Sentences with phrase «quality testing program»

As a dog food manufacturing company they have a comprehensive safety and quality testing program in place, but have had recalls in the past years for various reasons.

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Since 2012, Medicare has been testing a home - based primary care program to see whether it can improve quality of care and stave off the need for a patient to move to a nursing home.

A program dealing with San Francisco Bay that received $ 4.8 million last year would be eliminated, as would initiatives for reducing diesel emissions and beach water quality testing.

The company's supplier and material risk management program emphasizes elements such as strong manufacturing processes, food safety tests, continual improvement quality programs, manufacturing site visits, preemptive check lists and contingency plans.

We have a robust Quality Assurance program that methodically tests our products up to the expiry date.

Stampede's safety and quality assurance programs have been tested and audited by some of the world's largest restaurant chains and retailers, as well as independent auditors.

A dedicated quality assurance team monitors its HACCP program and an in - house laboratory conducts contact surface plate testing within the facility.

In his new program Kyle Leon offers high quality information and offers a proven muscle building system that has been designed by renowned fitness models from around the world that have been adjusted and tested for a long time in order to provide the best results.

After finding out in 2014 that some of our products that were USDA certified organic actually had residue amounts of GMOs or the herbicide glyphosate in them, we began a rigorous testing program to have better quality control over our products and minimize the possibility of contamination.

Chestnut has more than 25 years of food safety experience, most recently serving as NSF's Vice President of Supply Chain Food Safety, helping companies throughout the global supply chain strengthen their quality assurance and food safety programs through auditing, testing and certification to the global food safety standards.

The group developed the first set of national standards for birth centers, conducted a two - year pilot program to develop and test the optimum mechanism for evaluating the quality of birth centers, and consulted with the Commissioner on the JACHO (currently the Joint Commission) on the best structures for the CABC (www.birthcenteraccreditation.org/about-commission-accreditation-birth-centers, 2013).

Already science students at nearby Deerfield High School are keeping tabs on water quality by testing it monthly, and the Highland Park Park District is working on an educational program for the slough.

Field - tested in 2010, New Yorks QUALITYstarsNY is a project of the states Early Childhood Advisory Council (ECAC) and provides program quality standards for each modality of early childhood programs...

Field - tested in 2010, New Yorks QUALITYstarsNY is a project of the states Early Childhood Advisory Council (ECAC) and provides program quality standards for each modality of early childhood programs (centers, public schools, and family / home providers).

When compared to control group counterparts in randomized trials, infants and toddlers who participated in high - quality home visiting programs were shown to have more favorable scores for cognitive development and behavior, higher IQs and language scores, higher grade point averages and math and reading achievement test scores at age 9, and higher graduation rates from high school.

Erie County Cancer Service Program provides quality breast and cervical testing for women and colon cancer screening for men and women who are uninsured or underinsured.

But they also understand that what needs to happen in their schools for their kids, it's not about testing... they make sure they have tons of sports programs, art and music, they're experimenting, they go on trips, they have high - quality this, that, and the other, they have libraries with librarians in them.

She listed the benefits: «High quality teaching, not high - stakes testing, wraparound support, after school program, counselors, social service, health care, positive discipline, practices such as restorative practices, shared information, parent and community engagement,» Newkirk said.

The study, «Development and testing of the Dementia Symptom Management at Home (DSM - H) Program: An interprofessional home healthcare intervention to improve the quality of life for persons with dementia and their caregivers,» also sought to examine if the DSM - H is a feasible resource to be used by interprofessional HHC teams.

Using the American Heart Association's Get - With - the - Guidelines quality improvement program, patients were reviewed for co-morbid conditions including kidney function, blood counts, and blood tests such as brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), a marker of heart failure.

Starting in 1996, when Congress passed the new Food Quality Protection Action with the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act Amendments, it told EPA to develop a screening program using tests and other scientifically relevant information to determine whether substances have hormonal activity.

He has been instrumental in the creation of 6 GMP compliant biologics manufacturing facilities and associated quality systems, production and QC testing programs.

We accomplish this by offering only the highest quality, lab tested, yet affordable programs and products that can be easily integrated into everyday life.

But for the folks who kinda adhere to the program, you know the basics stuff that I work in especially for the first 4 - 8 weeks and this kinda depends on you know, we test as we go so you look at, even if it's impossible to test cortisol and DHEA, that can be expensive, it can be time consuming but at least track things like your morning heart rate variability to see how things are responding as you go and you kinda keep your finger on the pulls of recovery of you know, sleep quality, mood, soreness, heart rate and heart rate variability, things of that nature.

There are important dimensions of teacher, school, and program quality that are not captured by achievement test results.

If we explored the most common use of test scores — examining the level of proficiency — there are no credible researchers who believe that is a reliable indicator of school or program quality.

Even if we ignore the fact that most portfolio managers, regulators, and other policy makers rely on the level of test scores (rather than gains) to gauge quality, math and reading achievement results are not particularly reliable indicators of whether teachers, schools, and programs are improving later - life outcomes for students.

Even measures of growth in test scores or VAM are not rigorously identified indicators of school or program quality as they do not reveal what the growth would have been in the absence of that school or program.

The key to quality online programs is alignment to mandated testing requirements.

Elementary and middle schools — attendance, science test results, «program quality» (improving school climate, reducing behavior issues, and increasing engagement.

That system is based on a variety of measures: results from teacher - certification tests; graduates» ratings of their satisfaction with their programs; and the ratings of graduates» mentor teachers on the quality of the programs in preparing novices according to state standards for teachers.

If even rigorous research fails to show a consistent relationship between test scores and later success, why would we think that regulators and policy makers with less rigorous approaches to test scores could use them to reliably identify school and program quality?

Again, gains in test scores do not appear to capture very well the quality of schools or programs.

Rather than relying on test results anyway and making potentially disastrous decisions to close schools or shutter programs on bad information, we should recognize that local actors — including parents — are in a better position to judge school quality.

If we used test scores as a proxy for school or program quality, we would wrongly conclude that this program did not help, since the test score gains faded even though the benefits endured.

The study ranked each state and the District of Columbia on 22 indicators in four areas: alignment of tests with the state's curriculum standards; test quality; the openness of the testing program to public scrutiny; and the extent to which test data are used to support better teaching and learning.

You mention the Project Star study showing that test scores in kindergarten correlated with later life outcomes as proof that test scores are reliable indicators of school or program quality.

The danger with your argument — that we may have no choice but to rely on test scores — is that it rationalizes ignorant actions by policy makers whose knowledge of school or program quality consists almost entirely of test score results.

Additionally, developing a high - quality virtual - learning program can be costly, requiring sizable capital expenditures on computers and servers, sophisticated instructional design (the orchestration of different media — such as online, offline, images, sound — into compelling and effective instructional units), content and course - management systems (computer systems for organizing and facilitating collaboration on documents and courses), course - authoring platforms (computer frameworks that allow educators to «post» their courses onto the Internet), and beta and usability testing (publishing test versions of new programs to eliminate the «bugs» and ensure ease of use).

In the piece, headlined «Alternative» Education: Using Charter Schools to Hide Dropouts and Game the System, ProPublica reporter Heather Vogell describes how traditional schools and districts are pushing kids into low - cost, low - quality alternative programs in order to hide dropouts from the public and boost test scores and graduation rates.

Based on cost data from Massachusetts, we believe that the actual costs for tests of the quality necessary for an effective accountability program may run as much as twice the GAO's estimate.

In fact, although the federal regulation required that no program be classified as «effective» unless its graduates had an exceptional impact on test scores, it did require that programs be evaluated using other indicators of quality as well.

We found negligible differences in teacher quality between programs, amounting to no more than 3 percent of the average test - score gap between students from low - income families and their more affluent peers.

Training or testing were offered as options for incumbent teachers to add the CLAD or ELA now required for most positions, but the quality might not be the same as when teaching English Learners is embedded into the credential program.

[58] More conclusive evidence is needed for certainty, but the available evidence suggests that the regulations promulgated by the state, including the state testing mandate, discouraged higher - quality private schools from participating in the scholarship program.

«All schools, but schools of choice particularly, are well - served by implementing tests that accurately measure the quality of that school's curriculum and program,» said Peter Bezanson, CEO of BASIS, a charter school network that started in Arizona.

Although standardized tests can provide parents with useful information about their child's academic performance, using them to impose uniform standards that so narrowly define «quality» creates perverse incentives that narrow the curriculum, stifle innovation, and can drive away quality schools from participating in the choice program.

One study in Washington State, for instance, showed that programs that offered coaching had significantly lower teacher turnover, as well as higher quality ratings.Kimberly Boller et al., Seeds to Success Modified Field Test: Findings from the Outcomes and Implementation Studies (Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research, 2010).

No research evidence indicates that these tests, nor the recently imposed GRE requirement for admission to master's - level preparation programs, strongly predict teaching effectiveness or quality.

As operators of high quality public charter schools offering independent study, we stand united in offering high quality programs that exist to offer innovative and tested methods of instruction and self - paced learning.