Sentences with phrase «effectiveness research findings»

In early December, Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska attempted to insert an amendment to the health care bill forbidding insurers from denying coverage of medical tests or treatments based on comparative effectiveness research findings.

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Hudson's own research and observations are backed by similar work done by the University of North Carolina, which found that the most powerful factor in job satisfaction was how the employee felt about the effectiveness of the meetings he or she attends.

This gap in effectiveness may matter more than you think because the research also found that companies reporting effective pipeline management saw revenue grow 15 percent faster than their ineffective peers.

Among the topics on the agenda: the evolution of shareholder activism and research findings about activist funds» returns, the amended Shareholder Rights Directive (EU) 2017/828, litigation and its effectiveness as tool for activist investors, and what can an issuer do to adequately address activists» new challenges.

After all, the company was founded in response to academic research proving that even small cash rewards triple the effectiveness of weight - loss programs; that people are more effective at losing weight when their own money is at risk; and that social dynamics play a large role in the spread of obesity, and will likely play a large role in reversing obesity.

Fourthly, and related, an attempt to value outcomes in terms of quality adjusted life years (QALYs) in preference to clinical endpoints should make the findings of this cost effectiveness research more relevant to decision makers for obstetric care in the NHS.

Although research on the effectiveness of maternity support belts is limited, some women find the additional support helpful.

Research has found that this would make smoking less attractive to young people and would also improve the effectiveness of health warnings.

The team's findings and other research show that our ancestors were thinking about effectiveness and efficiency, Wood said, which may have influenced which animals they targeted.

However, the research — the most comprehensive review undertaken in this area — also found that the effectiveness of vaccines can vary depending on the age of the patient.

Our research team studied the effectiveness of this program; we found that City Academies do meet their goal of increasing physical activity rates for adult women in these communities.»

In addition, TGen laboratory research also found that PPF increases the effectiveness of a standard - of - care chemotherapy drug called temozolomide (TMZ), and radiation, to treat glioblastoma.

«Early use of postmenopausal hormone therapy may prevent heart disease: Findings suggest that after decades of research regarding effectiveness of hormone therapy on heart disease, timing may be everything.»

To implement these reporting practices, most journals rely on the process of peer review — in which other scholars review research findings before publication — but relatively few journals measure the quality and effectiveness of the process.

Reporting in the Journal of Clinical Investigation Insights, a team led by senior author Andrea Facciabene, PhD, a research assistant professor of Radiation Oncology and Obstetrics / Gynecology, found that the effectiveness of adoptive T cell therapy (ACT) in mice with cancer is significantly affected by differences in the natural makeup of gut bacteria and treatment with antibiotics.

Research led at the Yale School of Public Health have found that the majority of published papers analyzing the cost - effectiveness of a widely used test for breast cancer used a study design that can increase bias.

Other research has found that when patients believe in the effectiveness of a therapy — whether they get a vote of confidence from their practitioners or not — it can stimulate real physiological responses, including changes in heart rate, blood pressure, and even chemical activity in the brain that decreases pain, anxiety, and fatigue.

While there's no evidence proving its effectiveness (even the journal Complementary Therapies in Medicine published a review of the available research and «found insufficient evidence to support any therapeutic effect of craniosacral therapy»), proponents find it deeply relaxing and a helpful adjunct to other treatments for pain, trauma, chronic fatigue, and more.

They weren't able to find a single rigorous study showing the effectiveness of the algorithms, and other research suggests it's extremely difficult to predict the likelihood that a relationship will succeed before two people meet.

RESEARCH BRIEF — Apr 7 — To find the relative effectiveness of ads on TV, in magazines, and on the Internet, McPheters & Company used 30 - second TV ads, full - page 4 - color magazine ads, and Internet banner ads in standard sizes, and employed eye - tracking software to determine if (and how) Internet ads were actually seen by respondents.

Over the past four decades, a growing body of research has found that mixing or «interleaving» often outperforms blocking in terms of learning effectiveness.

While the evidence for the effectiveness of charter schools nationwide is mixed, research has found that the charter schools in these cities are on average more effective than district schools in raising student test scores.

The reports concludes with: «The small body of research focused on the effectiveness of K12 virtual schooling programs supports findings of similar studies on online courses offered in higher education.

In fact, studies of informal surveys of principals (see «When Principals Rate Teachers,» research, Spring 2006) and teacher ratings by mentor teachers find that these more - subjective evaluation methods have similar power to detect differences in teacher effectiveness as the TES ratings.

Suella Fernandes MP, Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Financial Education, said: «These research findings clearly show that there is plenty more to do to improve the delivery of financial education, which remains inconsistent and varying in effectiveness.

The findings, discussed at the fall meeting of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, are part of a comprehensive, three - year study of the program, which trains 10,000 teachers each year.

Using rigorous non-experimental methods, a 2013 study of charters in 16 states by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes found that average charter school effectiveness increased overall, due in large part to closures of poorly performing schools.

Most research on teacher effectiveness has focused on teacher attributes, finding that readily measurable characteristics such as experience, certification, and graduate degrees generally have little impact on student achievement.

She is also a founding Board member of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness.

Research Now conducted a survey of 618 California teachers, principals and superintendents to find out their opinions on teacher effectiveness, tenure, dismissal and «last - in, first - out» layoffs.

E-Learning Research: How are districts evaluating the effectiveness of virtual education and then using those findings to make improvements?

The most striking finding was that charter — high school attendance may positively affect the chance that a student will graduate and go on to college — two critical outcomes that have not been examined in previous research — suggesting the need to look beyond achievement - test scores when measuring the effectiveness of charter schools.

Prior to founding the Third Mile Group, she had seven years of research, policy, and leadership experience at Education Commission of the States, focusing on school and district leader effectiveness.

The fact that such large improvements in student learning could be achieved with these common metrics going in the «wrong direction» reinforces a common finding in education research: teacher credentials and turnover are not always good barometers of effectiveness.

JM: External research has validated TFA's findings on teacher effectiveness: a June 2004 study by Mathematica Policy Research found that TFA teachers perform at least as well as traditionally prepared and certified teachers in similar schools, while a 2006 study published in Education Next (see Kane, Rockoff, and Staiger, «Photo Finish,» research, Winter 2007) found the same to be true in New Yoresearch has validated TFA's findings on teacher effectiveness: a June 2004 study by Mathematica Policy Research found that TFA teachers perform at least as well as traditionally prepared and certified teachers in similar schools, while a 2006 study published in Education Next (see Kane, Rockoff, and Staiger, «Photo Finish,» research, Winter 2007) found the same to be true in New YoResearch found that TFA teachers perform at least as well as traditionally prepared and certified teachers in similar schools, while a 2006 study published in Education Next (see Kane, Rockoff, and Staiger, «Photo Finish,» research, Winter 2007) found the same to be true in New Yoresearch, Winter 2007) found the same to be true in New York City.

It does not, for example, do away with state - level certification of educators on grounds that research has found no link between such credentials and actual effectiveness.

In short, the education research community needs to prime the pump of evidence - based education with a supply of research findings that are of immediate relevance to workaday decision - making, e.g., recruiting tools that enhance the effectiveness of the workforce; ways to increase the productivity of the central office; and differences in the impact of available curriculum materials for particular types of teachers and students.

Much of this research converges on a common set of policies, actions, and conditions associated with district - wide improvement and effectiveness, as described in section 2.2, above.236 Findings from this research are consistent with investigations that have focused specifically on the actions of superintendents and other senior administrators.237

First, despite findings from existing and emerging research for educational effectiveness in terms of instructional effectiveness and its impact on teaching and learning, there is a disturbing level of ignorance among school leaders and teachers at all levels of educational provision related to what works and why — especially as they relate to the teaching of literacy and numeracy.

Summary findings from the Fall 2011 issue of the Middle Grades Research Journal dedicated to examining the effectiveness of the Developmental Designs approach.

Researchers found, not surprisingly given prior research in this area, that neither teacher performance using value - added nor effectiveness using observations was highly stable over time.

A 2015 study by MIT Department of Economics and the National Bureau of Economic Research measuring the effectiveness of the Louisiana voucher program, finding students that participated in the program performed substantially worse than comparable students who stayed in public schools.

The new research offers a fresh explanation for this finding, claiming that some schools do not routinely collect data on bullying and the effectiveness of their anti-bullying approaches as they perceive it to be costly and burdensome.

iObservation is the only system where you can find content frameworks from leaders in the field, including Dr. Robert Marzano's research - proven strategies for teacher effectiveness.

He also reviewed research on teacher effectiveness based upon type of preparation (traditional training, alternative training, and no training), which found that all forms of teacher training provided virtually identical results for student growth.

But academy chains vary in their effectiveness; Reform's new research attempts to find out why Selection in 2016 looks very different from grammars and secondary moderns, Theresa May insinuated last week at prime minister's questions.

New research attempts to determine the best way to measure principal effectiveness using students» test scores — and finds that the task is trickier than anticipated.

Her work has been published in the American Educational Research Journal, Community College Review, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Educational Researcher, Economics of Education Review, Journal of Higher Education, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, and the invitation - only journal New Directions for Community Colleges, among others; the findings form her studies have also been widely cited in various news outlets including the New York Times, The Atlantic, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, Diverse Issues in Higher Education, and other outlets.

Comprehensive studies can be found at: Effectiveness Research

He is a founding member of the board of directors for the Consortium for Research on Education Assessment and Teaching Effectiveness.