Sentences with phrase «traditional assessments such»

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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.

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.

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.

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

· 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.

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).

Similarly, opportunities to demonstrate understanding can also be partnered with «enrichment» strategies — such that a child might share his / her learning through graphic arts, musical expression, bodily movement or dramatic interpretation, in addition to more traditional assessment strategies.

[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.

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.

Instead of using the traditional marking procedure for the assessment — simply marking words read incorrectly and counting words read correctly within a one - minute time frame — the presenting teacher showed how she kept track of the actual errors the student made while reading the connected text, in ways that enabled further analysis of phonological deficits (such as a lack of automatic word reading for all multisyllabic words).

Enhancing traditional tests with other assessments such as classroom observations and performance measures can provide the information needed to develop appropriate lessons or identify alternative teaching strategies.

Such a dashboard would potentially include traditional measures such as GPA, SAT / ACT scores, etc., but would also have a place to share «recognized» performance assessment dSuch a dashboard would potentially include traditional measures such as GPA, SAT / ACT scores, etc., but would also have a place to share «recognized» performance assessment dsuch as GPA, SAT / ACT scores, etc., but would also have a place to share «recognized» performance assessment data.

For J.D. Byrider, a used - car sales and finance company, Equifax developed a risk - assessment model that uses traditional credit data augmented with alternative data sources such as telecom and utility information.

Our manuscript assessment service may also suggest other publishing possibilities such as submitting to a particular literary agent, whether to self - publish or go the traditional publishing route, marketing and building an author or book platform in advance of the manuscript being published.

In it, students can store traditional assessment materials, such as secure copies of transcripts, test scores and essays, but also digitized art projects, videos of presentations and plays or audio tracks of music they might have created or performed.

Such modalities might include CBT, traditional talk therapy, relaxation, biofeedback, pyschodynamic interpretation, assessment measures, and reading or writing material.»

In addition to traditional marriage therapy, we also provide assessment tools such as the DISC personality Profile and the Enrich Inventory to help our therapists focus on the immediate strength and growth areas of a couple's relationship.

Trended credit data, which includes up to two years of payment records containing information such as actual payments and past balances, has afforded applicants determined ineligible through traditional assessment methods the opportunity to obtain credit.