Sentences with phrase «traditional measures of quality»

This new unit should focus on providing a student experience that excels on measures different from the traditional measures of quality — such as top - notch extracurricular offerings and state - of - the - art facilities — that private schools have historically used.

Not exact matches

In the game of traditional banking, the measure of success of borrowing and lending depend only on a few things: the interest rate you borrow at, the interest rate you lend at, the quality of your loans, and the overhead of the bank.

How Children Succeed introduced readers to an exciting new body of research showing that the traditional way we measure children's abilities — through standardized tests of their cognitive skills — was missing a crucial dimension: the importance of so - called non-cognitive skills or character strengths, qualities like grit, curiosity, conscientiousness, self - control, and optimism.

The «one - size - fits - none», «fire - and - forget» approach of almost all of today's corporate eLearning — be it traditional, video - based, microlearning or some combination — needs to be relegated to some forgotten decade where outcomes don't matter, and the quality of education is measured by how many people are registered in the LMS and how much animation you can pack into your course.

Perhaps MOOCs are disrupting the traditional mold of education and are still being measured using the quality indicators of Education 1.0.

By analysing the quality of a text report or assignment can also be a measure of the effectiveness of a mobile learning course, as it is when the course is delivered through traditional e-learning or even through classroom sessions.

The California Performance Assessment Collaborative (CPAC) is launching an official state pilot where participants have opportunities to learn from one another and deepen practice; find common ground despite discrete approaches to performance assessment; engage in research and documentation of various practices; and ultimately, inform state policymakers about the supports and conditions needed to broadly implement high - quality graduation performance assessments that can serve as a viable alternative to traditional measures of college, career, and civic readiness.

Factors with the highest weight included the share of public schools that are charter schools, the share of public - school students in charter schools, the growth rate of charters, the closure rate of charters (small and consistent was considered the best) and academic quality in both reading and math as measured in the equivalent of «additional days of learning» when compared with traditional public schools.

«MarylandCAN supports measures that provide parents and students true choice among a variety of high - quality traditional public and public charter options.

However, with continued concerns over the unintended (and sometimes detrimental) consequences of expanding standardized testing, policies have reemphasized the importance of more traditional, widely applicable approaches to measuring teacher quality — specifically, the quality of teachers» instruction, assessed through classroom observation.

Although traditional models of primary care provide reactive and episodic care during doctor visits, new models require outreach, coordination, and education / empowerment with increasing teamwork provided by multidisciplinary staff including home visitors.22 As FCMHs and hospitals are increasingly being held accountable to population quality measures, interest in home visitation (HV) and community health worker models have increased.23 For instance, Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set quality measures that assess well - child visit attendance of a primary care practice's panel has increased interest in medical home outreach to families and home visitation strategies.

The overwhelming results proving the importance of parenting quality led James Heckman, Nobel Laureate in Economics, to conclude, «The proper measure of child adversity is the quality of parenting — not the traditional measures of family income or parental education... The scarce resource is love and parenting — not money» (Promoting Social Mobility, Boston Review).