Sentences with phrase «believes approaches to assessment»

Harvard University physicist and educator Eric Mazur speaks with Education Matters editor Kathryn Edwards about how he believes approaches to assessment in education are outdated and that teachers should rethink their approaches in order to better prepare the leaders of tomorrow.

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Dr Crispin Halsall, fellow guest editor said: «Scientists working in the field of Chemical research believe this approach will be fundamental in the future to resolving some of the biggest controversies in chemical risk assessment.»

He also believes that the keys to a successful treatment plan starts with a thorough assessment and patient education, as optimal recovery and sustained improvements come from a team approach between the patient and the therapists at RISE Health.

We should provide access to books in our classes with the same differentiated approach that we bring to any other lesson, assessment, or activity because there are, I believe, four categories of students who pursue books.

Taken together, we believe we have spelled out an approach to standardized testing grounded in the fact that assessments can gather critical information about our students» growth and our own teaching practice, while acknowledging that this potential will be lost if we ignore the need for improvements to our current system.

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Although I tend to fall into the latter camp, I do not believe that these two approaches are necessarily mutually exclusive, but that is beside the major point, which is that we must establish as an objective the transformation of educator preparation programs into customer - driven institutions with assessments grounded in output - and performance - based criteria, so that Texas becomes the model for value - added evaluation of such programs.

Whilst I believe that the DfE is still committed to the introduction of a new funding formula and a more balanced approach to primary assessment — as laid out in its recent consultation — everything is being put on hold for several weeks.

I believe the alternative assessment report to AR5 should clearly differentiate climate sensitivity estimates based on these two approaches.