Sentences with phrase «as a baseline assessment»

Alternatively, it can be used as a baseline assessment at the start of year 10 or when a new pupil joins your school to help you find gaps in their knowledge.

And for healthy pets just entering their senior years, blood tests can be used as a baseline assessment for future comparisons as your pet ages.

Not exact matches

I provide a thorough breastfeeding assessment as a baseline then help with adding pumping, bottle, and returning to work.

As with other neuropsychological testing tools, the value of the SAC in concussion assessment is maximized when individual baseline test data is available because, without such baselines, the athlete's postinjury performance on neuropsychological testing and other concussion assessment measures, such as the SAC, must be interpreted by comparison with a generalized «normal» based on a large population samplAs with other neuropsychological testing tools, the value of the SAC in concussion assessment is maximized when individual baseline test data is available because, without such baselines, the athlete's postinjury performance on neuropsychological testing and other concussion assessment measures, such as the SAC, must be interpreted by comparison with a generalized «normal» based on a large population samplas the SAC, must be interpreted by comparison with a generalized «normal» based on a large population sample.

The National Athletic Trainers» Association 2014 position statement on the management of sport - related concussion [14] says all athletes should «ideally» undergo a preseason baseline assessment, but, that, at a minimum, athletes who are at a high risk of concussion based on their sport should be included in any baseline testing program, with athletes with a significant concussion history, or other relevant pre-existing condition, such as attention - deficit hyperactivity disorder, tested on an individual basis.

Authors noted that they were unable to complete the baseline assessment and randomisation before birth, as planned, for 190 women (93 in the intervention group and 97 in the control group).

At a Wednesday news conference announcing the move, DOH Commissioner Howard Zucker repeatedly said his agency would start with a safety baseline of 400 ppt safety measure, the EPA's maximum allowable level for short - term PFOA exposure, as it began its health assessment of the contamination.

Clinical assessments were obtained for both groups at each time point, as well as at the baseline before the football season.

A few exhaustive inventories, such as the United Nations» Millennium Project and an around - the - world assessment of genes from marine microbes, should improve baseline data, but they will barely scratch the surface.

Maharaj said he didn't use a placebo group in his study because it was too expensive and because he believes that the baseline assessment will allow participants to serve as their own control.

Substantial benefit was defined as an improvement of 50 percent or more from the baseline pain and disability assessment.

«As Drucza explained, when it comes to gender norms, you may not get all the way from a «no» to a «yes», but only from a «2» to «3», and we want to make sure that we are capturing these smaller shifts, so we incorporated scales with ranges into our baseline and will ensure that these are used in future assessments to track transformations in social norms.»

Low range scenario B1, moderate A1B (used as the baseline for all other assessments in this study) and high range A2 are represented by A, C and E respectively for 2050, while B, D and F show the same scenarios for 2090.

• The issues of effective entry baseline assessment into Year 7 and lack of clarity around new GCSE grades are cited as major related concerns for secondary schools.

The Reception Baseline Assessment will be administered as a twenty - minute, teacher - recorded assessment of children's communication, language, literacy and early mathematics skills.

At CEM, the other original baseline provider, director Professor Robert Coe cites the fact that the government wants the baseline assessment to be used purely for accountability, rather than formative information for teachers, as a key flaw.

It could be used as a form of a baseline assessment if need be though.

I have used the CAPL as the indicator for baseline assessment.

What are your thoughts on advocating for using nationally normalized assessments (e.g. NWEA MAP) for each student as a baseline for their education growth during the course of an academic year and aggregating education growth on a school, district, student sub-group, etc. basis as a review body saw fit?

These assessment scores offer a baseline that now gives Maine the opportunity to measure student progress in meeting the standards as educators cultivate and strengthen students» ability to think critically and solve complex problems.

This opposes the baseline assessment tests which the government wants to introduce as the starting point for measuring progress through primary school.

Utilizing a benchmark assessment based on standards provides teachers with a baseline for where students are individually as well as where the class is as a whole at selected checkpoints throughout the year.

Most Reception practitioners already do some form of on - entry assessment, and have been doing this since long before the DfE announced their intention to introduce baseline assessments as a formal accountability measure.

Moving to a reception baseline assessment will not address this issue, in fact it may make it worse, as it would likely include many more children who are new to English so likely to receive low scores.

The DfE is now seeking to reintroduce baseline assessment as a school accountability measure.

The baseline assessments will be undertaken one - to - one with a member of staff and will focus on some of the key building blocks of learning, such as counting and picture and letter and number recognition.

The open letter describes all approaches to baseline assessment as «standardised baseline tests» and goes on to a blanket condemnation of these «tests».

Campaign against Baseline Assessment The NUT, as part of the Better Without Baseline campaign, successfully campaigned against the introduction of baseline assessment for school accountability purposes in SeptembBaseline Assessment The NUT, as part of the Better Without Baseline campaign, successfully campaigned against the introduction of baseline assessment for school accountability purposes in SeptembBaseline campaign, successfully campaigned against the introduction of baseline assessment for school accountability purposes in Septembbaseline assessment for school accountability purposes in September 2015.

In describing baseline assessment as «invalid and harmful», these writers regard any baseline assessment as incompatible with these well - established and well - regarded early years principles and practices.

And while it was respected in its field long before the baseline assessment was even a twinkle in the schools minister's eye, it was thrown into the national limelight in 2015 when, after primary schools were given the choice between six assessments selected as capable of reliably measuring the abilities of children entering the reception year, 75 per cent opted for EExBA, the assessment tool designed by Early Excellence and scored through teacher observation.

The motion called for the union's executive to take action, including «work towards a boycott of baseline assessments as the first step in undermining the basis of testing in primary schools».

«The NUT will expect the DfE to conduct a workload impact assessment of initiatives such as baseline and primary assessment, Ebacc and Progress 8, and will expect Ofsted to review the impact of last year's «clarifications» on workload demands on teachers.

The government says it will make KS1 SATs non-statutory «as soon as the reception baseline assessment has become fully established».

ATL welcomes news that reception baseline assessment will not be used as a starting point to measure pupil progress

A robust baseline assessment and follow - up progress measure used to support learning should be a prime candidate here, but it should feature as just one item in a school's assessment toolbox.

But she added the baseline assessments are «wholly necessary as they provide a valuable snapshot of a child's ability when entering the Foundation Phase».

Of course, teachers may create their own benchmark assessments to act as a baseline.

As the new baseline assessment policy develops, opinions are quickly polarising.

From September 2016 primary schools will need to use the reception baseline assessments if they want to be assessed on pupil progress at key stage 2, as opposed to attainment.

As an entity that does care about the issue, Louisa McCune Elmore, executive director of the Kirkpatrick Foundation, explained the mission behind a larger statewide assessment that is being conducted by the foundation: «The SpayFirst survey is part of a multifaceted baseline study by Kirkpatrick Foundation to assess the status and condition of animals in Oklahoma's geographic boundaries, from wildlife and pets to livestock.

Early Disease Detection As pets age it is important to acquire a baseline assessment of their kidney, liver, and thyroid metabolic function.

As pets age it is important to acquire a baseline assessment of their kidney, liver, and thyroid metabolic function.

«As a unique long term record the Challenger data will be a very useful baseline for model assessment,» he said.

Estimated sectoral economic potential for global mitigation for different regions as a function of carbon price in 2030 from bottom - up studies, compared to the respective baselines assumed in the sector assessments.

Most impact assessments, however, seek to determine the effect of climate change with respect to the present, and therefore recent baseline periods such as 1961 to 1990 are usually favoured.

Method The period 1967 to 1987 will be used as a baseline to generate the capability benchmark for this process, NB this time period is being arbitrarily chosen from its relation to a relatively flat portion of the GISS global temperature anomaly chart rather than by proper shopfloor assessment criteria.

Comment: A large number of commenters urged that the term «assessment» be included in the list of services in the definition, as «assessment» is used to determine the baseline health status of an individual.

It includes an analysis of the states» needs assessments, as well as baseline characteristics of families, staff, local programs, and models participating in the study.

In early 2001 AMEEF, as managers of the MMSD (Australia) project, commissioned various studies including a baseline assessment of the minerals industry and five other areas of interest: mining and biodiversity, stakeholder engagement, mining - Indigenous agreements, managing minerals wealth, and industry - based initiatives for sustainable development.

The evaluation included 3,001 families at seventeen sites nationwide and consisted of baseline assessments as well as follow - up assessments when children were fourteen, twenty - four, and thirty - six months old.42