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NM2002 impact assessment : impact assessment report
… DBNM commissioned the EEU to undertake an assessment of the impacts resulting from mine closure, to ascertain the effects on their employers and their affected households and communities. Through discussions with DBNM the scope for this assessment was established: * Briefly to describe the …
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LHDA 1000 impact assessment : impact assessment report
… purpose of this report is to present an impact assessment of two possible access routes to the Mohale Dam in Lesotho, namely the Western Access Road and the Least Cost Alternative Route. It is an academic work to demonstrate an adequate grasp of principles, methods and techniques appropriate to …
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Student-Engaged Assessment-A Meta-Analysis of EL Assessment Practices
… meta-analysis examined EL’s Core Practices for Assessment, which guide EL schools in developing and maintaining a balanced assessment program focused on student-engaged assessment, assessment for learning strategies, and effective use of both formative and summative assessment data. The current …
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Rethinking Ethics Assessment in Health Technology Assessment: A Nonlinear Approach
… meaningfully integrated into health technology assessment (HTA). The contribution of this dissertation is two-fold. The first is to provide an honest and critical evaluation of current HTA practices, including those that involve ethics assessments and that do not. This evaluation will identify …
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Product performance assessment
This thesis describes a formal methodology for defining and assessing product performance and its implementation in a prototype computer system. The methodology is based on abstract descriptions of the operations that are conducted within the design process. It is, consequently, extremely generic …
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Assassination: An Assessment
<p>This thesis is an assessment of the possible use of assassination by the United States against those who threaten U.S. interests through acts of terrorism and warfare. With the terrorist bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania on 7 August 1998, the United States government and its …
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Learning environment assessment
… environments. The vehicle of this study is the assessment project of the new teaching laboratory of the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Learning environments are settings that support teaching and learning activities. The objective of developing and managing learning environments …
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Congruity between Assessment Criteria and Cooperating Teacher Assessment of Student Teachers
… the congruity between cooperating teachers' assessment of student teachers and established set of criteria for assessment during student teaching. The study also examined the substance of the comments of cooperating teachers about student teachers' performances. The final evaluation forms …
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Impact of Psychometric Decisions on Assessment Outcomes in an Alternate Assessment
… requirement to develop and implement alternate assessments for students with disabilities unable to participate in the statewide large-scale assessment. States were given the challenge of creating, implementing, and executing these tests within a short period of three years. In most cases, …
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Predicting Performance on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment Using the Developmental Reading Assessment and the 4Sight Predictive Benchmark Assessment
… relationship between the Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA), the 4Sight Reading Benchmark Assessment (4Sight), and the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) reading assessment for fifth grade students in one urban school district in Pennsylvania. A goal was to determine how well …
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An assessment for religious contexts: An ecological assessment tool for church environments
The Assessment of Religious Contexts (ARC) is a research instrument that seeks to measure the environment of a local church. The development of the ARC and initial studies of its reliability and validity comprise the present thesis. At the outset, the relevance and importance of the study are …
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OFF RISKING: OFFENDER RISK ASSESSMENT AND THE CORRECTIONAL ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION SYSTEM
… of Corrections (DOC) licensed the Correctional Assessment and Intervention System (CAIS) to address the high rate of recidivism among Co-occurring and Native American offenders. Montana DOC reported a significantly lower rate of revocation among the offenders assessed by the CAIS. Quantitative …
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OFF RISKING: OFFENDER RISK ASSESSMENT AND THE CORRECTIONAL ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION SYSTEM
… of Corrections (DOC) licensed the Correctional Assessment and Intervention System (CAIS) to address the high rate of recidivism among Co-occurring and Native American offenders. Montana DOC reported a significantly lower rate of revocation among the offenders assessed by the CAIS. Quantitative …
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Stepfamily assessment and intervention
This thesis presents a summary of the structural characteristics, contextual influences, cognitive processes, behavioural practices; and developmental factors shown by previous research to be associated with adjustment within stepfamily relationship systems. This thesis also presents research that …
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Software architectural risk assessment
Risk assessment is an essential part of the software development life cycle. Performing risk analysis early in the life cycle enhances resource allocation decisions, enables us to compare alternative software architectural designs and helps in identifying high-risk components in the system. As a …
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Assessment of bivariate normality
… methods is very efficient or conclusive in their assessment of bivariate normality. In this thesis we are proposing a new method to test bivariate normality. This new method makes use of a set of if and only if conditions inherent in the theory of bivariate normal distribution. The proposed new …
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Wave energy resource assessment
The use of satellite altimeter data for spatial mapping of the wave resource is examined.<br/>A new algorithm for estimating wave period from altimeter data is developed and<br/>validated, which enables estimates of wave energy converter (WEC) power to be<br/>derived. Maps of the long-term mean WEC …
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Cyber-security Risk Assessment
… strategy, and preferences. Current security risk assessment is driven by cyber-security expert's theories about this attacker behavior. The goal of this dissertation is to automatically generate the cyber-security risk scenarios by: * Capturing diverse and dispersed cyber-security knowledge * …
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