Sentences with phrase «set number of assessments»

When we focus on a body of evidence, we don't have to limit ourselves to a set number of assessments.

Not exact matches

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.

The Department for Work and Pensions has already increased its assessment of the number of families set to be hit by the changes, which now stands at 67,000 - up from 50,000.

The writing assessment was designed to be administered in grades 4 and 8 (in 1994 - 95, the writing assessment was moved to grades 5 and 8) and is comprised of two main components in writing: a) a portfolio of student work which includes a set number and specified types of pieces of writing collected over the course of a year, and b) a «uniform test» of writing (i.e. a standard prompt to which all students respond using standard procedures).

In New York, Commissioner of Education David M. Steiner and the state board of regents this month put forward a broad package of changes that would include revamping the state's standards - and - assessment system, raising the cap on the number of charter schools, allowing additional institutions to train teachers and principals, and setting new demands for districts to turn around low - performing schools.

As part of her work, she has authored a number of research and white papers related to assessment, reliability, validity, forecasting accuracy, growth analysis, and standards mastery in both early childhood and K - 12 educational settings.

McGraw - Hill My Math, Glencoe Math and Number Worlds ® include eAssessment, a completely customizable set of online assessment resources tied directly to lesson and chapter objectives.

High - performing countries tend to have more rigorous selection processes for admission into teacher preparation programs compared with the processes in the United States.7 A program can be selective in many ways: It can admit only a small number of candidates; it can set a high bar for admission; or it can include qualitative or performance - based assessments of a candidate's knowledge and skills.

Arkansas currently requires some of the highest numbers of professional development hours each year to maintain a teaching license, and has the largest comprehensive continuing education portal — including trainings, courses, resources, and assessments — in a cutting - edge, online setting.

The bold cluster is rephrased into a cognitive rigor question that sets the instructional focus and serves as the assessment for student learning, asking them to examine and explain how and why can the place value system be understood and used to determine the value of multi-digit numbers.

Very quickly we can see that matter of goal - setting isn't some abstract number that is a guardrail but it is bound up in our assessments of risk and of willingness to pay for abatement as well as bear risk.

Although they are quantitative numbers, these scenarios are not to be interpreted as (type 4) forecasts, but as a set of conditions that is relevant to consider when making future assessments.

In recent months, a number of leading firms have unveiled significant changes to the way they assess performance, with Linklaters set to drop both individual financial targets and annual performance reviews for partners, and Allen & Overy and Hogan Lovells both moving away from formal annual assessments in favour of ongoing — or «continuous» — feedback.

The set of factors defining «material breach» include: the sensitivity of the information, the number of individuals involved, and «an assessment by the organization that the cause of the breach or a pattern of breaches indicates a systemic problem.»

Patrick has provided assessment, individual, couple and family therapy in a number of settings in the Twin Cities area over the past 30 years, including Fairview Hospitals and Regions Behavioral Health clinics (formerly Ramsey Clinic).