Sentences with phrase «controversial as assessments»

When they discuss a topic as potentially controversial as assessments, the team learns from each other.

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Johnson's assessment came as the chairman of the parliamentary party, John Cryer, condemned Corbyn's controversial shake - up of his top team during a period when the leader's office had been in talks about the shadow cabinet being elected in part by MPs.

All previous U.S. assessments — there have been 10 major attempts since 1925, most of them heavily dependent on reputational rankings — have been controversial, as is an ongoing exercise in the United Kingdom (see related news report).

That undertaking became steadily more controversial, however, as the standards were implemented and tests were devised to measure student performance against them (see «The Politics of the Common Core Assessments,» features, Fall 2016).

The new president will be highly critical of the Department for Education's changes to assessments for primary school pupils, with controversial new assessments introduced and in some cases withdrawn through departmental error, such as the new key stage one spelling, punctuation and grammar (Spag) assessment.

The high - profile publication of the data led to the controversial «hockey stick» being used as a key piece of supporting evidence in the third assessment report by the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2001.

Instead, the public should look more to individual governments and organizations and national climate assessments (such as the one released by the Obama administration May 6) for more concrete action on controversial topics like emissions caps and geoengineering.

However, the proposals have been controversial, with bodies such as the Association of Law Teachers raising concerns over the SRA's arguments, evidence and proposed forms of assessment.

Since the recent federal election there has been much discussion (and as my colleague Eugene Kung notes, an abundance of open letters) about the Liberal party's election promise to «review Canada's environmental assessment (EA) processes and introduce new, fair processes» for reviewing projects (or re-reviewing them, as in the case of major proposals like the controversial Kinder Morgan and Energy East oil sands pipeline and tankers projects).

Contrary to the meta - analyses of Crits - Christoph5 andAnderson and Lambert, 7 studies of IPT werenot included (eg, Elkin et al30 and Wilfleyet al31), because the relation of IPT to STPPis controversial, and empirical results suggest that IPT is very close toCBT.9 Thus, this review includes only studiesfor which there is a general agreement that they represent models of STPP.As it is questionable to aggregate the results of very different outcome measuresthat refer to different areas of psychological functioning, we assessed theefficacy of STPP separately for target symptoms, general psychiatric symptoms (ie, comorbid symptoms), and social functioning.32 Thisprocedure is analogous to the meta - analysis of Crits - Christoph.5 Asoutcome measures of target problems, we included patient ratings of targetproblems and measures referring to the symptoms that are specific to the patientgroup under study, eg, measures of anxiety for studies investigating treatmentsof anxiety disorders.33 For the efficacy ofSTPP in general psychiatric symptoms, broad measures of psychiatric symptomssuch as the Symptom Checklist - 90 and specific measures that do not refer specificallyto the disorder under study were included; eg, the Beck Depression Inventoryapplied in patients with personality disorders.34, 35 Forthe assessment of social functioning, the Social Adjustment Scale and similarmeasures were included.36