Sentences with phrase «quality measure available»

At the same time, proficiency rates are the only quality measure available for a national sample of schools.

Not exact matches

It is unrealistic to talk of equality of opportunity without taking drastic measures to make high - quality education generally available to those who can profit from it.

Available as an Internet resource for any scientist to use, CellNet provides a much needed «quality assurance» measure for this work.

«Among the factors that define the quality of a wine, one of the most important is the quality of the grape as the raw material, but this concept is difficult to assess, due to problems such as subjective parameters, the short period of time available in the field to do the analysis during harvest time, the lack of measuring instruments and their high price, as well as the mixing of good quality and bad quality grape in the trucks.

If wellbeing is adopted as a national outcome measure, it's important to understand the factors constituting the nation's wellbeing and this study indicates the quality of jobs available in the UK and personal relationships are key factors.

HealthyTokyo matcha is all organically grown under the JAS symbol in Kyushu, Nishio in Aichi and Shizuoka, so you can rest assured you are consuming matcha of the highest quality and grown with the strictest measures available.

Ask any senior woman who dates online about the quality of available men, and many insist that only a few measure up to their basic needs.

It's exactly what one would want from a publication named Quality Counts: a nice, clear focus on academic results, namely student achievement, measured on the best yardstick available.

We combined all of the available earlier test scores into a single composite measure of quality and introduced it into statistical models that explain differences in growth rates across nations during the period 1960 to 1990.

Yet many states and localities measure program «quality» only in terms of proxies — the credentials of teachers, the size and spaciousness of the facilities, the amount of learning material available, and the length of the preschool day.

Student achievement remains a far more robust measure of teacher quality than many others available.

So - called accountability measures in Louisiana, including the statewide testing mandate, ironically enough may have discouraged high - quality providers from entering the market, thereby narrowing the options available to parents of students using the scholarships.

If such quality - control measures can be adopted in other communities, charter schools should be supported as a means to increase the supply of good schools available to poor children.

The state has currently $ 12 million of public money available for private schools with virtually no accountability measures in place to guarantee or even monitor the quality of education the children are receiving.

Martin Blank also wrote a commentary on ESSA entitled Measuring School Quality: Non-Academic Measures in the Every Student Succeeds Act available at the huffingtonpost.

The descriptions of classroom quality available in standardized classroom observation systems provide a standard way of measuring and noting teachers» strengths and weaknesses and evaluating whether policy initiatives or professional development activities are actually helping improve classroom interactions.

When using value added, allow educational leaders to make judgments in interpreting the value - added results in light of other available measures of teacher quality and the principals» own assessments.

Rather, it depends on what other measures of effectiveness are available or feasible and the quality of those measures.

Thus, our finding of the absence of a strong relationship between the indirect measure of teacher capacity that we used and student achievement may simply reflect the low quality of typical professional development inputs available to teachers in schools.

Research and best practice models suggest that high - quality assessments: (1) measure what they are designed to measure; (2) are consistently applied and tested for fairness; (3) regard assessment as an ongoing process for professional growth, not just a «tool» or an isolated event; (4) use the best available evidence, often from multiple sources; (5) reinforce the organization's core goals; (6) provide actionable feedback on what matters most; and (7) help build a culture of continuous improvement.

An Air Quality sensor will also be available on the new Quattroporte that measures external levels of pollution.

I've been digging back through some very old historical data to understand how unusual the 1929 crash was and found the site Measuring Worth, which has the interesting mission «to make available to the public the highest quality and most reliable historical data on important economic aggregates.»

Some varieties are only available through veterinarians and benefit from tighter quality - control measures than do over-the-counter foods.

Our analysis of 700,000 hip and 150,000 elbow records in the publically available OFA database demonstrate clearly that efforts to reduce the frequency and severity of hip dysplasia, and its secondary osteoarthritis in the USA based on radiographic evaluation (phenotype), have met with meager improvement in genetic quality as measured by estimated hip score breeding values since 1970 (Hou et al., 2014).

Both expansions, the horror - themed Nightmare in North Point and epilogue Year of the Snake, are available from the Definitive Edition's main menu, offering a duo of supplemental adventures that don't measure up to the quality of the core game.

You could not measure average temperature to that degree of accuracy over 10 years in a garden shed, and if you attempted it you would need quality control procedures which are manifestly lacking across the US (probably the best available apart from the UK)-- see Watts Up with That.

It's quite common to measure alkalinity instead, but even that is highly insufficient as it does not tell about the remaining available non-dissolved CaCO3 (it's quantity, quality, origins, and other important properties).

There has been a substantial increase in most measures of Atlantic hurricane activity since the early 1980s, the period during which high quality satellite data are available.20, 21,22 These include measures of intensity, frequency, and duration as well as the number of strongest (Category 4 and 5) storms.

There has been a substantial increase in most measures of Atlantic hurricane activity since the early 1980s, the period during which high - quality satellite data are available.13, 14,15,16,17 These include measures of intensity, frequency, and duration as well as the number of strongest (Category 4 and 5) storms.

Canada is woefully positioned for future internet usage and the quality of current broadband networks is barely enough to cope with current traffic because of a lack of investment by providers... [and is] is below the global broadband quality threshold, which measures the proliferation of high - speed internet in a country, as well as the speeds available and the reliability of connections.

Act as a willing and available resource to patients and team members; ability to measure and implement continuous quality improvement in a patient centered medical home, actively participate in team meetings and patient care plan and deliver.

Although the quality criteria tool was designed for health status questionnaires and not specifically for adherence measures we believe it was the best tool available.

Developing appropriate standards of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health information was identified as a national health information priority in 1995, with the National Indigenous Health Information Plan (1997) being developed as a consequence.301 However, the plan remains largely unimplemented.302 The Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report has also identified concerns about the quality of data available on health measures contained in that framework.303

The KIDSCREEN - 27 is a measure of child and adolescent quality of life (QoL), with excellent psychometric properties, available in child - report and parent - rating versions in 38 languages.