Sentences with phrase «quality measures focused»

«If quality measures focused on age and health status, rather than age alone, we'd have better outcomes,» he adds.

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«Congress should focus on what's needed most to help consumers: measures that lower healthcare prices, improve quality, and make it easier for consumers to navigate and understand coverage choices.»

Introducing Good Measure, a collaboration of Central Texas funders focused on using quality data to transform lives.

However, if your goal is more focused on quality over quantity, the scanned badges won't be a good measure of your success.

Such findings stress the need for continued surveillance of maternal morbidities to guide clinical practice, focusing on aetiological factors, preventative measures and quality of care.»

More rigorous longitudinal studies using outcome measures focusing on movement quality are recommended to understand any long - lasting influence on the motor skills in these infants.

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And as the set of tools that we have at our disposal to improve pre-processing quality grows, so should the time we spend thinking about what we are aiming to measure, and what features should therefore be the focus of our attention.

The Office of Management and Budget estimates costs for measurement initiatives, but these estimates focus on the annual burden of entire measurement and reporting programs (eg, Physician Quality Reporting System) rather than the burden of individual measures or the burden for individual institutions.

«Rather than focusing on readmissions, preventable or otherwise, time may be better spent in developing quality measures of complex disease management across a patient's continuum of care,» they write.

His career work has focused on engineering research related to ginning and production of cotton, most recently measuring cotton fiber quality and contamination, and applying unmanned aerial vehicles as remote - sensing platforms for the production of cotton and other crops.

FOCUS FOR BASIC AND CLINICAL RESEARCH Dr. De Vivo noted that there is a need to define outcome measures such as muscle strength and function; pulmonary function; quality of life; and surrogate biomarkers including blood cell SMN transcripts and protein.

We uniquely curate all our collections with this in mind, focusing on exceptional quality, style and flattering cuts in equal measures.

We met with three hundred charter leaders around the state to learn more about what could be done, and then built goals and objectives for the California charter schools movement by first providing insurance, cash - flow financing, and other resources to schools willing to focus on academic quality (measured in many different ways).

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.

While we can measure the difference a good teacher makes in the classroom, we can't develop a mathematical formula for creating these heroic professionals, so judges will instead focus on easy - to - measure but inaccurate metrics like teachers» salaries as proxies for teacher quality.

The first edition of the Digest, Laying the Foundation to Measure Sustainable Development Goal 4, finds that many countries struggle to produce the data needed today, and will find it even harder to It focuses specifically on areas that are difficult to measure, such as education quality, learning, equity and incMeasure Sustainable Development Goal 4, finds that many countries struggle to produce the data needed today, and will find it even harder to It focuses specifically on areas that are difficult to measure, such as education quality, learning, equity and incmeasure, such as education quality, learning, equity and inclusion.

Although better principals may also attract and hire more - effective teachers, the absence of reliable quality measures for new teachers and the fact that many principals have little control over new hires lead us to focus specifically on turnover.

It covers reviews, objective setting, CPD, lesson observations, work scrutiny, learning walks and self - evaluation, and enables us to capture all the data we need to measure the quality of teaching effectively, focusing resources where they will have the most impact.

The challenge of the Decade is to focus attention on action - oriented activities and policies that ensure the long - term sustainable management of water resources, in terms of both quantity and quality, and include measures to improve sanitation.

Hill's primary work focuses on developing new measures of mathematics teaching quality, and using these measures to inform current policies and instructional improvement efforts.

I'm going to focus on the final two posts, in which Greene argues that student achievement tests are poor proxies for school quality and that they're not correlated with other measures of quality.

Most research on the impact of early - childhood programs has focused on structural measures of quality, such as the teacher's educational level or staff ratios, or on the effects of classroom quality, broadly construed.

Self - assessment requires you to focus on the important bits; that which relates to outcomes and progress and the data you choose to use which helps to measure the quality of teaching learning and assessment.

Officials in Georgia, for instance, contend that the state wants to turn its teacher - quality focus toward output - based measures of teacher effectiveness, rather than credentials.

A shift to a focus on measuring outcomes will open the licensure process to high - quality alternative pathways into teaching and encourage innovation among higher education providers who wish to compete on cost and quality rather than on traditional curriculum and seat - time requirements.

This book brings together leading researchers and practitioners from the fields of education, economics and policy to contribute perspectives focused on the meaningful goal of measuring and assessing teacher quality.

«Australia is investing record funding in education that will continue to grow, all targeted based on need, and the Turnbull Government is focused on improving student outcomes through measures we know are effective — teacher quality, a better curriculum, greater parental engagement and support for principals to make local decisions about their local school,» he said.

Nevertheless, critics continue to question the NBPTS's method and focus for measuring quality teaching and to call instead for what they believe should be simple and direct measures of effects on student achievement.

She focuses on teacher quality in mathematics, developing ways of measuring and improving teachers» mathematical knowledge and the quality of mathematical instruction.

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In Michigan, for instance, the new chief state school officer recently replaced the test - focused accountability system with a new grading system that relies on a broader set of measures of school quality, including family involvement, the quality of professional development, attendance, and dropout rates, among others.

Under the NCLB Extended approach, embraced by many on the education reform / civil rights Left, achievement would continue to be measured by proficiency rates alone (with rising annual goals for what is good enough); growth data would be used sparingly and / or focused on «growth to proficiency»; «other indicators of student success or school quality» would be minimized; and evidence of achievement gaps would sink schools» ratings significantly.

The Professional Development Task Force, convened by state schools Superintendent Delaine Eastin, concluded that many students will not be able to measure up to new academic standards if the state doesn't focus more on the quality of the teaching corps.

Michael Soskil: We need a shift in focus from accountability measures based on standardized test scores toward metrics that take into account universal access to quality teachers and learning environments, robust curricula that include the arts, as well as student engagement and well - being.

This new unit should focus on providing a student experience that excels on measures different from the traditional measures of quality — such as top - notch extracurricular offerings and state - of - the - art facilities — that private schools have historically used.

It just highlights the fact that how New York State measures school quality is all over the map - and is certainly not outcomes - focused.

For example, studies of how teachers use their time during instruction have not focused on actions principals take to monitor or set expectations for the delivery of high quality instruction.123 One purpose of our study is to clarify the concept, at least in some measure.

Much of their attention is focused on which indicators of school quality or student success they will use to provide a more holistic measure of school performance than the test - based measures of the past.

The potential for these focused improvement plans to make a difference in the quality of student learning is highly dependent on the degree to which local educators are able to align local curriculum, teaching, and assessment practices with the external measures against which they are being held to account.

Since the provision didn't require the use of student test data in measuring teacher quality (focusing instead on certification and other qualifications that have no positive correlation to student achievement), it should be removed from the law.

Focus groups in each community of students, parents, educators, and community members, along with polling data and research evidence, led to the creation of a School Quality Measures Framework and subsequent online dashboard of the data that the community most wants to know about their schools.

For the first time in the history of American public education, federal education policy set clear goals for improving student achievement in reading and mathematics, and finally focused attention on using data in measuring teacher quality.

Recent Vamboozled posts have focused on one of the qualities of the achievement tests used as the key measures in value - added models (VAMs) and other «growth» models.

That «value - added (VA) measures of teacher quality show very consistent properties across different settings» is that on which Chetty et al. focus first and foremost.

My research — which has focused on teacher quality as measured by what students learn with different teachers — indicates that a small proportion of teachers at the bottom is dragging down our schools.

Given the rise in testing, especially in light of a heightened focus on using multiple measures, it's increasingly important to address two essential components of reliable assessments: quality and balance.

How can we build systems of supervision that focus on developing teacher expertise rather than merely measuring quality?

TCTA pointed out that, given the struggle that the state has had in identifying non-test-based indicators of school success for elementary and middle schools, this would be an excellent opportunity to focus on incorporating school quality indicators (like a validated school climate survey measuring student / educator engagement and school climate / safety).

In our continuous efforts to provide top quality education to all our nation's students, we must also consider related efforts to improve our teacher pipeline, such as strengthening pathways into teaching (traditional and alternative); providing meaningful professional development, and focusing on measuring and improving educator effectiveness.