Sentences with phrase «much better assessment»

Knowing where and when a given species is being taken from the ocean allows for a much better assessment of fisheries management on a global scale.

Jules Wells presents Investment Risk Tolerance Questionnaire Financial Planning Software, posted at Financial Answers saying, «There is a way for you to get a much better assessment of your risk tolerance than you would from a simple conservative versus aggressive financial industry investor questionnaire.»

John Kemp in London offered a much better assessment of what hedge funds have been doing in recent weeks as they scale back their bullish sentiments.

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It's about getting much better at talent assessment and talent performance management in portfolio companies.

Tony understands the power of the DISC personality assessment as a valuable tool for bettering your self - understanding, so much so that he asks his own employees to use it when they're hired at his company.

As we argued on numerous occasions, the budget needs to be much more explicit on the proposed policy initiatives; providing sufficient detail and background information for Parliamentary assessment and for a better understanding by the public at large.

Maybe in the future we should expect to have a much better understanding of how our minds assign an assessment value to what our senses and other input factors is feeding it.

I'm not sure I would say mental illness, but I would like to think that in the future, we will much better understand the mind's inclination toward gullibility and assessment of reality in general.

I wouldn't say mental illness, but I would like to think that in the future, we will much better understand the mind's inclination toward gullibility and assessment of reality in general.

It's not so much that Tunsil was a bad pass blocker — if you read my breakdown you know he was actually pretty good at it — but I just didn't get to see him block an edge rusher one - on - one enough in four games to be truly comfortable with my assessment of how good or bad he was doing it.

This assessment of the changing role of fathers delivers an in - depth portrait of America's working fathers, revealing that today's dads associate being a good father just as much with the role of effective caregiver as the traditional role of «breadwinner.»

Two main issues: you need reasonably good assessment of the property's value and, since it also affects locals, it can be seen as an unfair tax in that it may also affect (not necessarily well off) retirees who purchased their property when prices were much lower.

(For reference, the last new member, Croatia, formally applied in 2003, started with a much better initial assessment and joined in 2013; Bulgaria applied in 1995 and joined in 2007.)

AlastairCampbell, Mr Blair's former communications director, said there had to be an assessment of why Labour lost support but added: «I would advise Ed against doing too much of the bashing of the past which marked out his launch and today's interview... Being overly and needlessly critical of the past is not the best way to start an argument about the future.»

All contracted agencies will now be required to submit performance reports to the County in order to create a better assessment of what services are being provided and how much value the agency is providing to the County.

He believes the results are good evidence that phones will be able to provide continuous mental health assessment — much better than occasional questionnaires filled out when someone feeling depressed visits a doctor.

My health has improved so much because of the wealth of information you provide here and in your books (I have purchased several already as well as an assessment).

Whether one - on - one, or in one of my small, female - only groups, you will receive so much more than just personal training, including: meal plans with recipes, off - day programs, daily support, and personal assessment consultations to identify goals, roadblocks, imbalances — and how to best achieve your ideal physique.

I think you'd be much better served by having a food sensitivity assessment either with the elimination diet that's done formally, food allergy testing through blood work, stool work or the LCAT, The Mediator Release Test, so it could be very specifically personalized.

At the end of our online dating profile assessment, you'll be in a much better place to start securing more dates right away.

«NAPLAN does not replace the much deeper, more sophisticated and more frequent formative or summative assessments of student learning done by school teachers, nor does it provide judgement on how «good» a student, teacher or school might be,» Dr Hinz says.

By moving to tougher, Common Core - aligned assessments with much higher cut scores, states can finally close the honesty gap and make good on this commitment.

The OECD says students in Australia — along with those in New Zealand, Japan, Korea and the United States — performed much better in this assessment than would be expected, based on their scores in the PISA 2015 science, reading and mathematics tests.

Formative and summative assessments Old - fashioned assessments consume much valuable class - time, are either simple - minded in construction or labor intensive to evaluate, rarely work well across a broad range of students (it takes far too many questions to differentiate at the low and high ends as well as in the middle), and their turnaround is too slow to yield useful information when you really need it.

This will let you know how your students are completing your courses, as well as giving you some indication of how much they are enjoying the course, and how well they may do when it comes to the final assessment.

If these standards and assessments end up representing a huge improvement over those in use in most states today, then much that's good may reasonably follow from their installation and use.

Analysis of PISA results has shown a «crucial difference» between youngsters who perform well in the reading assessment and those who perform poorly is not how much time they spend reading, but whether they read daily for enjoyment.

«If we can develop better formative assessments that provide diagnostic information that is used to go back and change the course of instruction,» [Professor Chris] Dede said, «we can have a much greater impact.»»

Instead, we simply want to move the dam further downstream from the time of initial recruitment, and postpone assessments of teacher's effectiveness for a year or two until districts have much more useful information about which teachers are performing well and which are performing poorly.

Designing such an authentic learner focused eLearning assessment is much tougher than created multiple choice or true / false questions - but it is more fulfilling as well.

Fifth graders in schools where teachers faithfully used the Responsive Classroom teaching approach performed better on statewide assessments of mathematics and reading skills than their peers at schools that did not use the social - emotional - learning program's strategies as much, according to new research presented at a national conference here last week.

We learn so much about student learning during this process and in turn we increase our curriculum and pedagogical knowledge as well as our assessment knowledge.

Teachers can now assess the progress of pupils in a much more sophisticated way, as well as share assessments with pupils and parents.

A round - up of research, much of it from south Asia, found that their pupils did better in assessments, though often only in some subjects.

A recent Public Policy Institute of California study shows that on average California school children did much better in 2015 - 16 than they did in 2014 - 15 on the Smarter Balanced assessments in English language arts and math.

Since the grades assigned vary much less across classrooms than does students» performance on standardized tests, high - achieving students should be more likely to earn high grades in classrooms where the other students, on average, do not perform well on external assessments.

The purpose of good assessment is to support student learning, and classroom teachers much be assessment literate.

As much as we educators don't want to talk about «teaching to the test», if we are authentically ensuring that students are being given every opportunity to be knowledgeable about what are the essential learnings, they should be well prepared for end of the year assessments.

For example, although it retains NCLB's requirement that all public schools conduct mandatory annual reading and math assessments for students in grades 3 - 8, ESSA gives states much greater abilities to establish their own interpretation of how good is good enough, and which schools should be called out as deficient and required to improve.

I believe this work burden isn't so much because it's too much, but more from all the other assessment and instruction burdens we place upon teachers that hinder them from doing what's best for students.

Sharing this information broadly will hold our state and our schools accountable for having well - thought - out assessment plans with our students» needs at their core.This much - needed transparency around student testing will also help schools and districts to learn best practices from one another about how best to gather the data educators need without sacrificing the instruction time so vital to student learning.

The goal of this letter, though, was to give those in Santa Fe, but also others throughout the state of New Mexico, not only a more comprehensive and accurate assessment of my testimony, but more a note about how the taxpayers of New Mexico have a right to know much, much more about their state's teacher evaluation model, as well as the model's output (i.e., to see how the model is actually functioning as claimed).

Since formative assessment better reflects actual usage of the competency, they provide much more meaningful outcome data while remaining in context to the student activity.

The report also helped better distinguish the difference between data literacy and assessment literacy — that is, while both speak to the use of data to drive student learning, it's important to realize that the data available to teachers goes beyond that garnered from assessment alone, to include attendance data, peer observations, and formative assessment (which as we know gets lumped into the assessment space, but is much more than that).

It is still rating teachers on how well kids do on the assessments and does not take into account the outside factors that have much more to do with student achievement than anything we do in school.

Jeff Nellhaus, director of the PARCC assessment, says that the consortium's assessments are much more comprehensive than many current state assessments: «They measure the full range of standards and full performance continuum and the complexity of cognitive demand, and they provide good information on low - typical and high - performing students.

Much evidence suggests that developing and scoring these assessments is a high - yield investment in teacher learning and a good use of professional development resources.

By developing valid and reliable Common Core math measures, educators stand a much better chance of appropriately responding to student needs to boost achievement on PARCC and SBAC Common Core math summative assessments.

For the preservice programs, much more research needs to clarify the essential conditions for the development of TPCK and develop guidelines for integrating technology with teaching and learning of mathematics in content courses, methods courses, assessment courses, and pedagogy courses, as well as in student teaching.

For the preservice programs, though, much more research needs to clarify essential conditions for the development of TPCK and to develop guidelines for integrating technology and the development of TPCK through content courses, methods courses, assessment courses, and pedagogy courses as well as in student teaching.