Sentences with phrase «evaluation found benefits»

If the county's own evaluation found benefits from Singapore Math, why not continue using it?

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The evaluation revealed that the nutrition integrity project had a positive impact beyond the schools that participated in the pilot; once the benefits of combi ovens were explained and publicized, other schools wanted to follow suit, either through the program or by finding other creative ways to finance their purchases.

Agency officials said they disagreed with some of the audit's findings and believe their evaluations of development projects and their potential benefits to the city are thorough.

His auditors found $ 1,981,802 in unauthorized salaries and fringe benefits, $ 310,136 in undocumented consulting costs, and $ 173,539 in staff bonuses for teachers whose evaluations showed they did not deserve them.

The first in - depth evaluation of the popular benefit cap, carried out by the Chartered Institute of Housing, similarly found it was failing in its intention to encourage people towards work and into cheaper housing stock.

Contrary to the popular view among many executives that corporate social responsibility is unlikely to benefit their company, our findings suggest that in addition to benefiting society, corporate social responsibility can contribute to a company's bottom line by improving consumer evaluations of their products,» the authors conclude.

It seems to me that your husband would benefit from a nutrition evaluation and take into account his medical history to find a nourishing, tasty and easy to digest diet for his health condition.

Decades of evaluations on Head Start have found nothing like the benefits of the tiny Perry program.

Tuttle, et al's recent evaluation of KIPP charter schools also finds large achievement test gains for charter students but little or no attainment benefit.

«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

The persistence of the benefits of tracking is striking, as many evaluations find that the test - score effects of successful interventions fade over time.

And this attainment benefit is consistent with the findings of the U.S. Department of Education's official evaluation of the DC Opportunity Scholarship voucher program, led by my colleague Patrick Wolf, which found:

The evaluation also found that benefits to the teachers, in turn, positively impacted their students» cognitive, emotional, and social capacities.

The positive findings in the Education Department's recent evaluation of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship program provide more evidence that high - quality private and parochial schools can have invaluable benefits for low - income, minority students.

In the UK, recent evaluations of programmes that have included a focus on teaching reading comprehension strategies have not found such an extensive impact, though there is evidence that children from disadvantaged backgrounds may benefit more.

The most methodologically rigorous evaluations find that the academic benefits of preschool programs are quite modest, and these gains fade after children enter elementary school.

In the absence of a mechanism by which these findings are translated and incorporated into the design and administration of teacher evaluation systems, these systems will not benefit as the state - of - the - art knowledge improves.

These findings are notable given that proportional teacher evaluations offer a number of other policy benefits.

Ultimately, although there are benefits to adopting a senior dog from a group that can provide your future dog with high - level evaluation and care prior to adoption and support for the adoption after, the senior dog that is the best match for you and your family is just as likely to be found at an open - intake shelter as at a senior rescue.

In reality, the Obama midterm evaluation was built upon a 1,217 page analysis performed by EPA staff, a rigorous scientific and economic review that found that car companies currently had the technology to achieve the targets for model years 2022 - 2025, and that the economic benefits to car buyers would outweigh increased costs of compliance.

It found that she had not received many benefits from anger management classes and had refused to complete the mental health evaluation the court had ordered.

The Aos evaluation also assessed the costs and benefits as reported in a meta - analysis of home - visiting programs and found an average of $ 2.24 saved for each dollar invested in home - visiting programs.

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.

The evaluation found clear benefits for students, school staff and for schools.

Here's a decent explanation, including why it's important to plan for this transition; the benefits to children, families, and teachers of such planning; and the chief differences between the EI system and preschool service system in terms of child find, referral, evaluation, eligibility, family involvement, the type of plan that's written and the services that are delivered.

It is based on the hypothesis that inaccurate and unhelpful beliefs, ineffective coping behaviour, negative mood states, social problems, and pathophysiological processes all interact to perpetuate the illness.8 9 Treatment aims at helping patients to re-evaluate their understanding of the illness and to adopt more effective coping behaviours.7 8 9 An early uncontrolled evaluation of this type of treatment produced promising results in many patients but was unacceptable to some.10 Two subsequent controlled trials found cognitive behaviour therapy to offer no benefit over non-specific management.11 12 However, the form of cognitive behaviour therapy evaluated may have been inadequate.

The findings of this evaluation of the Early Start program seem to show a similar range of benefits to those reported by Olds et al14 in their evaluation of the outcomes of the Elmira trial of the Nurse Family Partnership Program at 34 months follow - up.

However, what one would expect to find is that effective programs would show the pattern of small but pervasive benefits that are evident in this evaluation.

Although there has been a widespread support and advocacy for home visitation programs, 7 rigorous evaluations of these programs using randomized trials have often failed to demonstrate benefits.8 — 12 For example, in a recent review of randomized trials of home visitation, Gomby et al13 concluded that «none found significant effects on all or even a majority of the measures employed, and many revealed no positive effects at all» (p 12).

Frank Porter Graham researchers also conducted annual statewide evaluations of NC Pre-K, which found that NC Pre-K participants made greater gains than would be expected for normal developmental growth, with particular benefits for dual language learners and low - income students.Peisner - Feinberg, E.S. (2014, May).