![]() has been evaluated to ensure consistency of test results across testing conditions.Ī school district or the provider of the assessment must make public an annual report, including:.has been evaluated to ensure test scores can be interpreted as indicators of what the test is intended to measure and.will only be administered in a secure environment under standardized conditions by a school district or institution of higher education.has not been published or made publicly available.covers all assessable TEKS for the course.The Texas Administrative Code (TAC), §74.24(c)(2), requires that each school district or provider of an assessment, including Texas Tech University and The University of Texas at Austin, must certify that each CBE CBEs may also be developed by Texas Tech University, The University of Texas at Austin, the local school district, or another provider if the exams meet certain criteria. For each high school course, a local board is required to approve at least four CBEs, to the extent available, including College Board Advanced Placement (AP) and College-Level Examination Program (CLEP) exams. With the approval of the local board of trustees, a school district may develop its own CBEs or purchase CBEs. TEA does not have access to student results for CBE. Scores will be reported directly to the school district and/or student. CBEs are administered by the district or test provider in accordance with local district policy. The Texas Education Code (TEC), §28.023, allows students to either accelerate a grade level or earn credit for a course on the basis credit by examination.Ĭredit-by-examination assessments (CBEs) must be approved by each local board of trustees for their district. Now go wash those hands thoroughly with soap and be careful out there.Credit by exam (CBE) is one method for students to demonstrate proficiency in grade level or course content. There are numerous examples that I could have given, but my underlying goal was to use coronavirus as a teachable moment about the discipline of geography. The longer answer was a discussion of emerging literature suggesting that influenza, coronaviruses, and related diseases might thrive in new places and for longer periods of time as climate continues to warm. The short answer from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was “we don’t know,” especially since the disease has thrived in warm, humid locations so far. In a previous Forbes article, I discussed potential climatological implications of the disease and whether warm season transition in the Northern Hemisphere would halt the spread of coronavirus. ![]() Of course, physical geography also plays a role in Coronavirus. One conclusion was that SARSr-CoVs have a distinct geographical structure in terms of evolution and transmission. For example, a 2019 study in the journal Infections, Genetics, and Evolution examined the geographic structure of bat SARS-related coronaviruses. There is also a significant body of scholarly research at the intersection of geography and infectious disease disciplines. ![]() Steve Hinchliffe, Professor or Human Geography at the University of Exeter. The term (pathological lives) allows us to investigate how these lives have become dangerous to themselves in a world of accelerated throughput and biological intensity. He wrote in a 2016 blog post, “I call entanglement of microbes, hosts, environments and economies ‘pathological lives.’” He and colleagues published a book entitled Pathological Lives: Disease, Space, and Biopolitics. Steve Hinchliffe is Professor or Human Geography at the University of Exeter and an expert on biosecurity, food risk, human-nonhuman relations and nature conservation. While that study was more focused on Ebola, it has timely connections to the coronavirus problem. A 2011 study entitled, “The scalar politics of infectious disease governance in an era of liberalised air travel” was published in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. A Royal Geographic Society website pointed me to some interesting research that encompasses human geography aspects of the discipline and Coronavirus. ![]()
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