Sentences with phrase «especially as an assessment»

Especially as an assessment tool it kind of gives a complete picture how different body parts effectively play together or not play together.

Not exact matches

The OECD, in a 2007 economic outlook assessment, singled out the U.S. as having an especially sluggish rate of business investment, even several years into the post-dot-com-bust recovery.

With regard to the second problem, namely, an agreement on «Tradition» (with a capital T), its hermeneutical assessment, and its binding force, it is desirable that the Tradition of the as yet undivided Church of the first millennium, especially its Christological and Trinitarian doctrinal decrees and its status as a communio ecclesiarum, be given priority over the later confessional developments of a particular Church.

They concluded that when it comes to comparing students at one school or in one classroom with students in another, self - assessments just don't work — especially in cases where they are used as tools for accountability.

This is especially true because some symptoms, especially in the neurobehavioral category (sleeping more than usual, drowsiness, fatigue and nervousness) are often missed or not apparent on an a sideline or initial assessment, or, where reported by female athletes, may be more attributed to other conditions, such as stress, depression, or anxiety.

«We take issue with HMRC's rationale that this is about flexibility; specifically that delaying advice to taxpayers about changes to their tax codes will improve its service especially during busy periods (such as self - assessment or tax - credits renewals).

Such omission can lead to serious bias in the assessments of environmental impacts as well as the economic viability of proposed road projects, especially in situations where there is a latent demand for more road capacity.

What I find interesting is that, as far as I can tell, a majority of MPs agree with his assessment of the President - but many (especially in the Conservative party) believe that he should have kept his opinion private.

As a result of the testimony given, the report recommends the state Department of Education immediately address several concerns, such as expediting waivers from the U.S. Department of Education «to relax onerous and rigid testing restrictions placed on certain students,» especially with English as a Second Language students and students with disabilities; producing all missing or incomplete curriculum modules; aligning assessments proportionally to curriculum actually implemented; and increasing funding for the professional development of teacherAs a result of the testimony given, the report recommends the state Department of Education immediately address several concerns, such as expediting waivers from the U.S. Department of Education «to relax onerous and rigid testing restrictions placed on certain students,» especially with English as a Second Language students and students with disabilities; producing all missing or incomplete curriculum modules; aligning assessments proportionally to curriculum actually implemented; and increasing funding for the professional development of teacheras expediting waivers from the U.S. Department of Education «to relax onerous and rigid testing restrictions placed on certain students,» especially with English as a Second Language students and students with disabilities; producing all missing or incomplete curriculum modules; aligning assessments proportionally to curriculum actually implemented; and increasing funding for the professional development of teacheras a Second Language students and students with disabilities; producing all missing or incomplete curriculum modules; aligning assessments proportionally to curriculum actually implemented; and increasing funding for the professional development of teachers.

In my assessment, the judiciary has done all anyone can reasonably expect in supporting the current fight against corruption - anti-corruption cases have moved very fast to trial; and judges have imposed especially severe and onerous terms on accused persons brought before them for corrupt acts, with bail terms typically including deposit of their international passports, sureties and bail bonds with assets equivalent to the amount allegedly embezzled; and very high qualifications for standing as surety.

Steve McNutt, a team member at the University of Alaska, US, believes the work will prove useful as an added dimension of hazard assessment, especially in issuing advisories for planes, which can be severely damaged by flying through volcanic plumes.

Wigley says that such action is very unusual; de Freitas responds that he «was not too concerned [about Wigley's complaint] as periodically I receive diametrically opposed assessments from experts,» especially, he says, «as the work in question was a critical assessment of Wigley's own work.»

«The latter is especially useful to assess the degree of ripeness as with current methods of analysis further assessment in a laboratory is usually required,» says Ramón Martínez Máñez, researcher at the Centre for Molecular Recognition and Technological Development (IDM)-- Universitat Politècnica de València.

What, then, is the role of assessment, especially in an ungraded program such as mine?

Administering, grading, and analyzing these assessments is also time - consuming, especially as the cumulative assessments get longer over the course of the year, covering all material taught to date.

Upgrading assessments to make them more suitable for use in high - stakes decisions, such as by lessening the focus on multiple - choice questions, likely entails increased costs (especially for scoring).

The highest - performing charters are those that that have most fully embraced a «no excuses» approach to teaching and learning; have created strong school cultures based on explicit expectations for both academic achievement and behavior; have an intensive focus on literacy and numeracy as the first foundation for academic achievement; feature a relatively heavy reliance on direct instruction and differentiated grouping, especially in the early grades; and are increasingly focused on comprehensive student assessment systems.

Because the assessments aren't linked to any local or regional set of learning standards, NAEP can be used as a barometer to compare results on state tests, especially when it comes to reading and mathematics.

As the head of the K12's Curriculum and Products organization, his focus is on delivering strong student outcomes by producing and implementing standards - aligned solutions that will significantly accelerate students» growth — especially in math and reading — and drive success on high - stakes assessments.

The openness of the online environment and the integration of such things as game attributes shape all kinds of assessment, especially formative assessment, which measures learning progress, not just learning endpoints.

An increasing trend, especially in the case of standard trainings such as compliance trainings, is to move all assessments online.

I was with you, especially eliminating testing of every student in grades 3 - 8; but then... «If we treat the results as a starting point for further assessment, they can help steer us in the right directions».

Their conversation opened up discussion on the impact this form can have on instructional practice, especially as it related to teacher capacity and willingness to incorporate greater student voice and choice in the classroom assessments.

Yet, designing these assessments takes time — something that's quite precious, especially as schools and districts transition to the Common Core State Standards.

Implications are discussed, especially as they related to controlling task demands during repeated assessment and progress monitoring.

However, we believe it is still too early to provide a robust assessment of the progress and attainment of free school pupils due to the small number of free schools which currently have Key Stage 4 results available, especially as sensitivity analysis has indicated that the way schools and pupils are matched has a substantial effect on results.

A major challenge is to get past the negative perceptions of the standards and assessments reform agenda, especially in a system where teachers and principals largely perceive assessments as punitive.

Yes, we are always interested in knowing about schools that are implementing good formative assessment practice and that want to be considered as demonstration sites — especially during the 2015 - 16 school year in Florida, where it will be easy for folks from the Dylan Wiliam Center to visit them frequently.

This is not entirely unexpected: educators were expecting that some students would find math especially challenging because Common Core math requires more ELA proficiency than California's old standards.4 But it does suggest that, as measured in the first year of the SBAC, high - need students have farther to go — perhaps further than the old standards and assessments indicated.

As education policymakers nationwide search for better strategies to improve student performance — including new curriculum standards, computer - assisted learning and better assessment systems — there's increasing focus on more fundamental challenges, especially attendance.

As the experience under NCLB shows, teachers respond to assessments — especially when they are attached to rewards and sanctions.6 The new tests, in other words, will shape the way teachers implement the standards.

Although not minimizing the importance of traditional cognitive ability, these authors point out that conventional assessments account for a small portion of the variance when examining long - term academic and career accomplishment, especially as it relates to the advancement of adult competencies in highly demanding professions where leadership skills and creative productivity are the criteria for success.

Nick Gibb is staying on as minister of state for schools, and it looks like he is going to keep most, if not all of the responsibilities he had before, especially around curriculum and assessment.

Online assessments such as those currently planned for the new Common Core standards, will prove especially profitable, as they will require school systems to invest billions of dollars in equipment and services.

Some local innovators and national advocates argue that they do, especially in states that have required high school exit exams as part of their accountability systems.44 For example, according to one consortium of high schools participating in the Competency - Based Education Pilot for Ohio — a state that has required passage of state tests or threshold scores on other exams to graduate — «testing windows that are currently required for state - mandated assessments do not adequately reflect the needs of the students within a STEM school and / or CBE [competency - based education] environment.»

Making sure that accountability systems support these goals is especially important as states move to assessments aligned with Common Core State Standards.

However, newly released PARCC and Smarter Balanced scores (like NAEP scores before them) confirm that many middle and high school students — especially black and Latino students — are still struggling to attain mathematical proficiency as measured by standardized assessments.

As part of the process, those states are re-envisioning and redesigning their education systems by establishing ambitious student achievement goals; improving the quality of their assessments; and crafting school accountability and improvement systems that support all schools, especially those with the greatest needs.

This is especially salient for formative assessment that is occurring as instructional and learning responses can be made to influence progress.

As the goal is to determine growth and trends, kindly advise us of the best format to report our current and past data for reading and math, especially when assessments have changed in Connecticut from the Connecticut Academic Performance Test for several years, to the Smarter Balanced Assessment for one year to our current School - Day SAT.

You can use bad weather days as an opportunity for students to review concepts you taught earlier in the school year, especially if those topics will likely show up on end - of - year assessments.

As a community interested in improving learning outcomes for all children — especially those children who struggle in school — let's find more ways to support teachers as they develop the skills required to plan and implement formative assessmenAs a community interested in improving learning outcomes for all children — especially those children who struggle in school — let's find more ways to support teachers as they develop the skills required to plan and implement formative assessmenas they develop the skills required to plan and implement formative assessment.

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In their zeal to find dogs quality homes, they could not possibly be expected to make an objective, rational or reasonable assessment of a dog's suitability as a pet, especially when viewed from a public safety and welfare perspective.

I do feel that my experience should carry some weight — especially as the study» itself relied on dog owners» assessments of their own dogs» behaviour.

I'm a late Gen Xer, (born in 77) and while I understand where you Gen Y's are coming from, and agree with your assessment on the starving artist syndrome being an illusion — I disagree very strongly about you guys being «stronger», or even really faster, especially as individuals.

Firstly, did not the IAC explicitly object to hanging percentages and numbers on «certainty» estimates, as performed in the IPCC AR4, especially when depending on expertise for the assessment?

We — the undersigned medical societies — support the international scientific consensus, as established in multiple national and international assessments, that the Earth is rapidly warming, and that human actions (especially burning of fossil fuels) are the primary causes.

As the State Department made clear last month, the rushed and arbitrary deadline insisted on by Congressional Republicans prevented a full assessment of the pipeline's impact, especially the health and safety of the American people, as well as our environmenAs the State Department made clear last month, the rushed and arbitrary deadline insisted on by Congressional Republicans prevented a full assessment of the pipeline's impact, especially the health and safety of the American people, as well as our environmenas well as our environmenas our environment.

Topics that I work on or plan to work in the future include studies of: + missing aerosol species and sources, such as the primary oceanic aerosols and their importance on the remote marine atmosphere, the in - cloud and aerosol water aqueous formation of organic aerosols that can lead to brown carbon formation, the primary terrestrial biological particles, and the organic nitrogen + missing aerosol parameterizations, such as the effect of aerosol mixing on cloud condensation nuclei and aerosol absorption, the semi-volatility of primary organic aerosols, the importance of in - canopy processes on natural terrestrial aerosol and aerosol precursor sources, and the mineral dust iron solubility and bioavailability + the change of aerosol burden and its spatiotemporal distribution, especially with regard to its role and importance on gas - phase chemistry via photolysis rates changes and heterogeneous reactions in the atmosphere, as well as their effect on key gas - phase species like ozone + the physical and optical properties of aerosols, which affect aerosol transport, lifetime, and light scattering and absorption, with the latter being very sensitive to the vertical distribution of absorbing aerosols + aerosol - cloud interactions, which include cloud activation, the aerosol indirect effect and the impact of clouds on aerosol removal + changes on climate and feedbacks related with all these topics In order to understand the climate system as a whole, improve the aerosol representation in the GISS ModelE2 and contribute to future IPCC climate change assessments and CMIP activities, I am also interested in understanding the importance of natural and anthropogenic aerosol changes in the atmosphere on the terrestrial biosphere, the ocean and climate.