Sentences with phrase «assessment means much»

As any practicing teacher knows, assessment means much more than a one - time multiple - choice test, despite what the media and government seem to believe.

Not exact matches

In those areas that we have mapped, it typically takes us a few hours to go from a mechanism - inspired idea for treating a disease to knowing the companies that might have relevant clinical and preclinical assets to license, the companies from whom a candidate could be commissioned, trial designs and endpoints, competing and complementary agents, current and future standard of care, market size, comparable pricing, financing strategy, and potential acquirers, all meant to enable a thoughtful first - pass assessment of whether an idea could be worth a much deeper assessment.

There is actually already a cap on how much assessments can increase per year and over five years, meant to smooth out increases but which sometimes leads to residual increases even after property values seem to stop rising: six percent a year for class one properties, or 20 percent over five years.

To me, that's very exciting news because it means that with a little self assessment and lifestyle adjustment, we can prevent our genetic tendencies to gain weight, get wrinkles, develop diabetes, and so much more.

This means that we should instead accept the judgments of those with much more information about school quality, and it will be extremely rare that these more informed assessments of quality will be at odds with parental preferences.

Inevitably, cramming that much coverage into a short test leads states to rely mostly on multiple - choice questions — the fastest and cheapest means of large - scale assessment.

The reports demonstrate that federal accountability rules have derailed state reforms and assessment strategies, that the requirements have no common meaning across state lines, and that the sanctions fall especially hard on minority and integrated schools, asking for much less progress from affluent suburban schools.

Lessons Learned: What International Assessments Tell Us about Math Achievement Tom Loveless, editor (Brookings Institution Press) While math scores are bandied about in the modern era, how much do we really know about what they mean or what they can teach about practice and policy?

Never mind that dictating the ends with a national set of standards, curriculum, and assessments will necessarily dictate much of the means.

Peter Marra and Chris Santella, in their book, Cat Wars, admit as much in their assessment of the lack of political support for rounding up and killing cats, concluding, «American authorities remain resistant (if not heartily opposed) to the idea of managing free - ranging populations by lethal means.»

... Right, you can get a great sense of the full context of meaning, make definitive assessments of one's character, and determine how much prominence was gained professionally through a perception of written attitude in emails?

The effects of ice melt on ocean circulation were not included in the latest assessment by the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), meaning Hansen's predictions would occur much earlier and be less gradual than envisioned in the consensus reports of the IPCC.

Since hurricane paths don't always hit the same city, having an identical population, likewise buildings and economic infrastructure, it is incorrect to make hurricane financial impact assessments while looking at a long time spans, an analysis without nearly identical landfall scenarios doesn't mean much.

Women who initially felt that their partner shared their parenting style (meaning they felt they were pretty much on the same page about childcare values, philosophy and practices) were both more satisfied with their relationship and less likely to be depressed at the second assessment than were the other new moms.