Proposing a motion calling for a "fairer and more purposeful system of assessment", Yorkshire head teacher Jane Gilmour said schools should be able to choose whether to do it, rather than have it imposed.
The Cisco program provides schools with a cost-free, Web-based curriculum, an assessment system and training for teachers.
In California, emergency management officials activated their statewide threat assessment system, which was established after the Sept. 11 attacks.
In that case, the unseemly arrangements also were induced by the uncertainty associated with the retrospective duty assessment system.
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John O'Dowd was responding to concerns raised by schools in relation to technical issues with the new computer based assessment system.
We must regularly check our risk assessment system in some way.
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"The Conservatives say they'll abolish this system of area assessment if they win the next election and target inspections on areas that need them, " he said.
The committee was being briefed by Social Development Department (DSD) officials on the latest report into the capability assessment system carried out by Prof Malcolm Harrington.
But he said there was "an urgent need to devise an assessment system that reflects students' achievements and provides a meaningful picture of their abilities to employers".
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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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"It's now time to draw a line under 2008 and get on with the important job of making sure our assessment system is the best it can possibly be, so that both pupils and parents can continue to get the information that we know they value, " he said.
And I think the best way to do that is to combine high standards, measurable outcomes, but have an assessment system that you work with teachers on so that it's not just a matter of who's filling out a bubble, and you're also taking into account where do kids start, because not every kid is going to start at the same place.
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So I just -- I just had a meeting with my team this week about this, trying to find ways that we can improve the assessment system so we're still holding schools accountable, we're still holding teachers accountable, but we're not just holding them accountable for a score on a standardized test, but we have a richer way of assessing whether these schools are making progress.
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Such demonstration-based assessments underpin both the certification of a refurbished weapon system and the Annual Assessment Review.
He made his comments on 11 March 2010 in a debate on a select committee report on the formula which recommends it is replaced with a new system based on an assessment of "explicit needs".
The system is based on an assessment of what each individual may receive in income.
The new system - called the Common Assessment Framework (Caf) - requires schools to fill out a form assessing the child's situation to refer them to social services or other agencies.
After Hanley-Hazelden had been running for a year, John requested an assessment of its referral system.
But in between came the defeat by the unions of Christian Sautter, Mr Strauss-Kahn's successor, in his attempt to reform a tax system which has different institutions for assessment and collection and is therefore both inefficient and costly.
Of course, if there were instead systems of assessments in a competency-based learning system built for students to take an assessment on-demand when they were ready to demonstrate mastery on specific competencies, we would see a different picture develop with assessments that left no doubt that they were different.
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The ECB had already warned about the risk that economic weakness would hurt banks financially in its most recent assessment of the health of the financial system in December.
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"But in order to deliver that type of system we need a tough-minded and rigorous assessment of how our skills policies need to change, and in reality that is not, I'm afraid, what we've had today, " he said.
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With respect to Iran, when we took office we took a hard look at our missile defense planning and we redesigned a missile defense system that we felt was focused on a careful threat assessment.
"We're opening up a new paradigm for which there is no established system of collecting data, " de Soto says of the assessment stage of his efforts.
"If the union's basic administrative system does not violate the Constitution, then how could its special assessment have done so, " asked Breyer, who delivered his dissent from the bench, a rarely exercised privilege.
President Obama's open mic comment, telling Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he would have "more flexibility" to discuss missile defense after the November election, wasn't as much an appalling gaffe as it was an accurate assessment of the inherent flaw of a two-term system for presidents.
She also said plans for a so-called traffic light system to allocate of overtime in parts of the Highlands, which combined risk assessment with cost control, was "unacceptable" and would be scrapped.
Mr Clinton added three more criteria: an assessment of the threat America faces, the cost of the proposed system, and its implications for national security, meaning the impact it would have on relations with Russia and with America's allies.
"The problem is not that we need more assessment, but we need to figure out how to develop a comprehensive system of support and a system that can really help kids, " he says.
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