Sentences with phrase «adaptive assessments change»

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The importance of defining progress can not be understated as it impacts many issues in relationship to effective use of assessment, instructional decision - making, and lastly, the importance of how we think about our work as evaluators, change agents, and adaptive learning experts and the impact these thoughts can have on student achievement and the success of our teaching.

Bill Tucker, a managing director at Education Sector, a Washington, D.C., think tank, says states like Oregon have led the way with so - called adaptive tests, computerized assessments that actually change as students answer questions right or wrong.

Farmers» assessments of private adaptive measures to climate change and influential factors: a study in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam.

While exploring the local - level dynamics of people's vulnerability to climate change, of which adaptive capacity is a key component, it is important to find ways to embed such findings into wider scales of assessment (e.g., country and regional scales)(Brooks et al., 2005).

(5) The best plan seems to be an adaptive one: introduce a carbon tax and technology incentives of all sorts for the renewable options, and then adjust both taxes and incentives in response to changing assessments of CO2 damage and non-fossil technological promise.

Because adaptation policy requires decision - making amid uncertainties about future climate change and its impacts, the major pillars of adaptation plans are iterative assessment, flexible and adaptive planning, and enhancement of adaptive capacity.

One was a broad review of around 8200 abstracts on environmental life - cycle assessment, whilst the other was a more in - depth analysis of 275 full - text articles and reports on adaptive capacity to climate change.