Sentences with phrase «from traditional assessments»

Moreover, I am guessing that you feel you get a better sense of your students» ability to apply what they have learned through your authentic assessments than from your traditional assessments.

For their part, colleges — the final arbiters of high school performance — are signaling a surprising willingness to depart from traditional assessments that have been in place since the early 19th century.

Another way that authentic assessment is commonly distinguished from traditional assessment is in terms of their defining attributes.

Not exact matches

The researchers say that the cost of prevention, including both traditional risk assessment and imaging, is likely to be substantially less than the cost of disability or death from cardiovascular disease.

The initial information value of the review remains: It's an assessment of a new book, no different from the reviews that appear in traditional publications.

Results of their assessment indicated that dating online was indeed different from «traditional» dating in a number of ways.

To ensure that we shape education for the future that we desire, some changes need to be made: to college entrance requirements that presently focus on efficient sorting; to assessments that measure the narrow traditional disciplinary goals of partially antiquated knowledge; to politics / policies that shrink away from controversy — we need courageous cathedral builders!

He felt a renewed sense of competence, and from that point forward, his in - class performance flourished on both traditional and nontraditional assessments.

Although the model was originally designed for older - than - traditional - age college and graduate students, Fann believes «there's nothing stopping» the principles of competency - based education and assessment from working in primary and secondary schools.

Effective March 2, 2014, the Department implemented the Regents action to eliminate traditional standardized assessments for use in K - 2 from the list of state - approved assessments for use in APPR plans for the 2014 - 15 school year and beyond.

Steve Sorokin retired from teaching in the traditional public schools to become Icahn's director of assessment.

Everyone, from the superintendent to Principal Eaton, emphasizes a belief that the state's assessment tool doesn't work well for online schools like Achieve, where the majority of students are enrolled because they weren't successful in a traditional system, and many are adult students.

Technology will support a shift in assessments from pencil and paper traditional test to engaging, interactive assessments that assist with providing a broader understanding of student learning.

Certainly it's a break from traditional expectations and assumptions around teaching and assessment.

He has successfully transitioned the company from a traditional business forms manufacturer to a data capture services business providing testing and assessment solutions to the Education markets.

Digital portfolios allow educators to combine a traditional approach with ongoing feedback in a way that shifts assessment from a snapshot to an ongoing conversation.

«As the revisions continued, we migrated back from the innovation edge, into a safer, more traditional assessment recommendation,» said Neihof, who was on the committee to design the state's new system for the ESSA plan.

State officials, psychometricians, and assessment developers shared their experiences around creating and implementing their own innovative assessment tools, all of which aim to move students away from traditional pencil - and - paper multiple - choice formats to assessments that meet one or more of the following criteria: 2

This differs from a more traditional model with graded assignments and assessments.

Integrating formative assessment practices into routines to the extent that students begin to monitor and drive their own progress is a significant departure from traditional practice.

Their web site describes «Parking Meter» charter school's grading, assessment, promotion and graduation system, which is somewhat different from that of traditional CPS schools.

The California Performance Assessment Collaborative (CPAC) is launching an official state pilot where participants have opportunities to learn from one another and deepen practice; find common ground despite discrete approaches to performance assessment; engage in research and documentation of various practices; and ultimately, inform state policymakers about the supports and conditions needed to broadly implement high - quality graduation performance assessments that can serve as a viable alternative to traditional measures of college, career, and civic readiness.

While American schools do not have enough graduates from traditional teacher education programs prepared to work with linguistically diverse populations (GAO, Government Accountability Office 2009), our study indicates the potential of a professional development program that integrates a brief introduction to theory, a heavy dose of readings from SFL scholars, and a variety of activities / assessments for language learners, accompanied by on - site observation and mentoring.

Advance the conversation from what students can't do — the albatross of traditional assessments and their role in bias — to what they can and will do when we personalize the experience for each and for all, using the full throttle of adaptive, blended learning.

We provide a complete program — from enrolling students and placing them in the appropriate classes to providing instruction, materials, and assessments; from building pacing guides to submitting grades — at a cost that is less than traditional homebound programs.

Our scoring model bases its risk assessment on unique data from CoreLogic plus a traditional credit report from one or more of the national consumer credit reporting agencies.

The presence of climate change experts from industry and environmental organizations in the assessment process also illustrates the IPCC's desire to seek input from outside traditional research institutions.

From their PR release: The Committee's year - end 2012 assessment of 2,384 Tcf includes 2,226 Tcf of gas potentially recoverable from «Traditional» reservoirs (conventional, tight sands and carbonates, and shales) and 158 Tcf in coalbed reservoFrom their PR release: The Committee's year - end 2012 assessment of 2,384 Tcf includes 2,226 Tcf of gas potentially recoverable from «Traditional» reservoirs (conventional, tight sands and carbonates, and shales) and 158 Tcf in coalbed reservofrom «Traditional» reservoirs (conventional, tight sands and carbonates, and shales) and 158 Tcf in coalbed reservoirs.

It also includes a comprehensive evaluation of the predictive capabilities of normals of various lengths and frequencies of updating, an assessment of possible statistical descriptors of climate over and above traditional climatological normals, and a discussion of uncertainties arising from data inhomogeneities and gaps.

Construction Management Jumpstart: The Best First Step Toward a Career in Construction Management 2nd edition — From technological advances to project risk assessment, this book explores traditional approaches and current trends for civil project managers.