Sentences with phrase «evaluation studies from»

Linking parent behaviors to child achievement: Four evaluation studies from the parent education follow - through programs.

The report reviews 41 evaluation studies from a sample of 25 professional - development initiatives for teachers of math and science conducted across the United States from 2004 through 2007.

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Allyson Hugley, president of Measurement & Analytics for Weber Shandwick, notes that the data from the study could add another layer to the modes of evaluation that are already available to advertising and marketing agencies, building on traditional surveys and more recent technology such as beacons and RFID chips that are used during live events.

That's according to a new comprehensive study from the Health Effects Institute and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, with expert input from the University of British Columbia.

The first takeaway from this study for parents is that if your teenager has one or more of these symptoms on a daily basis for a month or more, you should have them seen by their primary care physician for evaluation and treatment.

A study of military families, in which co-sleeping is common because fathers (and, nowadays, mothers) are often away from home for extended periods, found that children who had coslept as babies received higher evaluations of their comportment in school and exhibited fewer psychiatric problems.

Of note is that we don't know the effect or possible effect of BPA in infant milk at this time, but studies that have found that BPA leaches from bottles into milk recommend further evaluation.

In a study from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, the researchers estimated that 18.5 mothers died for every 100,000 births in the U.S. in 2013, a total of almost 800 deaths.

* A study of parents of 86 children in clinics of pediatrics and child psychiatry (ages 2 - 13 years) on military bases (offspring of military personnel) revealed that cosleeping children received higher evaluations of their comportment from their teachers than did solitary sleeping children, and they were underrepresented in psychiatric populations compared with children who did not cosleep.

Design Economic evaluation with individual level data from the Birthplace national prospective cohort study.

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 BCDL study took notes from another research by the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project funded by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

«A combination of practical scenario and case study questions, with more conceptual essay questions, will test a range of skills essential to the international tax profession, from determining a client's tax position based on an understanding of applicable legislation, to offering analysis, evaluation and advocacy on a topical issue in international tax discourse.»

Beginning in February, 40 study sections will meet earlier than usual to review submissions from first - time applicants and provide written evaluations within a week.

What sets the study apart from most previous evaluations is its randomized, controlled design — a relatively new approach honed by lead author Abhijit Banerjee, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and his colleagues.

The recommendations may also fail to find sufficient proof that routine screenings work because they're only looking at research done in primary care, not studies of outcomes from evaluations done by vision specialists, noted Dr. David Parke II, chief executive of the American Academy of Ophthalmology in San Francisco and author of an editorial in JAMA Ophthalmology March 1.

Marie Ng, Ph.D., of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, and colleagues conducted a study to estimate levels and trends in the prevalence of smoking by age and sex and consumption of cigarettes for 187 countries from 1980 to 2012.

An analysis of diagnostic test results from the Prospective Multicenter Imaging Study for Evaluation of Chest Pain (PROMISE) trial — in which patients with stable chest pain were randomized to either anatomic or functional testing as an initial diagnostic strategy — showed that the presence and extent of coronary artery disease detected by CT angiography better predicted the risk for future cardiac events than did measures of exercise tolerance or restricted blood flow to the heart muscle.

Their website provides resources on a variety of evaluation approaches from case study, to participatory evaluation, to randomized controlled trials and outcome mapping.

«We know from previous studies that handshaking positively affects people's first impressions and evaluations of others,» said U. of I. graduate student Yuta Katsumi, who led the research with U. of I. psychology professors Sanda Dolcos and Florin Dolcos.

Across four studies, the authors examined how ads using pictures taken from either the same perspective or from multiple perspectives impact product evaluations.

Findings from Project 2061's curriculum evaluation study: Life science.

However, results from a new study show that teacher turnover under IMPACT, the teacher - evaluation system used in the District of Columbia Public Schools, improved student performance on average.

Given similar results from studies of a different oral cholera vaccine in Asia, the researchers argue that «additional evaluation of the optimal dosing schedule for oral cholera vaccines with the goal of improving long - term immunity is warranted.»

Evaluation of 66 patients with JDM, recruited from the UK JDM Cohort and Biomarker Study and actively treated with anti-TNF agents, showed significant improvements in muscle and skin involvement, as well as in overall disease activity.

Americans» Responses to the Great Recession,» the study relies on data from the 1984 - 2010 waves of the nationally representative General Social Survey (GSS); the GSS 2006-2008-2010 panel, which tracked a group of people over several years; the 2001 - 2011 Gallup surveys; and the Evaluations of Government and Society Study surveys from 2011 and study relies on data from the 1984 - 2010 waves of the nationally representative General Social Survey (GSS); the GSS 2006-2008-2010 panel, which tracked a group of people over several years; the 2001 - 2011 Gallup surveys; and the Evaluations of Government and Society Study surveys from 2011 and Study surveys from 2011 and 2012.

Scientists are involved in the evaluation of global - scale climate models, regional studies of the coupled atmosphere / ocean / ice systems, regional severe weather detection and prediction, measuring the local and global impact of the aerosols and pollutants, detecting lightning from space and the general development of remotely - sensed data bases.

This study was selected for the Trainee Paper Spotlight because it uses multiple techniques to understand disease pathophysiology from identification of genetic variants to evaluation of their role in disease pathogenesis.

Because of a lack of standardised and harmonised preclinical studies, there is limited information we can so far obtain from literature on the relative predictive value of different animal models and alternative methods for vaccine evaluation.

Alliance DCL will market the technologies and anticipates offering project - specific services, from feedstock characterization, pilot plant evaluation, feasibility studies and engineering design through plant start - up and ongoing technical support.

Su studied plasma and cerebrospinal fluid samples previously collected from patients undergoing diagnostic evaluation, who were later identified as having ALS.

Test and Evaluation of Biological Standoff Detection Systems — Abbreviated Version Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology and Board on Life Sciences, Division on Earth and Life Studies (2008, 42 pp.; ISBN 0 -309-11443-8; available from NAP).

Nigericin and grisorixin methyl ester from the Algerian soil - living Streptomyces youssoufiensis SF10 strain: a computational study on their epimeric structures and evaluation of glioblastoma stem cells growth inhibition — Nassima Leulmi — Natural Product Research

We encourage contributions on current and prospective observation technologies for GHGs, modeling studies to quantify budgets and / or uncertainties in GHG flux estimates, and evaluation and benchmarking of GHG estimates from Earth System Models using contemporary observations.

Physical therapists from Rutgers and NJIT will perform training and evaluations on participants recruited through Kessler Foundation and Kessler Institute, where the study will take place.

Dr. Lanteri played the role of Study Coordinator for several multi-center studies including the Central Laboratory portion of the «Recipient Epidemiology and Donor Evaluation Study (REDS)- III» supported by the NHLBI and as one of the REDS - III investigators, she has led several REDS - III studies addressing a variety of questions on the safety of blood donations and transfusions from both the donor and the recipient points of view.

In the late 70's Dr. Brian Richards, taken some in - depth studies in the effectiveness of the Arabic Jelq and his research was printed also from the British Journal of Sexual Medicine and shown amazingly favorable results for 87 % of the evaluation group.

Dietary intake of saturated fatty acids and mortality from cardiovascular disease in Japanese: the Japan Collaborative Cohort Study for Evaluation of Cancer Risk Study.

With thousands of supplements to choose from - and ever - shifting study results - a registered dietitian offers here a guide to: nutrition's latest findings; detailed explanations of vitamins and minerals; information on fats, carbohydrates, fiber, and proteins; daily requirements; health weight evaluation and management; food labels; meal planning; and combating disease through nutrition.

88, Ed.D.» 91, along with researchers from Abt Associates, Inc., and other institutions of higher learning, worked with Facing History's evaluation staff — including Terry Tollefson, Ed.D.»89 — to carry out the study using rigorous methods.

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.

Kirshner's study, published last September in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, showed dropout rates among displaced students rose from 7 to 15 percent; the likelihood of graduating fell from 71 to 49 percent.

This year the list is topped by four major research pieces: an analysis of how U.S. students from highly educated families perform compare with similarly advantaged students from other countries; a study investigating what students gain when they are taken on field trips to see high - quality theater performances; a study of teacher evaluation systems in four urban school districts that identifies strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation systems; and the results of Education Next's annual survey of public opinion on education.

The 2,308 students in the OSP study make it the largest school voucher evaluation in the U.S., making the achievement results even more compelling when compared to results from other, similar experimental evaluations of education policies undertaken by the federal government.

This study combines data on teacher requests (by parents) and teacher evaluations (by principals) from 12 elementary schools in a midsized school district that asked to remain anonymous, in the western United States.

AQA, GCSE Religious Studies B, NEW Specification B: Catholic Christianity, 3.12: Prayer and posture The PowerPoint contains: Learning objectives, prayer, starter, definition of key terms, notes from the AQA GCSE NEW specification B textbook, tasks and practice exam questions with sample structure for answering the evaluation question and finally the plenary.

AQA, GCSE Religious Studies B, NEW Specification B: Catholic Christianity, Unit 3.1 Psalms and the use of music in worship The PowerPoint contains: Learning objectives, prayer, starter, definition of key terms, notes from the AQA GCSE NEW specification B textbook, tasks and practice exam questions with sample structure for answering the evaluation question and finally the plenary.

AQA, GCSE Religious Studies B, NEW Specification B: Catholic Christianity, Unit 3.6: The influence of the Trinity on Christians today The PowerPoint contains: Learning objectives, prayer, starter, definition of key terms, notes from the AQA GCSE NEW specification B textbook, tasks and practice exam questions with sample structure for answering the evaluation question and finally the plenary.

Instead of an impressionistic study of the sort offered by Mirel, the kinds of reports that would be helpful to education professionals, and ultimately to students, include evaluations of designs that track individual student performance year to year; the percentage of students reaching local and state standards; a more widely disseminated study of design implementation so others can benefit from lessons learned; and the establishment of a district - wide roadmap for bringing comprehensive school improvement to fruition.

AQA, GCSE Religious Studies B, NEW Specification B: Catholic Christianity, 3.9 The authority of the Magisterium and its views on the Trinity The PowerPoint contains: Learning objectives, prayer, starter, definition of key terms, notes from the AQA GCSE NEW specification B textbook, tasks and practice exam questions with sample structure for answering the evaluation question and finally the plenary.