Just as badging systems can be seen as a subset of
alternative assessment models and used in coordination with other approaches, such as ePortfolios, badging systems can also be seen as a subset of ways to gamify education and be used in coordination with such things as point systems and leaderboards.
Not exact matches
Presenter: John Foster, NOCTI The NRCCTE is developing two professional development
models focused on improving secondary CTE that address: supporting teachers entering the profession through
alternative routes and the use of technical
assessment data to drive instructional improvement and student achievement.
(b) The purposes of establishing charter schools are: (i) to stimulate the development of innovative programs within public education; (ii) to provide opportunities for innovative learning and
assessments; (iii) to provide parents and students with greater options in selecting schools within and outside their school districts; (iv) to provide teachers with a vehicle for establishing schools with
alternative, innovative methods of educational instruction and school structure and management; (v) to encourage performance - based educational programs; (vi) to hold teachers and school administrators accountable for students» educational outcomes; and (vii) to provide
models for replication in other public schools.
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.
I personally buy into
alternative performance
assessments in teaching social studies, and while I try to incorporate this
model into my classroom, I also follow the maxim — when in Mexico, do as the Mexicans do.
The NRCCTE is developing two professional development
models focused on improving secondary CTE that address: supporting teachers entering the profession through
alternative routes and the use of technical
assessment data to drive instructional improvement and student achievement.
For J.D. Byrider, a used - car sales and finance company, Equifax developed a risk -
assessment model that uses traditional credit data augmented with
alternative data sources such as telecom and utility information.
To improve seismic hazard
assessment along subduction zones as well as other dangerous faults such as continental transforms, we need a set of open software tools to explore
alternatives, we need a trans - national dialogue to discuss and vet our different ideas and approaches, and we need to conduct prospective tests of global
models that are based on these various national strategies.
Similarly, attribution of climate change to anthropogenic causes involves statistical analysis and the
assessment of multiple lines of evidence to demonstrate, within a pre-specified margin of error, that the observed changes are (1) unlikely to be due entirely to natural internal climate variability; (2) consistent with estimated or
modelled responses to the given combination of anthropogenic and natural forcing; and (3) not consistent with
alternative, physically plausible explanations of recent climate change.
Economic theory can help with policy design at a conceptual level, while
modelling can provide an ex ‐ ante
assessment of the potential impact of
alternative mitigation policies.
13.5.1 Key Uncertainties in Climate Scenarios 13.5.1.1 Specifying
alternative emissions futures 13.5.1.2 Uncertainties in converting emissions to concentrations 13.5.1.3 Uncertainties in converting concentrations to radiative forcing 13.5.1.4 Uncertainties in
modelling the climate response to a given forcing 13.5.1.5 Uncertainties in converting
model response into inputs for impact studies 13.5.2 Approaches for Representing Uncertainties 13.5.2.1 Scaling climate
model response patterns 13.5.2.2 Defining climate change signals 13.5.2.3 Risk
assessment approaches 13.5.2.4 Annotation of climate scenarios
The Energy Commission believes these issues deserve a fuller vetting, including an
assessment of
alternative market
models that would better serve the goal of reduced cost to customers.
A plethora of integrated
assessment models (IAMs) have been constructed and used to estimate the social cost of carbon (SCC) and evaluate
alternative abatement policies.
The way in which a client's behavior is defined leads to specific treatment, and thus it is necessary to investigate the psychological
models used for
assessment and diagnosis as well as explore
alternative ways to understand behavioral «symptomology» among young African American men.