Sentences with phrase «gold standard assessments»

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Ultimately, the facility demonstrates that they have attained the gold standard of maternity practices during an on - site assessment.

Yet an impact assessment of this kind is not radical - it is the gold - standard approach for assessing public policy the world over.

EPA assessments are the country's gold standard for how dangerous a chemical is.

Kerr and his team accomplished this by inspecting outpatient clinical notes from patients with medication - resistant seizure disorder, who were later diagnosed as having epilepsy or non-epileptic seizure disorder, using the gold standard diagnostic assessment, 72 - hour in - patient closed circuit video - electroencephalography (VEEG) monitoring.

Liver biopsy is the current gold standard for assessing liver disease, however a global rising prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) means there is a need to develop fast, non-invasive and cost - effective ways for assessment and diagnoses.

Overall, 43 % of institutions which submitted their FLS for assessment against the 13 BPF standards reached gold, 39 % reached silver and 18 % reached bronze status.

Ensure your laboratory is offering the gold - standard clonality testing for B - and T - cell clonality assessment.

While there are several limitations to Tanner staging (including ethnic homogeneity of the scale), the test is the current gold standard for puberty assessment.

A particular strength of this study is its use of both isotopically labelled glucose and the hyperinsulinemic - euglycemic clamp technique, which is considered the gold standard method for assessment of insulin sensitivity, and allows for the differentiation between peripheral and hepatic insulin sensitivity.98 It should be noted however that this was a study of eight lean, glucose tolerant men and thus presents a possible limitation for these findings.

[10 - 12] In a recent gold - standard study, highly stressed patients receiving ashwaganda extract had significantly lower stress assessment scores vs. their placebo controlled counterparts.

Since the 1980s, TSH has been the gold standard for thyroid testing even though it fails to provide a complete and accurate assessment.

The gold standard for authentic assessment is when students begin to develop their own plans for holding themselves accountable and measuring the success of their endeavors.

NAEP, called «the nation's report card,» is managed by the Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics and is currently the «gold standard» of assessments.

As we look at these data, we should remember that, while NAEP is rightfully viewed as the «gold standard» of assessments, it is not the ideal instrument for detailed statements of cause and effect.

He describes NAEP as «the «gold standard» of assessment,» seemingly unaware that the quality of the assessment does not compensate for the weakness of his simple pre post comparison research design in trying to determine the effectiveness of a program.

NAEP is widely considered «the gold standard» of student assessments.

That finding is according to the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress exam, which is considered the gold standard of assessments.

More than half of all states have a 30 - point or more differential between their own reported proficiency rates and the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP), which is commonly considered the gold standard of assessments by groups ranging from the liberal American Federation of Teachers to the conservative Heritage Foundation.

«This is another nail in the coffin for testing as a gold standard of assessment.

Thus, for evaluating any assessment for alignment to state standards one would evaluate the relationship or consistency of scores achieved on the (new) test measure with the state test (gold standard measure).

This is usually done by comparing scores on the new assessment with ones on an established and accepted as a «gold standard» measure.

The authors take the 2009 reading test results released in March from the National Assessment of Educational Progress — considered to be the gold standard in K - 12 standardized assessment — and break down the numbers to show how well different groups of disadvantaged students are doing:

NAEP is known as a gold standard of assessment, because it samples students from across the country in a secure test that does not impact teacher evaluations or student promotions.

The gold standard for high - quality induction programs is the Santa Cruz New Teacher Project, which eventually grew into the New Teacher Center, a national organization working with districts to provide high - quality induction, among other services.65 The comprehensive program carefully selects and trains teacher mentors and also provides beginning teachers with intensive instructional support and professional development; opportunities to observe master teachers; and opportunities for ongoing assessment, reflection, and feedback.66

With that «gold standard» on ebook royalties having been tarnished to a «rusty» one, in Lownie's assessment, he goes on to place another factor on the table of the debate.

Today's gold standard for climate impact assessments — model intercomparison projects (MIPs)-- fall short in many ways.

Their assessments of the state of knowledge on the subject are the «gold standard of climate change information,» said Gerald Meehl, a senior scientist at the US government - funded National Centre for Atmospheric Research and chair of the National Academy of Science.

But the projections they obtain may not be as reliable or useful as they appear: Today's gold standard for climate impact assessments — model intercomparison projects (MIPs)-- fall short in many ways.

The Verified Carbon Standard and the Gold Standard require an assessment of project - specific additionality.

The gold - standard fracking assessment comes from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, which evaluated some 10,000 air samples from fracking sites and found that the emissions levels were «safe.»

Second, orbital instrumental observations provide only a recent record of land surface area temperature assessment, and the methods involved had to be calibrated against the prevailing standards of proximal thermometric determination, the widely - ranged system of meteorological thermometers in these United States providing (as others here have observed) a sort of «gold standard» in terms of technology, maintenance, and reliability as compared with similar broadly spaced systems of monitoring stations.

Yet the very same article quoted climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe calling the IPCC report «the gold standard of climate science assessment.»

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory is the number one personality assessment test in the world and is known as the gold standard in personality testing.

He is widely known for his work on the structure and assessment of personality, particularly with regard to the Big Five model that is currently the field's gold standard.

Studies had to be published after or in the year 2000, coincident with the revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Diseases, Fourth Edition8 and widespread implementation of gold - standard assessment tools including the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) 9 and the Autism Diagnostic Interview - Revised10 over the same time frame.

The desired «gold standard» evidence, gathered through assessment instruments, «Indigenised» surveys and one - off intervention testing might elsewhere be revered as objective and reliable, but often inadequately represent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples» worldviews, experiences and knowledge about «what works».

Specifically, because no «gold standard» exists for assessments in most areas of inquiry (Kazdin, 2005), such studies could compute the differential incremental validity of the measures being compared (e.g., Does measure X or measure Y have more incremental validity above and beyond an existing standard battery?).

Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) is the gold standard in assessment of individual attachment style.

(author of the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory, which is considered the gold - standard for the assessment of personality disorders)

And the preeminent expert in personality disorders, Theodore Millon (author of the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory, which is considered the gold - standard for the assessment of personality disorders), describes the overlap of personality disorder traits for the narcissistic personality;

Such limitations are common in research projects on the family and are related to a lack of gold standard criteria for the assessment of family dysfunction and definitions of family issues.

AAI is indeed considered the «gold standard» for adult attachment assessment (Hesse, 2008) and differs from adult attachment styles questionnaires because of its implicit nature.