Sentences with phrase «at measurement strategies»

Andrew Joly explains why it has never been more important to measure learning success, looks at measurement strategies and explores how we need to flex and innovate in response to the new world of learning delivery.

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Cory Haik, who recently joined Mic as chief strategy officer after working in a similar capacity at the Washington Post, says a big part of what she and Mic's director of growth and editorial products, Marcus Moretti, are working on is an attempt to marry traditional measurements of reader activity with newer ways of determining if readers are getting long - term value from what the site is providing.

To investigate, we consider relationships between Powershares DB US Dollar Index Bullish Fund (UUP) and the following exchange - traded fund (ETF) asset class proxies used in «Simple Asset Class ETF Momentum Strategy» (SACEMS) at a monthly measurement frequency:

So far, measurement of food loss and waste and implementation of food loss and waste reduction strategies has been a resounding success at IKEA.

It may not always be possible to pin down the exact results of a given outreach effort, but proxy measurements should let you compare the relative usefulness of different strategies, at the very least.

A team, including Professor Clare Mills from the Institute of Inflammation and Repair at The University of Manchester, has published an open access paper in the journal Analyst outlining a strategy to address the key measurement challenges in allergen analysis.

At the heart of any measurement strategy — whether measuring engagement, behavior shift or business results — must be the desire to view a shift from one point to the next.

The Scope of this project is to: - Provide seed funding and support pilot implementation of ideas resulting from the June 2014 design workshop on improving outcomes for babies in foster care; - Launch pilots of co-designed strategies for working collaboratively with parents in creating daily, regularized family routines in four sites and evaluate executive function skills, child development, child literacy and parental stress levels of participants pre -, during, and post-intervention; - Build a core group of leaders to help set the strategic direction for Frontiers of Innovation (FOI) and take on leadership for parts of the portfolio; - With Phil Fisher at the University of Oregon and Holly Schindler at the University of Washington develop a measurement and data collection framework and infrastructure in order to collect data from FOI - sponsored pilots and increase cross-site and cross-strategy learning; Organize Building Adult Capabilities Working Group to identify, measure and develop strategies related to executive function and emotional regulation for adults facing high levels of adversity and produce summary report in the fall of 2014 that reviews the knowledge base in this area and implications for intervention, including approaches that impact two generations.

Determine implementation strategies based on the pedagogical framework developed by UNESCO — i.e. the GCED Guiding Framework with age - specific topics and learning objectives — looking at innovative research and implementation practices as well as measurement processes and indicators.

We, too, have been faced with myriad assessment techniques, strategies, and measurement scales that reflect learner progress at different stages.

At the same time, all of us need to be very clear that each of these indicators and measurement strategies has flaws.

Part of that strategy is identifying areas with a large wind resource — a prospecting process that requires high - quality wind measurements at the height of the wind turbines.

The conversation on what makes a successful climate and sports strategy was summed up by Naazia Ebrahim, Strategic Analyst at Ecosphere + as being measurement, inspiration and fan engagement, and top - down cooperation.

NRFC relies on multiple avenues to share information including: the fatherhood.gov website, media campaigns, social media, virtual trainings, outreach and presentations at events, written products to advance the fields of responsible fatherhood research and practice, and a National Call Center for fathers and responsible fatherhood practitioners.10 In addition, the ACF's Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) is implementing several research and evaluation projects, including the Building Bridges and Bonds (B3), the Parents and Children Together (PaCT) Responsible Fatherhood Evaluation, the Fatherhood and Marriage Local Evaluation and Cross-Site (FaMLE Cross-Site) project, and the Ex-Prisoner Reentry Strategies Study, all of which partner with Responsible Fatherhood programs.11 OPRE also awards grants to fund research on Healthy Marriage / Responsible Fatherhood, and provides information on the curricula used by Healthy Marriage / Responsible Fatherhood grantees through its Strengthening Families Curriculum Guide.12 To promote rigorous evaluation, strengthen the field of fatherhood research, and share information on effective fatherhood research and evaluation practices, OPRE funded the Fatherhood Research and Practice Network (FRPN).13 FRPN provides grants to study responsible fatherhood programs, develops and shares measurement instruments for use in fatherhood program evaluations, and provides training and technical assistance to practitioners and researchers through webinars, written documents, and its Researcher and Practitioner Forum.14

First, following the strategy proposed by Muthén and Curran (1997) and Hess (2000) trajectories of each construct were modeled using a two - factor LGM: the intercept (with the factor loadings of four observed variables, corresponding to four measurement waves, set at 1) and the slope factor (with the factor loadings of 0, 1, 6, and 12, corresponding to the number of months that passed since the pretest).