Sentences with phrase «because changes in assessment»

Yet, because changes in assessment affect our entire education system and infrastructure, from state agencies to test makers to federal officials to classroom teachers, we won't see the real benefits from technology - enabled assessments — improved teaching and learning — without careful attention from policymakers and deliberate strategies to create change.

Not exact matches

There is a certain pointlessness to any assessment of party fortunes in the general election campaign, simply because what has happened since May 6th has changed the rules of the game so completely.

«I'm highly visible every day, but during assessments, we're walking around and we're checking in these classrooms because the kids get frustrated, but one thing that's good this year, the time limit has changed, so if the kids are being productive while they're taking the assessments they could have that extended time,» explained Owens.

Because of that, they haven't allowed an accurate assessment of the effects of climate change on carbon in the region.

This is an important finding because current estimates of biological activity in surface waters of the ocean rely on instruments aboard satellites that measure the color of the sea surface, which changes along with levels of chlorophyll - a, an assessment that will miss blooms of other organisms, such as bacteria.

An assessment of climate effects on Montana agriculture is complex because of uncertainties inherent in the timing and manifestation of climate change, and because of complexity in how natural systems, agricultural producers, and market processes will react.

«If we take knowledge as enacted, you can not have schools where you have standardized assessments because enacted knowledge invites disruptive innovation; it changes how we assess in schools and we have to assess for what people can do with their knowledge,» she argued.

Year 6 Science Assessments and Tracking Objectives covered: Describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences, including micro-organisms, plants and animals Give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics Identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system, and describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood Recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function Describe the ways in which nutrients and water are transported within animals, including humans Recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago Recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents Identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution Recognise that light appears to travel in straight lines Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain that objects are seen because they give out or reflect light into the eye Explain that we see things because light travels from light sources to our eyes or from light sources to objects and then to our eyes Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them Associate the brightness of a lamp or the volume of a buzzer with the number and voltage of cells used in the circuit Compare and give reasons for variations in how components function, including the brightness of bulbs, the loudness of buzzers and the on / off position of switches Use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram

Although more than 50 percent of teachers reported substantive changes in their writing instruction since the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA), about one - third of them reported little change because their instruction was already in line with the new assessments.

Those who already emphasized writing processes in their instruction felt most positively about the state assessment but changed very little because they had little need to change.

Since grade - level expectations and graduation requirements will remain the same, and because the new state assessment tools still align with Rhode Island's Common Core standards, teachers will not have to change their approach in the classroom.

The Aussie quickly rebounded, however, likely because «the assessment of pricing pressures in the near term has not changed» and inflation is still expected to gradually rise, according to the RBA.

Despite the open questions, the Eckert et al. (2013) study is important because it provides a more solid timeline and integrated view of the evolution of euxinia in the Black Sea, which is highly useful for assessments of climatic and other drivers of temporal change.

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.

The report on impacts of climate change — one of three main sections of each of the panel's periodic assessments — has long been seen by some climate scientists, including some participants in the I.P.C.C. process, as a relatively weak element in the overall effort, in part because it has less scientific literature to draw on.

Indeed, this is why I have repeatedly said to you: «Any assessment of the causes of the rise of atmospheric CO2 concentration over a period of years requires assessment of the changes that occur each year (because the annual increase to CO2 in the atmosphere is the residual of the seasonal changes to CO2 in the atmosphere).»

After an intense week of editing a paper on the need for national academies and royal societies to undertake environmental health risk assessments for climate change AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS, especially to adopt the IPCC's best - case emissions scenario, RCP2.6 (because the IPCC does not and will not make recommendations), followed by a look at the fires burning in Siberia and the sea ice thinning in the Arctic, it struck me...

Writing as background for his work, Seo states that alarming predictions of more intense hurricanes because of climate change «are of great concern,» yet he says there have been «few TC [tropical cyclone] studies in the Southern Hemisphere,» adding that there has been «no economic assessment of damages in the past.»

An integrated approach to assessment is encouraged because the impact of climate change is likely to transcend traditional sector and regional boundaries, with effects in one sector affecting the coping capacity of another sector or region.

We surmise that this improvement in both intervention and control conditions was because of learning effects from repeated observations of our brief and simple protocol (leading to changes in the control as well as the experimental conditions), and that the short length of the observations might have caused floor effects in our assessments of negative behaviors (thus limiting evidence of change).

Because the CIDI - 12 asked about the interval between baseline and 6 - month assessments, changes in depression diagnosis were not predicted.

The foundations of change are driven also by unique aspects of the formulation that has been established, which in turn had become possible because of a carefully undertaken initial encounter with the family had established a successful orientation and completed assessment.

Appropriate garnering of the stress response in anticipation of this social challenge would be expected based on previous data.8, 13,50 In the current study, this was observed only after the intervention, possibly because of intervention - induced changes in cognitive appraisal, including the value placed on peer interactions, attention to instructions about the peer entry task, self - assessment of skills to be used during the pending task, and emotion and behavior regulation during the stimulus presentatioin anticipation of this social challenge would be expected based on previous data.8, 13,50 In the current study, this was observed only after the intervention, possibly because of intervention - induced changes in cognitive appraisal, including the value placed on peer interactions, attention to instructions about the peer entry task, self - assessment of skills to be used during the pending task, and emotion and behavior regulation during the stimulus presentatioIn the current study, this was observed only after the intervention, possibly because of intervention - induced changes in cognitive appraisal, including the value placed on peer interactions, attention to instructions about the peer entry task, self - assessment of skills to be used during the pending task, and emotion and behavior regulation during the stimulus presentatioin cognitive appraisal, including the value placed on peer interactions, attention to instructions about the peer entry task, self - assessment of skills to be used during the pending task, and emotion and behavior regulation during the stimulus presentation.