Sentences with phrase «key evaluation component»

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While each of the Steps was reviewed individually, the review did not address the efficacy of the BFHI program as a whole, which is commonly a key component of program evaluation.

Now scientists have linked a key component of this type of decision - making — the split - second evaluation of how well things are going — to a distinct pattern of brain activity.

EDC Deputy Director Cornelia Brunner said this evaluation allowed WIDE World to grasp whether learners understood the key ideas of their online course, including ways to make assessment a critical component of teaching and learning.

These goals were central to the 2009 Race to the Top challenge grants, where a key component was incentivizing states to create robust teacher evaluation policies.

School districts can enhance their vocational - education programs by placing caring and competent staff members in key positions, building in evaluations from the outset, and insuring that the curriculum covers four essential components — applied academics, vocational - technical education, job - search skills, and life - coping skills, according to a report released last month.

The independent study conducted by SRI, Evaluation of Rocketship Education's Use of DreamBox Learning Online Mathematics Program, was commissioned by Rocketship to measure the impact of online math learning on its students» academic growth in Learning Lab, a key component of the Rocketship Hybrid School Model.

Test scores are a key component of school rankings and closings, student tracking and promotion, principal evaluations, teacher evaluations, and all too often result in a limited and narrow curriculum in our classrooms.

Chris Swenson, head of the CDE's Improvement and Accountability Division, said that the API has always been a key component of the evaluation when considering what level of intervention should be applied to a district facing corrective action.

Because of the contentious environment that surrounds evaluation and monitoring, respondents said, the effort to build trust is a key component of their more general effort to help schools and districts identify areas in need of improvement.

Battle lines over teacher evaluations in California were drawn in Sacramento Wednesday, as lawmakers narrowly moved along legislation that would use student test scores as a key component.

The heaviest lifting would have to happen in Georgia, New Jersey, and New Mexico, which all said they needed their legislatures to implement new statewide teacher - evaluation systems that factor in student growth — a key component of the department's requirements for flexibility.

Each brief breaks down a critical component of successful program evaluation, offering actionable recommendations on topics such as collecting key data and accurately analyzing that evidence.

She recently played an instrumental role in a landmark agreement in which leaders from eight Maryland education organizations have joined together to support the implementation of Student Learning Objectives (SLOs), a key component of the new teacher and principal evaluation system in the state.

This report discusses evaluation findings from a 15 - year longitudinal random assignment study of the effects of a high school reform initiative, Career Academy, which is a key component of the Linked Learning model.

Specifically, this study underscores the importance of key components for ensuring quality tutoring for the America Reads Challenge: (a) the use of research - based instructional elements to produce significant progress in reading achievement; (b) the need for a well - structured lesson plan in which the content and delivery of instruction are carefully planned; (c) the need for intensive, ongoing training and supervision of tutoring under the guidance of a knowledgeable reading specialist; (d) the need for frequent and regular tutoring sessions; and (e) the need for careful evaluation, assessment, monitoring and reinforcement of progress.

The chapter titled, «How Framework for Teaching and Tripod 7Cs Evidence Distinguish Key Components of Effective Teaching,» was recently published in a book all about the MET studies, titled «Designing Teacher Evaluation Systems: New Guidance from the Measures of Effective Teaching Project» written by Thomas Kane, Kerri Kerr, and Robert Pianta.

Loss of Talented Teachers: The move toward using test scores as a key component of evaluations and «merit pay» schemes may well push many talented teachers out of the profession.

The publication spotlights ASCD's original 50 - state analysis of educator evaluation systems and features a series of maps so you can easily compare key evaluation system components across the states.

A key factor in the state's evaluation framework is the Student Learning Objective (SLO) component that teachers and supervisors agreed upon.

ASCD's publication spotlights the association's original 50 - state analysis of educator evaluation systems as outlined in states» NCLB waiver applications and other resources, and it features a series of maps for easy comparison of key evaluation system components across the states.

Developing reliable evaluators of teachers is a key component to the success of any school district's teacher evaluation system.

Conceptualizing and Measuring Collaboration in the Context of Early Childhood Care and Education (PDF - 1,443 KB) Chien, Blasberg, Daneri, Halle, King, & Zaslow (2013) U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, & Child Trends Presents work on the conceptualization and measurement of collaboration in the field of early childhood, identifies key components of collaboration, and encourages the development and use of measures of collaboration in the early childhood field.

Core Intervention Components: Identifying and Operationalizing What Makes Programs Work Blase & Fixsen (2013) United States Department of Health and Human Services, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Explores key implementation considerations important to consider when replicating evidence - based programs for children and youth focusing on the importance of identifying, operationalizing, and implementing the core components of evidence - based and evidence - informed interventions that likely are critical to producing positiveComponents: Identifying and Operationalizing What Makes Programs Work Blase & Fixsen (2013) United States Department of Health and Human Services, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Explores key implementation considerations important to consider when replicating evidence - based programs for children and youth focusing on the importance of identifying, operationalizing, and implementing the core components of evidence - based and evidence - informed interventions that likely are critical to producing positivecomponents of evidence - based and evidence - informed interventions that likely are critical to producing positive outcomes.

In each site, the key component of the evaluation was an impact analysis that used a rigorous research design to measure the programs» effects on outcomes, including employment, welfare use, and child well - being.