Sentences with phrase «assessment measures your approach»

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It does not measure other critical brain functions that can be adversely affected by head trauma, such as balance and vision, which is why expert groups [1] recommend a «multifaceted approach to concussion management that emphasizes the use of objective assessment tools aimed at capturing the spectrum of clinical signs and symptoms, cognitive dysfunction, and physical deficits... that are more sensitive to the injury than using any one component alone.»

Guard officials described the assessment as a «disciplined approach to identify major waterway safety hazards, estimate risk levels, evaluate potential mitigation measures and set the stage for implementation of selected measures to reduce risk.»

When combined, this approach should improve our application of hydration assessment measures for determining fluid intake adequacy.

Since tests can include cultural bias and handicap those with different languages and cultures, we need to look at assessment as a holistic approach that includes performance tasks, portfolios, achievement scores, creativity tests, and other measures.

It combines a crowd - sourced approach to assessment item creation with strong verification procedures to maintain high quality and be sure that assessments actually measure the knowledge or skills that they purport to measure.

We find a positive correlation between a principal's assessment of how effective a teacher is at raising student achievement and that teacher's success in doing so as measured by the value - added approach: 0.32 for reading and 0.36 for math.

Measuring the real - world effectiveness of CBE and its assessments is as complicated and contentious as it is essential; after all, the success of the approach depends on the acceptance of CBE credentials by licensing agencies, graduate schools, and employers.

«I want readers to walk away understanding that education requires a holistic approach and should not be solely measured by assessments...

It also allows states to take advantage of a range of innovative approaches to improve assessment and reduce the burden of tests, such as utilizing computer - adaptive assessment, implementing smaller interim assessments in place of large summative tests, and diverse measures such as performance - based assessments.

To that end, we encourage states to develop a multiple measures approach to assessment, and we believe that standardized tests must meet American Statistical Association standards for reliability and validity.

Assessments measure areas of achievement and needed growth and inform daily and long - term instructional approach.

While multiple meta - analyses and large - scale research studies have found that models following the bilingual approach can produce better outcomes than ESL models, as measured by general academic content assessments or measures of reading comprehension or skills, other studies indicate that the quality of instructional practices matter as well as the language of instruction.

The Newark cluster of schools has recently taken a wider approach to assessment, looking at pupils» attitudes to learning as well as more standard progress measures.

For each of these application categories, the data that reflect alignment will require the deductive reasoning approach and consideration of the statistical strength of relationships between FAST ™ assessments and measures considered to reflect the «true» performance outcome for tested students.

In addition, a system that utilizes a growth model assessment approach with multiple measures of achievement is recommended.

Student assessment for the 21st century must use diverse approaches to measure and to value multiple approaches to teaching and learning and have as an expectation that all students will improve.

The California Performance Assessment Collaborative (CPAC) is launching an official state pilot where participants have opportunities to learn from one another and deepen practice; find common ground despite discrete approaches to performance assessment; engage in research and documentation of various practices; and ultimately, inform state policymakers about the supports and conditions needed to broadly implement high - quality graduation performance assessments that can serve as a viable alternative to traditional measures of college, career, and civic readiness.

To satisfy the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction's goal of providing a comprehensive approach to college and career readiness, educators use WorkKeys ® assessments to help students measure their skills — and see how they compare to what employers require.

At Vanderbilt, he has been principal investigator of 50 federally - sponsored research grants with which he and colleagues developed approaches to service delivery (e.g., pre-referral intervention, RTI); assessments (e.g., formative measures of student evaluation, dynamic assessment); and instruction (e.g., peer - mediated learning strategies).

One way to approach a balanced solution is to start with traditional, grade - level - specific, fixed - form assessments to measure all students.

Such an approach, however, could require an unsavory amount of testing time.46 To date, few performance assessments for social and emotional learning have been piloted at scale, and policymakers need more research to determine whether emerging tasks will be valid and reliable measures.47

Now more than 200 colleges and universities in 10 states have decided to use the assessments as part of a multiple measures approach to determine whether students are in need of remedial support.

States that submitted plans appear to have expanded their accountability systems beyond the traditional math and reading assessments, to include indicators for science, physical education, art, and school climate, allowing for a much more holistic approach to measuring student success.

In contrast, our competitors hide the details of their proprietary approaches, e.g. by saying that they use some unspecified measures of return vs. risk, or by relying on a subjective assessment by analysts.

Moreover, the availability of historical precedent might imply less contestation (especially from climate skeptics), a cognitively different approach to what we might consider «sufficient evidence», and easier assessment of any given eruption against some objective measure of impacts.

HEAT uses a bottom - up, stakeholder - based, qualitative / semi-quantitative risk - assessment approach to discuss and identify risks, adaptation measures, and their costs and benefits.

The methodological approach was based on generic risk management framework that follows a standardised process from identification of hazardous phenomena (extreme weather), followed by impact assessment and closed by mitigation and risk control measures.

The data set also depends on the correct assessment of two other aspects of sea level rise and hence is an indirect measure... [It] is a good approach, but with high uncertainties at present.

Furthermore, even the legal tests applied for the assessment of PFD agreements were contiguous insofar as the Commission did not adopt a «quick look» approach in order to characterise the agreements in Lundbeck as restrictive «by object»; rather, it did so following an individual and detailed examination of the measures in question having regard to their content, purpose and context.

«Mr. Anderson may wish to discuss: the current status of the National Energy Board's (NEB) review of the project; the Government's approach to reviewing the environmental assessment process and potential transition measures that could apply to TMX; the Government's commitment to renew its relationship with Indigenous people; and, potential developments in the company's plans related to the project.»

The multiple sclerosis functional composite measure (MSFC): an integrated approach to MS clinical outcome assessment

Assessment of Family Violence: A Handbook for Researchers and Practitioners Feindler, Rathus, & Silver (2003) View Abstract A compendium of available measures and assessment strategies in the field of family violence, including relevant issues of concern to several subfields and an overview of different assessment approaches.

The assessment process associated with the ABI: SE Approach entails the use of a curriculum - based measure that was developed specifically for this approach and is described in Chapter 6.

Dr. Clark has been Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator on numerous NIH funded studies including a randomized clinical trial examining the efficacy of a mother - infant relational approach for women experiencing major depression in the postpartum period and another investigating the validity of screening and assessment measures of social - emotional functioning in infants and young children.

«Promising assessments» have only been presented in one peer - reviewed article, but fulfill criteria (b) and (c) of «approaching well - established» measures.