Sentences with phrase «performance as the measure of success»

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To measure our success in these areas, we track meaningful metrics such as employee engagement and satisfaction (i.e., employee volunteering, employee giving and results of the Organizational Health Index survey), total employees receiving performance reviews, average hours of training, turnover rates and rate of return from leave.

«As a long term investor, the fund's performance is best measured by its success over a period of years if not decades, but we always welcome a strong quarter.»

In poorer areas, such as the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, where there is very little capital available, it may make more economic sense to boost their economic performance and accept a degree of flood risk instead of pouring resources into flood protection measures which have very little success anyway.»

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.

Ten or fifteen years ago, the Secretary of Education was having wall charts about each state's SAT performances — as if that was a measure of school and school - system success.

This research does not show that private or charter schools are always more effective than district schools in raising student performance on standardized tests — the indicator that is often put forth as a measure of a school's success.

At least one indicator of school success or student support — such as attendance, school climate, or access to AP or other advanced coursework — must be included in measuring school performance (though academic factors must still make up at least half of all indicators for accountability purposes).

Schools such as Wilbur shine under the current measure of academic success — the all - important Academic Performance Index — based on students» achievement level on standardized tests.

Among them are a focus within preschool programs on teaching pre-academic skills; the conceptualization of the role of the adults who provide center - based care as that of a teacher; a bias towards delivering pre-K services through school districts; a press towards common standards and curriculum across pre-K providers; accountability regimens that are tied to children's performance on measures that correlate with later school success; disproportionate spending on four - year - olds as opposed to younger children; and marginalization of the family's responsibility.

The Scholars» Paradise model would use «scale scores» or a «performance index» for the «academic achievement» indicator; measure growth using a two - step value - added metric; pick robust «indicators of student success or school quality,» such as chronic absenteeism; and make value added count the most in a school's final score.

The practice, touted by educators nationwide as a proven path to college success, has largely been squeezed out by standardized tests, the quicker, less - costly measure of student performance.

Monitor for Sustainability of Academic Success: Academic progress of former ELL students must be monitored for two years after exiting and appropriate measures taken, such as re-enrolling or re-adjusting curriculum for students who do not maintain acceptable academic performance levels.

TAP principally plugs four Elements of Success: Multiple Career Paths (for educators as career, mentor and master teachers); Ongoing Applied Professional Growth (through weekly cluster meetings, follow - up support in the classroom, and coaching); Instructionally Focused Accountability (through multiple classroom observations and evaluations utilizing a research based instrument and rubric that identified effective teaching practices); and, Performance - Based Compensation (based on multiple; measures of performance, including student achievement gains and teachers» instructional Performance - Based Compensation (based on multiple; measures of performance, including student achievement gains and teachers» instructional performance, including student achievement gains and teachers» instructional practices).

Sure, Supt. John Deasy has managed to at least talk the talk on systemically reforming the district (even as he makes rather weak moves as striking a deal with the AFT's City of Angels local on a teacher evaluation plan that does little to actually measure the performance of teachers based on their success with the students they instruct in classrooms) and has even allowed for families at 24th Street Elementary to exercise the district's own Parent Trigger policy and take over the school.

The proposed plan instead doubles down on the use of state standardized test results by proposing use of student performance on STAAR Math and Reading as the measure of school quality or student success for elementary and middle schools.

Charter schools are subject to annual performance reviews as well as ongoing oversight by the State Board of Education and the Superintendent of Public Instruction to measure their success in improving student outcomes.

But as states rethink what success looks like, they can use more holistic measures of school quality to improve school and student performance.

On average, states include school quality or student success indicators as approximately 14 percent of elementary and middle school ratings and 26 percent of high school ratings.27 Prior to ESSA, these types of indicators similarly averaged around 20 percent of school classification systems.28 Notably, two plans — Washington, D.C.'s and North Dakota's — include measures of school quality or student success as more than 50 percent of high school ratings.29 The bulk of these measures are college - and career - readiness indicators, such as performance on the SAT, ACT, or ACT WorkKeys; participation or performance in advanced coursework; and earning industry - recognized credentials.

Under ESSA, states must hold schools accountable for student performance in English language arts, or ELA, and mathematics; a second academic indicator, such as growth in ELA and mathematics; progress in achieving English language proficiency; high school graduation rates, if applicable; and at least one measure of school quality or student success.

Although just one component of the greater accountability system, school classification systems are a top priority for states.1 As states design these systems, much of their attention is focused on which indicators of school quality or student success they will use for a more holistic measure of school performance.2 According to ESSA, these new indicators may measure one or more of the following: 3

While you may not have thought about measuring performance data as part of the equation for district success, data from departments like transportation, maintenance and operations, food service, and technology can produce important information about how schools and districts operate, which drives the ability to discover and communicate efficient best - practices.

Louisiana's draft state plan proposes to tweak the state's measures of school success by relying less on test scores and more on student's academic progress as well as considering non-academic performance indicators.

Self - described education «reformers» advocate top - down overhauling of systems, using standardized testing in math and English as the primary measure of student and teacher performance and success, and using competition to leverage change, although neither approach has been shown to improve student achievement.

[1] To date, traditional measures of success included factors based on a plan's inputs, such as participation rates, savings levels, and the relative performance of underlying Read more -LSB-...]

To determine which combination of measures best predicted outcome, we tested the discrimination, or performance, of each model by calculating the area under the curve (AUC), which quantified each model's ability to classify a dog correctly as an eventual program release or success (higher AUCs indicate better predictive power)(54, 55)(SI Materials and Methods).

There is also focus on the seminal work of professional services theorist David Maister and the subject of Profits Per Partner which has strongly held sway as a measure of success of law firm performance.

In Moneyball, Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland As baseball team, conducted a rigorous statistical analysis of the elements of player performance and concluded that some of the measures which had traditionally been used to gauge a player's worth, such as batting average, were not necessarily the best indicators for team succesAs baseball team, conducted a rigorous statistical analysis of the elements of player performance and concluded that some of the measures which had traditionally been used to gauge a player's worth, such as batting average, were not necessarily the best indicators for team succesas batting average, were not necessarily the best indicators for team success.

I don't try to measure my son's efficiency (or efficacy) in cleaning his room, but rather take a done / not - done picture of success, and trust that with growing maturity will come a decreasing desire to live as if he's creating performance art for a tornado zone.

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