Sentences with phrase «performance outcomes only»

However, performance outcomes only tell part of the story.

Not exact matches

The out - performance reflects the benefits flowing to the Latin American region not only from low US interest rates (these countries have large US dollar borrowings) but also its exposure to stronger growth outcomes in the US, with strong rises in the prices of key commodity exports boosting the price of local mining companies.

Reporting only aggregated adherence rates could create an incentive to avoid groups with worse outcomes rather than undertaking interventions to improve their care.41 Some health plans or clinicians may avoid enrolling minority patients, for whom performance rates are typically lower.42, 43 Stratifying performance rates by race, ethnicity, or other demographic characteristics may mitigate such undesired effects by not penalizing organizations that disproportionately treat minority patients.

As a recent McKinsey Global Innovation survey found, while 84 % of executives believe innovation is important to growth strategy, and 80 % believe their business models are at risk, only 6 % are satisfied with the outcome of their innovation performance.

If «Fatigue / Psuedo Performance» is the only outcome — isn't the dose too much?

A short - sighted view - the one that pervades the school - reform ideology - is that academic outcomes alone matter and that performance on tests is the only measure worth applying.

It is valuable for both students and tutors and shows in practice how educational technology is progressing so that it can show not only the past performance but also forecast the future of a student's learning outcomes.

Those who want to reward teachers on the basis of measured performance should consider whether it is worth the trouble and expense to implement value - added assessment if the only outcome is to reward small numbers of teachers.

It's important to realise that feedback is not only an outcome of student performance but an essential part of the learning process.

For example, instead of averaging or differently weighting scores on academic performance and academic growth, a state could decide to identify for CSI only schools that have low academic outcomes and are not demonstrating growth.

The only truly strong defense of legislative decisions is having a focus on outcomes — developing a strong accountability system, introducing incentives for higher performance, developing reliable teacher evaluation systems, and the like.

Chief executive of The Future Leaders Trust, Heath Monk, explained: «The decision to include only first entries, the removal of many vocational qualifications and the use of comparable outcomes to cap GCSE performance have created a situation where this year's results can not be compared to previous years.»

While not studied nearly as much as teachers, research shows that the total direct and indirect effects of principal leadership accounts for 25 percent of in - school factors that influence student performance, and principals are second only to teachers in terms of school - level influences on student outcomes.

But the most extensive survey of student performance at charter schools, from Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes, found that, of the 2,403 charter schools tracked from 2006 to 2008, only 17 percent had better math test results than the public schools in their area, while 37 percent had results that were «significantly below» those of the public schools and 46 percent had results that were «statistically indistinguishable» from their public - school counterparts.

Some countries also show that excellence can become a consistent and predictable education outcome: In Finland, the country with the strongest overall results in PISA, the performance variation among schools amounts to only 5 percent of students» overall performance variation.

One of the most impressive outcomes from Finland is that you have only 5 percent of the student performance variation line between schools.

After taking a step forward by incorporating student outcomes into the accountability index for students with disabilities, the Office of Special Education Programs promptly took a gigantic leap backward by relying solely on standardized testing as the only measure of program performance.

As of 2014, only 10 states routinely collected data linking teacher preparation programs and student achievement outcomes, and among those, only four established related performance standards for programs.102

Dick Startz this morning discusses one of many experiments indicating that performance pay for teachers not only fails to improve student outcomes, but also doesn't do much to change teacher behavior.

Axiomatically, life - saving performance can only be improved by looking at outcomes, by scrutinizing what animals are still being killed and understanding the circumstances and forces at work.

For instance, a lawyer tackling a new issue or area of law that he / she has not yet mastered could improve the quality of the task outcome by one - third by focusing on learning how to complete the work to its best result, rather than only on achieving the best performance.

In my experience, it is common to find a senior team where some members only focus on their own outcomes and performance.

Financial socialization from parents impacted only one outcome: young adults» performance on the objective financial knowledge questions.

Because non-cognitive skills not only are associated with academic performance, but also to other societal outcomes such as adult earnings to civic participation (Garcia, 2014).

We found only one published study that evaluated the performance of the EQ - 5D in adolescents with depression.34 This study found a statistically significant correlation between EQ - 5D and depression - specific outcome measures, though this relationship was stated to be weak.