Sentences with phrase «assessment policy involves»

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This new policy was apparently the result of a 2008 Risk Management Assessment (available to the right) involving stakeholders only from the shipping industry, though Transport Canada's methodology for Pilotage Risk Assessments defines stakeholders as «any individual, group, or organization able to affect, be affected by, or believe it might be affected by, a decision or activity.»

Alignment of government policy is particularly crucial, as inconsistency between government policies inhibits investment and raises the cost of capital.235 Once the overall strategic direction is set, a range of methods and instruments are available to mainstream climate at the project level.236 This needs to happen at the technical assessment stage, where technological and process options and alternatives are considered that will achieve the project aim; at the economic assessment stage, which involves measuring net impacts of the project on welfare; and at the financial assessment stage, where costs and revenues of the project are assessed.237

The assessment and planning steps should involve teachers, child nutrition staff, other school staff as appropriate, parents, students, and the community as a part of the required wellness policy.»

This checklist covers a broad range of topics including school environment assessment, personnel involved in ensuring implementation of hte wellness policy, and compliance with state Nutrition Guidelines for Competitive Foods.

Raju Mann, who has been involved in and closely following the debate as director for policy and planning for the Municipal Art Society of New York, offered a similar assessment.

In general, we see policy researchers concerned with broad reforms involving standards, assessments, reorganization, governance, and the like; literacy is simply one of the subjects, and standards and assessment are two of the «tools» or levers of reform they study.

Brian has been involved with creating policies, models, and criteria for promoting validity, reliability, and credibility in both assessments and accountability systems through work with groups such as the U.S. Department of Education (co-author of Accountability Peer Review guidance; Growth Model Pilot guidance), Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)(author of documents on the design of accountability systems and balanced assessment systems), National Center for Educational Outcomes (NCEO)(author of research reports on standardization and reliability for assessment systems for students with disabilities), and several state Technical Advisory Committees.

He has been involved with the design of a state's pending Next Generation Science Assessment System and the creation of an Accountability Systems and Reporting (ASR) policy brief sponsored by the State Collaboratives on Assessment and Student Standards (SCASS) that provides recommendations regarding ESSA's provision on the use of interim assessments for summative purposes.

However, at least 10 states are already transitioning to new tests for the 2015 — 16 school year and beyond.41 Earlier in their development, every state that had adopted Common Core was also involved in some way with one of these groups.42 But concerns with Common Core - related assessments — and over-testing of students more broadly — have led some states to reassess their testing policies and reconsider their participation in PARCC and SBAC (Figure 3).43 44 45

If you do not provide all such information or if you fail to tell your proposed insurance provider about any circumstances likely to influence their assessment of the risks involved, your proposed insurance provider may be able to treat your insurance policy as invalid.

The United Nations needs to revise the way it manages its assessments of climate change, with the scientists involved more open to alternative views, more transparent about possible conflicts of interest and more careful to avoid making policy prescriptions, an independent review panel said Monday.

This has involved providing the evidence - base to support policy formulation (undertaking assessments, drafting guidance frameworks and policy briefs), facilitating the policy process (convening and participating in policy dialogues / workshops), building capacity (developing and implementing needs - based training), liaising with a wide range of stakeholders (public meetings, discussion forums, on - line questionnaires) and communicating the result of his work to ensure it has maximum impact (writing press releases, opinion editorials and blogs).

He supports the the implementation of the Strategic Transport Research and Innovation Agenda (STRIA) and has contributed to policy impact assessments which involved cost - benefit analyses, policy reviews and stakeholder consultations on a pan-European level.

We judge this to be a good policy when public health and also when substantial amounts of monies are involved, for example, when there are major policy decisions to be made based on statistical assessments.

However, we believe that it is important for businesses to take preventative action, such as regularly reviewing their health and safety policies and procedures, ensuring risk assessments and method statements are in place and adequately reflect the risks involved, providing refresher training to staff and ensuring proactive and effective management of health and safety is taking place at their workplace.

In the legal and compliance fields, she has worked for the Office of the Attorney General in Boston and in the Corporate Compliance Department at Tufts Medical Center where a great deal of her experience involved writing policies and procedures, investigating complaints, and contributing to privacy risk assessment processes.

Someone who wants to benefit from cheaper insurance had better get that new policy in place before canceling the old one, or they may find that they are temporarily uninsured, or completely out of luck; and that re-signing will involve some big fees, as their risk assessment may have been bumped higher.

An individual in this role has many responsibilities and has duties like assessing the background and gathering information about the applicant, studying the proposals and calculating involved risks, collaborating with professionals and specialists to judge risk assessment for determining the amount to be paid out and negotiating policies by adding necessary terms and conditions as required.

• Involved in numerous projects on policy and compliance using multi-platform mobile devices and performed risk assessments on SDLC projects and enterprise - wide systems.