Sentences with phrase «by comprehensive assessment»

Eligibility rates for students with attention deficits categorized with Other Health Impairment can be reduced by comprehensive assessment and team decisions based on strict application of regulatory criteria.

This proposition means funding allocations will take into consideration the performance of specific hospitals, which will be determined by a comprehensive assessment of NHS trusts, including patient evaluation.

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More immediately, there are a number of steps that a proactive employer can take, including putting together a comprehensive safety and health program, conducting regular safety and health audits and / or risk assessments, ensuring that employees are properly trained relative to their roles and responsibilities, and taking prompt action to respond to and address incidents (whether an accident or a near miss) by correcting any potential hazards, as well as issuing discipline if it has been determined that an employee or manager violated company safety rules.

Supported by Horticulture Australia Ltd, the Australian Organic Market Report is the organic industry's most comprehensive assessment on the state of the sector in Australia, combining data from Swinburne University, the Australian Bureau of Statistics and Mobium Group.

The Technical Report, which provides a comprehensive assessment of ecological outcomes to environmental flows in the Edward - Wakool Selected Area in 2014 - 15, including details on data analysis techniques and statistical outputs, is expected to be published by late February 2016.

Paper commissioned by WWF examines factors reducing effectiveness of certification schemes, makes suggestions for improvements, while POIG member Musim Mas issues industry's first comprehensive labour assessment

Another example of a comprehensive environmental impact assessment is given by Stolze et al. (2000).

She emphasized, however, that King - Devick was only meant for use as an initial screen to identify athletes who should not be allowed to return to the game or practice and who should be referred for further, more comprehensive evaluation by a trained professional (e.g. assessment of balance, neurocognitive function, and scores on the Post-Concussion Symptom Scale).

APMI provides educational programs in the local elementary and secondary schools, developed multilingual asthma educational materials used by providers and caregivers, provides comprehensive asthma home visits to improve self - management through assessment, education, and establishment of a plan towards environmental control of asthma triggers, and advocates for improved access to asthma related services.

Like anything else in life, they come in different levels of complexities that may require anything from a simple tweak to a comprehensive assessment and intervention by a team of specialists.

A comprehensive assessment of the proposed annexation of 507 acres of privately owned land into the Village of Kiryas Joel has been completed by companies hired by Orange County in conjunction with its planning department.

Cross cited several accomplishments during his two terms as supervisor: completing a long - delayed comprehensive plan for the town; settling a lawsuit with New York City that allowed the town to raise the assessment of city - owned lands; obtaining extra funding from the city for the Phoenicia sewer project that was then lost by his opponent's administration.

Thirty - one percent of cactus species are threatened with extinction, according to the first comprehensive, global assessment of the species group by IUCN and partners, published in the journal Nature Plants.

«By establishing this Chinese famine cohort of families, we hope to conduct a much more comprehensive and in - depth assessment of the whole genome and epigenome along with metabolic biomarkers of these participants moving forward.»

Reading is a multifactorial process that is influenced by psychological, physiological, environmental, sociological and linguistic factors.1, 2 From an optometrist's perspective, a decrease in reading ability may be associated with poor visual acuity, unstable binocular vision, or ocular disease.3 It is therefore important that people with poor reading comprehension receive a comprehensive oculo - visual assessment.

«Our report was an attempt to do the most comprehensive assessment of fatty acids by combining data from all previous studies into a single investigation,» said study author Dr. Rajiv Chowdhury, a cardiovascular epidemiologist at the University of Cambridge in England.

Third, although we adjusted for a comprehensive set of covariates in our multivariable models, the associations reported in our study may partially result from other unobserved confounding variables, from residual confounding, or by other dietary variables.55 However, use of the HEI provided a comprehensive assessment of overall dietary pattern and should have significantly reduced the confounding effect of other dietary variables.

Despite these features, ours is a comprehensive, robust assessment, uninfluenced by financial interests of online dating service providers, that merits consideration.

This is the point at which students take the figurative wheel of the classroom and demonstrate all they've learned by creating, testing, iterating and completing one comprehensive and creative embedded assessment.

My concern is that too many pupils have been at risk of falling into a gap created by a lack of comprehensive assessment for pupils with lower levels of attainment.

A case study by Meredith Liu titled «Cisco Networking Academy: Next - generation assessments and their implications for K — 12 education» released yesterday by the Clayton Christensen Institute profiles how the Academy, a comprehensive online training curriculum offered to third - party education institutions to help high school and college students acquire the fundamental skills needed to design, build, and troubleshoot computer networks, uses technology today to deliver assessments in ways starkly different from our current education system.

The pack includes: an overview of the unit including a summary of staged learning outcomes linked to the KS2 Programme of Study; comprehensive planning including opportunities for extension; 15 extensive resources with step - by - step instructions, teaching materials and photocopiable pupil sheets; a motivating final assessment activity; staged assessment criteria for the KS2 Programme of Study; a teacher record sheet.

The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, through its series of comprehensive performance assessments of teaching proficiency, is identifying and certifying teachers who are producing students who «differ in profound and important ways from those taught by less proficient teachers.»

Edutopia's Comprehensive Assessment Research Review covers a range of assessment practices that have been shown by extensive research to promote learning.

Alternative assessment, often called authentic, comprehensive, or performance assessment, is usually designed by the teacher to gauge students» understanding of material.

By undertaking a comprehensive risk assessment of a school, perhaps with the help of a professional security consultant, officials are able to determine which type of measures are most appropriate for the school, and where they should be implemented.

By grading lawmakers on a scale of A-F, just like students and schools, Empower Mississippi's Education Report Card gives a clear and comprehensive assessment of who is truly keeping the promise of a quality education in the Magnolia State.

The ultimate goal of the Comprehensive Secondary School Reform Plan is to promote student success, as measured by increased scores on high school assessments, increased attendance rate, increased graduation rate, decreased drop - out rate and decreased issues related to a safe and secure learning environment.

Since 2005, some 35 states have enacted new legislation on principal assessments aimed at putting less emphasis on «inputs,» such as how well particular leadership tasks are met, and more on student «outcomes» and the leadership behaviors likeliest to improve instruction, according to research by the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality.

The award of Accreditation by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges indicates that an educational institution has conducted a rigorous, comprehensive self - assessment of its learning community as a whole and has hosted a Visiting Team of peer reviewers to evaluate and validate its alignment with the Standards for Accreditation in terms of its own stated educational goals.

FairTest supports the authentic accountability plan proposed by the Coalition for Authentic Reform in Education (CARE) proposed a comprehensive accountability system that uses a balance of local and state assessments to describe school improvement and student progress.

Among them, Utah asserts its «absolute and exclusive right» to modify Utah Core Standards, SAGE assessments, the Utah Comprehensive Accountability System, and its own teacher and principal evaluations systems without approval from or sanction by the U.S. Department of Education.

- the end of MCAS as a graduation requirement; - the redesign and streamlining of the existing test; - the use of MCAS for diagnostic purposes only; - review of MCAS and the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks by professional education associations; - an independent review of MCAS for validity and reliability; and - a comprehensive assessment system for schools.

Equally accessible to the parent as the teacher, and written by a recent pioneer in the field, Gifted 101 dispels common myths about giftedness, challenges the view that eminence is the true signifier of giftedness, provides support for the twice exceptional, offers specific guidelines to parents and teachers, describes comprehensive assessment of the gifted, and focuses on the complex inner world of the gifted... a «must read.»

Comprehensive school climate assessment, by definition, recognizes how families and community members see the school's strengths, weaknesses, and needs.

Asked whether any feedback from this spring's field tests of the Smarter Balanced assessments will be taken into consideration by lawmakers this summer, Kit Beyer, spokeswoman for Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, said lawmakers would use «all pertinent information available to construct a comprehensive accountability bill.»

The State Board is required by law (Assembly Bill 104) to approve a more comprehensive assessment system for schools and districts by Oct. 1.

New approaches to teacher evaluation, combined with comprehensive professional development for teachers and school leaders and changes in the organization and capacities of school districts, can support the types of teacher knowledge acquisition and changes in instructional practices called for by the Common Core Standards and assessments.

Teacher assessment (to determine institutional needs) is more comprehensive and accurate when conducted collaboratively by school superintendents, administrators, mentors and coaches.

FCPS also considers the diverse characteristics and behaviors associated with giftedness determined by multiple comprehensive assessments.

The CBE 360 Survey Toolkit, developed by American Institutes for Research (AIR) with support from the Nellie Mae Education Foundation and offered by the CCRS Center, uses surveys from a recent AIR CBE study to provide a comprehensive picture of CBE implementation in six research - based core areas: learning targets, measurement of learning, instructional approaches and supports, assessment of learning, pacing and progression, and when and where learning takes place.

A comprehensive database of reading assessments has also been developed by SEDL and is available free of charge.

The Common Core education movement has been accompanied by a rapid and widespread interest in the use of standards - aligned, research - supported comprehensive assessment systems to help guide local edu... Read More...

HumRRO used an innovative methodology developed by the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment to evaluate the high school English language arts / literacy and mathematics assessment for ACT Aspire, the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), and Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (Smarter Balanced).

STEP ™ was created in response to the need expressed by teachers and researchers for a comprehensive literacy assessment in order to identify areas of student strength and need.

Intervention plans are based on comprehensive assessments performed by experienced, licensed speech - language pathologists

While much of the ensuing discussion rightly only focuses on certain areas of Title I funding (required by the law on assessment issues) and language on whether to supplement or supplant funding, NAESP is working in tandem with these efforts to influence the USED's actions on Title II funding related to comprehensive state and local support for principals.

The Common Core education movement has been accompanied by a rapid and widespread interest in the use of standards - aligned, research - supported comprehensive assessment systems to help guide local educational decision - making.

The Virginia Index of Performance (VIP) program awards points to schools and divisions based on the percentage of students achieving at the advanced level on Standards of Learning assessments and progress made toward educational goals advocated by Governor Kaine and adopted by the Board as part of its comprehensive plan for further strengthening public education in the Commonwealth.

When looking for an intelligence assessment, the article by Machek and Plucker, «Intelligence Testing and Gifted: A Primer for Parents,» provides a comprehensive overview of the testing process and what information you would gain from completing an intelligence or achievement test.