Sentences with phrase «scale assessments such»

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The system uses such statistics as state assessment scores, attendance rates, and dropout figures to rank both buildings and districts on a four - level scale.

The council proposed a substantial reliance on performance - based assessments, for example, even though such assessments are untested on a large scale.

Each school district shall develop and maintain on file a uniform process by which the district determines whether to offer AIS during the 2015 - 2016 school year to students who scored above a scale score specified in subclause (3) of this clause but below level 3 / proficient on a grade 3 - 8 English language arts or mathematics State assessment in 2014 - 2015, and shall no later than November 1, 2015 either post to its website or distribute to parents in writing a description of such process;

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.

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.

This is a problem encountered when such assessments are used on a large scale for high stakes.

While U.S. students often catch flak for their performance on large - scale international assessments, they may be approaching world dominance on one such indicator: sleepiness.

Large scale examples involving the use of such performance - based assessments come from states such as Nebraska, Wyoming, Connecticut and New York, as well as nations such as Australia and Singapore.

As such, the law would require a participating state to scale its innovative assessment system statewide by the end of the Demonstration Authority (not to exceed five years) to ensure assessment results are consistent across the state for accountability and reporting purposes.

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.

Such an approach, however, could require an unsavory amount of testing time.46 To date, few performance assessments for social and emotional learning have been piloted at scale, and policymakers need more research to determine whether emerging tasks will be valid and reliable measures.47

She is a nationally recognized expert on accountability for early childhood programs, assessment, and large - scale studies of children with disabilities, serving on national advisory boards and consulting to major evaluations to help create designs that adequately address such issues as oversampling and measurement of disability.

Respectable opinion would never consider an assessment of the Reagan Doctrine or earlier exercises in terms of their actual human costs, and could not comprehend that such an assessment — which would yield a monstrous toll if accurately conducted on a global scale — might perhaps be a proper task in the United States.

Simple, online, practice - friendly numerical rating scales are available and are slowly helping to improve recognition of feline pain.13 One such scale has been developed (but not yet validated) by Colorado State University.13 A currently validated assessment tool is the UNESP - Botucatu multidimensional composite pain scale, available here.14, 15 The Glasgow Feline Composite Measure Pain Scale: CMPS — Feline (CMPS - F) has been described as «a valid scale for the measurement of acute pain in cats [that] heralds a new era in the recognition and management of acute pain in cats.&rscale has been developed (but not yet validated) by Colorado State University.13 A currently validated assessment tool is the UNESP - Botucatu multidimensional composite pain scale, available here.14, 15 The Glasgow Feline Composite Measure Pain Scale: CMPS — Feline (CMPS - F) has been described as «a valid scale for the measurement of acute pain in cats [that] heralds a new era in the recognition and management of acute pain in cats.&rscale, available here.14, 15 The Glasgow Feline Composite Measure Pain Scale: CMPS — Feline (CMPS - F) has been described as «a valid scale for the measurement of acute pain in cats [that] heralds a new era in the recognition and management of acute pain in cats.&rScale: CMPS — Feline (CMPS - F) has been described as «a valid scale for the measurement of acute pain in cats [that] heralds a new era in the recognition and management of acute pain in cats.&rscale for the measurement of acute pain in cats [that] heralds a new era in the recognition and management of acute pain in cats.»

For the entire Northern Hemisphere, there is evidence of an increase in both storm frequency and intensity during the cold season since 1950,1 with storm tracks having shifted slightly towards the poles.2, 3 Extremely heavy snowstorms increased in number during the last century in northern and eastern parts of the United States, but have been less frequent since 2000.11,15 Total seasonal snowfall has generally decreased in southern and some western areas, 16 increased in the northern Great Plains and Great Lakes region, 16,17 and not changed in other areas, such as the Sierra Nevada, although snow is melting earlier in the year and more precipitation is falling as rain versus snow.18 Very snowy winters have generally been decreasing in frequency in most regions over the last 10 to 20 years, although the Northeast has been seeing a normal number of such winters.19 Heavier - than - normal snowfalls recently observed in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. in some years, with little snow in other years, are consistent with indications of increased blocking (a large scale pressure pattern with little or no movement) of the wintertime circulation of the Northern Hemisphere.5 However, conclusions about trends in blocking have been found to depend on the method of analysis, 6 so the assessment and attribution of trends in blocking remains an active research area.

While exploring the local - level dynamics of people's vulnerability to climate change, of which adaptive capacity is a key component, it is important to find ways to embed such findings into wider scales of assessment (e.g., country and regional scales)(Brooks et al., 2005).

In the wake of the IPCC's 5th Assessment Report, in which most of the integrated assessment models that hold temperatures to below 2C contemplate large - scale use of such technologies, and the Paris Agreement's call for balancing emissions and sinks, these technologies are increasingly part of the climate response conversation.

Together this coordination and expanded knowledge inform a more advanced and finer - scaled, regionally detailed assessment of interactions between human and natural systems, allowing more detailed consideration of sectors of interest to Working Group II such as water resources, ecosystems, food, forests, coastal systems, industry, and human health.

We now hear from the IPCC wise ones that biofuels are not such a good thing: «Its previous assessment on climate change, in 2007, was widely condemned by environmentalists for giving the green light to large - scale biofuel production.

However, the need to define outside influences on land use in regional - scale models, such as global trade, remains a challenge (e.g., Sands and Edmonds, 2005; Alcamo et al., 2006b), so IAMs have an important role to play in characterising the global boundary conditions for regional land - use change assessments (van Meijl et al., 2006).

While probabilistic projections of the global mean and regional temperatures exist, process - based probabilistic assessments of large - scale dynamical systems such as the Atlantic overturning are still missing.

Even though the projections from the models were never intended to be predictions over such a short time scale, the observations through 2012 generally fall within the projections made in all past assessments.

We highly recommend speaking with legal professionals such as Grillo Barristers, as we understand the case law and have well established relationships with designated catastrophic assessment medical experts who can work in tandem to help you understand where your injuries may fall on the assessment scale to help you prove your case.

Other commonly used assessment tests are rating tests such as the Zanarini Rating Scale for Borderline Personality Disorder (ZAN - BPD), and the McLean Screening Instrument for Borderline Personality Disorder (MSI - BPD).

Results revealed good construct validity and alpha coefficients for the assessment instruments such as the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory (SPAI), the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SAS - A), the Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale (FNES) and the Social Avoidance Distress Scale (SADS).

Rating Scales to Assist in Diagnosis The Child Mania Rating Scale — Parent Version (CMRS - P) is an assessment tool that helps clinicians differentiate bipolar disorder from other childhood behavioral disorders, such as ADHD.

The inventory has become the most commonly used rating scale for assessment of EF in children [8] and has proven to be sensitive to EF impairment in several early - debuting developmental disorders such as ADHD, oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) and autism spectrum disorders [10 - 12].