Sentences with phrase «assessment system models»

Only by ensuring that the assessment system models genuine performance; in other words, will student achievement and teaching be improved over time?

Only by ensuring that the assessment system models such (genuine) performance will student achievement and teaching be improved over time.

Not exact matches

The selection of the Ishida X-ray systems followed careful assessment of various models by Karwendel.

Completing a system - wide staffing evaluation and assessment; leading the way to developing models for sharing staff resources, and thereby easing the transitions caused by attrition - based staffing reductions;

Conducting a system - wide staffing evaluation and assessment; leading the way to developing models for sharing staff resources, and thereby easing the transitions caused by attrition - based staffing reductions.

The researchers now want to continue developing a more advanced regional earth system model to improve the regional environmental impact assessment, and apply this not only to the Amazon region but also to other parts of the world.

«One reason that we haven't appreciated the role of aerosols in the climate system is that many — most — models don't include aerosol - cloud interactions,» including only a handful of those used in IPCC's fifth assessment report, released in 2014.

A few of the main points of the third assessment report issued in 2001 include: An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system; emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols due to human activities continue to alter the atmosphere in ways that are expected to affect the climate; confidence in the ability of models to project future climate has increased; and there is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities.

The computational toxicology program would see a nearly 30 % boost, to $ 19.6 million, to beef up modeling efforts of hazard assessments and speed up the development of a virtual embryo, liver, and cardiopulmonary system.

These «integrated assessment models» accounted for energy use, the economy, and climate and the way these different systems interact with one another.

«Geden fails to understand the energy system modeling literature, and seems not to have read the IPCC assessment on transformation pathways.

To inform its Earth system models, the climate modeling community has a long history of using integrated assessment models — frameworks for describing humanity's impact on Earth, including the source of global greenhouse gases, land use and land cover change, and other resource - related drivers of anthropogenic climate change.

Finally, I would expect that there will be a further representation of the human system in Earth system models (ESMs) and that integrated assessment models (IAMs) will try to be more geographically explicit — in order to better represent local processes, such as water management and presence of renewable energy.

By examining rigorous evidence about the validity of both of these tests, however, Massachusetts provides a model for other states facing difficult choices about whether and how to upgrade their assessment systems.

That model, I think, is now well known across the state: standards - based curriculum, radically better assessments,... a fair but rigorous accountability system which, as you know, the Regents will soon put into regulations creating the framework of evaluation for principals and teachers.

Within this model, text readability — specifically, its quantitative measure for relative difficulty — is set higher than the mark set by prior readability systems and reading comprehension assessments for each grade span.

Specifically to: 1) collaborate with Crittenton Women's Union (CWU) to create video resources that demonstrate its family skill - building model as a means of building adult capabilities to improve child outcomes; 2) create an initial set of materials for practitioners and leaders of family service - provision systems to be used with caregivers to improve serve - and - return interaction as well as self - regulation and executive function skills; and 3) test these materials as part of a qualitative needs assessment of practitioners who wish to build the capabilities of adults who care for children birth - to - five, with an emphasis on birth - to - three.

The 2015 field test of a prototype established that the Institute's model of assessment of principals» work is both valid and reliable, critical for any certification system and achieves the goals of being customisable and manageable.

Without assessing these programs per se, Johnson explains, the book examines how these systems are set up, including whether they use student performance on standardized tests, professional evaluations, a hybrid model, and whether they used individual or group assessments.

But everything fell apart the minute we broke up into «enabling environments,» to revise «cluster logic models,» and «establish comprehensive assessment systems.»

Most ITS systems begin the instructional process by determining what knowledge the student already knows, typically through an assessment, and then updating the student model's status as instruction occurs.

Model student growth: As an integrated longitudinal system of assessments, ACT Aspire can provide an evolving picture of student growth and unique learning needs at various points in a student's educational career.

Finally, it is important to note that this is another example of the interaction of school - level factors (a common assessment system that enabled flexible movement between groups and a collaborative model that enabled flexible deployment of teaching personnel) and a classroom - level factor (small - group emphasis).

Earlier, we argued that the presence of a schoolwide assessment system in these schools permitted them to implement small ability groups with sufficiently permeable boundaries to permit frequent between - group movement; we also argued that without a collaborative model in place, these schools would not have been able to deploy teacher personnel to find so much time for each small group.

We understood that if we truly valued 21st century skills, our assessment systems needed to model that.

With the Marzano Causal Model, districts can transform their teacher evaluation system from an exercise in compliance into an effective engine of incremental growth, one that reflects parallel gains between teacher assessment and student performance.

Brian has been involved with creating policies, models, and criteria for promoting validity, reliability, and credibility in both assessments and accountability systems through work with groups such as the U.S. Department of Education (co-author of Accountability Peer Review guidance; Growth Model Pilot guidance), Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)(author of documents on the design of accountability systems and balanced assessment systems), National Center for Educational Outcomes (NCEO)(author of research reports on standardization and reliability for assessment systems for students with disabilities), and several state Technical Advisory Committees.

The Tennessee value - added assessment system (TVAAS): Mixed - model methodology in educational assessment.

Just as badging systems can be seen as a subset of alternative assessment models and used in coordination with other approaches, such as ePortfolios, badging systems can also be seen as a subset of ways to gamify education and be used in coordination with such things as point systems and leaderboards.

The policy discussions will focus on effective and scalable models, capacity building, professional development, funding, curriculum, instruction, innovative assessments, and data and reporting systems.

«Mississippi has built a strong foundation for its public education system that includes rigorous academic standards for all students, aligned assessments to evaluate student achievement and an accountability model that clearly measures the performance of our schools and districts.

These techniques have been synthesized into a compact model with three pillars: (a) electronic assessment system (e-portfolios for individual assessment and program evaluation), (b) teacher candidates» technology - based course assignments and performances, and (c) Web - based instruction and communication.

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

The report also describes how two states, Illinois and Delaware, have approached evaluation, and provides a tool from its model - development work, an assessment that states can use to determine their degree of «readiness» for building a stronger system to evaluate principal preparation programs.

· Teacher compensation should be restructured to provide more incentives tied to performance, first by significantly reducing the number of steps on the salary scale, and then by phasing in a performance based system as the value - added assessment model evolves to the individual classroom level.

The current reform model, as it has evolved over the past twenty years, is based on the curriculum standards embodied in the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) document adopted in 1997, on which the entire edifice is built — the curriculum, the assessments, the teacher preparation, and the incentive system.

All districts receiving funds will have the same charge — to develop model curriculum and assessments, to develop an online tool so that teachers statewide can access the curriculum, to implement the state's new teacher evaluation system and to help strengthen the state's charter school authorizing practices.

Rather than a politics that seeks to exert control over the system from the federal level (too many cooks, too great a focus on data - driven accountability models = too many mandated assessments), the provinces get to spend the transfer payments where they believe it will make sense.

Next - gen models combine project and other assessments into competency tracking systems.

TXCC will work with TEA to support this project by collaboratively developing information on the range of state models of assessment and accountability systems, facilitating presentations to commission members by experts on key topics related to its work.

Technical assistance is provided to teams around the structure of successful School Responder Model initiatives, building the necessary collaborative team, identification of youth in need through screening and assessment, processes to develop enduring systems of referral to effective services, and data collection and analysis.

Catalyst Chicago describes a new performance management system for Chicago principals modeled on an interim assessment system developed by New Leaders for its Chicago principals.

While no assessment system is without limitations, Tennessee's value - added assessment model stands head and shoulders above others with regard to its focus on the effectiveness of schools, its ability to remove the biasing effects of social and economic influences, and its usefulness in answering critical questions about student progress and educational quality.

In the Classroom Literacy; Online Learning; Common Core Models and Best Practices; Math Education; Culturally Relevant Education; Backwards Instructional Design; Achievement Gap Strategies; Differentiation / Intervention Strategies; English Learners; Supporting Struggling Students; Multi-age Classroom Instruction; Common Core; Blended Learning; Teacher Evaluation; Smarter Balanced Assessments; Project Based Learning; Grading Systems

The DLM assessment system is being designed to support student learning by having assessment tasks model good instruction.

This paper synthesizes research on the role of standards and assessment in promoting learning, describes the nature of assessment systems that can support changes in practice, Illustrates the use of technology to transform assessment systems and learning, and proposes a model for assessing 21st century skills.

Moreover, he innovates and supports model programs and systems of assessment for learning that foster arts literacy and expand opportunities for learning in the visual and performing arts for New Jersey's 1.4 million students.

The other half of the funding would be devoted mostly to statewide initiatives, including professional development for teachers and administrators, the expansion of the longitudinal data system, vertical scale assessment data, developing models for supporting, supervising and evaluating teachers and principals, secondary school reform, and several other initiatives.

Boston Educational Development Foundation; Boston, MA $ 150,000 over one year to create and disseminate materials to publicize their preschool through second - grade program model by highlighting instructional practices, professional development, and assessment systems to improve early childhood programs, locally, and nationally through successful replication.

The steps involved in the Dick & Carey model include: Step 1: Identify instructional needs and goals Step 2: Conduct instructional analysis Step 3: Analyze learner characteristics and contexts Step 4: Write performance objectives Step 5: Develop assessment instruments Step 6: Outline your instructional strategy base on the learning objectives Step 7: Develop instructional materials Step 8: Conduct Formative Evaluation to revise and improve instructional material Step 9: Conduct Summative Evaluation to learn about the effectiveness of your training The difference between the Dick and Carey Systems approach and ADDIE is that the Task Analysis incorporates instructional analysis.