Sentences with phrase «evaluations found increases»

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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.»

This is to our knowledge the first UK - wide evaluation of the Baby Friendly Initiative, and our findings provide evidence to support this policy as an intervention to increase rates of breastfeeding initiation.

The findings illustrate the importance of expediting stroke evaluation testing for those who have experienced a retinal infarction, and for increased awareness and understanding about retinal infarctions and how they may signal future strokes.

One statistical finding worth noting: In terms of overall life evaluation, a 1 percent increase in the share of taxable income held by the top 1 percent has the same negative effect in life satisfaction as a 1.4 percent rise in the country - level unemployment rate.

New research from the Texas Policy Evaluation Project (TxPEP) exploring the impact of House Bill 2 (HB 2)-- the restrictive Texas abortion law that was struck down by the Supreme Court — found that increases in travel distance to the nearest abortion clinic caused by clinic closures were closely associated with decreases in the official number of abortions.

Those few studies have found that isotretinoin treatment caused significant increases in TSH levels, but further evaluation was deemed necessary relating to whether the drug may play a role in triggering autoimmunities, such as Hashimoto's, in genetically susceptible individuals.

Yes, an evaluation of the cytotoxic and genotoxic activity of yerba maté on human white blood cells found it caused a significant increase in the rate of cell death.

In light of these findings, in recent years there has been increasing policy attention to all aspects of the human capital pipeline, including recruitment, selection, and evaluation.

One random - assignment evaluation found that sending parents that single postcard reminder about the importance of attending school increased attendance by 2.4 percent.

The initial evaluation of the OSP found that participation increased reading test scores, parents» perceptions of safety, and high school graduation rates.

I compare the impacts of increased family support on student test scores from these four studies with the impacts of pre-K school readiness interventions using, first, a synthesis of findings from 67 pre-K evaluations of test outcomes 2 - 4 years after pre-K, [xv] and, second, the follow - up findings from the Head Start Impact Study [xvi] for 3rd graders.

Pay Teachers More and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012 District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great - Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay Teachers More — Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building Support for Breakthrough Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and More — May 31, 2012 New Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New Schools — Mar 15, 2012 Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011 City - Based Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011 Charter Philanthropy in Four Cities — Aug 04, 2011 School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing Schools: Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New Teacher Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010 Charter School Research from Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010 Public Impact's latest on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving Failing Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education and Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That Works — May 29.

Findings from this large and comprehensive evaluation show that KIPP schools lead to educationally meaningful increases in student achievement, not just in basic reading and math, but in a broader set of subjects, including science and social studies.»

According to Valerie Strauss in her Washington Post Answer Sheet blog, the study found that «the report, together with a number of other studies released in the past year, effectively serve as a warning to policymakers in states that are moving to implement laws, with support from the Obama administration, to make teacher and principal evaluation largely dependent on increases in students» standardized test scores.»

I'm talking about things like teacher licensing mandates, which researchers have long found do not improve teacher quality and traffic in disproven education fads (but do provide easy - access cash cows for state departments of education and teacher colleges since teachers are required to keep buying their products to maintain certification); ever - increasing testing and data - entry mandates; centralized curriculum mandates like Common Core; centralized teacher evaluation and ratings systems; and the massive data entry required to document things like student behavior problems and special education services.

That 2011 paper found that increases in teachers» performance on Cincinnati's teacher - evaluation system correlated to increases in achievement among their students.

Specifically, each of four evaluations of U.S. family income support programs found substantially larger test score increases per $ 1,000 of public expenditure than resulted from programs specifically aimed at improving educational outcomes by focusing on school readiness.

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.

The Year 3 evaluation findings validate that the ELPFP serves as an effective initiative, and provides a well - established foundation and road map for the expansion of increased investment and accountability.

To promote cultures of continuous growth, schools and school districts should encourage and support feedback loops, honest coaching conversations, and collaboration toward improved student outcomes.59 A recent report found that when teachers are more open to feedback, their evaluation scores are more likely to increase over time.60 Furthermore, the introduction of new teacher evaluation systems in recent years has created an opportunity to provide teachers with much more effective feedback and to more intentionally target professional learning to individual teachers» needs.61 When professional learning is rooted in collaboration and meaningful opportunities to apply new skills, these systems can become essential components of evaluation systems that support teacher growth.62

Lastly, researchers found that in 2014, «79 % of teachers reported that the evaluation process had increased their levels of stress and anxiety, and almost 60 % of teachers agreed or strongly agreed the evaluation process takes more effort than the results are worth.»

An evaluation of five U.S. higher - education textbook publishers, representing more than 85 % of college textbook sales, found an 82 % increase in textbook prices since 2002, as compared to a 28 % rise in the overall Consumer Price Index during the same period.

A study of Arizona's career ladder program, which requires the use of various methods of student assessment to complement evaluations of teachers» practice, found that, over time, participating teachers demonstrated an increased ability to create locally - developed assessment tools to assess student learning gains in their classrooms; to develop and evaluate pre - and post-tests; to define measurable outcomes in hard - to - quantify areas like art, music, and physical education; and to monitor student learning growth.

Many of those evaluations — in New York City, Dayton, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., as well as in the states of Florida, Minnesota, and Louisiana — reported a modest increase or neutral impact on student achievement and graduation rates.9 The findings of some of these studies, however, have more recently been called into question as methodological flaws were discovered when adding additional years or replicating the study.10 As a result, recent voucher program evaluations employ more rigorous research methods such as experimental and quasi-experimental designs and refine their use of certain variables.

They found that not only did performance (as measured by math achievement of students) increase during the evaluation year, but the gains were sustained in subsequent years.

A Porsche Macan Turbo was on - hand for road evaluation and we found it to have a slightly more compliant base suspension setting and more relaxed on - road driving characteristics that subtly increase the Porsche's usability bandwidth.

Not surprisingly, the Frame and Stone result is very similar to our evaluation of the FAR projections, finding that they accurately simulated the global surface temperature response to the increased greenhouse effect since 1990.

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.

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.

Grey literature will be searched in order to increase the chance of finding evaluations that not have been published in peer - review journals.

Substance Use, The Opioid Epidemic and the Child Welfare Sytem: Key Findings From a Mixed Methods Study Office of the Assistane Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (2018) Analyzes the connection between parental substance use and the increased caseloads for child welfare workers.

Probably the most extensive evaluation of program effects on very young children was undertaken in Canada's Self - Sufficiency Project (SSP), the voluntary earnings supplement program that had large initial effects on full - time employment and income.5 Despite concerns that increases in full - time work would reduce parents» time with their young children, no effects on children were found either at the 36 - month follow - up point, when a test of language comprehension was administered to the children who would then have been three to five years of age, or at the 54 - month follow - up point, when parents were asked about their children's school performance.

A nine - year, large - scale federally funded evaluation of the Title V program found no measurable impact on increasing abstinence or delaying sexual initiation among participating youth.

Substance Use, The Opioid Epidemic and the Child Welfare System: Key Findings From a Mixed Methods Study Office of the Assistane Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (2018) Analyzes the connection between parental substance use and the increased caseloads for child welfare workers.

Although one program in Oklahoma City slightly increased relationship stability, the most rigorous evaluation of the programs in eight cities found that, overall, they created no long - term improvements in new unwed parents» relationship quality, marriage rates, or children's economic wellbeing, and they actually resulted in modest decreases in fathers» financial support and parental involvement.

An evaluation of the intervention found moderate levels of increased awareness, use of promotional materials and an increase in vaccination.

Many more research studies, including program evaluations, have become more rigorous, which increases the confidence one can place in their findings.

These findings led to increased efforts by the agencies to monitor evaluation data to be regularly returned to the program for improvement, a process called continuous program improvement.

Research on Smart Start found that child care quality increased in the study sample, that Smart Start - funded activities were positively related to classroom quality, and that quality was positively related to children's outcomes.See an overview of Frank Porter Graham's Smart Start evaluation history; Bryant, D., & Ponder, K. (2004).