Sentences with phrase «rigorous assessments»

We measure our success on the journey to being a world - class organization by seeking rigorous assessments of our practices.

The IPCC has and continues to offer policy makers thoughtful and rigorous assessments of the science of climate change.

The IPCC is comprised of about 2,500 scientists from all over the world and provides the most authoritative and rigorous assessments, based only on peer - reviewed literature of the science of climate change.

Teacher - Assessed Student Achievement Data (TAS) This is a measure of your students» learning over the course of the year, as evidence by rigorous assessments other than the DC CAS.

«Rigorous assessments» for 3 - and 4 - year - olds» Early childhood experts say that standardized tests and «rigorous assessments» should have no place in early childhood learning.

In a number of sites, PSC is adding value to already cash - strapped districts through much needed services like professional development to help educators engage culturally diverse students and students from low - income families; collaborative, rigorous assessments of entire school communities to reveal strengths and weaknesses and help catalyze change.

We also know how to teach students so that those who do what we ask of them and put out good effort each day in class will demonstrate competency on rigorous assessments.

This brief focuses on how leveraging rigorous assessments can support your student success agenda.

(The IB program is an international educational program known for its pedagogical training, challenging coursework, and rigorous assessments.)

If we believe we can address the issue of rigor by simply giving rigorous assessments, we've missed the point.

In 2013, the state of New York instituted the first round of more rigorous assessments that are aligned with the new Common Core Standards.

Accountability systems include high standards, rigorous assessments, rewards, sanctions and public reporting, Christie said.

Mass opt - outs on the new, more rigorous assessments clearly set us back on this goal.

I am going to take a wild guess and say it wasn't because they assigned you the most homework or gave you the most rigorous assessments.

Think Through Math was developed to prepare students for the Common Core State Standards and the rigorous assessments associated with the standards.

In the second of four major policy speeches on the priorities for the «Race to the Top» Fund, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced last night that the Department of Education will commit up to $ 350 million of the $ 4.35 billion Race to the Top Fund to support states in the creation of rigorous assessments linked to the internationally benchmarked common standards being developed by states.

She pointed to the positive steps taken by New York with its adoption of Common Core standards and aligned testing, which offers more rigorous assessments than NAEP.

Students demonstrate competency through a system of rigorous assessments, proving they have mastered the knowledge and skills required for a particular competency or area of study.

Well that clearly didn't work, as our Proficiency Illusion study showed in 2007, but eventually it put pressure on states to develop common standards and more rigorous assessments.

The states that made the most progress after allowing for other factors — Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Kentucky, and Georgia, to name the top five — have taken steps, in various ways, to raise academic standards and back them up with rigorous assessments, implement tough but thoughtful accountability systems, and strengthen human capital practices to attract, develop, and retain educators who can deliver on high standards.

Lee Shulman, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, claims, «In no other profession will you find an equivalent study with these kinds of rigorous assessments... no comparison can be found.»

My personal belief is that more rigorous assessments will eliminate «teaching to the test» as a primary response for those who resorted to this tactic in the past.

The new research, led by Dr Rahul Jalil conducted rigorous assessments with mental health nurses working in three UK secure mental health units.

«The kind of rigorous assessment made by investors will ensure that the qualified applicants have really a high level of human capital and they are going to be able to move around the economy,» the minister said.

The Rise Fund involves a strategic co-investment partnership with impact investing firm Elevar Equity and work with The Bridgespan Group to develop a rigorous assessment methodology.

And while there has been media attention directed toward Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce and federal Treasurer Scott Morrison for their opposition to the Chinese sale, there has been support from the Greens for a more rigorous assessment of foreign investor sales of agriculture.

Following a rigorous assessment from a judging panel comprised of packaging developers and specifiers from Edrington, Bacardi, Hotel Chocolat and Harrods amongst others, McLaren Packaging's William Grant & Sons» Glenfiddich Experimental Series and Blue Box Design's Arran Smugglers» -LSB-...]

Following a rigorous assessment from a judging panel comprised of packaging developers and specifiers from Edrington, Bacardi, Hotel Chocolat and Harrods amongst others, McLaren Packaging's William Grant & Sons» Glenfiddich Experimental Series and Blue Box Design's Arran Smugglers» Series Vol.

With more rigorous assessment tests this year creating concerns that the number of failing students could rise, Chicago Public Schools plans to revamp its promotion policy for third -, sixth - and eighth - graders.

Anderson was very sceptical about this, insisting that a «detailed operational case» needed to be made with a «rigorous assessment» of its lawfulness.

«As a fiduciary of the New York City Employee Retirement System for the last 8 years, Scott has worked with his fellow trustees to grow the City's pension funds through prudent investments, improving diversification and ensuring more rigorous assessment of risks to investments such as corporate accountability and violations of environmental regulations.»

Under the 4 +1 pathway assessment option, students must take and pass four required Regents Exams or Department - approved alternative assessments (one in each of English, math, science, and social studies) and a comparably rigorous assessment for the fifth required exam to graduate.

I pointed out to the beleaguered - sounding commander who phoned me after I raised the phone hacking issue at prime minister's questions that plots to conduct covert surveillance on sitting prime ministers were the sort of thing you'd see in movies, and that most people would think a «rigorous assessment process» wasn't really required when deciding to investigate.

Of course, if the public are assessing your successes partly through standards that the College sets, there must be a rigorous assessment of what those standards should be, and the evidence base to support them.

«It's going to be all the more important for local governments to be active in this review process to ensure that the risks to our communities and to our resources get the rigorous assessment they deserve.»

«This is an outstanding contribution to understanding contemporary politics: a rigorous assessment of the attitudes and demographics of UKIP voters as well as a brilliant story of the people and feuds behind the disorderly rise of a popular movement.»

Daniel Goleman's book Ecological Intelligence explores the impact of knowing the environmental cost of everything; this excerpt explores how the rigorous assessment of the entire life cycle of a product reveals its costs and trade - offs

A team of researchers, including scientists from the Pacific Biosciences Research Center (PBRC) at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Howard University in Washington DC, and the French National Museum of Natural History in Paris, recently published the first rigorous assessment of extinction of invertebrates in Hawai`i.

An emerging controller of the cholinergic effect of inflammation is micro-RNA-132 (5), whose involvement with post-stroke recovery awaits further studies and might open new venues for more rigorous assessment of the post-stroke risk of survival and systematic infection and the identification of conceptually novel targets for therapeutic interference.

AAALAC International accreditation engages scientists, veterinarians, managers and administrators in an independent, rigorous assessment of their institution's animal program — an assessment that ultimately results in improved animal welfare and better research practices and outcomes.

Individuals undergo a rigorous assessment and nine - week training program to help them succeed as document specialists.

Designed to provide superior quality, rigorous assessment, and educational innovation, PCE programs uphold the University's commitment to excellence in teaching and learning.

Made Safe provides the most rigorous assessment of product safety available today.

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.

New collaborations and structures tend to be more successful where the decision to change has been taken on logical and evidence - based grounds, subject to rigorous assessment and careful implementation.

Much has been written about the controversy surrounding performance - based school closures, but there has been no rigorous assessment of their impact on student achievement.

All of the providers on the register have been through a rigorous assessment process to ensure they meet apprenticeship quality expectations.

Rigorous assessment (including the opportunities for 1:1 s with all students): How will you ensure the children have learned and made progress?

In the words of Hasan Bakhshi, executive director of creative economy and data analytics within the leading think tank NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts), «this makes it all the more important that we set learning priorities for young people today that are grounded in a rigorous assessment of what skills will be required of them when they enter the workforce».

The shift to a computerized assessment from paper and pencil was difficult enough, but the shift to new standards and a more rigorous assessment made this year's effort an unusually difficult task.»