Sentences with phrase «performance measures like»

She is especially critical of the reliance on student performance measures like test scores, the prime complaint of the NJEA.

As a whole, this pattern of results supports the claim of previous writers that dispositional self - reports of empathic responding are more biased by gender stereotypes than either a performance measure like empathic accuracy or an interaction - based report of empathic responding -LRB-[47][48][49][50]-RRB-.

Not exact matches

Coaches are a lot like entrepreneurs: both are in the business of talent acquisition, performance is measured on a scoreboard every quarter and job security is contingent on the ability to deliver great results.

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.

(To gauge if a hire is successful, academics use measures like the dollar value of an employee's contribution to the company, his or her relative share in overall output, and later performance reviews, promotions, and raises.)

Benchmarks like the S. & P. 500 and the Russell 3000 index, which measures the performance of the 3,000 largest American companies, have gained 6 percent.

It's a powerful tool for measuring performance on pervious posts with stats on: reactions, link clicks, shares, likes on shares, page unlikes, hide posts, and much more.

Facebook clarified that it will still work with companies like Experian and Acxiom in order to measure ad performance and provide metrics, although it will also be conducting a review of those ongoing relationships.

-LSB-...] also important to remember that measuring performance over short time periods (like months or quarters) might frustrate you.

An index is a collection of specific stocks or bonds that the industry uses as a benchmark for investors (like mutual funds) to measure how their performance stacks up against the «overall market segment» performance.

Like many retailers, J.C. Penney had an upbeat holiday season, with sales at stores open at least a year (an industry standard for measuring financial performance) rising 2.6 % during the final months of 2017.

However, the dark side of social media is that likes, comments, shares, retweets, favorites, followers, friends and subscribers become a way to measure our value, rather than our profile's performance.

Whether it's because your friends are all using FaceTune or they're «flexing for the gram,» social media can feel like an exercise in performance anxiety or on the other end, an insidious confirmation that you just don't measure up to your peers.

which is certainly not a slight on the young french national player; like him or not, Sanchez has provided some real world - class performances for club and country in recent years... if you do this move, you need to really clean house or face some serious consequences for the foreseeable future... half measures are rarely rewarded, that's how we got here... tear down the wall... we need to get rid of Giroud, not because he isn't a talented player, his skill - set simply doesn't make sense if we hope to maximize the offensive potential of a quick passing, one - touch scheme... we need to evolve, like Barcelona, who realized you needed to have clinical finishers or face a mind - numbing future of horizontal passes and largely ineffective crosses... Barca went and got Suarez, even though they had Messi and Neymar on the roster (just imagine the possibilities — another in the litany of Wenger «what ifs»)... we need to be as clinical in the boardroom as on the pitch... accept nothing less or move on... personally I would move on from Welbeck, Giroud and Walcott, even Ox if he isn't all in... I think the most intriguing player might be Perez, which runs counter to the thoughts in my head when he arrived late last summer... we need a deep lying DM with quick feet and long ball potential, midfielders who can counter quickly even when they are spread out and 4 or 5 players who know how to attack the lanes (kind of a cross between Barca, Dortmund and Monaco)... this is seriously an achievable goal, one that logically should have been achieved quite a few years ago... did no one in the Arsenal organization see the financial restructuring of the football universe... think of the players we could have had but we weren't willing to cough up the dough only for those individuals to have their value double or triple within a 12 to 24 month period... even if just from an investment perspective these «no deals» represent a failure of monumental proportions... only if you cared, of course

Under the proposal, teacher evaluations would be based on both objective measures, like student performance on state tests, and subjective measures like «rigorous» classroom observation.

By systematically varying the ratio of lithium to a transition metal, like trying different amounts of ingredients in a new cookie recipe, the research team was able to study the relationship between the surface and interior structure and to measure the electrochemical performance of the material.

«The distinct neural markers associated with cognitive performance and GWI revealed in our study can be useful for future research to objectively measure the efficacy of treatments for GWI as well as other brain disorders related to the same neurotransmitter system, like Alzheimer's disease.»

In the absence of broader structural measures, the authors conclude that «targeted technology initiatives, strategic industry policies, and the like will have modest positive effects at best, and may instead prove harmful to overall economic performance».

While the model is useful for anyone studying and using personality measures, Connelly says having the ability to better predict outcomes like performance, motivation, leadership, procrastination, and commitment to an organization are strong indicators of a potential candidate's effectiveness in the workplace.

There are numerous studies (like this study on Tunisian footballers during Ramadan, measuring speed, power, agility, endurance and dribbling skills) that demonstrate little or no effect of fasting on exercise performance.

While it isn't a great performance by most traditional measures, it likely would have been an action star - making turn, as Lee not only has the athletic physical attributes to convincingly go through the motions of the fight choreography, there is an innate sense of goodness and sensitivity in his demeanor that makes for a fine romantic hero, even though he looks like the inspiration of Heath Ledger's Joker from The Dark Knight and he's got murder on his mind.

It's not just the careful measured performance that Vaughn expertly delivers, but his very presence feels like the essence of a bruiser.

Like the Weinstein - backed movie itself, which will cruise its way into the Best Picture lineup in a manner similar to that of Les Misérables (another ensemble piece that's easy to endorse but hard to adore), Streep will fill a predestined slot, earning kudos for a performance that's fine, but not stellar when measured against her better work.

Granted, there are mechanisms in place to evaluate teacher performance, but many of these value - added measures feel more like punch lists than professional reviews.

Carl Hendrick, head of research at Wellington College, said: «We've become very good at measuring performance in terms of exam results but very bad at measuring more difficult things like learning, self - perception and mindsets.

I believe that, in significant measure, professional educators, like professional athletes, will be remembered best for their performance in the final stretch of their careers.

The future of Learning Management Systems needs to be in the form of technology which is succinct and acts like a step - by - step wizard, offering a one stop solution for creation, assignment, delivery, and tracking of learners performance, as well as one that lets Learning and Development experts effectively measure the effectiveness of training programs.

When they insist that ideas like school choice, performance pay, and teacher evaluations based on value - added measures will themselves boost student achievement, would - be reformers stifle creativity, encourage their allies to lock elbows and march forward rather than engage in useful debate and reflection, turn every reform proposal into an us - against - them steel - cage match, and push researchers into the awkward position of studying whether reforms «work» rather than when, why, and how they make it easier to improve schooling.

He's right that nobody has found a perfect way to measure teacher performance, and that many evaluation ratings aren't as accurate as we'd like them to be (often because they're inflated).

Like a rapidly growing number of schools around the nation, Ms. Dubos said, hers is considering using portfolios as a way of measuring student performance in writing.

Canada and Australia are large, diverse countries like the U.S., with significantly stronger student performance as measured on international tests.

We can empower our students to track their own progress by offering them «I can» rubrics (like this one) that provide meaningful measures to help them monitor their progress during an activity or project — and we can circulate and confer as they use the rubric to guide their work and ultimately improve their performance.

It's like measuring the performance of Maths by assessing how much is on the timetable, as opposed to the attainment of young people.

Left - wing policy supports neighborhood - based public schools, opposes any methods to measure or differentiate the performance of teachers or schools, and argues instead for alternatives to school reform like increased anti-poverty spending or urging middle - class parents to enroll their children in high - poverty schools.

The move has prompted criticism of the EBacc by the Association of School and College Leaders, whose general secretary Geoff Barton said it «increasingly looks like the performance measure that time forgot».

Critics like Senator Elizabeth Warren aren't questioning the need for outcome measures and performance incentives.

Our goal with this post is to convince you that continuing to use status measures like proficiency rates to grade schools is misleading and irresponsible — so much so that the results from growth measures ought to count much more — three, five, maybe even nine times more — than proficiency when determining school performance under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

Most importantly, a report like this puts to rest several arguments that are complicating the discussion about measuring school performance.

B. Base 80 % of teacher evaluation on student performance, leaving the following options for local school districts to select from: keeping the current local measures generating new assessments with performance — driven student activities, (performance - assessments, portfolios, scientific experiments, research projects) utilizing options like NYC Measures of Student Learning, and corresponding student growth mmeasures generating new assessments with performance — driven student activities, (performance - assessments, portfolios, scientific experiments, research projects) utilizing options like NYC Measures of Student Learning, and corresponding student growth mMeasures of Student Learning, and corresponding student growth measuresmeasures.

The early adopter project will include working on a real measurable problem and willing to take steps like doing the gap analysis, developing the formal solution (course and / or performance support), the coaching, and the ongoing development, piloting, measuring, and tuning until the desired outcome is achieved.

Like students, the families, teachers, and staff within a school system are uniquely positioned to provide actionable feedback about performance that simply can't be captured through other measures.

And there is an obvious structural hurdle facing the insurgents: like all unions, teachers» unions exist to protect their members, creating a natural conflict between, say, maintaining job security for everyone and implementing measures that differentiate based on performance or create real accountability for results.

Most of the panelists also lauded the measure for scrapping NCLB's annual student performance targets in reading and math, and eliminating the 2013 — 14 100 percent proficiency deadline, instead instituting a laser - like focus on improving each state's bottom 5 percent of schools.

You can look at the state test scores alongside other measures, like report card grades, classwork, and teacher feedback, to get a more complete picture of your child's academic performance.

In an EdSource blog post, Arun Ramanathan, CEO of Pivot Learning Partners, suggests that like the innovative statistical approaches used to measure success in baseball, educators should broaden the measures they use in order to paint a more complete picture of student performance.

The Brookings team warned, however, that attendance — like many other performance measures — can be manipulated.

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

Our focus must be the same indicators we use to measure school success, like growth and performance, progress in closing achievement gaps and efforts to increase graduation rates and college and career preparation opportunities.

Student performance on state assessments IS important, but so are measures of student growth, gains in closing achievement gaps, and challenging opportunities like dual credit, technical certifications and Advanced Placement — programs that give students an early advantage in college and in their careers.

ESSA dictates that when crafting accountability plans, states must assign indicators of academic performance «much greater weight» than other measures like class size and school climate.