Sentences with phrase «modeled after the assessment»

The Davidson Academy Online High School conducts a thorough assessment process modeled after the assessment best practices developed during the past decade at the Reno campus.

Not exact matches

The insurance industry now uses sophisticated catastrophe modeling for risk assessment when it comes to flooding, hurricanes, and other natural disasters, but that wasn't the case until 11 insurance companies went bankrupt after Hurricane Andrew in 1992.

After you make sure that your platform can handle your business model (i.e. recurring orders or customized products), you need to make sure that your online platform delivers on the features we've identified as crucial for ecommerce entrepreneurs — we weighted these 5x more than «nice haves» in our assessment of best ecommerce software.

The emerging model of sport concussion assessment now involves the use of brief screening tools to evaluate post-concussion signs and symptoms on the sideline immediately after a concussion and neuropsychological testing to track recovery further out from the time of injury.

This is the view of the Greek Communist Party in a nutshell, as presented in the 18th congress (2009): «Resolution on Socialism - Assessments and conclusions on socialist construction during the 20th century, focusing on the USSR», after a 16 - year study on the economic model of USSR and the historical period it existed.

To try to settle the controversy, several members of Congress from New England last year asked NRC to review the adequacy of stock assessments, which use mathematical models to predict how fish populations rebound after being culled.

Once validated, the model might be applied «in comparison or in combination with» other biologically based prognostic tools, or with minimal residual disease assessment after treatment, they proposed.

The 10 percent cap was derived from modeling different kinds of healthy diet patterns — American, Mediterranean and vegetarian — and determining how many discretionary calories are left over for sugar after an individual ge the nutrients he or she needs, said Dr. Susan Krebs - Smith,, the chief of the risk factors assessment branch at the National Cancer Institute.

Then districts will have to develop local assessments for all students which are modeled after the new state assessments and are embedded into all courses and grade levels.

Now, all freshmen and sophomores take advanced English and history, with assignments in literary commentary, oral presentations, and historical investigations modeled after IB assessments.

As assistant director, I coordinate programmatic assessment, work with faculty on their writing and writing pedagogy, and direct the WAC Academy, a series of workshops fashioned after the National Writing Project model of professional development for university instructors from across the disciplines.

After they gave the formative assessment halfway through — a ten - question assessment modeled on the upcoming benchmark exam — they analyzed the results and planned how to reteach the components of the standards students were struggling with.

This factory model of assessment would have been great 50 years ago, when schools were modelled after and trained students for work in factories.

Additionally, New Teacher Center advocates for multi-year induction programs that incorporate co-teaching models.44 Teachers supported by New Teacher Center demonstrate higher proficiency in both engaging students and using assessment in instruction, while 90 percent of new teachers agree that working with their New Teacher Center mentor influences their practice and meets their needs as a growing professional.45 Moreover, a preliminary independent Evaluation of Investing in Education, or i3 evaluation, showed that «after just one year, students of teachers supported by New Teacher Center gained 2 to 3.5 months of additional learning in reading compared to control teachers.»

After three years of charter school assessment, the EPIC model, which uses state test results in reading and math to measure the impact of a school on its students over time, is beginning to show emerging trends and common threads among high - performing charter schools in the United States.

More formally, after we've got the RTI model implemented, well, parents are going to choose to be involved in varying levels, but as a school person I'd encourage parents to be involved as we look at the results of our screening whether we're screening annually, or maybe even three times a year, when we're looking at those academic benchmarks that would indicate how well a youngster is performing in class and then when we're conducting the progress monitoring so that students who are part of more intensive interventions will have their progress monitored, or will conduct those formative assessments to inform us how well that intervention is working.

All other assessments, ratings, and vehicle specifications are based on an Institute test of a 2014 model Camry built after the front structure was modified.

It's not the most objective of assessments - after all, someone who's used to the most powerful exotics could consider a more common model like a Mustang GT to be outside the realm of «fast» - but in general, a quick car is one that has a bit more pep than the average commuter without crossover over into the sport category.

After establishing sources of uncertainty and methods for code verification, the paper looks at a representative sampling of verification and validation efforts that are underway in the glacier modeling community, and establishes a context for these within an overall solution quality assessment.

«After significant improvements and a diligent assessment, we have determined that the best way to achieve that commitment is to pivot to this new business model.»

Such solecisms throughout the IPCC's assessment reports (including the insertion, after the scientists had completed their final draft, of a table in which four decimal points had been right - shifted so as to multiply tenfold the observed contribution of ice - sheets and glaciers to sea - level rise), combined with a heavy reliance upon computer models unskilled even in short - term projection, with initial values of key variables unmeasurable and unknown, with advancement of multiple, untestable, non-Popper-falsifiable theories, with a quantitative assignment of unduly high statistical confidence levels to non-quantitative statements that are ineluctably subject to very large uncertainties, and, above all, with the now - prolonged failure of TS to rise as predicted (Figures 1, 2), raise questions about the reliability and hence policy - relevance of the IPCC's central projections.

[15] A crude revised central estimate is 3.4 °C, being the median ECS of the 7 models (CGCM3.1, HadCM3, CanESM2, IPSL - CM5A, MRI - CGCM3, NCAR - CAM5, NorESM1 - M) whose seasonal variability lies within the uncertainty range for the observational estimate, after substituting the Brient & Schneider consistency assessment for the 4 models where if differs radically.

Competing Behavior Model — This model helps to provide a link between functional assessment information (information learned by documenting what happens before, during, and after behaviors take place) and developing a positive behavior support Model — This model helps to provide a link between functional assessment information (information learned by documenting what happens before, during, and after behaviors take place) and developing a positive behavior support model helps to provide a link between functional assessment information (information learned by documenting what happens before, during, and after behaviors take place) and developing a positive behavior support plan.

They found that relationship dissolutions over the first seven years after the initial assessment were predicted by a negative affect model, including low marital satisfaction as well as expressed criticism, defensiveness, contempt, and stonewalling during a laboratory conflict conversation.

The assessment and data scoring procedures were identical for the two samples, as the data collection in the PPD study was modelled after that in the community study for the purpose of the present comparison.