Sentences with phrase «scale assessments»

This report seeks to make large - scale assessments of student achievement more transparent and provide guidance on item development and quality.

Large scale assessment studies typically aim at investigating the relationship between persons competencies and explaining variables.

Large - scale assessment systems: design principles drawn from international comparisons.

This chapter looks at how formative assessment principles apply to large - scale assessment practices.

Even with a sound framework, the translation into large - scale assessment items was problematic.

In the past, states haven't had much choice in the kinds of large - scale assessments available, nor have they asked for much.

This study combines 30 international large - scale assessments over 51 years, representing 100 countries and about 5.8 million students.

A meta - analysis of growth trends from vertically scaled assessments.

The new data from pilot - scale assessments of hands - on and computers - on research come from tests in 2009.

His interests include large scale assessments and their influence on school change, with a particular focus on reading and writing assessments.

There are a number of issues that need to be addressed when using performance assessment as part of large scale assessment programs:

IBT is a large - scale assessment for students in Class 3 to 5 in English, Mathematics and Science conducted in schools in India, the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia and South Africa.

Large - scale assessments such as NAEP, TIMSS, and PISA have clung to their demanding norms and continue to speak the truth about actual performance in relation to those norms.

There are several data measurement concepts, however, that teachers can use to get more comfortable interpreting and communicating the data and evidence that larger scale assessments produce.

A career - long pursuit continues to be fostering understanding of the role of large - scale assessment within a comprehensive assessment system and the role of comprehensive assessment systems within PK - 12 education systems.

Creating large - scale assessment portfolios that include English language learners.

Competence tests within large - scale assessments usually contain various task formats to measure the participants» knowledge.

The use of test scores from large ‐ scale assessment surveys: psychometric and statistical considerations

We also need a plan to evaluate and scale these assessments up along the way, starting with small pilots in a few schools, with incentives to build demand so that successful ideas reach more students in more districts and become worthy alternatives to current high - stakes testing.

Therefore, formative assessments should not be confused with so - called interim or benchmark assessments, which are often just large - scale assessments repackaged as monthly (or longer cycle) tests.

The other half of the funding would be devoted mostly to statewide initiatives, including professional development for teachers and administrators, the expansion of the longitudinal data system, vertical scale assessment data, developing models for supporting, supervising and evaluating teachers and principals, secondary school reform, and several other initiatives.

EI is also working with leading organizations like World Bank, Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, Google, Azim Premji Foundation and is doing large scale assessment projects with various State Governments.

... The WKCE is a large - scale assessment designed to provide a snapshot of how well a district or school is doing at helping all students reach proficiency on state standards, with a focus on school and district - level accountability.

Assessment for measurement or standards: The peril and promise of large - scale assessment reform.

The plan also does not include areas of research relevant to regional - scale assessments identified as a result of the National Assessment....

Evaluate children to determine eligibility for occupational therapy services using the Miller Function and Participation Scales, Beery Visual Motor Integration assessment, the Peabody Developmental Motor Scales assessment and the Test of Visual - Perceptual Skills.

eMetric has a solid track record of serving large - scale assessment programs for their assessment delivery and reporting.

In order to control rabies transmitted by vampire bats, it is crucial to have a method that allows large - scale assessment of which animals the vampire bats feed from.

California's actions thus far have put the cart before the horse (assessment implementation before instruction implementation), operate without good data on technology capacity at the local district / school level, and ignore long standing good large scale assessment practices for continuity of data.

The report provides an in - depth look at what is assessed in a selection of current large - scale assessment items to illustrate what kinds of student...

During her 13 years at Pearson, she was responsible for the planning, management and coordination of the full array of psychometric activities necessary to sustain a large scale assessment program, including test design and development, scaling and equating, item and test analysis, parameter estimation, standard setting, the development of reliability and validity research, report design, and the creation of technical documentation.

The Summit Foundation, the Nature Conservancy, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, the Specialty Coffee Association of America, and the World Bank combined to fund and publish the first large - scale assessment of the markets, the value and the volumes for these (a statistically significant random sample across North America of 1558 retailers, 570 roasters, 312 wholesalers, 120 distributors, and 94 importers).

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 second year of the LTIM Project.

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.

Although several studies have reported impaired olfactory ability in kidney disease patients, others have had mixed results, and none have been the kind of large - scale assessment that could characterize how specific abnormalities influence nutritional status.

«Our study is the first long - term and large - scale assessment of the impacts of dams and diverting water from the rivers and wetlands of the Murray - Darling Basin,» says study lead author UNSW Professor Richard Kingsford.

«There hasn't been a large - scale assessment of just the simple full topographic impact of mountaintop mining, which occupies more than 10 percent of the land in the region we studied,» said Matthew Ross, an ecology PhD student and lead author on the study.

It is considered the first large - scale assessment of ice thickness in the area.

«This really opens the door to do a broad - scale assessment of an animal's health without having to get a blood sample,» says Hunt, who pioneered the analysis of whale blow and poop for hormones that indicate sex, maturity, reproductive state, and stress level.

This is the first hemispheric - scale assessment of how a key societal resource — water availability — has fluctuated over the past twelve centuries.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is the largest and most complex of the Department's large - scale assessments and has been congressionally mandated since 1969.

These and most other similar large - scale assessments are based primarily on species distribution (bioclimatic envelope) models, which use correlations between species» observed distributions and climate variables to predict their distributions and hence their extinction risk under future climate scenarios [9]--[11].

Until now, the IPCC and Thomas et al. studies have been the only global - scale assessments of potential climate change impacts on species that cover multiple taxonomic groups.

Olympia WA About Blog A former science teacher who now oversees education in the state of Washington shares insights into working on education policy and thoughts on science education.I'm a a career educator, with K - 12 experience in science curriculum, instructional coaching, and both small - and large - scale assessment.

Teacher scoring of large - scale assessment: professional development or debilitation?