Sentences with phrase «as assessment policies»

Among those ten, three instruments were used both in child daycare centers and as assessment policies.

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All these assessments were consistent with what the Board staff had provided and were viewed as likely to continue assuming a continuation of the gradual adjustment in policy.

This new policy was apparently the result of a 2008 Risk Management Assessment (available to the right) involving stakeholders only from the shipping industry, though Transport Canada's methodology for Pilotage Risk Assessments defines stakeholders as «any individual, group, or organization able to affect, be affected by, or believe it might be affected by, a decision or activity.»

As we argued on numerous occasions, the budget needs to be much more explicit on the proposed policy initiatives; providing sufficient detail and background information for Parliamentary assessment and for a better understanding by the public at large.

However, with the inception of the inflation target, the quarterly assessments on its view of the current and future state of the Australian economy gradually increased in length and depth of analysis, to reach their present form where they are published as a stand - alone document — the quarterly Statement on Monetary Policy.

Alignment of government policy is particularly crucial, as inconsistency between government policies inhibits investment and raises the cost of capital.235 Once the overall strategic direction is set, a range of methods and instruments are available to mainstream climate at the project level.236 This needs to happen at the technical assessment stage, where technological and process options and alternatives are considered that will achieve the project aim; at the economic assessment stage, which involves measuring net impacts of the project on welfare; and at the financial assessment stage, where costs and revenues of the project are assessed.237

As a result of the Review and Renewal, CCHD's assessment of each organization now also depends as a matter of fixed policy on the careful pastoral judgment of each local Bishop in his own diocese: no organization is funded without the local Bishop's signaturAs a result of the Review and Renewal, CCHD's assessment of each organization now also depends as a matter of fixed policy on the careful pastoral judgment of each local Bishop in his own diocese: no organization is funded without the local Bishop's signaturas a matter of fixed policy on the careful pastoral judgment of each local Bishop in his own diocese: no organization is funded without the local Bishop's signature.

The group cited many gaps and holes in the implementation of the said policy citing lack of specific administrative orders of departments on how they will implement risk assessment and regulation of GM crops as required by the JDC.

Throughout the school year, each team works with a Challenge Success coach to design and implement positive changes in areas such as curriculum and assessment, homework policies, the daily school schedule, and health and wellness programs.

The assessment and planning steps should involve teachers, child nutrition staff, other school staff as appropriate, parents, students, and the community as a part of the required wellness policy.»

Additional Accountability Requirements: The state requires LEAs to annually complete the online Wellness Policy Builder assessment tool to document their consideration of the state's School Wellness Policy Guidelines (2010) as required by Senate Bill 154.

Each LEA participating in the drug testing of students must develop policies and procedures to ensure that those students receive the assistance needed, including an assessment to determine the severity of the student's alcohol and drug problem and a recommendation for referral to intervention or treatment resources as appropriate.

With regard to assessments on the ground, FTSE rejected IBFAN's suggestion that it evaluate specific violations generated by these systems, stating: «we will not be asking the assessors to act as a judge with regards to specific allegations, but rather to assess whether the companies practices on the ground are in - line with THEIR stated policies.»

It can also be extended to one day for the purpose of training personnel in hospital settings where the ATLFF is established as the policy - based tongue - tie screening and assessment procedure.

Clarke yesterday pulled no punches as he launched a withering assessment of May's administration, arguing she leads a «government with no policies».

An investigation into the processes for award of the contract and a value for money assessment would be welcome as it would be based on law and policies and not motivated by ill will and pettiness.

@userLTK - «warrants» - considering Obama didn't respond before, that's very arguably not an accurate assessment as far as real US policy goes.

Raju Mann, who has been involved in and closely following the debate as director for policy and planning for the Municipal Art Society of New York, offered a similar assessment.

Impact assessments may not make for great sound bites or lurid tabloid headlines, but they do result in better policy, and at a time of severe cuts, there is a pressing need to ensure all public spending is as effective as possible.

Hillary Clinton plans to deliver a scorching assessment today of Donald Trump's foreign policy prescriptions, casting her likely Republican rival as a threat to decades of bipartisan tenets of American diplomacy and declaring him unfit for the presidency.

«As the AAAS Council stated in 2006: Censorship, intimidation, or other restriction on the freedom of scientists employed or funded by governmental organizations to communicate their unclassified scientific findings and assessments not only to each other but also to policymakers and to the public is inimical to the advance of science and its appropriate application in the policy domain.»

But, as Hansen wrote in an additional assessment of his new analysis, «Environmentalists need to recognize that attempts to force all - renewable policies on all of the world will only assure that fossil fuels continue to reign for base - load electric power, making it unlikely that abundant affordable power will exist and implausible that fossil fuels will be phased out.»

As co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) working group on mitigation, he is presenting results from the group's 2007 assessment at several side events and briefings for policy - makers.

From a climate policy perspective, the bill can be seen as part of the Conservative ongoing effort to 1) gut environmental assessments and scientific research; 2) attack ENGOs that disagree with government policy to promote unfettered development of the oil sands; and 3) to sideline and even eliminate inconvenient advisory bodies like the National Roundtable on Energy and the Environment.

Research assessment should also consider a variety of research outputs, such as datasets, and effects such as influence on policy and practice, while organisations that supply metrics should be open about their data and methods, it adds.

A pair of education specialists, one from Harvard, the other Boston College, have published a Policy Forum piece in the journal Science decrying the use of international large - scale education assessments (ILSAs) as tools...

The research units conduct and coordinate original research in areas such as student performance standards, assessment, curriculum, commercialism in schools, and language policy issues.

Koretz focuses his research primarily on educational assessment and testing, particularly when it is used as a tool of education policy.

Rachel, there is also a gap between what face to face policy describes as effective assessment and how it may be defined for online / blended.

Using more recent data, a report by the Center on Education Policy concludes that reading and math achievement as measured by state assessments has increased in most states since 2002 and that there have been smaller but similar patterns in NAEP scores.

Koretz's research focuses on educational assessment and policy, particularly high - stakes testing and its effect on schools, as well as the validity of the score gains.

It was established in 2007, as a scientific body that provides independent policy - relevant scientific assessments to governments and other stakeholders on the efficient and effective use of natural resources over the whole life - cycle.

On both sides of the sea, standards, assessments, accountability, and school choice were surfacing as ideas, and becoming policies and programs.

For every policy that a state department education or the federal government erects in connection with or reliant on summative assessment data, however, the longer it will take states to back off of «Measurement 2.0,» and realize the potential of formative assessment as a teaching, learning, and accountability tool.

But the potential for formative assessment to continuously expand and improve will be stunted so long as we perpetuate summative assessment regimes and build interdependent policies that rely on those assessments to operate.

Moreover, summative assessment sat at the core of many of the policy reforms that the leaders described: additional accountability levers such as teacher evaluation systems and statewide school report cards draw on data coming out of these summative tests to make determinations and comparisons regarding teacher and school - level performance.

When Chester took up his role as commission of elementary and secondary education in 2008, he may have seemed like somewhat of an «outsider» in Massachusetts, coming from Ohio, with an impressive track record, where he worked as senior associate state superintendent for the Department of Education and oversaw standards, assessments, accountability, policy development, and strategic planning for the state.

These criteria can be used by assessment developers, policy makers, and educators as they work to create and adopt assessments that promote deeper learning of 21st - century skills that students need to succeed in today's knowledge - based economy.

Included in the PowerPoint: Government Government Macro Policies (AS Level) a) Types of Policy: fiscal policy, monetary policy and supply side policy - instruments of each policy b) Policies to correct balance of payments disequilibrium - assessment of the effectiveness of fiscal monetary and supply side policies to correct a balance of payments disequilibrium - expenditure - reducing and expenditure - switching c) Policies to correct inflation and deflation - assessment of the effectiveness of fiscal, monetary and supply side policies to correct inflation and deflation This PowerPoint is best used when using worksheets and activities to help reinforce the ideas talkePolicies (AS Level) a) Types of Policy: fiscal policy, monetary policy and supply side policy - instruments of each policy b) Policies to correct balance of payments disequilibrium - assessment of the effectiveness of fiscal monetary and supply side policies to correct a balance of payments disequilibrium - expenditure - reducing and expenditure - switching c) Policies to correct inflation and deflation - assessment of the effectiveness of fiscal, monetary and supply side policies to correct inflation and deflation This PowerPoint is best used when using worksheets and activities to help reinforce the ideas talked Policy: fiscal policy, monetary policy and supply side policy - instruments of each policy b) Policies to correct balance of payments disequilibrium - assessment of the effectiveness of fiscal monetary and supply side policies to correct a balance of payments disequilibrium - expenditure - reducing and expenditure - switching c) Policies to correct inflation and deflation - assessment of the effectiveness of fiscal, monetary and supply side policies to correct inflation and deflation This PowerPoint is best used when using worksheets and activities to help reinforce the ideas talked policy, monetary policy and supply side policy - instruments of each policy b) Policies to correct balance of payments disequilibrium - assessment of the effectiveness of fiscal monetary and supply side policies to correct a balance of payments disequilibrium - expenditure - reducing and expenditure - switching c) Policies to correct inflation and deflation - assessment of the effectiveness of fiscal, monetary and supply side policies to correct inflation and deflation This PowerPoint is best used when using worksheets and activities to help reinforce the ideas talked policy and supply side policy - instruments of each policy b) Policies to correct balance of payments disequilibrium - assessment of the effectiveness of fiscal monetary and supply side policies to correct a balance of payments disequilibrium - expenditure - reducing and expenditure - switching c) Policies to correct inflation and deflation - assessment of the effectiveness of fiscal, monetary and supply side policies to correct inflation and deflation This PowerPoint is best used when using worksheets and activities to help reinforce the ideas talked policy - instruments of each policy b) Policies to correct balance of payments disequilibrium - assessment of the effectiveness of fiscal monetary and supply side policies to correct a balance of payments disequilibrium - expenditure - reducing and expenditure - switching c) Policies to correct inflation and deflation - assessment of the effectiveness of fiscal, monetary and supply side policies to correct inflation and deflation This PowerPoint is best used when using worksheets and activities to help reinforce the ideas talked policy b) Policies to correct balance of payments disequilibrium - assessment of the effectiveness of fiscal monetary and supply side policies to correct a balance of payments disequilibrium - expenditure - reducing and expenditure - switching c) Policies to correct inflation and deflation - assessment of the effectiveness of fiscal, monetary and supply side policies to correct inflation and deflation This PowerPoint is best used when using worksheets and activities to help reinforce the ideas talkePolicies to correct balance of payments disequilibrium - assessment of the effectiveness of fiscal monetary and supply side policies to correct a balance of payments disequilibrium - expenditure - reducing and expenditure - switching c) Policies to correct inflation and deflation - assessment of the effectiveness of fiscal, monetary and supply side policies to correct inflation and deflation This PowerPoint is best used when using worksheets and activities to help reinforce the ideas talkepolicies to correct a balance of payments disequilibrium - expenditure - reducing and expenditure - switching c) Policies to correct inflation and deflation - assessment of the effectiveness of fiscal, monetary and supply side policies to correct inflation and deflation This PowerPoint is best used when using worksheets and activities to help reinforce the ideas talkePolicies to correct inflation and deflation - assessment of the effectiveness of fiscal, monetary and supply side policies to correct inflation and deflation This PowerPoint is best used when using worksheets and activities to help reinforce the ideas talkepolicies to correct inflation and deflation This PowerPoint is best used when using worksheets and activities to help reinforce the ideas talked about.

HDP courses cover subjects as varied as language and literacy development, educational neuroscience, prevention science and practice, early childhood education policy, assessment, gender and relationships, moral and civic development, and development across cultures.

Once the state has decided on its policy position, however, a judicial presence should be maintained to ensure that the chosen policy is fully funded, is implemented in a coherent manner, and results in substantially improved student performance, as measured by validated assessments of academic achievement and of students» ability to function as capable citizens and workers.

The key points from each strand are highlighted as follows: Early Identification and support • Early identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tribunal

Even skeptics, however, would benefit from Popham's insights regarding how and why high - quality assessment is a matter of politics, policy, and practice, as well as technical expertise.

Why the School «Accountability Movement» Based on Standardized Tests Is Nothing More than «a Charade» (The Washington Post) Professor Daniel Koretz quoted as expert on educational assessment and testing policy.

At Bill Quay Primary School, the technology allows people to upload their own self - assessment contributions, saving time and improving access to information such as Ofsted reports, policy documents, quality assurance processes and guidelines, minutes of meetings, school performance data and other documentation.

From the implementation of the Common Core, to the recent debate surrounding teacher tenure, nearly every issue in public education today can be seen as a facet of a single, fundamental policy question: how should we use standardized assessments and the student achievement data these tests produce?

For the analysis, released last week by the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy at Indiana University in Bloomington, researchers analyzed data stretching back as far as 1996 from 4th and 8th grade reading and math tests administered by the National Assessment of Educational Progress and from state assessments in those subjects.

This is true whether assessment information is collected as part of a teacher's day - to - day work and used to guide next steps in teaching and learning, or through international programs such as the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), and used by education systems to guide future policies and programs.

The IOG also offers bespoke training on other related topics such as budgets and accounts, analysing how to set and manage your budget, symptoms of poor drainage, including the types of systems available, and health and safety - compiling health and safety policies, procedures and risk assessments.

Debra Viadero is an assistant managing editor at Education Week, where she oversees coverage of education research, curriculum, assessment, and college - and career - ready standards, as well as teaching and teacher policy issues.