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Showing 1 to 20 of 133 for “"Performance standards"”.
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Performance standards for residential zoning and subdivision controls
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of City and Regional Planning, 1952.
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A Monte Carlo Approach for Exploring the Generalizability of Performance Standards
… has been given to generalizing the resulting performance standards. This procedure has the potential to improve the standard setting process by limiting the number of items rated and the number of individual rater decisions. The ability to generalize performance standards has profound …
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Revising Common Core Georgia Performance Standards Statistics Lesson Plans to Better Align with Statistical Practice
… with real-life data. Three learning tasks and a performance task are presented covering a unit lesson on statistical regression. The development of Georgia statistics curriculum standards are reviewed and presented.</p>
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An analysis of the effects of race and gender in scoring extension agent performance standards
… a set of procedures to evaluate agent performance. In an attempt to help this consideration process, this study was undertaken to investigate the standards of the Performance Review, Analysis and Planning (PRAP) system. Adaptations of the FRAP system have been utilized by Extension …
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Wetland mitigation banking in the Chicago area: an assessment of ecological outcomes and compliance with performance standards
… banks were at meeting mandatory ecological performance standards, by which the Army Corps evaluates banks at the end of a required monitoring period. In Chapter 3, I used vegetation data that I collected in 2017 from banks that had previously completed their required management and …
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Equity and Affordability Impacts of Building Performance Standards: A Case Study of New York City’s Local Law 97
… sector, cities and states are adopting Building Performance Standards. These laws require large buildings to comply with increasingly stringent emissions or energy limits, or otherwise pay a fine. Building Performance Standards are powerful decarbonization tools, but may inadvertently over-burden …
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Performance standards for walk-in coolers and freezers in the United States as a function of local weather conditions
… controllers, etc. However, minimum efficiency standards for walk-in coolers and freezers have not yet been developed. Development of performance based standards for walk-in coolers and freezers is tantamount to establishing an effective market system in order to achieve energy savings. …
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A Study of Teachers’ Perceptions of the Effects of the Georgia Performance Standards on their Power in Instruction in a High School In East Georgia
<p>Academic standards have come to occupy center stage in public schools to guide teachers in their instruction, and they have become the means by which teachers assess students’ performance. With more emphasis placed on student performance and higher test scores, states have come to rely …
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All for One, but Not One for All: The Knowledge/Power Struggle and Its Effect on Teacher Autonomy
… the paradoxical relationship between the Georgia Performance Standards and high-stakes testing accountability measures. This study examines teacher response to the implementation of Georgia Performance Standards and the oppression of federal accountability measures. This study also investigates …
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Government-led performance standard and high-tech innovation in China : a case study of Zhongguancun high-tech development zone
… played in promoting high-tech industries through performance standards and the output the policy generates. As a latecomer in the high-tech industries, Chinese government has made great efforts to catch up, and the performance standards for High and New Technology Enterprises (HNTEs) are essential …
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A study of the relative importance principals and their supervisors assign to criteria used to evaluate principals
… many varied expectations relative to their job performance and that clear, mutually understood criteria are essential to effective evaluation, there is little evidence that the perceptions of principals and their supervisors relative to the evaluation criteria have been adequately explored. The …
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Assessing Employers' Expectations of Entry-Level Survival Skills for Light Industrial Occupations
… objective of this study was to determine what performance standards potential employers consider to be important for mentally retarded persons' job entry. A second objective was to compare identified competitive employment entry-level skills with those previously identified for entry into …
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Neural networks and neurophysiological signals
… in processing efficiency, while maintaining performance standards. This system is implementable as a real-time quality control process for the NC-stat.
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Power in numbers: quantitative microbial risk assessments of Salmonella in federally sampled ground meat products and the resulting impact of risk management strategies on public health
… that they regulate. Current FSIS product performance standards are based entirely on pathogen presence or absence. However, novel quantitative Salmonella enumeration methods are emerging with advances in food sampling technologies resulting in more timely, less costly pathogen …
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Regulating sustainable development : an enabling model for consistent collaboration between planning and building control services in England
… the beginning of the 21st Century, building performance standards have become increasingly complex due to the introduction of sustainable development as a major policy objective. As a result, disciplinary boundaries have become blurred, with many stakeholders viewing regulation as a …
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Diagnostic Modeling of Intra-Organizational Mechanisms for Supporting Policy Implementation
The Virginia Guidelines for Uniform Performance Standards and Evaluation Criteria for Teachers represented a significant overhaul of conventional teacher evaluation criteria in Virginia. The policy outlined seven performance standards by which all Virginia teachers would be evaluated. This study …
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Performance appraisal system development: the consideration of attitudes toward appraisal, job objectivity, and supervisory style
For years, performance appraisal has posed serious problems for those in personnel-related fields; yet, most personnel professionals are unwilling to abandon the practice of formally evaluating job performance. Given this reluctance to discard performance appraisal, many organizations are faced …
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Differences in Mathematics and Reading College Readiness by Student Language Status and Economic Status: A Multiyear Statewide Investigation
… and non-EmergentBilingual students in their performance on the Algebra I and English I End-of-Course exams and the degree to which Emergent Bilingual students who were economically disadvantaged and Emergent Bilingual students who were not economically disadvantaged differed in their …
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Preparation for High School Mathematics Reform in the Northeast Georgia Resa District: A Stage of Concerns Approach to Examining Professional Learning
… district about implementation of the Georgia Performance Standards. The second purpose was to explore relationships among their Stages of Concerns profiles, demographic factors, and professional learning experiences provided by institute instructors. The study examined Implementation of …
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An Evaluation of a School District’s Mental Health Services Program Designed to Ensure a Safe and Positive Learning Environment for All
… to study the implementation of strength-based performance standards in one school district’s mental health training for all individuals preparing to work in a school-based environment. The context of my program evaluation was one large public school district in the United States operating in a …
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