We've compiled some of the best resources from Edutopia and the web to support
your use of assessment in PBL, including information about strategies, advice on how to address the demands of standardized tests, and summaries of the research.
It has much in common with
the use of assessment in other professions such as medicine and psychology, where the purpose is not so much to judge as to understand.
These uses of assessment in the service of learning can be contrasted with the use of assessment simply to grade all students on how well they perform against common year - level expectations.
We've compiled a resources list to help families understand various
uses of assessment in schools, what questions to ask, how to help children prepare, and all about standardized tests.
It discusses steps that can help ensure that performance assessments are high - quality, rigorous, and well understood and that can facilitate
the use of these assessments in higher education decisions.
One way to think about the various
uses of assessment in a balanced system is by grouping the assessments into levels associated with the frequency of their administration.
The Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) has announced a new initiative designed to advance teacher preparation and professional development in
the use of assessment in teaching and learning.
Use the list on page 56 to evaluate your own
use of assessment in instructional planning.
The use of assessments in improving quality of hiring are increasing at a rapid rate.
Ohio has designed a professional development series to support
the use of assessment in programs serving children from birth through kindergarten entry.
She offers behavioral observations in the daycare / school setting and
the use of assessments in order to understand her clients» environments, interactions, and underlying issues.
Not exact matches
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When the pressure is on to fill a position, it's easier to
use the clichéd «beer test» — as
in, «would I have a beer with this guy» — as a decision - making tool than it is to undergo the complicated and time - consuming work
of a more nuanced
assessment.
One key takeaway from their results was, as the authors wrote
in the discussion section
of their paper, how information from quick personality
assessment tools can be
used: (emphasis ours):
The office also has a leaderboard that tracks individual results (two employees
used it recently to see who could drink the most water
in a week), and each month, staff receive a scorecard — part
of a regular
assessment of work performance — that assigns them a mark out
of five for health accountability.
Martin said Class 2
assessments are
used in cases
of larger projects, such as the building
of a petro - chemical plant or pulp mill.
The process that made sense to
use in the 1930s was a mosaic
of financial analysis, valuation, qualitative
assessment, and management interviews.
She also notes that while psychology is often seen as a form
of treatment, it can also be
used to empower clients — for example, she concentrates primarily on sports psychology and
in educational
assessments to help kids with anxiety and learning disabilities.
A bill currently
in the US Senate would call on federal personnel, including from the Department
of Homeland Security, to develop and share with other law enforcement bodies a threat
assessment describing how cryptocurrencies could be
used to support terrorist activity.
At about the same time, APRA acted to ensure that the interest rate «buffer»
used in the serviceability
assessments for all loans was at least 2 percentage points above the relevant benchmark rate (with an interest rate floor
of at least 7 per cent).
Before the IPO, a company enlists the help
of an investment bank to help determine its value,
using a lot
of fancy - schmancy
assessment techniques and formulas to consider historic and projected revenues, profits and costs, as well as potential plans for new products, whether marketing can drum up more interest
in the company and how similar companies are valued.
Inc., to review our existing executive compensation program and to assist us
in evaluating potential changes to our program following an
assessment of the compensation plans
used by a peer group
of publicly traded commercial airlines and transportation companies.
In their
assessment of the pilot program, Lantmäteriet said they believe
using blockchain will cut the time taken for writing a purchasing contract through to registering a property title from four months to a few days.
To achieve this goal, several approaches are envisaged: identifying small populations with severe disease where a medicine's benefit - risk balance could be favorable; making more
use of real - world data where appropriate to support clinical trial data; and involving health technology
assessment bodies early
in development to increase the chance that medicines will be recommended for payment and ultimately covered by national healthcare systems.
Those familiar with some
of the basic elements
of technical price analysis have probably
used candlestick charts
in some
of their market analysis and this is generally because these charts help you to make broad
assessments with just a quick glance.
Our Credit Team assign the Credit Bands for each loan, based on their
assessment of the loan
using their experience, ExpertLender (our
in - house credit
assessment tool) and affordability models.
The section calls for the undersecretary
of Homeland Security for Intelligence and Analysis, along with «appropriate Federal partners,» to «develop and disseminate a threat
assessment regarding the actual and potential threat posed by individuals
using virtual currency to carry out activities
in furtherance
of an act
of terrorism.»
As we noted
in our
assessment of the November 2013 Update and confirmed by the PBO
in a recent article entitled «Revised PBO Outlook and
Assessment of the 2013 Update
of Economic and Fiscal Projections», the Government is
using higher - than - required EI premium rates to achieve its balanced budget target
in 2015 - 16, despite the denial
of this by the Minister
of Finance.
-LSB-...] If the digital currency will become less variable
in future, the
assessment of products
in these values can become easier and one can start to
use them more frequently as a medium
of exchange.
Sadly, the term evangelistic is
used more often
in other ways, but
in that usage it meant bringing truly good news
of God's salvific work
in the world against the background
of realistic
assessment of what our current activities were doing to the Earth.
During the process
of making the behavioral
assessment, the therapist decided tentatively on several therapeutic tools that he could
use in helping her change her painful behavior and feelings.
I prepared an instrument for the assessors to
use, supervised the work
of four or five professional ministers who helped me perform the
assessment, and recommended to the faculty and administration what course or courses each student would be required to take
in speech communication
in order to become «competent» pulpit performers.
This point might lead,
in turn, to frank
assessment of the historical
use of force by Jews, Christians and Muslims
in various periods
of our sad histories, and — dare I hope?
The General Secretary
of the World Council
of Churches,
in his address to the 1998 Harare Assembly
uses the word «conversion»
in relation to the churches themselves and asks: «The ecumenical jubilee is... a call to conversion, to repentance and critical self -
assessment, acknowledging the accumulated guilt and coresponsibility
in dividing the body
of Christ.
For one thing, as
used in that connection, «anti-Semitism» draws its meaning from an
assessment of recent events; that is, the present meaning
of the term is falsely applied to an ancient era.
This paper will attempt an
assessment of Leclerc's radical position,
using as a foil the thought
of the baroque scholastic, Francis Suarez.5 The latter was picked to fulfill such a function both because he represents the most complete summation
of the older Aristotelian theory
of substance Leclerc attempts to appropriate and reinterpret, and because he was the most important scholastic figure for the age that Leclerc sees as both the turning point
in the history
of the philosophy
of nature, and as the golden age
of such a philosophy, namely, the modern age (PN 194 - 95).
According to Whitehead, language reflects what a culture or society considers important, whether or not the living members
of that society have consciously acknowledged or accepted the evaluative
assessment which is embedded
in its language.3 The conceptual patterns we bring to experience and the language
used to express experience select out those aspects
of experience which conform to those concepts and words.
Hansen's
assessment is simple: we need, as a planet, to be emitting less carbon dioxide inside
of ten years — an enormous task given that China and India are finally beginning to
use power
in appreciable quantities (and not for luxuries but for the second light bulb or first refrigerator
in a house).
When considering sustainability
in packaging, key tools are the
use of Life Cycle
Assessments and Life Cycle Thinking.
I suspect that a farm meeting Rainforest Alliance's minimum environmental standards would turn out to be
using more sustainable growing methods than the typical Starbucks preferred supplier — although a lack
of standardization among the standards might make that
assessment difficult (Rainforest Alliance
uses 99 criteria
in 10 principals, with percentage thresholds for certification).
Bringing total participation to 43 percent, another 4,500 vineyard acres
in 2014 underwent the first step, completion
of a comprehensive sustainability self -
assessment of 138 farming and business practices, such as water management, pesticide
use, energy efficiency, carbon emissions, employee safety and community relations.
Released to the public
in June 2017, the latest corrugated industry life cycle
assessment (LCA) confirms continued environmental progress through increased efficiencies
in mill energy systems, increased
use of low - impact fossil fuels, and increased recovery for recycling.
This form is frequently requested for
assessment of non-organic ingredients for
use in organic products.
In another seminar, Ecofys showed how life - cycle
assessment tools are
used by companies like Alpro to measure the carbon footprint
of its products.
The document gives wineries
of all sizes the tools for self -
assessment to make improvements
in environmental performance and to lower overall production costs for water and energy
use.
The California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance (CSWA),
in collaboration with Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and regional wine associations, is hosting a new workshop series to give wineries
of all sizes the tools for self -
assessment to make improvements
in environmental performance and to lower overall production costs for water and energy
use.
is intended for
use in international equivalence
assessments of organic standards and technical regulations and provides
Application
of the COROS It is intended for
use in international equivalence
assessments of organic standards and technical regulations and provides the basis for assessing equivalence
of standards for inclusion
in the IFOAM Family
of Standards.
Established
in 2005, The Gluten - Free Certification Organization (GFCO), an industry program
of the Gluten Intolerance Group (GIG), is dedicated to providing certification services to producers
of gluten - free products
using quality
assessment and control measures throughout production,
in order to provide assurance to consumers
of the safety
of their foods.
Relevance and Potential
Use of Results An indicator
of SOAAN's success
in creating relevant output would be that scientific bodies and operators are able to continue to interface with the new
assessment tool (s).