Sentences with phrase «such objective assessments»

Such objective assessments could be an improvement over the current method of human physicians qualitatively judging their less experienced colleagues.

Not exact matches

It does not measure other critical brain functions that can be adversely affected by head trauma, such as balance and vision, which is why expert groups [1] recommend a «multifaceted approach to concussion management that emphasizes the use of objective assessment tools aimed at capturing the spectrum of clinical signs and symptoms, cognitive dysfunction, and physical deficits... that are more sensitive to the injury than using any one component alone.»

Examining the validity of the Justice Center's decision to unsubstantiate allegations of abuse or neglect would be an inappropriate audit objective as OSC does not have the legal expertise to make such an assessment.»

The method used in the study is known as the Hirsch Index and while the study authors acknowledge factors such as there being high public interest leading to more studies of a particular illness, they believe that because it is objective and evidence - based it will be a useful complement and guide to more traditional methods of risk assessment and can be used to produce a shortlist of pathogens for authorities to focus on.

«As such, objective assessment of cognitive function should be a facet of any clinical evaluation of the patient,» he says.

The Academy recognizes Naturopathic Primary Care Medicine as an established process, such that when a patient is initially evaluated, that patient will have, a relevant history, physical exam and an objective assessment.

With each activity, such as readings, exercises, gaming, viewing videos and listening to audio segments, question its inclusion using this criteria: does this activity support the learner's successful demonstration of the objective through the assessment?

Because they generally provide information about the full range of course objectives, and are not designed primarily to identify starting points for further teaching and learning, such assessments typically provide coarse rather than fine diagnostic detail.

Using the scenario to frame the assessment in this manner places students square in the center of a more real - world application of the learning objective, as opposed to simply completing a paper - pencil test, such as writing an essay.

In fact these «new» methods were rebottled versions of earlier progressive schemes going back at least 100 years — as Diane Ravitch has documented in her recent book Left Back — schemes such as multi-aged groups in which each child goes at his or her own pace; individualized assessments instead of objective tests; teachers as coaches rather than sages; projects instead of textbooks.

To resolve those difficulties, a teacher must make an objective assessment of what's actually happening in the classroom by asking such questions as:

** This cost also does not include other mandated testing such as RTI, Student - Learning Objectives (SLO), Achievement tests, and other assessments used locally.

Although I tend to fall into the latter camp, I do not believe that these two approaches are necessarily mutually exclusive, but that is beside the major point, which is that we must establish as an objective the transformation of educator preparation programs into customer - driven institutions with assessments grounded in output - and performance - based criteria, so that Texas becomes the model for value - added evaluation of such programs.

Typically this involves expanding the portfolio of state assessments to provide growth data in all grades and subjects or expanding the portfolio of nationally or locally approved assessment tools that can be validly used such as classroom - based assessments, unit tests, end - of - course assessments, student - learning objectives, and portfolios.

Or should teacher recommendations be based solely on objective criteria such as classroom assessments?

Under teacher evaluation reforms, as of 2015, all but eight states have committed to using an objective measure of student achievement — such as performance on standardized assessments — as a part of teacher and principal evaluation systems.40 However, given the challenges of fairly incorporating student test performance in evaluations, all states and districts engaged in these reforms must account for factors like the variation in student background and other external influences on performance.

The study concludes by outlining the things that still need to be done, such as, «the need for more compelling content for older children, the development of popular and effective educational apps... expanded efforts to reach parents with objective and reliable assessments of eth educational value of media, and continued production of high - quality educational television.»

My elemental objective is to show how extensive time exclusively devoted to seeing where the accusation came from and whether it has any evidence to back it up reveals a disturbing pattern: Inconsistent narratives that don't line up right; no hard evidence is ever presented proving such skeptics are in an orchestrated arrangement where they are paid industry money in exchange for fabricating false science assessments; and an overall set of talking points which is ultimately traceable to the clique of people surrounding Ross Gelbspan.

OBJECTIVE: To describe how the tobacco industry attempted to trivialise the health risks of second hand smoke (SHS) by both questioning the science of risk assessment of low dose exposure to other environmental toxins, and by comparing SHS to such substances about which debate might still exist.

Emissions of CO2 from burning fossil fuel is real whereas claims of there being anything more than barely discernable global warming from such emission is observationally challenged wrt objective assessments of the EAS.

Such regulations should be based on objective scientific assessment, which looks at impacts on local communities, food security, soils, water and animals.

The objectives of their assessment are to compensate the non-equity partners for their daily efforts and reward their significant contributions to the firm's revenue, profitability and environment in a way that is perceived as being fair to the firm and the non-equity partners; to compensate non-equity partners in a manner that is competitive within the firm's market; to encourage non-equity partners, by incentives, to share in their added value to the firm as they become more experienced; and use such experience productively and to satisfy the needs of the firm as it exists today and looking forward to tomorrow.

It covers objective information, such as the presence of a certain substance in one's blood, and subjective information, opinions or assessments.

The idea is not to replace other methods of assessment, but rather to increase the amount of objective data in the process, at a time when other approaches such as «blind» recruitment are being used as a means to differentiate between candidates.

Future evaluations would benefit from objective measures, such as behavioural observations or testing of knowledge and skills through case studies, role plays or written assessments.

Such discordance between subjective and objective assessments of vision has been reported in earlier research (Fors, Thorslund, & Parker, 2006) and thus including both assessments when available in statistical models is desirable.

Such an assessment system will provide the data teachers can use to individualize goals and objectives.