Sentences with phrase «views of alternative assessments»

In November, Ofqual launched a consultation to get views of alternative assessments, and after receiving over 2,500 responses, came to this decision.

Not exact matches

He calls on Congress to take 5 % to 10 % of the funds that the United States gives to IPCC (which have averaged about $ 3 million annually over the last decade) and dedicate it to «a group of well - credentialed scientists to produce an assessment that expresses legitimate, alternative hypotheses that have been (in their view) marginalized, misrepresented or ignored in previous IPCC reports (and thus EPA and National Climate Assessments).

For example, an administrator might notice that a new alternative assessment asks students to consider diverse opinions, but that the texts students encounter outside of that one assessment reflect a single point of view or perspective.

In another study in which elementary school parents were asked about their views regarding alternative assessment, most parents admitted having difficulty expressing their opinions because of lack of general knowledge about assessment (Robinson, 1996).

The United Nations needs to revise the way it manages its assessments of climate change, with the scientists involved more open to alternative views, more transparent about possible conflicts of interest and more careful to avoid making policy prescriptions, an independent review panel said Monday.