Sentences with phrase «change in assessment policy»

«The momentum for change in assessment policy and practice is growing across Australia and in other parts of the world,» Elizabeth Hartnell - Young, Director of the ACER Institute, tells Teacher.

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In addition to fluctuating prices, the industry faces evolving policies on Indigenous consultation and environmental assessment, a changing federal and provincial policy landscape, and technological advancements.

Nonetheless, developments in these areas are subject to ongoing change and will continue to have a strong bearing on the policy assessment in the period ahead.

From 1990 to 2005, he was Director Fiscal Policy Division Department of Finance, responsible for overall preparation of the federal budget; preparation and assessment of medium - and long - term projections of federal revenues and expenses and implications for fiscal policy; analysis of fiscal conditions at both the federal and provincial levels; evaluation of various budget proposals; preparation of monthly Fiscal Monitor; with the Office of the Comptroller General (OCG), assessing and evaluating accounting standards proposed by the Public Sector Accounting Board (PSAB) of the CICA and recommending changes in government accounting policies; with the OCG, responsible for implementation of accrual accounting for the federal budget and the government's financial statePolicy Division Department of Finance, responsible for overall preparation of the federal budget; preparation and assessment of medium - and long - term projections of federal revenues and expenses and implications for fiscal policy; analysis of fiscal conditions at both the federal and provincial levels; evaluation of various budget proposals; preparation of monthly Fiscal Monitor; with the Office of the Comptroller General (OCG), assessing and evaluating accounting standards proposed by the Public Sector Accounting Board (PSAB) of the CICA and recommending changes in government accounting policies; with the OCG, responsible for implementation of accrual accounting for the federal budget and the government's financial statepolicy; analysis of fiscal conditions at both the federal and provincial levels; evaluation of various budget proposals; preparation of monthly Fiscal Monitor; with the Office of the Comptroller General (OCG), assessing and evaluating accounting standards proposed by the Public Sector Accounting Board (PSAB) of the CICA and recommending changes in government accounting policies; with the OCG, responsible for implementation of accrual accounting for the federal budget and the government's financial statements.

Crisis books usually follow a predictable pattern: first a searing depiction of the problem at hand, then some broad and sweeping assessments of how great changes in attitude might begin to address the issue, and then some piddling and timid policy proposals that clearly won't begin to meet the challenge.

Throughout the school year, each team works with a Challenge Success coach to design and implement positive changes in areas such as curriculum and assessment, homework policies, the daily school schedule, and health and wellness programs.

Our schools send teams of educators, parents, and students to our annual conferences and work with our coaches to make positive changes in curriculum and assessment, homework policies, the daily school schedule, and health and wellness programs.

In JACEI's own assessment, the only change you have achieved is to prompt Nestlé to weaken its advertising policies so it advertises infant formula brands in ways it promised not to do in the pasIn JACEI's own assessment, the only change you have achieved is to prompt Nestlé to weaken its advertising policies so it advertises infant formula brands in ways it promised not to do in the pasin ways it promised not to do in the pasin the past.

Speaking about the policy options emerging from the four regional assessments, Watson said: «Although there are no «silver bullets» or «one - size - fits all» answers, the best options in all four regional assessments are found in better governance, integrating biodiversity concerns into sectoral policies and practices (e.g. agriculture and energy), the application of scientific knowledge and technology, increased awareness and behavioural changes.»

Vaclav Smil does interdisciplinary research in the fields of energy, environmental, and population change, food production and nutrition, technical innovation, risk assessment, and public policy.

Our objective is an unbiased, critical assessment of whether the agricultural reform is a worthwhile effort by describing the conflicts implied by the proposed changes in agricultural policy?

This is up to 14 per cent lower than the emissions reported by previous assessments, including those by the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Centre (CDIAC) in the US and the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) in the EU, which are the official data sources for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5)-- providing scientific evidence for climate change policy negotiations in Paris later this year.

Can science results be used effectively in policy - oriented integrated assessment models that are our only tool for evaluating global - level impacts of policy and climate change, particularly with regard to land use?

Quantitative integrated assessment of climate change risks is not always possible, but it can play a key role in informing decisions both about local adaptation and about large - scale mitigation policy.

Her interests lie in leadership coaching, the management of organisational change and improvement, educational policy, curriculum, assessment and school improvement.

There are also issues about wider changes to education policy that are incongruent with the SEND reforms; notably those policies in the areas of accountability and assessment.

Members of the control group were asked whether they would be inclined to vote in support of or in opposition to a teacher evaluation policy change that would remove the use of data from students» performance on state assessments in teachers» performance evaluation.

Systemic reformers have tended to focus on creating new policy instruments such as content standards or curricular frameworks, assessments that are aligned with new content standards, and changes in both preservice and inservice teacher education (Cohen, 1995).

Last year, the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University surveyed a representative sample of approximately 1,500 teachers across five states (Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, and New Mexico) to learn about the instructional changes they had made in preparation for the new assessments from the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers and the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium.

Learn about the changes in federal requirements under ESSA in assessments, accountability, professional development, and others, and how educators can influence the decisions about new state and local policies.

Due to recent changes in state law, policies, or local program practices, many of these candidates now must complete performance assessments that require them to demonstrate they can teach by sharing examples of their work with faculty, peers, and independent reviewers.

This second group, with Diane Ravitch as its most prominent member, has raised concerns over who stands to gain financially from the Common Core effort, the role of the Gates Foundation in the standards» creation, the lack of field testing of the standards, and the way in which the standards have been implemented in the midst of changing assessment and teacher evaluation policies.

These new policy instruments are commonly thought to include: new content standards or instructional frameworks; assessments that focus students» and teachers» work on intellectually authentic tasks that are «aligned» with new content standards; more ambitious curricula that are consistent with new standards and assessments; and changes in teacher education that would improve enactment of the new standards (Cohen, 1995).

While the field of teacher preparation has made significant advances in recent decades — creating stronger clinical partnerships, developing better performance assessments, making better use of newly available data sources, meeting more demanding state approval and national accreditation standards, and developing new models and patterns of preparation — not all of these advances have been universally adopted at the program level.3 To consolidate the gains and to overcome challenges to implementing universal high standards for admission and academic rigor in teacher preparation, states, school districts, and teacher preparation programs must work together to enact key policy changes.

Everything from grading policies and assessments, to bell schedules and how teachers and students spend their time will need to change in order to create the conditions for successful implementation.

Many of the federal requirements in the areas of accountability, assessments, and school improvement have changed, with many of the decisions about these policies now to be made at the state or local level.

Throughout the school year, each team works with a Challenge Success coach to design and implement positive changes in areas such as curriculum and assessment, homework policies, the daily school schedule, and health and wellness programs.

This report calls for fundamental changes in curriculum, assessment, and policy to ensure equity among students regardless of socioeconomic status.

Over the past five years, the state policies have changed systematically and coherently toward Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards alignment in all priority areas — special education, English learners, curriculum, principal / teacher policy, waivers, college readiness, CTE, finance, and state assessments.

It identified changes needed to the current business processes, identified needed policy changes, assisted in development of the technical solution for FAA, facilitated initial assessment of workload changes in future on personnel security specialists, and identified preliminary resource requirements.

LEAP is a software tool for energy policy analysis and climate change mitigation assessment that uses integrated modeling to track energy consumption, production, and resource extraction in all sectors of an economy.

The term structure reflects expectations of market participants about future changes in interest rates and their assessment of monetary policy conditions.

(2) A military activity carried out by DOD as of the effective date of these regulations and specifically identified in the section entitled «Department of Defense Activities» of the FMP / FEIS is not considered a pre-existing activity if: (i) It is modified in such a way that requires the preparation of an environmental assessment or environmental impact statement under the National Environmental Policy Act, 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq., relevant to a Sanctuary resource or quality; (ii) It is modified, including but not limited to changes in location or frequency, in such a way that its possible adverse effects on Sanctuary resources or qualities are significantly greater than previously considered for the unmodified activity; (iii) It is modified, including but not limited to changes in location or frequency, in such a way that its possible adverse effects on Sanctuary resources or qualities are significantly different in manner than previously considered for the unmodified activity; or (iv) There are new circumstances or information relevant to a Sanctuary resource or quality that were not addressed in the FMP / FEIS.

The department plans to conduct «an in - depth assessment of potential alternative routes,» while also considering «environmental concerns (including climate change), energy security, economic impacts, and foreign policy.»

Anna Roggenbuck, Policy Officer at CEE Bankwatch Network, said: «With the decision to finance TANAP, the EIB has shown its disregard to Europe's commitments to climate change mitigation.This project has been approved without a proper climate impact assessment, and in contradiction to pledges under the Paris Agreement to keep global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius which entails limiting fossil fuels consumption.»

The different chapters capitalize on assessments and experiences such as: lessons learned from Asia's Green Revolution on agricultural communities; trends in African agricultural knowledge, science and technology; trade policy impacts on food production; conditions for success of water interventions for the African rural poor; and climate change implications for agriculture and food systems.

The appropriate time period to be used for evaluation of the risks underlying climate change and for the development of policy responses and assessment of costs and benefits of each option appears to be more in terms of a hundred years or thereabouts.

This peace is a reflection on climate change policy in the United States after the recent climate change national assessment of climate change impacts on the United States was issued in May.

It includes the results of the economic assessments of the impacts of climate change on the agricultural, coastal and marine, energy and transportation, health, freshwater resources and tourism sectors in the Caribbean subregion; and an examination of adaptation strategies and key policy recommendations for policymakers.

In making informed decisions to keep risks at an acceptable level, it's important that policy makers take heed of the scientific evidence presented in the recent assessment report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — released in September — along with the most up - to - date estimates of the current and future riskIn making informed decisions to keep risks at an acceptable level, it's important that policy makers take heed of the scientific evidence presented in the recent assessment report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — released in September — along with the most up - to - date estimates of the current and future riskin the recent assessment report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — released in September — along with the most up - to - date estimates of the current and future riskin September — along with the most up - to - date estimates of the current and future risks.

Thanks to the generous support of The Kresge Foundation, this document includes our assessment of existing regulations in the United States, highlights current policy precedents and calls for 3 critical policy changes.

That is in fact within the 15 - 30 percent reduction range that has been extracted from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's most recent assessment and made into official EU policy.

Dr Tina Abouhmaboub, Climate Policy Analyst Works in the area of integrated assessment modeling, energy and climate change mitigation economics and pPolicy Analyst Works in the area of integrated assessment modeling, energy and climate change mitigation economics and policypolicy.

China's energy and climate change policy is based on its own assessment of national interest as outlined both in its 2007 National Climate Change Program and 2008 Climate Change White change policy is based on its own assessment of national interest as outlined both in its 2007 National Climate Change Program and 2008 Climate Change White Change Program and 2008 Climate Change White Change White Paper.

Azar, C. and H. Dowlatabadi, 1999: A review of technical change in assessment of climate policy.

For example, Canada and some EU member states have begun to incorporate climate change in their environmental policies, particularly in the structures of required environmental impact assessments.

In particular, we focus on adaptation policy and finance under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, vulnerability assessments, capacity building and community - based adaptation.

Overall, after weighing the strengths and limitations of the traditional radiative forcing concept, the committee finds that its strengths warrant continued use in scientific investigations, climate change assessments, and policy applications.

Darwall draws on history and science in order to expose the exaggerations of climate change and what he calls the «Global Warming Policy Paradox»; the assessment of whether proposed solutions are even effective.

According to the foreword of «Peer Review: Why Skepticism Is Essential,» written by Donna Laframboise for the Global Warming Policy Foundation, «a significant part of the references in the fourth assessment» of the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report were made «to «gray literature.»»