Sentences with phrase «other evaluation methods»

It includes guidelines to identify when an evaluative case study is an appropriate method and when to consider other evaluation methods.

Other evaluation methods would run foul of subjectivity to more or less of an extent.

Not exact matches

The Healthy Diet Score follows more than three years of research by CSIRO and University of South Australia and is capable of providing a similar evaluation to other more complex diet assessment methods such as weekly tracking of food intake.

Course participants will gain an overview of the different forms of evaluation of work targeting fathers and methods that might be used in undertaking them; increased awareness on the kinds of agencies and professionals who might be involved in targeting fathers; understanding of the ethical issues, role of monitoring and other forms of record keep as part of the evaluation process; and understanding of the use of evaluative processes as part of organisational and project development

Each takes about 12 - 15 minutes to administer and provides a quick and reliable method for determining if a child needs further evaluation to determine if a disability or other unmet need exists.

88, Ed.D.» 91, along with researchers from Abt Associates, Inc., and other institutions of higher learning, worked with Facing History's evaluation staff — including Terry Tollefson, Ed.D.»89 — to carry out the study using rigorous methods.

Evaluations should not be based exclusively on test scores but should — as a new agreement in New York State affirms — use a combination of evaluation methods that include test scores and other observational methods.

Every other component of the evaluation (methods, sampling, instruments, measures, analysis) flows from this basic design.

Randomized evaluations of educational interventions are important for producing, in comparison to studies employing other methods, reliable findings about causality.

The administration will allow states greater flexibility to use other teacher - evaluation methods, such as student and parent surveys and observation and feedback systems.

She leads a number of studies that evaluate education programs using rigorous econometric methods, including randomized control trials, propensity score matching methods, and other quasi-experimental evaluation designs.

The study has received a great deal of attention, in part because it is one of the few evaluations of school resources based on random assignment of students to test policy effects while controlling for other conditions, a method that is generally thought to be a high - quality research design.

Accordingly, even though their data for this part of this study come from one district, their findings are similar to others evidenced in the «Widget Effect» report; hence, there are still likely educational measurement (and validity) issues on both ends (i.e., with using such observational rubrics as part of America's reformed teacher evaluation systems and using survey methods to put into check these systems, overall).

However, lacking any other method, such as extensive peer review, student - driven teacher evaluation, impartial audit, longitudinal outcome evaluation, or the like, we need to have some basis to establish whether or not everyone in the educational system, including students, are doing their jobs.

In the same year, a policy report from the Brookings Institute, Evaluating Teachers: The Important Role of Value - Added suggested that VAM should not be measured against an abstract ideal, but rather should be compared to other teacher evaluation methods to determine its potential usefulness.

Major efforts are under way to come up with methods for doing that, many of them combining the use of data to measure student performance with other ways of measuring classroom performance, including more systematic evaluations by principals.

In addition to the 11 participating states and the Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation, the Dynamic Learning Maps consortium includes faculty from several other departments and research centers within KU, including the Beach Center on Disability, Center for Research on Learning, Center for Research Methods and Data Analysis and Department of Special Education.

Dr. Ray, as a professor, taught graduate level courses in research methods, statistics, and educational and psychological measurement, evaluation, and testing and he serves in court as an expert witness on that topic and others.

And President Obama continued with his Race to the Top competition, dangling billions of dollars in front of states that agreed to develop more stringent teacher evaluation methods, among other steps.

Through IDRA's research - based evaluation work, educators and other program implementers can assess and document project outcomes using qualitative and quantitative methods and improve...

(e) The board shall establish the information needed in an application for the approval of a charter school; provided that the application shall include, but not be limited to, a description of: (i) the mission, purpose, innovation and specialized focus of the proposed charter school; (ii) the innovative methods to be used in the charter school and how they differ from the district or districts from which the charter school is expected to enroll students; (iii) the organization of the school by ages of students or grades to be taught, an estimate of the total enrollment of the school and the district or districts from which the school will enroll students; (iv) the method for admission to the charter school; (v) the educational program, instructional methodology and services to be offered to students, including research on how the proposed program may improve the academic performance of the subgroups listed in the recruitment and retention plan; (vi) the school's capacity to address the particular needs of limited English - proficient students, if applicable, to learn English and learn content matter, including the employment of staff that meets the criteria established by the department; (vii) how the school shall involve parents as partners in the education of their children; (viii) the school governance and bylaws; (ix) a proposed arrangement or contract with an organization that shall manage or operate the school, including any proposed or agreed upon payments to such organization; (x) the financial plan for the operation of the school; (xi) the provision of school facilities and pupil transportation; (xii) the number and qualifications of teachers and administrators to be employed; (xiii) procedures for evaluation and professional development for teachers and administrators; (xiv) a statement of equal educational opportunity which shall state that charter schools shall be open to all students, on a space available basis, and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, creed, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age, ancestry, athletic performance, special need, proficiency in the English language or academic achievement; (xv) a student recruitment and retention plan, including deliberate, specific strategies the school will use to ensure the provision of equal educational opportunity as stated in clause (xiv) and to attract, enroll and retain a student population that, when compared to students in similar grades in schools from which the charter school is expected to enroll students, contains a comparable academic and demographic profile; and (xvi) plans for disseminating successes and innovations of the charter school to other non-charter public schools.

Three Indiana school districts are currently piloting an evaluation system developed by the Department of Education — known as «RISE» — while three others are trying out their own methods.

The evaluation method would have to be used consistently across a district's schools, with information about the tool posted on the district's website, including research backing its use and the qualifications of the person who created it, among other things.

On the other hand, he said the department will be taking a closer look at private school curricula and teacher evaluation methods, stepping up due diligence where officials see «red flags.»

It will also be much more accurate than any other method of inventory evaluation.

In administering the program, the Director will participate in the hiring, orientation, training, and evaluation of legal research and writing instructors; participate in the orientation of incoming first - year law students; prepare the syllabi and the common writing problems used by all legal research and writing sections; chair regular meetings of the legal research and writing instructors to discuss course content, teaching methods, and related issues; handle student issues related to the program; oversee the selection of legal research and writing award recipients; coordinate legal research and writing with the broader curriculum in conjunction with the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; and perform other related administrative duties as assigned.

Bwom offers a free test and evaluation, from which it customizes simple, effective exercises for intimate health like Kegel exercises, the hypopressive method (M. Caufriez), perineal massage, activation of the abdominal girdle and other exercises.

That more consideration be given to modelling as a method to estimate economic outcomes for existing effectiveness trial results, and to generalise existing quality economic evaluation results to other jurisdictions.

Findings in relation to other aspects of the evaluation, including the effect of the programme on children's coping skills using child participatory methods, and the assessment of other aspects of programme implementation (school context, quality of implementation, participant responsiveness) are reported elsewhere [23 — 25].

In future work, other methods of evaluation should be used.

Aside from mediation, there are other Alternative Dispute Resolution methods that may be considered, such as Collaborative Practice (also known as Collaborative Law), Case Evaluation, and Arbitration.