Sentences with phrase «rigorous tests study»

Special Publications Related to the Rigorous Tests Study: Techniques Magazine (January 2012 Programs of Study Issue)

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Because kindergarten readiness assessments are not like the rigorous testing that your child will see in higher grades of school, don't worry about having your child study for these tests.

Third, efforts to augment existing home visitation services with mental health interventions aimed at preventing and treating maternal depression should be further tested with rigorous research studies and scaled up as appropriate.

Critics say the state Education Department's failure to provide study materials in a timely manner for new, more rigorous certification tests doomed many new teaching candidates.

Nelson - Barber said the study team wants to find ways «to simplify test language, yet keep items academically rigorous.»

Mitchell guesses that there will probably be 10 more years of rigorous testing in animals before moving on to human clinical studies.

But in a more rigorous study — which randomly assigned participants to take either NSAIDs or a placebo daily for several years and administered annual cognitive tests — anti-inflammatories did not seem to help.

In later decades, other scientists got much more rigorous in their study of fear, in many cases turning to rats rather than people as their test subjects.

By using meta - analysis, an advanced statistical technique that analyzes many studies at the same time, they performed rigorous testing to determine whether the beneficial effect of adding biochar depends on geography.

The study is believed to be the first rigorous experimental test of the role colonization history plays in adaptive radiation.

Douglas Berg, a microbiologist at Washington University in St. Louis, while impressed by the new study, cautions, «Critical tests and rigorous proofs are difficult to obtain in their field of «microbial anthropology,» and some scientists will think that the authors rather overstated their case.»

UNITY has completed a rigorous screening and preclinical testing process of candidate drugs, discovered in this study, and is launching a new clinical trial to assess its first drug, for patients with osteoarthritis of the knee this year.

To accomplish this, we have drawn upon our prior experience in designing and implementing rigorous studies of the outcomes of genetic testing and results disclosure, including the Impact of Personal Genomics (PGen) Study and the MedSeq Project.

Different styles of yoga have been studied in a variety of serious stress disorders including cancer, post-trauma, and addictions, and has been found to be beneficial even when tested using rigorous scientific study design.

... literally thousands of medical, scientific and sports medicine research studies... plus my Engineering background, decades of Eastern Medicine and holistic healing experience, Quantum Energy Medicine training... and my own rigorous research and testing of optimal light wavelengths and synergistic blends over the past 7 years.

Some supplements that were found to have health benefits in observational studies turned out, with more rigorous testing, to be not only ineffective but also risky.

I've written about this at greater length elsewhere (see here and here), but we have eight rigorous studies of school choice programs in which the long - term outcomes of those policies do not align with their short - term achievement test results.

The vast majority of students, even those in elementary school, claimed that rigorous study habits and test preparation impinged on their ability to get more than seven hours of sleep each night.

The Massachusetts Executive Office of Education commissioned this study in hopes of uncovering timely, rigorous evidence on how accurately the two tests assess college readiness.

The article continued, «Rigorous testing that decides whether students graduate, teachers win bonuses, and schools are shuttered... does little to improve achievement and may actually worsen academic performance and dropout rates, according to the largest study ever on the issue.»

Several rigorous studies have confirmed that many KIPP middle schools have large, positive impacts on student performance on math and reading tests.

For example, the Gates Foundation's small school reforms were widely panned as a flop in early reviews relying on student test scores, but a number of later rigorous studies showed (sometimes substantial) positive effects on outcomes such as graduation and college enrollment.

(*) Promising programs are supported by case studies but are not yet tested by rigorous research.

The No Child Left Behind Act famously endorses the use of «scientifically based research,» the federal Institute of Education Sciences has elevated the profile of rigorous scholarship, and presidential candidates tout studies on teacher quality, testing, and school choice.

Four recent rigorous studies — in the District of Columbia, Louisiana, Indiana, and Ohio — used different research designs and reached the same result: on average, students that use vouchers to attend private schools do less well on tests than similar students that do not attend private schools.

The first and most rigorous of the studies, by Dan Goldhaber and Emily Anthony of the Urban Institute, found that on average North Carolina students in grades 3 - 5 whose teachers were board certified scored 7 to 15 percent higher on tests than students whose teachers attempted but failed to gain certification.

The National Board recommends rigorous applied studies to help understand how high stakes tests affect students» decisions to drop out and how schools, intentionally or otherwise, may encourage or discourage students to remain in school.

Several rigorous studies have confirmed that many KIPP middle schools have large, positive impacts on student performance in math and reading tests.

Marisa Castellano and Kirsten Sundell, co-principal investigators of the Rigorous Tests of Student Outcomes in CTE Programs of Study project, are wrapping up the fourth and final year of data collection for their study of the effects of POS / career pathways on student academic and technical achieveStudy project, are wrapping up the fourth and final year of data collection for their study of the effects of POS / career pathways on student academic and technical achievestudy of the effects of POS / career pathways on student academic and technical achievement.

And when you look at test scores, graduation rates, and rigorous academic studies, the results are in: New York's charters are working.

As reported in the Wall Street Journal, a rigorous long - term study found that TEP produced major achievement impacts, including test score gains equal to an additional 1.6 years of school in math, with significant gains in science and English.

From the Executive Summary: «The Massachusetts Executive Office of Education commissioned this study to provide timely, rigorous evidence on the extent to which MCAS and PARCC test scores can accurately assess whether students will succeed in college (recognizing that this was not the original aim...

Commissioned by the Massachusetts» Executive Office of Education, this study was designed by Mathematica to provide timely, rigorous evidence on how accurately two tests (MCAS and PARCC) assess college readiness.

To have real meaning for students, though, these tests must be more rigorous than the tests reviewed in this study,» Haycock said.

As Collin Hitt's piece persuasively argued, a series of rigorous studies have found large long - term benefits for students able to attend schools of choice even when short - term test results show little or no benefit.

We spent nearly a decade reviewing the evidence as it accumulated, focusing on the most rigorous and credible studies of incentives in educational testing and sifting through the results to uncover the key lessons for education policymakers and the public.

Figlio's study used student - level data from 2002 — 03 to 2012 — 13 and rigorous quasi-experimental methods to investigate the program's impact on state test results.

Study Island has evolved from its test preparation roots into a robust, rigorous, and dynamic formative classroom solution that not only prepares students for end - of - year assessments but also gives teachers a way to individualize instruction, pinpoint student difficulties, and monitor student progress.

Our writers are taken through rigorous grammar and essay writing tests in their specific areas of study to ensure we hire only the best for our clients.

Board certification requires a doctorate degree in veterinary medicine followed by intensive study in a residency program and qualification assessment by rigorous testing to achieve diplomate status.

The rigorous application process will usually involve a case study interview to test your ability to evaluate business information and brainstorm solutions.

Testing compounds and pharmacological agents following strict protocols and rigorous study measures on live animal models.

She currently directs Improving Contraceptive Options Now, a project focused on expanding family planning options and reducing unintended pregnancy for low - income women, and the Expanding Children's Early Learning (ExCEL) summer study, a demonstration testing the effectiveness of a rigorous summer program for preschoolers entering kindergarten in the fall.

As this study shows, when the «dose» is large enough, parent training seems more effective than when data from all participants are used in an intent to treat analysis; (c) the present study provided a more rigorous test than most prior studies by only admitting children to treatment who met DSM - IV criteria for ODD; and, perhaps most importantly, (d) this study was designed as an effectiveness trial, while most prior studies were efficacy - oriented.

Instead, well - validated measures of positive phenomena should become routinely incorporated into a broader array of health psychology studies to provide a rigorous test of their role in human health and adaptation to disease.

Although previous studies generally assumed that pathological gaming has an effect on aggressive behavior, and not vice versa (e.g., Caplan et al. 2009; Grüsser et al. 2007; Kim et al. 2008), the cross-sectional nature of these studies does not allow for rigorous testing of such causal assumptions.