Sentences with phrase «align assessments with»

Performance assessment experts explain how to align assessments with Common Core by shifting the emphasis from knowing to doing

We found that WIDE World's courses prepare learners to align their assessments with their goals and instructional practice.»

By moving to tougher, Common Core - aligned assessments with much higher cut scores, states can finally close the honesty gap and make good on this commitment.

2 — School has worked together to align assessment with curriculum, and is concerned about building - level assessment as well as state / district mandated assessments.

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The first step to incorporating a social mission should be a deep and honest assessment of what cause aligns best with your business and what reasons you have for getting involved.

But as she worked her way through the self - assessment and began tweaking how she ran the business — putting together an incentive structure for employees, letting go of clients that didn't align with LimeRed's values — revenue rose.

In its assessment of our compensation program for our PMDs, Semler Brossy confirmed that the program has been aligned with and is sensitive to corporate performance, contains features that reinforce significant alignment with shareholders and a long - term focus, and blends subjective assessment and policies in a way that addresses known and perceived risks.

Users will receive a detailed skills assessment, potential job types that align with their aptitudes, a pathway for gaining the skills and experiences necessary to make the switch, and connections to training institutions with relevant services.

The risk assessment process included, among other things, a review of (i) all key incentive compensation plans to ensure that they are aligned with our pay - for - performance philosophy and include performance metrics that meet and support corporate goals, and (ii) the overall compensation mix to ensure an appropriate balance between fixed and variable pay components and between short - term and long - term incentives.

In addition, the company aligned its assessment of collectibility of the transaction price for sales of vacation ownership products with its credit granting policies.

«Healthy» food price assessment methods used in Australia lack comparability across all metrics and most do not fully align with a «healthy» diet as recommended by the current Australian Dietary Guidelines.

What struck me about the Change.org explanation in the leaked documents was their assessment that continuing to only host petitions that aligned with their values was not «feasible.»

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 teachers.

After completing the self - assessment stage, including evaluating relevant interests and skills, the program moves on to career exploration, during which job seekers identify occupations that align with the particular combination of interests, skills, and values that the self - assessment has revealed.

The cycle of dry spells that Pakistan has suffered for the past few years, terminated by a massive torrent, aligns almost precisely with trends predicted in the assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

In the meantime, however, I'll align myself with this statement from David Poland's assessment: Is von -LSB-...]

Every eLearning activity, module, and assessment should align with these objectives, and we must be able to track our progress.

They must show, for instance, that as of this school year, they are giving state assessments that are aligned with state academic - content standards and that all students are included in the...

The state has also engaged its higher - education institutions to revamp assessments used for placement in first - year courses to align with the standards, and to redesign teacher - preparation programs.

If we're intentional about the process of a teacher's work (pedagogy, curriculum, and standards), then assessment of this work needs to align with the other work they do.

In Boston, MCAS is an important part of a seamless standards - based reform effort that includes clear expectations for what students should learn, curriculum aligned with the standards, high - quality instruction and professional development to help teachers improve their practice, and assessments that provide students with a way to demonstrate what they have learned and how they can apply it.

Let's acknowledge that «curriculum,» loosely defined, is supposed to be aligned with standards and appraised by assessments.

Gonski's proposed restructuring of the curriculum into «learning progressions» with aligned assessment resources would be a major change in our approach to schooling.

The state contracted with private, nonprofit organizations to develop new curricula aligned to the common core, developed a web site that included sample lessons and professional - development materials, and then developed a new assessment tied to the standards and administered it in the spring of 2013 — two years before most states had planned to put new tests in place.

We need to align every decision, every book, every lesson, every instructional strategy, and every assessment with our stated and agreed - upon grade - level standards.

As one of the two state - led collaboratives developing new assessments that align with the Common Core Standards, PARCC received a $ 186 million Race to the Top grant.

Without accurate assessments aligned with curricula and standards, education innovators would be flying blind.

Either way, the best process is to create assessments aligned with your school and district priorities.

But today, we have, the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career, one of two consortia of states funded by the federal government to develop «next - generation» assessments aligned with the Common Core State Standards.

Connecticut initiated a portfolio assessment for new teacher training and aligned assessments for students with standards for teachers.

Meaningful progress depends on informed modesty about the likely returns on current efforts; greater specificity and more emphasis on context in the curricula and school - level approaches to teaching soft skills; and the development and use of practical assessments that are closely aligned with a specific framework for teaching and learning.

Standards and Accountability: The foundation of any school accountability system rests on solid academic standards, and assessments aligned with those standards.

The new screening assessments are deliberately intended to align with specific elements in the framework.

How Shanghai Does It: Insights and Lessons from the Highest - Ranking Education System in the World says teachers are supported with ongoing professional development which is often collaborative in nature and focused on improving instruction, and a framework of clear learning standards, regular student assessment and well - aligned curriculum.

That's because Edison provides the content and assessments, all aligned with state standards, and Shughart does the rest.

At least one of the two new assessment - development consortia could — probably in the name of «performance assessment» and «career readiness» — easily drown in the soft stuff, in which case the tests it is building may not do justice to the academic standards with which they are meant to be aligned.

curriculum materials and assessments that are aligned with goals and incorporate the research on effective teaching and learning.

Indiana's academic standards are clear, concise, jargon - free, and generally well - aligned with the state's assessments, an independent review has found.

The real value here is that if the SAT aligns more to the common core, we won't be giving an assessment at the end of K - 12 that's out of kilter with what we demand at the end of the day.»

«But we realized we needed to get our assessments aligned with California standards and use data from those tests to inform our instruction.

Forty - six states and the District of Columbia are «developing high - quality assessments aligned with these standards.»

Amid way too much talk about testing and the Common Core, not enough attention is being paid to what parents will actually learn about their children's achievement when results are finally released from the recent round of state assessments (most of which assert that they're «aligned» with the Common Core).

The grade - by - grade MCAS - aligned targets put an end to curriculum anarchy and kicked off the process of locating or writing during - the - year assessments aligned with those goals.

Such a move, city and school officials said, will better align assessment and placement with instruction and will improve accountability.

Over the course of the two - year project, schools will begin to implement pathway - wide systems of performance - based assessment that include the use of common, outcomes - aligned rubrics and performance tasks, and a culminating student demonstration of learning and skill — all aligned with the Common Core and the 4Cs.

This product helps teachers... Plan to spiral the ELA standards Identify standards to reteach based on results Align instruction and strategies with desired learning outcomes Practice backward planning from assessments.

As a remedy, it provides «college and workplace readiness benchmarks» designed to help states align their high - school assessments and graduation requirements with the demands of credit - bearing college courses and quality jobs.

States are also coming together to develop the next generation of assessments aligned with these new standards.»

Such avoidance will get harder in states that eventually adopt the Next Generation» (a.k.a., national) Science Standards now under development by Achieve — assuming, of course, that suitable assessments come along that are well - aligned with those standards.

Louisiana plans to to develop and pilot a streamlined English and social studies assessment that aligns with what is taught in classrooms.