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    552 results for "report cards":

    • Ten teaching tips from the Teaching & Learning Transformation Center at the University of Maryland
      ...ss or workshop, we build upon these skills into higher-level outcomes that ask students and participants to "develop" report cards or "create" conceptual diagrams, for example. 5. Assess student learning along the way Assessments give students feed...
    • River Chief
      ...inistry of Water Resources , to improve the monitoring, supervision, and evaluation of the river chief system through report cards, and improve coordination among the provinces in the Chishui River, for future application of the system to the broad...
    • The 8th World Water Forum in Brasilia
      ...f the pavilions hosted short talks that vied for the attention of the delegates who were walking by. I gave a talk on report cards with three other scientists: Joao Paulo Coimbra who talked about the Guanabara Bay report card that he was instrument...
    • Returning to My Ohio Roots: Scoping Out A Lake Erie Report Card
      ...cilitating the board meeting. We covered a lot of topics. I made a short presentation about our experiences producing report cards. I enjoyed learning about the animal manure issues of northern Ohio and a creative solution that a couple of board me...
    • Reflections on teaching a global course on developing environmental report cards
      Reflections on teaching a global course on developing environmental report cards ... We recently completed our course entitled: "Healthy Rivers for All: Setting the course for sustainability with ri...
    • Last but not least... Now that you know, it's time to work!
      ...cess, so good job Bill, Simon, and Heath!!! This figure from the Practitioner´s Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards (page 36) outlines the 5-step process for report card development. There were several key themes and take-home messag...
    • A Long Love Affair with The Chesapeake Bay Part II
      ...na Flats. In 2006, the first UMCES Chesapeake Bay report card was released, providing annual science-based...servation a priority. In 2017, the Chesapeake Bay report card showed significantly improving scores in sev...en of the fifteen reporting reg...
    • When to Go Big with Report Cards
      When to Go Big with Report Cards ... Jodie Mehrtens In the last of the lecture series for the IAN Healthy Rivers for All course we reviewed a number o...
    • Healthy Rivers for All: December 2017 retreat
      ...retreat involved developing a training handbook to accompany the Practitioner’s Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards . It is designed to give our partners the tools to conduct Report Card workshops. We emulated the Science Communicati...
    • Talk Less, Show More: Communicating Challenges and Successes in a Changing World
      ...hat Opinion Works generated in partnership with IAN. The report used focus groups and found that it was important for report cards to present clear and visual grades, link actions to indicators (but only one action, not a shopping list), present a...
    • Now What? Life After the Launch of a Report Card
      ..., Krchnak, K., Sherman, J., Thieme, M. Vargas-Nguyen, V. (2017). Practitioner’s Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards . IAN Press. Cambridge MD USA. 2. Kelsey, H. (2017). Evolving ecosystem health report cards to address issues of scal...
    • Using the Collaborative Learning framework to improve IAN’s report card development process and outcome
      ...ture outcomes that integrates ecological, social, economic, cultural and organizational perspectives. Similarly, report cards are being used to bring together decision-makers, managers, scientists, stakeholders, and citizens to develop a share...
    • Maryland Coastal Bays Report Card 2016
      Maryland Coastal Bays Report Card 2016 ... The 2016 report card for the Maryla...r 16th, 2017, at the Ocean City Marlin Club . The report card release was combined with the annual Gold St...ucted in the summer of 2017, so next year’s report card...
    • Medulla of the Report Card Success: Project Management and Workshop Planning
      Medulla of the Report Card Success: Project Management and Workshop Pla... lectures and blogs we talked about the five-step report card process: Step One - identifying basin values... . How do we accomplish these steps and develop a report card in the...
    • The Integration and Application Network in 2017
      ...7: we moved into a new Annapolis office, developed our first IAN Strategic Plan and initiated our self-reflective IAN report cards. IAN staff taught or co-taught four courses: Science for Environmental Management Coupled Human and Natural Systems T...
    • Twas the Weeks Before Christmas: Saying Goodbye to Nick DiPasquale
      ...nto Bay restoration. Furthermore, Nick leaves the Chesapeake Bay Program during the time when the last several annual report cards are reporting improving ecosystem health in the Chesapeake Bay. Clearly the Chesapeake Bay has benefited from Nick Di...
    • Telling the River Story
      ...d that there is always some 'drama' when launching a first report card for a region. Practitioners who are developing report cards for the first time should be encouraged to take the drama positively because it often creates momentum for the right...
    • Five principles of holistic science communication
      ...al knowledge into their research. We could try this at IAN by incorporating data that is not easily quantifiable into report cards. Sometimes we might be able to tell a better story by resisting the urge to reduce all data into numeric grades, and...
    • Grading basin or ecosystem health to track and address change
      ... and non-linear conversions might be needed, as explained in the Practitioner’s Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards. Linear and non-linear conversions from raw indicator results into a percentage score on a report card2. As a class a...
    • 2016 Maryland Coastal Bays Report Card
      2016 Maryland Coastal Bays Report Card ... The aim of this report card is to provid...stal Bays Health Index, which is presented as the report card score. The overall score for the Coastal Bay...n and data can be found on  the Coastal Bays Report...
    • Defining Report Card Indicator Thresholds to Achieve Healthy Outcomes
      ...ut the report card development process. Moving to the Step Three: What is healthy? The complete process of developing report cards is described in the Practitioner's Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards. During the stakeholder selection pro...
    • Sharing tools for stakeholder engagement and collaboration at the Chesapeake Watershed Forum
      ...ercise that we use at IAN is the "Get the Grade!" report card game . During this game, players are each as...ticular stakeholder who is involved in creating a report card for a fictional ecosystem. They must take tu...
    • Integrate, Apply and Network
      ...parisons, combine disparate data sets and develop robust generalizations. Examples include: creation of environmental report cards that integrate various data sets into common metrics synthesis workshops at locations like the National Center for Ec...
    • Stumbling Into a New Approach
      Stumbling Into a New Approach ... As we’ve pioneered new ways to develop ecosystem health assessments and report cards, we’ve learned a few lessons on what makes them successful and what does not. The most successful projects (tho...
    • What’s the Story in Your Report Card?
      ...fe experiences come together to share their love of watching men in tights save the world. In a not-so-different way, report cards use a mix of pictures and text to tell the story of a catchment (watershed); report cards bring different stakeholder...