new strategic framework to structure Cumulative Impact Assessment (CIA)

Cumulative assessment: strategic choices to influence students’ study effort

BACKGROUND It has been asserted that assessment can and should be used to drive students' learning. In the current study, we present a cumulative assessment program in which test planning, repeated testing and compensation are combined in order to influence study effort. The program is aimed at helping initially low-scoring students improve their performance during a module, without impairing i...

Impact Assessment System for Strategic Sector Regulation

Good performances of food companies depend more and more on the organizational ability of the whole sector to promote common strategies. At the EU level national food sectors are oriented on the same strategic direction by common legislative acts. A new ex-ante regulations’ impacts assessment methodology is proposed as part of a decision support system for the policy maker in charge of the sect...

A framework for cumulative risk assessment in the 21st century.

The ILSI Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI) has developed a framework to support a transition in the way in which information for chemical risk assessment is obtained and used (RISK21). The approach is based on detailed problem formulation, where exposure drives the data acquisition process in order to enable informed decision-making on human health safety as soon as sufficient ...

Impact Assessment Framework: SME Finance

Cumulative impact.

The terms "cumulative" and "cumulative effects" are becoming more widely used in environmental impact assessment. The popularity of the concept is understandable as our culture comes to recognize that solitary insults to the environment considered in isolation cannot capture the full effect of the problems now before us. But what exactly do we mean by the term "cumulative"? "Cumulative" means g...