Sentences with phrase «standards and assessments as»

Do you see standards and assessments as opportunities for students to drive their own learning?

The secretary invites advice and recommendations on standards and assessments as well as on the requirement that Title I, Part A funds «supplement, not supplant» state and local funds.

Yes, states developed standards and assessments as No Child Left Behind (NCLB) required, but many adopted weak standards and set low cut scores.

Overall, the polls did not focus as heavily on standards and assessments as in past years.

Not exact matches

Joining as a member of the Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI) in 2008, the Group Integrated the latest BSCI Code of Conduct into local trading contracts and conduct regular compliance assessments to ensure ethical business standards are in place.

In response to this overall assessment of the FWT's methodological motives and behavior, I first want to address Griffin's contention that FWTs display the tendency to utilize a double standard when discussing evil — that they don't allow their «Own positions to be judged with the same rigor, and in terms of the same criteria, as the other positions.»

Each faculty member took the lead on addressing two standard sections such as program eligibility, program mission and goals, organization and administration, faculty and staff, curriculum, facilities, student services, and program assessment.

I couldn't help but see in him a personification of education these days — our focus on test - scores, assessment, standards, ranking and comparison, as well as a correlating misunderstanding of the importance of play (at one point in the film, a boy confronts this adult: «But they are toys!

As a public school, NCS is expected to adopt California's educational standards and to participate in Smarter Balanced Assessments.

Once attached to a player's helmet (a hockey version is available now, versions for football, lacrosse, and ski and snowboard helmets will be introduced in 2012) The ShockboxTM sensor measures the G - Force of a hit to the helmet from any direction, and then sends the data wirelessly via Bluetooth to the athletic trainer, coach or parent's smart phone to alert them when the athlete suffers a traumatic head impact that may be concussive so they can be removed from the game or practice for evaluation on the sideline using standard concussion assessment tools, such as the Standardized Assessment of Concussion, Sports Concussion Assessment Tool (SCAT2) or King - Devick test.

Each country will determine whether it will integrate this module as it updates assessment criteria and tools to the new standards (Lothian, 2007).

«Two days of testing is a natural next step, as long as the assessments continue to cover the material needed to truly measure every student's strengths and challenges, and the changes are implemented carefully and with the input of educators and communities,» High Achievement New York, which advocates for higher standards, said in a statement.

As that process unfolds, the task force recommended that the state declare a ban on using state growth scores to evaluate students or teachers until the 2019 - 20 school year while it reviews and alters the Common Core Learning Standards, develops curriculum aligned to the updated standards and tries out new assessments.

In a paper written for the conference, Roseman also touched on the role of scientists and scientific organizations such as AAAS in reforming science education, including the development of standards and the curriculum materials, assessments, and teacher professional development that are aligned to them.

Kerr and his team accomplished this by inspecting outpatient clinical notes from patients with medication - resistant seizure disorder, who were later diagnosed as having epilepsy or non-epileptic seizure disorder, using the gold standard diagnostic assessment, 72 - hour in - patient closed circuit video - electroencephalography (VEEG) monitoring.

Income from forests has been largely «undervalued», particularly in assessments of poverty and income such as the World Bank's Living Standard Measurement Survey, says Arild Angelsen, an environmental economist at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Aas and a lead author of the study by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) based in Bogor, Indonesia.

She identified development of national flood building and disaster resiliency standards as two examples that could «drive locals to make better decisions,» and noted the president just announced that all international development programs will have to undertake a climate risk assessment going forward to qualify for federal funds.

At the ages of six and eight, cognitive and motor development as well as behaviour problems were assessed by psychologists and paediatricians with standard assessments.

Therefore, for the efficient exploring and integration of biodiversity data, the development of a functional taxonomic resolution system, including the establishment of a shared taxonomic standard (as a core component), is essential for all sorts of biodiversity assessments.

Family health history risk assessment has long been recognized as standard of care in preventative medicine, and is a useful tool for identifying risks of common diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease, in addition to hereditary risks.

In particular, Dr Jordan explains the need for practical skill assessments in addition to written exams and how creating standards in the health coaching field is a matter of public safety as well as a way to improve the ability to effectively evaluate health coaching outcomes.

Comparison of inulin and lactulose as reference standards in the breath hydrogen test assessment of carbohydrate malabsorption in patients with chronic pancreatic exocrine insufficiency

This new analysis finds that some groups, including those with a first language of Pashto, Panjabi, Turkish, Portuguese, Czech and Slovak, perform below national standards in primary assessments — despite having entered the English school system at an early stage as infants.

Advocates of dispositions assessments of the kind in place at WSU defend the screening of pre-service teachers, whether at program entry or later on in the certification process, as standard practice and argue that «dispositions» are merely those attitudes and behaviors necessary to successful teaching.

They must show, for instance, that as of this school year, they are giving state assessments that are aligned with state academic - content standards and that all students are included in the...

We at Fordham have been among those pleading for some reasonable flexibility in this area, particularly as new standards and assessments kick in, so the secretary's message is welcome.

The new state assessments (along with old standards like the SAT, ACT, and AP credits) are diagnostic enough, it seems to me, to have real explanatory power, offering answers to such questions as «Why do only a third of young Americans complete four year college degrees?»

There's a common misconception that the new Common Core standards and assessments will lead to more schools being identified as «failing.»

The power of that approach was amplified by another school - improvement effort: Skandera's department had also been reworking the state's end - of - course exams and early - grade assessments, as part of its efforts to implement Common Core standards.

The research units conduct and coordinate original research in areas such as student performance standards, assessment, curriculum, commercialism in schools, and language policy issues.

In choosing this year's «Better Balance,» for example, the editors signaled that something is awry in the existing balance between the «hard» elements of standards - based reform (namely the academic standards, assessments, and interventions that make up a state's accountability system) and such «soft» components as teacher training, instructional materials, and classroom environment.

This scenario is the major summative assessment, and as you can see will show that the standards and content have been learned.

Wholly differentiated, (Task B cards are less challenging) you can use it as a summative assessment tool of the skills and standards included.

Assessment is tied to learning goals and standards, but students must own the assessment process as well, as they must be able to articulate what and how they are being assessed — and its value.

This product includes: • 4 links to instructional videos or texts • 1 link to practice quizzes or activities • Definitions of key terms, such as exponent and radical • Exercises that allow students to practice using the properties of exponents to rewrite expressions involving radicals and rational exponents • 1 assessment that includes four multiple choice questions and one short answer question • An accompanying Teaching Notes file The Teaching Notes file includes: • A review of key terminology • Links to video tutorials for students struggling with certain parts of the standard, such as confusing the radical symbol and the long - division symbol • An answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (depth of knowledge) levels

• Around 1,000 more teachers • $ 6.1 million over three years to support an updated anti-bullying strategy and resources for teachers, students and parents • Funding of $ 88 million in 2017 - 18 as part of the $ 224 million for teacher professional development through the Quality Teaching, Successful Students initiative • Funding of $ 50 million in 2017 - 18 on student counselling and wellbeing services as part of the $ 167 million Supported Students, Successful Students program • $ 149 million on education standards for provision of services related to school curriculum assessment, teaching and regulatory standards in NSW schools

Specifically, they agreed to develop academic standards and assessments in every state and to expand the use of information technology as a way to improve student performance and aid in the measurement of student achievement.

A range of initiatives from the New York State Education Department (SED) regarding standards, assessments, and graduation requirements has been very helpful in [forming] such important district strategies as aligning our curriculum, more effectively focusing our staff development, and instituting additional summer and afterschool programs.

As we tinker with old processes for developing standards and assessments, old ways of delivering instruction, old ways of organizing schools, old ways of developing and evaluating educators, and other old ways, we ought to be mindful of social capital, longevity, and the value of preservation.

And when the price tag for the full cost of new technology, training, leadership, teacher preparation, and all the rest became clear in 2014 and 2015, just as states emerging from the Great Recession were restoring cuts to state agencies and hoping to trim taxes, it was no surprise that a slew of states decided they'd keep the Core standards but also their old assessments, instructional materials, training, and teacher preparatiAnd when the price tag for the full cost of new technology, training, leadership, teacher preparation, and all the rest became clear in 2014 and 2015, just as states emerging from the Great Recession were restoring cuts to state agencies and hoping to trim taxes, it was no surprise that a slew of states decided they'd keep the Core standards but also their old assessments, instructional materials, training, and teacher preparatiand all the rest became clear in 2014 and 2015, just as states emerging from the Great Recession were restoring cuts to state agencies and hoping to trim taxes, it was no surprise that a slew of states decided they'd keep the Core standards but also their old assessments, instructional materials, training, and teacher preparatiand 2015, just as states emerging from the Great Recession were restoring cuts to state agencies and hoping to trim taxes, it was no surprise that a slew of states decided they'd keep the Core standards but also their old assessments, instructional materials, training, and teacher preparatiand hoping to trim taxes, it was no surprise that a slew of states decided they'd keep the Core standards but also their old assessments, instructional materials, training, and teacher preparatiand teacher preparation.

Using the Connecticut state standards and previously released test items from the state's standardized test, the Connecticut Mastery Test, McCurry worked backward to develop a scope and sequence for the curriculum, as well as cumulative assessments that would be administered every six weeks.

The G.A.O. defines systemwide reform as encompassing five components: goals or standards for all students, curricula tied to those goals, student assessments tied to the curriculum, high - quality instructional materials, and professional development.

Nor should one assume that our study's results are applicable to other states facing similar decisions: Massachusetts has been a national leader in establishing high - quality learning standards for its students, and MCAS is widely regarded as one of the country's more sophisticated assessment systems.

Education regulations, like national standards and assessments, are at least as likely to be captured by the Edublob as the oil industry is to capture off - shore drilling regulations or the banking industry is to capture financial regulations.

This report recommends further research to investigate the question of whether the certification process itself makes teachers more effective — as they become familiar with the standards and complete the assessment — or if high - quality teachers are attracted to the certification process, as well as to determine whether NBPTS certification is having broader effects on the educational system beyond individual classrooms.

The reason Mike and other supporters of national standards and assessments don't advocate for global standards and assessments (even though the logic for doing so is essentially the same as national standards and assessments) is that they imagine that they'll be the ones controlling the national process.

On both sides of the sea, standards, assessments, accountability, and school choice were surfacing as ideas, and becoming policies and programs.

But additional traction for the organization's current agenda would be bad for the country, bad for the new «Common Core» standards and the assessments being developed around them, and possibly bad for CCSSO as well.

As important as better assessments are, they must work in tandem with high - quality curriculum; meaningful, job - embedded professional development; and all the other pieces that will support educators preparing to teach to these new standardAs important as better assessments are, they must work in tandem with high - quality curriculum; meaningful, job - embedded professional development; and all the other pieces that will support educators preparing to teach to these new standardas better assessments are, they must work in tandem with high - quality curriculum; meaningful, job - embedded professional development; and all the other pieces that will support educators preparing to teach to these new standards.

«The notion of high - stakes testing was brought on as one component of Louisiana's overall reform efforts and not in isolation,» said Scott Norton, director of standards and assessments for the Louisiana Department of Education.