Sentences with phrase «integrated assessment frameworks»

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To inform its Earth system models, the climate modeling community has a long history of using integrated assessment models — frameworks for describing humanity's impact on Earth, including the source of global greenhouse gases, land use and land cover change, and other resource - related drivers of anthropogenic climate change.

PNNL scientists also have contributed intellectual frameworks that influenced IPCC assessments and the broader climate change community in areas as diverse as integrated assessment, technology's role in mitigation, carbon dioxide capture and storage, and social science contributions in addressing climate change challenges.

It lets you define, create and use Assessment Schemas so that you can perform summative assessment with your frameworks — integrated with the evidence already gathered and formative assessment tools built into Evidence for Learning.

The system consists of four integrated components: local assessments developed by local schools based on state curriculum frameworks; a school quality review process involving periodic intensive onsite visits by teams of external reviewers; limited standardized testing in literacy and numeracy; and, annual reporting by schools to their communities.

-- Select a program for school - wide implementation; establish the training, implementation, and assessment schedule for the whole school.Establish a framework describing how the SECD program integrates with and mutually supports other school - wide initiatives such as Restorative Practices, PBIS (some providers have these resources available).

MTSS is a schoolwide approach that addresses the needs of all students, including struggling learners and students with disabilities, and integrates assessment and intervention within a multilevel instructional and behavioral framework to maximize student achievement and reduce problem behaviors.

The primary objectives of MELAF were to develop state goals and objectives in English language arts that would provide the basis for a curriculum framework that (1) integrated curriculum, instruction, and assessment; (2) promoted systemic change; and (3) had an impact on schools, classrooms, individual teachers and students.

Key to changing this attitude is a well crafted, engaging and balanced assessment culture integrated into the instructional framework of the classroom.

Valencia and Wixson have gathered scholarship from three disparate sources to produce the first integrated review of policy - related research on literacy education: (a) policy analyses that examine policies about literacy in the framework of systemic reform; (b) measurement and evaluation studies, conducted by psychometricians, that examine the assessments mandated by policies; and (c) studies by literacy researchers that attend to policies and literacy - specific content.

We'll assemble all the content you need, add formative assessments and digital resources, to create an integrated online instructional plan that aligns to any curriculum framework.

We're taking the same models and people [used in those assessments] and integrating into a regularly run reusable framework and making them available at scale.»

In this paper, af - ter a brief tutorial on the basics of climate nonlinearity, we provide a number of illustrative examples and highlight key mechanisms that give rise to nonlinear behavior, address scale and methodological issues, suggest a robust alternative to prediction that is based on using integrated assessments within the framework of vulnerability studies and, lastly, recommend a number of research priorities and the establishment of education programs in Earth Systems Science.

«The Earth's climate system is highly nonlinear: inputs and outputs are not proportional, change is often episodic and abrupt, rather than slow and gradual, and multiple equilibria are the norm... there is a relatively poor understanding of the different types of nonlinearities, how they manifest under various conditions, and whether they reflect a climate system driven by astronomical forcings, by internal feedbacks, or by a combination of both... [We] suggest a robust alternative to prediction that is based on using integrated assessments within the framework of vulnerability studies... It is imperative that the Earth's climate system research community embraces this nonlinear paradigm if we are to move forward in the assessment of the human influence on climate.»

I think a BIG part of the problem (maybe almost all of it) that drives the misconstruction of this issue so desired is the failure to adequately assess exactly what the issue is, and integrate that into a coherent framework analytical assessment.

The risk assessment framework comprises hydrological modelling, threshold - based evaluation of extreme event magnitude and frequency, fully integrated 2D flood hazard mapping, updated exposure maps, country - specific depth - damage functions and improved vulnerability information to estimate current and future flood risk.

A comprehensive law firm TD framework includes cohesive and integrated programs covering, for example, recruiting; lawyer training programs customized to class year and practice group; a clear, robust performance review and associated compensation system; a philosophy and system for the allocation of work; resources to enable lawyer career development and self - direction, including core competencies, benchmarks, individual development plans, and other self - assessment tools; mentoring and sponsorship programs; career coaching and conversations about pathways to partnership; and fully developed alumni tracking programs, including, when appropriate, the placement of law firm attorneys with clients and the provision of professional outplacement support.

• An overview of the policy change • The legislative framework • Local offers • Implementation programmes • Integrated assessments • Education, health and care planning • Personal budgets • Managing care needs and the budget • The impact on professionals working with those affected • The pilot programme — what can we learn?

Applying a four - level assessment framework: this was introduced in the first edition of Integrated Family Therapy to describe and make sense of what is happening in families facing difficulties.