Sentences with phrase «in assessment design»

Many teachers nevertheless earn their credentials with little background in assessment design or believing incorrectly that they should differentiate their instruction for student learning styles.

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said Annamaria Lusardi, a professor at George Washington University who is chairing the OECD group that designed the assessment, in a CNBC interview.

The authors of the study wrote of their findings that they had «obvious industrial applications where an objective assessment of audiovisual material is sought from groups of people, for example, in advertising, video game design or in filmmaking.»

Used in over 20,000 schools worldwide, Chalk.com solves the problems of lesson planning, assessment, and collaboration designed to ease teachers» pain, facilitate personalized education, and help drive student success.»

«These assessments are not designed in a way that provides accountability for companies,» said Michelle de Mooy, the director of the privacy and data project at the Center for Democracy and Technology.

His department plays a central role in the design and implementation of Fund policies and in the review of its financial programs and assessments of member economies.

In those areas that we have mapped, it typically takes us a few hours to go from a mechanism - inspired idea for treating a disease to knowing the companies that might have relevant clinical and preclinical assets to license, the companies from whom a candidate could be commissioned, trial designs and endpoints, competing and complementary agents, current and future standard of care, market size, comparable pricing, financing strategy, and potential acquirers, all meant to enable a thoughtful first - pass assessment of whether an idea could be worth a much deeper assessment.

In an International Risk Management Institute story, Mike Poskey, president of ZERORISK HR said all companies, regardless of size, benefit from a sound employee retention strategy that starts with a well - designed assessment / selection process and a solid employee orientation program.

Cases such as this, the Court explained, illustrate why environmental assessment in Canada is designed to «promote co-operation and co-ordinated action between federal and provincial governments.»

Based on the assessment, the committee decided to design a strategy to find a business partner with expertise in marketing and value creation.

The state - of - the - art distillery and brand visitor center in England was awarded the prestigious 2014 Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Methodology (BREEAM) Industrial Award, the world's foremost environmental assessment method and rating system for buildings, for its design.

Design, implement, and collaborate with external researchers to carry out evaluation and impact assessment research for Rainforest Alliance's agriculture sustainability certification programs as well as broader research on the effectiveness of strategies to conserve forests, promote the sustainability of production systems, and improve human wellbeing in the context of agriculture and forestry landscapes and supply chains.

Schools involved in our program send full teams to attend intensive conferences where they work with a coach to design action plans to implement best practices in areas such as curriculum, assessment, homework, school schedule, and a healthy school climate.

We know that cheating is a problem — especially in high school, and we sympathize with the time it takes to design effective assessments.

Throughout the school year, each team works with a Challenge Success coach to design and implement positive changes in areas such as curriculum and assessment, homework policies, the daily school schedule, and health and wellness programs.

One way, I believe, to address the problem of under - reporting and increase the chances a concussion will be identified early on the sports sideline may be to rely less on athletes themselves to remove themselves from games or practices by reporting concussion symptoms (which the most recent study shows occurs at a shockingly low rate, [9] or on game officials and sideline observers to observe signs of concussion and call for a concussion assessment, but to employ technology to increase the chances that a concussion will be identified by employing impact sensors designed to monitor head impact exposure in terms of the force of hits (both linear and rotational), number, location, and cumulative impact, in real time at all levels of football, and in other helmeted and non-helmeted contact and collision sports, where practical, to help identify high - risk impacts and alert medical personnel on the sideline so they can consider performing a concussion assessment.

The 2 - day PSI Certificate of Completion Course, taught by experienced and engaging faculty, is a thorough and evidence - based curriculum designed for nurses, physicians, social workers, mental health providers, childbirth professionals, social support providers, or anyone interested in learning skills and knowledge for assessment and treatment of perinatal mood disorders.

This assessment tool is designed to assist in gathering and presenting relevant information; in determining the strengths and weaknesses of national policies and programmes to protect, promote and support appropriate feeding practices; and in deciding where improvements may be needed to meet the aim and objectives of the Global Strategy.

The differences among study findings are partly explained by differences in study designs, assessment tools, study populations (13), usual maternity care practices and caregiver attitudes (14 - 16).

However, fathers are rarely included in the family needs assessment and few programs are designed with the expectation that fathers should and will participate.xx Efforts within Head Start to promote father involvement have been able to significantly increase father participation.

These are used in the 1994 development of Keys to Excellence: Standards of Practice for Nutrition Integrity, a self - assessment tool designed to assist operators in improving their programs.

Although the results of the meta - regression showed no evidence of significant heterogeneity between subgroups, summary association estimates were slightly different in subgroup analyses by study design and exposure assessment.

Districts would be required to use state - administered standardized assessments as a component in the ratings, but they would also have the option to use an additional test that would also be designed by the state.

A House of Commons select committee report into incapacity benefit re-assessment - published on 13 July - said: «Our central conclusion is that the assessment process, as it is designed at the moment, does not accurately assess claimants» employability and needs in the workplace.»

The hotline volunteers can aid human rights groups in a variety of ways, from reviewing environmental impact assessments to managing data and designing surveys.

Over the course of the three - year curriculum project, the research team will design materials for students along with a professional development program and materials for teachers and a set of assessments for evaluating students» understanding of the energy concepts and science practices that are targeted in the new unit.

Recent Activity RCP Assesses Mississippi Program's Novel Public Health and Community Engagement Partnership In March 2017, RCP conducted an assessment of the Mississippi IDeA Network for Biomedical Research Excellence (Mississippi INBRE) program, a five - year cycle - competitive $ 20 million NIH - funded program designed to enhance biomedical research capacity throughout the state.

This self - assessment test, created in 1998 by psychiatrist Kimberly Young of Saint Bonaventure University in New York State, is an unofficial standard among Internet addiction researchers, and it consists of eight yes - or - no questions designed to separate online addicts from those who can manage their Internet use.

... The safety program at UH was not designed to assist researchers in identifying hazards, making risk assessments, and controlling laboratory hazards.»

From design to implementation, rewilding projects create jobs for a host of specialties — soil assessment, land system mapping, wildlife surveys and management, fire management — and for people in the construction and landscaping fields.

All of this makes for a headache for those trying to sort out appropriate building codes and engineering designs; to try to bring some harmony to the dispute, the latest hazard assessment incorporated a model that followed some of Stein's ideas, including using GPS to detect tectonic strain in the region, as well as the data from NRC.

In addition, Weisman and Chuang call for the «design, assessment and dissemination of woman - centered information and decision tools to help women make optimal contraceptive choices in the context of their own life circumstances and preferences.&raquIn addition, Weisman and Chuang call for the «design, assessment and dissemination of woman - centered information and decision tools to help women make optimal contraceptive choices in the context of their own life circumstances and preferences.&raquin the context of their own life circumstances and preferences.»

An academic integrity - focused approach to addressing plagiarism emphasises the promotion of positive values alongside education of staff and students about good, and bad, practice in writing, studying and assessment design.

«Accurate assessment of the risk of floods in any particular area is important for town planning and council zoning and in designing flood protection infrastructure like bridges and levees,» says Dr Westra.

«It will be a valuable resource for everyone who works in K - 12 science education — those who design curriculum and assessment, those who educate teachers, education researchers, as well as our nation's teachers,» he adds.

His main research interests are in the development and application of probabilistic concepts and methods to civil and marine engineering, including: structural reliability; life - cycle cost analysis; probability - based assessment, design, and multi-criteria life - cycle optimization of structures and infrastructure systems; structural health monitoring; life - cycle performance maintenance and management of structures and distributed infrastructure under extreme events (earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and floods); risk - based assessment and decision making; multi-hazard risk mitigation; infrastructure sustainability and resilience to disasters; climate change adaptation; and probabilistic mechanics.

The study was designed as a preliminary assessment of the program's effectiveness in reducing overdose deaths among recently incarcerated people, meaning those who had been incarcerated within a year of their deaths.

Previous studies have shown family history of suicide to be a risk factor for suicide attempt, so risk assessments in hospitals, prisons and social care settings are designed to take this into account.

When available, risk assessment tools combining multiple predictors will need to be evaluated in carefully designed trials to be generalizable to the population in which they would be used.

John DeLuca, PhD, VP of Research & Training chairs Workshop 6: Cognitive Rehabilitation in MS. Dr. DeLuca discusses assessment of cognitive problems and introduces common evidence - based techniques for improving cognitive functioning in persons with MS. Nancy Chiaravalloti, PhD, director of Neuropsychology & Neuroscience Research, presents two recent double - blind, placebo - controlled, randomized control trials of behavioral interventions designed to specifically improve learning and memory in persons with MS. Yael Goverover, PhD, OT, focuses on techniques to improve learning and memory, with a specific emphasis on improving everyday functional activity.

AISL seeks to advance new approaches to and evidence - based understanding of the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments; provide multiple pathways for broadening access to and engagement in STEM learning experiences; advance innovative research on and assessment of STEM learning in informal environments; and develop understandings of deeper learning by participants.

This in - depth study provides nuclear reactor technology assessments and overall evaluations of the major reactor designs currently available in the world.

In addition to the small sample size and the fact that the trial was not designed or intended as an efficacy study, one important caveat is that because the trial was not investigator - blinded, it is likely that at least some bias was introduced into the assessments, particularly on the more subjective ones such as the IGA and some components of the MDS - UPDRS II and III subscales.

The center is a custom designed training and assessment facility to promote excellence in clinical care, advance patient safety initiatives, and improve multidisciplinary team performance.

His recent research has focused on the design and implementation of innovative algorithms to enable proteogenomic data analysis, pattern - based discovery of proteomic biomarker candidates, evaluation of data quality, assessment of variability and reproducibility in mass spectrometry based assays, and data visualization.

Study design; 3: Statistical considerations and design of clinical trials; 4: Establishing efficacy and endpoints; 5: Quality of life assessment; and 6: Regulatory considerations in design and implementation of clinical trials.

It intends to apply for generic design assessment in the UK.

For example, the U.S. government uses integrated assessment models (IAMs) to estimate the benefits of carbon dioxide emissions reductions in the design of regulations, including the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan.

Our comprehensive assessment is completed in a private office where we've thoughtfully designed the space to be warm and comfortable — one where you feel safe discussing your most personal health concerns.

Designed to provide superior quality, rigorous assessment, and educational innovation, PCE programs uphold the University's commitment to excellence in teaching and learning.