Sentences with phrase «spending as an assessment»

The comparison of military spending as an assessment of burden sharing thus has long been a common practice, see the aforementioned report.

Not exact matches

I could spend hours on assessment of market trend, but this is very much the art as opposed to science.

in 22 months since the spending gloves were taken off is clearly Wenger's best assessment as to the optimum rate of change.

His assessment of QPR's big spending and subsequent relegations were just as cutting.

If you agree, you can send a message to our local elected officials telling them you will no longer tolerate their decision to act as willing co-conspirators with the DEP as that agency continues to engage in its long - held practice of profligate spending, this time in our community, as it proposes to spend $ 1.8 million on a parcel of land carried on our assessment roll at $ 165,500.

His claim that unemployment will fall rather than rise in the course of this Parliament is based on the OBR assessment, rapidly rushed out to give ammunition to contest the anticipated Harman attack (incidentally providing the first suspicions about the OBR's objectivity), that whilst 600,000 public sector jobs will be lost by 2015 - 6 and a similar figure (though unspecified) in the private sector as a result of the public spending cuts, some 2.5 m jobs will be created over the same period in the private sector.

Impact assessments may not make for great sound bites or lurid tabloid headlines, but they do result in better policy, and at a time of severe cuts, there is a pressing need to ensure all public spending is as effective as possible.

Seriously injured personnel will not have to spend this money adapting their homes as local authority - based disability benefits assessments will disregard the compensation from now on.

As an incoming patient expect Ruth to spend 90 minutes with you in a comprehensive assessment of your medical history to understand your current symptoms within the context of your individual makeup, environment, and life experiences.

As an educational researcher, I have spent these house - bound days wondering why our schools» testing programs do not better resemble this winter's comprehensive assessments.

Ideally, you want to be able to report on any piece of data which you LMS can produce, such as number of learners, number of hours spent learning, assessment statistics, specific details on which modules from a course have been completed and how long this took, which classes are proving popular, etc., as all of this data is extremely important to your training measurement efforts.

Teachers» and students» time is wasted as they prepare and take assessments that are just looking to rank students» performance rather than spending time engaged in authentic learning or working on socio - emotional and other competencies.

Evidence of collegial time spent on achieving these assessment - related goals, such as PLC or department notes, and relevant professional development materials.

The critics of modern school reform that I know are people who see enormous trouble in the public education system, but don't think it will be fixed by spending billions of dollars on questionable teacher assessment systems linked to standardized test scores, or expanding charter schools that are hardly the panacea their early supporters claimed they would be, or handing out federal education dollars based on promises to change schools according to the likes and dislikes of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, whose record as superintendent of Chicago public schools was hardly distinguished.

But for the states who aren't spending as much on testing now, there might not be money in the budget for a test from PARCC or the other national assessment consortium, Smarter Balanced, which plans to charge $ 27.30 for its assessment package.

Often staff are spending their own money on training and specialist resources, enduring unsustainable workload to ensure that all learners get the support that they need, and, working hard to make the national curriculum, statutory assessments and qualifications as accessible as they can to ensure that every child and young person is able to enjoy and achieve in their learning.

«It's about finding your weaknesses and trying to identify things that you can do in your school or as an individual to get better.34» Indeed, the assessment calls for documentation that a principal has undergone at least 20 hours of professional development during the review year.35 Along with addressing weaknesses, the Gwinnett County evaluation process rewards excellence: The district gives top performing schools a cash incentive that principals can spend as they wish.

I recently spent considerable time with the Wisconsin chapter of ASCD and was encouraged to see how their members are systematically planning to influence their state's education policymakers regarding such accountability - related issues as the need for more state - supported instructionally diagnostic assessments.

If the schools are asking for flexibility in seat - time, assessments, or how they spend their money, then we can learn from that as we embark on the review process.

Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publication, 2013) Considering how much time teachers spend on these activities, we believe the development of assessment literacy and sound assessment practice is key to making this time commitment prove as beneficial as possible.

As a result, policies that increase the stakes of standardized assessments necessitate schools increase the amount of time spent on basic skills — reading and math, primarily — to the exclusion of a broad range of other skills, experiences, and competencies.

She has spent time as a classroom teacher, principal, district administrator, assessment director and professional development director.

Time spent on Organization Management activities is associated with positive school outcomes, such as student test score gains and positive teacher and parent assessments of the instructional climate, whereas Day - to - Day Instruction activities are marginally or not at all related to improvements in student performance and often have a negative relationship with teacher and parent assessments.

This bill further provides that an educator is not: (1) Required to spend the educator's personal money to appropriately equip a classroom; (2) Evaluated by professionals, under the teacher evaluation advisory committee, without the same subject matter expertise as the educator; (3) Evaluated based on the performance of students whom the educator has never taught; or (4) Relocated to a different school based solely on test scores from state mandated assessments.

Joseph spent ten years with the Michigan Department of Education (MDE) as a Psychometrician, Manager of Large - scale Assessment Programs, Director of Assessment & Accountability, and Deputy Superintendent responsible for assessment, accountability, educator preparation and certification, and communication and governmental affairs.

The union leadership sees this and gets all jizzy, thinking about how to steer some of that dough to their own pockets: «The four corporations that dominate the U.S. standardized testing market spend millions of dollars lobbying state and federal officials — as well as sometimes hiring them — to persuade them to favor policies that include mandated student assessments, helping to fuel a nearly $ 2 billion annual testing business, a new analysis shows.

This is a a proprietary algorithm that evaluates standard usage data, such as page views, time spent in a textbook, notes, and highlights taken by a student, and assimilates them into an overall assessment of students» engagement with the material.

(Where the intent is to retain ownership and spend the yield / dividend from the investment - as opposed to the intent to sell portions of the equity - ownership - correctly named speculation) Also all the modeling is «market wide», which of necessity, is a highly speculative assessment - as the vast majority of equities pay no yield.

I didn't realise that I was apparently being intereviewed for a position as a lead author on the nexr IPCC assessment or else I would have spent six months composing the replies.

The proof of that future loss is sometimes a difficult task and usually involves medical assessment and / or actuarial assessment); d. past care cost (if you have spend money for your medical care that was made medically necessary owing to ICBC motor vehicle accident injury then you can expect to collect a sum of money equivalent to those reasonable treatment and medication costs please ensure that you keep the receipts and seek prior medical approval to eventually prove this loss); e. future care costs (if you will suffer repeated medical expenses in the future owing to your motor vehicle accident ICBC injury claim then you can collect a sum of money equivalent to that future loss); f. out of pocket expenses or «special damages» (if you suffer out of pocket expenses like for travel to / from medical appointments, cab fare, parking, etc, then this is also recoverable by you but again — keep track of these expenses in a log and keep a receipt book for later proof of this loss); g. legal costs (sum of the legal costs associated with advancing your injury claim are recoverable as the court system recognizes that often legal experts, lawyers and their agents are a necessary part of the process); h. other categories of damages: not discussed here are other categories of damages like «in trust claims» made largely for those who relatives who take care of you while you are recovering from your injuries or things like «loss of ability to enter an economically interdependent relationship» which might be awarded to a seriously disfigured potential spouse for his / her unlikely ability to become married in the future.

The court rejected this doctor's evidence finding that «it was obvious to me that he had not spent as much time, nor was he as objective in his assessment of the Plaintiff (as her own physicians were).

As Sky's face - to - face interview is part of the assessment centre, you will spend the best part of the day, including lunch, as its offices in Osterley, Livingston or LeedAs Sky's face - to - face interview is part of the assessment centre, you will spend the best part of the day, including lunch, as its offices in Osterley, Livingston or Leedas its offices in Osterley, Livingston or Leeds.

Spend time reading as much information about the selection process before attending an interview or assessment centre.

Prospective employers may spend as little as six seconds looking at your resume to make an assessment of your abilities and to match those abilities to their job opening.

Estimates for average hourly wage of the patients treated for depression ($ 15.95 (# 9.97)-RRB- and average time spent attending an outpatient visit (2.7 hours) were taken from a previous study of depression treatment in primary care.20 Patient time required for assessments by a care manager was estimated as 15 minutes per contact.

-LRB--RRB- If after the assessment intake procedure the Contact Service is unable or unwilling to provide < supervision of time a child spends with the parent, or other person / persons / changeover in accordance with a parenting order > as set out in order then each party and the Independent Children's Lawyer has leave to restore the matter to the list on days written notice to the other party and to the Court.

-LRB--RRB- If after assessment the parties are accepted by the Contact Service as suitable for supervised < time a child spends with the parent, or other person / persons / changeover in accordance with a parenting order > is to have contact with < the child / children / name (s) and date (s) of birth > each < specify e.g day of week / each weekend / each second (weekend or specified day of week) > at times nominated by the Contact Service and such visit is to < occur at the Contact Service / be implemented by (name) collecting the child / ren from the Contact Service at the start of visit and returning the child / ren to the same place at the end of visit >.

As educators, you spend lots of time, thought and effort in developing your service's Quality Improvement Plan and preparing for NQF assessment and ratings.