Sentences with phrase «meaningful indicators in»

States are committed to using new and meaningful indicators in accountability, reporting, and diagnostic systems.

Not exact matches

By focusing on outcomes for Canadians and making evidence - based decisions that are anchored in meaningful data and indicators, the Government is moving to a culture of measurement and impact, and is putting in place the tools to deliver on priorities, align resources to programs and activities that deliver real value for Canadians, and provide meaningful information to Canadians and Parliament.

California's evolving knowledge and commitment to social emotional learning can be seen in the state's adoption of school climate and parent engagement, as meaningful state indicators.

«This is perhaps one of the greatest indicators of a state's health, but Governor Cuomo — whose administration is embroiled in scandal — has been consumed with generating good headlines with grand political statements, while failing to deliver on any meaningful reforms.

Relative poverty and inequality were meaningful concepts too; he regarded the numbers in child poverty, as currently defined, as «a very significant indicator».

Tests of drug effects often rely on short - term surrogate indicators (say, change in cholesterol level), for instance, rather than eventual meaningful outcomes (say, heart attacks).

ESSA also requires state accountability systems to include «a measure of student growth, if determined appropriate by the State; or another valid and reliable statewide academic indicator that allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance.»

«A State must define annual meaningful differentiation in a manner that... [r] esults in a single rating from among at least three distinct rating categories for each school, based on a school's level of performance on each indicator, to describe a school's summative performance....»

The bill replaces AYP standards with a requirement for states to annually measure all students and individual subgroups by: (1) academic achievement as measured by state assessments; (2) for high schools, graduation rates; (3) for schools that are not high schools, a measure of student growth or another valid and reliable statewide indicator; (4) if applicable, progress in achieving English proficiency by English learners; and (5) at least one additional valid and reliable statewide indicator that allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance.

If the SQSS indicators are important signs of school performance, as the law suggests they are, they should be accorded a meaningful weight in the process of identifying schools for support and improvement.

Organizations also need formative information to help teachers improve; they need indicators of a teacher's specific skills in classroom management, for instance, or her ability to provide meaningful feedback to students.

Yesterday you wrote: «For reasons I will discuss at greater length in the next post, I think attainment is a more meaningful indicator of long - term benefits than achievement test results.»

The federal law that replaces the No Child Left Behind Act requires states» accountability systems to include at least one «nonacademic» indicator of «school quality or student success» that «allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance» and «is valid, reliable, comparable, and statewide» alongside academic data (Ujifusa, 2016).

If the past use of this money is an indicator, however, it is likely that the federal investment in improving teaching under this formula grant will not actually lead to any meaningful change in the quality of instruction in the nation's classrooms.

The «value added» — what instructors contribute to student growth on tests — is a more meaningful indicator of progress than the absolute numerical targets in the federal No Child Left Behind law, advocates say.

While this measure will not make it possible to compare progress across city initiatives in any meaningful way, it does provide a common indicator that can serve as a proxy for a number of factors that influence child wellbeing, including health, mental health, and family stability.

Supporting Chiefs in identifying indicators of school quality that are grounded in research, meaningful to parents, and best suited to each state's context.

An indicator may not have strong relationships with student outcomes or provide meaningful differentiation between school performance but still provide value in a school classification system, particularly if that indicator signals what a state values and drives behavior that states want to see at the district and school levels.

Allow states to use additional indicators of school quality, beyond those that are federally required, in meaningful ways that recognize and incentivize schools for their progress on these measures.

I hope in the weeks to come that a set of meaningful indicators of educational quality and opportunity come out of the legislative debate on ESEA reauthorization.

We will have meaningful indicators to show us in black and white what educators have been saying all along: Not all students have what they need for success.

«By including school quality indicators [such as access to effective teachers and college - ready coursework] and using them in meaningful ways, parents, educators, and education stakeholders can have a richer understanding of what is going on in a school and what is fostering or delaying its success.»

Any other measure of growth as determined by the state (not necessarily based on state assessments), or another «valid and reliable indicator that allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance» for all non-high schools.

Her address, «A New Medical Research Model: Advancing Human and Animal Health Humanely,» will detail the concept of a new research model predicated on a meaningful commitment by both medical and veterinary researchers to work cooperatively together to address disease and disorders in humans and animals — evaluating genetic and environmental risk factors, sensitive diagnostic indicators and novel therapies.

It is thus imperative that modern energy targets and indicators are set in a meaningful and practical way.

In the afternoon session chaired by Ambassador Beatriz Londono Soto of Colombia four presenters from Germany, the Netherlands, and UK will address indicator - based approaches, meaningful human control, and human judgment.

«If we want to have any meaningful results in closing the gap in Indigenous health, or improving the indicators in the generic health needs analysis, we need to have an underlying focus on addressing the social determinants of health.»

What is most compelling about the Early Head Start data is that they reflect a broad set of indicators, all of which show positive impacts — patterns of impacts varied in meaningful ways for different subgroups of families.

In order to make the model more meaningful and to improve the overall fit of the model, we trimmed the model by removing indicators with non-significant and weak coefficients from the model (Hooper, Couglan, & Mullen, 2008).