Sentences with phrase «evaluation found positive»

The evaluation found positive outcomes on measures of reading and problem behaviours while showing mixed results on other measures.

The Early Head Start evaluation found positive effects on children's development, as well as on parents» support for development and more positive discipline techniques.

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The researchers found that a positive «social evaluation» occurs in the brain when handshakes are present.

According to Forbes, studies conducted by University of Florida professor Timothy Judge found that «people with high core self evaluations, or positive self - concepts, had increased levels of job satisfaction, better job performance, higher income, higher work motivation and reduced stress and burnout.»

In our forthcoming article «Gender Bias, Social Impact Framing, and Evaluation of Entrepreneurial Ventures», published in Organization Science, we find that for female founders, highlighting the social impact of their ventures leads to more positive perceptions.

A 1990's evaluation of the Parents as Teachers (PAT) program also failed to find differences between groups on measures of parenting knowledge and behaviour or child health and development.17 Small positive differences were found for teen mothers and Latina mothers on some of these measures.

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.

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.

The Year 1 evaluation report of the PDG found that most teachers surveyed perceived that PDG interventions were having a positive impact on pupils.

Compared to attending scheduled in - person lectures, 57 percent of respondents to the end - of - course evaluation found watching video lectures at home to have a positive impact on their time management.

In sum, in the largest lottery - based evaluation of charter schools to date, we find that charter schools in New York City are having positive effects on the academic progress of the students who attend them.

This evaluation confirmed the positive outcomes found in previous studies, especially for students considered at high risk of dropping out when they entered the programs.

An independent evaluation of ELLA by the Swinburne University of Technology found it had a positive impact on children's engagement in learning about other languages and cultures.

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

But its findings are more positive than Rick suggests, especially when compared to conditions before the onset of teacher - evaluation reforms.

Multiple evaluations, by organizations ranging from the Manhattan Institute to the Urban League, have found the choice programs to have had a positive impact on Florida public schools.

High school reform researchers consistently find that immediate positive outcomes are more likely when launching a brand - new school like Manor New Tech, as compared to redesigning underperforming schools (National Evaluation of High School Transformation, 2006; cited in E3 Alliance, 2009).

All six evaluations, which include today's two new results, have found this approach to have a marked positive impact: the programmes resulted in an additional two to four months» progress for pupils, giving teachers and school leaders solid evidence on the best ways to use teaching assistants in their classroom.

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

The Evaluation of the Comprehensive School Reform Program Implementation and Outcomes: Fifth - Year Report (2010) presents overall findings from the evaluation of the comprehensive school reform (CSR) program, including an examination of whether CSR funding had a positive influence on academic acEvaluation of the Comprehensive School Reform Program Implementation and Outcomes: Fifth - Year Report (2010) presents overall findings from the evaluation of the comprehensive school reform (CSR) program, including an examination of whether CSR funding had a positive influence on academic acevaluation of the comprehensive school reform (CSR) program, including an examination of whether CSR funding had a positive influence on academic achievement.

The 2009 publication The Widget Effect (Weisberg, Sexton, Mulhern, & Keeling, 2009), a study of teacher evaluation practices in 12 diverse districts in four states, found that over 99 % of tenured teachers in districts using a satisfactory or unsatisfactory rating system earned a positive rating.

Thinking about whether school partnerships drive effective school improvement, our evaluation of The Gaining Ground Strategy (2009 - 11), comprising school - to - school partnership working; additional support from School Improvement Partners (SIPs); additional training in Assessment for Learning (AfL); and study support, found that Gaining Ground consistently had a positive effect on pupil attainment and attendance.

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.

Previous evaluations have found that grammar interventions can have a positive impact on writing skills.

Scholars at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the teaching fellows program and found positive results, including a) graduates teach in schools and classrooms with greater concentrations of higher performing and lower poverty students; b) graduates produce larger increases in student test scores in all high school exams and in 3rd - 8th grade mathematics exams; and c) teaching fellows remain in North Carolina public schools longer than other teachers.

An independent evaluation found that each Positive Action lesson includes at least seven language arts learning objectives.

Directly related to the Review of Article # 4 prior (i.e., # 4 of 9 on observational systems» potentials here), these researchers found that Chicago teachers are, in general, positive about the evaluation system, primarily given the system's observational component (i.e., the Charlotte Danielson Framework for Teaching, used twice per year for tenured teachers and that counts for 75 % of teachers» evaluation scores), and not given the inclusion of student growth in this evaluation system (that counts for the other 25 %).

(District of Columbia) Echoing research that dates back almost 50 years, the latest evaluation of the effectiveness of the federal Head Start program found positive effects on general reading achievement but nothing more.

But the Tennessee preschool evaluation, which had a randomized design, failed to find significant positive effects through first grade.

Positive findings in the evaluation of the 2009 - 10 programs noted in Table 1 include the following:

Prior rigorous evaluations of the program have generally found positive effects of TFA teachers on students» learning in math and science and no significant differences in reading or language arts, compared with non-TFA teachers» effects in the same schools.

In addition, evaluation projects carried on in the past few years have found positive results in other areas.

The evaluation, conducted by EY Sweeney, found that ASIC's MoneySmart Teaching Program is having a positive impact on teachers and supports stronger levels of student financial literacy, and greater engagement within the wider school community in financial literacy.

If your pet is showing signs of fear and anxiety, aggression, hyper - excitability, sudden changes in behavior, self - injury, obsessive compulsive - type behaviors, age - related changes or if you have worked with a trainer and your pet can't seem to learn or has plateaued in spite of positive reinforcement training, or you find yourself having to punish the behavior rather than building a positive relationship with your pet, you should see Dr. Sung for a full diagnostic evaluation.

The extremely positive findings of the evaluation support the continued use and further expansion of this innovative model of public legal education delivery.

The authors note that they don't want to overgeneralise their findings on Family Wellbeing to all Aboriginal Australians, but say evaluations have been positive across a range of sites in Australia, as have those for trials in Ghana, Papua New Guinea and with the Meti people in Canada.

The University of Queensland's Triple P — Positive Parenting Program significantly reduces the number of serious cases of emotional and behavioural problems in children when used as a public health strategy, interim findings of a major independent evaluation have found.

Importantly, states were required to spend at least three - quarters of the federal funds on home visiting models that met federal standards of evidence - based effectiveness.1 As many policy scholars have noted, that a national initiative brought the importance of evidence - based practice to the forefront of public policy is a triumph for social science and demonstrates the importance of rigorous program evaluation.2 With that triumph, however, comes a responsibility to ensure that the public's expectations for success of these programs are consistent with what researchers understand about the empirical evidence — will the same positive outcomes found in programs» randomized controlled trials emerge when those programs are taken to scale?

A free program in Ireland designed to promote more effective parenting is showing consistently positive changes for parents and children alike, according to findings from an independent evaluation.

Mr Buttery said that when the Triple P — Positive Parenting Program was made available in Ireland free of charge for all families of children aged up to eight, an independent evaluation of the delivery of the program found it led to lasting change — not just among parents and children, but also across the community.

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.

The size of the CfC impacts on most outcomes was small, but can be considered positive relative to what was observed in the early phase of the UK Sure Start evaluation.3 The current results are also comparable in size to those found in the later impact evaluation of the Sure Start programme, in which 3 - year - old children were exposed to mature SSLP throughout their entire lives.4 Reviews of the effectiveness of early childhood interventions have found that most studies reported effect sizes on parenting and child outcomes that were small to moderate.14 15 When comparing CfC and SSLP with other interventions, it is important to remember that the evaluations of these interventions measured effects on an entire population, rather than on programme participants, as is the case in the evaluation of many other interventions.

The results of evaluations of programs designed to alter parents» cognitive representations have yielded many positive findings, but few have obtained significant differences between treatment and control on attachment classifications.

High global self - esteem has been found to be related to positive self - evaluations, characterized by having an accepting attitude towards one's self, and has been identified as a crucial factor in preventing stress and mental health problems such as depression (Avison & McAlpine, 1992).

Evaluations of early childhood education programs consistently find positive impacts on high school graduation rates, including studies of Head Start and longitudinal studies of early preschool programs.

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).

Shilling et al. report that the results of qualitative and quantitative evaluations of peer support interventions confirm that these can have a positive effect on the psychological health of caregivers, although the findings are not entirely consistent.

An October 2010 evaluation report found «clear evidence that the Media Initiative for Children achieved positive effects regarding children's attitudes and awareness» in relation to their:

The Doodle Den programme also made a positive impact on improving concentration and reducing problem behaviours in school, according to findings from the randomised controlled evaluation conducted by the Centre for Effective Education at Queen's University Belfast.