Sentences with phrase «traditional assessments as»

Of course, traditional assessments as well as authentic assessments vary considerably in the forms they take.

The fund due diligence process includes the traditional assessment as well as understanding of the culture, people and competitive moat.

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After all, «value» stocks typically boast low price - earnings ratios and other traditional assessment metrics, often looked upon as undervalued relative to its underlying fundamentals.

As well as traditional safety measures, Talison Lithium provides an integrated process to manage medical emergency response, hygiene monitoring, ergonomic assessment, fitness for work testing and return to work programmes for injured personneAs well as traditional safety measures, Talison Lithium provides an integrated process to manage medical emergency response, hygiene monitoring, ergonomic assessment, fitness for work testing and return to work programmes for injured personneas traditional safety measures, Talison Lithium provides an integrated process to manage medical emergency response, hygiene monitoring, ergonomic assessment, fitness for work testing and return to work programmes for injured personnel.

Third and finally, the traditional story misses the real function of private banks, which is to solve an information problem in the purest Hayekian senses. That is, banks are or should be specialists in risk assessment and risk taking. They should know their client, understand the local market and have their pulse on the broad economy. Arguably, if properly structured, they can and should do this better than other entities such as governments. In other words, the proper role of banks should be underwriting — lend money, hold the debt, and bear the risk. Which is a long - winded way of getting to the main point of this post.

Now if he was trying to convey that the traditional American (or Anglo - Saxon) way of coming to Jesus is not the only way, then I completely agree with this assessment, because Jesus and God can be experienced through completely «un-Christian» activities, such as aboriginal festivals or rights of passage.

This assessment of the changing role of fathers delivers an in - depth portrait of America's working fathers, revealing that today's dads associate being a good father just as much with the role of effective caregiver as the traditional role of «breadwinner.»

Image - based dietary assessment, or IBDA, aims to reduce or eliminate the inaccuracies that commonly accompany traditional methods such as written dietary records, 24 - hour dietary recalls and food frequency questionnaires.

M. Dominique Ashen, Ph.D., C.R.N.P., a nurse practitioner in the Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease at Johns Hopkins and another study leader, says that a traditional risk assessment for cardiovascular disease involves checking blood pressure, cholesterol levels and weight; evaluating for diabetes; taking a family history; calculating the 10 - year risk of having a cardiovascular event; and asking about lifestyle factors such as smoking, diet and exercise.

The method used in the study is known as the Hirsch Index and while the study authors acknowledge factors such as there being high public interest leading to more studies of a particular illness, they believe that because it is objective and evidence - based it will be a useful complement and guide to more traditional methods of risk assessment and can be used to produce a shortlist of pathogens for authorities to focus on.

«Further, the additional assessment of NAFLD with CT could improve the risk stratification of patients with suspected coronary artery disease, as our results show that the presence of NAFLD is associated with high - risk coronary plaque independent of traditional risk factors and severity of coronary artery disease.»

Trained as an industrial hygienist, he is interested in improving upon traditional exposure assessment methods.

This is not an accurate assessment as many of the sites dealing with meeting curvy women are professional in design and contain all the many functions and benefits that the more traditional dating sites possess.

In this context, a traditional psychometric concern with predictive validity, e.g., whether answers to assessment items predict other behaviors in other situations, is not primary — having friends is the end goal assessed by the report card, not having friends as a predictor of something else.

A small risk for an early adopter — such as replacing one traditional quiz with an alternative assessment, or changing one lesson plan to incorporate mobile technology — seems like an enormous risk to others.

Assessments that require the ability to analyze and manipulate data as well as synthesize and critically evaluate ideas are more likely than traditional tests to support knowledge transfer to novel contexts (Darling - Hammond & Adamson, 2010).

As opposed to traditional pencil - and - paper assessments, the online portal delivers assessments with greater ease and lower marginal costs.

In 2018, I see more investment in videos that offer interactivities (similar to traditional eLearning), interim knowledge checks, branching based on the choices learners make as well as the end of program assessments.

We were also glad to see the recent expansion of the New York Performance Standards Consortium, which use performance assessments as a means of breaking the monotony of traditional multiple - choice tests without losing the critical data that assessments provide to inform teaching and evaluate performance.

Indeed, traditional tests, which may not assess LTLT competencies such as teamwork, leadership and community involvement, remain the predominant mode of assessment.

As a parent, it's critical that you know about alternative types of classroom - based assessments, in addition to traditional tests and the standardized tests mandated by your school district or state department of education.

A teacher who originally was thinking on doing public speaking as a more traditional assessment, but when he asks the question, «What will count as evidence of learning?»

Not as often discussed is our ability to use students» in - game actions as evidence for the assessment of skills and knowledge, including those not easily measured by traditional multiple - choice tests.

Summative assessments: For example, tests that allow for visual, interactive or other responses as an alternative to traditional testing questions; performance - based assessments that showcase knowledge, process and thinking; portfolios, videos or competency - based assessments that can be completed and evaluated when students feel ready; and tools that differentiate for students of differing abilities.

The traditional educational concept of teaching to the middle will become all but extinct as the growth model approach becomes more prevalent and connected to teacher assessment.

Regulations can also preserve important autonomy (and contractual accountability) for charter schools in the event a traditional LEA wants to make an assessment change that, as a result, all non-LEA charter schools in its district would be required to use.

Traditional formative assessment tools can be used along the way for students to reflect and revise their work, as well as set goals.

Many of the pre-service teachers that come through my classroom, as well as many of us, went through school with very traditional assessment practices and a traditional mindset when it comes to education, assessment, and grading.

Charter schools ARE public schools: By law, they must adhere to all public education laws, hire appropriately licensed teachers, follow the same curriculum standards as do traditional school districts, take the same standardized, state - wide assessments and are free of tuition and open to all applicants.

However, the traditional classroom performance assessment is not as readily identifiable as the complexity of a musical piece or the competitive level of an opposing team.

They mentioned an emerging appreciation for alternative assessment, both as a means to capture and discuss student learning and as a strategy for assessing higher order thinking, diverse learners, and learning not normally valued by traditional assessment strategies.

Unfortunately though, assessment today is still largely unbalanced towards summative only, as teachers often find it too difficult and time consuming to deliver, score, and analyze assessments with traditional paper, pencil, and / or bubble cards.

«As the revisions continued, we migrated back from the innovation edge, into a safer, more traditional assessment recommendation,» said Neihof, who was on the committee to design the state's new system for the ESSA plan.

Traditional reading groups students are tested on their skills, where as in dynamic guided reading groups students» assessment is ongoing and throughout instruction.

· Although some methods of managing performance assessments can cost more then machine scoring of multiple choice tests (i.e. when such assessments are treated as traditional external tests and shipped out to separately paid scorers), the cost calculus changes when assessment is understood as part of teachers» work and learning — built into teaching and professional development time.

The students in the program are all assessed using traditional academic measures such as local assessments and portfolios.

The middle schools and high schools use traditional letter grades, A — F. Although the state's assessment system is uniform in most aspects, the jump between elementary and middle level can be overwhelming for students trying to navigate the waters of early adolescence as well as school structures.

Their Digital Promise ™ initiative provides useful digital badges for core academic knowledge as well as other modern - day competencies that can not be measured by traditional assessments.

The California Performance Assessment Collaborative (CPAC) is launching an official state pilot where participants have opportunities to learn from one another and deepen practice; find common ground despite discrete approaches to performance assessment; engage in research and documentation of various practices; and ultimately, inform state policymakers about the supports and conditions needed to broadly implement high - quality graduation performance assessments that can serve as a viable alternative to traditional measures of college, career, and civic readiness.

Portfolios have been shown to be a flexible assessment format capable of addressing criteria not a part of traditional assessments, such as continuous student reflection, individual assessment of growth and change, iterative evaluation of learning goals, and the contextual examination of created products in relation to complex teaching processes (Barton & Collins, 1993; Guillaume & Yopp, 1995; Levin, 1996; Snyder, Lippincott, & Bower, 1998; Wade & Yarbrough, 1996).

Although not minimizing the importance of traditional cognitive ability, these authors point out that conventional assessments account for a small portion of the variance when examining long - term academic and career accomplishment, especially as it relates to the advancement of adult competencies in highly demanding professions where leadership skills and creative productivity are the criteria for success.

In order to get an initial certificate through a traditional teacher preparation program as an elementary school teacher for grades 1 - 6, a prospective teacher at any of the institutions on this list must complete an NYSED registered program that has been determined to contain the «studies required» to become a teacher, must be recommended to NYSED by that program, must pass the state certification exam, must pass the state content specialty exam for elementary teachers, must pass the externally evaluated performance assessment called edTPA, must take workshops on the Dignity for All Students Act, and pass a criminal background check based on their fingerprints.

[The ELA Performance Tasks] are meant to measure capacities such as depth of understanding, writing and research skills, and complex analysis, which can not be adequately assessed with traditional assessment questions.

Assessments such as the Ages and Stages Questionnaire, the Flanker Inhibitory Control and Attention Task, and the Social Skills Rating System will be administered alongside more traditional measures of academic achievement.

Making adjustments to state teacher licensure requirements to allow teaching candidates to demonstrate their competency through rigorous but more authentic performance assessments, such as the edTPA, that do not have the degree of racial disparity in pass rates that traditional exams have had.

Some of these decisions may not be regarded as «assessment» in a traditional sense, but they illustrate how teachers use their informal knowledge about children to guide their classroom instruction.

Below, we illustrate key differences between learning focused on personalized mastery vs. a more traditional approach to education, specifically in core areas such as school culture, learning continuum, learning pace, instruction, assessment and grading policies.

Under I - 1240, charter schools must meet the identical academic benchmarks and student performance assessments as traditional public schools.

Instead of averaging assessment scores, participation, and effort as in a traditional model, standards - based grading aligns assessments to specific standards, and the most recent assessment scores count toward a student's grade.

Rigorous scoring is as necessary in alternative assessments as in traditional assessments.