Sentences with phrase «school effectiveness designed»

A grade is a snapshot of school effectiveness designed to encourage parents to learn more.

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Led by Stella K. Kang, a radiologist with the Department of Radiology at the New York School of Medicine, the study was designed to compare the effectiveness of a treatment algorithm for small renal tumors incorporating the nephrometry score, a renal tumor anatomy scoring system developed by urologists, with the current standard of uniformly recommended partial nephrectomy in patients with mild - to - moderate chronic kidney disease (CKD).

Research led at the Yale School of Public Health have found that the majority of published papers analyzing the cost - effectiveness of a widely used test for breast cancer used a study design that can increase bias.

For instance, the $ 9 million Longitudinal Evaluation of School Change and Performance was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of the current Title I program.

Each entry is judged by a panel of educational professionals, who look for what works in the classroom or the school setting in terms of design, cost - effectiveness, support of higher order thinking skills and effective learning and teaching styles.

A recent rigorous and quantitative study by the American Institutes of Research (AIR) demonstrates the effectiveness of schools that are designed to develop these outcomes.

Specifically, RttT was designed to encourage higher state standards, create new data systems, improve teacher effectiveness, increase college readiness, stimulate charter - school expansion, and strengthen low - performing schools.

I was no less enthusiastic than those standing on the podium as this was for me an opportunity to evaluate for the first time a school voucher initiative by means of a randomized field trial, the gold standard for evaluating the effectiveness of a program, the same design as the pill - placebo design used in medical research to ascertain whether pills are effective.

Jimmy Casas, a high school principal from Bettendorf, Iowa, who attended the summit, predicts that meeting the #FutureReady challenge will require an expansion in «student - led initiatives that give students a voice in curriculum offerings, school policies, design of classroom and other learning spaces, lesson / unit design, student - led conferences and feedback on teacher effectiveness in the classroom.»

The judges, who are all educational professionals, focus on what works in the classroom or the school setting in terms of design, cost - effectiveness, support of higher order thinking skills and effective learning and teaching styles.

Professional Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education announces the 2017 offering of Mindfulness for Educators, a program designed to help educators build the inner resources to handle complex multi-faceted challenges, manage personal stress, and build resilience while enhancing professional effectiveness.

We designed value - added models to measure teacher and school effectiveness and have produced annual estimates of educators» contributions to achievement in grades 4 - 8 since the 2008 - 2009 school year.

A quality curriculum review and design helps your school or district refine areas of effectiveness and identify opportunities for improvement.

Mathematica built on its initial study of KIPP middle schools with this five - year project, designed to address the question of whether KIPP can maintain its effectiveness as the network grows.

Specifically, Levenson offers four pieces of advice to schools and districts: focus on reading and integration with general education, rethink deployment of support staff, design more sophisticated metrics to gauge teacher effectiveness, and employ more strategic management structures.

This resource is designed to help schools, school districts, and educational program developers identify potential researchers (individuals and organizations) to conduct studies of effectiveness of educational interventions.

Teaching effectiveness measures have great potential to provide teachers with feedback as they work to hone their craft and to help school system leaders understand where support for better teaching and learning is needed, whether that support is effective, and, ultimately, how to design a system of supports to get better results.

Federal law in postsecondary education must also be a robust source of support for local innovation, research, and implementation of strategies designed to improve teacher and principal effectiveness and include: Evidence - based preparation and professional development; Evidence - based evaluation systems that include, in part, student performance; Alternative certification programs that meet workforce needs; State and school district flexibility regarding credentials for small and / or rural schools, special education programs, English learners and specialized programs such as science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics; and Locally - determined compensation and teacher and principal assignment policies.

Whether you're a school administrator, classroom teacher, or lead a team, the Mastery Series is designed to help build your strengths and gifts, as well as surface the blindspots, limiting beliefs and fears that may be sabotaging your effectiveness so that you're better able to create schools and classrooms that are rich in humanity, successful academically, and filled with joy, curiosity, and discovery.

According to the technical manuals published by the creators of standardized assessments, none of the tests currently in use to judge teacher or school administrator effectiveness or student achievement have been validated for those uses... The tests are simply not designed to diagnose learning.

The National Charter School Resource Center (NCSRC) recently released a report designed to assist district and charter representatives interested in establishing a new collaboration or in increasing the effectiveness of an existing collaboration.

Even rigorous studies of programs designed to include the elements researchers have identified as essential to effectiveness — including inquiry - oriented learning approaches, a strong content focus, collaborative leadership, and coherence with school curriculum and policies — have yielded disappointing results (see Garet, Porter, Desimone, Birman, & Yoon, 2001; Penuel, Fishman, Yamaguchi, & Gallagher, 2007).

Evaluations have established the effectiveness of a number of programs and models designed to increase school retention.

The state assessments, whether based on CCSS or not, are designed to provide information about the effectiveness of schools across the US.

She has focused her recent research on the effectiveness of numerous school and district educational interventions designed to improve student achievement and has more than two decades experience conducting mixed methods studies.

Developing and supporting robust STEM programs help schools and universities attract students to pursue studies in those fields, and providing facilities specifically designed to enhance the effectiveness of STEM instruction enables those students make the most of their educational opportunities.

The design of any data reports your school or district's data system delivers to teachers setting out to analyze data can make or break the effectiveness of such a data analysis process, maintains Rankin.

In this role, he managed a team of program officers supporting a portfolio of large, multi-year grants designed to support the improvement of teaching effectiveness in eleven urban school systems across the United States.

The Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness Fall Conference 2014 focuses on the design, conduct, and use of research to improve practice in the complex settings in which it occurs, including schools, school systems, higher education institutions, and communities.

Bremberg said the administration is backing two pieces of legislation: A bipartisan bill by Sens. John Cornyn, R - Texas, and Chris Murphy, D - Conn., that is designed to improve the accuracy and effectiveness of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System; and the STOP School Violence Act, which would authorize state - based grants to implement violence prevention training for teachers and students.

A University of Florida team of psychology and education researchers has received a $ 1 million federal grant to pilot - test novel training methods designed to advance the skills and effectiveness of school resource officers in mediating school crimes and student violence and promoting a strong sense of community among students and school staff.

Her research interests emphasize applied educational measurement by designing and managing research studies to evaluate the effectiveness of multi-site intervention programs over time; investigating how school, teacher, and student factors affect student achievement; and developing, validating, and evaluating assessment systems.

The Design team worked to compile and organize the agency's vast school improvement resources into a toolkit Effectiveness Specialists can use and share with clients.

Learners» backgrounds, experiences, beliefs, motivation, interests, cognitive processes, professional identity, and commitment to school and school system goals affect how educators approach professional learning and the effectiveness of various learning designs.

The study used a single case design to examine the effectiveness of a video prompting and a constant time delay procedure to teach three primary school students with moderate intellectual disabilities how to search the Internet for a history...

His studies include the design and estimation of value - added growth measures of school and teacher effectiveness, and he has estimated value - added models for schools in over 25 states.

The department will give competitive preference to those projects that propose evaluation plans to improve project design, implementation, and outcomes; are supported by strong evidence; focus on turning around the persistently lowest - achieving schools; or use technology to improve student achievement or teacher effectiveness.

Achieve Intensive is uniquely designed to put actionable data right at school and district leaders» fingertips, to maximize teacher effectiveness while minimizing planning time and administrative tasks, and to strengthen the home - school connection!

Statistical models designed to measure growth in student learning are rapidly being introduced and applied in districts across the country to measure the effectiveness of teachers and schools.

In that role she was responsible for supporting the implementation of educator effectiveness systems including partnership support, external school reviews, grant writing and coordination, instructional design and authoring, management of training and resource portals, development of online professional development modules, and development of a core training curriculum for national implementation.

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The objectives of the capstone technology course are that the preservice teachers will learn to employ computer - based technologies for analyzing mathematical content from secondary school curricula; that they will design, present, and assess the effectiveness of technology - enhanced mathematical learning activities; and that they will analyze mathematical content from secondary school curricula to interrelate topics, construct critical concepts, discover why relationships exist, discover why certain algorithms work, and apply useful topics to address real - life problems.

We decided to go for approval in (all) three areas; Lead Provider, Design Advisory and in all 11 of the Conditions of School Effectiveness that low performing schools have to address, including instruction, curriculum, collaborative decision making, using time, budget, principal staffing authority.

To date, little is known about school turnaround approaches in terms of both design variations across states and effectiveness, and the research base on turnaround is limited.

The Principals Institute is a series of professional development sessions developed by Illinois CSI and designed to provide participants with practical tools and insight to problem solve and apply Illinois CSI's continuous improvement process in their settings to help school building leaders enhance their effectiveness.

Indicator systems were designed because decisions about school effectiveness should be based on many different factors.

When the EHA transformed into the IDEA in 1990, the legal language became even more explicit, requiring schools to provide «a free appropriate public education» that included «special education and related services designed to meet [the] unique needs [of students with disabilities]» and that established means of measuring «the effectiveness of efforts to educate children with disabilities» (IDEA 20 U.S.C.A. 1400 2004).

The evaluation used a randomized experimental design to assess the effectiveness of Get Real and included 24 middle schools in the greater Boston area.

SRI and partners examined the effectiveness of a program designed to help at - risk children get off to the best possible start in school.

SRI and partners examined the effectiveness of this program designed to help at - risk children get off to the best possible start in school.