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 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.
"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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The system is based on an assessment of what each individual may receive in income.
After Hanley-Hazelden had been running for a year, John requested an assessment of its referral system.
"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.
Such demonstration-based assessments underpin both the certification of a refurbished weapon system and the Annual Assessment Review.
"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.
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.
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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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.
So given his influence within Russia and its system, even as President Medvedev was of course the leader of the government, our assessment is that Prime Minister Putin was supportive of the reset as it unfolded over the course of the last several years.
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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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.
"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.
The Obama administration made much the same assessment of the still plunging economy, continued freeze up of the financial system, and need for continuing the unprecedented government intervention in the free market system.
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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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The pervasive complexity level of our tax system creates a barrier for taxpayers, wealthy or not, in their annual self-assessment attempt to arrive at a substantially correct determination of their tax.
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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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.
To make the system work, states have gone to elaborate lengths to "align" the content of textbooks, instructional manuals, and assessment devices.
Still, by any sober assessment hedge funds rank fairly low on the list of institutions that have posed a threat to the system in the past year.
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