Sentences with phrase «approaches to assessment in»

It also manages national assessment programmes in a range of countries and is a leader in research in innovative approaches to assessment in schools, skills and the higher education sector.

Harvard University physicist and educator Eric Mazur speaks with Education Matters editor Kathryn Edwards about how he believes approaches to assessment in education are outdated and that teachers should rethink their approaches in order to better prepare the leaders of tomorrow.

Natalie Packer, from nasen, examines what makes a fully inclusive approach to assessment in her seminar, focusing on approaches to assessment for children and young people with SEN and how they work in the school setting.

We experimented with this approach to assessment in maths last year by doing time - delayed end - of - unit assessments with Year 9 students.

Zachary had the misfortune of beginning his school career as the national and state educational agendas held a standardized approach to assessment in high - esteem, often relegating Zachary to tracking, or grouping, techniques that would easily deflate his developing self - image and motivation.

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«We might have adjusted our approach had we taken a very realistic assessment whether we had the leadership dynamics to achieve a breakthrough in negotiations,» said Shapiro.

The Federal Reserve appears ready to accept that its inflation assessments have been wrong, indicating an important shift in how it will approach rate hikes ahead.

Moreover, a 28 - page assessment of the reforms published by Goldman in 2013 claimed the bank's approach to transactions was now «fundamentally different».

To achieve this goal, several approaches are envisaged: identifying small populations with severe disease where a medicine's benefit - risk balance could be favorable; making more use of real - world data where appropriate to support clinical trial data; and involving health technology assessment bodies early in development to increase the chance that medicines will be recommended for payment and ultimately covered by national healthcare systemTo achieve this goal, several approaches are envisaged: identifying small populations with severe disease where a medicine's benefit - risk balance could be favorable; making more use of real - world data where appropriate to support clinical trial data; and involving health technology assessment bodies early in development to increase the chance that medicines will be recommended for payment and ultimately covered by national healthcare systemto support clinical trial data; and involving health technology assessment bodies early in development to increase the chance that medicines will be recommended for payment and ultimately covered by national healthcare systemto increase the chance that medicines will be recommended for payment and ultimately covered by national healthcare systems.

HAZELTON — A federal environmental assessment report that concluded the proposed New Prosperity open - pit mine would have significant adverse effects for the Tsilhqot» in is a condemnation of the B.C. Liberals approach to Aboriginal rights and title, says Stikine MLA Doug...

In light of this expectation and their assessment of the risks to the economic outlook, several expressed the view that a cautious approach to raising rates would be prudent or noted their concern that raising the target range as soon as April would signal a sense of urgency they did not think appropriate.»

Glass Lewis» approach to say - on - pay has two main components: (i) a qualitative assessment of the structure of a company's compensation program and the accompanying disclosure; and (ii) a quantitative assessment reflected in our pay - for - performance grade.

Our comprehensive assessment approach provides in - depth data and insights to evaluate and predict a leader's ability to perform, fit and make an impact.

In the name of «a flexible approach tailored to the modern conception of federalism, which allows for some overlapping and favours a spirit of co?operation» (at para 93) and an approach that is consistent with the presumption of validity, Justice Gascon clearly favoured a more deferential and «delicate» approach to the assessment of pith and substance than did the majority.

Although Griffin is correct in this preliminary assessment of modernity he goes on to contrast Whitehead's constructive approach to deconstruction or, as he calls it, eliminative postmodernism (VPT 31; 41).

Samuel Alexander is mentioned vaguely in the introduction, concerning his views on relativity and spacetime (CN viii); Bergson is mentioned only once regarding Whitehead's sympathetic assessment of his approach to time (CN 54).

With the approach of Updike's 50th birthday, and with the publication of this his 25th book, it is time to offer an assessment of his work as a whole: to trace his natively Lutheran vision of life as cast by God into an indissoluble ambiguity, to examine his treatment of death and sex as the two phenomena wherein the human contradiction is most sharply focused, to set this new novel in relation to the earlier «Rabbit» books, and to determine what is religiously troubling and compelling about Updike's art.

Not surprisingly, a scientific approach to farming, focusing heavily on experimentation, documentation and assessment in nearly every aspect of the operation.

After then can we make assessment on whether a certain player who is avialable in the transfer market can offer better in the context our own approach to the game.

The following principles guide and define our approach to learning and teaching: • Every child is capable and competent • Children learn through play, investigation, inquiry and exploration • Children and adults learn and play in reciprocal relationships with peers, family members, and teachers • Adults recognize the many ways in which children approach learning and relationships, express themselves, and represent what they are coming to know • Process is valued, acknowledged, supported, nurtured and studied • Documentation of learning processes acts as memory, assessment, and advocacy • The indoor and outdoor environments, and natural spaces, transform, inform, and provoke thinking and learning • School is a place grounded in the pursuit of social justice, social responsibility, human dignity and respect for all THE CREFELD SCHOOL 8836 Crefeld Street Philadelphia, PA 19118 215-242-5545 www.crefeld.org 7th - 12th grade The Crefeld School is a small, independent, coeducational school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7 - 12.

We take a multi-tiered approach to the audit process, to ensure we reach a fair assessment of how well services are working in practice.

Her current focus is on improving outcomes for infants in the NICU through developmental assessment and interventions, and on developing an interdisciplinary approach to initiating and progressing breast and bottle feeding.

Although our review was able to distinguish which type of model was being provided in most cases, it is necessary for approaches to be sufficiently described in published papers, to inform assessments and comparisons of outcomes.

In addition to recommending the so - called circuit - breaker approach for property taxes and cuts to business taxes such as a complete phase out of the 18a assessment surchage for utilities, the commission called for linking the tax cap, consolidating services and individual tax credits for homeowners.

In a damning assessment of Defra's approach to rural communities, MPs said the department's strategic objective of «strong rural communities» was «confusing and not easily understood».

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia said during an appearance in Westbury last week that the agency is approaching electronic assessment «slowly, cautiously,» in an effort to avoid mistakes associated with hurried reforms in past years.

«I am continually disappointed in the state for not recognizing this obvious problem in a «one - size fits all» approach to student assessments.»

In a perspective in this week's New England Journal of Medicine, Daniel Alford, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine and assistant dean of Continuing Medical Education and director of the Safe and Competent Opioid Prescribing Education (SCOPE of Pain) program at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), recommends that prescriber education is the best approach to addressing the prescription opioid - misuse epidemic, allowing for individualized care on the basis of a patient's needs after a careful benefit - risk assessmenIn a perspective in this week's New England Journal of Medicine, Daniel Alford, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine and assistant dean of Continuing Medical Education and director of the Safe and Competent Opioid Prescribing Education (SCOPE of Pain) program at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), recommends that prescriber education is the best approach to addressing the prescription opioid - misuse epidemic, allowing for individualized care on the basis of a patient's needs after a careful benefit - risk assessmenin this week's New England Journal of Medicine, Daniel Alford, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine and assistant dean of Continuing Medical Education and director of the Safe and Competent Opioid Prescribing Education (SCOPE of Pain) program at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), recommends that prescriber education is the best approach to addressing the prescription opioid - misuse epidemic, allowing for individualized care on the basis of a patient's needs after a careful benefit - risk assessment.

Following attacks by the FDLR in May 2009, AAAS was approached by Human Rights Watch to conduct a damage assessment of Busurungi and surrounding areas.

Dr Crispin Halsall, fellow guest editor said: «Scientists working in the field of Chemical research believe this approach will be fundamental in the future to resolving some of the biggest controversies in chemical risk assessment.»

«To better understand safety issues, we are making efforts to employ more modern investigational, molecular approaches to safety assessment — and increase our safety testing work force by about 10 percent,» says Phil Bentley, vice president and global head of preclinical safety at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research in New York CitTo better understand safety issues, we are making efforts to employ more modern investigational, molecular approaches to safety assessment — and increase our safety testing work force by about 10 percent,» says Phil Bentley, vice president and global head of preclinical safety at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research in New York Citto employ more modern investigational, molecular approaches to safety assessment — and increase our safety testing work force by about 10 percent,» says Phil Bentley, vice president and global head of preclinical safety at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research in New York Citto safety assessment — and increase our safety testing work force by about 10 percent,» says Phil Bentley, vice president and global head of preclinical safety at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research in New York City.

An academic integrity - focused approach to addressing plagiarism emphasises the promotion of positive values alongside education of staff and students about good, and bad, practice in writing, studying and assessment design.

While hydropower and fossil fuel power plants are favored approaches in some quarters, a new assessment by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found that wind and solar can be economically and environmentally competitive options and can contribute significantly to the rising demand.

(C) potential metrics and approaches for quantifying the climatic effects of black carbon emissions, including its radiative forcing and warming effects, that may be used to compare the climate benefits of different mitigation strategies, including an assessment of the uncertainty in such metrics and approaches; and

In our studies, we applied six independent scenarios to the assessment of potential causes or markers of CCD and got the same answer, giving us confidence in the results, since this inference approach is approximately analogous to applying the same technique to six different assessments [53In our studies, we applied six independent scenarios to the assessment of potential causes or markers of CCD and got the same answer, giving us confidence in the results, since this inference approach is approximately analogous to applying the same technique to six different assessments [53in the results, since this inference approach is approximately analogous to applying the same technique to six different assessments [53].

In order to dissect these defects, we utilize a unique approach including deep assessment of patient phenotype, clinical genetic testing to identify underlying genetic contributions to these features, and the application of combinatorial functional omics (transcriptome, metabolome, etc.) to uncover the pathological cellular states that result from these genetic changes.

AISL seeks to advance new approaches to and evidence - based understanding of the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments; provide multiple pathways for broadening access to and engagement in STEM learning experiences; advance innovative research on and assessment of STEM learning in informal environments; and develop understandings of deeper learning by participants.

Based on her analysis and assessment of remains in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, Ross has developed a data - driven approach to identifying populations that are at increased risk of genocide.

You will specialise in safety assessment of protein allergy, playing a role in evolving Unilever's approach to protein allergy risk assessment and through doing so deliver to the current and future needs of Unilever's Categories.

Adopting one of these approaches to pubertal assessment when studying adolescents will likely contribute to clarity and interpretability of neuroimaging findings in this population.

We employ advanced microscopy, high field magnetic resonance imaging, stereologic, and modeling approaches to develop an accurate quantitative assessment of such pathological changes in a region - and layer - specific manner.

In the largest such assessment to date, we applied this approach to each of the world's birds, amphibians and corals (16,857 species).

This earlier period of disease identification presents a valuable model in which to explore and improve future assessment of potential therapeutic approaches for ALS.

While this approach did not allow us to examine the impact of selective EBI2 - deficiency in DCs on WT B - lineage cells, the experiment did allow assessment of the response of EBI2 - deficient B cells in mice that lack EBI2 on CD11c + DCs while retaining EBI2 on approximately half of all non-CD11c expressing cells (such as helper T cells).

As in most cases, our general practitioner expressed some mild concern but continued with the wait - and - see approach until she was almost two and her expressive speech was less than five words, at which point we received a referral to public health for a speech assessment.

Nutritional Therapy is an evidence - based approach to health that uses an assessment process to identify imbalances in body chemistry which are corrected through diet, lifestyle changes, and targeted nutrients.

It enables graduates to create general approaches to promote, build, and maintain functional levels of health and vitality in daily life, present basic Ayurvedic lifestyle and wellness education to the public, and apply the principles of Ayurveda to enhance their current professional practice with a unique set of assessment and health promotion skills.

McCartney acknowledged the need for «special care» when approaching early childhood assessment, but at the same time, wondered how practical the advice might be and whether the systems are actually in place to support such assessment.

Many situations on visits can be assessed in this way and this approach is useful to keep in mind, as it starts an effective and relevant assessment procedure.

The approaches used by Denver schools in the Blueprint Schools Network since 2011 are supported by high - quality research and guided by the following five «tenets»: 1) excellence in leadership and instruction; 2) increased instructional time; 3) a no - excuses school culture of high expectations; 4) frequent assessments to improve instruction; and 5) daily tutoring in critical growth years.