Sentences with phrase «department of education researchers»

Department of Education researchers have been publishing studies for several years that use data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)-- often called «The Nation's Report Card» — to compare state standards and to analyze the impact of NCLB on student achievement.

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@BADGUY In response to your request for where my cited statistics come from, I refer to a 2004 study commissioned by the US department of Education and conducted at Hofstra University, Lead researcher was Dr Charol Shakeshaft.

Using data from the Department of Education, Institute researchers discovered that the proportion of adopted kindergartners being parented by mothers of a different race or ethnicity increased by 50 % from 1999 to 2011.

The British Humanist Association has commented on a YouGov poll commissioned by Oxford University's Department of Education to accompany its announcement of a new national intervention project by Oxford researchers to «support teachers tackling the subject of Christianity in schools».

New research, the result of a long - standing collaboration among researchers from Northwestern University, the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin, the American Indian Center of Chicago Education Department and the University of Washington, sheds light on this topic.

A revealing new book, Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping by University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, education researcher Julie Posselt, investigates the processes at 10 top - ranked departments — including astrophysics, biology, physics, economics, linguistics, political science, and sociology — and examines the values and practices that appear to govern them.

The researchers broadened the U.S. definition of engineering degrees accordingly, using data from the U.S. Department of Education and U.S. engineering societies.

To examine the developmental origins of civic engagement in children growing up in poverty, the researchers used the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study - Kindergarten Class (ECLS - K), developed by the U.S. Department of Education.

Bell, a faculty member with the School of Education, is the lead author on the report, which is co-authored by Department of Kinesiology Ph.D. students Eric Post and Stephanie Trigsted; Scott Hetzel, an associate researcher with the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics; Timothy McGuine, a senior scientist and research coordinator with the UW Health Sports Medicine Center; and Alison Brooks, a medical doctor with the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.

Gabrielsen, an assistant professor in BYU's Counseling Psychology & Special Education department, and Miller, who is now at the Center for Autism Research at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, worked on the study with four other researchers.

In 2002 the Department of Education established the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) to encourage researchers to pursue what was described as «scientifically valid research,» especially randomized controlled trials, which advocates of IES considered the gold standard.

A nutrition education program in low - income child care centers can improve a child's at - home consumption of vegetables and low - fat / fat - free milk, according to a study by researchers from RTI International, Altarum Institute, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Researchers from NYU Langone's Department of Population Health will evaluate these services so that the NYC Department of Education and other urban school districts can continue to improve on efforts to provide high - quality family - centered educational experiences to all children.

Foreign - national researchers planning any work in India must first get their projects cleared by India's Department of Higher Education, a division of the Ministry of Human Resource Development.

The France And Chicago Collaborating in The Sciences (FACCTS) program is designed to enhance science at the University of Chicago by encouraging closer relations between researchers in Physics Sciences Department (PSD) and Biology Sciences Department (BSD) and high - level research teams and institutions of higher education in France.

Researchers at the Department of Ophthalmology of the Mainz University Medical Center found a correlation between education and nearsightedness.

The successful adaptation of astronomy education research to improving teaching and learning in astronomy departments requires close contact between astronomy education researchers, education researchers in other disciplines and teachers who are primarily research scientists.

«It's a matter of drawing together researchers from different departments, faculties and higher education institutions around joint methods,» she explains.

April 28, 2015 Church - based diabetes education program leads to healthier lifestyles among Latino adults Latino adults with diabetes who participated in a church - based education program reported eating less high - fat food and exercising more after the conclusion of a pilot intervention by researchers from the University of Chicago Department of Medicine.

Koretz is a senior researcher with the Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), a collaborative effort of several universities and research organizations funded by the U.S. Department of Education.

The Department of Education has spent $ 1.8 million for a panel of researchers to analyze studies on how English - language learners develop literacy, but has decided not to publish the resulting report.

Under a three - year U.S. Department of Education grant, researchers from the American Institutes for Research weighed the research evidence on seven widely used educational management organizations, or EMOs.

Clifford Adelman, a researcher whose work for the U.S. Department of Education in the late 1990s helped shape the field's thinking about what constitutes sound academic preparation for college, says that although occupational certificates are becoming «the new currency» in the push for more postsecondary education, the value of many certificates is questionable because of a lack of consensus on the competencies required to eEducation in the late 1990s helped shape the field's thinking about what constitutes sound academic preparation for college, says that although occupational certificates are becoming «the new currency» in the push for more postsecondary education, the value of many certificates is questionable because of a lack of consensus on the competencies required to eeducation, the value of many certificates is questionable because of a lack of consensus on the competencies required to earn them.

The researchers suggest that both NAPLAN and ATAR are given disproportionate weight and are driving the priorities of teachers, school leaders and education departments.

Over much of 1998 and 1999, HGSE Research Associate Shari Tishman and fellow researchers at Harvard Project Zero (PZ) worked with the MoMA Department of Education to plan and complete a full - scale, formal evaluation of the Visual Thinking Curriculum (VTC), and lay the groundwork for the development of a revised version of the VTC.

Being a «team player» is the most important attribute of an effective school - board member, ac3cording to an $ 83,500 national study conducted by two Northern Illinois University researchers and funded by the U.S. Department of Education.

And the last RCT was a national study conducted by researchers at Mathematica for the US Department of Education.

The final report on the Early Reading First program, conducted by outside researchers under contract to the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education, found the program has had the most significant effect in improving classroom activities and materials, as well as teacher practices related to literacy development.

WASHINGTON — Researchers and Education Department officials last week lamented that the death of legislation to reauthorize the department's office of educational research and improvement may put off for two years any substantial reorganization of tDepartment officials last week lamented that the death of legislation to reauthorize the department's office of educational research and improvement may put off for two years any substantial reorganization of tdepartment's office of educational research and improvement may put off for two years any substantial reorganization of the agency.

Sandra Stotsky, independent researcher consultant in education; former senior associate commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Eeducation; former senior associate commissioner, Massachusetts Department of EducationEducation.

In a case study for The 74, Matt Barnum tries to unpack why the Louisiana Department of Education ended its data - sharing agreement with researchers from MIT and Duke after they released a study of the Louisiana voucher program that relied on just one year of outcome data.

Most states provide professional development, but the RAND researchers did not find other clear examples of state departments of education working to make explicit connections between professional - development providers and specific curricula.

Institutional researchers acquire detailed reports from various departments and utilize all departmental data to submit accurate reports to NCES for IPEDS data collection.Examples of Implementation Efforts and Goals to AchieveHigher education institutions include several goals in their strategic planning processes.

The education department reported after the 2003 — 04 school year that 5.3 percent of U.S. teachers are absent on any given day, and that's still the number most researchers use.

Researcher Andrew A. Zucker was designing a federally financed study of middle school science teaching two years ago when he came up against new U.S. Department of Education security rules that would have required him to undergo fingerprinting and an extensive background check.

As a researcher, writer, and editor for the U.S. Department of Education since 1986, Paulu has written many books on educatioEducation since 1986, Paulu has written many books on educationeducation reform.

As someone who was on the Department of Education's «naughty» list for much of the Bush era, and who has a, shall we say, complicated relationship with the current administration, I don't think the nation is well - served when analysts, researchers, and critics are either attack dogs or cheerleaders.

Fryer, the Henry Lee Professor in the Department of Economics, is a bold researcher who has focused his work on race and education, testing theories and evaluating policies aimed at expanding educational opportunity and improving outcomes for disadvantaged students.

The Department also publishes separate data on Pell Grant disbursals for each institution of higher education on its website, which researchers can compare with enrollment figures published by these institutions to calculate the share of students with Pell Grants.

The five - year award will support a research partnership between the Tennessee Department of Education (TDOE) and researchers at Brown University, Vanderbilt University, and Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Acclaimed educator and researcher Margie Gillis will share her precedent - setting work with schools, districts, state departments of education, and policymakers to advocate on behalf of all children and protect their right to learn to read well.

The U.S. Department of Education and numerous other researchers have sought continually to assess the effectiveness of the federal role in education in terms of its impact on the academic achievement of the targeted populations, but much less attention has been given to the effectiveness of the funding Education and numerous other researchers have sought continually to assess the effectiveness of the federal role in education in terms of its impact on the academic achievement of the targeted populations, but much less attention has been given to the effectiveness of the funding education in terms of its impact on the academic achievement of the targeted populations, but much less attention has been given to the effectiveness of the funding approach.

Over the past seven years, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has worked with university - based researchers to examine the track record of charter schools in Massachusetts.

By gathering a critical mass of leading researchers focused on education reform, the Department of Education Reform will be uniquely positioned to have a meaningful impact on education policy research and the quality ofeducation reform, the Department of Education Reform will be uniquely positioned to have a meaningful impact on education policy research and the quality ofEducation Reform will be uniquely positioned to have a meaningful impact on education policy research and the quality ofeducation policy research and the quality of schools.

Funded by: New York City Department of Education Amount: $ 50,000 Dates: 1/1/17 — 6/30/18 Summary: Based on pilot research that Dr. Bristol, a renowned researcher in the field of male teachers of color, conducted on NYC Men Teach, current conditions and supports from schools and the NYC Men Teach program and its impact on male teachers of color will be examined.

These individuals represented a range of organizational affiliations, and included 16 current CSSS members, 7 former CSSS members, 8 state department of education leaders, 7 local educational leaders, 29 individuals working for educational non-profit organizations, and as many as 75 university researchers.

Funded by: U.S. Department of Education - IES Amount: $ 1,000,000 Dates: 7/1/14 — 12/31/18 Summary: The Massachusetts Institute for College and Career Readiness (MICCR) will promote working alliances between researchers and policymakers in the use and interpretation of data and evidence to guide decision - making and improve student outcomes through meetings with MA Gateway City school and government leaders, as well as collaboration between researchers and teachers in the target communities.

With some prodding from interested researchers and policy advocates, the Department of Education is allowing states to rectify this situation.

According to the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the primary overseer of research within the Department of Education, «scientifically based research» fits the following criteria: It randomly assigns its test subjects to comparable groups; it yields reliable, measurable data; if the study makes any claims about what causes its effects, it «substantially eliminates plausible competing explanations»; its methods are clear enough that other researchers can repeat or extend them; and, finally, the study has been accepted by a peer - reviewed journal or equivalent panel of «independent experts.»

Researchers from Vanderbilt University and the University of Washington have received a grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences to refine and expand the use of the Center for Educational Leadership's (CEL) 5D Assessment tool.