Sentences with phrase «measure progress over»

Schools, districts, and classrooms receive dynamic reports and can even include time - series, or longitudinal data collection to measure progress over time.

The first report in this series focused on programs for the 2001 - 2002 school year and established a baseline against which we may now measure progress over seven years.

Due to this worksheet's consistent nature it can be used to measure progress over some time.

Finally, it provides a way to measure progress over time so the organization and its stakeholders can determine whether the intended results are being achieved.

Stick to the same plan, use a combo of scale weight + measurements + photos + how your clothes fit, to measure progress over 4 - 6weeks.

Too much of what a teacher does is subjective, she said, and there are too many factors in a student's life that are not accounted for when measuring their progress over a period of time.

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With the sales - to - inventory ratio on the other hand it makes sense for us to compare month over month changes to measure how the market is progressing.

In response, CBA has included a new measure --» People and community» — in its long - term incentive plan, which will assess the company's progress in this area over the ensuing four years.

The part that is left over — that is, the part of economic growth that can not be explained by the accumulation of capital and labour inputs — is what economists call multifactor productivity (MFP), an index that is widely interpreted as a measure of technical progress.

It provides standards with a roadmap to measure progress against sustainability goals and to improve practices over time.

Progress can be measured in the amount of «validated learning» or lessons instead of just measuring the reduced amount of sugar grams you eat over the week.

Smurfit Kappa's sustainability report, which measures year - on - year progress with a focus on five priority areas (Forest, Climate Change, Water, Waste and People), shows that over the past ten years the packaging giant has also achieved a significant reduction in the amount of waste sent to landfill and has invested $ 60 million in water treatment plants.

This second annual progress report assesses advances by governments and companies over the past 12 months relative to a three - step approach for reducing food loss and waste: target, measure, and act.

Over the course of three sessions we explored ways in which school nutrition professionals are managing stakeholder engagement, how they are using assessment tools to measure progress and set new goals, and breakfast program best practices vis - à - vis operations, marketing, menuing, staff training, and equipment.

In theory, such a deal would have to take place over the next several days, though lawmakers in previous years have passed day - long extenders measures for rent control as talks progressed.

That this House notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian casualties, using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.

«That this house notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters, and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian causalities; using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government's will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.»

It criticises the 13 - week definition of what is considered «sustainable» and calls on the government to adopt a performance - measuring system which tracks their progress over a longer period.

The challenges confronting the present generation of Africans may be unique in their own rights, however, it can not be in doubt that a concerted effort of the kind that delivered victories over slavery, oppression, subjugation and colonialism is needed today in equal measure to defeat contemporary forces such as neo-colonialism, racism, exploitation, unfair trade and poverty which are militating against our progress.

Over the course of the training season, he and his team measure parameters such as heart rate, blood lactate level, and oxygen consumed to help coaches understand how each rower is progressing and compares to the rest of the team.

It is required valid and consistent estimates of the prevalence of diabetes over time to assess the effects of the implemented interventions, to compare the trends among the different countries and to measure the progress towards achieving the goal agreed by UN.

The $ 101 billion measure, formally known as Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP - 21), reauthorizes federal funding for road and transit projects over the next 2 years.

Currently, lung function is measured using a test known as spirometry, in which patients blow through a tube; their progress is tracked over time.

Aside from measuring progress by your appearance, a powerbuilding program also focuses on strength by using powerlifting techniques such as regular deloads and increasing intensity over time.

By prioritizing strength gains as a measure of progress and applying the proper deload and intensity programs, you'll guarantee yourself PRs rather than just hoping to get stronger over time.

Workouts are measured over time so participants can track their progress and see results quickly.

To better gauge your progress, we added some new ways measure your improvements over the 30 days.

Testing an athlete's shuttle run time over a season can help measure training routine success and track progress from year to year.

All major providers will be available to measure your true health and progress over time.

During the debate over the federal «annual yearly progress» standard, many of the proposals that would have included other indicators as measures of a school's annual yearly progress were simply thinly disguised attempts to eradicate any rigor from the system.

Official figures published by the Department for Education (DfE) have revealed that over 800 schools are set to be labelled as «coasting» under provisional Progress 8 measures.

The authors address three criticisms of value - added (VA) measures of teacher effectiveness that Stanford University education professor Linda Darling - Hammond and her colleagues present in a recent article: that VA estimates are inconsistent because they fluctuate over time; that teachers» value - added performance is skewed by student assignment, which is non-random; and that value - added ratings can't disentangle the many influences on student progress.

Yes, not all that long ago AFT advocated for an ESEA that «judges school effectiveness — the only valid and fair basis for accountability — by measuring the progress that schools achieve with the same students over time.»

The department softened a proposal to use results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress to measure states» progress over the past several years in boosting achievement scores and closing achievement gaps between suProgress to measure states» progress over the past several years in boosting achievement scores and closing achievement gaps between suprogress over the past several years in boosting achievement scores and closing achievement gaps between subgroups.

I want to keep working at solving the problem that, notwithstanding the great efforts we've made in Massachusetts over a couple of decades in setting high goals, measuring progress, holding people accountable, and investing and building the capacity of the system to deliver, we've still been — however successful we've been comparatively — unsuccessful at: closing persistent achievement gaps.

An alternative way of defining and measuring success at school would be in terms of the progress or growth that students make over the course of a year, regardless of their starting point.

When schools test on more than one occasion they can measure the progress — or growth — of students over time.

Certain applications allow you to measure data over time and this can be useful for analysing attendance or learner progress.

Over the past 15 years, No Child Left Behind and other federal policies have given special prominence to one primary measure for assessing student progress: the so - called percent proficient measure.

We boys spent much of our considerable energy trying to get our girlfriends to abstain from abstinence — measuring our progress in the smallest of increments over the longest periods of time.

Senior Lecturer Paul Reville, secretary of education for Massachusetts, held various roles over the past two decades that placed him in the middle of the discussion of measuring progress and setting education goals.

«Measured Progress has consistently, over 30 years, provided high - quality state - level assessments consisting of a variety of item types.

Maryland has always earned high scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, and its steady increases in test scores over the years has helped earn it the ranking of No. 1 in the nation by Education Week, an often - quoted measure.

Assemblymember Shirley Weber's AB 2826 would have strengthened California's teacher evaluation law to remove any possible uncertainty over the state's requirement that teachers be evaluated in a fair and meaningful way, using multiple measures, including student progress.

NAEP, known for offering a dependable measure of national student progress over time, has always had to strike a balance between remaining independent of passing fashions in curriculum and instruction while also appropriately reflecting important shifts in the educational landscape, according to the report.

Growth measures — like «value added» or «student growth percentiles» — are a much fairer way to evaluate schools, since they can control for prior achievement and can ascertain progress over the course of the school year.

Many states were already at work creating longitudinal - data systems that allow for measuring college readiness by tracking the progress of individual students over time.

• Newark students are now doing better than over 80 % of those 37 comparable districts in Math and 72 % in ELA — tremendous progress by any measure.

For example, if Florida, Texas, and Tennessee can measure the progress of individual students over time, our state plans should be allowed to factor in student progress in addition to proficiency.

Over the next three to five years, education leaders and policymakers should develop a robust, coherent, and aligned system of standards and assessments that measures student progress toward challenging state standards.