Sentences with phrase «term measures of effectiveness»

These pioneering studies are sobering, albeit limited both by their focus on «marginal» students (those barely over and just under the schools» entry - score cutoffs) and by their reliance on short - term measures of effectiveness.

Not exact matches

to provoke a condescending predictable response and maybe use a question about how their marketing department is planning on measuring the effectiveness of the operation in ROI terms... and comparative publicity costs etc..

As a public - health intervention, immunisation is already widely seen as one of public health's «best buys», but by measuring the effectiveness in terms of lives saved, it seems likely that we are undervaluing the benefits and the return on investment they offer.

He added: «Truly naive human ES cell lines would not only help answer fundamental questions about how we are made, and be useful for drug screening and tissue therapy, but they would also provide a benchmark against which other types of stem cells could be measured in terms of their effectiveness in stem cell therapy and regenerative medicine.»

By way of comparison, the authors note that the impact of being assigned to a teacher in the top - quartile rather than one in the bottom quartile in terms of their total effect on student achievement as measured by student - test - based measures of teacher effectiveness is seven percentile points in reading and six points in math.

In terms of measuring individual school / district effectiveness, there are some measures that could reduce the test burden including the use of sampling strategies.

Artificial inflation is a term I recently coined to represent what is / was happening in Houston, and elsewhere (e.g., Tennessee), when district leaders (e.g., superintendents) mandate or force principals and other teacher effectiveness appraisers or evaluators to align their observational ratings of teachers» effectiveness with teachers» value - added scores, with the latter being (sometimes relentlessly) considered the «objective measure» around which all other measures (e.g., subjective observational measures) should revolve, or align.

That second finding, in particular, will have a positive impact if it prompts school districts to clearly define what teacher effectiveness looks like and to measure professional development programs in terms of how they help teachers get closer to that goal.

I recommend this article to you all in that it's pretty much right on in terms of using «multiple measures» to measure pretty much anything educational these days, including teacher effectiveness.

And because that performance isn't measured, in fact it's ignored, the most important factor in the schools in terms of advancing children which is the effectiveness of teachers has basically gone untouched and that's the problem that the so called education reformers are trying to fix.»

There is great value in having more autonomy and accountability at the state level, and in many ways California has been ahead of this curve in terms of a strong statewide approach that focuses on local control and multiple measures of effectiveness.

[11] If carefully developed and thoroughly evaluated, such long - term measures could help give schools and districts a richer picture of teacher effectiveness.

We also need to better understand which skills lead to better long - term outcomes and to determine how best to measure those skills so that value - added can provide the most meaningful measure of a teachers» effectiveness.

He made five overarching points: that's it's possible to implement measures of teacher effectiveness, that LA Unified has a higher ratio of ineffective teachers than school districts studied by other researchers, that a disproportionate number of ineffective teachers in LA Unified serve Latino and African American students, that effective teachers have a causal effect on student achievement and that teachers have long - term impacts not only on student achievement but also lifetime earnings.

CreditUmbrella measures its effectiveness in terms of how much money users are able to save on interests by using the software to achieve a higher credit score.

The objective was to dramatically increase the «live release rate,» which is the standard many shelters use to measure their effectiveness in terms of reuniting pets with owners, having them adopted to new homes, or transferring them to rescue groups.

Effectiveness, in a work of art, is never to be measured in terms of honesty or accuracy or up - to - dateness — only by the power of the preserved fiction to put up - to - dateness back into the bruising flow of time.

The study also entails assessment of the effectiveness of climate adaptation measures in physical and economic terms, with case studies for Amsterdam, Brussels, Budapest, Helsinki and Toulouse.

This package includes the «next - best» measures in terms of cost - effectiveness and political acceptability, and focuses much more than the basic package on non-energy greenhouse gases.

Reliable GHG inventories are essential, both at national and international level, for: assessing the international community's collective and individual efforts to address climate change and progress toward meeting the ultimate objective of the Convention; evaluating mitigation options; assessing the effectiveness of policies and measures; making long - term emission projections; providing the foundation for emission trading schemes.

The rationale is set out in pragmatic terms in Ursula Becker v Finanzamt Münster - Innenstadt [1982] CJEU (Case 8/81) as follows: `... in cases in which the Community authorities have, by means of a directive, placed Member States under a duty to adopt a certain course of action, the effectiveness of such a measure would be diminished if persons were prevented from relying upon it in proceedings before a court....»

According to Bloomberg, public tumult is on its way to pushing for the enhancement of enforcement measures against tax avoidance, but political establishments will remain eroded in terms of credibility and effectiveness.

And you can measure the effectiveness of the site by how it impresses those you seek to impress, by its long - term impact.

Implemented standards and methods to measure the effectiveness of Long Term Care Organizations in MD..

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This article presents the main outcome findings from two inter-related randomized trials conducted at 4 sites to evaluate the effectiveness of 5 short - term outpatient interventions for adolescents with cannabis use disorders.

Existing research on the effectiveness of early childhood programs largely focuses on short - term academic gains when it is long - term benefits that provide a more relevant measure of value.

In all her projects, she measures success in terms of usability, design, and effectiveness.