Sentences with phrase «standard measure of quality»

Yet the standard measure of quality today, the teaching credential or license, is no sign of quality.

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Rating service Moody's tracks covenant quality, essentially a measure of standards that bond issuers must meet, and reported Thursday that the latest reading remains near record highs, which indicates weak restrictions.

There are a substantial number of quality checks at every stage, and once we have final approval from the sampling room the product in the bottling vat is then passed through an inert food grade filter as a safety measure to ensure that our product meets the most demanding standards.»

Along with Jourova's comments, in which she requested food makers stop the practice and to increase quality standards, the Visegrad Group called on further and detailed examination of the problem, asking for «concrete» and «strong» measures.

As an industry leader in quality, food safety, and animal well - being, the company employs numerous processes to ensure the health of flocks and implements recognized prevention measures to exceed food safety standards.

Measuring a city's quality of life — its happiness, essentially — is nigh impossible, and attempts by some teams wouldn't pass the loosest standards test.

So, with that all in mind, my questions to you would be: which aspects of the Codex standard on infant formula require strengthening and which measures would you recommend for improving the safety and quality of infant formula?

She added that other measures were also needed to ensure that older people's welfare remained a top political priority, such as improving the standards of care services and action to enhance the quality of life for the 500,000 people in residential care homes.

Additionally, due to other medical issues or poor performance status (a measure that considers a patient's quality of life and ability to function during treatment), some stage III NSCLC patients are unable to receive the standard treatment of concurrent chemotherapy and RT..

Additionally, the device has an unlimited free - spectral range, meaning it can operate over any range of frequencies, and shows excellent performance metrics in other standard measures of filter quality, including very low insertion loss and in - band ripples, low crosstalk and small delay variation.

Such comprehensive improvements would cost an estimated $ 96 billion, according to the model, but could reduce HIV incidence in the U.S. by 54 percent and the mortality rate by 64 percent, at a cost - effectiveness ratio of $ 45,300 per quality - adjusted life year, or QALY, a standard economic measure of the value of a medical intervention.

They then used the standard UK measurement of Quality - Adjusted Life Years (QALYs)-- a combined measure of quantity and quality of life — to assess how sick measles made peoplQuality - Adjusted Life Years (QALYs)-- a combined measure of quantity and quality of life — to assess how sick measles made peoplquality of life — to assess how sick measles made people feel.

A design value is the three - year average of pollution concentrations measured at each monitoring location and is used to determine whether a county is in attainment with federal air quality standards.

National Quality Forum (NQF) is a nonprofit organization that operates to improve the quality of American healthcare by building consensus on national priorities and goals for performance improvement and working in partnership to achieve them; endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance; and promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach prQuality Forum (NQF) is a nonprofit organization that operates to improve the quality of American healthcare by building consensus on national priorities and goals for performance improvement and working in partnership to achieve them; endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance; and promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach prquality of American healthcare by building consensus on national priorities and goals for performance improvement and working in partnership to achieve them; endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance; and promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach programs.

Kansai President Shigeki Iwane was cited by the Kyodo news agency as telling Fukui Governor Issei Nishikawa, «The decision we made is the result of giving priority to securing the safety and quality [of the reactors] after considering measures to meet new safety standards.»

It's a measure of the quality of the music in «Whiplash» that we were originally going to earmark the film for our Soundtracks list (coming next week), so sure we were that director Damien Chazelle had mostly used old jazz standards to punctuate his thrilling film.

Their peers» average test scores are about 0.15 standard deviations higher, and the new schools have higher - quality teachers, measured in terms of the fraction of teachers with less than three years» experience, the fraction that are new to the school that year, the percentage of teachers with an advanced degree, and the share of teachers who attended a «highly competitive» college as defined by the Barron's rankings.

He believes that raising standards and measuring progress with tests is at the heart of improving the quality of education.

High - school lottery winners in the high - risk group and all middle - school lottery winners experience modest increases in standard measures of school quality.

That system is based on a variety of measures: results from teacher - certification tests; graduates» ratings of their satisfaction with their programs; and the ratings of graduates» mentor teachers on the quality of the programs in preparing novices according to state standards for teachers.

Kamras: A quality teacher, in my view, is someone who: 1) knows his / her subject matter with great proficiency; 2) has the demonstrated capacity — as measured by quantifiable student achievement — to share that knowledge with children; 3) holds all children, regardless of background, to the highest of standards of excellence; 4) leads by taking full responsibility for his / her students» achievement; and 5) inspires students to pursue dreams they never imagined.

It should be clear that the standards NCATE uses to evaluate teacher - training programs are primarily input - driven: the main measures of a program's quality are such things as the degrees held by faculty, program resources, and curricular content.

The quality of standards and tests is uneven; the tests are often not aligned with the standards they claim to measure.

With each percentage point improvement in measured teacher quality, a faculty member is 0.037 percentile points higher in the h - index ranking (standard error of 0.108), implying a difference in the h - index distribution of only two percentile points between the 25th and 75th percentile teachers.

Further, as with program quality, the standard measures of teacher quality (degrees, experience) are not reliable proxies for what teachers do in the classroom.

Assessing the Common Core Standards: Opportunities for Improving Measures of Instruction Educational Researcher, May 2011 Responding to comments on their «Common Core Standards: The New U.S. Intended Curriculum,» the authors suggest additional perspective that should be considered when addressing quality and change, stating additional conceptualizations of mathematics and English language arts content as well as how to define and measure alignment among content standards, materials, assessments, and instruction should be explored.

In a national report that measures access, quality and investment in public preschool programs, California ranks high for the number of 3 - year - olds and 4 - year - olds enrolled in programs, but low on quality standards.

The Professional Development Task Force, convened by state schools Superintendent Delaine Eastin, concluded that many students will not be able to measure up to new academic standards if the state doesn't focus more on the quality of the teaching corps.

To help encourage a more even flow of posts, I inserted a timeliness grading system into a standard discussion grading rubric that also measured other aspects of posts, such as quality, courtesy, and freedom from errors.

It also bolsters our argument that it is high grading standards rather than some unobserved measure of teacher quality that is responsible for the positive effects on students» performance gains.

This program uses four types of quizzes (reading practice, vocabulary practice, literacy skills, textbook quizzes) to assess students» daily progress, measuring the quality, quantity, and level of difficulty they are reading using the Advantage TASA Open Standard, a readability formula that provides reading levels based on the entire contents of books.

Getz, who was one of 50 principals who signed a letter to New York Education Commission John King citing concerns about the quality of the spring 2013 assessments, hopes policymakers will acknowledge that standardized test scores are imperfect measures of what students are supposed to learn under the new standards.

Along with creating and sharing quality examples of standards - based learning and teaching, the secondary goal of this project is to demonstrate how theatre educators — classroom teachers and teaching artists alike — can measure the effectiveness of their teaching and the learning of students.»

What evolved was a measurement framework that based its assessment of school quality on students» performance on only a single assessment (an invalid standard for measuring student progress) and mandated a series of wide - ranging sanctions that did not prove to significantly improve student or school performance.

We should remember that there is no correlation between the quality of state standards (as measured by any of three different organizations — Fordham Institute, the American Federation of Teachers and Education Week) and scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

These include: · Use of instructional programs and curricula that support state and district standards and of high quality testing systems that accurately measure achievement of the standards through a variety of measurement techniques · Professional development to prepare all teachers to teach to the standards · Commitment to providing remedial help to children who need it and sufficient resources for schools to meet the standards · Better communication to school staff, students, parents and the community about the content, purposes and consequences of standards · Alignment of standards, assessment and curricula, coupled with appropriate incentives for students and schools that meet the standards In the unlikely event that all of these efforts, including a change in school leadership, fail over a 3 - year period to «turn the school around,» drastic action is required.

New standards have been added for testing theory, describing interventions, measuring the quality of implementation, documenting adaptations in the field, reporting study results, and evaluating outcomes of scale - up efforts.

In No Small Change: Targeting Money Toward Student Performance, researchers analyze more than 100 variables before they grade states from A to F on four major categories: the rigor and clarity of the state's standards in core subjects; its efforts to improve teacher quality; its school climate as measured by absenteeism, school safety, parental involvement, character education, and other variables; and the extent to which it provides resources equitably.

Experienced teachers who meet or exceed standards of teacher quality may also qualify for tenure, which provides an added measure of job security.

The descriptions of classroom quality available in standardized classroom observation systems provide a standard way of measuring and noting teachers» strengths and weaknesses and evaluating whether policy initiatives or professional development activities are actually helping improve classroom interactions.

The panelists — including Arkansas's Fort Smith Public Schools Superintendent Benny Goodman and the National Center for Learning Disabilities's Laura Kaloi — also advocated for using multiple assessment measures to judge school quality, adding more flexibility for improving low - performing schools, maintaining a focus on holding schools accountable for the performance of student subgroups, tracking student growth, and ensuring states set high standards.

High - quality assessments reliably measure students» progress toward the mastery of learning standards.

We started by creating performance standards in each subject area to delineate what quality tasks — tasks that are authentic to the discipline, require transfer of learning, and incorporate 21st century skills — should measure.

But accountability simply means that states are responsible not only for adequate inputs like sufficient funding, ambitious course content standard, and high - quality instruction, but also for outputs like accurate measures of student learning and teacher effectiveness.

The quality of preschool education is typically measured by two standards: structure and process.

Develop and apply quality - monitoring systems with the appropriate language, protocols, standards, and measures (of processes, student outcomes, and implementation outcomes).

Develop outcome - oriented performance metrics that will be utilized to measure the impact of the professional learning in areas such as standards - based, data - driven, and differentiated instruction, equitable access to high - quality instruction, cultural competence, subject - and content - specific issues, and the effective leveraging of resources to address equity and excellence.

Class Measures seeks to improve standards of student achievement by providing innovative tools that increase the accessibility, range, and quality of education opportunities.

Obama has joined the three presidents preceding him in favoring a far different policy of school improvement than that epitomized by Title I. Instead of additional dollars for extra services for children, the creation of academic standards and tests to measure achievement is seen as the way to increase the quality of American schools, especially that of schools with concentrations of low - income children.

The 2016 edition of Education Week's Quality Counts report — Called to Account: New Directions in School Accountability - released January 2016 - examined the role the most recent state and federal strategies have in helping schools meet academic standards as well as role these strategies have in implementing accountability measures: