Sentences with phrase «measures of progress toward»

Furthermore, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the increase in men's housework slowed or even declined, as did several others measures of progress toward gender equity.

Businesses, small and large, use key performance indicators as objective measures of progress toward targets.

«On - track indicators» refer to formative measures of progress toward college and career readiness, while «measures of postsecondary readiness» refer to summative measures that gauge readiness at or near the end of a student's high school career.

Not exact matches

According to a Harvard Business Review Analytic Services Report, fewer than half of all companies in the Harvard survey said they measured employee progress toward a goal.

One way that ANN, Inc. — the parent company of Ann Taylor and LOFT stores — measures success is through a set of metrics that evaluates progress toward goals.

The measure of his success is instead whether this week's progress toward an agreement could have been made months ago, before the economy sank back into recession, depositors yanked 30 billion euros ($ 34 billion) from banks and jobs started to vanish.

«Some of these measures might make some difference; a few could be counterproductive; most are likely to accomplish little in promoting progress toward religious liberty.»

Affected State Entities shall implement a cost - effective portfolio of measures identified and recommended in the audit and shall complete or make substantial progress toward completion of such measures within two years of completion of the audit.

Charter school leader Deborah Kenny's op - ed in today's The New York Times argues against the move by many states toward teacher evaluations based on multiple measures, including both student progress on achievement tests and the reviews of principals.

Researchers and a professional evaluator have also assisted in development of an evaluation program that measures progress toward goals identified by research.

Another way of measuring progress toward the $ 100 billion goal would be to measure the value of funding for projects provided by that fund.

Because enhancing the conservation of crop wild relatives is one of the United Nations's Sustainable Development Goals, the authors suggest that the study's numbers could be used as a baseline for measuring progress toward meeting conservation goals.

«The standard serves as an accurate and robust cost - of - living benchmark that supports good career planning and allows us to measure the extent to which our programs help customers progress toward economic self - sufficiency,» said Marléna Sessions, the council's chief executive officer.

«Measuring the success of each initiative contributes to our knowledge base and furthers our progress toward a workplace that is truly inclusive.»

Washington — Charging that an emphasis on multiple - choice tests could «undermine many of the educational reforms which the governors and President Bush wish to achieve,» a coalition of three dozen education and civil - rights groups last week urged those leaders to use alternative forms of assessment to measure progress toward national goals.

To obtain objective data concerning student progress, Namaste partners with the Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children (CLOCC) to measure the children's height, weight, abdominal circumference, and blood pressure as well as their knowledge of and attitude toward physical activity and nutrition.

Success is learning how to set and achieve goals, how to measure your progress toward reaching them, and the importance of helping others.

Measuring children's progress in learning these skills is the sort of thing that assessments like iReady's can readily do, and then point teachers and parents toward learning modules that will help them take the next step.

The proposal being designed by the panel's Republican leaders would share a central feature of the Clinton Administration's Goals 2000 strategy — a requirement that states and school districts adopt challenging academic - performance standards and assessments with which to measure students» progress toward meeting them.

We think of this work in four interwoven work areas: WHO can lead the work; WHAT promising practices they can use, HOW they can use them to make deep and sustainable change, and how they can MEASURE and track progress toward their goals.

These measures are used to determine local educational agency (LEA) and school progress toward meeting the needs of their students.

NCLB requires each state to develop content and achievement standards in several subjects, administer tests to measure students» progress toward these standards, develop targets for performance on these tests, and impose a series of interventions on schools and districts that do not meet the targets.

Originally enacted by the California Legislature in 1971, the Stull Act requires school districts to evaluate the performance of teachers and other certificated employees using multiple measures of performance, including student progress toward district and state academic content standards, as measured by standardized tests.

Students in California are now taking online tests in English and math, which provide more accurate and timely measures of student progress toward career and college readiness, helping to improve teaching and learning.

Effective assessment systems provide balanced measures of a student's capacity in the foundational functions (recall, recognize, comprehend, apply in context, and follow routines) and the more complex functions (analyze, synthesize, compare, critique, investigate, prove, explain, and create), which more appropriately assesses a student's progress toward achieving college and career readiness.

AYP is an individual state's measure of yearly progress toward achieving state academic standards.

With a set of recommendations from its expert resource groups in hand, the goals panel appears to be well on its way toward selecting measures to assess the progress of the nation's education system toward the goals.

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.

Parents of color support high, consistent standards and the assessments aligned to measure their students» progress toward those goals.

It also required testing of all students in grades 3 through 8 and once in high school to measure whether they were progressing adequately toward proficiency in those two fundamental academic subjects.

In 1999, the state legislature amended the law, named after the late Republican state senator John Stull, to require that «the governing board of each school district shall evaluate and assess certificated employee performance as it reasonably relates to: the progress of pupils toward the standards established pursuant to subdivision (a) and, if applicable, the state adopted academic content standards as measured by state adopted criterion referenced assessments.»

Several data collection methods are used throughout the year to provide indicators of progress toward adhering to the Measures of Excellence.

The assessment system measures the progress of English language learner (ELL) students toward English language proficiency based on the new English Language Proficiency (ELP) Standards.

a statement of how the student's progress toward the annual goals will be measured and when periodic reports on progress toward meeting the annual goals will be provided.

In a column on The 74, New America's Conor Williams discusses Florida's ESSA plan — and how the state is «proposing to leave ELLs» progress toward proficiency out of the state's system for measuring school quality.»

«44662 (b) The governing board of each school district shall evaluate and assess certificated employee performance as it reasonably relates to: (1): The progress of pupils toward the standards established pursuant to subdivision (a) and, if applicable, the state adopted academic content standards as measured by state adopted criterion referenced assessments.»

Drawing on his research, the author suggests that when video is used in a manner that respects the professionalism of teachers, it can have a positive effect on teaching and learning because it provides a clear picture of reality and a way for measuring progress toward a goal.

Two sections currently mention the use of the tests in teacher evaluations: «44662 (b) The governing board of each school district shall evaluate and assess certificated employee performance as it reasonably relates to: (1): The progress of pupils toward the standards established pursuant to subdivision (a) and, if applicable, the state adopted academic content standards as measured by state adopted criterion referenced assessments.»

Promote evidence - based practices and accountability for student success by improving the use of data, research, and evaluation to assess longitudinal student outcomes, improve school and program results, and otherwise measure progress toward consistently delivering high quality programs and services.

The Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs and MTAS) Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs) and alternate assessment, Minnesota Test of Academic Skills (MTAS), are the statewide tests that help districts measure student progress toward Minnesota's academic standards and meet the requirements of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).

According to the California Charter Schools Association, the latest numbers from the Academic Performance Index — the official measure of how well schools are progressing toward state goals — show that 64.4 percent of charter schools achieved gains from 2003 to 2004, compared to 61.1 percent of non-charter schools.

The bill also establishes that all schools in California will use new computer testing being developed by a consortium of states aimed at measuring student progress toward college and career readiness.

An aligned system of assessments should build toward helping students do well on state tests that measure the progress of students and schools.

- The percentage of EL pupils who make progress toward English proficiency as measured by the California English Language Development Test (CELDT) or any subsequent assessment of English proficiency, as certified by the SBE.

Develop and use a variety of assessments (e.g., exams, written work, and public performances) that frequently measure student progress toward the school's content and skill standards

For a feedback system to be informative, all measures must align with one another to present a rich portrait of how students are progressing toward a common goal.

We also wanted to increase our scholars» trajectory toward college readiness, as measured by the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) and Measures of Academic Progress (MAP).

Teams will use their own multiple measures of classroom data to learn how to pinpoint student learning challenges, select instructional interventions, and monitor progress toward reaching district - and / or school - level student learning goals.

Our benchmarks assess student progress toward meeting your state standards and provide valuable information to inform your instruction, offering a valid measure of student proficiency of knowledge and skills against your state and college - and career - readiness standards.

Clovis and Sweetwater are the only two districts with evaluation forms that «appear to meet all the pupil progress requirements of the Stull Act, including both progress of pupils toward district - adopted and, if applicable, state - adopted academic content standards as measured by state - adopted criterion referenced tests,» the report states.