NEW - WAVE SUNSCREENS: Consumers are still waiting for
a reliable measuring system for how well a sunscreen blocks UV - A rays.
Not exact matches
The lawsuit describes an employee ranking
system that is «not based on valid and
reliable performance
measures» and favors men and white or Asian employees.
«A modern electricity
system must be
reliable, affordable and clean — and on these
measures the Alberta government is delivering a responsible approach to transitioning away from coal - fired power.»
The difficulty is coming up with a
reliable system to
measure evasiveness.
However, development of quantum computers has been limited as researchers have struggled to find a
reliable way to increase the power of these
systems, a power
measured in Q - Bits.
FoodTest95 ™ provides
reliable testing of food sensitivities by
measuring antibodies in the blood your immune
system has produced in response to the foods you're eating.
Schools Minister Nick Gibb said his statement to the House of Commons that: «We (DfE) want new GCSEs to set expectations which match those of the best education
systems in the world, with rigorous assessment that provides a
reliable measure of students» achievement.
The only
reliable way to assess the quality of the education
system is to
measure the quality of the workers who have graduated from it.
ESSA also requires state accountability
systems to include «a
measure of student growth, if determined appropriate by the State; or another valid and
reliable statewide academic indicator that allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance.»
Today, accountability
systems require annual student testing in reading and math, and provide objective and
reliable (if limited)
measures at least once a year.
As full implementation of both the teacher and principal evaluation
systems looms for September 2013, it is imperative that boards of education, district leaders, and the DOE ensure that principals and teachers have a viable curriculum based on the Common Core Standards; valid and
reliable assessment tools to
measure growth in every subject area (tested and nontested); and time to work in professional teams to set growth targets, analyze data, and provide the appropriate instructional interventions for every student.
Over the last decade, for example, many states and districts rushed to implement centralized teacher evaluation
systems, even though critics warned, for good reason, that they wouldn't provide valid or
reliable measures of classroom practice.
Measuring a student's performance on cross-curricular standards requires using an authentic and
reliable performance assessment with a consistent criteria, and
system for evaluating the performance with fidelity.
The rating
system also aims to increase program accountability by generating
reliable data for policymakers about program performance
measures — programs that underperform could lose access to federal financial aid.
The AFT and the state education department have only agreed that classroom observations — which, even under the best of circumstances, are far less
reliable in
measuring student performance than either value - added analysis of student test score performance or even surveys of students — should be the «majority» element in the new evaluation
system.
Yet, questions remain about what
measures are
reliable and valid for use as accountability metrics and how to best incorporate them into accountability
systems.
... We need to focus on what helps students the most, like supporting new teachers, providing ongoing training, paying teachers a decent salary, and developing
reliable evaluation
systems to
measure teacher effectiveness.»
A
reliable evaluation
system must incorporate other
measures of effectiveness, like students» feedback about their teachers and classroom observations by highly trained peer evaluators and principals.
Ideally, future work would rely on a detailed student database — such as student transcript data — to address centrally important yet understudied issues in math placement, including the identification of
reliable and accurate
measures of student outcomes, the establishment of protocols associated with growth in student outcomes, and the consequences of effective support
systems for improving student learning.
The $ 45 - million
Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Project began in the fall of 2009 with the goal of building «fair and
reliable systems for teacher observation and feedback.»
For example, high scores on classroom observations rubrics and content knowledge assessments should be correlated with high value - added scores, so the overall evaluation
system provides a valid and
reliable tool for
measuring effective teaching.
As states select indicators for their school classification
systems, which are just one part a comprehensive accountability
system, they should include
measures that are valid,
reliable, and drive behavior at the local level, such as rates of chronic absenteeism and
measures of college and career readiness.
[13] In addition, teacher evaluation
systems that include student survey data, which are somewhat correlated with teachers» student growth
measures, [14] are stronger, more
reliable, and more valid than those that rely solely on administrator reports and observations.
I might point out two conundrums re our API
system: (1) Re composition of an API, while many folks (including me) support a reduction in weight for assessment data contributing to an API, the problem is finding or developing valid and
reliable measures to contribute to an API to replace the current assessment data weights.
Oklahoma State Representative Scooter Park said that «HB2957 is a step in the right direction — driven by the support of Superintendents across the state, we can continue to remove the costly and time - consuming portions of the TLE
system such as unnecessary data collection requirements as well as open the door for local school districts to develop their own qualitative evaluation
system for their teachers according to their choice of a valid,
reliable, research based and evidence - based qualitative
measure.»
But another purpose that states built toward was that if they wanted to use PARCC as part of an accountability
system, would it be a
reliable measure.
We need to focus on what helps students the most, like supporting new teachers, providing ongoing training, paying teachers a decent salary and developing
reliable evaluation
systems to
measure teacher effectiveness,» Van Roekel said.
The
system uses three separate radiographs and is a more
reliable measure of hip laxity.
The «RaZON +» is said to be an all - in - one
system that accurately
measures both direct normal irradiance (DNI) and diffuse horizontal irradiance (DHI) from the sun and sky, enabling it to provide very
reliable values of global horizontal solar irradiance (GHI) and sunshine duration.
Demand for
reliable 24/7 power is, in large
measure, an artifact of pricing
systems designed for coal - based
systems.
An observing
system serving this purpose would be one where a few critical in situ observations, coupled with satellite observations and the Argo float array, provide a
reliable and sustainable
measure of the AMOC for decades to come.
You can get an idea of how an amplfier might respond to a change in its inputs by computer modelling every individual component in its design, but it is far easier and more
reliable to simply
measure the response on the real
system.
8.2 Develop metrics of success and
systems of evaluation
reliable and meaningful metrics and benchmarks need to be established across all levels of the
system in order to evaluate the effects of reform
measures.
Some career goals just don't
measure up when being compared to
reliable systems of measurement.
Diagnoses of depressive disorder could either be based on a recognised diagnostic
system (eg, DSM - IV - TR, International Classification of Diseases 10), or scoring above a cut - off on a validated,
reliable, continuous
measure of depression.
The attachment
system is a composite paradigm for understanding relationship processes, traditionally assessed by valid and
reliable interview, projective, or self - report
measures (Ravitz et al., 2010), but with a limited ecological validity in the assessment of real attachment behaviors.