Sentences with phrase «since evaluation efforts»
But there is no sure way of knowing if these programs are effective, the report says, since evaluation efforts to date have been insufficient.
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Since there is a plethora of Learning Management Systems in the eLearning market and each LMS is a complex system that incorporates a vast array of features, the Learning Management System evaluation and selection is a complex task, which requires a lot of time and effort [2].
Mr. Klein has since overseen a number of aggressive reform efforts, including a stringent evaluation effort for each of the system's 1,400 public schools and the introduction of value - added assessment of the city's...
In addition to ESEA waiver requirements that districts incorporate evaluation data into personnel decisions (though compensation isn't specified), the Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF), a federal grant program that has allocated over $ 2 billion since its inception, began supporting state and district efforts to implement performance - based compensation in 2006.79 Grantees from across the country have included Miami - Dade County Public Schools, Mississippi, Pittsburgh Public Schools, Seattle Public Schools, and Washington, D.C. Public Schools (see Case Study: Lessons From Washington, D.C.'s IMPACT System).
With an assist from LEE, the organization has nearly doubled its investment recently with respect to its lobbying efforts, spending almost $ 2 million since 2010 on attacking unions, weakening teacher tenure, supporting more and earlier standardized testing, reducing certification requirements, and encouraging the use of VAM in teacher evaluation systems.
Our analysis of 700,000 hip and 150,000 elbow records in the publically available OFA database demonstrate clearly that efforts to reduce the frequency and severity of hip dysplasia, and its secondary osteoarthritis in the USA based on radiographic evaluation (phenotype), have met with meager improvement in genetic quality as measured by estimated hip score breeding values since 1970 (Hou et al., 2014).