Sentences with phrase «add other assessments»

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Within a framework of sustainable development — including a cap - and - trade system and thorough environmental assessments — New Democrats would prioritize our own energy security and with it the creation of high - paying, value - added jobs, refining and upgrading our own natural resources right here in Canada — just as other resource - rich developed nations like Norway already have.

Obviously, there is a lot of value in athletics for other reasons, but there does need to be some vigilance around prioritizing free time and an ongoing, cost - benefit assessment of added activities.

Beneath the amounts for federal, state and local sales taxes on petroleum products, and for the underground storage tank fee, it added the heading «Other Assessments.»

Arria adds that many clinicians insist on doing a full assessment on students who are not abusing other drugs and alcohol, including getting a history of symptoms and reports from teachers, to know if they have ADHD.

Taking elements of the BFT and adding other more «functional» fitness assessments, the ultra-FIT Physical Fitness Test (UFPFT) will assess your aerobic and anaerobic fitness as well as your muscular endurance and core strength.

Unless it can be shown that value - added assessment need not account for these other influences, schools that receive low marks will have an obvious excuse: the assessment did not recognize that «our students are harder to educate.»

In effect, value - added assessment «controls for» the influence of family income, ethnicity, and other circumstances on students» initial level of achievement.

Added assessment information, like classroom assignments as well as other offline assignments, can be uploaded to the extended learning portal to create a cumulative picture of learners» progress and true competence.

If states add in additional components, like extended graduation rates, other school quality or student success indicators, additional subjects or assessments, they might quickly double the number of cells.

The bill required teacher preparation programs to report data on their candidates (and share this information with their university), use higher cut scores on standardized tests for entry, and add portfolio - based assessments as graduation requirements, among other reforms.

Furthermore, as a result of the team's technical skill and flexibility, they were able to adapt the product to benefit other schools, for instance by adding additional layers of functionality such as performance monitoring an assessment reporting, as and when required.

A course builder may also allow for authoring new eLearning content and adding quizzes, assignments and other assessment tools.

It is based on a comparison of two different value - added scores for teachers: one derived from the regular state assessment (which varies by participating district) and the other from an alternative assessment that is specifically designed to measure students» depth of higher - order conceptual understanding in each subject.

If I had a time machine I'd ride back about two weeks (pre-deadline) and add a little more content to one of Governor Murphy's promises, specifically the one he made to at the 2016 NJEA Convention (and other venues): When asked whether he'd follow NJEA's instructions and get rid of assessments aligned with college / career ready standards, he said, «I'll give you the one - sentence answer: Scrap PARCC Day One.»

In addition, Hespe said the state will add an appeal process for the current year around the use of so - called «student growth objectives,» a separate measure that uses assessments other than standardized test scores.

· We must aggressively encourage the creation of a competitive critical mass of privately and publicly sponsored alternative preparation and certification programs as well as other non-traditional routes to the profession so as to «let many flowers bloom» and create an atmosphere of competitive certification, with value - added assessment of the graduates tied to student achievement.

VAM purports to be able to take student standardized test scores and measure the «value» a teacher adds to student learning through complicated formulas that can supposedly factor out all of the other influences — including how violence affects students — and emerge with a valid assessment of how effective a particular teacher has been.

While no assessment system is without limitations, Tennessee's value - added assessment model stands head and shoulders above others with regard to its focus on the effectiveness of schools, its ability to remove the biasing effects of social and economic influences, and its usefulness in answering critical questions about student progress and educational quality.

When using value added, allow educational leaders to make judgments in interpreting the value - added results in light of other available measures of teacher quality and the principals» own assessments.

Because scores on alternative assessments may not be comparable to scores on the regular assessment, students with disabilities are more likely than other students not to have test scores that can be used for value - added calculations.

If we are to include students with disabilities in value - added measures, these students must take assessments that are comparable to the tests taken by other students.

He recently served on the National Research Council (NRC) committee responsible for designing a framework for next generation science assessments; he has also served on other recent NRC committees investigating the issues and challenges associated with incorporating value - added measures in educational accountability systems and on outlining best practices in state assessment systems.

Unlike some other alternative tests, scores from these assessments for students with persistent academic difficulties can be linked to scores from the regular assessment and included in value - added modeling.

Other teaching unions have also been critical at the pace of implementation of assessment reform, which they claim is adding to teacher workload.

Political challenges and other education priorities have also led to slower progress toward implementing additional evaluation policies, particularly the use of student growth measures based on state assessments in evaluating teachers.59 60 States have responded to public backlash by decreasing the weighting of value - added scores or other student growth measures in teacher evaluation ratings.

In other words, if an Algebra I assessment is a poor measure of whether a student has mastered Algebra I concepts, then a value - added measure tied to that assessment would indicate how much the Algebra I teacher influenced student performance on the assessment, but not necessarily how much the Algebra I teacher influenced student mastery of Algebra I.

In the future, other components may be added to the assessment, such as child and pedestrian protection and driver assistance features.

Other apps such as Book Creator and Explain Everything are easily added to Seesaw which is a huge advantage when thinking about assessment of student work.

Finally (& inescapably) your qualitative assessment of a company & its management adds a whole other dimension to your analysis: We all know of companies with tremendous upside and / or intrinsic value... which will never be realized because of God - awful management!

I agree with this, but in the context of this post, I would add that part of DDT assessment is to review all possible responses to a potential problem / threat, which includes other potential scenarios such as cooling.

There is no rational basis for EPA to promulgate mobile source rules that do nothing more than reiterate other, independently effective legal requirements, and that offer no added environmental benefit but impose far - reaching and unintended costs on a source population (stationary sources) not even considered in the Endangerment Finding assessment.

Dr. Steve Rintoul, a Coordinating Lead Author of Chapter 3 of the latest report, has called the assessments «an extraordinary exercise,» adding, «I don't know of any other area of science where scientists attempt to assess what we know, and how well we know it, in such a comprehensive way.»

But in more severe TBI cases, hospital stays, scans, assessments, therapy, medications, and other treatments can quickly add up to hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars.

I do not think we need to add draconian professional regulation, but imagine what would happen if, in addition to a librarian and clinician on every ABA law school inspection committee, we had a sociologist or other social scientist examining the data on careers, the preparation that students have for the careers that they will pursue, and the quality of the teaching and evaluation assessment related generally to the third apprenticeship.

(i) the raising of an assessment (s) to value added tax («VAT») and / or (ii) the refusal to pay an amount claimed by way of repayment of value addede tax and / or (iii) the delaying of the making of a repayment of value added tax pending verification of the claim or other administrative measure and / or (iv) the setting off of an amount due by way of repayment of value added tax

Publishers can also add end of chapter questions or other assessments, which can be captured and analyzed in Kno Me, the analytics dashboard launched last month.

However, Vanessa Briggs adds: «The non-cognate route is only more challenging in the sense that the graduate will also be completing a masters on top of their assessment of professional competence (APC), so they will have an additional workload compared to other graduates.»

Taking a career assessment can be of value, but taking a career assessment and working with a college career counselor, career coach, or other career services professional to expand on those results can add real value.

Professional Profile Utilize technology and tools to drive the machine assembly process, ensuring accurate and safe operation as well as monitoring output for any identifiable issues or errors Lead through example with consistent work ethic, attitude, and professionalism, while performing related job requirements and supporting all production management and execution functions Develop and maintain a strong working knowledge of products, materials, production techniques, equipment maintenance and use, and other relevant industry knowledge and trends Perform regular process assessments to identify areas of concern while facilitating an effective and timely solution through collaboration with production line management Apply technical knowledge and education to all production functions, focusing on the accurate and efficient completion of all assigned jobs Organize and execute machine production process from job receipt to completion, while collaborating effectively with other staff, material personnel and company management to align production processes with customer requirements Interact in a professional and effective manner with other staff Provide complete support to other construction personnel and management with technical assistance, guidance and successful team - oriented site operations Adhere strictly to all stated guidelines, safety policies, production quality benchmarks and other applicable codes Participate extensively in all continuing education and advanced technical training opportunities to improve skill set and add value to company production process Address management and staff queries and resolve them in an expedited manner

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Other fees and assessments could be added to it.

Besides looking in other markets, which I am doing, look at ways to add value so that you cash flow (20 % down, great deals, sub-meter units, petition tax assessments renovate, rent increase) and then make sure you have equity in your property when you sell to get paid on the backside of your deal.