Assessment is a key practice in effective succession planning.

JDC ’ s social work innovations continued into the 1960s with the founding of Israel ’ s first Child Development and Assessment Center, which put into practice the then-emerging idea that early detection and treatment optimize outcomes for children with disabilities.

Authentic Assessment: Authentic Assessment is the practice of evaluating a student on their final product and the skills developed through its completion instead of evaluation of individual skills.

A new Leaving Certificate exam subject with the working title ' Politics & Society ' is being developed by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment ( NCCA ) and is expected to be introduced to the curriculum sometime after 2012.

Gurgenidze implemented only two changes in the Cabinet of Georgia so far, replacing Alexandre Lomaia, the former Minister for Education and Science and new Secretary of National Security Council with Maia Miminoshvili, former Head of the National Assessment and Examination Centre ( NAEC ).

In the United States, the release of the National Assessment of Adult Literacy ( NAAL ) report in 2005 revealed that approximately 14 % of adults function at the lowest level of literacy ; 29 % of adults function at the basic functional literacy level and cannot help their children with homework beyond the first few grades.

Assessment of the lower extremities begins with a visual inspection of the legs.

This EPA estimate is based on methodologies agreed to by the Conference of Parties of the UNFCCC, with 100-year global warming potentials from the IPCC Second Assessment Report used in estimating GHG emissions as carbon dioxide equivalents.

After the SEC and PCAOB issued their guidance, the SEC required smaller public companies ( non-accelerated filers ) with fiscal years ending after December 15, 2007 to document a Management Assessment of their Internal Controls over Financial Reporting ( ICFR ).

The University of Hawaii has come up with a Coral Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program to help relocate and restore coral reefs in Hawaii.

* Comprehensive Health Assessment Program, a tool used for keeping medical histories of people with intellectual disabilities

The name of the committee in charge of the meeting was the Local Assessment Committee ( LAC ), which was formed in accordance with a law passed by California in the 1980s known as the Tanner Act.

Disease forecasting models may help to optimize FHB management by targeting fungicide and biocontrol applications. The online Fusarium Head Blight Risk Assessment Tool ( http :// www. wheatscab. psu. edu / riskTool_2010. html ) may be used to gauge the relative risk of FHB in wheat fields in the U. S. A public outreach program called Scab Smart provides U. S. wheat and barley growers with the latest information on integrated management tools that can be applied in their section of the country.

In addition to several stakeholders ' benefits, a number of studies have identified significant financial benefits for organizations certified to ISO 9001, with a 2011 survey from the British Assessment Bureau showing 44 % of their certified clients had won new business .< ref >

The European Parliament Scientific and Technological Options Assessment ( STOA ) published in 1998 " An Appraisal of Technologies of Political Control " with extensive information on pepper spray and tear gas.

* Fertility: Assessment and Treatment for People with Fertility Problems, 2004 ( extensive guidelines )

Under his chairmanship ( from 1988 to 1997 ), the IPCC produced its First Assessment Report ( 1990 ) and Second Assessment Report ( 1995 ), contributing to the IPCC sharing the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former US Vice President Al Gore.

Other approaches include standards-based assessments such as Washington Assessment of Student Learning, which emphasize devising experiments at early grades at a level traditionally not covered until college ( traditionally, students conducted rather than designed experiments ), based on mock data with very little testing of factual knowledge.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) stated in its Fourth Assessment Report ( AR4 ) that the temperature rise over the 100 year period from 1906 – 2005 was 0. 74 ° C to 0. 92 ° C with a confidence interval of 90 %.

Assessment of relationship to submucosal glands and transitional-type epithelium with examination of multiple levels through the tissue may allow the pathologist to reliably distinguish between goblet cells of submucosal gland ducts and true Barrett esophagus ( specialized columnar metaplasia ).

The results of the Research Assessment Exercise ( RAE ), published on 8 December 2008, showed that over 50 % of the University ’ s research activity was deemed to be " world leading " or " internationally excellent ", with 87 % in total being of " international standing ".

Each centre has a separate research focus with the QUT centre focusing on research related to Carers and Consumers, ANU pursuing research related to Early Diagnosis and Prevention and the UNSW centre primarily involved in research for Assessment and Better Care.

Birmingham was ranked 12th in the UK in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise with 16 percent of the university's research regarded as ' world-leading ' and a further 41 percent as ' internationally excellent ', with particular strengths in the fields of music, physics, biosciences, computer science, mechanical engineering, political science, international relations and law.

Assessment findings with cardiac tamponade include tachycardia, distant or muffled heart sounds, jugular vein distention and a falling BP, accompanied by paradoxical pulse ( a drop in inspiratory BP by greater than 10 mmHg ).

In the US, upon commercial real estate property transactions both groundwater and soil are the subjects of scrutiny, with a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment normally being prepared to investigate and disclose potential pollution issues.

All but one of the subjects assessed for teaching quality were rated at least " highly satisfactory " and was ranked in the top ten in the UK for Teaching Assessment by The Times Higher Education Supplement.

Development began in the mid-1980s when the NRC began exploring two notions: 1 ) that Probabilistic Risk Assessment ( PRA ) information could be displayed and manipulated using the emerging microcomputer technology of the day and 2 ) the rapid advancement of PRA technology required a relatively inexpensive and readily available platform for teaching PRA concepts to students.

Assessment for learning is generally formative in nature and is used by teachers to consider approaches to teaching and next steps for individual learners and the class.

The Courtauld is one of the premier centres for the teaching of art history in the world ; it was the only History of Art department in the UK to be awarded a top 5 * grade in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise, and was ranked second nationally for History of Art in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise and ranked first nationally for History and History of Art in The Guardian ’ s 2011 University Guide .< ref >

Assessment for fund eligibility is undertaken by a teaching quality assessment exercise, and over 164 projects have been given an award since 1995.

He has served on the advisory board of the National Science Resources Center a joint project of the National Academy of Sciences and the Smithsonian Institution working with teachers, scientists, and school systems to improve teaching of science as well as on the National Academy of Sciences ' National Committee on Science Education Standards and Assessment.

Also, as a 1978 Risk Assessment Review Group Report to the NRC pointed out, it is " conceptually impossible to be complete in a mathematical sense in the construction of event-trees and fault-trees … This inherent limitation means that any calculation using this methodology is always subject to revision and to doubt as to its completeness.

In the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, the following scale is used to quantify uncertainty: " virtually certain " > 99 %; " extremely likely " > 95 %; " very likely " > 90 %; " likely " > 66 %; " more likely than not " > 50 %; " about as likely as not " 33 to 66 %; " unlikely " < 33 %; " very unlikely " < 10 %; " extremely unlikely " < 5 %; " exceptionally unlikely " < 1 %.

Assessment is usually done on an outpatient basis ; admission to an inpatient facility is considered if there is a risk to oneself or others.

He is an adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Centre and a former director of the Environmental Assessment Institute in Copenhagen.

Assessment of posture and body habitus is the next step.

A quick guide to assess personal injury claims is by reference to the Judicial Studies Board Guidelines for the Assessment of General Damages in Personal Injury Cases.

* SAMPA: The Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet ( SAMPA ) is a computer-readable phonetic script originally developed in the late 1980s.

According to the latest Assessment Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, " most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations ".

An exact definition of how GWP is calculated is to be found in the IPCC's 2001 Third Assessment Report.

The Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet ( SAMPA ) is a computer-readable phonetic script using 7-bit printable ASCII characters, based on the International Phonetic Alphabet ( IPA ).

A Health Technology Assessment found that sclerotherapy provided less benefit than surgery, but is likely to provide a small benefit in varicose veins without reflux.

The UN World Water Development Report ( WWDR, 2003 ) from the World Water Assessment Program indicates that, in the next 20 years, the quantity of water available to everyone is predicted to decrease by 30 %.

The SAT, or the Reasoning Test ( formerly Scholastic Aptitude Test and Scholastic Assessment Test ) is a college admissions test in the United States.

The resulting report Teaching Children to Read: An Evidence-based Assessment of the Scientific Research Literature on Reading and its Implications for Reading Instruction was published in 2000 and provides a comprehensive review of what is known about best practices in reading instruction in the U. S. The panel reported that several reading skills are critical to becoming good readers: phonemic awareness, phonics for word identification, fluency, vocabulary and text comprehension.

* The IPCC Fifth Assessment Report is scheduled to appear.

Assessment in Occupational Therapy is complex and multifaceted, and is an essential component of the Occupational Therapy Process.

The first was the Homeostatic Model Assessment ( HOMA ), and a more recent method is the Quantitative insulin sensitivity check index ( QUICKI ).

He is currently Director of the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development and co-chair of the International Scientific Assessment of Stratospheric Ozone.