Self -
assessment tools are used to generate a list of occupations that are deemed appropriate based on your answers to series of questions.
In another seminar, Ecofys showed how life - cycle
assessment tools are used by companies like Alpro to measure the carbon footprint of its products.
One risk
assessment tool being used in bail decisions may avoid many of the critiques that Starr, Pasquale and Holder articulate.
Not exact matches
For the «vast majority of candidates,» says Aiken, the intervention of a lawyer or bot
is unlikely to do more than an accurate self -
assessment using government - provided
tools.
When the pressure
is on to fill a position, it
's easier to
use the clichéd «beer test» — as in, «would I have a beer with this guy» — as a decision - making
tool than it
is to undergo the complicated and time - consuming work of a more nuanced
assessment.
One key takeaway from their results
was, as the authors wrote in the discussion section of their paper, how information from quick personality
assessment tools can
be used: (emphasis ours):
Tony understands the power of the DISC personality
assessment as a valuable
tool for bettering your self - understanding, so much so that he asks his own employees to
use it when they
're hired at his company.
As we continue to
use Dr. Jim Laub «
s servant leadership
assessment tool that gauges organizational health, the third thing that great leaders do differently
is they develop people.
As we continue to
use Dr. Jim Laub «
s servant leadership
assessment tool that gauges organizational health, the fifth thing that great leaders do differently
is they provide leadership.
When considering sustainability in packaging, key
tools are the
use of Life Cycle
Assessments and Life Cycle Thinking.
The report
is the first time an entire industry sector has
used a common
assessment tool to document the adoption of sustainable practices among its members and reported the results publicly.
Australians
are now able to measure the quality of their eating habits
using a simple online
assessment tool, the CSIRO Healthy Diet Score.
The California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance (CSWA), in collaboration with Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and regional wine associations,
is hosting a new workshop series to give wineries of all sizes the
tools for self -
assessment to make improvements in environmental performance and to lower overall production costs for water and energy
use.
The California Wine Community Sustainability Report 2004
is the first time an entire industry has
used a common
assessment tool to publicly report on the adoption of sustainable practices.
The SENSE
tool can
be used for (i) environmental impact
assessment of the product, (ii) food chain hot spot identification, (iii) comparison of hypothetical or real improvement scenarios, (iv)
assessment of the environmental impact development over the years, (v) benchmarking opportunity for the companies, and (vi) a business to business communication strategy.
We
use these
tools day in and day out to provide compliance and risk
assessments that
are comprehensive and convincing.
Relevance and Potential
Use of Results An indicator of SOAAN'
s success in creating relevant output would
be that scientific bodies and operators
are able to continue to interface with the new
assessment tool (
s).
I find it
's often helpful to get some sense of a concussed patient
's cognitive deficits by performing a neurocognitive
assessment, either
using a standard written concussion
assessment tool, or one of the many computer - based
assessment tools.
Jeff Janssen's book, «The Team Captain's Leadership Manual» offers an excellent measurement
tool, «The Commitment Continuum,» which can
be used for both self -
assessment and in a unique way to get extra feedback from your coach.
They concluded that when it comes to comparing students at one school or in one classroom with students in another, self -
assessments just don't work — especially in cases where they
are used as
tools for accountability.
Contrary to some media reports, impact sensors
used in this fashion
are not intended to replace sideline observers, game officials, coaches, and teammates, who, if they observe an athlete exhibiting signs of concussion, can trigger a sideline screening for concussion
using one or more
assessment tools (eg.
My experience with the Newcastle football team in Oklahoma leads me to believe that, as long as impact sensors
are strictly
used for the limited purpose of providing real - time impact data to qualified sideline personnel, not to diagnose concussions, not as the sole determining factor in making remove - from - play decisions, and not to replace the necessity for observers on the sports sideline trained in recognizing the signs of concussion and in conducting a sideline screening for concussion
using one or more sideline
assessment tests for concussion (e.g. SCAT3, balance, King - Devick, Maddocks questions, SAC)(preferably by a certified athletic trainer and / or team physician), and long as data on the number, force, and direction of impacts
is only made available for
use by coaches and athletic trainers in a position to
use such information to adjust an athlete's blocking or tackling tec hnique (and not for indiscriminate
use by those, such as parents, who
are not in a position to make intelligent
use of the data), they represent a valuable addition to a program's concussion toolbox and as a
tool to minimize repetitive head impacts.
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.»
Over the course of three sessions we explored ways in which school nutrition professionals
are managing stakeholder engagement, how they
are using assessment tools to measure progress and set new goals, and breakfast program best practices vis - à - vis operations, marketing, menuing, staff training, and equipment.
When the app identifies a hit which may cause traumatic brain injury, an audible and visual, color - coded visual alert (yellow, orange, or red)
is triggered on the user's device so that an
assessment for possible concussion can begin immediately on the sports sideline
using a standard
assessment tool (e.g. SCAT2) or the concussion symptom checklist displayed on the smart - phone.
The Shockbox
is a wireless system in which a sensor in a player's helmet triggers an audible and visual, color - coded visual alert (yellow, orange, or red) on a smartphone or laptop computer if it detects a hit of sufficient force to cause a concussion so that an
assessment can begin immediately on the sideline
using a standard concussion
assessment tool (e.g. SCAT2).
The forthcoming
assessment of UK progress in implementing the Global Strategy,
using the methodology of IBFAN's World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative (WBTi), will
be a useful
tool to show where the gaps
are (details in part 1 of the blog post).
Once attached to a player's helmet (a hockey version
is available now, versions for football, lacrosse, and ski and snowboard helmets will
be introduced in 2012) The ShockboxTM sensor measures the G - Force of a hit to the helmet from any direction, and then sends the data wirelessly via Bluetooth to the athletic trainer, coach or parent's smart phone to alert them when the athlete suffers a traumatic head impact that may
be concussive so they can
be removed from the game or practice for evaluation on the sideline
using standard concussion
assessment tools, such as the Standardized
Assessment of Concussion, Sports Concussion
Assessment Tool (SCAT2) or King - Devick test.
Because the SAC only takes approximately 5 to 7 minutes to administer and
was designed for
use by clinicians with no neurocognitive testing experience, it
is considered a «practical sideline
assessment tool» (2) which can «detect changes across multiple domains of cognitive functioning that
are susceptible to the acute effects of concussion.»
Once the first aid issues
are addressed, then an
assessment of the athlete's mental status can
be made by athletic trainers, coaches, and sideline medical personnel
using a brief cognitive screening
tool such as the Standardized
Assessment Of Concussion (SAC).
Detailed instructions for
use are provided in the
assessment tool.
I have
been using Dr. Hazelbaker's
assessment tool, (ATLFF), successfully for more than fifteen years.
It behooves parents to ask if the practitioner has
been trained to assess for tongue - tie
using an evidence - based
assessment tool.
Section 5 includes PowerPoint slides to
use when training new assessors and a computer
tool that can
be used to calculate and present the
assessment results.
These
are used in the 1994 development of Keys to Excellence: Standards of Practice for Nutrition Integrity, a self -
assessment tool designed to assist operators in improving their programs.
Comprehensive
Assessment Systems - For the 2014 - 2015 school year, the Massachusetts Kindergarten Entry
Assessment (MKEA) initiative
was expanded to reach 173 school districts across the state, assessing over 36,000 students
using a valid and reliable formative
assessment tool.
While it has not
been fully fleshed out yet, Cuomo's proposal dictates that judges would
use a scientific
assessment tool to determine an individual's «risk to public safety» while setting bail, a proposal similar to one Mayor Bill de Blasio recently made, with both coming under fire from criminal justice reformers.
Twitter
is frequently
used in the Commons, where MPs and journalists regularly write their
assessment of proceedings, although the social media
tool is usually restricted to text updates.
Project Innovation Award A Highly Commended Award
was presented to Construction Industry Council Hong Kong, S. Thomas Ng and James M.W. Wong (The University of Hong Kong) for their report on «A product - based carbon labeling scheme for construction materials» The judges commented «This report highlighted a project that not only clearly demonstrates a topic relevant to the present day, but also the work that the researchers have accomplished in order to progress the idea from the ground upwards, leading to the development of a carbon footprint
assessment tool that could not only
be used in Hong Kong, but also internationally.»
The long - term plan
is to have all districts
use the computer - based test for annual state tests because it has the potential to make the
assessments stronger instructional
tools and will make it possible to get test results back sooner, according to the state Education Department.
Risk
assessments are one of the few
tools available for patients and physicians concerned about
using opioids to manage debilitating pain during physical rehabilitation, said Richard T. Jermyn, DO, FAAPMR, who chairs the physical medicine and rehabilitation department at Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine.
Researchers have validated a new risk
assessment tool that can
be used by the Department of Homeland Security to help evaluate decisions and priorities in natural disasters, terrorist events, and major accidents.
Pain and disability
were measured
using the Chronic Pain Grade, a seven - item chronic pain
assessment tool.
It
's now the top violence risk
assessment tool used by forensic psychologists in North America, the significant majority in post-sentencing and parole hearings of the most dangerous, high - risk prisoners.
This research extends the method into the realm of bilingual development and provides parents and practitioners with invaluable
assessment tools (UKBTAT and LEQ) that
are easy to
use and capable of identifying potential language delays in bilingual two - year olds.
The data analysed in the study
was processed
using an advanced life - cycle
assessment tool — SCEnAT — developed by Professor Lenny Koh, Director of the Advanced Resource Efficiency Centre at the University's Management School and co-author of the paper.
The thesis contains details of specific
tools, methodology recommendations and new models for collecting LCA data, which
are aimed at anyone working on the development of electric - powered vehicles
using life cycle
assessment.
Using the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC - IV), the most often
used assessment tool for measuring intelligence in children ages 6 to 16, the researchers found that arsenic in household water
was associated with decreased scores on most WISC - IV indices.
They have developed a set of
tools that can
be used to make accurate, rapid
assessments of proposed materials,
using a series of relatively simple lab tests combined with computer modeling of the physical properties of the material itself, as well as additional modeling based on a statistical method known as Bayesian inference.
Screening
tools that
are commonly
used for this purpose involve self -
assessments, since the initial symptoms
are experienced rather than obvious from people's behaviors.