Sentences with phrase «major changes in the assessments»

We can not expect major improvements in education without major changes in our assessments of both student and faculty performance.

Not exact matches

New York Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia says the state has made major changes to the Common Core English and math assessments since last year when 1 in 5 students refused to take them.

A study from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Institute for Technology assessment finds that, after viewing CT scan results, physicians in the emergency departments of four major academic medical centers made key changes in clinical decision - making for patients with symptoms frequently seen in emergency rooms.

As I mentioned near the beginning of this series, self - assessment is a great way to prepare for any major change in your life.

The carbon majors are defined as fossil fuel production entities and cement manufacturers that produced more than ≥ 8 million tonnes carbon per year (MtC / y), while the total human attribution case refers to all relevant human activities that have been measured and used in climate assessment model scenarios that influence climate change.

The next year, as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was publishing its second major assessment of climate science, Shell found itself in a delicate balancing act between accepting the scientific consensus and arguing that there was still too much uncertainty to dictate aggressive action.

As well as raising DORA's profile, a major task will be to help individuals and institutions bring about real change in research assessment practices.

Researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have contributed to every major IPCC assessment since the organization was established in 1988 by the United Nations and the World Meteorological Organization, and scientists from PNNL's Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division are currently contributing to all three working groups of the AR5.

Gonski's proposed restructuring of the curriculum into «learning progressions» with aligned assessment resources would be a major change in our approach to schooling.

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers leery of the idea of creating a national assessment system apparently have enough support to make major changes in pending legislation that could jeopardize the enterprise.

California schools have experienced major changes in the past decade: adoption of the Common Core standards in math and English language arts and new standards for English learners, along with new assessments, the passage of a new school financing system in 2013 and the rollout of a new school and district accountability system.

The scale of national assessments in a system the size of England means that effective implementation of change is a major challenge in itself.

 Accordingly, we focused on dealers with a history of violations in the past 3 years. Another objective was to review the impact of recent changes the agency made to the penalty assessment process. We identified the following major deficiencies with APHIS» administration of AWA:

Christopher Field, Ph.D., Co-chair of IPCC Working Group II, said: «We expect the recommendations from the IAC's review to inform how the IPCC prepares its fifth major assessment of global climate change, due to be published in 2013 - 2014.

Advance Major Carbon Capture, Use and Storage Demonstrations: Expanding our work under the Climate Change Working Group (CCWG) and under the CERC, and partnering with the private sector, the United States and China will undertake a major carbon capture and storage project in China that supports a long term, detailed assessment of full - scale sequestration in a suitable, secure underground geologic reserMajor Carbon Capture, Use and Storage Demonstrations: Expanding our work under the Climate Change Working Group (CCWG) and under the CERC, and partnering with the private sector, the United States and China will undertake a major carbon capture and storage project in China that supports a long term, detailed assessment of full - scale sequestration in a suitable, secure underground geologic resermajor carbon capture and storage project in China that supports a long term, detailed assessment of full - scale sequestration in a suitable, secure underground geologic reservoir.

Despite the publication of a major report, by the American Sociological Association titled Climate Change and Society: Sociological Perspectives (Oxford 2015), there are apparently no ongoing plans to actively engage sociology in the development of the next assessment report.

It's the last of the major inquiries and reviews surrounding climate science that were commissioned in the wake of «ClimateGate», «HimalayaGate» and so on - and probably the most important, as it could significantly affect how the organisation pursues its work towards its fifth major assessment of climate change, due out in 2013.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) periodically issues statements in response to media enquiries / coverage or to announce major events like calls for author nominations for the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) and review periods for the various assessments underway.

The assistence of higher resolution projections to the vulnerability assessment of Amsterdam may lie in the analysis of consequences of an assumed sea level change on the probability that a major storm or inland precipitation event (or a combination of these) lead to water levels that are disruptive for the city.

Evidence that human activities are the major driver of recent climate change is even stronger than in prior assessments.

The IPCC will now include land - use changes as a major forcing in its «climate bible» assessments.

«The authors write that «the notorious tropical bias problem in climate simulations of global coupled general circulation models manifests itself particularly strongly in the tropical Atlantic,»... they state that «the climate bias problem is still so severe that one of the most basic features of the equatorial Atlantic Ocean — the eastward shoaling thermocline — can not be reproduced by most of the IPCC assessment report models,... as they describe it, «show that the bias in the eastern equatorial Atlantic has a major effect on sea - surface temperature (SST) response to a rapid change in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC).»

As I detailed in my August 16 blog piece, Gelbspan said a major factor prompting him to become familiar with the climate assessments of skeptic scientists was a backlash of letters from readers of an article he co-authored with Harvard's Paul Epstein concerning climate change and the spread of diseases.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported in its most recent scientific assessment that «[n] o robust trends in annual numbers of tropical storms, hurricanes, and major hurricanes... have been identified over the past 100 years in the North Atlantic basin,» and that there are «no significant observed trends in global tropical cyclone frequency.»

The carbon majors are defined as fossil fuel production entities and cement manufacturers that produced more than ≥ 8 million tonnes carbon per year (MtC / y), while the total human attribution case refers to all relevant human activities that have been measured and used in climate assessment model scenarios that influence climate change.

This assessment is based on multiple lines of evidence and assumes there will be no major volcanic eruptions or secular changes in total solar irradiance.

In a paper entitled, «Shifting public opinion on climate change: an empirical assessment of factors influencing concern over climate change in the U.S.,» published in the journal Climatic Change, researchers at Drexel University, McGill University, and Ohio State University showed that the stated positions of politicians and other «elites» in society is the major factor driving public opinioIn a paper entitled, «Shifting public opinion on climate change: an empirical assessment of factors influencing concern over climate change in the U.S.,» published in the journal Climatic Change, researchers at Drexel University, McGill University, and Ohio State University showed that the stated positions of politicians and other «elites» in society is the major factor driving public opchange: an empirical assessment of factors influencing concern over climate change in the U.S.,» published in the journal Climatic Change, researchers at Drexel University, McGill University, and Ohio State University showed that the stated positions of politicians and other «elites» in society is the major factor driving public opchange in the U.S.,» published in the journal Climatic Change, researchers at Drexel University, McGill University, and Ohio State University showed that the stated positions of politicians and other «elites» in society is the major factor driving public opinioin the U.S.,» published in the journal Climatic Change, researchers at Drexel University, McGill University, and Ohio State University showed that the stated positions of politicians and other «elites» in society is the major factor driving public opinioin the journal Climatic Change, researchers at Drexel University, McGill University, and Ohio State University showed that the stated positions of politicians and other «elites» in society is the major factor driving public opChange, researchers at Drexel University, McGill University, and Ohio State University showed that the stated positions of politicians and other «elites» in society is the major factor driving public opinioin society is the major factor driving public opinion.

· Major physical, ecological, sociological, and economic changes are expected in the Arctic, but much smaller changes are likely for the Antarctic, over the period of this assessment.

In the one area that has been around long enough to judge — the impact on climate of rising concentrations of CO2 — the interesting finding is that assessments of the uncertainties have changed little since the first major review in 197In the one area that has been around long enough to judge — the impact on climate of rising concentrations of CO2 — the interesting finding is that assessments of the uncertainties have changed little since the first major review in 197in 1979.

Further, you dismiss the Harper results (who found random error in the Southeastern Indian Ocean assessment of major storms and no change in the trends found in WHCC) by saying that that the Australian Bureau of Meteorology had no access to satellite data until 1980.

Overall, in the absence of major volcanic eruptions and, assuming no significant future long term changes in solar irradiance, it is likely (> 66 % probability) that the GMST -LCB- global mean surface temperature -RCB- anomaly for the period 2016 — 2035, relative to the reference period of 1986 — 2005 will be in the range 0.3 °C — 0.7 °C -LCB- 0.5 °F — 1.3 °F -RCB-(expert assessment, to one significant figure; medium confidence).

Many people with pre-existing mental illnesses are able to fly and travel without difficulty, but a good assessment of your fitness to travel is advisable especially following any changes in your medication, any recent illness or hospitalization, or major life changes.

The objectives of this mental health outreach service were to provide assessment and treatment to a vulnerable group of families who could not access mental health services, 10 to liaise with appropriate agencies, and to train hostel staff.24 The evaluation of this service was faced with constraints and limitations, particularly the mobility and engagement of the population and the resulting sample size, 11 the major environmental changes in the lives of these families during their contact with the service, hence their potentially confounding effect, and the need for an eclectic mental health intervention to meet the needs of children and their parents.

In addition to psychological assessments, Dr. Mejia also offers individual psychotherapy for depression, anxiety, PTSD, and major life transitions (e.g., loss, role changes).