Sentences with phrase «multiple measures of»

To examine the relation between multiple measures of diabetes - specific family factors and control, we conducted a hierarchical multiple linear regression in SPSS 11.0 (SPSS, Inc., 2001).

Contemporary principles of measure development for the assessment of parenting [36, 37] guided the construction of the intrusiveness measure, including aggregating multiple measures of the same parenting behavior from different informants into a single composite measure; focusing on specific behaviors (e.g., «mom gave me help in putting on or taking off clothes») rather than vague concepts (e.g., «mom invades my privacy»); focusing on a short, specific time - frame; using items that are relevant to the age - group being studied; and including observational methods.

Our review was restricted to a limited number of behavioural outcomes and we were unable to exploit the full range of behavioural outcome measures used across included studies and for some studies reporting of multiple measures of child behaviour in the meta - analysis.

Multiple measures of infant temperament predicted group membership with 84 % accuracy.

When a single study provides multiple measures of the same outcome (e.g. two measures are used to assess child behaviour problems) we will average the effects from the outcomes to arrive at a single effect for use in the meta - analysis.

Utilizing the U.S. 2011 — 2012 National Survey of Children's Health, this study examines both the prevalence of ACEs in a nationally representative sample of 12 — 17 year old adolescents and the cross-sectional relationship between experiencing ACEs and multiple measures of well - being.

In this study, we test whether DRD2 and DRD4 are associated with multiple measures of conduct disorder and with a measure of antisocial behavior.

Associations between multiple measures of parental feeding and children's adiposity in United Kingdom preschoolers.

Large long term longitudinal studies in which children with GD and their families are randomized to treatment with various therapeutic modalities and assessed across multiple measures of physical and social emotional health are desperately needed and should have been launched long ago.

Expand accurate and robust accountability systems that value growth models and multiple measures of student performance; and

«As a central... tenet, we believe that educators should never be evaluated on a single factor or test score alone, but on multiple measures of both effective practice and student learning outcomes.»

Lindsay Fox, Doctoral Candidate of Stanford Graduate School of Education, discusses her research on Playing to Teachers» Strengths: Using multiple measures of teacher effectiveness to improve teacher assignments which is to be published in Education Finance and Policy.

Sorting out the Signal: Do Multiple Measures of Teachers» Effectiveness Provide Consistent Information to Teachers and Principals?

The results suggest that using multiple measures of value - added to specialize teachers by subject could produce small average increases in student achievement, and larger increases for some students.

The law's intent seeks to reset and refocus state accountability systems, with an option to include student growth and multiple measures of school performance, as well as to provide schools with greater flexibility to direct resources to meet the needs of students.

Schools with higher levels of student achievement are more likely than others to have principals who establish high expectations for students and teachers and are attentive to multiple measures of student success.

Training will establish foundational assessment literacy knowledge, provide opportunities for hands - on practice in use of multiple measures of learning, and develop teacher skills for formative practice.

What the country needs are thoughtfully developed teacher evaluation systems that include multiple measures of performance, such as student surveys, classroom observations by experienced colleagues and student test results.

Alongside teachers, I am curious how continuing annual testing in grades 3 - 8 and once in high school reduces «the burden of testing on students and teachers, making sure that tests don't crowd out teaching and learning» and how the continued significance of student test scores (despite the law's important shift to include multiple measures of success for students) will alter a test - prep culture that narrows the curriculum.

Olympia, WA: Washington Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction., similar to Massachusetts, will use set - aside funds and additional Title II, Part A dollars to develop, improve, or provide assistance to support the design and implementation of teacher and principal evaluation and support systems that are based on multiple measures of educator performance.

High schools are evaluated on an innovative «Prepared for Success» component, which includes multiple measures of college and career readiness and is weighted 15 % of their total measurement scale.

Evaluations of school programs are also best accomplished by using multiple measures of different constructs.

Assessment experts advise teachers to collect multiple measures of assessment evidence to paint a true picture of student achievement.

Instead, the use of multiple measures of effectiveness for layoff decisions holds promise for softening the detrimental effect of layoffs.

In schools that perform well, teachers and principals tend to establish high expectations for students and pay attention to multiple measures of student success.

«Going program by program and — often at great expense — conducting large - scale evaluations involving multiple measures of teaching and learning has not, to date, resulted in an accretion of credible, usable knowledge within the professional development and practitioner community,» the researchers assert in a new Educational Researcher article.

It is for this reason that we should keep an eye on New Hampshire's pilot of a new kind of assessment, one that more holistically examines multiple measures of student performance and focuses less on standardized testing.

The recently signed Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) provides states with greater flexibility to design accountability systems that use multiple measures of assessment beyond test scores.

Building Teacher Capacity Maribel Childress Tools to strengthen instruction through multiple measures of evaluation.

Evaluations currently include the review of multiple measures of student performance, growth and development, including tests that are designed specifically to measure the progress of classroom learning.

This report reviews these provisions in four major areas: (1) access to learning opportunities focused on higher - order thinking skills; (2) multiple measures of equity; (3) resource equity; and (4) evidence - based interventions.

ASCD has been pressing both federal and state officials to broaden the definition of student success and to incorporate multiple measures of performance that gauge progress toward it.

But instead of leaving teacher effectiveness completely up to local educators, its Encouraging Innovation and Effective Teachers Act (PDF) surprisingly requires states and districts to develop teacher evaluation systems that use multiple measures of evaluation; incorporate student achievement data; include more than two rating categories; are tied to personnel decisions; and are developed with input from parents, teachers, and other staff.

Broaden the state's accountability system to incorporate multiple measures of student outcomes.

The report «drew on data from 2005 to 2012 to rate charter schools across multiple measures of financial health and academic performance, including state test scores and classroom spending.»

They have pointed out that student report cards present information about multiple measures of student progress.

According to Campbell (1976), one way to prevent an indicator from becoming corrupted or distorted is to employ multiple measures of performance.

Suggestions range from offering students an array of extracurricular activities and extended - day learning opportunities to establishing more meaningful accountability systems that encompass a variety of subjects and use multiple measures of student performance.

We also feel strongly that parents should have the right to have their children opt out of high - stakes testing — and that any accountability system should include multiple measures of success, including parent and teacher surveys.

Scrap adequately yearly progress, giving states the authority to develop their own accountability systems using multiple measures of student growth and identification of achievement gaps.

Multiple measures of proficiency can include projects, portfolios and other locally designed formative assessments that, along with the standardized tests, create a summative score for a student.

For example, the network recently created a new teacher evaluation system that incorporates multiple measures of teacher effectiveness, including classroom observations; survey responses from colleagues, students, and families; and growth in student test scores.

We further expect the assessment community to work vigorously to design multiple measures of student performance in both tested and untested subjects and to develop value - added assessment systems that have greater reliability.

The current law falls short not only of recognizing principals, but also defining how systems should identify effective leaders based on student achievement and other multiple measures of outcomes and practice that principals directly influence.

ESSA also marks an important move toward a more holistic approach to accountability by encouraging multiple measures of school and student success.

The importance of rating teachers on multiple measures of performance, which encourages effectiveness and excellence.

The hearing's panel of experts — including New Mexico's Secretary of Education - designate Hanna Skandera; Miami - Dade Superintendent Alberto Carvalho; and Bel Air, Md., elementary school principal Blaine Hawley — decried NCLB's one - size - fits - all approach and urged the committee to consider multiple measures of student achievement and school quality.

«The other part has to be locally developed, multiple measures of student growth.

We recognize the benefits of «using multiple measures of teacher performance» (Sato, 2014, p. 2) to identify the strengths and weaknesses of both teachers and teacher education programs.

This approach is used in districts like Long Beach and San Mateo, California, and is encouraged in states like Massachusetts, Oregon, and Washington that call for multiple measures of student learning to be combined in a judgment system with evidence of teacher practice.