Sentences with phrase «recent outcomes evaluations»

LSNTAP and PBN recently held a webinar on evaluations, «From Investment to Impact: Recent Outcomes Evaluations of Legal Aid Tech Projects.»

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In other words, even when home visitation programs succeed in their goal of changing parent behaviour, these changes do not appear to produce significantly better child outcomes.21, 22 One recent exception, however, was a study of the Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) model with low - income Latino families showing changes in home parenting and better third - grade math achievement.23 Earlier evaluations of HIPPY found mixed results regarding program effectiveness.

With the recent emphasis on translational and outcomes research, it should not be difficult to find a training program in fields related to CER, says Milton Weinstein, director of Harvard University's Program on the Economic Evaluation of Medical Technology and co-author of the book Decision Making in Health and Medicine: Integrating Evidence and Values.

«FDA's approach to evaluation of recent hepatitis C drugs underscores the Agency's flexibility in considering innovative or alternative trial designs for drugs that have demonstrated highly promising outcomes in early phase development,» said Dr. Poonam Mishra, deputy director for Safety, Division of Antiviral Products / Office of Antimicrobial Products in the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research and lead author of the Hepatolevaluation of recent hepatitis C drugs underscores the Agency's flexibility in considering innovative or alternative trial designs for drugs that have demonstrated highly promising outcomes in early phase development,» said Dr. Poonam Mishra, deputy director for Safety, Division of Antiviral Products / Office of Antimicrobial Products in the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research and lead author of the HepatolEvaluation and Research and lead author of the Hepatology paper.

More recent research has examined non-test score outcomes, uncovering differences by race / ethnicity in teacher expectations for students» educational attainment and subjective evaluations of students» academic ability.

This includes a recent synthesis of the literature on Implementation in Education (Albers & Pattuwage, 2017), the Implementation Framework Getting to Outcomes (GTO)(Wandersman, Imm, Chinman, & Kaftarian, 2000), Deliverology (Barber, Kihn, & Moffit, 2011) and the Impact Evaluation Cycle (Evidence for Learning, 2017).

Two recent experimental evaluations of the Louisiana Scholarship Program found negative effects of the program on student test scores but one study was limited to just a single year of outcome data and the second one (which I am leading) has only analyzed two years of outcome data so far.

Her recent research focuses on: teacher professional development, instructional coaching, teacher evaluation, changes over time in teachers» mathematical knowledge and instructional quality in mathematics, and the teacher experiences and characteristics that lead to high - quality instruction and stronger student outcomes.

-LSB-...] A recent evaluation of the the SEED School in DC again shows schools that raise test scores don't always improve students» later - in - life outcomes.

To promote cultures of continuous growth, schools and school districts should encourage and support feedback loops, honest coaching conversations, and collaboration toward improved student outcomes.59 A recent report found that when teachers are more open to feedback, their evaluation scores are more likely to increase over time.60 Furthermore, the introduction of new teacher evaluation systems in recent years has created an opportunity to provide teachers with much more effective feedback and to more intentionally target professional learning to individual teachers» needs.61 When professional learning is rooted in collaboration and meaningful opportunities to apply new skills, these systems can become essential components of evaluation systems that support teacher growth.62

In addition to these four state - based studies of voucher program impacts on test scores, some recent studies do show positive effects on graduation rates, parent satisfaction, community college enrollment, and other nonachievement - based outcomes, but it is unclear if these outcomes are lasting and valid.23 For example, research shows that nationally, graduation rates for students in public schools and peers participating in voucher programs equalize after adjusting for extended graduation rates.24 Some critics suggest that private schools may graduate students who have not successfully completed the full program.25 Also, in regard to parent satisfaction, while some studies do show greater satisfaction among parents whose children participate in voucher programs, the most recent evaluation of the D.C. voucher program shows that any increase in parent or student school satisfaction is not statistically significant.26

Drawing from a recent case study of volunteer deployment in Uganda, the authors provide an in - depth evaluation of the impacts on the students themselves and the learning outcomes associated with placements in low resource settings, as well as the impacts that these forms of student mobility have on the host settings.

This research is reviewed by Sharon Bzostek and Audrey Beck, «Family Structure and Child Health Outcomes in Fragile Families,» Working Paper 08 -11-FF (Princeton: Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, 2008); and by Robert Wood, Brian Goesling, and Sarah Avellar, «The Effects of Marriage on Health: A Synthesis of Recent Research Evidence,» report prepared by Mathematica Policy Research for U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, 2007.

In WA, the State Government came under fire for halving funding for Aboriginal health programs in its most recent budget, despite an evaluation report saying existing programs were delivering good value for money in terms of Closing the Gap on Aboriginal health outcomes.