Sentences with phrase «performance categories»

In terms of performance category, they are the same level.

Nearly two - thirds of the district's schools were identified as «academically unacceptable,» the state's lowest performance category.

Also known as a «composite» or «index,» the weighted average provides one bottom - line metric with which teachers can be placed into performance categories.

Coming in second in the top performance category is the elephant.

Medium and large districts have schools in many performance categories.

A vital issue in any such evaluation is how the scores defining performance categories — so - called cut scores — are set.

Serious consequences arise when measures are not valid and reliable: they increase classification errors — the placement of teachers into incorrect performance categories.

The first criterion for evaluating any method of using multiple measures is accuracy — whether, for any given definition of teacher performance, teachers are placed in the correct performance categories.

There could also be other performance categories besides «low» and «high»; Figure 1 is intended just for illustration purposes.

As a result, evaluating teachers to group them into performance categories will inevitably lead to errors.

But not only that: it is also clearly superior to all competitors in the top performance category.

In Florida, the District of Columbia, and a growing number of states and districts, performance measures, including value - added estimates, play a key role in placing teachers in performance categories.

The RS nameplate represents the highest performance category for Audi vehicles, and reflects the technical competencies gained through Audi motorsports successes.

Under current law, the OSPP law applies to a school district that: (1) has a pupil membership is greater than 15,000; (2) was assigned to the lowest performance category on the accountability reports (report cards) published for the district in the 2 most recent school years; and (3) received intradistrict transfer aid in the same 2 most recent school years.

The extra two letters serve as the signature of Audi's highest performance category for its vehicles, and the TT RS is no different.

The men of «Beasts of No Nation» swept the men's performance category with Best Male Lead for 15 - year - old Abraham Attah and Best Supporting Male for Idris Elba.

Two other Real World History students won second place in the group performance category for their piece about the 1968 - 69 Modern Strivers.

The Jeep Trail Rated badge on the 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee indicates that the vehicle is designed to perform in a variety of challenging off - road conditions, identified by five key consumer - oriented performance categories: traction, ground clearance, maneuverability, articulation and water fording.

Instead, our research design compares successive grade cohorts within the same school — cohorts that faced different degrees of accountability pressure owing to changes in how the state defined school performance categories over time.

In response to the increasing number of Miniature Bull Terriers achieving titles in a growing field of dog sports, the Susan M. Hall Memorial Versatility Excellent Award, the «Trevor,» was later added for dogs earning titles in at least four different performance categories.

But sometimes an employee reaches the same level of disciplinary action, sometimes in multiple performance categories, and they're inexplicably kept on.

To be objective and fair, it would seem that we should place teachers into performance categories based on a combination of performance information, then provide support and professional development to those with the lowest scores and reward those with the highest scores.

Those are great scores that put the XZ1 Compact in the same performance category as Android flagships like the LG V30, the HTC U11 and the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.

We conduct analyses that estimate the probability of students» true scores being in the same performance category as a set of observed scores for a set of test results.

Relates to eliminating the student performance category of teacher evaluations and replacing it with a teacher evaluation category created by a committee consisting of certified educators of this state.

«This is partly a consequence of Under Armour wanting to «own» many different segments of the sports performance category, but in a softer demand environment where consumers are more selective about what they buy, such a lack of focus is harmful,» Riva wrote Tuesday.

The consistent failure of private prisons has been in evidence since 2008, when the Noms performance categories were introduced.

Dr. Stamenova adds that a comprehensive neurological consult would be helpful to patients, since individual cognitive screening measures such as the Cerebral Performance Category Scale, Mini Mental Status Examination and the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, can not detect the memory problems faced by cardiac arrest survivors.

Brooklynn Prince clenched the Best Youth Performance category for «The Florida Project.»

MTV announced the nominees for the 2016 MTV Movie Awards, and the latest installment of the beloved space saga blasted ahead of the field with 11 nods (including two different honorees in the Best Virtual Performance category).

The Screen Actors Guild has announced its nominees for its 18th annual awards contest, with The Help, Bridesmaids, Midnight in Paris, The Descendants and The Artist receiving nods in the outstanding cast performance category — SAG's equivalent to the best picture selections.

Sticking with simple best actor and best actress performance categories, rather than breaking out supporting separately, allows for interesting picks as well.

won the Special jury Prize in the Breakthrough Performance category.

In ELA, students in PARCC's college - ready performance category were about 8 percentage points more likely to achieve a 3.0 GPA than students rated as proficient on MCAS, but the difference is not statistically significant.

It is helpful to remember that the definitions of the PARCC and MCAS performance categories are not directly comparable: the PARCC exam explicitly seeks to identify students who are prepared for college, whereas the MCAS performance levels are more narrowly targeted to measure proficiency relative to state curriculum standards.

It mandates and specifies performance targets (100 percent proficiency, Adequate Yearly Progress, etc.); creates mandatory, specified performance categories («in need of improvement,» «restructuring,» etc.); and spells out the activities required for struggling schools.

Beginning in 2001, official PACT reports to parents used a simpler rating scale that classified each school into one of five performance categories ranging from unsatisfactory to excellent.

[10] They find that given the correlations we typically see among different measures of teacher performance, there is likely to be a significant number of false positives and negatives: teachers falling into one performance category according to one measure and into a different category according to another measure.

To put these numbers into perspective, I created two hypothetical performance measures and placed 100 teachers into one of four equally - sized performance categories, «A» being high and «D» being low.

The average school in Tennessee would be in the middle to upper ranges of the Satisfactory performance category.

The State Board of Education has until Nov. 15 to adopt new performance categories aligned to the A-F scale.

Walker and the Assembly want to impose letter grades on schools, but the Senate bill would keep the current system of placing schools into broad performance categories.

TEA has emphasized in T - TESS training and in other forums that because there are five performance levels, they reflect a broader range of abilities than under PDAS (particularly by providing two performance categories above «Proficient», so, accordingly, the level of performance that would earn a rating of «Exceeds Expectations» under PDAS will now earn a rating of «Proficient.»

Standards - based testing, which assigns students to a small number of discrete performance categories, has become an important mode of communicating student assessment results for state school accountability programs.