Sentences with phrase «measure quality concerns»

Created, maintained and implemented Quality tracking and improvement strategies to ensure plant quality and production departments counter measure quality concerns are communicated.

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It's an inherent quality, one that expresses concern, joy, excitement, and instruction in equal measure.

«The Police Department is concerned about the potential impact on quality - of - life enforcement if the council enacts measures to remove criminal sanctions from certain offenses,» said Deputy Chief Kim Royster an NYPD spokeswoman.

Attitudes: support for diversity (racial integration), a perception of inequity (that the public schools provide a lower quality education for low - income and minority kids), support for voluntary prayer in the schools, support for greater parent influence, desire for smaller schools, belief in what I call the «public school ideology» (which measures a normative attachment to public schooling and its ideals), a belief in markets (that choice and competition are likely to make schools more effective), and a concern that moral values are poorly taught in the public schools.

Tilles raises legitimate concerns about the use of these tests — the quality of the tests, their snapshot nature, the unintended consequences of their being high stakes — but seems to forget that 20 % of the teacher score comes from «locally - selected measures of student achievement» and that 60 % of evaluation is based on «other measures.»

Thus, perhaps the greatest concern is not even the new Snapshots» favoring qualitative measures over student achievement, but Tweed's capacity to gather meaningful, high - quality data even on the things it prizes.

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg is also expected to announce four other measures concerning educational policy, including the protection of spending per - pupil, a guarantee ensuring all teachers in state - funded schools will be qualified by September 2016, the establishing of a Royal College of Teachers and a National Leadership Institute to promote high quality leadership in schools in deprived areas.

Racine, Wis — Not surprisingly, some educators and researchers say they are concerned that the states» early - childhood - education measures have been enacted with little regard to appropriate research and without quality - control mechanisms.

New teacher evaluation systems are the latest effort to measure and improve the quality of the teaching workforce, but these new systems have already raised concerns that they will be subject to the same rating inflation by administrators that plagued previous systems.

Getz, who was one of 50 principals who signed a letter to New York Education Commission John King citing concerns about the quality of the spring 2013 assessments, hopes policymakers will acknowledge that standardized test scores are imperfect measures of what students are supposed to learn under the new standards.

In this op - ed, Sydney Morris balances concerns about layoffs with the need for measures of teaching quality.

However, with continued concerns over the unintended (and sometimes detrimental) consequences of expanding standardized testing, policies have reemphasized the importance of more traditional, widely applicable approaches to measuring teacher quality — specifically, the quality of teachers» instruction, assessed through classroom observation.

In response to concern related to the discrepancies between Chinese domestic and international ratings, we launched the S&P China High Quality Corporate Bond 3 - 7 Year Index, which is designed to measure higher - quality corporateQuality Corporate Bond 3 - 7 Year Index, which is designed to measure higher - quality corporatequality corporate bonds.

My overarching concern is that, in attempting to score lawyer quality, Avvo seeks to measure the immeasurable.

As far as build quality is concerned the OnePlus 2 is slim, and quite tall for its screen size, measuring 151.8 mm by 74.9 mm by 9.85 mm.

Comfortable leading diverse group matrixes... concentrating on initiatives such as quality improvement, employee satisfaction, work equity concerns, discharge process improvement, tracking process drivers, and establishing counter measures as required.

I have experience in instructing individuals concerning their health, and behaviors and preventive measures that will improve their quality of life, as well as...

Director of Business — Duties & Responsibilities Recruit and train staff of 30 in hospital policies, procedures, best practices, and corporate branding Design and implement staff development, recognition, and disciplinary policies and procedures Oversee admissions, utilization review, PB X, imaging center, billing, collections, and wound center registrations Set and strictly adhere to departmental budgets and schedules Author and present financial reports concerning revenue, expenses, and outstanding collections Identify performance indicators and benchmarks for integration into reporting systems Conduct surveys regarding patient / staff satisfaction, benchmarks, accreditation, and employee benefits Maintain a 99 % patient satisfaction score through attentive and professional standards of care Negotiate contracts and claims with insurance carriers, Medicare, Medicaid, and other payer sources Increase revenue by 30 % through effective contract renegotiation with suppliers, carriers, and other parties Implement policies, procedures, and equipment to cut hospital costs while enhancing patient care Utilize strong management experience to drive operations in an efficient and professional manner Develop and implement billing controls, cash processing measures, lockboxes, and other financial processes Coordinate and oversee internal and external audits ensuring compliance with industry and legal standards Recruit physicians through successful marketing, networking, and other tactics Implement automated Chargemaster financial application (Craneware) and maintain patient accounts Responsible for HCAHPS and the yearly Quality Assurance Plan Appeal claims when appropriate resulting in $ 400,000 reimbursement from PPO insurance over the last year Build and strengthen professional relationship with community leaders, coworkers, and industry figures Consistently promoted for excellence in financial management, team leadership, and dedication to mission Develop working knowledge of hospital operations from patient admission to senior level strategic planning Represent company with poise, integrity, and positivity

AAI, Adult Attachment Interview; AFFEX, System for Identifying Affect Expression by Holistic Judgement; AIM, Affect Intensity Measure; AMBIANCE, Atypical Maternal Behaviour Instrument for Assessment and Classification; ASCT, Attachment Story Completion Task; BAI, Beck Anxiety Inventory; BDI, Beck Depression Inventory; BEST, Borderline Evaluation of Severity over Time; BPD, borderline personality disorder; BPVS - II, British Picture Vocabulary Scale II; CASQ, Children's Attributional Style Questionnaire; CBCL, Child Behaviour Checklist; CDAS - R, Children's Dysfunctional Attitudes Scale - Revised; CDEQ, Children's Depressive Experiences Questionnaire; CDIB, Child Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines; CGAS, Child Global Assessment Schedule; CRSQ, Children's Response Style Questionnaire; CTQ, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire; CTQ, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire; DASS, Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scales; DERS, Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale; DIB - R, Revised Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines; DSM, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; EA, Emotional Availability Scales; ECRS, Experiences in Close Relationships Scale; EMBU, Swedish acronym for Own Memories Concerning Upbringing; EPDS, Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale; FES, Family Environment Scale; FSS, Family Satisfaction Scale; FTRI, Family Trauma and Resilience Interview; IBQ - R, Infant Behaviour Questionnaire, Revised; IPPA, Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment; K - SADS, Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School - Age Children; KSADS - E, Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia - Episodic Version; MMD, major depressive disorder; PACOTIS, Parental Cognitions and Conduct Toward the Infant Scale; PPQ, Perceived Parenting Quality Questionnaire; PD, personality disorder; PPVT - III, Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Third Edition; PSI - SF, Parenting Stress Index Short Form; RSSC, Reassurance - Seeking Scale for Children; SCID - II, Structured Clinical Interview for DSM - IV; SCL -90-R, Symptom Checklist 90 Revised; SCQ, Social Communication Questionnaire; SEQ, Children's Self - Esteem Questionnaire; SIDP - IV, Structured Interview for DSM - IV Personality; SPPA, Self - Perception Profile for Adolescents; SSAGA, Semi-Structured Assessment for the Genetics of Alcoholism; TCI, Temperament and Character Inventory; YCS, Youth Chronic Stress Interview; YSR, Youth Self - Report.

Developing appropriate standards of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health information was identified as a national health information priority in 1995, with the National Indigenous Health Information Plan (1997) being developed as a consequence.301 However, the plan remains largely unimplemented.302 The Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report has also identified concerns about the quality of data available on health measures contained in that framework.303