Sentences with phrase «other quality indicators»

However, because the quality of unpublished studies is questioned because they have not gone through peer review, we noted and analyzed the effects of publication status (i.e., published or not) and four other quality indicators: reliability of questionnaires (0.39 — 0.96), sample size (35 — 6,751), number of informants (1 — 5), and impact factor of the publication (0.157 — 10.519).

However, collaboration is more than just discussions; it's about creating together, coming to consensus and other quality indicators.

Not exact matches

To begin with, I restructured the account based on a tiered system that accounted for ROAS and all of our other lead quality indicators.

«Concha y Toro and the other winning brands have consistently been great influencers since the beginning in terms of quality and showcasing the identity of Chilean wines,» said Lori Tieszen, Executive Director of Wines of Chile USA, «this is just another indicator that the world is paying attention and is ready to see what Chilean wine is really all about.»

SomaDetect said the system showed promising results detecting progesterone levels, trace antibiotics residues, protein, fat, and other milk quality and cow health indicators in real time on working dairy farms.

We are currently working with other nutrition scientists in improving global nutrition indicators that will reflect changing food quality and an evolving food environment.

A: I was surprised that the effects of lack of joint planning on relationship dissolution were apparent even when we accounted for various relationship quality indicators, the partners» agreement on various issues, overall goal planning, and all sorts of other things.

The other WBTi indicators offer key points to include, such as Baby Friendly status being a universal goal, legislation in line with World Health Assembly recommendations, adequate protection for breastfeeding in the workplace, local support that is of high quality and integrated, and health professionals who have adequate training is supporting breastfeeding.

«In addition, we posted an online survey to which 2,400 parents, educators, community members and other stakeholders responded to share feedback on school quality indicators, teacher preparation, school improvement, and accountability system design.»

The study examined the relationship between emotional intelligence and motivation to serve the public of public sector workers on the one hand and the mutual influence of these factors on three indicators of their performance: job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and the quality of service, on the other.

Topoperla sp., as many other invertebrate microorganisms, is regarded as a water quality indicator.

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On the other hand, there are also clear indicators on what makes for good and what for bad quality of online teaching.

Even if we ignore the fact that most portfolio managers, regulators, and other policy makers rely on the level of test scores (rather than gains) to gauge quality, math and reading achievement results are not particularly reliable indicators of whether teachers, schools, and programs are improving later - life outcomes for students.

These school indicators should also incorporate other measures of key ingredients to long - term success, such as student performance in writing and oral presentations, teaching and curriculum quality, student attitudes and culture, attendance, and school leadership and management.

All schools will use chronic absenteeism as an indicator of school quality; high schools will also be judged on two other indicators involving 9th grade academic progress and high school completion

For instance, states might assign separate ratings to each of the five indicator types the law requires: academic achievement, student growth, graduation rates, progress toward English language proficiency, and other indicators of school quality and student success.

The regulations set an arbitrary standard for the «other indicators of student success or school quality» — and then make sure those indicators won't matter anyway.

I always understood that achievement tests were only a partial and imperfect indicator of school quality, but I used to believe that other aspects of school quality not captured by achievement tests were largely correlated with those test results.

The surveys gathered objective information about «inputs,» but they also asked about teacher and administrative attitudes and other subjective indicators of quality.

If states add in additional components, like extended graduation rates, other school quality or student success indicators, additional subjects or assessments, they might quickly double the number of cells.

Yes, we need to make sure we are arming students with the skills and stamina to read texts that are complex; where the task assigned to students is rigorous, the quality level of the text is high, and the Lexile levels and other quantitative indicators are high as well.

But we also examine lots of other indicators of school quality, operational efficiency, and financial sustainability.

While some of these measures are plausible indicators of research quality, others are either quite narrow or do not promote comparability across disciplines.

One of the measures of teaching quality is an indicator of inspiration while the other is an indicator of deep learning.

Using the full population of all first - year undergraduates enrolled at Northwestern between fall 2001 and fall 2008 (over 15,000 students in all), we empirically generate two new measures of teaching quality — one an indicator of inspiration (the rate of «conversion» of non-majors to majors) and the other an indicator of deep learning (the degree to which a professor adds lasting value to students» learning that is reflected in success in future classes).

So the results are not easily dismissed as due to some other factor — though it is conceivable that any teacher who chooses the lecture method is just a better teacher overall (over and above other indicators of teacher quality available to the researchers).

In fact, although the federal regulation required that no program be classified as «effective» unless its graduates had an exceptional impact on test scores, it did require that programs be evaluated using other indicators of quality as well.

Finally, we believe that the work described in this proposal will demonstrate that teacher and teaching quality in the U.S. can be effectively tracked, similar to other national indicators such as NAEP.

ECAA: States must establish «a system of annually identifying and meaningfully differentiating among all public schools in the State» that include student proficiency and graduation rates, in significant part, plus at least one other «valid and reliable indicator of school quality,» but states are free to weight factors as they choose and omit student growth.

Establishes a system of meaningfully differentiating all public schools on an annual basis that is based on all indicators in the State's accountability system and that, with respect to achievement, growth or the other academic indicator for elementary and middle schools, graduation rate, and progress in achieving English language proficiency, affords: Substantial weight to each such indicator; and, in the aggregate, much greater weight than is afforded to the indicator or indicators of school quality or student success.

Look for them to push for systems in which schools could get good ratings for either high proficiency rates or strong growth; to embrace squishy «other indicators of student success or school quality» (such as «teacher engagement») and make those indicators count for as much as possible; and to lobby for school categories that all sound positive.

Under the NCLB Extended approach, embraced by many on the education reform / civil rights Left, achievement would continue to be measured by proficiency rates alone (with rising annual goals for what is good enough); growth data would be used sparingly and / or focused on «growth to proficiency»; «other indicators of student success or school quality» would be minimized; and evidence of achievement gaps would sink schools» ratings significantly.

In the upcoming weeks, we will continue to dive into some individual state plans that have proposed to use non-traditional indicators to measure school quality such as physical fitness assessments, emotional support observations, and exploration of arts, among other factors.

California, Idaho and other states are developing accountability systems to assess a range of school quality indicators instead of simply ranking districts by test scores.

Education Week found that Connecticut, Illinois, Vermont, and Delaware's ESSA plans «explicitly want to incorporate subjects other than math and ELA into either their academic - or school quality indicators.»

Following up on my most recent post about whether «The Test Matters,» a colleague of mine from the University of Southern California (USC)-- Morgan Polikoff whom I also referenced on this blog this past summer as per a study he and Andrew Porter (University of Pennsylvania) released about the «Surprisingly Weak» Correlations among VAMs and Other Teacher Quality Indicators» — wrote me an email.

We then provide brief case studies of three states seeking innovative pathways to comply with ESSA's requirement of including at least one other indicator of school quality or student success in the state accountability system.

About 82 percent of people surveyed say that it is important for high schools students to develop interpersonal skills, be cooperative and respectful of others and 42 percent said standardized tests were a «highly important» indicator of school quality, according to a national poll.

It further found that some teachers who were highly rated on student surveys, in classroom observations by principals, and through other indicators of quality had students who scored poorly on tests.

As this table shows, many state ESSA accountability plans include chronic absenteeism, or other related indicators, as measures of school quality.

In addition to scores on math and English, states will have to include graduation rates, progress of English learners, and one other «non-academic» indicator of school quality that states would be free to choose on their own.

... We need high - quality assessments that reflect actual learning, and we need to consider indicators of school performance other than simply test scores.»

The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) has triggered increased attention to the uses of performance data related to student test scores, graduation rates, and other indicators of school and teacher quality.

No surprise, I guess, that none of the other «issues» about which the EVAAS has been continuously questioned and critiqued were addressed in this article (e.g., about fairness and the teachers who are not TVAAS eligible, validity or the lack of relationships between the TVAAS and other indicators of quality in Tennessee, subject and grade level bias, as written about here and here, etc.).

A State may, however, include other statewide achievement - related measures, such as results on statewide science assessments or student growth for elementary and middle schools, as an Academic Progress or School Quality or Student Success indicator.

States should avoid using measures of school quality or student success in other school classification indicators.

On the other hand, in order to comply with ESSA, states may use additional academic subjects such as science and social studies as the second academic indicator for elementary and middle schools, or as an indicator of school quality or student success for any schools, according to initial feedback from the Education Department.26 The analysis in this brief excludes these measures when identifying and weighting measures of school quality or student success.

Under this broader vision, states should use some indicators to classify schools; others to inform local decisions about resources and supports; and all measures to ultimately support classroom teaching and learning, school quality, and student success.

Other indicators include the quality of sponsors in the region and the quality of academies in the area.