Sentences with phrase «assessments are themselves in error»

The Web site should, as well, respond rapidly and openly when reports of errors in past assessments are themselves in error.

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Standardized Assessment of Concussion or «SAC», Sport Concussion Assessment Tool Version 3 or «SCAT3», the Balance Error Scoring System or «BESS», King - Devick Test», Maddocks» questions) already shown by studies to be reliable in making the initial remove - from - play decision, or one of a number of new assessment screens being developed and tested.

Their best independent assessment, give or take (large) margins of error, is that a further # 30billion fiscal adjustment will be required to eliminate the deficit in the first two years of the next Parliament.

I have also developed the amazing skill of being able to detect the errors of fact, clerical errors, omissions and unlawful entries in any assessment roll book in the State of New York.

«The fact that these errors occurred is simply unacceptable to Pearson as we fully understand the importance of accurate scoring,» Scott Smith, president of learning assessment, said in a statement.

• Genetic quality control monitoring Whole genome scanning (rapid or more detailed) for routine strain background monitoring, or in case of suspected contamination error, is a quick, inexpensive and reliable method compared to physical, immunological and biochemical assays, traditionally used for genetic quality assessment.

Measurement error in the assessment of dietary variables is likely to be nondifferential as the dietary factors were collected long before death events occurred.

Despite the measurement of key confounders in our analyses, the potential for residual confounding can not be ruled out, and although our food frequency questionnaire specified portion size, the assessment of diet using any method will have measurement error.

The short assessment is intended as a brief, low pressure test (hence the «health check» not a «test») and comprises of simple fill - in - the - blanks questions on: capital letters; there, their and they're; to and too; apostrophes and common spelling errors.

The main concern with value - added assessment is that the technique exacerbates the amount of random error involved in measuring student performance.

Much of the formative assessment should have been carried out in the previous lesson: Debugging your app, as part of the testing process, and used to identify errors in coding.

Formative assessment experts must be well versed in the common misconceptions inherent to their subject matter, as well as typical errors of student thinking, so that they can quickly recognize those cognitive patterns in their students» responses to questions and tasks.

«Would we have spotted occasional human error, if you take it in the context of the annual cycle of assessment that's year on year for the whole cohort?

An important concept in assessment is the standard error of measurement (SEM).

Erkens defines collaborative common assessment as «any assessment, formative or summative, that is either team created or team endorsed in advance of instruction and then administered in close proximity by all instructors so they can collaboratively examine the results, plan instructionally agile responses, analyze errors, and explore areas for program improvement.»

In addition to tracking student errors in the second and third columns, assessment items in the first column should be aligned with the expectations of the standard being measureIn addition to tracking student errors in the second and third columns, assessment items in the first column should be aligned with the expectations of the standard being measurein the second and third columns, assessment items in the first column should be aligned with the expectations of the standard being measurein the first column should be aligned with the expectations of the standard being measured.

The new president will be highly critical of the Department for Education's changes to assessments for primary school pupils, with controversial new assessments introduced and in some cases withdrawn through departmental error, such as the new key stage one spelling, punctuation and grammar (Spag) assessment.

This term reflects the fact that there is some amount of error captured in any assessment.

Direct route models require high degrees of accuracy from a screening measure, because no further confirmation of assessment results is conducted to correct screening errors (more information on direct route models can be found in «Universal Screening for Reading Problems: Why and How Should We Do This?»

One solution is the benefit of whole - class feedback, in which the teacher collects the class» books and does a broad assessment of them all on the same day, looking for common errors and concepts that need reinforcing.

The Ongoing Assessment Project (OGAP) for Additive Reasoning is a systematic and intentional formative assessment system in mathematics based on mathematics education research on how students learn additive concepts, common errors students make, and preconceptions or misconceptions that may interfere with learning new concepts or solving related problems.

For another, much as I respect the National Academy, and the various members of the panel that did that assessment, it was in the end their informed opinion being expressed, and there are actually quite a few factual errors in that report (indeed, Steve McIntyre and I had a rare moment of agreement on this, regarding what they said about ice core records in Antarctica).

However, none of these issues really affect the attribution argument because a) differences in magnitude of forcing over time are assessed by way of the scales in the attribution process, and b) errors in the spatial pattern will end up in the residuals, which are not large enough to change the overall assessment.

However, that does not imply that no assessment can be made, or that stated errors in the projections (themselves erroneous) of 100 to 400 % can't be challenged.

It goes well beyond defending the integrity of the process and echoes earlier calls, some made by longtime panel contributors, for a series of changes that could reduce the chances that outright errors and errors of omission will creep in when the panel's fifth set of assessments is written in the next three years.

While they brought a few legitimate errors in the IPCC's fourth assessment report to light — such as the overestimate of the melt rate of Himalayan glaciers — they often overplayed the significance of these errors and trumpeted other errors that weren't errors at all.

Pachauri called the furor over errors in the assessment report «a blip that is going to pass,» and reiterated his intention to remain in place as the chief of the world's most powerful climate body.

Stating that the IPCC will make efforts to ensure that its fifth assessment report carries no errors, its chairman R K Pachauri has ruled out stepping down even if the UN-constituted review committee finds faults in the procedures followed by the climate panel.

The US CLIVAR Eastern Tropical Oceans Synthesis (ETOS) Working Group was formed to promote collaboration in the southeast oceanic basins, coordinate a model assessment of surface flux errors for the equatorial Atlantic, identify recent model improvements and common and persistent model errors, and provide recommendations of cases for community simulation and evaluation using eddy - permitting ocean models.

The statistical assessment of errors in model prediction and model estimation is of fundamental importance.

And sometimes, errors will be made (in the assessments as well as in the underlying science).

This is tantamount to an admission that the IPCC AR4 is riddled with errors, omissions, possibly even fraud, and that the people who have been questioning what has been going on at the IPCC have been correct in their assessments of «unprecedented» problems with the report and the people responsible for it.

For example, contrasting the development improvements or setbacks from different model versions in relation to the distribution of structural errors in the CMIP multimodel ensemble can provide an objective assessment as to whether model performance changes are significant.

In its two Draft Reports sent to external scientific review, while IPCC mostly evaded the problem, its perfunctory assessment of the developing discrepancy between models and observations, such as it was, included major errors and misrepresentations, all tending in the direction of minimizing the issuIn its two Draft Reports sent to external scientific review, while IPCC mostly evaded the problem, its perfunctory assessment of the developing discrepancy between models and observations, such as it was, included major errors and misrepresentations, all tending in the direction of minimizing the issuin the direction of minimizing the issue.

If this is the best such land area surface temperature assessment system on the planet (covering, as well, a broad range of metropolitan, suburban, and rural areas), and the quality of the system is now proven to be demonstrably more prone to error than had been previously assumed — with the preponderance of error shown to produce the impression of warming in excess of real conditions prevailing — what may be reliably inferred about surface temperature monitoring systems data from even less reliable thermometers all over the rest of the world?

This will allow others (and in particular other generations) to review the data, and with better techniques and / or better understanding their assessment of the errors may be revised and / or its relevance altered.

We acknowledge that occasional mistakes will happen (we are human), but we should aim at eliminating errors from the assessments (not a big issue when one can only find one error of any real significance in almost 3,000 pages of an assessment).

And what «errors» in what «spatial pattern» and why would they not be large enough to change the assessment?

Filed under headings such as» It's not that bad», the app answers questions on topics ranging from the stability of ice sheets to errors in the IPCC's fourth assessment report.

Assessments of our relative confidence in climate projections from different models should ideally be based on a comprehensive set of observational tests that would allow us to quantify model errors in simulating a wide variety of climate statistics, including simulations of the mean climate and variability and of particular climate processes.

However, as the number of observations involved is very small, impacts on mean temperatures are minimal (for example, even a 5 °C error which affected 1 % of observations would only alter mean temperatures by 0.05 °C) and the stations are still useful in assessment of those.

These (potential) errors are not insignificant and afre such that they could lead to perhaps a 10 to 20K error in the assessment of the «theoretical notional» temperature of the Earth (as if it were a blackbody).

There is potential for considerable variation year on year with 4 and 5 and potential for much error in the assessment of these factors.

However, the guidance was not consistently followed in the fourth assessment, leading to unnecessary errors.

In any event, and much more fundamentally and as discussed above, the trial judge's assessment of this point is based on an error — a failure to understand or consider the nature of the Zurich policy.

87 Nor did the Commission make an error of assessment in referring -LSB-...] to certain financial tasks and programmes with a view to highlighting the existence of State resources which might be used in the event of an [EICC] defaulting and, therefore, an indication of the effectiveness of the implied State guarantee in favour of [EICCs].

R v. Nur is a paradigmatic example of how this error presumes a false objectivity in proportionality assessments that leaves the Court vulnerable to critiques of judicial activism.

The four pillars Based on these assessments of why lawyers make mistakes, how such errors can be avoided, and the tools that could be useful to help lawyers avoid claims, the practicePRO program was launched in June of 1998.

Today reasons for judgement were released upholding this analysis finding no error was made in such an assessment.

In projects where you are using your best judgment to develop keywords through trial and error, there are advantages to waiting on keyword filtering until early case assessment, when the tools available for your use are more sophisticated and the ease of testing and iteration is greater.