Four of these items had particularly strong positive or negative relationships
with the effectiveness ratings teacher received:
Teaching in this school is not worth the stress (negatively associated
with effectiveness ratings).
Teacher likes how the things are run at this school (positively associated
with effectiveness ratings).
• Employs rubrics
with effectiveness ratings of highly effective, effective, minimally effective, and ineffective (ratings will be updated based on final statute).
Not exact matches
Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions
with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build
rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build
rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange
rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements
with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements
with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts
with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount
rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit
ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships
with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest
rates increase substantially; 27) the
effectiveness of any interest
rate hedging programs; 28) the
effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange
rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance
with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.
We know video has to be part of startup's marketing strategies these days
with tons of research supporting the medium's
effectiveness at increasing conversion
rates and likelihood of making a purchase.
The reason Keynesianism got such a boost post-crisis was not for any real - world examples of its success — the list of its failures, by contrast, is lengthy — but because of the assertion, accepted far too quickly
with far too little evidence, that monetary policy, at the fabled Zero Lower Bound (interest
rates of near zero) had lost its
effectiveness.
Your connect
rate (the
rate of attempts a salesperson or sales development rep makes to «connect»
with their intended target) is the most important metric to use when assessing the
effectiveness of the customer acquisition process.
In fact, customer testimonials have the highest reported
effectiveness rating for all types of content marketing
with a
rating of 89 %.
What the CMI / MarketingProfs Benchmark Study did indicate is that those organizations
with a documented content strategy had a better
rate of
effectiveness.
For the second year, B2C marketers have
rated in - person events as the most effective tactic,
with confidence in
effectiveness increasing substantially (from 62 percent last year to 74 percent this year).
In their May 2013 paper entitled «Forty Years, Thirty Currencies and 21,000 Trading Rules: A Large - Scale, Data - Snooping Robust Analysis of Technical Trading in the Foreign Exchange Market», Po - Hsuan Hsu and Mark Taylor test the
effectiveness of a broad set of quantitative technical trading rules as applied to exchange
rates of 30 currencies
with the U.S. dollar over extended periods.
To
rate its
effectiveness, as part of RCIA formation, I have used the book
with a number of people preparing for reception into full Communion; the explanations have been found to be concise, thorough and entirely comprehensible.
The Legion would expand its
ratings to make them more responsive to the range of film content and viewership, but its
effectiveness diminished in the 1960s (the era's various «liberation» movements saw to that), and it merged into the American bishops» office dealing
with movies.
About 1971, however, there was a major turn in my pilgrimage as I gradually became painfully aware of the so - called outcome studies reporting the dubious
effectiveness of average psychotherapy, whose cure
rates barely match spontaneous remission, coupled
with the frightening spectre of client deterioration (i.e., patients finding their condition worsening under the care of professional psychotherapists).
Many of you must be familiar
with the
effectiveness of this drink in reducing weight; well the benefits of this beverage extend to lowering blood flow, cholesterol levels, enhancing oral functions along
with increasing metabolism
rate and immune system activity.
As we have suggested previously, 3,39 use of routine data to evaluate the
effectiveness of local or national policy changes over time, or between areas,
with respect to breastfeeding
rates needs to account for differences in ethnic composition and socioeconomic status.
One of these countries is the UK, which has one of the lowest breastfeeding
rates in Europe, 2
with rates conspicuously below those of Scandinavian countries; only 22 % of UK infants receive any breast milk at age 6 months3 compared
with 72 % in Sweden.4 Although a number of interventions have been introduced and targets set5 — 8 to increase
rates of breastfeeding initiation and duration in the UK, evidence for their
effectiveness is limited.
Senate Republicans plan to cover a range of issues
with mayoral control, includnig student performance, graduation
rates, and «the
effectiveness of having a single person accountable for the public school system as compared to the previous community board system.»
Senate Republicans plan to cover a range of issues
with mayoral control, including student performance, graduation
rates, and «the
effectiveness of having a single person accountable for the public school system as compared to the previous community board system.»
It added: «These results challenge the existing paradigm that diesel cars are associated, in general,
with far higher PM emission
rates, reflecting the
effectiveness» of engine add - ons like DPFs to stem pollution.
Moreover, in this population analysis, researchers said varenicline's enhanced
effectiveness in helping smokers quit, compared
with other cessation aides, appeared to be short - lived, lasting for three months, after which time varenicline users no longer had higher
rates of success.
The study, published in the Journal of Gambling Studies, found that the
effectiveness ofGambers Anonymous needs to be studied further, but appeared to show better
rates of abstinence, improved gambling symptoms and better quality of life, especially when used in conjunction
with other approaches, such as stress management intervention and cognitive behavioural therapy.
Study authors suggest further research is necessary to fully realize the
effectiveness of mechanical CPR and factors associated
with its survival
rate.
The researchers plan to carry out phase III randomized controlled clinical trials to determine the actual
rate of
effectiveness by comparing those treated
with the ketogenic diet to a group tube - fed a normal, nonketogenic diet.
To test the
ratings»
effectiveness, Laczniak and colleagues from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Kansas State University and Utah State University collected data through an online survey of families
with children 8 to 12 years old.
Among adults motivated to quit smoking, 12 weeks of treatment
with a nicotine patch, the drug varenicline, or combination nicotine replacement therapy produced no significant differences in confirmed
rates of smoking abstinence at 26 or 52 weeks, raising questions about the current relative
effectiveness of intense smoking cessation pharmacotherapies, according to a study in the January 26 issue of JAMA.
Given that most amino acid changes are slightly deleterious [12] and assuming that most genes in the genome are relatively conserved, one would expect that regions of the genome
with a low recombination
rate, when compared to those
with a high
rate, would show i) a higher ratio of non-synonymous (amino acid replacing) to synonymous (silent) substitutions (ω) and ii) a higher degree of protein divergence (dA) due, in both cases, to the reduced
effectiveness of selection against slightly deleterious mutations.
I invested in a Polar Loop that linked up
with my heart
rate monitor so I could follow my general daily activity, as well as get a more in - depth look at the
effectiveness of my workouts.
Since
effectiveness is so important, it's a good idea to use
effectiveness rates as a guide for what birth control to go
with.
Well, I have compiled a list of 20 top -
rated and the best weight loss supplements
with their benefits,
effectiveness, and side effects so you can compare and analyze them easily.
Two studies assessed the
effectiveness and adherence
rates of several popular diet plans
with minimal behavioral counseling (58, 59).
To give you an idea of
effectiveness, last month Scamalytics eradicated 97 % of scammers
with a 0.6 % false positive
rate, saving us time and protecting our brands.»
The paper used seven years of reading and math scores to calculate performance for individual teachers who've taught grades three through five, and plans to publish the
effectiveness ratings with the teacher's names.
It will be impossible to explain to the satisfaction of educators why two schools (or teachers)
with similar achievement gains nonetheless received different
ratings of their
effectiveness.
We compared the predictive accuracy of a principal's assessment of teacher
effectiveness with the predictive accuracy of a teacher's value - added
rating.
Principals were asked not only to provide a
rating of overall teacher
effectiveness, but also to assess, on a scale from one (inadequate) to ten (exceptional), specific teacher characteristics (ten altogether), including dedication and work ethic, classroom management, parent satisfaction, positive relationship
with administrators, and ability to improve math and reading achievement.
Test results must be reported to the state along
with participant graduation
rates allowing the program's
effectiveness to be evaluated.
The 35 members of a committee charged
with devising a teacher - evaluation system for the plan are sharply — and some suggest irrevocably — divided over the methods and criteria to be used to
rate classroom
effectiveness.
As districts grapple
with implementing statutory requirements for annual evaluation, a common pain point has been the use of student growth and assessment data, including properly understanding what the legislation requires, which measures to use, how to aggregate growth measures for teachers and administrators, and reliably scoring for 25 % of an
effectiveness rating.
Delaware's teacher -
effectiveness plan includes a new law that allows teachers
with tenure to be removed from their jobs if they are given «ineffective»
ratings for two to three consecutive years, and teachers can only be given an «effective»
rating after demonstrating adequate growth in their students» academic achievement.
To investigate the relationship between school
effectiveness and classroom instruction, we initially conducted a multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA)
with the school
effectiveness rating serving as the independent variable and eight teacher variables serving as outcome measures (see Table 11).
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.
ALD4ALL successfully demonstrated the value of job - embedded professional learning,
with results of 70 % of participating teachers improved their
effectiveness by one or two levels and / or maintained a
rating of effective or higher.
I now know firsthand how uplifting and difficult being a teacher can be, and how myriad policy decisions affect the work I do every day: implementing the rigorous standards known as the Common Core; modifying No Child Left Behind / ESEA to address its shortcomings, such as simplified curricula due to testing; establishing new evaluation systems that
rate teacher
effectiveness and, I hope, provide us
with support and feedback to get even better.
The Times reported that students
with teachers
rated in the top 10 percent for
effectiveness had scores averaging 17 percentile points higher in English and 25 points higher in math than students whose teachers were in the bottom 10 percent.
«Districts and unions also need to work together to provide parents
with more and better information about teacher
effectiveness — if not individual
ratings, then at least school - level statistics, as teachers are the most powerful school - based factor in student academic success or failure,» he said.
Determine student characteristics and contextual factors associated
with response to intervention as a means of informing treatment decisions and to determine the extent to which student characteristics (e.g., memory, motivation) and contextual factors (e.g., teacher knowledge, school
effectiveness ratings, neighborhood access to literacy) can predict response to intervention initially and longitudinally.
Nor do these teacher
ratings seem to correlate
with school performance, suggesting teacher evaluations are not a meaningful measure of teacher
effectiveness.
This is particularly important as illustrated in the prior post (Footnote 8 of the full piece to be exact), because «Teacher
effectiveness ratings were based on, in order of importance by the proportion of weight assigned to each indicator [including first and foremost]: (1) scores derived via [this] district - created and purportedly «rigorous» (Dee & Wyckoff, 2013, p. 5) yet invalid (i.e., not having been validated) observational instrument
with which teachers are observed five times per year by different folks, but about which no psychometric data were made available (e.g., Kappa statistics to test for inter-rater consistencies among scores).»