Sentences with phrase «types of measured skills»

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Students participated in 25 farm to school standards based lessons, including using math skills to measure garden spaces and mark off rows, learning about how weather affects plants, and exploring different types of soil.

Shaw and her colleagues briefly captured and banded 20 adult birds, which they trained to carry out six different tests to measure various skills thought to be linked to specific types of animal cognition (defined as the ability to acquire, process, and act on information about the environment).

«This could mean that girls who meet the same clinical criteria as boys actually are more severely affected by ongoing social and adaptive skill deficits that we don't capture in current clinical measures, and that autistic girls, in general, may be camouflaging these types of autism deficits during direct assessments.»

Our ability to express a loving sentiment, to get a joke, or to be sexy are simply types of performances — impressive and intelligent perhaps, but skills that can be observed and measured.

In both the fall and spring, the researchers collected three types of academic outcome measures from youth and staff, including reading skills, youth perceptions of their academic abilities, and academic engagement.

His school had recently begun offering real - world, full - day courses in subjects like engineering and entrepreneurship, but he was finding it difficult to measure and credit the new types of skills students were learning using A — F grades.

It includes numerous types of measures of knowledge, skills, and performance, usually in the service of learning.

We utilized a pre - and post-test design to measure the quantity and type of classroom events that preservice mathematics teachers noticed before and after a teaching methods course where improving observation skills was an explicit goal.

This program uses four types of quizzes (reading practice, vocabulary practice, literacy skills, textbook quizzes) to assess students» daily progress, measuring the quality, quantity, and level of difficulty they are reading using the Advantage TASA Open Standard, a readability formula that provides reading levels based on the entire contents of books.

This paper uses teacher assessments at age 16 in Norwegian comprehensive schools to measure different types of skills.

Single Skill Measures (SSM) include problems of all one type.

Test developers and educators will need to attend more carefully to the mix of item types and the multidimensional sets of skills measured by tests, researchers say.

Data was then collected on the students, including formal intelligence measures, literacy tests, writing assessments, study skills tests, and informal measures of handwriting, typing skills, and study skills.

Some new licensure exams require prospective teachers to demonstrate their skills leading a classroom in order to pass.23 These types of skills - based tests have the potential to more meaningfully measure teaching skills.

Different reading tests measure different types of reading skills.

Rather than construct an evaluation process based on what is easiest to measure, shouldn't PEAC start with an examination of the type of skills we want in teachers?

Rather than construct an evaluation process based on what is easiest to measure, shouldn't we start with an examination of the type of skills we want in teachers?

Similar to Lexile measures, there are two types of Quantile measures: a measure for students and a measure for mathematical skills and concepts.

Education «should not be considered a frill that can be dispensed with in times of economic stress or pressures of work... training should not be directed solely to providing information... but primarily to enhancing the perceptual skills, human sensitivity, and critical abilities of judges and magistrates in handing information and assessing the results of research concerning the effectiveness of different types of penal measures.»

Professional and experienced Flooring Installer offers extensive knowledge and good measuring skills.Exhibits excellent communication skills and works well with customers and coworkers.Has ten years of industry experience and a broad knowledge of all flooring installation types.

• Proven record of efficiently setting up production machines and equipment according to each production cycle • Demonstrated expertise in inspecting equipment to identify replacements, malfunctions and repairs • Deep insight into performing both regular and preventative maintenance on production machineries and equipment • Highly skilled in evaluating production equipment performance and recommending improvements to ensure production cycles» continuity • Proven ability to operate trucks and forklifts to transfer materials and production equipment between warehouses and work areas • Documented success in determining type and quantity of materials required for each production cycle and efficiently loading them in production machines • Proficient in identifying and reporting unsafe operations or machineries to ensure workplace and workers» safety and wellbeing • Adept at testing and measuring finished products against work specification and quality control standards • Competent at troubleshooting mechanical and electrical problems with production machineries and ensuring minimum downtime by handling issues in a proactive manner

Monitored, measured, trained and improved the skills of over 350 customer service representatives by evaluating error patterns and recommending the types of training for each employee to supervisors.

Coping skills were assessed using three subscales from the Self - Report Coping Scale (Causey and Dubow, 1992) which measured problem focused coping (e.g., «get help from a friend») and two types of emotion focused coping, avoidance internalizing (e.g., «go off by yourself») and avoidance externalizing (e.g., «get mad and throw or hit something»).

Additional studies that address protective factors (e.g., family and social support systems and the child's cognitive and social skills) are warranted as well as studies examining gender differences in the developmental pathways leading to adult APP which include measures tapping female types of aggression.

The authors examined the results by program type and found that alternative educational programs (programs involving a group of students in a traditional school) and behavioral programs (programs targeting school behaviors and increasing problem - solving skills with a system of rewards and punishments) had significant positive effects on attendance and enrollment measures.