OPA has developed clinical
performance measures for contraceptive care that assess the provision of contraception to all women of reproductive age in need of contraceptive services, including postpartum women.
These performance measures for contraceptive care reflect the fact that some contraceptive methods are more effective than others at preventing unintended pregnancy, and are designed to encourage providers to offer the range of most and moderately effective methods.
The Action Plan will also introduce
performance measures for local authorities, a new national gateway for adoption that will provide a first point of contact for anyone interested in adoption and an «in principle» backing of the need to improve the system of adoption support.
These performance measures for «registration» do not refer to whether native title was recognized or protected through the application of the statutory registration test.
One of the best
performance measures for your website is whether or not it's delivering leads.
Jan developed recommendations to the Puget Sound Partnership on the use of innovative financial mechanisms for the recovery of the Puget Sound ecosystem, worked with the Puget Sound Restoration Fund to establish a payments for services pilot for nitrogen removal by shellfish in Puget Sound, assisted BC Hydro develop
performance measures for their long term environmental goal, and led studies evaluating impacts of flow alteration on aquatic ecosystems for King County.
Two bills before Congress, HR 3494 and S 1708, are designed to change that, by pressing US DOT to set
performance measures for reducing both deaths and serious injuries.
This approach could include options for developing data and related
performance measures for tracking timely rehabilitation of loans.
Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of the Federal Public Transportation Act of 2012, the Secretary shall issue a final rule to establish
performance measures for grants under this section.
When the California Teachers Association — the enormously powerful union that resists teacher accountability at every turn — gets behind a bill that claims to implement
performance measures for educators, you know it's too good to be true.
The valid use of student
performance measures for teacher evaluation.
Rather they serve less needy children and when adjusting school aggregate
performance measures for the children they serve, they achieve no better current outcomes on average than the schools they are slated to take over... The assumption that charter takeover can solve the ills of certain district schools is specious at best.»
In the early 1990s, however, a theory of job performance was proposed (Campbell, McCloy, Oppler, & Sager, 1993) that defines performance in a meaningful, explicit way and provides guidance to researchers and practitioners needing to choose
performance measures for use in their studies and real - world settings, respectively.
The study examined the first year implementation of a set of three performance measures: observations of teachers» classroom practices; Read more about Evaluation of
Performance Measures for Teachers and Principals -LSB-...]
We must also recognize that the accountability and
performance measures for students in an RTC must be different from the standard since these students are not leading the «standard» lives.
The government has published trust
performance measures for several years, but these have always been separate to the individual school - level data.
«We have now published multi-academy trust - level educational
performance measures for 2014, 2015 and 2016 results and will now publish the measures each January alongside the performance tables,» it wrote.
The CEC would set
performance measures for schools, and approve school openings and closings based on school performance against those measures.
State
performance measures for schools, whether they use the AYP measure of the ESEA statute or alternative measures developed by waiver states, must be predicated on regular movement by schools toward an ultimate goal.
We exclude from the analysis schools, mostly in rural areas, with addresses we were unable to map and schools with missing test
performance measures for any year during our study period, which spans 1996 — 97 to 1999 — 2000.
ACCF / AHA / ACR / SCAI / SIR / SVM / SVN / SVS 2010
performance measures for adults with peripheral artery disease: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation / American Heart Association Task Force on Performance Measures, the American College of Radiology, the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions, the Society for Interventional Radiology, the Society for Vascular Medicine, the Society for Vascular Nursing, and the Society for Vascular Surgery (Writing Committee to Develop Clinical
Performance Measures for Peripheral Artery Disease)
(E) establishes
performance measures for assessing the effectiveness of adaptation strategies intended to improve resilience and the ability of natural resources in the coastal zone to adapt to and withstand the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification and of adaptation strategies intended to minimize those impacts on the coastal zone and to update those strategies to respond to new information or changing conditions; and
They were given a case showing
performance measures for two bank managers — «Madison,» who showed a superior financial performance but an inferior CSR performance, and «Brown,» whose results were opposite from Madison's in those two categories.
DiNapoli's office recommended future strategic and marketing plans include
performance measures for monitoring outcomes to determine if the cost generated a return for the investment.
King told Gay City News that among the recommendations was one to create a subcommittee of the state AIDS Advisory Council that will be responsible for creating
performance measures for the plan and monitoring those measures.
The contract for the marketing campaign should be re-evaluated until the state government can adopt a «corrective action plan» by Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, Muprhy said, which includes specific benchmarks for success, a regular schedule for program evaluations and specific
performance measures for which marketing has had a positive impact.
Total return, often used to compare performance among peer companies, has also become a popular
performance measure for executive pay.
Worse from an ICT point of view, DfE also introduced around that time the EBacc
performance measure for schools.
Measuring grit and using it as
a performance measure for schools has been rejected even by Duckworth, the creator of the grit construct.
It also brings to an end a difficult week for the Department for Education, which has already faced criticism from the National Audit Office for its accounts, and comes just weeks after the government announced it would no longer be using new reception baseline tests as
an performance measure for schools after concerns were raised about comparability.
There have been fears across the schools community that the government is pushing schools away from arts education with the introduction of the EBacc —
a performance measure for ranking schools whose pupils secure a grade C or above across five «core» academic subjects: English, mathematics, history or geography, the sciences and a language.
And these practices often occur in a cultural context in which firms place unreasonable pressure on their lawyers to meet unrealistic hourly billing requirements and in which meeting billing targets is an «all purpose»
performance measure for promotion and career advancement purposes.
(I am choosing the probability distribution of IRRs as
the performance measure for the fund because it is familiar, not because it is the most theoretically sound measure, especially when I have ignored financing and reserving activities.
The qualitative
performance measure for «agreement - making» is «client satisfaction».
Depression screening is
a performance measure for Florida MIECHV home visiting providers (Benchmark 1).
Not exact matches
Internally, the Company's management uses these
measures to evaluate
performance against historical results, to establish financial targets on a consolidated basis and
for other reasons, which are discussed below.
«Perhaps
for organizations to take this seriously, it should be a part of their
performance measures,» says Donais.
While the GGEI is recognized as a leading international
measure of the green economic
performance of many countries, researchers at Yale (who also produce their own green country ranking each year) have criticized it
for having limited geographic coverage.
Use it as a tool
for measuring performance goals, and a tool
for understanding how to coach employees to meet those goals.
For instance, early on at Domo, we discovered several non-traditional ways to
measure sales
performance that could deliver incredibly powerful insights.
Using these badges, organizations can not only tell who's working together, where, and
for how long, but also how seemingly banal
measures like face - to - face conversations correlate to
performance and creativity.
Adjusted EBITDA has limitations as an analytical tool and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute
for income from operations, net income or any other
measure of financial
performance reported in accordance with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles («GAAP»).
Non-GAAP financial
measures should be considered in addition to, but not as a substitute
for or superior to, other
measures of financial
performance prepared in accordance with GAAP.
He notes that while the tools available
for identifying raw talent made gains with
performance -
measuring software and online recruitment tools, the results of these searches has hardly improved.
Furthermore, our management uses each of these
measures as
measures of the
performance of our operations
for budgeting and forecasting, as well as employee incentive compensation.
We believe that adjusted diluted net income per share, adjusted net income, adjusted operating income, adjusted operating income margin and adjusted EBITDA are useful
measures for investors to review, because they provide a consistent
measure of the underlying financial results of our ongoing business and, in our management's view, allow
for a supplemental comparison against historical results and expectations
for future
performance.
We report our financial results in accordance with GAAP, but believe that certain non-GAAP financial
measures provide useful supplemental information to investors regarding the underlying business trends and
performance of our ongoing operations and are useful
for period - over-period comparisons of those operations.
By establishing a standard
for measuring such efforts, B Corporations are a step in that direction — giving social entrepreneurs a place in the legal infrastructure of the corporate system and investors a framework
for assessing their
performance.
You'll want to take special care to make it easy
for managers to compare sales revenue, profitability and other key financial
measures against planned
performance.
If you're not
measuring your
performance, you have no benchmark
for improvement.