Sentences with phrase «earlier designs measured»

Not exact matches

The decision is designed to bring early years settings into line with similar tough measures in schools.

The primary outcome was a composite of perinatal mortality and specific neonatal morbidities: stillbirth after the start of care in labour, early neonatal death, neonatal encephalopathy, meconium aspiration syndrome, brachial plexus injury, fractured humerus, and fractured clavicle.13 This composite measure was designed to capture outcomes that may be related to the quality of intrapartum care, including morbidities associated with intrapartum asphyxia and birth trauma.

Klein's comments were a rebuke of the mainline Senate Democrats» earlier in the day referring to the eight - member IDC as «the rogue Democrats» while also challenging them to vote for «resistance» amendments — measures designed to bolster liberal policies in the wake of Donald Trump's presidential election.

Attorney General Eric Schneiederman earlier this month provided a legal guidance to cities in New York that have passed measures designed to not coordinate with certain immigration enforcement efforts from the federal government.

We provide strong evidence that defensive measures designed specifically for the wildland urban interface and administered early can significantly reduce destruction and damage.»

He is encouraged that the wafers designed to measure oxygen isotopes (atomic variants that have slightly different masses) in the early solar system are 85 percent intact.

Appel and Sacks led three earlier clinical trials that tested ways to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes, providing volunteers with carefully designed diets and measuring the effects on key health indicators.

WRAIR and collaborators will share data related to assays designed to measure antibody responses following vaccination with ZPIV, biologic samples generated during the performance of animal studies, and biologic samples generated during the performance of early human trials assessing the safety and immunogenicity of ZPIV.

Our approach to achieving this goal focuses on three objectives: (1) to develop a reliable, predictive panel of biomarkers (including both biological and bio-behavioral measures) that can identify children, youth, and parents showing evidence of toxic stress, and that can be collected in pediatric primary care settings; (2) to conduct basic, animal and human research on critical periods in development and individual differences in stress susceptibility, thereby informing the timing and design of a suite of new interventions that address the roots of stress - related diseases early in the life cycle; and (3) to build a strong, community - based infrastructure through which scientists, practitioners, parents, and community leaders can apply new scientific insights and innovative measures to the development of more effective interventions in the first three postnatal years.

Building on the framework of MKT proposed by Ball, Thames, and Phelps (2008), the MKT instrument uses a combination of multiple choice, fill - in - the - blank, and open response items designed to measure domains of teacher knowledge involved with teaching mathematics at the elementary and early elementary level.

We know that designing a framework to measure early childhood program quality is a work in progress.

Each assessment is designed for a specific grade level ranging from K - 6 and measures critical skills for early readers.

And while it was respected in its field long before the baseline assessment was even a twinkle in the schools minister's eye, it was thrown into the national limelight in 2015 when, after primary schools were given the choice between six assessments selected as capable of reliably measuring the abilities of children entering the reception year, 75 per cent opted for EExBA, the assessment tool designed by Early Excellence and scored through teacher observation.

Measuring Child Outcomes in the Early Years provides information to inform decision - making regarding the assessment of young children's learning, development, and wellbeing (LDWB) for state and national assessments designed to influence early childhood education (ECE) policy and pracEarly Years provides information to inform decision - making regarding the assessment of young children's learning, development, and wellbeing (LDWB) for state and national assessments designed to influence early childhood education (ECE) policy and pracearly childhood education (ECE) policy and practice.

The «ISQ1» study of the early years measured 89 problem attributes, mainly design and defects, Sargent said, and the current survey, called IQS4, pinpoints 233 problem attributes.

It's an additional measure designed to discourage early withdrawals, and raise more tax.

Design Using data from a nationally representative data set, we regressed 4 measures of cognitive development at ages 6 and 7 years on television viewing before age 3 years and at ages 3 to 5 years, controlling for parental cognitive stimulation throughout early childhood, maternal education, and IQ.

Family Voices: Piloting a New Qualitative Measure of Family Engagement for Head Start and Early Head Start Staff and Families (PDF - 2,468 KB) Aikens, Bandel, Akers, Lyskawa, & Jerald (2014) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation & Mathematica Policy Research Focuses on the development of qualitative instruments designed to better understand family engagement in Head Start and Early Head Start; draws on pilot data collected during the 2012 - 2013 program year; and provides information about the performance of the piloted interview protocols, revisions made to instruments based on their performance, and the best methods for gathering qualitative information about family engagement experiences from families and staff in future studies.

Our observational study has several strengths including multiple country contexts, adequate sample size, low study attrition and a cohort design with consistent measures of individual access to W&S and vocabulary test data across early childhood.

To date, the immediate and lasting positive effects of quality care on language, cognitive development, and school achievement have been confirmed by converging findings from large, reasonably representative longitudinal studies and smaller, randomized trials with long - term follow - ups.1, 2,9 - 13 Contributors to this knowledge base include meta - analytic reviews of interventions and large longitudinal studies conducted in several countries.1, 2,14,15 Comprehensive meta - analyses now establish that effects of early care decline, but do not disappear, and when initial effects are large, long - term effects remain substantial.1, 2 Null findings in cognitive and social domains in a few studies may reasonably be attributed to the limitations inherent to their designs, samples, and measures.

Third, this analysis only measured the increase from the proposed expansion in child care subsidies for working parents, which is the largest early childhood program expansion being proposed and is designed with working parents» child care needs in mind.

This study provides preliminary evidence for the reliability and validity of the Knowledge of Mathematical Survey, which was designed to measure early childhood teachers» knowledge of early mathematical development.

The aim of this study is to use a longitudinal design to examine whether parenting, as measured with the PBI, is a moderator of the relation between early socio - emotional functioning and later mental health.

The Mullen Scales of Early Learning is an individually administered measure designed for very young children to estimate functioning across areas thought to predict later intellectual development.