachers should be judged equally on their students» standardized test results, assessments of their classroom performance and evaluations by peers.

Ironically, just as teachers are set to be judged by test scores for the first time, new principal evaluations will rely less on test score data.

The proposal by Educators 4 Excellence, whose L.A. chapter of 900 teachers was launched last November, came one day after a Los Angeles Superior Court judge found that the Los Angeles Unified School District had violated a state law requiring the use of such student achievement measures in its instructor evaluations.

With the recent Race to the Top mandates, evaluation systems may be more rigorous than ever, though they often judge teachers by a rigidly and often inaccurate value - added measure of their effectiveness in raising test scores (Özek & Xu, 2015; Raudenbush, 2015).

According to a review by the National Council on Teacher Quality, a Washington, D.C. - based reform group, 20 states in 2012 required student achievement as a significant part of judging teacher performance, including multiple states where student data accounts for 50 percent of an evaluation.

The spotlight on teacher evaluations widened last June when Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James Chalfant ruled that the district was violating California's longstanding teacher evaluation law, the Stull Act, by not ensuring test scores were used.

A judge recently ruled that the district was in fact not adhering to the Stull Act, and he ordered LAUSD and the unions to come up with a new evaluation system that would satisfy the law by December 4.

Judge David Thomson granted in part a preliminary injunction sought by legislators and a teachers union, who have challenged the evaluation system in a lawsuit.

But the judge did not take up the question of what happens when kids and adults are punished for never passing tests and evaluations that fail some people by design.

The PED continues to stand by its teacher evaluation system, calling the court challenge «frivolous» and «a legal PR stunt,» all the while noting that Judge Thomson's decision «won't affect how the state conducts its teacher evaluations.»

Although the state already has content standards and standardized tests connected to graduation requirements, teacher evaluations, school ratings, and so on, the judge believed that these tools were not wielded with sufficient authority and discipline by the State.

If the two sides can't agree on a plan by December 4th, plaintiffs» attorney Scott Witlin says the judge could let the district develop an evaluation system unilaterally.

But the judge did not take up the question of what happens when kids and adults are punished for never passing tests and evaluations that fail people by design.

In a statement, UTLA President Warren Fletcher said he was pleased that the judge «acknowledged that the teacher evaluation system for LAUSD must be collectively bargained and that the final product must be agreed on by both the school district and the teachers.»

The judge also missed the mark by a wide margin in his ruling on teacher evaluations; which again he insisted be «rational and «verifiable» from his unstudied perspective.

In August, a New York State Supreme Court judge invalidated a vote by state education officials that would have let districts base 40 % of teacher evaluations on state test scores, after the state teachers unions sued saying the law allowed for only 20 %.

Spurred by the Obama administration, which has partly tied some federal grants to states» willingness to use data to judge teachers, districts around the country have begun changing their evaluation systems.

Critics of policies pushed by the Obama administration and many state policymakers — such as adopting the Common Core, revamping teacher evaluation and expanding charter schools — may seize on the latest NAEP results, but researchers warn against using national test scores to judge specific policies, a practice sometimes called «misNAEPery.»

«(a) DEFINITION - For purposes of this chapter, an alternative dispute resolution process includes any process or procedure, other than an adjudication by a presiding judge, in which a neutral third party participates to assist in the resolution of issues in controversy, through processes such as early neutral evaluation, mediation, minitrial, and arbitration as provided in sections 654 through 658.

Every entry will receive approximately one hour of evaluation by each judge (for a minimum of five hours of review on your work).

Judging from the evaluations, and speaking for Val and me, a great time was had by all!

Liliana went on to become a registered breeder with AKC by the time she was 12 after having selected her pick puppy from a litter, raised and trained it, competed with it in USA and in Europe, and then decided which impressive German male to use as stud for her female based on Judges evaluations, what she knew of the bloodlines, and how the stud was producing, and successfully breeding her first litter of pups out of Guardian Eva Von Gottschalk.

The first and last handlers usually don't have enough time to prepare the dogs for evaluation by the judges.

As the owner and breeder of Borzoi, my contacts with other Borzoi breeders provides me with information on health, grooming, nutrition, problems faced by other breeders (or caused by them), evaluations of different judges, and more.

Dogs that have not passed a Conformation Certificate examination at a prior event are eligible to participate in subsequent evaluations unless disqualifications are noted at three separate examinations by any combination of three different judges.

Votes will be taken into consideration by the Judging Panel during finalist evaluation, but the voting will close 11:59 p.m. EST, December 15 — so support Dr. Slensky today!

The judging process includes three phases, starting with the selection of finalists in each award category, followed by an in - depth on - site evaluation to review sustainable tourism practices in action based on criteria of the United Nations Global Sustainable Tourism Council, and lastly the selection of winners.

These are the games that went on to the final round of evaluation by our external panel of judges.

An initial evaluation by a panel of judges will winnow entries based on «feasibility, novelty and quality.»

Judging from some draft evaluations prepared by the Environmental Protection Agency and General Electric, the plan for dredging the Hudson River for PCBs faces some likely adjustments.

By that time, the Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission will have provided information to the public about these judges» performance on the bench.

While placing some emphasis on the question of class counsel fee arrangements, the Court ultimately deferred to the discretionary decision of the motion judge in his evaluation of the claims being advanced by the class counsel, and their respective degrees of preparation.

The determination by the expert is not conclusive of the ultimate question of whether the accused was driving while impaired by a drug; their task is to determine whether the evaluation indicates drug impairment; the expert evidence can not presume the ultimate issue of guilt; it is «merely one piece of the picture for the judge or jury to consider.»

To provide the public with information about judges on the ballot, the Pennsylvania Bar Association offers ratings of appellate judicial candidates provided by the Bar's Judicial Evaluation Commission (JEC).

Colin responded by noting that the appeal court should «tread very cautiously with questions of evidential evaluation» (Sharpe v Adam [2006] EWCA Civ 449, [2006] All ER (D) 277 (Apr)-RRB- given the trial judge had made findings based on evidence.