Sentences with phrase «evaluation findings demonstrate»

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The majority of the funding is used by states to implement program models that have demonstrated their effectiveness based on rigorous evaluation findings.

The new teacher evaluations were approved in the state budget, but the State Board of Regents has found a way to delay their impact at many schools for at least another year, if schools can demonstrate that it would be a hardship for them to meet this year's November deadline.

The new teacher evaluations were approved in the state budget, but the New York State Board of Regents has found a way to delay their impact at many schools for at least another year, if schools can demonstrate that it would be a hardship for them to meet this year's November deadline.

«Our findings demonstrate that people naturally assign different weights to the pluses and minuses of interventions to improve cardiovascular health,» said Erica Spatz, M.D., M.H.S., the study lead author and an assistant professor of cardiovascular medicine in the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, CT. «I believe we need to tap into this framework when we are talking with patients about options to manage their blood pressure.

And it demonstrates the well - known generalization in the evaluation of social programs: the more meticulous and professional the research, the fewer clear and sharp effects are to be found.

A study of Arizona's career ladder program, which requires the use of various methods of student assessment to complement evaluations of teachers» practice, found that, over time, participating teachers demonstrated an increased ability to create locally - developed assessment tools to assess student learning gains in their classrooms; to develop and evaluate pre - and post-tests; to define measurable outcomes in hard - to - quantify areas like art, music, and physical education; and to monitor student learning growth.

The American Academy of Pediatrics recently released a broad report on children's use of digital media, calling for more - rigorous evaluation of apps that claim to be educational: «Unfortunately, very few of the commercially available apps found in the educational section of app stores have evidence - based design input with demonstrated learning effectiveness.

Through using repeated developmental evaluations throughout childhood, and in demonstrating the continued importance of these developmental indicators within analyses integrating deprivation and health, this study provides a strong re-emphasis of prior findings, particularly for general health and mental well - being.

Figure 1 contains a histogram, plotted by Mark Lipsey, showing the number of family therapy evaluations demonstrating various effect sizes.33 Although a number of evaluations found negative effects, the average for all is well above zero.

An ambitious evaluation in 1999 of a statewide home visiting program in Hawaii failed to demonstrate any substantial improvements in either maternal or child development and health outcomes.18 Although these findings contradicted previous smaller studies and evaluations of earlier pilot programs, the comprehensiveness of this evaluation led to further examination of the evidence base for home visiting.

One evaluation conducted in Queensland, Australia, reported moderate reductions in depressive symptoms for mothers in the intervention group at the six - week follow - up.89 A subsequent follow - up, however, suggested that these benefits were not long lasting, as the depression effects had diminished by one year.90 Similarly, Healthy Families San Diego identified reductions in depression symptoms among program mothers during the first two years, but these effects, too, had diminished by year three.91 In Healthy Families New York, mothers at one site (that was supervised by a clinical psychologist) had lower rates of depression at one year (23 percent treatment vs. 38 percent controls).92 The Infant Health and Development program also demonstrated decreases in depressive symptoms after one year of home visiting, as well as at the conclusion of the program at three years.93 Among Early Head Start families, maternal depressive symptoms remained stable for the program group during the study and immediately after it ended, but decreased just before their children entered kindergarten.94 No program effects were found for maternal depression in the Nurse - Family Partnership, Hawaii Healthy Start, Healthy Families Alaska, or Early Start programs.

Importantly, states were required to spend at least three - quarters of the federal funds on home visiting models that met federal standards of evidence - based effectiveness.1 As many policy scholars have noted, that a national initiative brought the importance of evidence - based practice to the forefront of public policy is a triumph for social science and demonstrates the importance of rigorous program evaluation.2 With that triumph, however, comes a responsibility to ensure that the public's expectations for success of these programs are consistent with what researchers understand about the empirical evidence — will the same positive outcomes found in programs» randomized controlled trials emerge when those programs are taken to scale?

A key aspect of the Initiative is a certification process for fatherhood programs in the state, which ensures consistency and quality of service delivery to low - income, noncustodial fathers and their families, and recognizes fatherhood programs that have demonstrated exemplary practice.19 The process also allows certified fatherhood programs to offer the State - Owed Arrearage Adjustment Program for eligible participants.20 Connecticut's Initiative has established a quasi-experimental design system to evaluate the fatherhood programs it helps to coordinate.21 The evaluation collected demographic information on the almost 4,000 participants who enrolled in the Promoting Fatherhood Project from 2006 to 2011.22 The evaluation found that fathers in the program reported needing assistance in education, job training, housing, outstanding child support, parenting time, co-parenting, and parenting skills.

Although there has been a widespread support and advocacy for home visitation programs, 7 rigorous evaluations of these programs using randomized trials have often failed to demonstrate benefits.8 — 12 For example, in a recent review of randomized trials of home visitation, Gomby et al13 concluded that «none found significant effects on all or even a majority of the measures employed, and many revealed no positive effects at all» (p 12).