Sentences with phrase «set of model standards»

Representatives of more than twenty organizations worked over the course of three years to create a revised set of model standards.

Not exact matches

Most states have a version of a model law known as the Unfair Claims Settlement Practices Act, which sets standards for handling claims and prohibits policies that, for example, require you to sue to collect.

While acknowledging that enormous uncertainty remains around the fate of the standards, they set out to model a world where Pruitt gets what he wants.

They have blazed a trail in setting standards for modelling ESG factors into investment decisions, raising transparency around the capabilities and activities of its signatories and fostering collaboration between them.

In late July 2013, the industry group Committee for the Establishment of the Digital Asset Transfer Authority began to form to set best practices and standards, to work with regulators and policymakers to adapt existing currency requirements to digital currency technology and business models and develop risk management standards.

Similar to the Department of Labor fiduciary rule, the NAIC model would place limits on agent compensation, require more disclosures and set a «best interest» standard.

Bishop David Konderla of Tulsa was the director of campus ministry at Texas A&M for eleven years, where St. Mary's Catholic Center has set the gold standard in traditional campus ministry and created a model for others to emulate.

And yet theological schools in North America are inescapably driven to try to meet standards set both by paideia and by the research university as models of excellence in schooling.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

«The company's history of excellent service and its solid business model set standards of performance all employees strive to achieve and surpass,» Bennett says.

Such sentiments may sound standard to the working stiffs of the world, but the modern can't - miss professional athlete, in many cases, seems intent on following the flashy model set forth by Sanders, the Dallas Cowboys» conspicuous - consumer cornerback.

Finally, we perform a set of industry standard safety tests, along with our own proprietary tests for braking and stability, to weed out any models that might topple over or fail to stop during use.

«Governor Cuomo has said this project will set the standard for positive community engagement,» said DeFalco, adding that the project is being modeled after the state's replacement of the Tappan Zee Bridge.

«There is a troubling view taking hold that to set high standards and achieve good outcomes, we must rely on a closed, top - down model of government,» Stringer told the packed house at CUNY Graduate Center in Midtown.

Theorists have constructed a standard set of equations that describe all of nature's particles and forces (except gravity) with extraordinary precision; a Higgs boson with very specific properties is necessary for this standard model to hold together mathematically.

Instead of looking for particular signatures, they wrote software that analyzes all the data and compares them with predictions of the so - called Standard Model, which comprises the known set of laws of particle physics.

QCD was developed half a century after the original BTT paper appeared, but the physicists who developed the standard model knew nothing of that surreal corner of set theory.

◊ to set standards for systemic phenotyping of mouse models and for archiving and distribution of mouse mutants in Europe.

Ongoing radio observations (SMA, JCMT, VLA) of Sirius A are being used to set an observationally determined standard for stellar atmosphere modeling and debris disk studies around A stars, as well as to take the first step toward characterizing potential intrinsic uncertainty in stellar emission at these wavelengths.

«Hopefully, it will set the standards of how those models should be used in the future to describe water.»

These models contain a standard set of features.

The Institute for Functional Medicine sets the gold standard for Functional Medicine education and training, synthesizing the latest medical research with a personalized, effective model of care.

The Replica Panerai Watches100 XL is their larger version of the watch, the standard model is a bit small for my tastes.In a route one way, this influence makes a lot of sense - the purpose of both sets of images is to create striking pictures that put Valentino handbags in the centre.

With more than 35 years of experience, Great Expectations has continued to not only set the standard in the dating world, but also the business model for all dating services.

A combination of models, miniatures and sets were also incorporated which generally look pretty sweet but again obvious by today's standards.

So many of the contemporary stories set during that more shameful chapter of America's past invent white role models who seem downright progressive by the standards of the day, and enlightened even by ours (à la Atticus Finch).

Nicolas Winding Refn is all about the surface - level pose and the finely tuned image, so it's fitting that his latest movie, The Neon Demon, sets its sights on the modelling industry and its harshly high standards of beauty.

Most important, while the standards describe teaching as a set of highly complex tasks, much of what currently passes for teacher testing follows a reductionist model — looking not so much at what's important but at what's easy to measure.

Students start looking at models of good writing and setting their own criteria and standards for good work.»

Power Point presentation, 14 slides, Explaining how to find the a function to model a set of data from a periodical phenomena, based on IB Standard...

Power Point presentation, 14 slides, Explaining how to find the a function to model a set of data from a periodical phenomena, based on IB Standard Level Syllabus.

Set includes: - 7 cards identifying characteristics of a function - 5 cards finding the discriminant and number of solutions - 4 factoring to determine solutions - 8 vertical motion model word problems - 8 converting from factored to standard form - 8 quadratic formula to solve - 8 completing the square - 8 using special cases (perfect square trinomial and difference of perfect square)- 8 using characteristics of symmetry to determine vertex or another point If there is a specific skill for which you want more questions or a new type, please just let us know and we will be happy to update with whatever your class needs!

Learning Forward (formally the National Staff Development Council), an organization focused on effective educator professional learning, adopted and expanded the Guskey and Sparks (2002) model by developing a set of standards for high quality educator learning (Learning Forward, 2011; National Staff Development Council, 2001).

The Sharable Content Object Reference Model or SCORM is a set of technical standards and specifications for digital learning technologies.

«The Teaching for Better Learning (TBL) model and standards set out in this article contribute an innovative approach to our thinking about teaching standards that not only challenges persistent and oft - criticized norms in the design and approach to standards set out for the teaching profession, but proposes an alternative approach,» said Associate Professor Mark Barrow, dean of the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Auckland.

The standard neo-classical model of wage setting predicts short - term effects of temporary labor market shocks on careers and low costs of recessions for both more and less advantaged workers.

This matters because students of color need teachers who not only set rigorous standards for them but teachers who also can provide models of professional success.

As the governor of Massachusetts, he supported setting a standards - and - testing path that is a model often cited by Obama and Duncan and one that Christie has dutifully followed in New Jersey as well.

Under the charter model, a central office authorizes schools, sets standards, inspects, evaluates and offers some level of support should things go wrong.

SCORM stands for «Sharable Content Object Reference Model» and it is a set of technical standards developed for eLearning software products.

White argues making these schools meet two sets of standards shows a «bias» against the community school model.

As the only national set of standards of excellence for concurrent enrollment partnerships, NACEP's standards serve as a model for statewide quality standards in 19 states.

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The school, which caters to children aged two to eighteen years with a wide range of severe disabilities, has set high standards of best practice in special education models in that country.

Joseph Martineau joined the Center as a Senior Associate in January 2014, and has led and contributed to work on growth models, prepared for and analyzed the effects of interruptions of online testing, developed and improved testing and accountability systems, measured achievement gaps, conducted standard setting, evaluated test security, designed comprehensive assessment systems, conceptualized high school assessment under ESSA, designed educator certification testing, and implemented educator evaluation systems.

The standard car is already handsome, but with multi-spoke 17 - inch wheels and more aggressively styled bumpers, the differences are subtle but effective enough to set the Sport model apart from the rest of the range.

The Peugeot 206 GTI (136bhp model) was deemed the key rival because it's the sales leader in the segment, which is fair enough, but little mention was made of Mini and Clio Cup, which we reckon set the dynamic standard.

The 18in alloy wheels and 225/40 Michelin Pilot Sport 3 tyres are the largest of any Ceed model, while the standard car's adjustable electric power steering has been ditched for one, more direct setting.

Certified pre-owned vehicles are held to a higher standard and must be within five recent model years and have less than a set amount of miles.

The C - Class Cabriolet expands a rich heritage of design and luxury, while extending the family of innovative open - air Mercedes models that set the standard today.