Sentences with phrase «measure of the quality member»

Responses also serve as one measure of the quality member's teaching that is used to evaluate faculty for promotion and tenure.

Not exact matches

A team of researchers in Edinburgh analyzed more than 10 hours of speech from Scottish members of the United Kingdom's House of Commons, measuring the acoustic qualities of their vowels and examining what factors could explain broad differences.

Measuring a surgeon's average number of cuts was recently endorsed by the American College of Mohs Surgery (ACMS) as a clinical quality metric used to assess its members.

Panel member and former Rolls - Royce executive Philip Ruffles presented foreign patents filed in the United States as a second measure of output quality.

With each percentage point improvement in measured teacher quality, a faculty member is 0.037 percentile points higher in the h - index ranking (standard error of 0.108), implying a difference in the h - index distribution of only two percentile points between the 25th and 75th percentile teachers.

Figure 3 compares our value - added measure of teaching quality to a faculty member's percentile rank in the field - adjusted h - index.

These two measures of research quality are much more highly - correlated than are our two measures of teaching success: faculty members whose research have been recognized by the university average in the 49th percentile of tenured faculty field - adjusted h - indices, while those who have not been recognized for their research average in the 36th percentile of tenured faculty field - adjusted h - indices.

When it comes to measuring the quality of a school, policy leaders tend to embrace standardized tests as the go - to indicator, whereas parents and community members tend to rely on reputation, word - of - mouth, and what they perceive with their own eyes.

Focus groups in each community of students, parents, educators, and community members, along with polling data and research evidence, led to the creation of a School Quality Measures Framework and subsequent online dashboard of the data that the community most wants to know about their schools.

Measure and improve the school's climate (quality and character) to provide a safe, equitable and engaging environment for each member of the network to effectively contribute; and

They also need ways to assess the quality of data and whether the data measure what is most important to community members.

The key priority for ASCD and its members in 2014 is to promote multimetric accountability so that standardized test scores are not the sole measure of student achievement, educator effectiveness, or school quality.

We encourage and promote quality in the breeding of pure - bred Boston Terriers, and to do everything possible to bring their natural qualities to perfection, by urging members and breeders to accept the Breed Standard as the measure of excellence.

Here's what is required (leaving aside Theresa May's electorally hamstrung inability to deliver much of it): The entire cabinet and every business leader the government's black book can muster, on stage for the launch of the new strategy; an explicit declaration that this, full decarbonization of the economy, is the post-Brexit economic strategy; clear and attractive retail policies, such as a diesel scrappage scheme, tax breaks for green investment, new apprenticeships, a green home building program; an open invitation to all opposition party leaders to share a platform to support the plan with a declaration that while they may not agree on every component they fully endorse the over-arching goal; a willingness to shame those party leaders who play party politics and refuse to turn up; a fortnight - long program where each day sees a new cabinet member explain how the plan will transform parts of the economy; a Royal Commission on the flaws of GDP as an economic measure and the viability of alternative quality of life metrics; and, yes, a brave assertion that carbon intensive industries will have to transform or be scaled back, backed by a decarbonization adaptation fund to help affected communities respond to this global trend.

Implicit in this is the extent to which the organization and its members (1) understand the organization's role, i.e., satisfying clients and enabling the lawyers» organization to achieve its ultimate objectives; (2) establish performance standards or bench marks, i.e., economics, a client case load, quality, timeliness of services; and (3) measure the actual performance in light of the established standards.

«[T] he development of additional assessment tools alongside the billable hour that can more accurately measure the input and output of BigLaw lawyers, such as the quality and timeliness of work product, responsiveness, effective communications with law firm's team members and the client, and client satisfaction.»

Served as member of Patient Centered Medical Home Initiative pilot team; attended conferences, learned state regulations and provided input on quality management measures

Maintained and evaluated customer needs through assessments, measures of quality services and goals through customer satisfaction and team member feedback

ING US Financial Services (Atlanta, GA) 5/2006 — 2/2009 Six Sigma Black Belt • Responsible for identifying, defining, and implementing continuous improvement (Six Sigma) projects • Communicated quality management tools and methodologies to project teams • Established and directed process improvement group reporting process • Cut annual process budget by 20 % by reducing testing / production errors through process standardization • Saved $ 350K of annual business contract production costs through vendor consolidation and elimination of manual product assembly • Identified $ 2 million in potential annual savings by developing a check processing distribution strategy • Reduced annual expenses by $ 1.7 million through cost avoidance by optimal vendor selection processes • Minimized business risk and legal mitigations by tracking / confirming contract delivery to clients and standardizing marketing forms practices and control measures • Mentored Green Belts and team members on their roles and responsibilities

Both partners completed a self - report survey that included questions about their current loneliness levels, relationship quality measures, and a range of demographic and baseline variables (e.g., income, education, employment status, number of children, whether other family members lived with them, health, depression, etc.).