Sentences with phrase «validated assessments»

Courts are increasingly looking to Experts to provide what they regard as scientific, validated assessments (usually through the use of standardised psychometric tests) to identify psychological factors that may underpin the child or young person's special educational needs: «needs» which are often evidenced by underachievement, disaffection or social exclusion amongst these groups of vulnerable young people.

These tests were developed to provide thorough, fair and carefully validated assessments for states to use as part of the licensure process for principals, superintendents and school leaders.

Once the state has decided on its policy position, however, a judicial presence should be maintained to ensure that the chosen policy is fully funded, is implemented in a coherent manner, and results in substantially improved student performance, as measured by validated assessments of academic achievement and of students» ability to function as capable citizens and workers.

Public health officials need validated assessments of how likely these viruses will be locally transmitted.

These are all validated assessments that can give you less biased and more accurate views of a candidate's ability to learn and adapt.

Dr. Kurtz also developed the Selective Mutism Behavioral Observation Task (SM - BOT), a validated assessment specifically designed for children with SM where we get to observe their speaking with their parents without the undue pressure of them being expected to talk to us!

Validating an assessment for tracking students» growth in understanding of energy from elementary school to high school.

The Maslach Burnout Inventory is a tool that may be used for a more validated assessment.

One research - based and validated assessment is Aperture Education's Devereux Student Strengths Assessment (DESSA).

The sixth challenge is validating the assessments for new uses for school and teacher accountability.

I hadn't anticipated that implementing research - validated assessment and grading practices would shift the attitudes of struggling students.

Simple, online, practice - friendly numerical rating scales are available and are slowly helping to improve recognition of feline pain.13 One such scale has been developed (but not yet validated) by Colorado State University.13 A currently validated assessment tool is the UNESP - Botucatu multidimensional composite pain scale, available here.14, 15 The Glasgow Feline Composite Measure Pain Scale: CMPS — Feline (CMPS - F) has been described as «a valid scale for the measurement of acute pain in cats [that] heralds a new era in the recognition and management of acute pain in cats.»

Results highlight the need for validated assessment methods to facilitate judicious holding and disposition decisions for unowned cats at time of intake.

These highly accurate, validated assessment tools are regularly used by recruiters and hiring managers to provide an objective, unbiased perspective of candidates.

Instead, it's a clinically validated assessment that helps you understand how factors in your family life, personality and values, social interactions and relationships will affect your later marital quality.

The use of a standardized and validated assessment instrument for the outcome measure minimized some measurement biases.

In all three categories, the process begins with a detailed assessment, including the use of scientifically - validated assessment instruments.

Validating an assessment of peer relationship problems.

Among the strong theme of these directives is for policy - makers to «include SEL in the policy agenda, starting with measurement and assessments;» researchers to develop and validate assessment and measurement methods for SEL; and investors to fund SEL solutions.

The burden, the coping strategies and the social network of a sample of 236 relatives of patients with schizophrenia, living in five European countries, were explored by well - validated assessment instruments.

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A statement attributed to Peggy Carr, the acting commissioner of the department's National Center for Education Statistics, said: «We consider it to be an important innovation, but we want to allow it time to develop and crystalize into an operationalized assessment with a solid empirical foundation to validate its technical stability.»

The clinically - validated questionnaire, called PHQ - 9, is a private self - assessment that will provide a score indicating the severity of the user's depression.

Still, the case against teleological ethics may here offer this response: Granting the difference between direct and indirect applications, this yields only the familiar distinction between «act - teleology» and «rule - teleology, «3 is problematic for the following reason: Social practices or patterns of social cooperation can not be validated teleologically without a comparative assessment of the good and evil consequences differing possible systems of rules or norms (for instance, differing sets of rights) are likely, if adopted, to produce.

Los Baños, Laguna — Farmer - scientist group MASIPAG's call to revoke the application to field and feed test Golden Rice is validated after Testbiotech made an analysis on risk assessment made by Food Standards Australia and New Zealand (FSANZ) on Golden Rice.

That assessment was validated by Cooley, who stated there's «pretty good sharp money on the under.

It addresses a gap that has existed in the medical device community for years — a lack of normed and validated computerized neurocognitive assessment tools for efficiently and effectively measuring neurocognitive function in this age group.

The results of that assessment validated state and county expenditures on storm response and recovery.

Suspicious co-op and condo owners in northeast Queens had their calls of foul play validated last week when two city comptroller audits said the city Department of Finance unfairly and unjustifiably raised their property assessments.

The discovery of a treatment capable of blocking the mechanism responsible for the formation of metastasis and the existence of a family of promising compounds, is encouragement for their future assessment in a clinical study that aims to validate a preventive treatment against tumor metastasis.

Researchers have validated a new risk assessment tool that can be used by the Department of Homeland Security to help evaluate decisions and priorities in natural disasters, terrorist events, and major accidents.

Clinical assessments exist to evaluate the capabilities of a person with dementia, but until now, occupational therapists did not have a validated instrument to gain understanding of the caregiver's perceptions of the person with dementia's abilities.

The scientists will use these sources to validate their results by checking whether the emotions measured correlate with the subjective assessments in the social media.

Once validated, the tasks were given to one patient (Patient 23 in Table 1 and Figure 1), who had received a diagnosis of being in a permanent vegetative state 17 months after a traffic accident; this diagnosis was confirmed by a month - long specialized assessment 3.5 years after the injury.

The objective of this study is to validate the diagnostic performance and practical feasibility of massively parallel genomic sequencing for the non-invasive prenatal assessment of trisomy 21 in a large number of pregnancies that have undergone conventional screening and were clinically indicated for definitive testing by amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling.

This project will develop and validate an interdisciplinary instrument — a Quantitative Biology Concept Inventory (QBCI)-- which will allow assessment of mathematics and quantitative concept learning goals in the context of concrete, real - world life science data examples and models.

BOSTON — Researchers from Hebrew SeniorLife's Institute for Aging Research have developed and validated a new assessment to predict the risk of falls in long - term care patients.

We help our clients better understand the function of genes, basic mechanisms of biology, pathophysiology of diseases, to identify and validate new drug targets and to perform risk assessment in drug development.

Well, we can work to develop and validate alternate models for safety assessment to help reduce the overall cost of drug development.»

Autism spectrum disorder status was determined by diagnoses recorded in medical records and not validated by a standardized clinical assessment for all cases.

Ed and his team use their courses at the University of Arizona (UA) as laboratories where they test and validate the effectiveness of these teaching and assessment materials, which they tirelessly disseminate through the Center for Astronomy Education Teaching Excellence workshops held around the country each year.

Once validated, the model might be applied «in comparison or in combination with» other biologically based prognostic tools, or with minimal residual disease assessment after treatment, they proposed.

Despite this, there are no diagnostic tests that are validated for the assessment of psychiatric pathology.

The strengths of this study include its population - based sample, high participation rate, and use of a GI - and carbohydrate - validated FFQ to collect dietary information, and detailed questionnaires that permitted careful assessment of potential confounding variables.

Additional research that validates these measures of teacher effectiveness on non-tested outcomes would have important implications not only for teacher recruitment, assessment, and placement, but also for improving overall life trajectories of students.

«The teacher should provide assessment of students» service - learning activities to validate the level of academic achievement.

There are also end - of - module assessments to help learners validate their learning through challenging questions (simulating real, work - life challenges).

The benefits of external assessments are clear for the students enrolling in Advanced Placement and other elite programs that are trusted by colleges in large part because they are externally validated.

Mr. Carvalho has joined other superintendents and school board members in the state in calling for a delay in the use of new tests, including the not yet validated Florida Standards Assessment — a Common Core variant, with tougher standards than the last assessment used — to grade the state's schools, teachers and students.

States may want to use assessments to validate a particular policy approach in a network of schools, identify students at - risk for dropping out of high school to intervene before it's too late, or determine which schools need additional supports, resources, and technical assistance.

Moreover none of the four secondary schools appearing in the book uses a national assessment to validate the excellence of their students.