An October 2010
evaluation report found «clear evidence that the Media Initiative for Children achieved positive effects regarding children's attitudes and awareness» in relation to their:
The Speech and Language Therapy
Evaluation Report found that a dedicated speech and language service would enable more children to receive the intervention earlier which would help to remove or reduce a significant disadvantage from them before starting school.
EEF
evaluation reports find low - cost and low - effort approach to parental engagement could be effective
Not exact matches
That, in light of $ 3.1 billion of missing funds outlined in Chapter Eight of the 2013 Spring
Report of the Auditor General of Canada, an order of the House do issue for the following documents from 2001 to the present, allowing for redaction based on national security: (a) all Public Security and Anti-Terrorism annual
reports submitted to the Treasury Board Secretariat; (b) all Treasury Board submissions made as part of the Initiative; (c) all departmental
evaluations of the Initiative; (d) the Treasury Board corporate database established to monitor funding; that these records be provided to the House in both official languages by June 17, 2013; that the Speaker make arrangements for these records to be made available online; and that the Auditor - General be given all necessary resources to perform an in - depth forensic audit until the missing $ 3.1 billion is
found and accounted for.
The detailed long term intervention monitoring and
evaluation reports for the Lachlan River system can be
found at:
The detailed long term intervention monitoring and
evaluation report for the Junction of the Warrego and Darling Rivers can be
found at:
The detailed 2015 — 16 long term intervention monitoring and
evaluation report for the Lower Murray River can be
found at:
Noting other studies
finding that between one - third and one - half of players
report concussion symptoms for which they did not seek medical attention, and the fact that, in the current study, only 44.1 % of athletes identified through the weekly interviews sought medical
evaluation by a QHP, and that the concussion rate considering only those diagnosed by a QHP was far lower than the overall rate
reported -LRB-.4 per 1,000 AEs versus 1.3 per 1,000 AEs).
To conduct an annual
evaluation of the FHSAA as a whole and present a
report of its
findings, conclusion, and recommendations to the board of directors, to the commissioner, and to the respective education committees of the Florida Senate and the Florida House of Representatives.
The American Chemistry Council denied last week's
report, saying in a statement that it was «distinctly at odds with the
findings of other comprehensive
evaluations of the safety of bisphenol - A, in which government and scientific bodies worldwide examined the same scientific information.
The
report collates and synthesises the
findings of a number of recent independent academic
evaluations, which have been critical of the Responsibility Deal.
Leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY issued a new
report called Burying the Evidence that analyzes previously unreported
findings from the 2015 - 2016 teacher
evaluation ratings.
Cuomo's Common Core Overhaul: A task force created by Governor Andrew Cuomo issued a
report Thursday which
found that the state made a number of mistakes in its implementation of Common Core learning standards and recommended reducing the tendency to «teach to a test,» giving shorter tests, and not linking test results to teacher
evaluations until the 2018 - 2019 school year.
Despite a recent news
report indicating that student feedback is not likely to be included in New York City's new teacher
evaluation system, the poll
found firm backing for this idea.
«Labour's own
evaluation report said that Jobs Growth Wales locked people into low wages and that 73 % would've
found work without it.
In February, the Times Union
reported that a mental health
evaluation found Rizvi claimed to have been tormented by «psychotic - like symptoms» and nightly visits from a «dark and foreboding figure» who «doesn't want me to have friends.»
The New York Daily News
reports on our poll that
found that 80 % of NYC voters support a new teacher
evaluation system based on both classroom observations and test scores.
The Year 1
evaluation report of the PDG
found that most teachers surveyed perceived that PDG interventions were having a positive impact on pupils.
The New York Daily News blog
reports on StudentsFirstNY's recent poll that
found that 80 % of NYC voters support a new teacher
evaluation system based on both classroom observations and test scores.
StudentsFirstNY made a number of policy recommendations to address the
findings of the
report, including the implementation of a robust and comprehensive teacher
evaluation system in accordance with State law.
Such fears are common among students — and may be well -
founded, because some state medical licensing boards can require formal psychiatric
evaluations of applicants who
report being treated for mental illness.
These are some of the
findings released by the World Bank Group and the Institute for Health Metrics and
Evaluation (IHME) in six regional
reports as part of The Global Burden of Disease: Generating Evidence, Guiding Policy.
They also provide short summaries and relevant resources for each step of the
evaluation process from how to engage and understand relevant stakeholder and deciding who will conduct the
evaluation, to best practices on
reporting and using
findings.
The army
report found no evidence of wrongdoing but says that PTSD
evaluation practices are poorly organised and could be improved.
Detailed
findings of this study are
reported and discussed in «
Evaluation of S100B in the diagnosis of suspected intracranial hemorrhage after minor head injury in patients who are receiving platelet aggregation inhibitors and in patients 65 years and older,» by Heinrich Wolfgang Thaler, MD, Jochen Schmidsfeld, MD, and colleagues, published today online, ahead of print, in the Journal of Neurosurgery.
The
report [pdf] by the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) inspector general reveals that the lab had failed to address problems pointed out three years ago in an
evaluation that
found at least 800 fire prevention «deficiencies».
«This
evaluation is intended to point out where forensic practice is well
founded in science and where it is not and to produce a research agenda to serve as the basis for arriving at forensic methods that will inspire greater confidence in our criminal justice system,» says the
report, the second of two AAAS
reports on the state of forensic science, the first focusing on the quality of fire investigations in the United States.
D31 Elements of
Evaluation This
report presents a series of
findings emerging from the experiences gathered by Pencil's fourteen pilot projects in carrying out educational programmes at the intersection between formal and informal learning environments and methodologies.
Effectiveness and Impact:
Evaluation findings and impact statements: Full evaluation reports are posted at: http://kepler.nasa.gov/education/resou
Evaluation findings and impact statements: Full
evaluation reports are posted at: http://kepler.nasa.gov/education/resou
evaluation reports are posted at: http://kepler.nasa.gov/education/resources/eval/
A comprehensive digestive assessment including a functional
evaluation (in - person only), a
report of
findings and a recommended supplement protocol.
Previous EEF
evaluations of Parenting Academy and SPOKES - two programmes designed to equip parents with the skills to support their child's learning through intensive sessions —
reported similar barriers and
found that both struggled to persuade parents to attend regularly.
The
findings in the
report are from the first year of a three - year
evaluation of KIPP schools in the Bay area.
This
report, developed by Catherine Awsumb Nelson, synthesizes the
findings of a four - year
evaluation of the A + Schools Program pilot in 25 North Carolina Schools.
To
find out more about the Professional Learning
Evaluation Project and to access PDF versions of the full research
report and executive summary click on the link.
A
report from the nonprofit TNTP
found that
evaluations are often neither effective (more than 98 % of teachers are deemed «satisfactory») nor instructive (three out of four evaluated teachers never received feedback to help them improve their practice).
Among the more salient conclusions are: 1) that what children bring to school is vastly more important than what happens thereafter, as the Coleman
Report found; 2) in examining all of the variables that impinge on student academic performance (teacher effectiveness, socio - economic advantage, appropriate
evaluation criteria, etc.), none is demonstrably more significant than time spent learning «one - on - one»; and 3) that only an individualized computer program can address all these issues effectively and simultaneously.
Since the release of our
report, my co-authors and I have received inquiries about how our
findings fit into the accelerating spate of legal actions aimed at teacher
evaluation systems similar to the ones we examined.
Wolf points out that the
evaluation findings also reinforce previous research that shows that parents who have been given the chance to select their child's school have
reported much higher levels of satisfaction.
Two blockbuster research
findings reported recently in the national press — one from the field of education, the other from medicine — have something important in common: They are the latest cases in which widely used, widely accepted practices have been challenged by scientifically rigorous
evaluations.
The 2013 MET Project
report found that weighting student growth between 33 and 50 percent of a teacher's
evaluation score would provide the best combination of predictive power and year - to - year stability.
New York City — In a surprising
finding, a researcher
reported here last week that the vast majority of American students tested in a new
evaluation of writing skill did well.
The
report's authors, Matthew Kraft of Brown University and Allison Gilmour of Vanderbilt, studied teacher ratings in roughly half of the more than three dozen states with new
evaluation systems and
found that a median of 2.7 percent of teachers were rated unsatisfactory, even though principals they surveyed in one large urban school system suggested that there were more low performing teachers than that in their schools.
Your article on the Milwaukee school - choice
evaluation («New Studies on Private Choice Contradict Each Other,» Sept. 4, 1996) accurately
reports that our study of the Milwaukee choice program
found that choice students outperformed a comparable control group of Milwaukee Public Schools students on standardized tests by a considerable amount after three and four years of experience in the choice schools.
First, our
evaluation found that families
reported obtaining higher - quality services in a private setting with a McKay voucher than they had received in public schools.
Findings from its
evaluation of a number of youth problem areas indicate, the
report says, that «there is human suffering on the part of young people, and it is growing worse.»
This is the major
finding of a
report issued here by the Hispanic Office of Planning and
Evaluation, a private, nonprofit, statewide organization.
The Commission, chaired by Dr. Paul Hill of the University of Washington, carefully reviewed the research on the impact of school choice on student achievement and included in its
report the following statement: «The most rigorous school choice
evaluations that used random assignment...
found that academic gains from vouchers were largely limited to the African - American students in their studies.»
The latest
report summarises
findings from an
evaluation study that is looking at the feasibility and educational impact of giving one - to - one Tablets to every child in school.
The most recent
findings from the study as
reported a few weeks ago are based on the full original sample of children as randomized to treatment and control conditions at the outset of the study rather than the previously studied subsample of children whose parents gave permission for follow - up testing by the
evaluation team.
Using students» test scores as one part of
evaluations for teachers, principals, and superintendents is associated with better academic performance at schools serving the middle grades, a
report released this week has
found.