Sentences with phrase «second assessment by»

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The Bank's current assessment is that inflation could fall a little further than earlier expected over the next year, but pick up a little more after that, so that it will be about 2 1/2 per cent by the second half of 2005.

In the last two chapters, the authors make their concluding assessment: first in social and political terms by analyzing the positions of evangelicals and Catholics with regard to main themes in American history; second in more biblical and theological terms as they seek to answer the question they set themselves in their title.

Same every year with guy... not even honest assessment The man has passed his sell by date and until he leaves we will be second tier club with first tier stadium...

Data extraction and risk of bias assessment was performed by one reviewer and then checked by a second review author.

Second, biomarker concentrations were assessed only once, and dietary assessments are inevitably affected by some measurement errors.

Numerous men are now taking their cues from these same ridiculous assessments by women, hence why an educated American man is willing to take an ISIS terrorist's sloppy seconds, complete with four children who are not his own.

In her assessment of four California public schools that use Waldorf methods, Oberman found that students tested below peers in language arts and math in the second grade, but they matched or tested above their peers in the same subjects by eighth grade.

Second, we examine differential gains on parts of the assessments, since preparation focused on predictable patterns within the test should be accompanied by differentially large performance gains on items reflecting these opportunities.

Currently, teachers» passing rates on the state's performance - assessment system for second - stage licensure are tracked by institution and become part of the accountability system for those institutions.

The second is construct validity — the extent to which a test, instrument, or assessment corresponds to other variables, as predicted by some rationale or theory.

Now the deadline has passed for expressions of interest in the second round of the PSBP, schools will hear by the end of the year whether they have been successful in attracting funding based on an assessment of those in greatest need.

Students may earn one unit of credit by having passed the State second language proficiency assessment, when available.

Second, professional development can promote quality technology integration and learning by minimizing the importance of computers within professional development and concentrating instead on the core areas of teaching: content, curriculum, instruction, assessment, and classroom management.

student test data on the elementary and middle level English language arts and mathematics assessments in the New York State Testing Program, the Regents competency tests, all Regents examinations, the second language proficiency examinations as defined in this Part; (ii) student enrollment by grade;

Also in keeping with tradition, the first section features recent results from state, national, or international assessments; the second section investigates a thematic topic in education, either by collecting new data or by analyzing existing empirical evidence in a novel way; and the third section looks at one or more education policies.

During the second marking period English teacher, Mrs. Anne Schneider, and library media teacher, Mrs. Robin Burns, worked with Honors English 11 students to create a project - based assessment on the summer outside reading selection, The Awakening, by Kate Chopin.

The second is changing the statutory requirements for teachers» performance reviews, particularly to allow measures of student learning instead of or in addition to student growth «determined solely by state assessment.»

each student below grade 9 who dropped out of school, as prescribed by the commissioner, or who was administered one of the following assessments: a Regents examination, Regents competency test, second language proficiency test, or introduction to occupations examination.

Prepare second grade students for Next Generation Assessments by incorporating these practice exercises into their daily learning.

Six questions in the second principal survey tapped principals «assessments of the priority given by their district administrators to teaching and learning.

It found that students who had gotten at least a C in the course the first time around, and had passed the state algebra assessment, were harmed by taking the course a second time.

Linn (1998) has suggested that policy - makers have placed enormous emphasis on assessment reform because it is relatively inexpensive and easy to mandate, can be implemented rapidly, and is easily reported by the press, when compared to the type professional development and restructuring / reculturing of schools required to affect deep, second - order educational change (Fullan & Miles, 1992).

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.

We hope the assessments will provide support in two ways — first, by generating data related to your school's readiness to undertake an improvement effort, and second, by guiding your use of the resources and information provided in this book.

Table 3 presents summaries of the estimated level of investment in assessment systems and support infrastructure by accredited and unaccredited SCDEs, as evidence in answer of the second research question.

The benchmark assessments currently offered by Michigan are for students in Kindergarten, first grade and second grade in both English language arts (ELA) and mathematics.

Boston Educational Development Foundation; Boston, MA $ 150,000 over one year to create and disseminate materials to publicize their preschool through second - grade program model by highlighting instructional practices, professional development, and assessment systems to improve early childhood programs, locally, and nationally through successful replication.

Second, states measured progress toward standards by developing aligned assessments that combined rewards and sanctions for holding educators accountable to the standards.

All of this is followed by a second round of formative assessments to determine the extent to which the students have mastered the subject matter.

First and second graders who are advanced readers are often able to complete the assessment by themselves or with some help.

The second category is «Exemplary Improving,» in which schools that have at least 40 percent of their students from disadvantaged backgrounds demonstrate the most progress in improving student achievement levels as measured by state assessments or nationally - normed tests.

Second, from the converse assessment that we Kindle owners by and large are not a bunch of 12 - year - olds, I encourage you — and all of us frankly — to think about our Kindles as an important part of our estates.

Following the risk assessments of paradigmatic infectious diseases implemented by the Expert Advisory Groups (EAGs) during the second cycle of activities and linking main outcomes of the first cycle - analysis of the current situation as concerns zoonosis transmitted by companion animals - CALLISTO produced a series of recommendations that are fully described in the Third Cycle Strategy Report.

An assessment of a company's sustainable tourism practices has been performed by an assessor or auditor that is not independent of the second - party certification program.

«I'll trust that Sony's engineers looked at that cost - performance trade - off and saw that they could get to UHD support at 30 frames per second by simply overclocking the preceding CPU, and decided the additional expense wasn't necessary,» is Ward's expert assessment.

On the heels of the Civil Rights movement, in a 1971 New York Times article, Toni Morrison made a terse assessment of the downstream effects of second - wave feminism, as observed by black women:

Tellingly, it's the board's opposition to climate change risk assessments that underscores why long - term shareowners need a second reform opposed by the board: a meaningful voice in the election of directors.

OBJECTIVE: To describe how the tobacco industry attempted to trivialise the health risks of second hand smoke (SHS) by both questioning the science of risk assessment of low dose exposure to other environmental toxins, and by comparing SHS to such substances about which debate might still exist.

It's second only to carbon dioxide, according to a four - year assessment by an international panel.

Despite the utility of the National Assessment, the Administration, most aggressively from the second half of 2002 onward, acted to essentially bury the National Assessment, i.e., by suppressing discussion of it by participating agencies for purposes of research planning by the Climate Change Science Program; suppressing references to it in published program documents including annual program reports to Congress; withdrawing support from the coordinated process of scientist - stakeholder interaction and assessment that had been initiated by the first National Assessment; and making clear that no second National Assessment would be undertaken.

The second equity - related rationale for more research is a call for comparative risk — risk assessment, underpinned by the claim that equity demands that potential risks and benefits of solar geoengineering be compared to the risks of climate change itself, especially for vulnerable populations.

Loss of forest, woodland, and savanna increased sharply in Madagascar, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and Bolivia during the second quarter of 2013, reports a new assessment by...

What's more, some future effects of global warming that are predicted by the IPCC's second and third assessments in 1995 and 2001 are already being observed — much faster than expected.

Entry to this scheme is via two paths, with one being the submission of a portfolio of work and completion of further assessment by the NSAI, and the second being by successful completion of a one - semester course in thermal bridge assessment at Dublin Institute of Technology, which I deliver.

It is only sensible that we should do so, and if we do, and if in particular we reach the conclusion that they should use the methodology implied in the impact assessment and not the absurd methods used by Sir Nicholas Stern, now Lord Stern — he received his reward — they would reach a conclusion very similar to that advocated by the hon. Gentleman on Second Reading: that we should put far more emphasis on adaptation to helping poor countries cope with climate change, rather than on crippling our industries — aviation, shipping and all the other industries — to little avail.

(11/04/2009) The EU is the world's second largest source of carbon dioxide emissions from peatlands drainage, after Indonesia, reports the first country - by - country assessment of peat stocks.

An «interim» version of the second climate assessment was published by the Bush administration in May of 2008, but only after pressure from a critical Government Accountability Office report requested by Senators John McCain and John Kerry, and a successful lawsuit filed by environmental groups to force action.

On 9 January 2017, YLAL responded to the second consultation by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) on its proposal to introduce a Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE), intended to serve as a common professional assessment for all solicitors on the point of qualification.

Second, applicants will have their education credentials assessed by an overseas assessment office designated by Citizenship and Immigration Canada.

Does protecting the reputations of health professionals who sell second opinions to third parties (auto insurer for example) trump the right of injured Ontarians to medico - legal assessments that ought to come as advertised by their insurer — highly qualified and completely impartial?