Sentences with phrase «reliable systems of assessments»

High academic standards, including the Common Core standards, need to be aligned with strong curricula and validated through reliable systems of assessments that fairly and accurately reflect the performance of students, schools, and school districts.

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Standardized Assessment of Concussion or «SAC», Sport Concussion Assessment Tool Version 3 or «SCAT3», the Balance Error Scoring System or «BESS», King - Devick Test», Maddocks» questions) already shown by studies to be reliable in making the initial remove - from - play decision, or one of a number of new assessment screens being developed and tested.

Those who scored the assessments reached high levels of agreement, suggesting that the assessment scoring system made sense and could be used in a reliable manner.

Schools Minister Nick Gibb said his statement to the House of Commons that: «We (DfE) want new GCSEs to set expectations which match those of the best education systems in the world, with rigorous assessment that provides a reliable measure of students» achievement.

The 2015 field test of a prototype established that the Institute's model of assessment of principals» work is both valid and reliable, critical for any certification system and achieves the goals of being customisable and manageable.

As full implementation of both the teacher and principal evaluation systems looms for September 2013, it is imperative that boards of education, district leaders, and the DOE ensure that principals and teachers have a viable curriculum based on the Common Core Standards; valid and reliable assessment tools to measure growth in every subject area (tested and nontested); and time to work in professional teams to set growth targets, analyze data, and provide the appropriate instructional interventions for every student.

The pursuit of high - quality principal assessment reached a milestone in 2006 with the development of the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education, or VAL - ED, a research - validated process created by a team from Vanderbilt University and the University of Pennsylvania, and supported by Wallace as an effort to address the lack of valid and reliable principal evaluation systems.

The Field Test is a trial run of the assessment system that helps ensure the assessments are valid, reliable, and fair for all students.

SBAC intends to be a system of valid, reliable, and fair next - generation assessments in English language arts / literacy (ELA / literacy) and mathematics for grades 3 - 8 and 11.

To ensure that the results of assessments are both valid and reliable, teachers should consider using a simple data - entry system to track student progress toward learning goals.

Promoting the inclusion of language - minority students in culturally and linguistically relevant assessment systems which, to the extent practicable, assess students in a language and form most likely to yield accurate and reliable information.

Based on rigorous research reviewed by the National Center on RTI at the American Institutes for Research, the authors highlight several recommendations for implementing RTI with fidelity: 1) Institute a continuum of instructional supports for students through a multi-level prevention system, including primary prevention through high quality core instruction in the classroom, secondary prevention through supplementary interventions of moderate intensity for students most at risk, and tertiary prevention through individualized interventions for those who do not respond to secondary prevention approaches; 2) employ universal screening through brief, valid and reliable assessments; and 3) monitor student progress using research - based assessment tools.

I might point out two conundrums re our API system: (1) Re composition of an API, while many folks (including me) support a reduction in weight for assessment data contributing to an API, the problem is finding or developing valid and reliable measures to contribute to an API to replace the current assessment data weights.

The paper considers the necessary components of a prospective event attribution system, reviews some specific case studies made to date (Autumn 2000 UK floods, summer 2003 European heatwave, annual 2008 cool US temperatures, July 2010 Western Russia heatwave) and discusses the challenges involved in developing systems to provide regularly updated and reliable attribution assessments of unusual or extreme weather and climate - related events.

His research goals include improving accuracy of resource assessment, obtaining reliable uncertainty estimation and modelling wake effects and applying satellite derived winds in resource assessment systems.

If this is the best such land area surface temperature assessment system on the planet (covering, as well, a broad range of metropolitan, suburban, and rural areas), and the quality of the system is now proven to be demonstrably more prone to error than had been previously assumed — with the preponderance of error shown to produce the impression of warming in excess of real conditions prevailing — what may be reliably inferred about surface temperature monitoring systems data from even less reliable thermometers all over the rest of the world?

Highly reliable and analytical with working knowledge of business development, risk assessments, compliance monitoring and reporting, and design, installation and operation of remedial action systems, demonstrates excellent project management skills and ability to effectively multi-task several complex assignments within tight deadlines.

Areas of Expertise: * Dependable, highly reliable * Network design * Network and systems security * VoIP integration * Cost benefits analysis * Data Integrity / Data Recovery * Risk assessment / impact analysis * Contingency planning

The attachment system is a composite paradigm for understanding relationship processes, traditionally assessed by valid and reliable interview, projective, or self - report measures (Ravitz et al., 2010), but with a limited ecological validity in the assessment of real attachment behaviors.

Likely many readers will take this to mean that employment of reliable character assessment systems for any purposes is unwise or premature.