It then proceeds to discuss the development of impact assessment practices and the status of conflict mediation in Finnish land use planning.
The characterization is made in such a generic way, i.e. not bound to any specifics of contemporary environmental impact assessment practices, that we here assume it generalizable to all policy making and assessment regarding environmental and environmental health issues.
Because assessment is a topic that often comes up in a charged context (e.g., faculty evaluation or accreditation), the term itself may carry a negative connotation for faculty members, obscuring the potentially positive impact assessment practices can have on teaching practice (Schilling and Schilling, 1998).
This study set out to investigate higher education teachers' perceptions of the prevalence and types of cheating in their courses with a focus on the possible changes that might come about as a result of an increased use of e-assessment, ways of addressing cheating, and how the use of student authentication and authorship checking systems might impact on assessment practice.
Crime and safety are significant issues for individuals, communities and businesses but they have tended to be undervalued elements in the consideration of social impacts in impact assessment theory and practice.
Dave Blaha is a Principal Partner with ERM, a leading international sustainability consulting firm, where he helps lead the firm's Impact Assessment and Planning practice.
For example, in a study investigating the impact of classroom assessment practice on the attitudes, comprehension, and attributions of 304 public school students (spanning grades 4 to 11), Evans and Engelberg (1988) discovered that simple grading concepts were better understood by those aged 11 or older.
The impact of DCM on assessment practice is beginning to emerge as more and more writing departments and programs adopt, adapt, or experiment with DCM approaches.
This paper reflects on the interpretation of sustainable development, and links these reflections with the theory and practice of impact assessment applied on energy issues.
Practitioners and academic researchers increasingly look to evaluation of health impact assessment (HIA) to improve its practice, its efficiency and its legitimacy.
