Sentences with phrase «tests as a metric»

The mayor has long criticized using standardized testing as a metric for school performance, even as he has cited rising results in his appeals to Albany for a continuation of mayoral control of the system.

Strategies 6 and 7 clearly undermine the effectiveness of tests as a metric of learning, and hurt students in the process.

Not exact matches

«We hire people on the basis of metrics — personality and culture tests as well as skills and values assessments — to determine if they are a good fit for our vision.

Important factors that could cause our actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those indicated in the forward - looking statements include, among others, the following: our ability to successfully and profitably market our products and services; the acceptance of our products and services by patients and healthcare providers; our ability to meet demand for our products and services; the willingness of health insurance companies and other payers to cover Cologuard and adequately reimburse us for our performance of the Cologuard test; the amount and nature of competition from other cancer screening and diagnostic products and services; the effects of the adoption, modification or repeal of any healthcare reform law, rule, order, interpretation or policy; the effects of changes in pricing, coverage and reimbursement for our products and services, including without limitation as a result of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014; recommendations, guidelines and quality metrics issued by various organizations such as the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the American Cancer Society, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance regarding cancer screening or our products and services; our ability to successfully develop new products and services; our success establishing and maintaining collaborative, licensing and supplier arrangements; our ability to maintain regulatory approvals and comply with applicable regulations; and the other risks and uncertainties described in the Risk Factors and in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations sections of our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and our subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10 - Q.

Instead of the traditional A / B testing, retention optimization uses metrics such as user testing, customer surveys, and other customer - focused data.

As the Twitter timeline algorithm has helped to increase Twitter's key metrics, it's likely that Twitter will continue to test new ideas with its timeline1Slate, 2017.

Hi Bran, thanks for your comment!To answer your question, marketing automation would help with aspects such as segmentation, measuring metrics, A / B testing, and even some aspects of creating email funnels.

The Hagg one is pretty damning to me, as his shot metrics pretty much stayed the same all season (the eye test saw no change either), but as soon as he got unlucky and the puck was going in the net he couldn't crack the lineup once he was healthy again.

Additionally, hardly any of the social media metrics we tested were filtered by state and volume was low — as a TweetReach analyst told Dave Copeland of ReadWriteWeb.com, «We track more tweets in an hour about a single TV show than we have in five days about all nine candidates.»

But that metric lost its efficiency as the opt - out movement grew in 2016, with parents keeping their children from taking the tests altogether.

Testing both the microwave and laser systems will require gargantuan structures in space: thin - film condenser mirrors, solar panels and a microwave transmitter stretching for kilometers and weighing 10,000 metric tons, as well as a 100 - unit laser array of 5,000 metric tons that would be 10 kilometers long.

The test battery consisted of commonly used metrics such as rotarod, open field and more complex proprietary algorithm - based behavioral platforms such as NeuroCube ® and SmartCube ®.

The test battery consisted of commonly used metrics such as fore - and hind - limb grip strength, rotarod, open field and more complex proprietary algorithm - based behavioral platforms such as NeuroCube ® and SmartCube ®.

FAT MAX is the metric that specifically gets at what your MAF HR should be; metabolically nonspecific tests such as VO2 MAX don't get at this number.

While Paktor doesn't have a premium membership, it has tested features such as gifting, search base on premium metrics, and contacting «top» users on each country's leaderboard.

It is required to report whatever metrics its state chooses not only for all its tested grades (3 - 5), but also for a number of distinct «subgroups» including those defined by race / ethnicity, as long as there are more students in each subgroup than the minimum n - size the state has chosen.

The federally subsidized tests aligned to Common Core and developed by the SBAC and PARCC consortia were intended as the rigorous metrics for this stronger accountability regime (see «The Politics of the Common Core Assessments,» features, Fall 2016).

Now Kuder is working with Boston educators on designing a metric to help drive instruction that uses data in addition to results from the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, known as the MCAS, which has tests taken in March, with results not available until six months later in September.

As policymakers consider the design, expansion, or reform of private school choice programs, they should carefully examine not just a program's likely impact on short - term metrics such as test scores, but also how it might shape long - term outcomes, including college enrollment and graduatioAs policymakers consider the design, expansion, or reform of private school choice programs, they should carefully examine not just a program's likely impact on short - term metrics such as test scores, but also how it might shape long - term outcomes, including college enrollment and graduatioas test scores, but also how it might shape long - term outcomes, including college enrollment and graduation.

[52] Likewise, a comprehensive study of families participating in Washington, DC's private school choice program found that «parents do not view test scores as the key metric of success in education.»

Every other potential quality metric tested in this survey far surpasses testing as a measure of school quality: having extracurricular activities, art and music classes, advanced academic classes, technology and engineering classes, and efforts to develop students» interpersonal skills.

As a result, college readiness continues to be defined primarily in terms of high school courses taken and grades received, along with scores on national tests, as its primary metricAs a result, college readiness continues to be defined primarily in terms of high school courses taken and grades received, along with scores on national tests, as its primary metricas its primary metrics.

Michael Soskil: We need a shift in focus from accountability measures based on standardized test scores toward metrics that take into account universal access to quality teachers and learning environments, robust curricula that include the arts, as well as student engagement and well - being.

But as part of the mayor's plan to «lower the stakes on testing,» the de Blasio administration replaced the report cards with a «School Quality Report» system, which is based on similar metrics but does not give schools a letter grade.

Tests can provide valuable information, but using the tests as the sole or primary metric of performance does more harm than Tests can provide valuable information, but using the tests as the sole or primary metric of performance does more harm than tests as the sole or primary metric of performance does more harm than good.

Rejecting test scores as a core value Los Angeles Times (Sandy Banks): The Chicago teachers strike reflected the nationwide divide over «market reforms,» shorthand for the accountability metrics that tie teachers» salaries and jobs to how well their students perform.

Pemberton Township was one of several school districts selected by the Department of Education to serve as a pilot to develop and test both the teacher and principal evaluation metrics.

In a push to raise test scores and other metrics, such as high school graduation rates, the state of Louisiana took over most of the city's schools and converted them to publicly funded, privately run charter schools.

To help teachers successfully fulfill their role in this endeavor, effective teacher supervision and evaluation systems that inform teacher professional development and improve instruction are essential; however, disagreement over what those systems should measure remains, and some researchers caution against relying on student test scores as a valid metric (Baker et al, 2010)

With regards to actual metrics, NCLB relies on objective measurement criteria such as standardized test scores that are then used to track student and school performance over time.

The Every Student Succeeds Act requires that states include performance on the new proficiency test for English learners as a key metric and, at a minimum, identify and work with the 5 percent of schools with the lowest - scoring English learners.

«The change I suggested we consider is what would it be like to have a new metric that looked at the performance of young people when they reached their 25th birthday, as opposed to being in our school system at 16 or 18, because the true test of the quality of your leadership is about what happens to those children afterwards.»

«On firing the bottom 5 % of teachers... My opinion is that there are at least three reasons why firing the bottom 5 percent of teachers, as defined by the bottom 5 percent on an effectiveness continuum created by using the value - added test scores of their students on state tests, will not improve the overall effectiveness of teachers... One reason is that... value - added metrics are inaccurate for many teachers.

It is noteworthy, however, that Polk School Board member, Billy Townsend, keeps pointing toward an exhaustive report done by Stanford University that clearly tracks all students across multiple grades to build a robust picture of student growth (or lack thereof) on standardized tests, which, as anyone in public education knows, is the only metric deemed worthy of consideration by the Florida Legislature.

«It's undeniable that the push for more testing shined light on things we didn't know before,» said Sandi Jacobs, vice president of the National Center on Teacher Quality, an advocacy group that presses to use student test scores as one key metric for evaluating teacher performance.

Once in a classroom, do they help students learn, as measured by test scores and other metrics?

When asked if Deasy deserved any credit for a wide range of student performance metrics that appear to be rising, such as test scores, truancy and graduation rates, Fletcher replied sarcastically: «I didn't realize he was teaching school.»

But in the midst of worrying about the Common Core and testing metrics, we need also to consider whether an issue too long seen as marginal — school discipline — is hampering our efforts to close the achievement gap.

Finally, re your comment on MA's SSPI considering the consortium assessments as de facto college readiness metrics, I think the grade 11 tests that are being developed will receive a lot of scrutiny once folks get to see what they are.

Under No Child Left Behind, schools were rated on how many of their students tested as «proficient», but new regulations under ESSA may allow for alternative metrics such as non-academic indicators and testing improvement.

6 The report also recommended test scores as an essential metric of student learning — the first major use of testing as a tool to convert teaching and learning into data to be measured, compared, and consumed.

The new systems must include metrics beyond test scores — such as student success rates in advanced coursework.

The same is true for K — 12 standardized achievement tests and metrics such as annual yearly progress required by No Child Left Behind.

In addition a small multimeter or small electrical test lights; a set of tire irons and a patch kit (for inner tubes) or plug kit for tubeless tires; a couple feet of bailing wire and a few large zip ties; a four in one screwdriver; a few of metric hex keys or torx keys as needed for the handlebars and or bodyworks; a sparkplug socket that can be turned with either one of the open end wrenches or the screwdriver; a set of pliers or a cheapie Leatherman type tool.

In its roll stability test development, the agency had considered lateral acceleration and forward speed as possible roll stability performance metrics.

In the benchmark tests we ran at launch, the iPad excelled at some metrics, as you can see in the GLBenchmark 2.1.2 charts below.

Gray and Carlisle do extensive back testing on virtually every valuation metric under the sun, including industry standards such as price / earnings («P / E»), price / sales («P / S») and price / book value («P / B»).

Based on the feedback I received there is interest in the strategy so I decided to test different pairs of ETFs using the same metrics as yesterday's tests.

Using the quality of «agreeableness» as their metric for assessing the personality types of the study participants, the researchers asked the participants (ranging widely in age) to take personality tests and then identify their favorite types of dogs from a given list.

This could even be used as a sort of broad metric for game testing, a la what Valve has been doing.