Sentences with phrase «stakes decision making»

Additionally, state education agencies acting as authorizers may face political pressures that complicate high - stakes decision making regarding schools.42

Here in California, the SBAC assessments have been carefully examined by independent examiners of the test content who concluded that they lack validity, reliability, and fairness, and should not be administered, much less be considered a basis for high - stakes decision making.»

If we are using such student performances for high - stakes decision making, we will need to make sure that the determinations are valid (that we measure what we mean to measure) and reliable (that the measure will yield the same results on repeated trials).

Inter - and intra-rater reliability is also increasingly needed as evaluations inform high - stakes decision making, but this has not been developed yet (Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation, 1994; Mathers, Oliva, & Laine, 2008; Mujis, 2006).

Their input helps to guide staff work and is critical to high - stakes decision making.

While day - to - day decisions are left to the authorizing staff, Fordham has a thoughtful, experienced, and engaged leadership team (which includes the head of Fordham's authorizing shop) and board of trustees whose input helps to guide staff work and is critical to high - stakes decision making.

However, they too have found that such error rates persist to an extent that still prohibits high - stakes decision making.

Not exact matches

Where big corporations generally have layers and layers of corporate bureaucracy to wade through, not to mention the livelihoods of thousands of employees in their hands, and many stock and stake holders to answer to, smaller companies have always had the advantage of being able to pivot fast by making quick decisions.

Rio Tinto is reportedly reassessing its mining activities (in addition to its Diavik stake, its diamond assets include Australia's Argyle mine, the Murowa mine in Zimbabwe, and Bunder, an advanced project in India) and is expected to make a decision on them by the end of the year.

Reading these won't guarantee excellence in ethical decision - making, but they will help you understand what is fundamentally at stake in our ongoing exploration of what behaviour is right, and what behaviour is wrong, in the world of business.

After PayPal: After earning $ 55 million from his 3.7 per cent stake in the eBay deal, Thiel immediately founded hedge fund Clarium Capital, a global macro hedge fund and made the ludicrously savvy decision to angel invest $ 500,000 in fledgling social network Facebook.

Clarification: This story has been updated to reflect a response from Principal Funds, and to clarify that while Wellington Management made the decision to buy Uber stock, Principal's own committee determined how to value the stake, and to mark it down in June.

There are some basic decisions you must make like will you offer seller financing; will you sell the entire business entity or just assets; will you keep any assets; will the buyer likely retain or replace staff; will you maintain a minority stake of the ownership; will you be expected to put in a year of transition time after the business is sold.

The decisions Carney will have to make as governor of the Bank of England are not nearly as obvious as those he made while at the Bank of Canada, the responsibilities are far greater, and the stakes are much higher.

In some cases, the investors hold a large enough stake to influence decision - making.

He chose to hang onto his stake — a decision that is likely to make him a very wealthy man.

Disney might have to divest a cable channel or two (the company's power over distributors would be even stronger; basically the opposite of the some of the concerns that halted the Comcast acquisition of Time Warner), and potentially be limited in its ability to make operational decisions about Hulu (Disney would have a controlling stake after the merger; Comcast was similarly restricted after acquiring NBC Universal, but there the concern was more about Comcast's conflict of interest with regards to its cable TV business competing with Hulu).

His statistical analysis showed that, paradoxically, founders maximized the value of their equity stakes by giving up the CEO position and board control: «The results show that, controlling for company size, age, and other factors, the more decision - making control kept (at both the CEO and board levels), the lower the value of the entrepreneur's equity stake.»

It takes full advantage of a distinctive hybrid of proof - of - work (PoW) and proof - of - stake (PoS) mining so that the decision - making process can be decentralized.

Based upon this information, you can form a more complete picture of what's at stake, and then make your decisions from there.

Maybe you do nt have a stake is it but the LDS church does, Romney would never make a political decision they are already made by his church leaders.

If we make the decision to commit ourselves wholly to this message, and stake our all upon it, the void of Nothingness is no longer a void.

Women are active participants in LDS church services and functions and help make decisions for their wards and stakes, and they also serve missions.

And once the Emperor made his decision, the losing side was often condemned, not only to eternal punishment in hell, but sometimes even to death by stoning, beheading, hanging, or by what became the most popular method: burning at the stake.

= > When two lives are at stake, Doctors make triage decisions all the time based on the odds of survival.

And so we are thrown into the moral dilemmas of war, with ever higher stakes and difficult decisions that must be made by our often ill - equipped political leaders.

But with so much money and so many careers at stake, we're sitting here making decisions we shouldn't be making.

Again, I don't have a problem with people who take their dogs to a place that lists itself as dog friendly because that's a business that is clearly staking out its position on them and gives me the ability to make my decision to sit on their patio with all the information available to me.

With such a lot at stake the question will be whether to take a chance on anybody who may be almost ready to return as opposed to being outright fit and available will be a big decision to make.

When your kids are at stake, the worst thing you can do is to make impulse decisions, driven by preferences such as color and appearance of a product, over specific features and benefits.

It may also have influenced decision making by people who took part in and staked their reputation on victory in the Sino - Japanese war, and who saw events in Korea as a challenge to the new regime.

The online RefuseCommonCore.com website offers New Yorkers the ability to write a message directly to the Governor to respect the rights of parents to make important decisions on the educational future of their children and enable parents to have their children refuse to take the high stakes Common Core - based standardized tests.

«Raising the stakes on tax avoidance», a consultation document published by HM Revenue and Customs, sets out a number of proposals relating to the promotion and use of so - called high - risk avoidance schemes, aimed at reducing the use of such schemes.1 Commenting, CIOT President Stephen Coleclough said: «Those members of the public who become end users of high risk avoidance schemes are sometimes misled by the promoters of such schemes and are not fully made aware of the risks or consequences of their decisions.

«The leadership has clearly heard the concerned parents and educators who support high standards but know that a moratorium on the use of standardized tests in high - stakes decisions is essential until the State Education Department makes major corrections to its failed implementation plan,» president Richard Iannuzzi said in the statement.

The organization aims to reduce or eliminate the use of high stakes testing, increase teacher autonomy in the classroom and work to include teacher and family voices in legislative decision - making processes that affect students.

Some donors voluntarily disclosed their involvement — and just about all of them, gambling and real estate interests in particular, had business before the state, and millions upon millions of dollars at stake in the decisions Cuomo made.

But it calls for a delay in using the test results to make high - stakes decisions about students, teachers or schools.

But for industry and policymakers who make sweeping decisions that affect the environment — such as whether to drill for oil on protected lands or build new nuclear power plants — the financial stakes, potential consequences, and complexity of the choices defy a simple weighing of pros and cons.

They fly in supersonic, two - seat T - 38N jets to practice making high - speed, high - stakes decisions.

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Proactive and confident in making decisions on new actions and in communicating persuasively and objectively to all stake - holders

This story should be about Graham's fear that she may make the wrong decision — for her business or for the state of journalism as a whole — but the stakes don't always feel right.

With the lives of her friends at stake, Tris makes a decision that will have ramifications for all the people she loves and will take her deep into enemy territory to face her fate.

In this film and its predecessor, the stakes aren't as high as in the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the plot isn't as compelling but both issues seem inevitable with the decision to make this story into three films.

States should use the flexibility provided by ESSA to increase transparency so that parents, teachers, and everyone who has a stake in education will have the information they need to make decisions that help students excel.

«It's not like we can avoid making high - stakes decisions about teachers,» [Professor Tom Kane] said.

But with some $ 500 billion per year — the sum total of all our K - 12 education spending in this country — at stake, and with politicians» hands on all the levers, you can be pretty certain the decision will not be made by those whose field of expertise is learning.

For example, although the schools CMU chartered were required by law to administer the state testing system, the Michigan Educational Assessment Program or MEAP, the results were wholly inadequate for making high - stakes decisions like closing schools.

Upgrading assessments to make them more suitable for use in high - stakes decisions, such as by lessening the focus on multiple - choice questions, likely entails increased costs (especially for scoring).

In 2014, the American Statistical Association (PDF), the National Association of Secondary School Principals, and researchers Morgan Polikoff and Andrew Porter expressed concerns about the use of VAMs when making high - stakes employment decisions about teachers.