To do this right, we would need good outcome measures that captured true individual student learning growth along a variety of dimensions, which would have to look quite different from our current assessment system.
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At the core of the predominant current Western assessment lies the assumption that Gorbachev is, at a fundamental level, a Western rationalist in a modern mold.
Narrative Number Two is a less visionary but perhaps soberer assessment of current markets and near-future trends.
Assessment of current visitation patterns and statistics and recommendations for interpretation and presentation of the site to the public.
"We do believe that the monetary policy stance we have adopted today is appropriate for the current circumstances including our assessment of inflationary developments for the medium term future, " he said.
"This month's retreat was driven primarily by a sharp decline in expectations, although consumers were also more pessimistic in their assessment of current conditions, " said Lynn Franco, director of the Conference Board's economic indicators.
"Before the events of the last week, the emerging military advice, based on our assessment of current conditions, was that further reductions might not be possible at the rate envisaged in the October announcement -- although it remains our clear direction of travel, " Browne said.
The conservative Mexican president, who eked out a narrow victory in July, was polite but critical in his assessment of current U.S. immigration policy, which has resulted in millions of Mexicans paying thousands of dollars each to make the risky trip through deserts and mountains to find jobs in America.
The Cable speech was notable nevertheless, for its grim assessment of our current economy predicament.
Becca, now semi-retired, offers a withering assessment of the current state of Caribbean cricket.
Once an assessment of the current situation had been made in all these districts, they were divided into three categories.
Could you give us your assessment of the current situation in Japan with the reactors, what you think is going to happen in the coming days?
In considering the conservation of biodiversity, the Meeting recommended that a key step of GDI certification must be a baseline assessment of the current biodiversity status of the area to be managed.
In an April speech in Berlin, Dr. Andreas Dombret, a member of the executive board of the Deutsche Bundesbank (the German central bank), offered a startlingly frank assessment of the current problems in Europe.
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The two texts comprise both an assessment of the current situation and a call to action, in the face of violence that appears to be rising dramatically, following a more general pattern of increased attacks on civilians and aid workers in recent years.
Together the two reports offer both an assessment of the current situation and a call to action in the face of violence that appears to be rising dramatically, following a more general pattern of increased attacks on civilians and aid workers in recent years.
Those affected will need to fill out self-assessment tax forms for the current financial year - starting in April - to show they still qualify for the payments.
Under the current arrangements the speaking and listening controlled assessment makes up 20% of the overall grade, with 40% on the reading and writing controlled assessment and 40% on the written exams.
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The Communication Workers Union, which has campaigned to raise awareness of dog attacks on postal workers and telecom engineers, welcomed the report as a "strong and clear in its assessment of the failure of current laws".
Check out the Market Blaster video above for some damage assessment and stock selection for the current market.
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It may push America into realising that the system has become an absurdity, the result of inertia, drift and bureaucratic empire-building rather than a cool assessment of the government's current needs.
Further, we should create an Office of Innovation Assessment, with the job of staying current about innovation developments beyond science and technology, and outside our borders, and equipping Americans with the knowledge they need to stay competitive.
Using assessment baselines for Jewish net immigration well below current averages, Faitelson showed that in the years to come, not only will Jews not lose our demographic majority.
We estimate that the assessment fee will drop to 0.078% from its current value of 0.093% once the cap on swipe fee is implemented.
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But to recoup the cost of developing the test, the National Assessment Agency had said that it would continue "in its current form" until 2013.
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"Public Health Wales has undertaken a needs assessment to inform the development of services and to identify any gaps in the current skill mix of staff, " added the spokesman.
They should be free of the "bureaucratic box ticking assessment" and "micro-level" prescription that he says is a feature of current vocational qualifications.
Tory education spokeswoman Liz Smith said the current system was failing too many pupils at lower levels and welcomed the "fine tuning" of assessment in fourth year.
He endorsed Petraeus' assessment that the number of U.S. brigades in Iraq could be reduced from the current 20 down to 15 by next July.
The current Japanese government has downgraded its view of the economy for a fourth month, as it cut its assessment of consumption, investment, corporate profits and the job market.
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