Sentences with phrase «broader system of assessments»

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Design, implement, and collaborate with external researchers to carry out evaluation and impact assessment research for Rainforest Alliance's agriculture sustainability certification programs as well as broader research on the effectiveness of strategies to conserve forests, promote the sustainability of production systems, and improve human wellbeing in the context of agriculture and forestry landscapes and supply chains.

The early warning system will include nine financial indicators, such as cash - on - hand and patterns of operating deficits, together with broader demographic information like population trends and tax assessment growth.

Using the EMPReSSslim phenotyping pipeline, allowing a broad based assessment of diverse biological systems, the ICS contributed to decipher the different phenotypes between the two lines that were replicated across multiple mouse clinics.

This report recommends further research to investigate the question of whether the certification process itself makes teachers more effective — as they become familiar with the standards and complete the assessment — or if high - quality teachers are attracted to the certification process, as well as to determine whether NBPTS certification is having broader effects on the educational system beyond individual classrooms.

«If we're going to design an accountability system that's true to the broad purposes of education, we need to bring back that kind of national assessment,» he said.

In addition, Kentucky and Vermont have incorporated portfolios into their statewide assessments of student achievement — another effort to offer a broader picture of student achievement, and the now - defunct Massachusetts Reform Review Commission convened representatives from various stakeholder groups to devise a strategy for expanding the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System to make it fairer and more comprehensive.

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

In New York, Commissioner of Education David M. Steiner and the state board of regents this month put forward a broad package of changes that would include revamping the state's standards - and - assessment system, raising the cap on the number of charter schools, allowing additional institutions to train teachers and principals, and setting new demands for districts to turn around low - performing schools.

NAF is also tackling one of the more challenging aspects of evaluating college and career readiness by developing an online assessment system designed to gauge a broad range of content and skills.

Re: the US News article on top about ESSA: Chairwoman Foxx is right about the role of the federal government in America's K - 12 education system; and families can continue to pressure educrats like Mr Botel by opting out, wherever and whenever possible, from their local state schools until the federal government gives up on the continuing mistake of its annual testing requirement in two subjects only, which has produced no significant improvement in American education for 15 years now, but has cost us in lost opportunities, including time and energy that might have been devoted to non-tested subjects, including those in the broader curricula represented by the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, which requires assessment — including but not limited to external final exams — in six subjects distributed over at least five fields, an assessment approach that has been imitated by the world's leading educational jurisdictions, but is being discouraged by the ignorant Luddites in the the U.S. ED.

If all testing companies would clearly explain that their reading comprehension tests are tests of knowledge, and if they would explain — as the ACT's Chrys Dougherty does — that the only way to prepare for them is to build broad knowledge, then we could begin to create a fair and productive assessment and accountability system.

It also provides a broad and diverse range of program enhancements, a set of quality standards and a system for reaching quality standards through assessment, program improvement plans and resource referrals for youth providers in the county.

States have the opportunity to create a broader vision of accountability that encompasses a system of data collection and reporting, classification of school performance, the direction of supports and implementation of interventions, and assessment of resource allocation.

To accomplish this goal, the concept of accountability must become much broader so that it encompasses a system of data collection and reporting, classification of school performance, direction of supports and implementation of interventions, and assessment of resource allocation.

We are supporting states in developing comprehensive and balanced assessment systems that effectively measure learning and growth, cover a broad range of knowledge and skills that reflect real - world demands, and provide timely and actionable information on every child's progress.

FRA enforce rail safety regulations and statutes through routine inspections (sample of track, locomotives, rail cars, operating practices, signals and train control systems, and hazardous material shipments for compliance with Federal safety standards at high risk areas) and broader assessments; investigate and analyze accidents; manage state involvement in rail safety programs; and implement highway - rail grade crossing programs.

«What is unique about this assessment is that the IPCC allows us to draw on and bring together a broad spectrum of experts on each of the technologies reviewed in collaboration with scientists studying energy systems as a whole.

Increased literature has facilitated comprehensive assessment across a broader set of topics and sectors, with expanded coverage of human systems, adaptation, and the ocean.»

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?

The map is part of a broader effort to establish a hazards monitoring system that combines satellite observations of rainfall from the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission with an assessment of the underlying susceptibility of terrain.

Key Highlights: • Focused on a broad range of clients, from critical access hospitals to large urban healthcare systems and multispecialty clinics and provided knowledgeable and successful distribution of Radiology products Sundance Technologies, Inc., Oklahoma City • OK 2004 — 2005 Founder / Sales Engineer — Consulting, Systems Integration & Management Experienced and knowledgeable consultant for clients across a five - state territory focused on radiology workflow assessment and PM of technology installations / upsystems and multispecialty clinics and provided knowledgeable and successful distribution of Radiology products Sundance Technologies, Inc., Oklahoma City • OK 2004 — 2005 Founder / Sales Engineer — Consulting, Systems Integration & Management Experienced and knowledgeable consultant for clients across a five - state territory focused on radiology workflow assessment and PM of technology installations / upSystems Integration & Management Experienced and knowledgeable consultant for clients across a five - state territory focused on radiology workflow assessment and PM of technology installations / upgrades.

Several widely - used parent - report «checklist - style» assessments (e.g., Child Behavior Checklist, 17 Infant - Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment, 18 Behavior Assessment System for Children19) cover a broad range of functioning, including internalizing, externalizing and other problematic behaviours in early childhood.

Batteries of biomarkers that measure allostatic load (also termed allostatic overload to highlight pathophysiology of the extreme)(38) tap into the major mediators of allostasis along with some key secondary outcomes, such as body mass index or waist — hip ratio and glycosylated hemoglobin (39), and provide a broad - based assessment of the dysregulation of these adaptive systems that has turned out to have predictive value in a variety of epidemiologic studies (40).

Our broad base of solutions for Head Start — including The Creative Curriculum ® as well as GOLD ®, our state - of - the - art assessment system — can help to support school readiness and program accountability and ensure your success.

Such assessments show the uniqueness of each individual or system, in addition to broader social law.