Sentences with phrase «came out of assessment»

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The IEA assessment on Tuesday came just days after President Donald Trump announced he would pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement.

«It's ironic that the Committee report should come out in the midst of today's court hearings into the Site C dam, a megaproject approved by the federal and province governments over the objections of First Nations and despite a highly critical environmental assessment.»

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is 100 % right when it comes to her assessment of Islam, still glad to see some Muslims out there can point and laugh at themselves for once.

This blog is meant to start a conversation by pointing out the lack of standards when it comes to gluten assessment.

After the baby comes out, he or she is placed on your stomach for immediate skin - to - skin contact and breastfeeding instead of weighing and assessment first.

This assessment re-opened the debate of what caused the NDC's heavy defeat and reinforced calls for the leadership to be booted out though their tenure would officially come to an end in 2018.

«I'm afraid that it is inconceivable that we could impose the additional operational burden on our staff of carrying out detailed assessments of an unlimited number of parcels coming into prisons.

The assessment comes out just as international representatives from some of the intergovernmental organizations charged with managing regional tuna stocks convene in La Jolla, California, for the Kobe III meeting on 11 - 15 July.

It is worth remembering that in 2009, the year analysed by the study, Federer achieved first place on the ATP ranking; therefore we can draw the conclusion from this study that, although the assessment of Nadal's and Djokovic's play comes out higher than Federer's, Federer competed better.

The study came out of the Oregon Sudden Unexpected Death Study, a comprehensive, 16 - hospital, multiyear assessment of cardiac deaths in the 1 million population Portland, Oregon, metropolitan area.

The first installment in the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest scientific assessment on climate science came out on Friday, and it's loaded with dense terminology, expressions of uncertainty, and nearly impenetrable graphics.

This blog now relates the journey, week by week, as I wrestled with reality, from deciding that I had no choice, to coming out completely and transitioning to a female life, going through the process of assessment and diagnosis and to gender confirmation surgery.

Somewhat independently, schools and lawmakers have come to the same conclusion: The old models of student assessment are out of step with the needs of the 21st - century workplace and society, with their emphasis on hard - to - measure skills such as creativity, problem solving, persistence, and collaboration.

And, if the point of that assessment was just to test your knowledge, then you gamed the system, and came out on top with no blowback — good job!

The DfE has also advised that funding should not be used to employ coaches or specialist teachers to cover planning preparation and assessment (PPA) arrangements as it should come out of core staffing budgets.

Moreover, summative assessment sat at the core of many of the policy reforms that the leaders described: additional accountability levers such as teacher evaluation systems and statewide school report cards draw on data coming out of these summative tests to make determinations and comparisons regarding teacher and school - level performance.

When the 2013 test results came out last year, NAGB reported the results against these benchmarks for the first time, finding that 39 percent of students in the twelfth - grade assessment sample met the preparedness standard for math and 38 percent did so for reading.

The hopeful news is that as more schools offer integrated studies, broader, more substantive forms of assessment — testing that more accurately reflects authentic development in student thinking and performance — may, out of necessity, come into use.

Those «assessments» then get averaged at the end of the term and voila, out comes a grade.

Academic progress in Boston increased steadily under his leadership, with Boston's 4th and 8th graders handing the 65 - year - old Boston native a nice farewell gift by coming out on top in math improvement on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2005 assessments among ten participating urban districts (see Figure 1).

I have recently been writing about the qualitative formative assessment toolkit (QFAT for short) which is something that has come out of my research on and practice with mobile devices, multimedia, and formative assessment.

We have no way of knowing if Petrilli's assessment is accurate until the actual bill text comes out.

One lesson coming out of VUE 46 and the National Summit is this: It's time to apply what we know from work to date to implement fully and build momentum for positive change towards competency education and its essential corollary, performance assessment.

With the development of the Next Generation Science Standards and the roll out of the two consortia's CCSS assessments, coming reforms in education will again highlight the role of non-legislative state actors and the need to apply methods like ours for understanding states» efforts towards school improvement.

The closest anyone has come — Utah did pull out of one of the assessment consortiums.

These PARCC grumblings come on the heels of Alabama's decision to pull out of both the PARCC and Smarter Balanced consortia in favor of implementing ACT's new comprehensive assessment system, which is aligned with the standards.

«Because of that higher - level thinking that they've been exposed to day in and day out, when they get to the state assessment they've come back and said, «That's not nearly as bad as I thought it would be,»» says Chambers.

For many U.S. educators, discussion of assessment inevitably turns to the new Common Core State Standards and the aligned assessments rolling out in the coming year.

After seeing triple - digit math gains in comparison to other Texas schools on STAAR (State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness) coming out of Willow Springs, KISD rolled out ST Math to all 32 of its elementary schools, with funding support from Toyota USA Foundation and Xerox.

I agree with your assessment that the Nook is going to be more of a loser device when the Kindle comes out with a lighted screen.

Looking ahead, dilution will be one of many factors feeding into my valuation — if dilution turns out to be the most material driver, it would obviously come to impact my assessment of the relative risk / reward offered by FIG.

And obviously they'd expect that well in advance of results that come out eight mths into the company's financial year — after all, forewarned is forearmed... The last thing long term shareholders want to see is investors bailing out or avoiding the stock, based on some cursory (& mistaken) assessment of a declining business.

The greatest change is still to come as we increase the number of breeder assessment visits that we carry out so that there can be no doubt that those on the scheme are continuing to adopt the standards that we expect.

If ever there was a moment for a page - one story on climate, for example, it came in October 2000, when a scientist sent me a final draft of the summary for policymakers from the IPCC's third climate assessment, due out early in 2001 (Revkin 2000).

If work comes out that suggests that part of that range is less likely to occur, we can assess that, but any underlying priors in the risk assessment are subjective.

Not until Germany's Federal Network Agency makes its assessment will it be clear whether bids significantly higher than the current rates of compensation will be awarded contracts and if new players will be among the awardees or whether the contracts will be awarded to the same companies who came out on top in the first round.

A lot of folks online right now talking about how the Keystone XL environmental assessment is coming late on a Friday - very typical when someone wants to put out bad news.

RealClimate has put out a comprehensive assessment of the various errors that have come to light in the IPCC AR4 — IPCC errors: facts and spin.

As Yvo De Boer, the Executive Secretary of the UN negotiations and a man with a reputation for frank assessments, quipped just before Copenhagen, asking the South to bind itself to a diminishing emissions budget before the rich set their own 2020 targets and come up with a serious funding offer, is «like jumping out of a plane and being assured that you are going to get a parachute on the way down.

As Bernie Lewin reminds us in one chapter of a fascinating new book of essays called Climate Change: The Facts (hereafter The Facts), as late as 1995 when the second assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) came out with its last - minute additional claim of a «discernible human influence» on climate, Nature magazine warned scientists against overheating the debate.

Do the math with a lifecycle assessment of both, and plastic comes out on top, and paper requires energy - intensive recycling and / or more trees.

The results knock train travel down a peg, but it still comes out a solid green travel choice: Infrastructure a Huge Part of Train's Impact In their article Environmental assessment of passenger transportation should include infrastructure and supply chains, authors Mikhail Chester and Arpad Horvath of UC Berkeley find that when,

In the meantime, click here to check out the benefits of having a professional solar contractor give you an on - site assessment, and get any questions ready for that person when they come visit.

For much of this year, the panel has been under attack for lax vetting procedures in incorporating scientific information into its last report, the fourth assessment, which came out in 2007.

He points out that this capability tends to be closely linked to aspects of document automation, for example helping someone decide what needs to be in a document, or what terms to use, or how to come to an assessment of a situation when presented with a set of facts or numerical data.

I've always dreamed of coming to Canada and that dream started to be realized when I filled out Canadim's free assessment which informed me that I was qualified for Express Entry.

This is one of the best health plans that I came across There screening process is a bit stringent but it shows the fact they want a fair assessment done before they role out the policy.

It was an ideal opportunity to get better at teamwork, problem solving, communicating and presenting — exactly the sorts of soft skills that will help you stand out when it comes to an engineering assessment centre.

As part of their role, sales operations managers carry out a variety of assessments and analysis to come up with information useful in establishing an effective sales strategy.

Live agent inbound and outbound contact centre services Responsibilities: • Day to day management of the recruitment department • To work closely with the operational management teams to identify all recruitment needs for the contact centre • Continuously source cost effective methods of recruitment and to maintain a healthy recruitment pipeline which matches the business needs • To drive direct recruitment channels for cost effective recruitment • To own and administer effective assessment centres for the recruitment of potential new starters • To compile starters list for all projects and ensure they are sent out accurately and on time and that the required HR paperwork is completed • Maintenance of the recruitment notice boards including generating posters and appropriate communications • Looking at different ways to attract and assess talent, such as organising and attending recruitment / assessment events • Producing weekly and monthly reports for senior management • Highlighting any recruitment issues or concerns to the operations team • Administering payroll and maintaining employee records • Administer and process timesheets weekly and monthly basis • Dealing with grievances and implementing disciplinary procedures • Interpreting and advising on employment law Person Specification: • At least 2 years in - house recruitment background within an outsourced contact centre • Interpersonal skills to form effective working relationships with people at all levels • The ability to influence, question & listen • Ability to work to tight deadlines and work well under pressure • Flexible, positive with a can do attitude • Excellent communication skills both written and spoken Working hours: Monday to Friday 9 - 6 pm Due to a very high number of applications we are unable to come back to every candidate with feedback.