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rates on assessment results.
Not exact matches
The Healthcare Reform Law, including The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and The Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, could have a material adverse effect
on Humana's
results of operations, including restricting revenue, enrollment and premium growth in certain products and market segments, restricting the company's ability to expand into new markets, increasing the company's medical and operating costs by, among other things, requiring a minimum benefit ratio
on insured products, lowering the company's Medicare payment
rates and increasing the company's expenses associated with a non-deductible health insurance industry fee and other
assessments; the company's financial position, including the company's ability to maintain the value of its goodwill; and the company's cash flows.
Another strength is that our
results provide a more complete
assessment of socioeconomic inequalities in breastfeeding
rates, by estimating both relative and absolute inequalities, than common practice in inequality
assessments.23 Finally, our study analysed effects of the intervention not only
on an immediate, direct outcome (breastfeeding) but also
on a long - term consequence of breastfeeding (child cognitive ability) that is associated with important health and behavioural outcomes in later life.27
The process, reported in Human Reproduction, utilizes DNA fingerprinting (an
assessment of active genes in a given cell) to boost the success
rate of IVF and lower the chances of risky multiple births by identifying which of several five - day - old embryos are most likely to
result in pregnancy The new method, which will replace unproved alternatives such as choosing embryos based
on their shape, is likely to up the success of women becoming pregnant and lower their chances of having multiple births.
The trend in catch
rates, the authors of the
assessment results maintain, indicates the need for take limits
on this legal fishery.
Schools that have opted out of the new
assessment will have their performance judged
on pass
rates for later exam
results that only around 10 per cent of schools would meet.
Its system of identifying low - performing teacher - preparation programs considers: the accreditation status of the teacher education unit; passing
rates on teacher - certification exams; and
results from the state's performance
assessments of classroom teachers.
, the Hoosier State has an «annual performance - accountability
rating system» for participating private schools that is based
on the
results of state
assessments — the same tests that public school pupils take.
Because - and especially in their
assessments - they tend to reflect familiar categories: The sharp and often distorting distinctions among and between «subjects»; age grading; the value placed
on quick recall; the dumbing down of the quality and grace of expository prose to make it fit into some sort of
rating scheme; the overload of material to be covered, usually the inevitable
result of intracommittee ideological logrolling, which leads to a bit of this and a dollop of that; the almost absolute denial of a value placed
on individual ingenuity, craggy but provocative thinking, sustained work, and desirable variety; the lack of interest, signaled by the
assessment apparatus, of the virtues of fairness, good character, and imagination.
If such petition is based upon
results of the «all student» group
on the English language arts and mathematics
assessments or graduation
rate, such petition shall be submitted pursuant to a date prescribed by the commissioner but no later than December 31st of the calendar year in which such
assessments were administered, except that the commissioner may for good cause accept a petition submitted after such date.
Evaluating teachers based
on student
results on tests and other student
assessments that were never designed to
rate educators is neither a scientifically or educationally sound way to be used for a Measure of Student Learning portion of a teacher's
rating.
Excludes state
assessment results for English learners in their first year of enrollment in U.S. schools for purposes of school accountability (however, these students must still be assessed and included in
assessment participation
rates), and then includes their state
assessment results in their second year of enrollment in U.S. schools based
on the English language progress measure.
SIS (school information systems) provide standardized test
results to SIF (school information frameworks) which provide its data to state's and districts» longitudinal data systems that inform key decision makers and as a
result the
rating of schools and teachers is associated with students» performance
on assessments provided by PARCC and SBAC.
Results from the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills and the Stanford Achievement Test indicated that students in all three types of magnet programs in all grades had higher passing
rates on the reading, mathematics, writing, and science subtests of the
assessments than did their respective grade - level counterparts districtwide.
Euro NCAP has published the
results of its survey
on the availability of Autonomous Emergency Braking systems (AEB) in Europe and has revealed that the
assessment programme will include AEB technologies in its star
rating from 2014.
Assessments conducted at earlier phases are specified in previous articles.7, 8 At the 15 - year follow - up
assessment, adolescents completed interviews that measured whether they had been adjudicated a person in need of supervision (PINS)
resulting from incorrigible behavior such as recurrent truancy or destroying parents» property; their frequency of running away from home; and the number of times they had been stopped by the police, arrested, convicted of a crime or of probation violations, and sent to youth correctional facilities.14 They also reported
on their disruptive behavior in school; number of school suspensions; delinquent and aggressive behavior outside school; experience of sexual intercourse;
rates of pregnancy; lifetime number of sexual partners; and frequency of using cigarettes, alcohol, and illegal drugs during the 6 - month period prior to the 15 - year interview.15
The main study limitation was the sole reliance
on parent reports for
assessment because behavioral observation and teacher
ratings resulted in non-significant findings for two - parent households.
Experience with the Environment
Rating Scales (ERS) and designing coaching activities based
on program data and classroom
assessment results.