Sentences with phrase «where observation scores»

Not exact matches

Cuomo's proposal seeks to limit the number of teachers who receive high ratings under the system, since the subjective observations component is seen as an area where administrators have the opportunity to inflate teachers» scores.

Martha Keating, Labor Relations Consultant for the Rochester Teachers Association, says a new scoring system is in place where teachers can accumulate up to 100 points, «Never before has there been a prescribed rating that the observation evaluation counts this much and the state tests count this much and if there was local testing it would cost this much, but the law imposed that on all of the districts in NY State.»

That said, in the hands of a twice exceptional experienced tester, subtest scores combined with personal observations will point to areas where further evaluation might be needed to confirm or deny learning disabilities in a gifted child.

This is where they will compile their observation scores, their goals for improvement, and their ratings of individual competencies.

In Tennessee, where student test scores count for 35 percent of a teacher's evaluation, questions have been raised about the system's accuracy and reliability, with someteachers seeing inconsistencies between the scores they receive on observations and their value - added ratings.

The state has dispatched coaches to work with schools where the observation and test scores don't line up.

Increasing the rigor of standards and, subsequently, the demand of tests, will likely increase the proportion of cases where classroom observation scores and student achievement results align to identify similar teachers as effective.

Skill Scores Next in today's post, I will quantify the visual impression that «GCM - Q» outperformed HadGEM2 by using a skill score statistic that is commonplace in the evaluation of forecasts, estimating the «skill» of a model from the sum of squares of the residuals from the proposed model as opposed to a base case, as expressed below where obs is a vector of observations and «model» and «base» are vectors of estimates.

Practitioners will be familiar with cases where seemingly reduced medical involvement over the weekend has resulted in the significance of deteriorating MEWS scores (clinical observations) being missed.

I think any of us who've observed «personality test» scores for the legal industry know where lawyers sit on the continuum of cynicism (not that intuition and observation weren't also worthy paths to the same conclusion).

Another way of looking at these data is by plotting each observation against the previous observation, as depicted in the state - space plots on the right side of Figure 1, where the diagonal line depicts the autoregressive relation (based on the \ (\ phi \) parameter) underlying the scores.