Sentences with phrase «poor evaluation scores»

The union is challenging recent state measures that allow superintendents to impose improvement plans on teachers who receive poor evaluation scores.

Not exact matches

The evaluation system pushed by Cuomo as part of this 2010 re-election campaign devotes half of a teacher's evaluation on their students» performance on standardized test scores that teacher unions argue is a poor measure of a teacher's ability.

Principals who rotate their faculty by strength during the year, or augment classroom teachers with online lessons, will find their staffing models a poor fit for evaluation systems predicated on linking each student's annual test scores to a single teacher.

Since a teacher had to score at least 64 points to avoid the «ineffective» rating, according to the Regents» plan, it was conceivable, as the judge noted, that «the regulation allows for an «ineffective» rating based solely on poor student achievement results (the first 40 % category) without regard to the 60 % evaluation category.»

That number is small compared to the Atlanta and Philadelphia scandals, yet with more state policies — like teacher evaluations, merit pay, and takeovers of schools with poor ISTEP + scores — riding on students» scores on state tests, state officials, education experts, and parents told StateImpact Indiana they see these pressures to get results as incentives for teachers who can't hack it to bend the rules on state tests.

So are the new evaluations — many of which incorporate test scores or other measures of student learning — any better at identifying poor teaching?

In the application for the $ 100 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Hillsborough predicted they would fire at least 5 % of the districts tenured teachers for «poor performance,» and the grant work led her to develop, with collaboration from the teachers» union, an evaluation system that uses test scores for 40 % of teachers» ratings.

On Friday, Obama singled out California for failing to use student test scores to distinguish poor teachers from good ones and Duncan warned that states that bar linking such data to evaluations will be ineligible to compete for the $ 4.35 - billion «Race to the Top» grants.

And if teachers are undermining accountability they must be doing a pretty poor job of it — we live in a time of unbelievable obsession with standardized testing, and teacher evaluation systems based on test scores of subjects that most teachers don't even teach — and from students they don't even know.

While the 2017 model's crash results haven't been released yet, the IIHS» evaluation of the 2016 model last year was 4 - out - of - 5 stars, based on «Good» scores in all categories except Small Overlap Front («Poor») and Side Impact («Acceptable»).

Also, while the IIHS gave it best possible scores in most evaluations, it earned a Poor rating in tests for small front overlap impact.

In contrast, insurance industry tests had poor evaluations of the GMC Canyon specifically for the Crew Cab model: in frontal offset tests, it scored â $ ˜Acceptableâ $ ™, in side impact tests, it scored â $ ˜Poorâ $ ™, and in both roof strength and rear crash tests, it scored â $ ˜Marginalâ $ ™.

Quality Assurance Specialist — Home Healthcare Corporation, Serenada, Texas — September 2007 - October 2010 • Reviewed inbound and outbound calls for violations in company policy or credit and collection laws • Logged quality assurance scores in Excel • Communicated results and concerns to proper management through thorough reports • Created and distributed weekly employee evaluations identifying demonstrated strengths and weaknesses • Conducted customer follow - up calls to address poor scores and resolve concerns or complaints • Generated quarterly excel reports for management review