Sentences with phrase «earlier evaluation found»

An earlier evaluation found that after two years, Higher Achievement had statistically significant positive impacts on both math and reading test scores.

Not exact matches

An evaluation of conditions found in the lives of clergy, discussed earlier in this chapter, produces three areas for focus that are relevant for the promotion of mental health.

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.

Findings from the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, a rigorous Congressionally - mandated study, indicate that the program had modest but positive impacts on EHS children at age three in cognitive, language, and social - emotional development, compared to a control group.xxiii In addition, their parents scored higher than control group parents on such aspects of the home environment as parenting behavior and knowledge of infant - toddler development.

having experienced early child health clinics in Australia, UK and now Israel, I have found that whilst the style here seems quite paternalistic, with a lot of advice and some rather archaic and informal evaluations, it really depends on the individual nurse.

At the same time as you ask the doctor for a referral to a specialist, call your state's public early childhood system to request a free evaluation to find out if your child qualifies for intervention services.

The new findings were based on detailed, in - person ASD evaluations performed during an earlier Autism Speaks study by the same investigators.

Christine Frey (left) found help for her diagnosis of early psychosis with Kristin Cadenhead, MD, director of the Cognitive Assessment and Risk Evaluation Program.

From James Coleman's early observational studies of high schools to the experimental voucher evaluations of the past 15 years, researchers have routinely found that similar students do at least as well and, at times, better academically in private schools than in public schools.

For example, some studies have found that less - effective early - career teachers are more likely to exit than more - effective novice teachers, even in the absence of high - stakes evaluations.

Finally, earlier evaluations of these programs found neutral to positive effects on test scores.

From the earliest evaluations of Head Start, it was clear that the program did not last long enough, and the most recent research confirms the same finding.

These findings differ from an earlier evaluation conducted by a team led by John F. Witte.

Early evaluations of the program by Paul Tuss of Sacramento County Office of Education's Center for Student Assessment and Program Accountability found that students who received a home visit were considerably more likely to be successful in their exit exam intervention and academic - support classes and pass the English portion of the exit exam.

«Conclusive evidence has shown the benefits of class sizes of 1:15, especially in the primary grades,» says Charles M. Achilles, a professor of educational administration at Eastern Michigan University, in Small Classes, Big Possibilities, an article he penned for The School Administrator: «Since the early, 1980s, a large - scale project in Indiana, a major experiment in Tennessee, numerous smaller studies and evaluations of projects that use low adult - to - student ratios have found that youngsters in small classes (1:15 or so) as compared to youngsters in larger classes

A survey commissioned by the Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) and conducted by Grunwald Associates earlier this year looked at the views of parents, teachers and district administrators on assessment in education — and found that in many ways, the views of all three stakeholders are aligned.

There are beaucoup reasons why the new D.C. study ought not be taken too seriously — kids often do worse during their first year in a new school and an earlier IES evaluation of the DC program found significant long - term gains (notably high school graduation) for voucher users.

A broad CDC - backed study of 11 states, for example, found that the ratio of boys to girls diagnosed with autism depended somewhat on the diagnostic services available within a district or school — schools with strong special education services had more comprehensive evaluations and earlier diagnoses for students.

Experts from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) played a significant role in studying and reporting the findings of The Impact of Two Professional Development Interventions on Early Reading Instruction and Achievement, a report that was released on September 22, 2008 by the National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES).

When early evaluations of the program found that children's gains in IQ were small and faded out as they aged, the resulting uproar quelled President Richard Nixon's attempt to expand the program.

For example, we were able to add detail, relevant to reading programs and student reading performance, to earlier findings on systematic evaluation, home - school connections, building collaboration, student engagement, and teacher scaffolding.

Earlier this week, FiveThirtyEight, founded by data whiz Nate Silver, posted a feature on the application of value - added models to the evaluation of K - 12 teachers.

National Assessment of Title I: Interim Report to Congress (2006) provides preliminary findings from the congressionally mandated National Assessment of Title I. Volume I contains findings on the implementation of the Title I program under the No Child Left Behind Act, and Volume II presents early findings from Closing the Reading Gap, an evaluation of the impact of supplemental remedial reading programs on achievement of 3rd and 5th grade students.

These findings echo those of earlier evaluations by the Royal National Children's Foundation (RNCF), 2007, and Claire Maxwell et al. in which improvements were seen in the academic attainment, social skills, self - esteem and resilience of disadvantaged children placed in boarding schools.

Impact of North Carolina's Early Childhood Programs and Policies on Educational Outcomes in Elementary School presents findings from an evaluation of North Carolina's Smart Start and More at Four early childhood progEarly Childhood Programs and Policies on Educational Outcomes in Elementary School presents findings from an evaluation of North Carolina's Smart Start and More at Four early childhood progearly childhood programs.

They were obvious when my colleagues and I first studied U.S. teacher evaluation systems in the early 1980s.1 As part of a Rand Corporation study, Arthur Wise, Milbrey McLaughlin, Harriet Bernstein, and I searched the country for effective evaluation systems and found ourselves rummaging for the proverbial needle in a haystack.

Due Diligence and the Evaluation of Teachers by Derek Briggs and Ben Domingue of the University of Colorado at Boulder used the same L.A. Unified School District (LAUSD) dataset and replicated the methods of the Times» researcher but then probed deeper and found the earlier research to have serious weaknesses.

The researchers of this evaluation find that this large effect is driven by even larger significant, negative effects for students who started in earlier grades — first through third grades — and somewhat smaller nonsignificant, negative effects for students who started in later grades: fourth through sixth.19

You can find the summary and full report titled «Alternative student growth measures for teacher evaluation: Profiles of early - adopting districts» here.

Dame Alison Peacock, the chief executive of the Chartered College of Teaching, which this week signed a pledge to support evidence - based practice, said the difference between the EEF findings and the earlier work in the US «emphasise the importance of carrying out robust evaluation, in context, before simply jumping on a bandwagon».

While it's unusual to use a Four Seasons car for AOY evaluation, it's not easy finding an idle BRZ or Scion FR - S and so our Subaru made the trip to South Haven, Michigan, for a week in early October.

The kittens will undergo medical evaluations, and should be available to find forever homes by early next week.

Earlier this month, EPA authorities vowed to keep dogging the State Department after they found a revamped evaluation issued in mid-April fell short by failing to fully address safety and oil spill risks along a less - than - satisfactory route through the nation's midsection.

In this context, the process is called early neutral evaluation or neutral fact finding.15

Ms. Trout is an attorney, mediator, arbitrator, as well as an experienced trainer, facilitator of conflict management, negotiation, mediation, transformative mediation, ENE (e.g, early neutral evaluation), fact finding and investigation.

Our award - winning practice sets itself apart by finding innovative and practical solutions and employing strategic techniques, including early case evaluation; screening for appropriate dispute resolution procedures; billing and status - reporting flexibility; and a range of technology tools, combined with professionalism and commercial awareness.

Most of the ECA offerings provide dynamic probing and data evaluation facilities to arrive to the relevant ESI at scope very much akin to the traditional fact finding early case evaluation approach for the strength and weaknesses of the case.

This report presents the first findings from MIHOPE, the legislatively mandated national evaluation of the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting program.

Evaluation of the model found that standardised screening could help in the early identification of HP dual diagnosis.

How best to structure these is an open question; recent findings from Rites of Passage, an early intervention programme for Aboriginal young people which includes resilience - building camps and increasing access to mental health services, suggest that boys may be more difficult than girls to engage in social and emotional well - being programmes (Robinson R, Schuster L, Williamson A. Rites of Passage: evaluation if a pilot study if an early intervention program for Aboriginal young people.

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.

Although some were quick to embrace the findings of these earlier studies as evidence that home visitation improves outcomes for all women and children, Olds and Kitzman emphasised the need for further systematic evaluation and replication.3

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.

Conclusions and Implications [What Makes a Difference: Early Head Start Evaluation Findings in a Developmental Context] Brooks - Gunn, Love, Raikes, & Chazan - Cohen (2013) Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 78 (1) View Abstract Reports on a program evaluation of children from low - income families, half of whom received Early Head Start services in the first 3 years of life, and half of whoEvaluation Findings in a Developmental Context] Brooks - Gunn, Love, Raikes, & Chazan - Cohen (2013) Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 78 (1) View Abstract Reports on a program evaluation of children from low - income families, half of whom received Early Head Start services in the first 3 years of life, and half of whoevaluation of children from low - income families, half of whom received Early Head Start services in the first 3 years of life, and half of whom did not.

Transforming Systems for Parental Depression and Early Childhood Developmental Delays: Findings and Lessons Learned From the Helping Families Raise Healthy Children Initiative (PDF - 1,567 KB) Schultz, Reynolds, Sontag - Padilla, Lovejoy, Firth, & Pincus (2013) RAND Corporation Discusses the findings of an evaluation of the Helping Families Raise Healthy Children initiative, the fourth phase of the Allegheny County Maternal and Child Health Care Collaborative's efforts to implement changes in the local system of maternal and child healFindings and Lessons Learned From the Helping Families Raise Healthy Children Initiative (PDF - 1,567 KB) Schultz, Reynolds, Sontag - Padilla, Lovejoy, Firth, & Pincus (2013) RAND Corporation Discusses the findings of an evaluation of the Helping Families Raise Healthy Children initiative, the fourth phase of the Allegheny County Maternal and Child Health Care Collaborative's efforts to implement changes in the local system of maternal and child healfindings of an evaluation of the Helping Families Raise Healthy Children initiative, the fourth phase of the Allegheny County Maternal and Child Health Care Collaborative's efforts to implement changes in the local system of maternal and child health care.

The findings of the KidsMatter Early Childhood two - year evaluation were published in July 2012.

These also influence other factors the evaluation found supported KidsMatter Early Childhood implementation; high levels of staff engagement, effective links with community and support from parents.

The evaluation of the early effects (short - run) of SSLP found mixed effects, with beneficial effects for some groups, but adverse effects for children from families with higher needs and experiencing greater disadvantage.3 Results from the second phase of the evaluation were more positive.

The positive results related to reading at 5.5 years are consistent with evaluations of Reach Out and Read, 36 — 38 a component activity of HS, and with the Early Head Start evaluation.31 In HS, similar findings were present at 2 to 4 months but not at 30 to 33 months, perhaps attenuated by the adoption of Reach Out and Read at some control sites during the intervention.

A new report to Congress presents the first findings from the national evaluation of the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program.