Sentences with phrase «more robust assessment»

We thank all the teachers, school leaders, and state and local officials who worked extremely hard to transition to a better, more robust assessment, and we look forward to continuing to advocate for policies that will close the opportunity and achievement gaps that afflict so many of our students.»

«Our teachers needed more robust assessment tools and data to be able to identify and close learning gaps for underperformers and to make sure that every student, at every level, achieves measurable growth throughout the school year.

Technology, I think, has a vital role to play in project - based work and in more robust assessment.

But these more robust assessments carry a bigger price tag than many current state assessments.

Not exact matches

«With the approval of these assessments, New York State is leading the way in new, innovative pathways that not only preserve our robust graduation requirements but also offer students rigorous alternatives that will keep them engaged in learning and result in more career prospects,» Board of Regents Chancellor Betty A. Rosa said.

When used for drug assessment, CTLCs were much more robust than the 2D conventional control.

We need to encourage people to think more broadly about assessment — not just the research aspects — but we also need to provide tools to create change in a robust and time - efficient manner.

Even better is that Wizer allows you to create online, more robust worksheets — with multiple choice and other assessment options.

To most fully capture nuanced experiences and beliefs so as to accurately assess the patient's / family's / staff's spiritual / religious and cultural needs, the healthcare chaplaincy field needs to develop more robust spiritual assessment tools.

Whereas today's infrastructure tends to focus on controlling access to learning and gathering rudimentary data about completion of assessments, modern L&D is moving to create a more robust infrastructure that accomplishes three key goals.

This move would mean fairer and more robust arrangements for the collection of teacher assessment data.

The methods used, however, are far more robust than the ways in which Schneider's organization is patching together data from U.S. states and international assessments to suggest to states that they can pass over a process of thorough international benchmarking.

That is why some schools, districts, and states are developing more robust performance tasks and portfolios as part of multiple - measure systems of assessment.

Stabbing the pedal harder reveals the incredible depth of stopping power, in part because the production car's booster has been yanked to allow the driver a more honest assessment of how hard the pads are pressing against the rotors and because this slotted Brembo setup is considerably more robust than the stock hardware.

This report is the result of extensive literature examination and a thorough review process, involving a number of experts, to provide a robust assessment of key problems of production and use of biomass for energy purposes and options for more efficient and sustainable production and use of biomass.

However, the assessments of overall trends are more robust — this means the relative position of a country for one year compared to previous years within one edition is typically more robust.

Had the skeptic articles been published (as they ought to have been), the resulting debate would have been more robust and IPCC would have had more to draw on its present assessment dilemma.

The message from the IPCC assessment reports would be more robust if it also made available the source code and data from which its key figures and conclusions are derived.

Salient circumstances at present include a forecast zero flow nomination to the State Water Project, a counter-intuitive assessment that supplies for southern, highly populated counties are far less seriously threatened due to more robust storage, Bay Area delta eco systems threatened with «collapse», and land fallowing in the San Joaquin running to half a million acres (of a CA total of ~ 8 million irrigated, that produce nearly half the nation's fruits and veggies).

Introduce more effective regulation to restrict the marketing activities of referral agencies, such as claims management companies, and personal injury lawyers, in particular to control the volume of cold - call marketing practices.Create a more robust approach to medical assessments for workplace injuries by extending the use of independent medical panels to cover all personal injury claims, not simply whiplash - related personal injury claims as currently envisaged under Ministry of Justice proposals.

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Michael Webster of Webster Dixon LLP, acting for BSN and SAL, says: «The government has conceded to impact assessments to be carried out with due regard to the Commission for Racial Equality's code and guidance, which are far more robust than their previous methods.

With more than 70 years of science - based, research - based insight, the MBTI assessment is a robust tool for self - awareness and improvement.

Perhaps more psychometrically robust and theoretically - derived assessments of mate preferences will better settle some of the arguments between sociocultural (e.g., Eagly, 1987) and evolutionary psychologists (e.g., Buss, 1985).

Low interest rates, healthy debt service coverage ratios and a robust economy have enabled more than 75 percent of these mortgages to post stable or improving cash flows since they were underwritten, according to an assessment from Morningstar Credit Ratings.