This development can be largely traced to a well-designed and carefully implemented renewables portfolio standard (RPS).
Several states have implemented renewable portfolio standards that have driven the adoption of alternative energy sources.
While Driessen's review provides much useful information for medical schools who are attempting to implement a portfolio [ 7], other questions about portfolio implementation and use remain unanswered.
The common problems in implementing student portfolio assessment were (a) a lack of knowledge and deep understanding of teachers in implementing student portfolio assessment, (b) a poor attention and cooperation of students in creating the portfolios, and (c) a lack of materials and budgets to support teachers in implementing student portfolio assessment.
Questionnaires were used to collect quantitative data from two hundred and forty-two elementary school teachers on the state and problems in implementing student portfolio assessment.
The purposes of this study were to examine the state and problems in implementing student portfolio assessment, as well as to propose guidelines for solving the problems.
A focus group interview was conducted to collect qualitative data from three experts on the guidelines for solving problems in implementing student portfolio assessment in elementary schools.
This paper examines state experience with implementing renewable portfolio standards that include energy efficiency, thermal resources, and non-renewable energy and explores compliance experience, costs, and how states evaluate, measure, and verify energy efficiency and convert thermal energy.
This new role is supposed to be pivotal in planning and controlling complex project landscapes more effectively and more efficiently, in implementing project portfolio management practices as a management innovation, and in coping with traditional conflicts between line and project managers in matrix organizations.
Other "soft law" instruments, such as explicitly nonbinding agreements, political declarations, and U.N. declarations, are fallback options which merit consideration for implementing a portfolio approach.
