Sentences with phrase «achievement impacts of the program»

• «All of which» means «some of which,» as the multi-year Louisiana study cited (of which I am co-author) reports no significant achievement impacts of the program after three years and the Indiana study cited reports that the initial negative results of that program turn positive in reading by year four.

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Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry (R) World (TM); risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information;

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry ® World ™; risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information; BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry.

They're also critical assets to our communities: Junior Achievement and the Aspen Institute found that youth - entrepreneurship programs positively impacted dropout rates and community engagement, not to mention the development of risk taking and opportunity recognition.

Impacts of a Parent Intervention Program: Their Children's Academic Achievement and Classroom Behavior.

Most evaluations of early education programs show that such programs improve children's school readiness, specifically their pre-academic skills, although the distribution of impact estimates is extremely wide, and gains on achievement tests typically fade over time.

Alabdulkader said the new reports «will provide NSTIP with a precise added value to assess the level of achievement of this program, and its impact on the R&D movements at the national and international levels.»

Stephanie Anzman - Frasca, Ph.D., of ChildObesity180, Tufts University, Boston, and co-authors used data from 446 public elementary schools in a large, urban school district in the United States to look at the impact of BIC on participation in the School Breakfast Program (SBP), school attendance and academic achievement.

In their analysis, they found that Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound (ELOB) had highly promising and significant evidence of effectiveness (six studies across multiple states) to support the positive impact the program has on student achievement.

Critics will continue to point to the fact that no impacts of the program have been observed in math, or that applicants from SINI schools, who were a service priority, have not demonstrated statistically significant achievement gains at the subgroup level, as reasons to characterize these findings as disappointing.

The impact of the program on the reading achievement of Cohort 1 students did not differ by a statistically significant amount from the impact of the program on the reading achievement of Cohort 2 students, Carnoy's claim notwithstanding.

The reading impact of the D.C. voucher program is the largest achievement impact yet reported in an RCT evaluation overseen by the NCEE.

The Science of Classroom Design, an infographic created through USC Rossier's online teaching degree program, digs deeper into how digital classrooms — and the physical classroom environment — impact student learning, behavior, and achievement.

Of the remaining eight NCEE - sponsored RCTs, six of them found no statistically significant achievement impacts overall and the other two showed a mix of no impacts and actual achievement losses from their programOf the remaining eight NCEE - sponsored RCTs, six of them found no statistically significant achievement impacts overall and the other two showed a mix of no impacts and actual achievement losses from their programof them found no statistically significant achievement impacts overall and the other two showed a mix of no impacts and actual achievement losses from their programof no impacts and actual achievement losses from their programs.

The purpose of this project is to perform the evaluation portion of a randomized control trial designed to assess the impact of The Match School Foundation, Inc.'s teacher training program for novice teachers on outcomes such as achievement growth of teachers» students, principal ratings, and retention with the ultimate goal of improving K - 12 education.

Arizona «Ground Zero» for Koch Attack on Public Education (The Center for Media and Democracy) Mention of HGSE Professor Marty West's research into voucher programs in Louisiana and their impact on student achievement.

«Little is known about whether (professional development) can have a positive impact on achievement when a program is delivered across a range of typical settings and when its delivery depends on multiple trainers,» conclude Wayne and co. «Despite a consensus in the literature on the features of effective (professional development), there is limited evidence on the specific features that make a difference for achievement.»

And school and system leaders use data to evaluate the impact of school - wide and system - wide programs and initiatives to raise achievement levels and close equity gaps.

And the really bad news is that neither PD program had a significant impact on student achievement, whether measured immediately at the conclusion of the PD or a year later.

Patrick Wolf, who conducted the evaluation of the impact of the D.C. voucher program on student achievement, talks with Education Next about that study in a video available here.

For example, the failure to find positive student - achievement impacts in a series of IES - funded studies of professional development programs has produced a broader appreciation of the difficulty of adult behavior change and more healthy skepticism about the traditional approach to teacher training.

Dozens of studies of afterschool programs repeatedly underscore the powerful impact of supporting a range of positive learning outcomes, including academic achievement, by affording children and youth opportunities to practice new skills through hands - on, experiential learning in project - based after school programs.

«This study will provide us with critical data about the impact of these pre-school programs on student achievement.»

Among many influential projects conducted under the auspices of EdLabs, Fryer has developed and implemented programs to test the impact of incentives on student achievement, teacher pay - for - performance concepts, and an effort to apply charter - school practices to a district turnaround school in Houston.

To provide a more rigorous evaluation of the program's impact, we compare the reading and English performance of individual students attending NLP and comparison schools in 1997 and 1998, while taking into account a wide variety of school characteristics that could also influence student achievement.

Given the existence of sizable gaps in English achievement between boys and girls, the impact of the program by gender is also of policy interest.

One should not under - estimate the impact of the DC school voucher program on student achievement.

This high - quality professional development program consisting of 200 hours of training spread over two years has consistently demonstrated positive impacts on student achievement.

Hitt, McShane, and Wolf set out to review all of the rigorous studies of school choice programs that have impact estimates for both student achievement attainment — high school graduation, college enrollment, and / or college graduation.

If we focus only on the true school choice programs — private school choice, open enrollment, charter schools, STEM schools, and small schools of choice — and we look at the direction of the impacts (positive or negative) regardless of their statistical significance, we find a high degree of alignment between achievement and attainment outcomes.

Without the benefit of random assignment, we used a variety of statistical approaches to determine the program's impact on student achievement immediately after its launch.

By monitoring the subsequent achievement of the two groups, states and districts could gauge program impacts more quickly and at lower cost.

The DuFours say that although it's hard to quantify the impact of the PLC at Work model because their books, articles and presentations offer many avenues into the program, more than 200 U.S. schools have been recognized as models of the process as a result of significantly improved student achievement.

The program improves the skills of school leaders often assessed on evaluations, and also has been shown to positively impact portions of evaluations that measure the achievement of students in their schools.

The Higher Achievement Evaluation will examine whether out - of - school programs can help students meet the new Common Core standards by pairing an analysis of Higher Achievement's impact on academics with an examination of program fidelity, service contrast, and the extent to which mentors» instruction supports Common Core Common practices, standards, and learning strategies.

In Tulsa, Oklahoma, New Jersey, and Boston, pre-kindergarten programs demonstrate impressive outcomes that include positive effects on math scores, grade retention, and chronic absenteeism at the end of grade 8; increased achievement on language arts, literacy, math, and science, as well as decreased grade retention and special education placement at the end of grade 5; and stronger than typical impacts on academic readiness (effect sizes in the 0.4 — 0.6 range) at school entry.

Lottery - winning voucher users had statistically significant large negative impacts on math achievement in their first year of the program that were less negative in their second year of participation.

First - of - its - kind study of Rocketship's use of adaptive, online learning programs as part of its hybrid model; study shows positive impact of online math instruction on student achievement gains

This study is evaluating these performance - based compensation systems to examine issues like the impact of pay - for - performance on student achievement and educator effectiveness, and helping to answer pressing policy questions about how the programs are designed, communicated, and implemented.

Also in Education Next, «Poor Results for High Achievers,» is a study of two middle - school programs for high - achieving students that found little impact on students» achievement for students who attended the program.

The Executive Leadership Program for Educators at Harvard University in association with The Wallace Foundation will emphasize midcareer development of teams of high - level education leaders that share responsibility for making changes in their organizations and across their states to broadly improve school leadership and its impact on student achievement.

The report outlines that students who fully participate in high - quality ASES or 21st CCLC after school program gain the equivalent of up to an extra 90 days of school, and experience positive impacts on academic achievement, attendance and positive behaviors, health and nutrition, STEM learning, and Social Emotional Learning (SEL).

«Whether it's program platforms, curriculum, facilities, she does not compromise on any of those that would negatively impact student achievement.»

Several research reports over the past year have examined the effects of the Louisiana Scholarship Program on the achievement and non-cognitive skills of scholarship recipients, broader effects on school segregation and the fiscal impact on schools.

Evidence is mixed at best about the impact of large - scale state and district testing programs on student achievement.

«[T] here were no statistically significant impacts of the program on reading or math achievement in the first year.»

The mission of the ELPS program is to train aspiring educational leaders to successfully lead organizations in the 21st Century to positively impact student achievement.

Considering the impact of school leaders on student achievement, principal preparation programs have a huge responsibility to best prepare individuals to lead our nation's schools.

This report addresses research questions regarding the program's 1) implementation fidelity, 2) performance goals, 3) impact on student attendance and mathematics achievement outcomes, 4) impact on student aspirations for college, studying STEM subjects in college, and pursuing STEM careers, and 5) impact on measures of teacher effectiveness.

«This study drew on teacher survey responses from randomized experiments exploring three different pay - for - performance programs to examine the extent to which these programs motivated teachers to improve student achievement and the impact of such programs on teachers» instruction, number of hours worked, job stress, and collegiality.