Sentences with phrase «impact assessment work»

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Team members get to work on short - to - medium - term business improvement ideas, and come up with a rough assessment of the financial impact and an implementation plan.

Depending on the results of these assessments, Suncor may work to incorporate the latest information and technology developments into the Meadow Creek East and West projects to minimize our impact on the environment.

The Rise Fund involves a strategic co-investment partnership with impact investing firm Elevar Equity and work with The Bridgespan Group to develop a rigorous assessment methodology.

New studies should be large enough to include assessment and reporting of impacts by important subgroups to improve our understanding of what works for which populations.

The Department of Work and Pensions have just published their impact assessment of the housing benefit cuts.

And reforms to the work and study tiers of the Points - Based System have been estimated by government impact assessments to yield reductions in net migration smaller than required if they are to bear a proportionate share of a reduction in net migration large enough to meet the numerical goal.

Housing benefit cuts in April will particularly impact on pensioners, families on low incomes, disabled people (many already traumatised by Atos assessments of their alleged capability for work), the long - term sick, -LSB-...]

The Department for Work and Pensions has just published an impact assessment for the welfare benefits uprating bill.

«The implications derived from such work not only inform future research efforts, but they directly impact all facets of substance use disorder treatment — whether assessment, diagnosis, selection of appropriate treatment interventions, billing or reimbursement.»

In reviewing how different levels of training and varying perceptive abilities of examiners impact their work, the assessment also factors in how examiners handle evidence of different quality, such as a slightly smudged fingerprint, and the impact of workplace procedures, including the levels of investigative information examiners are exposed to and how such information can influence judgments.

Her postdoc work includes scenario planning, land use change modelling, impact assessments, and development of conservation goals and priorities for coastal protection and restoration for the Great Barrier Reef coastal zone.

«We are delighted to be working with our CHEOPS partner SmartGreenScans on this environmental impact assessment of the perovskite solar cell technology, commented, Dr Chris Case, Chief Technology Officer at Oxford PV.

Despite clear criteria to the contrary, instruction / education concerning scholarship and its assessment [12.5], and abundant counterexamples [13], traditionalists will nonetheless favor work appearing in the right journals, previously funded by the right sources, and from the right institutions and supported by letters from the right people, in the worst cases irrespective of the work's actual quality and impact [14].

He is a director of the Climate Impact Lab, a multi-institutional collaboration of more than two dozen economists, data scientists, climate scientists, and policy experts, working to bring Big Data approaches to the assessment of the economic risks of climate change.

His research work includes topics such as Baltic Sea food webs, ecological modeling, bioaccumulation of harmful substances, assessment of populations of aquatic species with several methods including hydro - acoustics — and recently, underwater soundscapes and impacts of underwater noise on marine life.

I'm one of the directors of the Climate Impact Lab, a collaboration of more than two dozen climate scientists, economists, data scientists and policy scholars, working to bring Big Data approaches to the assessment of the economic risks of climate change.

Working with partners across Europe, we think we can make a significant impact in terms of providing good assessment systems comparable with existing methods for predicting drug risk to the heart and discovering whether there are beneficial effects.»

Our online scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly journals, combined with our digital learning, assessment and certification solutions help universities, learned societies, businesses, governments and individuals increase the academic and professional impact of their work.

Four years from now it will be clear that while the Race to the Top competition drove important state - level policy changes, the work of the assessment consortia will have made the most direct impact on teaching and learning.

I find it intriguing that we have not fully realised the affordance that technology offers in relation to real - time (just in - time) formative assessment practices that research tells us makes a significant impact on student learning (Wiliam, Black, Hattie) I have a pre-school age child whose school uses a «reporting / communication» tool where daily updates are captured by the educators including work samples, outcomes linked, photos of my child engaged in learning tasks etc..

Identifies and reviews ten assessment tools for evaluating intended impacts of SEL programs, providing reasons why some tools may work better for some schools than others.

Schools should therefore familiarise themselves with the ICO's code of practice on Privacy Impact Assessments and work out how and when they would need to implement them.

This work reinforces previous assessments of ECE's impact on student progress, placement, and completion, but it covers a wider age range, reflects a mix of historical and contemporary research, and uses more rigorous criteria in designing its research parameters.

-LSB-...] John Hattie's work indicates that self - assessment can have a significant impact on the quality of learning.

The importance of defining progress can not be understated as it impacts many issues in relationship to effective use of assessment, instructional decision - making, and lastly, the importance of how we think about our work as evaluators, change agents, and adaptive learning experts and the impact these thoughts can have on student achievement and the success of our teaching.

Data - based inquiry with an equity lens is at the heart of our work, with a particular focus on the challenges that most impact curriculum design, instruction, and assessment.

The authors of Essential Assessment identify four characteristics of classrooms where assessment and self - regulation work well together to create student investment: a vision for learning, meaningful and valuable work, asset - based focus, and action and impact (p. 121).

Reflecting the findings of research conducted by Bric et al in the USA, we have found that schools who work with us on a whole - school basis, rather than individual projects or initiatives, see the greatest impact and report the highest assessments of value for money.

This learning and work will explicitly impact student achievement, increase teacher skills and efficacy, raise the rigor of assessments and instruction, and create alignment between curriculum, instruction, and assessment.

identify four characteristics of classrooms where assessment and self - regulation work well together to create student investment: a vision for learning, meaningful and valuable work, asset - based focus, and action and impact (p. 121).

Her work includes participating in the National Family Engagement Fellowship convened by the Flamboyan Foundation in D.C., implementing landscape assessments with partner schools, and tracking the impact of home visiting and other family engagement practices at our partner schools.

The Program has developed a Teaching Artist Professional Development Triad of experiences that begins with observation, leads to mentored experiential learning and concludes with coaching for understanding, documentation and assessment of the impact of the work of teaching artists.

The intended outcomes of the formal coaching process for the inviting teacher are the development of reflective practice and decision making; a refined and expanded repertoire of teaching strategies; an enhanced understanding of curriculum, instruction, and assessment; and the capacity to provide high - impact, learning - focused teaching strategies in an environment characterized by interesting and engaging work for students.

... I urge you to work closely with Commissioner Morath and TEA to come up with some solution to relieve the added pressure of the STAAR assessment and accountability measures for the districts that were impacted by Hurricane Harvey and are still working through the recovery process.

MindShift explores how learning is impacted by technology, discoveries about how the brain works, poverty and inequities, social and emotional practices, assessments, digital games, design thinking and music, among many other topics.

The basic components of edTPA are already well known in teacher education — assess student needs, design instruction to meet those needs, teach, and then assess the impact of that teaching — in the form of Teacher Work Sample and other performance assessments.

His work interests include assessment and accountability technical and policy issues, assessment and accountability design and implementation, measures of student growth, standard setting, educator accountability systems, and impact evaluation of policy and programs.

The common assessment process works best when teams work collaboratively through all aspects of the process — from prioritizing and unpacking their standards to writing the aligned assessment tools to monitoring their impact with results.

Traffic impact assessment is a key step in the process of work zone planning and scheduling for transportation agencies.

On Friday, one recipient of the letter, Edward R. Carr, an associate professor of geography at the University of South Carolina who will work on the assessment of climate impacts and adaptation options, complained about the letter in a post on his blog under the heading «Apparently we have learned nothing....»

Active participation in the Nairobi Work Programme (NWP) on impacts, vulnerability and assessment is one of them.

It is grounded in an assessment of the diverse climatic profile and vulnerabilities of the region, including identified knowledge gaps, expected impacts, work already under way by countries and partners, and key actions to be taken over time.

This publication has been developed under the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change, and provides an introduction to a range of different assessment approaches and methodologies and shares best practices and lessons learned.

This analytical report presents the concerted action taken by the UN system to assist people and communities in developing countries to adapt to climate change through: (i) risks, impacts and vulnerability assessment; (ii) adaptation planning, including creating an enabling environment; (iii) the implementation of adaptation measures, which includes UNISDR's work on climate change related disaster risk reduction and risk sharing; (iv) awareness raising; and (v) knowledge sharing and facilitate learning.

Prior to joining Deepwater Wind, Melanie worked on several environmental impact and risk assessments for offshore energy development projects in the United States and worldwide.

She also led monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment for the Water, Land, and Ecosystems program, a multi-institutional research program that works with more than 450 partners in 26 countries.

The IPCC has issued comprehensive assessments in 1990, 1996, 2001, 2007 and 2013, methodology reports, technical papers, and periodic special reports assessing specific impacts of climate change (the latest ones in the works: oceans and ice cover, land degradation, impacts of 1.5 °C warming).

Accurate assessment of the influence of external climate drivers requires explicit modelling of impact risk, not simply weather risk, so the project team works with impact modellers across Africa to assess the implications of our weather simulations for changing impact risk.

As President of Climate Forecast Applications Network (CFAN) LLC, I have worked with decision makers on climate impact assessments, assessing and developing meteorological hazard and climate adaptation strategies, and developing subseasonal climate forecasting strategies to support adaptive management.

Definition 3 taken from Climate change 2001: impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability: contribution of Working Group II to the third assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.