Sentences with phrase «own professional judgment»

Political values are important in antitrust, but political pressure on government enforcers undercuts their ability to make professional judgments about enforcement policy.

«We trust highly trained educators to use their professional judgment to make decisions in the best interests of children, particularly given that this policy applies to children as young as five years of age,» Kenney said in a press conference on November 2.

Pennsylvania is one of nine states that require a second physician to concur with the «professional judgment» of an abortionist who wants to perform a third - trimester abortion.

His conclusion about their reliability stems from his professional judgment as a historian.

Personally, since their body of work over their relatively short amount of time has shown me some reason for optimism, I am willing to go along with their professional judgment.

«I've learned about how to engage fathers... and not letting your professional judgment cloud things.»

It is our philosophy that decisions regarding each woman's care are informed and collaborative, and ultimately hers to make; however, rare emergent situations may arise in which the professional judgment of the midwife and / or consulting physician must be relied on exclusively for the safety of mother and baby.

«Chemidlin's laissez - faire attitude toward Ryne's return to participation in football flies in the face of sound professional judgment one would expect from a reasonable athletic trainer and ultimately allowed Ryne to participate in the game that led to his death,» Rehberg wrote in an October 2011 report.

It is not intended to substitute for the independent professional judgment of the treating clinician.

I do not know what evidence the police have — but I do know that it is wholly appropriate that the police should use their professional judgment to follow the evidence during the course of a police investigation without fear or favour.»

In early December, in defense of the state's reaction to Hoosick Falls, Kenneth Bogdan, the state health department's chemical risk assessor, told EPA officials that the administration's «professional judgment and risk assessment reflects philosophy, not science,» according to the handwritten notes Enck took of the phone call.

And concluded: «In my opinion the evidence indicates an issue of honesty and integrity, not merely naïve or poor professional judgment.»

This is a C recommendation, indicating that the USPSTF recommends selectively offering or providing this service to individual patients based on professional judgment and patient preferences.

Richard Klein, climate policy analyst at the Stockholm Environment Institute, wrote: «Irrespective of credentials, a scientist who lets his personal convictions blur his professional judgment is a bad scientist.»

While some cases clearly qualify for the diagnosis of heavy metal toxicity from the viewpoint of history, occupation, signs and symptoms, and lab data, integrative physicians should consider treatment for patients when, in their professional judgment, the level of heavy metal found utilizing any of the tests discussed reveals a greater level of toxic metal (s) than is in the best interest of their patient.

The professional judgment panels paid such research no attention whatsoever.

These arguments are not against professional judgment per se, but against its misuse in this case.

The former endeavor is what they traditionally do, exactly where the professional judgment of an administrator might be helpful, just as it would be useful to have Martha Stewart's decorating opinion.

A teachers» professional judgment is critical to establishing such a culture.

The last concern I've often heard is that online learning will undermine teachers» professional judgment.

More important, the specific approach of AIR / MAP for combining the judgments of the separate professional judgment panels led directly to costing out the

Furthermore, in neither the successful schools nor the professional judgment methodologies is there a sense that the results of the successful districts could be reproduced without instituting a host of reforms (unmentioned by the referees) to ensure that the extra money led to better schools.

They state, «This relative convergence of costing - out results derived from three different methods — the successful school district method used in the State's costing - out analysis, the professional judgment method used in plaintiffs» costing - out analysis, and the City's detailed planning method — provides comfort that our $ 5.63 billion costing - out recommendation to the Court is indeed sound.»

When online learning is used as the primary driver of instruction, teachers inevitably give up control over many aspects of curriculum planning and lesson delivery; and in low - quality implementations of blended learning, the teacher's professional judgment ends there.

Moreover, locking in the current technology (through professional judgment or successful schools) can at best produce marginal changes in outcomes.

«School staff should use their professional judgment in identifying children who might be at risk of radicalisation and act proportionately.

Another justification the CEP offers is that the professional judgment method is «the most commonly used» for studying education resource needs.

In «Pay Now or Pay Later,» the CEP calculates the alleged hidden costs of exit exams using what is known as the «professional judgment» method.

You, as the teacher, use your professional judgment and are empowered to make the right decisions for your students as individuals and your classroom of learners as a whole.

The professional judgment method does not rely on empirical data gathering or analysis of actual budgets.

The calculations produced by the professional judgment method are more or less just speculation: expert speculation, to be sure, but speculation.

The reason adequacy studies tend to prefer the professional judgment method is clear enough, and it does not seem like a stretch to suggest that the CEP might prefer that method for the very same reason.

Much - touted Finland, for instance, uses a school inspectorate model that is based on professional judgment.

One justification the CEP offers for the professional judgment method is that it «best reflects the experiences of people who are actually responsible for delivering education services» and «reflects the views of actual service providers.»

It assembled panels of educators and asked them what education services, in their professional judgment, a typical school district would need to reach two benchmarks: the current level of student performance on exit exams and a higher level of student performance that represents a desired goal.

For example, ESSA only slightly broadens the focus from test scores, does nothing to confront Campbell's Law, * doesn't allow for reasonable variations among students, doesn't take context into account, doesn't make use of professional judgment, and largely or entirely (depending on the choices states» departments of education make) continues to exclude the quality of educators» practice from the mandated accountability system.

Principals should be allowed to run their schools according to their own professional judgment and the wishes and aspirations of parents.

Instead, we ask teachers to develop their own grading systems based on their professional judgment and interpretation of learning standards and school policy.

What is unique about National Board Certification is that it assesses not only the knowledge teachers possess but also the actual use of their skills and professional judgment in the classroom as they work to improve student learning.

The dismissal of the «professional judgment» approach eliminates a rational way of thinking about a hypothetical situation when research and statistics have not addressed the issue with any definitive conclusions.The authors are more supportive of the «successful schools» approach because it is based on some evidence of relative performance.

First, professional judgment exercises organized by A&M and APA impose similar constraints on panel participants across studies and, in most instances, have relied on similarly trained staff members to facilitate panel deliberations.

We reviewed results from professional judgment studies in eight states released from 2001 to 2003.

The principal problem with the professional judgment model - the model drawn on most heavily by Mathis - is that there is no attempt to tie observed spending levels to actual student outcomes.

In the politically polarized domain of school - finance litigation, the professional judgment approach has evolved into a den of foxes guarding the henhouse.

Typically, a professional judgment approach to costing - out adequacy relies on experienced professional educators to identify the resources necessary to produce desired outcomes.

Take, for example, a recent professional judgment study prepared by Verstegen and Associates for Young et al. v. Williams et al., a pending education - finance adequacy trial in Kentucky.

While in the past there may have been few alternatives to the professional judgment model's input - based approach, today it seems out of step with the spirit of standards - based reform.

The firm's evidentiary submission relied principally upon two organizations to select teachers, curriculum specialists, and administrators to serve on professional judgment panels that constructed the resource ingredients that would ultimately help determine the cost of an adequate education in Kentucky.

The professional judgment approach proliferated in education - finance lawsuits following Campbell.

Two approaches are used most frequently: the «professional judgment» and «successful schools» models.