Sentences with phrase «systems for observers»

This is the second in a series of posts supporting district leaders in building strong calibration systems for observers who support teacher growth, including school leaders and coaches.

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Because the amount of bad debt in each period is almost certainly a growing number, it must follow logically that the GDP growth number observers really want, rather than the one they have — that is, GDP growth as a systems output that can serve as a proxy for debt - servicing capacity — is a declining number, and perhaps even a quickly declining number.

Acknowledging that the American system of advanced learning, with its openness, diversity, freedom from suffocating ideology and unmatched vitality, is the envy of the world, Boyer, through extensive research, nevertheless confirms what every informed observer already knows: «the undergraduate college, the very heart of higher learning, is a troubled institution» (p. 2) One's first thought is, Here comes ammunition for the next barrage by William Bennett!

Observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe will monitor the elections, which will return to a mixed electoral system last used in Russia's 2003 federal elections.

«The judicial process, the judicial system of Kenya and the election laws themselves make full and adequate provision for accountability in this election,» said Kerry, an election observer for the Carter Center.

Government observers and watchdog groups have called for oversight of the city and state university systems to be expanded under the state Comptroller, not the Inspector General, including certain contract oversight powers that were stripped by Cuomo and the Legislature in 2011.

The message rings as spin to a number of expert observers who insist Cuomo has long overseen a system that allows, at the very least, for the appearance of pay - to - play to flourish as mini-economies have popped up around the state where connected consultants work with both state government entities and those looking to win state contracts, and where the state funnels money through non-profits, allowing them to avoid scrutiny and standard state contracting procedures.

Even though we all applauded the decision to go biometric in the last two elections, every objective observer knew we have already collected biometric details of citizens for the following purposes: national passports, the e-Zwich payments platform and the national identification system.

We expect that human observers will be able to continue to perform this task for a few years to come, but eventually we will have to refine existing techniques and develop new computational methods that can detect fine - grained image details that may not be identifiable by the human visual system.»

AN automated system for gathering meteorological data for the US National Weather Service, which is intended to replace hundreds of human observers, can not cope with the wrong kind of weather.

Some observers view the yuanshi system as a hindrance to Chinese science and have called for abolishing it all together.

Please use the GBT Dynamic Scheduling System (DSS) to enable observing sessions, select observers for your project, and enter your blackout dates.

Discovery of the system's extraordinary properties was made by a team of astronomers from Vanderbilt and Harvard with the assistance of colleagues at Lehigh, Ohio State and Pennsylvania State universities, Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network and the American Association of Variable Star Observers and is described in a paper accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal.

The main goal of the conference will be to further develop effective strategies for a sustained, multidisciplinary and integrated ocean observing system, and to better connect user communities and observers.

Within a system, each facility will inevitably have its own particular capabilities, and U.S. observers should, in principle, be able to apply for observing time with the instrument best suited to the problem at hand.

For a system of two or more particles, none of the particles are required be at rest with respect to the observer for the system as a whole to be at rest with respect to the observFor a system of two or more particles, none of the particles are required be at rest with respect to the observer for the system as a whole to be at rest with respect to the observfor the system as a whole to be at rest with respect to the observer.

In ALMA observations, observers do not have to go to the site and operate the system for themselves because operations are carried out by specialized operators and the obtained data are processed by another expert team.

But observers in St. Paul believe two recent developments may create a favorable climate for the concept: the U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the state's 25 - year - old system of income - tax deductions for expenses incurred by families with children in private and public schools, and the endorsement of a generalized voucher...

As a result, it has been difficult for observers to determine which factor or group of factors was most responsible for these gains: a revised and strengthened licensing system; revised or new licensure tests; the use of first - rate standards in most classrooms, in annual state student tests, and in the professional development programs all teachers took for license renewal; and / or the major changes in K - 12 governance and finance introduced by the Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993.

Some observers wonder whether Broad's expectations for urban systems, including Los Angeles Unified, have been realistic.

For an observer to consistently identify use of specific strategies as well «rate» the use of those strategies and provide accurate feedback to teachers, the observer must participate in a system that promotes growth of practice.

Learning Sciences International supports states and districts with exclusive implementation and redevelopment services on Dr. Marzano's Causal Evaluation Model including training evaluators with high degrees of observer accuracy and inter-rater reliability and offering the iObservation companion data system for data collection, classroom observation, professional development, feedback to teachers, and final evaluation.

Some observation systems on the market are prescriptive about how teachers should meet the standards — requiring observers to monitor whether teachers require students to do a quiz at the end of a lesson, for example.

A 2010 study on a pilot system in Chicago found, for instance, that when using the high end of the scale, principals often inflated their ratings compared to other observers, in part because of cultural expectations.

Promoting Growth of Practice For an observer to consistently identify a teacher's use of specific strategies as well as to «rate» a teacher's use of those strategies and provide accurate feedback, the observer must participate in a system that promotes growth of practice.

They include Kai - ming Cheng, a professor at Hong Kong University who has been a member of the Hong Kong Education Commission, is intimately familiar with the Shanghai reforms and was recently appointed to the China State Advisory Committee on Curriculum Reform; Tom Corcoran, Co-director of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education at Columbia University and an early observer of the work of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission; Ben Jensen, a principal at the Grattan Institute in Melbourne, Australia, whose research on several aspects of the Shanghai system have drawn the notice of many observers; Vivien Stewart, Senior Advisor to Asia Society for education, and earlier, to the United Nations, who has been visiting, observing and leading delegations to China for more than a decade; and Minxuan Zhang, President of Shanghai Normal University and deputy director of the Shanghai Education Commission.

One of the foundations of an effective teacher evaluation system is for observers to be calibrated in the feedback they are giving to teachers.

These comments from observers at the 2001 Learning Record Inter-Site moderation illustrate some benefits of the Learning Record Assessment System (LR), now slated for use in 35 schools across the U.S. in 2001 - 2.

With the right systems in place, districts get good data on the accuracy of observations so they can provide differentiated support for observers.

Overall, retail industry observers and healthcare professionals agree that the next couple of years will be pivotal, setting the stage for how the entire system will evolve over the next decade.

Monthly plots contain important information about system variability, which may improve confidence and acceptance for intelligent lay observers.

It is something that has been known about for years and is actually expected in the messy data gathering process of volunteer observers, electronic systems that don't always report, and equipment and or sensor failures.

Some observers have worried that the EPA won't be able to pursue this route because courts have struck down agency - mandated cap - and - trade systems for other pollutants.

In order to prepare rising lawyers for their probable transnational role, law schools must bring a more global dimension into legal education.14 Some observers see this step as comparable in its portent for legal education to the movement away from state - based legal instruction and toward a national perspective that spread through American legal education following World War II.15 Whatever the strength of that comparison, the advocates of globalization envision a future in which the practice of law is not limited by national borders or confined to a single national legal system.

But let's say, for hypothetical purposes, that we did come up with an affordable and practical articling system, one that could satisfy outside observers that new lawyers are competent to practise law.

For example, some observers took to the subreddit to decry cash advance fees as yet another injustice of the traditional financial system, and the customer who received the $ 50 in bitcoin said that he was pleased with the beta test thus far.

... A potential example of Blockchain implementation for energy systems would be envisioning nodes within sensor networks as «observers» and the relevant «transactions» as command signals to actuators.