It proposes several recommendations to maximize the value
of multiple assessments: work with teachers to make assessment data meaningful and actionable, offer teachers more trainig, and provide teachers with more opportunities to collaborate with colleagues.
This issue brief examines teachers» use
of multiple assessments in a state - funded preschool program, and includes specific recommendations and practical solutions to provide teachers more support in this area — from Mathematica
These advocates eschew fixes that divert public money to the private education sector, and oppose high - stakes testing in favor
of multiple assessments to measure accountability and success.
Other accommodations might take the form
of multiple assessments.
That «map» consists
of multiple assessment tools that inform and guide staff as they work to improve student achievement.
The integration
of multiple assessment measures, including expanded use of authentic, performance - based assessments, requires major shifts in school structures, including in grading practices and scheduling.
Not exact matches
There she can see an algorithm's
assessment of her 15 direct reports, based on a 15 - minute
multiple - choice test each one takes.
«Our mission is to provide
multiple access points for customers to save money,» said company president and CEO Dirk Van den Berghe, in a rather benign
assessment of Walmart's mission to squeeze suppliers and discourage unionization at all costs.
Multiple outlets published stories yesterday reporting that results from finger blood tests by medical startup Theranos showed greater irregularities than more conventional tests (according to the first published independent
assessment of the company's tests).
Methodology The methodology for
assessments is based on Micro Focus's (formerly HPE's) Security Operations Maturity Model (SOMM), which focuses on
multiple aspects
of a successful and mature security intelligence and monitoring capability including people, process, technology, and business functions.
Even if that
multiple is based on historical ranges (medians or averages) or is comparable to industry peers or the market as a whole, investors fall short
of capturing the uniqueness
of a company's future cash flow stream and balance sheet via a discounted cash flow process, which considers all
of the qualitative factors
of a company — from a competitive
assessment to the company's efficiency initiatives and beyond.
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assessment of all the
multiple stories to digest in our earliest traditions.
At Challenge Success we help teachers learn to use
multiple forms
of assessment.
Because the SAC only takes approximately 5 to 7 minutes to administer and was designed for use by clinicians with no neurocognitive testing experience, it is considered a «practical sideline
assessment tool» (2) which can «detect changes across
multiple domains
of cognitive functioning that are susceptible to the acute effects
of concussion.»
In order to accurately measure the efficacy
of several home visiting programs, a comprehensive
assessment that includes measures
of multiple child and family outcomes at various points in time should be favoured.
This book covers the following: • Cross-cultural communication • Documentation and charting methods • Types
of interview questions • Maternal and infant history • Maternal and infant physical
assessment • Feeding
assessment • Unique situations that affect breastfeeding: piercings, abuse, NICU baby,
multiples, and adoption • Critical thinking skills
Where possible, it is recommended that researchers clarify the timeframe
of the exclusive breastfeeding
assessment or to assess it in
multiple timeframes (i.e., since birth, in the past month, week, or day).
Dr. Hazelbaker discusses the causes
of the condition, explains the
assessment process and presents
multiple therapeutic strategies for resolving torticollis in infants.
Dr. Hazelbaker discusses the causes
of the condition, explains the
assessment process and presents
multiple therapeutic strategies for resolving plagiocephaly derived breastfeeding problems in infants.
The school board is asking the state to «reexamine» the APPR plan and create a system «based on
multiple forms
of assessment» as opposed to «extensive standardized testing,» according to the resolution.
Read an abstract
of the chapter «Developing and Using Distractor - Driven
Multiple - Choice
Assessments Aligned to Ideas About Energy Forms, Transformation, Transfer, and Conservation» and order a copy
of the chapter.
The
assessment instrument is designed to measure students» understanding
of energy at basic, intermediate, and advanced levels and draws on a bank
of 372
multiple choice items targeting 14 different key ideas about energy forms, transformations, and transfers.
An update search enlarged the pool
of study data, but did not change the content
of the conclusion
of the benefit
assessment of stem cell transplantation (SCT) for
multiple myeloma conducted in 2012.
The test is made up
of 38
multiple choice
assessment items that were originally developed by Project 2061 as part
of a study funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
The process, reported in Human Reproduction, utilizes DNA fingerprinting (an
assessment of active genes in a given cell) to boost the success rate
of IVF and lower the chances
of risky
multiple births by identifying which
of several five - day - old embryos are most likely to result in pregnancy The new method, which will replace unproved alternatives such as choosing embryos based on their shape, is likely to up the success
of women becoming pregnant and lower their chances
of having
multiple births.
A new study published online by JAMA Oncology examines the
assessment of minimal residual disease in patients newly treated for
multiple myeloma as a factor in survival outcomes.
«I think there is a real need to incorporate health impact
assessments into the future decisions
of multiple layers
of our society, starting with the United States government on down,» says Richard Jackson
of the University
of California, Los Angeles, who chaired the NRC Committee on Health Impact Assessment.
«People should create detailed images with unique characteristics to help avoid the endorsement
of false memories on recognition - based tests like true / false or
multiple - choice
assessments, where you are tempted by lures and possible false memories.»
Using distractor - driven standards - based
multiple - choice
assessments and Rasch modeling to investigate hierarchies
of chemistry misconceptions and detect structural problems with individual items.
However, making these
assessments can be difficult, costly and time consuming, as many manufactured items are created in
multiple and / or complex processes, and the environmental impacts
of these processes can vary widely depending on how and where the manufacturing occurs.
«These results support the contention that studies
of nutrition and cognition should include more comprehensive and sensitive
assessments that are administered
multiple times through early childhood,» said John Colombo, study director and KU professor
of psychology.
Added Vengosh: «Our new study, which integrates data from
multiple government and industry sources, provides the first comprehensive
assessment of fracking's total water footprint, both nationally and for each
of the 10 major U.S. shale gas or tight oil basins.»
The study's strengths, the authors wrote, include «the large sample size for both early and late postmenopausal women, the examination
of multiple sex hormones in the same population, and the use
of a comprehensive neuropsychological battery that allowed for the
assessment of different cognitive domains.»
The study enrolled 100 patients with de novo coronary lesions 2.25 - 3.50 mm in diameter and length ≤ 27 mm in two 50 - patient cohorts for angiographic, intravascular ultrasound, and clinical
assessment at nine or 24 months, with optical coherence tomography (OCT) performed in a subset
of 30 patients at
multiple time periods.
Continued
assessment of the value
of citizen science in other areas
of research could help increase overall public participation as well as identify new frontiers in
multiple research fields and improve the interdisciplinary practice
of citizen science.
AISL seeks to advance new approaches to and evidence - based understanding
of the design and development
of STEM learning in informal environments; provide
multiple pathways for broadening access to and engagement in STEM learning experiences; advance innovative research on and
assessment of STEM learning in informal environments; and develop understandings
of deeper learning by participants.
Methods: PD patients (n = 44)
of a Phase I
Multiple Ascending Dose clinical trial
of PRX002 / RG7935 performed smartphone - based
assessments for 24 weeks.
48 healthy people without PD, aged 40 - 65, were given a single dose
of BIIB054 at one
of six doses across a very wide range, and followed up for the next 16 weeks using
multiple clinical and laboratory
assessments, as well as MRI and electrocardiogram data.
BIOACID III bridges between different branches
of ocean acidification research and provide an
assessment of short - to long - term responses and their underlying mechanisms at the level
of organisms, populations, communities and ecosystems to
multiple drivers leading up to ecosystem services.
Using the EMPReSSslim phenotyping pipeline, allowing a broad based
assessment of diverse biological systems, the ICS contributed to decipher the different phenotypes between the two lines that were replicated across
multiple mouse clinics.
Accurate
assessment of neurological and neuropsychological impairments in individuals with
multiple sclerosis (MS) is challenging.
Use
of procedure standards will increase the applicability
of clinical research among
multiple institutions, in turn, increasing the value
of research studies, particularly in the field
of technology
assessment.
The results from her study were incorporated into a vulnerability
assessment framework to investigate the cumulative impact
of multiple climatic processes on sea turtles nesting grounds.
A 1 - hour
multiple - choice question
assessment followed by a 2 - hour explanation
of correct answers and interactive discussion with a content expert.
«Since previous epidemiologic studies in elderly patients focused on only a single hormonal decline rather than
multiple anabolic deficiency, we suggest that
assessment of these 3 anabolic hormones should always be considered in older men.»
The
assessment of multiple biomarkers with the use
of robust and well - standardized assays, detailed diet
assessment, and adjustment for principal risk factors all increased the validity
of our results.
In addition, a 24 - Hour Urine test captures metabolites that are not measurable in saliva and can not be reliably measured by a single, or even
multiple, blood draws, e.g., 16α - OH estrone, an estrogen metabolite shown to impact bone loss in men, and a number
of glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid metabolites (discussed in Part II
of this review) that provide greater insight into long - term adrenal health, short term stress response, the cortisol / cortisone balance, and other measures
of adrenal health and function than
assessment of cortisol alone.
In subjects with mild - to - moderate Alzheimer's, compared to placebo, daily consumption
of the MCTs for 90 days resulted in significant improvements in
multiple cognitive
assessments, with improvements being greatest in non-ApoE4s who were compliant with dosing (7).
Earlier this year, the company added genTrue, an
assessment of 26 genes that are indicators
of increased hereditary cancer risk for
multiple cancer types.
The validity
of our
assessment of individual food items has been documented by comparisons with
multiple weighed dietary records, correcting for within - person weekly variation in diet (21).