Sentences with phrase «tested by the evaluation»

The most recent findings from the study as reported a few weeks ago are based on the full original sample of children as randomized to treatment and control conditions at the outset of the study rather than the previously studied subsample of children whose parents gave permission for follow - up testing by the evaluation team.

Not exact matches

As judged by a third party test, when possible, or using one's own evaluation technique when not possible.

Odds are, each of these executives at some point underwent a leadership evaluation — a combination of interviews and psychometric tests, typically conducted by industrial - organizational psychologists, to gauge candidates» behavioural, cognitive and personality traits.

The recruiters confessed that while they employed various metrics in their evaluations — psychometric testing, for example — by necessity, headhunting isn't an objective process.

In particular, we must perform system and process evaluation and testing of our internal control over financial reporting to allow management and, to the extent that we are no longer an «emerging growth company» as defined in the JOBS Act, our independent registered public accounting firm to report on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, as required by Section 404 of the Sarbanes - Oxley Act.

Then, a stock under consideration is stress - tested by Mauldin Economics» proprietary Equity Evaluation System (EES), which measures more than 100 qualitative and quantitative factors.

Because the test is simple, quick and easy to administer, not just by athletic trainers or health care professionals but parents and coaches, it may have particular value in sideline screening for concussion at the youth level, where immediate evaluation for head trauma by a trained professional is often not possible.

by three months of age, «appropriate audiological and medical evaluations» be done for babies who continue to fail their hearing tests

Now since the CPM does not have the equipment to do all the necessary evaluations... blood tests, ultrasound, etc. to establish if there is a «medical reason» we decided that it would be best to be co-managed by our OB.

(If your child can't say at least two words by now, be sure to mention it to her caregiver at her next well - child visit; your caregiver may wish to test her hearing or have a speech pathologist do an evaluation.)

For the purposes of this economic evaluation, the forms were initially used in a related study funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) research for patient benefit programme «assessing the impact of a new birth centre on choice and outcome of maternity care in an inner city area,» which will be reported in full elsewhere, comparing the costs of care in a free standing midwifery unit with care in an obstetric unit in the same trust.16 The data collected included details of staffing levels, treatments, surgeries, diagnostic imaging tests, scans, drugs, and other resource inputs associated with each stage of the pathway through intrapartum and after birth care.

This is a multiple choice and true / false standardized test used widely in egg donation evaluations by agencies and clinics.

These children should be exposed to peanuts earliest, between 4 and 6 months, but they should first be referred to a specialist to perform an evaluation by blood test, skin prick or oral food challenge.

Lawmakers last year agreed to linking Common Core - based testing to the results of teacher performance evaluations, a measure that was sought by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and linked to a boost in school aid.

The vote came a few months after the state's teachers unions, closely aligned with the Assembly, claimed a victory in December when the Regents, prompted by the governor and Legislative leaders, placed a moratorium on the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations.

Dr. Rosa's election is an indication of how much both politicians and the public have turned against the policies promoted by Dr. Tisch, including the evaluation of teachers on the basis of state test scores.

With the problems with the Pearson tests, the state's bogus VAM (value added measure), the setting of cut scores, and now the data being undermined by opt out no school district should have to pay the legal fees to try to fire someone under Cuomo's silly evaluation system!

The letter, written by a top Cuomo aide, says the student test scores are «unacceptable,» and asks Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch and outgoing Education Commissioner John King what to do about an evaluation system that rates just 1 percent of all of the teachers in the state as poorly performing.

At least going by his rhetoric, he seems to have almost declared war on the teacher unions and he has proposed a new system of evaluation, which is more heavily based on students» tests scores than the one currently in use.

But they had their revenge on the governor, undermining the new evaluation system by convincing thousands of parents to have their kids opt out of the tests — and the union's accompanying advertising campaign inflicted real damage on Mr. Cuomo's approval ratings, forcing him to drop some of his harsher rhetoric and tactics on public school teachers.

While he has protected and promoted the growth of charter schools, other aspects of his education policy have not gone as planned - these include the rollout of the common core learning standards and tougher teacher evaluations by tying them more closely to the results of student standardized test scores.

The vote — an abrupt about - face in policies pushed by Cuomo and the Regents in recent years — was the latest in a series of state responses to rising public opposition against Albany's direction on school curricula, testing and educator evaluations.

The notion was backed up by the American Statistical Association, which previously said the formula the state uses to calculate student growth based on test scores should not be used in teacher evaluations.

The testing question also figures prominently into the debate over teacher performance evaluations, as the governor has proposed making state test results 50 percent — instead of the current 40 percent — of the evaluation system, a move that is strongly opposed by the teachers unions that are closely allied with the Assembly Democrats.

The union's concerns stem from, in part, the linking of teacher performance evaluations to test performance and the new emphasis placed on classroom testing by the state.

After achieving the passage of a new evaluation system that will rely on a mix on at least one standardized test and in - classroom observation, the governor is renewing his focus to areas NYSUT has opposed, including a lifting of the cap on charter schools and a $ 150 million education investment tax credit, which is strongly backed by private and parochial schools.

Wednesday's decision states that although 40 percent of a teacher's evaluation can still be based on test scores, half of those tests must be chosen by local school districts through collective bargaining with their union.

The move comes after NYSUT pushed back this year against efforts by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to overhaul the state's teacher evaluation system, with the performance evaluations linked to both standardized test results and in - classroom observation, while also making it more difficult for teachers to obtain and keep tenure.

Cuomo's task force on academic standards and testing expects to hand in its much anticipated report this month, amid a continuing push by teachers unions to end the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations.

Fred LeBrun on Cuomo's reported about face on linking test results with teacher evaluations: «If what we're being told is true, this reversal by the governor would be a long overdue triumph of common sense over ideological idiocy.

«We have to deal with the issue of the effect of Common Core testing on teacher evaluations,» Cuomo said Tuesday at a news conference on the state budget, referring to the tougher curriculum standards adopted by the state that produced sharply lower scores on standardized tests in New York last year.

Cuomo's Common Core Overhaul: A task force created by Governor Andrew Cuomo issued a report Thursday which found that the state made a number of mistakes in its implementation of Common Core learning standards and recommended reducing the tendency to «teach to a test,» giving shorter tests, and not linking test results to teacher evaluations until the 2018 - 2019 school year.

Cuomo, asked by a reporter why he decided to reverse his stance and delink the tests from the teacher evaluation, said that's an incorrect characterization.

Charter school leader Deborah Kenny's op - ed in today's The New York Times argues against the move by many states toward teacher evaluations based on multiple measures, including both student progress on achievement tests and the reviews of principals.

The evaluation system pushed by Cuomo as part of this 2010 re-election campaign devotes half of a teacher's evaluation on their students» performance on standardized test scores that teacher unions argue is a poor measure of a teacher's ability.

Betty Rosa, the Regents chancellor and a former New York City school administrator, noted the current evaluation law has created a situation under which teachers in fields not covered by state tests, such as physical education, often find themselves rated on the basis of student achievement in areas that are tested, such as English and math.

The group called Westhill Elementary Schools Together, or «WEST,» is concerned about the way the tests are constructed and potentially used by the state in connection with teacher evaluations.

Spring says teachers» evaluations should not be determined by how students perform on state tests.

The debates over standardized testing, teacher evaluations and opting out of the tests by students with the backing of their parents were all renewed recently as New York released the results of the math and English language exams for grades three through eight.

Obama signed «Every Student Succeeds,» a new bipartisan education bill that scraps the program by giving states more power to decide testing and teacher evaluations.

Cuomo's ambitious education reform proposals include raising the charter cap by 100 slots, weighing standardized tests more heavily in teacher evaluations and linking evaluations with tenure awards, among other reforms.

«If it's what I think it is, one side down the matrix is still one test... and the other side is performance evaluation by the school district,» she said.

A new, controversial evaluation system, backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, was put in place last legislative session which, through a matrix model, increased the weight of student state test scores in evaluations to up to 50 percent.

State Senator Ken LaValle (R - Port Jefferson) has asked local superintendents to meet with their school's community members — including parents, students, teachers, and PTAs — to organize their comments and questions relating to Common Core, teacher evaluations, standardized testing and student privacy, and submit them to his office by last Thursday.

They also agreed then the new evaluations would be based 20 percent on state tests and 60 percent on teacher evaluations — but had left the remaining details up in the air, to be decided by Dec. 31.

He added that Cuomo called for an education reboot because parents sent a «clear statement» they were troubled by having their kids opt out of the state tests that were to be tied to the teacher evaluations.

The governor's Common Core Task Force unveiled the plan in its final report, which recommends a moratorium on linking teacher evaluations to student test scores until the 2019 - 20 school year in order to «avoid the errors caused by the prior flawed implementation,» according to an official press release.

My proposed reforms to the evaluation system reduce the amount of testing by eliminating the existing local component of the system that leads to more testing.

«Teacher evaluation law, which is a legislative issue, by the way, and the testing, you are going to have to have testing to measure progress of students period.»

Over the last several months, discussions of the Common Core State Standards have been eclipsed by the public's reaction to major issues which have arisen in their implementation — issues such as declining student test scores, and the role of such test scores in teacher evaluations, evaluations mandated if a state was to receive its share of federal money from the «Race to the Top» funds.