Performance Matters Observation & Evaluation provides educators and evaluators with a straightforward way to manage the evaluation process and guide educator improvement, and empowers administrators and teachers alike throughout the formal
observation process by streamlining observation evidence collection and fostering meaningful exchanges around performance improvement.
The toolkit offers practical guidance that grew out of CEPR's Best Foot Forward project, which set out to discover if it was possible to improve the classroom
observation process by letting teachers record videos of their lessons and submit their best efforts to administrators for evaluation.
Not exact matches
As James expected the camping party to get back to the useful business of chopping firewood and cooking supper once he had «assuaged the dispute»
by his pragmatic
observations, so the application of
process thinking in reference to the canonical wars now ravaging American higher education should be the means
by which faculty might be led back from endless idle arguments to their real and proper work of designing good courses and teaching them well.
It will enlighten
observation in those remote fields, so that general principles can be discerned as in
process of illustration, which in the absence of the imaginative generalization are obscured
by their persistent exemplification» (PR 5/8).
The primary role of the inductive descent, «the renewed
observation rendered acute
by rational interpretation» (PR 5/7), is not to confirm, but rather to propel the
process of speculative discovery forward to novel and unforeseen dimensions of experience.
We may then begin this critical reflection upon Hartshorne's «neoclassical theism» or «
process theology» with the
observation that both black and neoclassical theologies are defined in large part
by their opposition to or protest against certain features of classical Western theism.
It is contradicated
by every
observation that complex machines and
processes and information are not created
by random mutations and selection, but only
by intention.
To demand that what we say about God be verifiable
by direct
observation or
by an airtight
process of logical deduction makes no more sense than to demand this of statements about Millard Fillmore.
Very well, Chad, be the former and lay out your explanation for how theistic evolution works, including the mechanisms
by which God intervenes in the world of gene frequencies, the physical
process by which God «orchestrates» the universe, and the
observations that this understanding is based upon.
Put another way, one can feel oneself to be in natural connection with the distant thing; the thing can be isolated for strict
observation only
by a
process of abstraction that somehow attempts to neutralize the intervening medium.
A theoretical model, then, is an imagined mechanism or
process, postulated
by analogy with familiar mechanisms or
processes and used to construct a theory to correlate a set of
observations.
If Arsenal win this FA Cup match against Lincoln today, the win will not ease any pain the Gooners were allegedly have went through when Arsenal lost to Bayern Munich last Tuesday night at the Ems because there wasn't any pain the Gooners have suffered in the first place when Arsenal lost the match
by a 1 - 5 away win for Bayern Munich which in my own
observation was a rigged result for Bayern Munich
by the match referee, his linesman and the other referee official who was behind the goal post, a match referee who earlier has denied Arsenal a penalty of their own but later connived against them to award a penalty to Bayern Munich and in the
process sent off Koscielny to deliberately weaken Arsenal team strength to frustrate them in the game.
If Arsenal win this FA Cup match against Lincoln today, the win will not ease any pain the Gooners were allegedly had went through when Arsenal lost to Bayern Munich last Tuesday night at the Ems because there wasn't any pain the Gooners have suffered in the first place when Arsenal lost the match
by a 1 - 5 away win to Bayern Munich which in my own
observation was a rigged result for Bayern Munich
by the match referee, his linesman and the other referee official who was behind the goal post, a match referee who earlier had denied Arsenal a penalty of their own but later connived against them to award a penalty to Bayern Munich and in the
process sent off Koscielny to deliberately weaken Arsenal team strength to frustrate them in the game.
He said the immense contributions
by the media and CSOs to the work of the Commission, through constructive criticisms, suggestions,
observation reports and feedbacks from the field, were helping to deepen democracy, strengthen the electoral
process and in policy formulation.
For many aspects of the simulation, researchers can start their calculations at a fundamental, or ab initio, level with no need for preconceived input data, but
processes that are less understood — such as star formation and the growth of supermassive black holes — need to be informed
by observation and
by making assumptions that can simplify the deluge of calculations.
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By taking a Bayesian approach, we can include additional information about both the
observation process and the true population to obtain more realistic estimates and predictions.
The filter Nakata developed and then refined with help from his Stanford colleagues represents a new way of
processing the ambient noise
by comparing each
observation to every other
observation, which boosts the body - wave signal while reducing the noise.
Controlling intracellular membranes, such as vesicles, is a seemingly impossible proposition, but researchers at the Center for Cognition and Sociality within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) have created an optogenetic
process, called «light - activated reversible inhibition
by assembled trap of intracellular membranes» (IM - LARIAT) that allows for the
observation and control membranes that populate our cells.
Over time, the rings spread out, and the icy bits that drifted farthest from Saturn eventually reached distances where their gravitational attraction for each other could overcome the planet's tidal forces that tended to rip them apart — a
process that is still happening today, according to
observations by the Cassini spacecraft now touring the Saturn system.
Dr. Mike Sleutel continues: «We were struck
by the unexpected complexity of the
process, which proved to be far more intricate than the working models we and other in the field had prior to these
observations.
One is the «spine pruning theory,» supported
by the
observation that the frontal brain regions of people with schizophrenia have fewer dendritic spines, the tentacles on the receiving ends of neurons that
process signals from other cells.
The consortium will oversee the development and delivery of the cameras, and take the lead in supporting the UK solar physics community in their use of DKIST
by providing a set of
processing tools for DKIST data, synthetic
observations to validate diagnostic approaches, and support for developing observing proposals.
By cross-correlating large - scale surveys of galaxies and
observations of how galaxies distort background light in a relativistic
process known as weak lensing, Ferreira says, the true nature of mass and the forces acting on it can be tested.
This
observation coincides with the theory of neuronal recycling, developed
by Stanislas Dehaene, and which stipulates that advanced cultural cognitive
processes, such as mathematics, recycle ancient evolutionary brain functions, such as a sense of number, space and time.
The
observations reveal a new
process by which the solar wind can penetrate deep into a planetary atmosphere.
Following up on this
observation, the authors show that this
process is not simple photobleaching, but rather is caused
by active elimination of pigment cells.
Fundamental experimental data were derived from the
observations of airglows
by the Spectroscopy for Investigation of Characteristics of the Atmosphere of Mars (SPICAM) instrument on - board Mars Express: while NO is useful to constrain dynamics around the 100 km level (Gagné et al. 2013), CO and CO2 + UV emissions allow the direct monitoring of the efficiency of ionization
processes (Stiepen et al. 2015).
Evaluation of these
processes in AOGCMs is mainly restricted
by lack of
observations, but some early progress has been made in individual studies (e.g., Schmittner et al., 2000; Pardaens et al., 2003; Wu et al., 2005; Chapter 9).
The project may involve the following topics: — Interaction of the solar wind with magnetised and unmagnetised planets — Space weather forecasts — Numerical (HPC) and analytical modelling of MHD wave
processes and jets in solar and astrophysical plasma — MHD wave
observations and solar magneto - seismology — Application of advanced data analysis to solar system science — Physics of collisionless shocks (including planetary and interplanetary shocks)-- Analysis of multi-point measurements made
by space missions, e.g Cluster (ESA), THEMIS (NASA), MMS (NASA)
This phenomenon is in agreement with the well - established
observation that radiation,
by eliminating autoreactive memory lymphocytes, delays the progression of autoimmune
processes (50, 51).
Our goal is to provide a step -
by - step
process that helps you learn about clouds and their classification through simple
observations and photography.
This
observation could indicate a compensatory role of visual
processing in autism during speech perception, as supported
by the
observation that subjects with ASD extensively explore the mouth region in face - to - face situations (Klin et al., 2002), and use specific attention modes to enhanced local visual
processing (Schwarzkopf et al., 2014).
Based on these
observations and experiments, Harker and Pevtsov conclude that the observed magnetic transient is not an artifact created
by the SDO / HMI
observation process, but instead represents a real change in the vector magnetic field; since the active region was located so close to the solar limb, this suggests that the transient manifested in the horizontal component of the magnetic field (relative to the solar surface).
This recommendation was rooted in an earlier
observation by Williams et al, 19 based on both priority scores and funding rates, that clinical grant applications do not fare as well in the review
process when evaluated
by study sections reviewing relatively few clinical applications.
By taking more pictures per minute researchers in Damian Brunner's group at EMBL improved the time resolution of the movies generally used to study this
process, and made an important
observation.
Although this is similar to the formation
process of stars in cosmic clouds, it was the first time that the possibility of such a planet formation
process was directly suggested
by observations of protoplanetary disks.
In ALMA
observations, observers do not have to go to the site and operate the system for themselves because operations are carried out
by specialized operators and the obtained data are
processed by another expert team.
Whether these
observations reflect causal
processes or are confounded
by genetic and social factors remains unclear, although animal (and some human) studies suggest that epigenetic programming events may be involved.
By detailed
observations of concentration of dust and gas, the
process of planet formation will be clearly imaged.
These two
observations suggest that worker reproduction is influenced
by more plastic epigenetic
processes than those of queen — worker differentiation —
processes, it has been suggested, that could be analogous to somatic cell reprogramming and transdifferentiation [36].
by Walter Chaw An experiment in perceptual distortion that questions the nature of viewership and the law of
observation that states, in part, that the nature of the
process of
observation necessitates a change in the essential quality of the observed, Steven Soderbergh's Full Frontal is a hyper - pretentious film - within - a-film-within-a-film conceit so gimmicky it hardly matters that
by the end gimmickry is its point.
The
observation, feedback and collaborative planning
process is guided
by the New South Wales Quality Teaching model.
By involving children in this
process, he sought to help them become more active in their own education, and not incidentally, more self - aware; he advocated that children write extensively about themselves and their
observations.
Yet, the hiring
process relies heavily on paper credentials and interviews
by administrators, and schools make very little use of
observations.
Then they
process the experience
by looking back and evaluating it through reflections and
observations.
By leveraging both in - person and video
observations, engaging regularly with teachers in the feedback
process, providing bite - sized feedback on a narrow set of expectations, and focusing on the formative growth of her teachers, she has blurred the line between evaluation and support.
Based on my
observations, the lives of the high school students I teach are hemmed in everywhere
by social pressures and expectations: high - stakes testing, the looming shadow of college admissions, the fiercely competitive school system, the painful
process of figuring out who you are, and the ubiquitous desire for peer acceptance.
The far reaching capabilities of iObservation engages teachers and leaders in a continuous systematic
process of
observations and feedback
by which teachers and leaders are able to identify and develop instructional practices to maximize student achievement gains.
But in RTTC, I get to invite teachers to be part of the learning and growth
process by using qualitative and quantitative data from classroom
observations to get the teacher to reflect on the implementation of their deliverables and how they impact student engagement and classroom culture.
The far - reaching capabilities of iObservation ™ engage teachers and leaders in a continuous systematic
process of
observations and feedback
by which they are able to identify and develop instructional practices to maximize student achievement gains.