Developing Parent and Community Understanding of Performance-Based Assessment

This book takes the reader step-by-step through the process of helping parents understand the role of performance-based assessment in student learning. Included are:- suggestions about what to emphasize during one-to-one meetings with parents.- speeches and presentations you can deliver at PTSA meetings and school board sessions.- transparency masters and handouts to enhance your presentations.

The book presents improved equations for monthly water resources models, in particular for interception and transpiration. Most of the existing monthly models do not make a distinction between interception and transipiration, while this distinction is very important for management purposes. Interception is direct feedback to the atmosphere, important to sustain rainfall. Transpiration is a good indicator for plant growth and biomass production. This distinction also contributes to the estimation of recharge and therewith of runoff.;The derivations are based on the Markov theory for the occurrence of rain-days. The methodology can be used on the basis of an analysis of a few time series of daily data, at a spatial scale of 300km and not necessarily of the same period as the monthly data. Zimbabwe served as the case study, but derived equations can be used worldwide as long as the relationship between the monthly rainfall and the mean number of rain-days can be established.