Sentences with phrase «used traditional assessment»

The experimental group used the Web - based portfolio assessment system whereas the control group used traditional assessment.

Higher - level cognitive and affective skills can not readily be assessed using traditional assessment strategies and more authentic e-assessments are being proposed (Kuh, Jankowski, Ikenberry, & Kinzie 2014; Crisp, Guàrdia & Hillier, 2016).

Integrate alternative assessments gradually, while still using the traditional assessments.

Consider having students play one of the games below, and then, to measure learning outcomes, use traditional assessment strategies like matching claims to evidence.

-- Meshari Alhajri, Moscow, Idaho, US, Attitudes of Special Education Teachers and School Psychologists Toward IEPs Developed Using Traditional Assessments vs IEPs Develop Using an MI Assessment, [email protected]

In many classrooms that use traditional assessment methods, teachers ask students to present their final projects to the class.

Not exact matches

«Using imaging tests to detect disease in carotid or coronary arteries before it causes symptoms can better identify healthy individuals at increased risk than our current, traditional risk assessment methods,» says the study's principal investigator Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, Director of Mount Sinai Heart and Physician - in - Chief of The Mount Sinai Hospital.

«Using only traditional risk factor assessment for cardiovascular disease may imprecisely classify a patient's risk,» says Dr. Fuster.

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.

It was used mostly because traditional assessment becomes much more difficult for that age bracket.

The model of assessment used in this subject combines the creative with the traditional.

The assessment for each competency uses multiple formats, including traditional testing, portfolio assignments, and observations.

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.

Throughout the country, many educators are going beyond traditional tests and using performance assessments in their K - 12 classrooms to gauge what students know and can do.

Assessment information of this kind can be contrasted with more traditional uses of assessment to grade and compare.

Meanwhile, Korea, where only 42 % of students use computers at school (but many more use them outside of school), is a top performer not only in more traditional paper - and - pencil tests of reading or mathematics, but also in assessments of students» digital reading skills or problem solving skills using computers.

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.

Effective March 2, 2014, the Department implemented the Regents action to eliminate traditional standardized assessments for use in K - 2 from the list of state - approved assessments for use in APPR plans for the 2014 - 15 school year and beyond.

Often, teachers use a mix of traditional and authentic assessments to serve different purposes.

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.

When students understand the purpose of assessments and can interpret the results, they become partners in meeting their learning goals and can use more than just traditional assessment to demonstrate their learning.

The book compares traditional summative assessment to formative assessment and uses the analogy of a snapshot versus a quick - read cooking thermometer.

Interim assessments, by contrast, are traditional tests used periodically throughout the school year to measure students» grasp of particular concepts and mastery of particular skills.

In some cases, leaders are using digital portfolio and assessment tools to replace traditional reporting.

While studies show that a number of factors contribute to a student's math anxiety, the use of traditional assessment is a leading cause.

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.

The use of multiple and diverse indicators (i.e., including traditional and non-traditional tests, teacher - developed assessments, and student work samples) is in line with the professional measurement and assessment standards.

Set for large - scale use during the 2014 — 2015 school year, the DLM alternate assessment system will let students with significant cognitive disabilities show what they know in ways that traditional multiple - choice tests can not and is designed to more validly measure what students with significant cognitive disabilities know and can do.

You could use a quiz at the end of your traditional training session, but this would not be an accurate assessment of your learners» skills.

Advance the conversation from what students can't do — the albatross of traditional assessments and their role in bias — to what they can and will do when we personalize the experience for each and for all, using the full throttle of adaptive, blended learning.

Whole group instruction is direct instruction using traditional textbooks or supplemental materials with minimal differentiation in either content or assessment.

Though the labels have often been revised to «assessment,» most state programs still predominantly rely on traditional, multiple - choice tests, and many states use them inappropriately to make high - stakes decisions.

This approach represents a significant improvement over traditional paper - and - pencil assessments used in many states today, providing more accurate scores for all students across the full range of the achievement continuum.

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.

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).

One relates to the ACT's traditional 36 - point scoring scale, the other translates into proficiently rankings, as traditionally used in reporting state assessment results.

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.

We apply two main criteria: (a) the fund describes itself or is widely categorized as an alternative strategy (b) in our assessment, it acts like an alternative fund, meaning we can't replicate the returns using traditional strategies.

The credit limit is based on the lender's assessment of your credit risk using traditional factors — credit score, credit reports, payment records, and other indicators of your ability to pay.

Our Licensed Acupuncturist provides an individualized assessment and evaluation of each person's health, stressors and lifestyle using a Traditional Chinese view, checking pulses and looking for imbalances in the flow of energy in the channels that run throughout the body.

Overall, after weighing the strengths and limitations of the traditional radiative forcing concept, the committee finds that its strengths warrant continued use in scientific investigations, climate change assessments, and policy applications.

For example, while traditional law school classes have historically focused on the end - of - semester final exam, providing little or no formative assessment, legal writing classes regularly use formative assessments.

It can be used not only for traditional document review, but also to identify hot documents in incoming productions, for early case assessment, and for regulatory and compliance investigations.

Recent developments in Indigenous law have made Traditional Land Use (TLU) studies essential tools for environmental assessments and regulatory processes as well as litigation related to Aboriginal title and rights.

In this context, the use of social science evidence was largely directed towards bolstering the assessment of the complainant's testimony, largely by dismissing many traditional lines of attack used to discredit witnesses in these cases.

One aspect of remedying this problem, which is consistent with a human rights based response to climate change, is recognising and utilising traditional environmental knowledge, which has already been identified by natural scientists as an under - used resource for climate impact and adaptation assessment.