Sentences with phrase «scale assessment projects»

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The How I Know project aims to identify, scale and share successful approaches to improve formative assessment practice.

A number of issues were discussed including the impact of the proposed amendments to the Yukon Environmental and Socio - economic Assessment Board Act, which is currently before Parliament and which will among other things, remove set timelines for assessments as well as requiring re-assessments for large scale mining projects, where a full environmental screening has already been positively concluded.

This report draws together the results of each ecological indicator that is monitored and evaluated to inform an integrated Basin - scale assessment of the outcomes of Commonwealth environmental water in the first year of the LTIM Project.

NASA: Assessments of Selected Large - Scale Projects [Reissued on March 26, 2015].

NASA: Assessments of Selected Large Scale Projects.

Below, we'll offer an update on each game, plus our assessment of the likelihood of the project resurfacing at E3 2016 (on a scale of 1 to 10).

Large - scale assessment and teachers» assessment capacity: Learning opportunities for teachers in the National Education Monitoring Project in New Zealand.

As innovative assessments are administered and used for accountability and reporting in participating schools, states in the demonstration authority can apply lessons learned from implementation to improve their innovative systems and take these projects to scale, building a new statewide assessment system over 5 years - one that is high - quality, fair, and worth taking.

Large - scale projects like the New York Performance Assessment Consortium and the former Nebraska STARS statewide assessment program provide blueprints of how to balance accountability with authentic learning and assessment without inundating children and teachers with standardized tests.

She is the lead coordinator and manager on many projects such as Scale - up of EC Pyramid Implementation and Routines - Based Early Intervention in school districts statewide, Part B Early Childhood RDA Initiative for State Systemic Improvement Plan (SSIP), Results Matter Child Outcomes B - 5 for Part B and Part C SPP / APRs, and the Statewide child assessment system.

The team at ACER India is highly experienced in the development and delivery of large - scale assessments and education research projects.

With assessment as its forte, EI has proved to be a great partner for government departments, agencies and non-government organizations by conducting large scale assessments and research projects.

Assessments in the pilot programme will include rigorous written and oral assignments, completion of a professional development plan, participation in debate activities, a small - scale research or improvement project, and submission of a portfolio of videos of practice, work samples and reflections.

Products developed by this project will document how students with disabilities are included in classroom instruction, assessments, etc. when such practices are taken to scale locally (i.e., implemented across the district) in districts of varied size and type, as well as barriers and solutions for ensuring that students with disabilities benefit.

Assessments in the pilot programme will include rigorous written and oral assignments, completion of a professional development plan, participation in debate activities, a small - scale research or improvement project, and submission of a portfolio of videos of practice, work samples and reflections; full details are included in a later section of this guide.

Recently, Justin served as the associate research director for performance assessment at the Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity (SCALE), where, among other Common Core transition projects, he designed the prototype performance tasks for the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC).

In March 2018, the NAEd began a project funded by Smarter Balanced / University of California Santa Cruz to examine Common Core assessment consortia and other large - scale assessment programs regarding how much and what types of flexibility in assessment content and procedures can be allowed, while maintaining comparability across jurisdictions and student populations.

At convenings, CPAC members grapple with and explore questions around scaling performance assessments: training teachers to develop and implement assessments and to make instructional shifts based on data; calibrating teachers around student scoring; creating master schedules that allow students adequate time to work on their capstone projects or portfolios and teachers time to collaborate with each other and support students, and more.

Dr. Gandhi also serves as project director for a study funded by the Institute of Education Sciences that examines the validity of accommodations on large - scale reading assessments for students with disabilities.

Hagerty says the key to the success of such a large - scale project was the development of a strategic timeline that gave teachers the confidence to take control of their own assessments and data collection.

Advance Major Carbon Capture, Use and Storage Demonstrations: Expanding our work under the Climate Change Working Group (CCWG) and under the CERC, and partnering with the private sector, the United States and China will undertake a major carbon capture and storage project in China that supports a long term, detailed assessment of full - scale sequestration in a suitable, secure underground geologic reservoir.

It suggests three major changes: 1) project and policy preparation need to reflect higher risks, where vulnerability assessments and greater use of climate scenario modelling are combined with a better understanding of interconnections between smallholder farming and wider landscapes; 2) this deeper appreciation of interconnected risks should drive a major scaling up of successful «multiple - benefit» approaches to sustainable agricultural intensification by smallholder farmers; 3) climate change and fiscal austerity are reshaping the architecture of public international development finance.

This technical document provides the following information: - An update of global greenhouse gas emission estimates, based on a number of different authoritative scientific sources; - An overview of national emission levels, both current (2010) and projected (2020) consistent with current pledges and other commitments; - An estimate of the level of global emissions consistent with the two degree target in 2020, 2030 and 2050; - An update of the assessment of the «emissions gap» for 2020; - A review of selected examples of the rapid progress being made in different parts of the world to implement policies already leading to substantial emission reductions and how they can be scaled up and replicated in other countries, with the view to bridging the emissions gap.

Contribution from working group I to the fifth assessment report by IPCC TS.5.4.1 Projected Near - term Changes in Climate Projections of near - term climate show small sensitivity to Green House Gas scenarios compared to model spread, but substantial sensitivity to uncertainties in aerosol emissions, especially on regional scales and for hydrological cycle variables.

«Until then, cost - effective mapping of carbon stocks for project - and national - scale assessments will rely on a combination of satellite imagery and ground - based inventory samples of forest carbon density.»

The table that accompanies the above passage from the IPCC's report, captioned «Extreme weather and climate events: global - scale assessment of recent observed changes, human contribution to the changes, and projected further changes for the early (2016 — 2035) and late (2081 — 2100) 21 st century `'» has the following entries for «Increases in intensity and / or duration of drought»: under changes observed since 1950, «low confidence on a global scale, likely changes in some regions `'» [emphasis added]; and under projected changes for the late 21 st century, «likely (medium confidence) on a regional to global scale».

One of the key drivers in states» assessments is the cost of energy produced by residential solar PV installations compared with the much lower cost of energy produced by utility - scale solar projects.

I have yet to read an article discussing the deployment of utility scale wind or solar projects in the U.S. that includes an assessment of Europe's almost 30 year experience which has been less than stellar.