The National Task Force on Assessment Education has provided a much more in depth definition of assessment literacy, diving
into assessment purpose, learning targets, assessment quality, the communication of assessment results, and assessment and motivation — critical components that help form the foundation for overall assessment literacy.
Not exact matches
An honest
assessment of the successes and deficiencies of the Nicaraguan revolution would need to consider that the
purpose of proinsurgency is to shift the priorities of governments disliked by the United States from revolutionary development
into warfare.
The methods established in the new study can be used in future for applied
purposes — for example for local protection measures, for environmental
assessments by authorities, or to integrate the long - term effects of road building
into scenarios of the World Bank regarding global biodiversity changes.
For now, telomere
assessment is strictly used for research
purposes and not something that would translate
into clinical practice, Christian said.
The book's structure is of particular value: The thinking routines are broken down
into easily digestible categories like
purpose, execution, classroom examples, and
assessment.
That said, to anyone interested in turning the Report Card
into an
assessment scale: Please don't (unless your intent is to use the resulting instrument only for research
purposes).
PARCC will also replace the one end - of - year high stakes accountability test with a series of
assessments throughout the year that will be averaged
into one score for accountability
purposes, reducing the weight given to a single test administered on a single day, and providing valuable information to students and teachers throughout the year.
In a report that was set for release this week, the commission lays out a 10 - year plan for states to develop systems of
assessment that go beyond identifying student achievement for accountability
purposes and toward improving classroom instruction and giving greater insight
into how children learn.
All of us favor school accountability, but
assessment systems that turn students
into workers, recess
into test preparation, and school
into drudgery defeat their own
purposes.
Provides that for
purposes of factoring
into the state accountability system the requirement for 95 % student participation in state math and reading / language arts
assessments, Texas will include that information in its «Closing the Gaps» domain report and that campuses that don't meet the student participation rate will be notified and develop strategies to address it as part of the annual campus needs
assessment for Title I funding.
These are self - awareness, self - management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision - making.26 While there are existing
assessments that measure aspects of SEL for particular groups of students, none of these
assessments»
purpose is to hold schools accountable for students» SEL.27 Nonetheless, providing local educators with insights
into how well students are developing their SEL can be useful to inform instructional practice.
Each Standard has a title and includes, as necessary, descriptors that further clarify or define the Standard, so that the Standards may be developed further
into leadership curricula and proficiency
assessments in fulfillment of their
purposes.
As with previous
assessments, states will use the new tests for school accountability determinations, but the tests will have the added
purpose of clearly demonstrating students» reading and math readiness for entry
into college and the workforce.
Classroom
assessments fall
into three categories, each serving a different
purpose.
Efforts of the Climate Action Reserve may also assist Ontario in considering various offset protocol types, including review,
assessment, and adaptation of protocols, that could serve other
purposes than Cap - and - Trade (offsetting emissions from governmental operation, etc.) but that would not be adopted
into the linked compliance market under a regional additionality review.
The stated
purpose of the SRA's introduction of a standardised
assessment at the point of qualification is in order to «ensure consistent high standards of entry
into the profession, providing confidence to the public and employers».
Currently, the budget information has to be translated
into an utterly different format for
assessment purposes.
Approaching the matter in this way serves to focus the inquiry on the exercise of the discretion with a view to the
purpose of the Rule and obviates the need to guess as to whether, and if so when, a first
assessment not ordered under the Rule may have evolved
into such an
assessment.
When making the same
assessment for the
purposes of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 s 229 (3) the court is required to take
into account: (i) all such information as is available to it about the nature and circumstances of each of the offences; (ii) where appropriate, any information which is before it about any pattern of behaviour of which any of the offences forms part; and (iii) any information about the offender which is before it».
A couple of equipment manufacturing groups suggested that updating of various types of equipment would be necessary for compliance
purposes, and suggested a phased approach to this — for example, an initial phase consisting of preparation of policies, plans, and risk
assessments, a second phase consisting of bringing new equipment
into compliance, and a final phase consisting of bringing existing equipment
into compliance.
For the
purposes of s 193 of the Housing Act 1996, the suitability of offered accommodation is not to be judged exclusively by reference to the condition of the accommodation at the time of the offer; the
assessment of its suitability can and should also take
into account any adaptations or alterations that are, at that time, proposed to be made.
I went off to Bristol University to do my Social Work training and returned to open a
purpose - built family centre, where I remained until nine months before my retirement, when I transferred
into the Adoption and Fostering Team, doing form
assessments until I retired.
The
purpose of this project is to encourage clinicians to consider how they define the healing and suffering of their clients and to encourage the incorporation of social and historical analysis
into their psychological
assessment and diagnosis process.