Sentences with phrase «recent evaluation reported»

A separate, more recent evaluation reported initial decreases in reading and math test scores.

Not exact matches

In our most recent evaluations, 70 % of schools reported seeing an increase in school lunch participation after implementing salad bars.

The report collates and synthesises the findings of a number of recent independent academic evaluations, which have been critical of the Responsibility Deal.

Despite a recent news report indicating that student feedback is not likely to be included in New York City's new teacher evaluation system, the poll found firm backing for this idea.

(Despite a recent news report indicating that student feedback is not likely to be included in New York City's new teacher evaluation system)

The New York Daily News blog reports on StudentsFirstNY's recent poll that found that 80 % of NYC voters support a new teacher evaluation system based on both classroom observations and test scores.

Further to this recent report, a more detailed clinical evaluation of the mother and of the current pregnancy is under way.

I attach FYI the evaluation report from my most recent lecture.

Just when you thought we were done with our review of the past year in film (including our recent report on 2013's best and worst movies), we have one last look back to offer you: our annual evaluation of movie studio performance.

Well friends, thanks to the recent adoption of HTML5 and CSS3 coding; most eLMSs have the bandwidth to provide you with graph charts on every reporting element that matters i.e. test performance, SCORM and xAPI values, evaluation surveys, and observational task results.

But can it possibly be true, as reported in his recent post, that the Regents and the New York State Department of Education went to court with the teachers union over whether test scores would count as 20 percent or 40 percent of a teacher's annual evaluation?

One resource about the SPRING 2017 budget which could be used as a model / framework for pupils to produce their own most recent budget report / analysis / evaluation.

The most recent findings from the study as reported a few weeks ago are based on the full original sample of children as randomized to treatment and control conditions at the outset of the study rather than the previously studied subsample of children whose parents gave permission for follow - up testing by the evaluation team.

In a recent unpublished analysis, administrators -LSB-...] report spending an average of more than three hours writing a summative evaluation for each teacher in the building.

The New Teacher Project's recent report, The Widget Effect, noted that in the 12 school districts it examined, less than 1 percent of all teachers had received an unsatisfactory evaluation, even in schools where students were chronically underperforming.

The most significant recent research on teacher evaluation was initiated in 2009 by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and resulted in a 2011 report known as Measures of Effective Teaching (MET).

Title I Implementation: Update on Recent Evaluation Findings (2009) provides a summary of findings from Title I evaluation studies that have become available after the publication of the National Assessment of Title I final reporEvaluation Findings (2009) provides a summary of findings from Title I evaluation studies that have become available after the publication of the National Assessment of Title I final reporevaluation studies that have become available after the publication of the National Assessment of Title I final report in 2007.

This paper draws from a recent report of the National Academy of Education and offers a framework for the analysis of existing evaluation systems and the possible invention of new and better ones.

In Tennessee, for example, teachers are increasingly seeing the evaluation process as a tool for improving teaching and learning with more than half of teachers who responded to a recent survey reporting that teacher evaluation will improve teaching in their schools.

At a time when a recent report shows that teachers are less satisfied with their jobs than they have been in decades, Mieliwocki acknowledged the challenges that the profession faces and the narrow focus on student achievement and teacher evaluations as measured by standardized tests.

A recent report from the National Commission on Service Learning and Fiske (2002) re-affirms that a good service learning project has strong ties to academic content, meets a real community need, and involves students in the project's design, implementation, and evaluation.

The evaluation rubric currently in place, known as the Principal Performance Review, assigns principals a rating based on their school's score on the city progress report, the results of their school's most recent «Quality Review,» how well they met the «goals and objectives» they set out, and their compliance with city policies.

The U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Science released this week an evaluation of a recent study on the effects of the Head Start program and, in typically terse language, reported «potentially positive effects» on reading but «no discernible effects on mathematics achievement and social - emotional development for 3 - and 4 - year old children.»

National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), a non-partisan research and policy organization dedicated to ensuring every classroom has a high quality teacher, has released a new report on the effects of recent reforms of state teacher evaluation policies on teacher effectiveness ratings.

A recent report from the NC General Assembly's Program Evaluation Division (PED) found that certain start dates are favored more than others, but none poll at a rate high enough to say with...

The recent Year Six Linked Learning Evaluation, prepared by SRI International, reported that when compared with similar peers in...

In a recent unpublished analysis, administrators in the Clark County school district — the fifth - largest school system in the nation — report spending an average of more than three hours writing a summative evaluation for each teacher in the building.

The recent Year Six Linked Learning Evaluation, prepared by SRI International, reported that when compared with similar peers in traditional high school programs, students in certified Linked Learning pathways are more likely to graduate from high school, less likely to drop out, and earn, on average, more credits.

To promote cultures of continuous growth, schools and school districts should encourage and support feedback loops, honest coaching conversations, and collaboration toward improved student outcomes.59 A recent report found that when teachers are more open to feedback, their evaluation scores are more likely to increase over time.60 Furthermore, the introduction of new teacher evaluation systems in recent years has created an opportunity to provide teachers with much more effective feedback and to more intentionally target professional learning to individual teachers» needs.61 When professional learning is rooted in collaboration and meaningful opportunities to apply new skills, these systems can become essential components of evaluation systems that support teacher growth.62

Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP) has created a new series of research updates summarizing key insights from 15 recent research and evaluation reports around program quality added to the HFRP database in December 2006.

That's exactly what LAUSD lawyer David Holmquist was saying in a recent LA School Report interview: «If we need to go through fact - finding and, unfortunately, if we have to unilaterally impose [a new evaluation process] in order to comply with the judge's order, then so be it.»

During the evaluation, the team reviews recent report cards and grades, standardized test scores, discipline reports and talks with parents and teachers about school performance.

As per a recent article in the Tennessee Education Report (see also an article in The Tennessean here) Governor Bill Haslam announced this week that «he will be proposing changes to the state's teacher evaluation process in the 2015 legislative session,» the most significant change being «to reduce the weight of value - added data on teacher evaluations during the transition [emphasis added] to a new test for Tennessee students.»

The state Performance Evaluation Advisory Council (PEAC) has been consumed in recent years by reports from consultants, disagreements about what's best for students and teachers, and plenty of eduspeak — all in pursuit of a new teacher evaluatiEvaluation Advisory Council (PEAC) has been consumed in recent years by reports from consultants, disagreements about what's best for students and teachers, and plenty of eduspeak — all in pursuit of a new teacher evaluationevaluation system.

Many of those evaluations — in New York City, Dayton, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., as well as in the states of Florida, Minnesota, and Louisiana — reported a modest increase or neutral impact on student achievement and graduation rates.9 The findings of some of these studies, however, have more recently been called into question as methodological flaws were discovered when adding additional years or replicating the study.10 As a result, recent voucher program evaluations employ more rigorous research methods such as experimental and quasi-experimental designs and refine their use of certain variables.

More recent evaluations of voucher programs in three states — Indiana, Louisiana, and Ohio — have all come to similar conclusions and show that voucher programs have negative or neutral effects on student achievement.11 Importantly, all impacts described in this report are relative to public schools.

Education Week summarizes two recent reports that said federal policymakers, in their regulation of teacher evaluation, have focused on ««consequences» before putting their emphasis on professional development, which had the effect of alienating teachers and making it harder for them to buy into the reforms,» while suggesting «that the new evaluation systems either hold a lot of promise.»

In this report, H. Cecilia Suhr examines one recent development in online music evaluation: the use of digital badges to aid in assessment and evaluation.

However, in their recent publication in Climatic Change Letters, Howarth et al. (2011) report that their life - cycle evaluation of shale gas drilling suggests that shale gas has a larger GHG footprint than coal and that this larger footprint «undercuts the logic of its use as a bridging fuel over the coming decades».

«Here we argue for the adoption of measures to optimize key elements of the scientific process: methods, reporting and dissemination, reproducibility, evaluation and incentives... one analysis estimates that 85 % of biomedical research efforts are wasted, while 90 % of respondents to a recent survey in Nature agreed that there is a «reproducibility crisis»»...» The key to fostering a robust metascience that evaluates and improves practices is that the stakeholders of science must not embrace the status quo, but instead pursue self - examination continuously for improvement and self - correction of the scientific process itself.

I received an email from a colleague that alerted me to a recent EU report entitled «DG Internal Market and Services Working Paper: First Evaluation of Directive 96 / 9 / C on the Legal Protection of Databases» dated December 12, 2005.

The most recent system evaluation, the Morgan Disney report identified significant problems in program implementation.

This research is reviewed by Sharon Bzostek and Audrey Beck, «Family Structure and Child Health Outcomes in Fragile Families,» Working Paper 08 -11-FF (Princeton: Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, 2008); and by Robert Wood, Brian Goesling, and Sarah Avellar, «The Effects of Marriage on Health: A Synthesis of Recent Research Evidence,» report prepared by Mathematica Policy Research for U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, 2007.

In WA, the State Government came under fire for halving funding for Aboriginal health programs in its most recent budget, despite an evaluation report saying existing programs were delivering good value for money in terms of Closing the Gap on Aboriginal health outcomes.

Child Well - Being Spotlight: Children Placed Outside the Home and Children Who Remain In - Home After a Maltreatment Investigation Have Similar and Extensive Service Needs (PDF - 211 KB) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (2012) Summarizes recent research from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well - Being (NSCAW) that indicates children reported for maltreatment have a high risk of experiencing developmental problems, cognitive problems, behavioral / emotional problems, or substance use disorders, regardless of whether they were placed in out - of - home care or remained in - home with or without receiving services.