Sentences with phrase «good assessment»

These novel findings may inspire the field to understand the mechanisms leading to species specific differences in behavioral tolerance, potentially allowing for better assessment of adaptive capacity.

They hope to draft — with input from parents, educators and taxpayers — a state model for better assessment of academic performance.

We hope that the resulting reports support better decisions at the state, district, and school levels, resulting in better assessment systems for all students.

Each subject's standards highlight to publishers how they could improve textbook aspects such as providing good assessment measures and supporting teachers with additional resources.

Legal writing, through its use of good assessment practices, can provide a model as the law school as a whole is required to adapt to the need for outcome - based measurements.

Interested to learn how to build better assessments in your district?

We can transform how student progress is measured by creating better assessments that provide better feedback.

This resource is for educators committed to ensuring student success through best assessment practices.

Knowing where and when a given species is being taken from the ocean allows for a much better assessment of fisheries management on a global scale.

We released the initial Making Assessments Work report and companion video series in 2014 that outlines what good assessments look like and how, when done well, they can support instruction.

Therefore, it is essential to have an understanding of good assessment methods and practices so the greatest benefits can be realized by all students.

This helps us in designing better assessments for the learners.

«The prisons are actually a very good assessment of whether a dog would be a good facility dog,» she said.

We heard loud and clear that teachers need better assessments for mathematics.

As more nations reach consensus on what skills are essential for success in the 21st century, we can expect yet another chapter to unfold in the extended discussion about good assessment.

Because you can not embrace higher standards if you don't also embrace better assessments.

Rather than developing truly better assessments, most states are making only minor revisions, and states with high - stakes tests are making the least changes.

Good assessments benefit both learners as well as instructors.

It was time to apply best assessment practices with teachers, so that they could personally learn to value and deeply understand the purpose and process.

We believe that better assessment leads to better learning.

He has led numerous item development workshops to help teachers craft better assessments and items.

Want better assessments of school performance and improved interventions for low - performers?

I can formulate better assessments of property values so they can go to meetings with prices that are not based on opinion, but on actual numbers.

He defines what poor assessment looks like and what good assessment looks like.

Reports gathered from the data can be provided to health professionals for better assessments.

The charters told him they needed better assessments, better data, and help understanding how to use the information, he says.

Good assessment of how to utilize our team and picking the squad depending on the opposition.

If the technology becomes sophisticated enough to handle answers to trickier problems, it could make better assessment more affordable.

An effective accounting system will not only need to be robust enough to encompass the fuel life cycle, but also address uncertainties and allow for changes over time as better assessment tools and methods become available.

Good assessment on Jenkinson.

Recruiters that have lawyers as part of the team will be able to offer better assessment services but even then, unless the lawyer has been in - house or has worked closely with in - house lawyers, there may not be an adequate understanding of the in - house role.

With good assessment data and a willingness to move away from «telling» to creating relevant and learning rich challenges appropriate to interests, a teacher can create enthusiastic learners who will develop the group and personal learning skills so much in demand by all forms of career.

There are better assessments available in terms of in - depth diagnostic assessments, but Star reading will give you a quick snapshot of where a student is at any given point.

Proponents of the new standards for student learning (often called the Common Core State Standards) promise better academic standards as well as better assessments that are aligned with the standards.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) provides states with a number of opportunities to build better assessment systems that support student - centered learning.

By using good assessment practice, we can find the answers to questions at every level:

The improvements are raising academic standards (including better assessments for limited - English - speaking and special education students), more transparent data collection and reporting, better distribution of good teachers to low - performing schools, and investments to turn around the worst - performing schools.

What I mean by then «a really good assessment task looks a lot like a really good instructional task», is that the kinds of tasks that we should be presenting to students for purposes of assessment, are ones that we should be able to defend as «this is an interesting problem for a student to solve, it's exactly the same kind of problem we might pose in the classroom as a part of their learning activities».

In order to get a sense of how well principals» assessments forecast teachers» performance, we examined how well these assessments predict future student achievement gains.

«The new work improves our understanding of history, allowing better model tests and allowing better assessment of how the ice responded to climate changes in the past,» Alley said, «and this will help in making better and more - reliable projections for the future.»

Phased in over time, those who serve as «lead teachers» will be rewarded with a 15 percent pay increase for working collaboratively with their less experienced colleagues to help them learn how to expertly plan and develop good assessment strategies.

The hope is that a clearer understanding of the forces that shape the environment will translate into better assessment of earthquake and volcanic hazards and more precise knowledge of the country's natural resources.

Brilliant teachers use good assessment strategies to rigorously determine the quality of technology - enhanced projects.

Testing impresario W. James Popham has penned a volume, Unlearned Lessons: Six Stumbling Blocks to Our Schools» Success, that mixes anecdote, personal experience, and scholarly analysis to ask why American schooling has had such a terrible time designing, adopting, or employing good assessment.

There's a lot of authentic work that doesn't make for good assessment because it's so messy and squishy and it involves so many different people and so many variables that you can't say with any certainty, «Well, what did that individual student know about those particular objectives in this complex project that occurred over a month?»

You spoke to delegates there about all kinds of things to do with assessment and integrating that in science, and you mentioned that «really good assessment looks a lot like really good instruction».

In October, President Obama announced a Testing Action Plan, putting forward a set of principles and steps to restore balance to America's classrooms, protecting the vital role that good assessments play in guiding progress for students while providing help in unwinding practices that have burdened classroom time or not served students, educators, or families well.