Sentences with phrase «most evaluation instruments»

Not exact matches

In a very perceptive, but as yet unpublished, paper devoted to evaluation and to evaluating those who evaluate, Paul Weiss has called attention to the highly practical character of the theoretical work of logical analysis, thereby helping to verify Whitehead's famous dictum that the paradox is now fully resolved which states that our most abstract concepts are our best and most useful instruments with which to come to understand concrete matters of fact and practical affairs.

Therefore, all evaluations should use multiple types of instruments — surveys, focus groups, interviews, observations, and questionnaires — in order to capture and analyze data from as many different angles as possible to triangulate the data most effectively.

The organization takes a holistic approach to selection, rather than «using a blunt instrument like cut scores on Praxis or content exams, which can dramatically impact diversity in a negative way,» says Anne Mahle, who currently serves as senior vice president for public partnerships but led recruitment for many years.149 Although the average GPA of corps members is 3.42, TFA maintains a relatively low cutoff requirement of 2.5 and instead places greater emphasis on candidate evaluations designed to measure characteristics that TFA's research has shown its most effective teachers share.

We are building new, sophisticated teacher evaluation instruments but only providing the most cursory training to use the instrument with accuracy.

Pennsylvania should either require a common evaluation instrument in which evidence of student learning is the most significant criterion, or it should specifically require that student learning be the preponderant criterion in local evaluation processes.

Evaluation instruments include performance management systems, which include associate and partner evaluations for the purpose of advancement and most importantly, compensation and bonuses.