Sentences with phrase «meaningful measures»

The authors see progress in establishing more meaningful measures of school quality despite the difficulty of comparing school quality across states.

But the picture is quite different when energy expenditures are viewed in absolute dollar terms — a more meaningful measure.

Student learning is the most meaningful measure of all instructional practices.

If you don't judge your investments by meaningful measures, you can not make meaningful decisions.

The purpose of engaging the faith leaders is because to effect meaningful measures that will reduce deaths by guns it is necessary to engage the moral outrage of religious voters in this country.

The response of students, not the actions of teachers, are the true meaningful measures that indicate learning.

We can empower our students to track their own progress by offering them «I can» rubrics (like this one) that provide meaningful measures to help them monitor their progress during an activity or project — and we can circulate and confer as they use the rubric to guide their work and ultimately improve their performance.

May 2 (New York City)-- Educators for Excellence - New York (E4E - New York), a teacher - led organization, expressed their disappointment in the passage of New York State Assembly Bill A10475, which proposes eliminating meaningful measures of student achievement in New York's teacher evaluations.

Here's hoping that the apparent rhetorical reluctance to put ethics reform at the top of the governor's legislative agenda does not reflect a lack of interest on his part to advance meaningful measures to reform Albany.

However, a new UC San Francisco (UCSF) study shows that hospital readmissions rates for children are not necessarily meaningful measures of the quality of their care.

Only in this way can we proceed to implement meaningful measures for species conservation and species reintroduction programs.»

Congress should also provide incentives to states where standards are really low to raise the standards, and provide incentives to states to develop meaningful measures of teacher effectiveness.

If Mayor de Blasio wants mayoral control, he needs to start leading and take meaningful measures to turn around chronically failing schools and give our students the high - quality education they deserve.

Or maybe you should just concur that climate is the variation of weather over time, be it described as a mean, median, extremes or other meaningful measures.

Student learning is the most meaningful measure of all instructional practices and must remain the litmus test, or gateway, to determining future teacher practice.

Snow said she'd like to see more meaningful measures of how schools are closing the achievement gap for English learners, such as how quickly a student is able to move out of English - learner status, or finding a way to measure content knowledge without their language limitation being a factor in the score.

April 27 (New York)-- Educators for Excellence - New York (E4E - New York), a teacher - led organization, reacts to the introduction of New York State Assembly Bill A10475, which proposes to eliminate meaningful measures of student achievement in New York's teacher evaluations.

At any rate, Germany correctly wants to see real and meaningful measures of China's opening up to world commerce and finance.

Write Galen Weston and let him know that his pledge for corporate responsibility should not be empty words, and that meaningful measures are required to comply with the World Health International Code and World Health Assembly Resolutions to protect maternal and child health.

I'm not talking about bluster and outrage - I mean actual legally - meaningful measures.

Newsday's calculations focus on operating funds, because those are widely considered a more meaningful measure of what a district receives than aid for school construction and renovation, which may or may not go to a district in a given year, depending on whether the work is completed then.

While the legislative session still has six weeks to go, there is scant evidence that the governor and the state legislative leaders are focused on a package of meaningful measures that would reduce the risk of corruption in New York.

Speakers from AJWS will discuss how its decision to use outcome harvesting aligned with AJWS's approach to research, learning and evaluation, including a dedication to feminist research and meaningful measures of progress when addressing issues that have complex root causes.

«This study demonstrates that meaningful measures of quality can be determined for many countries and that these would provide...

Research has shown repeatedly that standardized tests can provide a meaningful measure of student achievement and that score increases on these tests correlate with positive future outcomes for students.

«The public's frustration with testing has reached critical mass,» Weingarten said in a statement on the poll findings, arguing that parents and teachers want educators evaluated fairly using «multiple and meaningful measures.»

Those concerns call for a more careful and more meaningful measure of ethnicity - related disadvantage for Hawaii.

There is no meaningful measure to dis - incentivize Common Core, the teaching of which is harming our children, as evidenced by the NAEP scores that show Alabama has dropped from about 26th among the states before common core to dead last as of 2015 — reversing a trend of improvement.

A DfE commissioned comparability study into the different Baseline Assessment providers has concluded that the differences between providers are too great for Baseline Assessment to provide any meaningful measure of a child's progress through their primary education.

This policy proposal from the TeachStrong coalition explains how we can raise the bar for licensure so it is a meaningful measure of readiness to teach.

Nor do these teacher ratings seem to correlate with school performance, suggesting teacher evaluations are not a meaningful measure of teacher effectiveness.

Four factors perpetuate this patchwork system: from state - to - state, licensure exams are rarely a meaningful measure of readiness to teach; the bar for passing is often set too low; little uniformity exists across state lines; and current processes limit the ability of teachers to easily transfer their licenses to other states.

States should ensure that licensure exams are a meaningful measure of readiness to teach, requiring future teachers to demonstrate both pedagogical and content knowledge, and classroom skills.

«It's a meaningful measure, and improving it would be productive for the students,» says Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, an economist at Northwestern University and one of the authors of the report.

Having a zero - to - 100 score for schools, the panelists conclude, would lead to «great opportunity for misinterpretation of results» since a score «does not quantify to any meaningful measure of grade - level proficiency.»

Let's take a closer look at how each of these meaningful measures can be collected, and the benefits of doing so.

We also need to better understand which skills lead to better long - term outcomes and to determine how best to measure those skills so that value - added can provide the most meaningful measure of a teachers» effectiveness.

Tracking remediation data could be another meaningful measure of how a district's graduates fare in their next step.

But, as a holistic performance test, the overall PCMark delivers a meaningful measure of a given slate's overall capabilities relative to others.

Pettis: It isn't until you write down the debt associated with the second bridge that you end up with a more meaningful measure of GDP.