Sentences with phrase «evidence about the impact»

In FatherWorld, Dr Patrice Engle, who leads the UN's fatherhood programmes, describes how UNICEF has recently created new projects in dozens of countries to support fatherhood because of the latest evidence about its impact on child poverty, breastfeeding and education.

Evidence about the impact of antenatal education on fathers is mixed.

We have anecdotal evidence about the impact of the digital echo chamber in 2016, but we don't know the exact cause nor the exact effect.

Health technology assessment (HTA), for example, is a tool that tries to combine all available medical, economical, and sociological evidence about the impact of a certain treatment, drug, or medical device.

While these findings provide encouraging evidence about their impact on students who no longer had to attend those high schools, future debates should be sensitive to both the limitations inherent in this study and issues not yet addressed by this or other research.

The report concludes by characterizing the current state of research on instructional coaching, noting that there is a growing body of information about the instructional coaching role, but as yet, little definitive evidence about its impact.

Evidence about the impact of data use on student learning is still quite meager; it has to be cobbled together from different strands of research.

With a colleague I carried out a review a few years ago for UNESCO of all major donors» activities related to teachers in multi-year projects with over $ 1 million funding and the biggest takeaway was that most funding that one can identify as earmarked for teachers goes to short - term in - service courses and that there is very little evidence about impact.

The weight of evidence about the impact of teacher quality on measurable student outcomes shows that teacher quality is dwarfed by out - of - school factors, and the evidence on value - added methods of determining teacher quality is not valid.

Assisting schools in identifying and collecting evidence about the impact of the program on their school community

«The association between parental engagement and a child's academic success is well established... parental engagement is consistently associated with pupils» success at school... [but] there is surprisingly little robust evidence about the impact of approaches designed to improve learning through increased parental engagement.»

The next useful step would be to test the approach through a randomised controlled trial, which will provide stronger evidence about the impact of the programme.

It all requires strong leadership driven by a relentless determination to maximize the impact on student learning, improve the nature of the evidence about that impact, and make the right decisions going forward.

This paper presents basic evidence about the impact of school quality on individual earnings and on economic growth.

By developing evaluation plans about the impact of teaching and learning, then your own effects can lead to others seeing the value of these questions, providing evidence about the impact on student learning and teachers teaching, and create a healthy respect for ensuring all making the difference.

Here we identify challenges districts face in bringing about change, strategies that seem useful in improving student learning and evidence about the impact of the district on improving student achievement.

Citing Raj Chetty, John Friedman, and Jonah Rockoff, he also shares evidence about the impact of great teaching, arguing, «Being assigned to a teacher with a track record of student achievement gains is associated with higher earnings and rates of college going.»

Willfully disregarding scientific evidence about the impact of climate change undermines scientific authority and polarises public understandings.

However, the Tribunal did not award compensation for injury to dignity to Ms. Abbey even though evidence about the impact of discrimination was provided.

Young Legal Aid Lawyers are collaborating with The Access to Justice Alliance to collect evidence about the impact of recent legal aid changes on clients.

It will be interesting to know if mainstream health organisations have also made such a submission, given the growing body of evidence about the impact of racism on health which has led some experts to say that means we need to look at toughening racial discrimination laws, not weakening them.

The evidence about the impact of compromised parent - infant interaction in terms of the infants rapidly developing neurological system is now extensive (see Background) and evaluations of appropriately focused infant massage interventions for these groups, are urgently needed.

The report on which this brief is based synthesizes the research evidence about the impact of community schools on student and school outcomes.

And with an associated commitment to closing the gap in Indigenous health outcomes, it was clear from a symposium in Melbourne last week that his Government will also need to look at growing evidence about the impact of racism on child health and education.

Not exact matches

About MaRS EXCITE The MaRS Excellence in Clinical Innovation and Technology Evaluation initiative (EXCITE) is a groundbreaking partnership between the health system, academe, government and industry to establish effective pre-market evidence development and evaluation of high - impact medical technologies.

9 Consumer Social Media Trends That Could Impact Marketers — Social Media Examiner has put together a nice piece with recent evidence of social media happenings that you should know about and take into account when planning for future marketing efforts.

I don't think it will have a lot of impact on the economy and I worry about the harm of larger deficits — evidence says that if it pays for itself it won't be while this Congress is around — but it does try to go more directly at the problem.

In WILTW April 6, 2017, we warned about the margin squeeze negatively - impacting the consumer packaged goods sector, and the mounting evidence suggests that the problem is not temporary.

A survey last month by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found «little evidence to suggest that concerns about the candidates» respective faiths will have a meaningful impact in the fall elections.»

Even after social scientists had accumulated data demonstrating that the optimistic predictions concerning the impact of divorce and single - parent families on women and children had failed to materialize, most mainline churches ignored this evidence, continuing to say little or nothing about the issues.

Experimental evidence on the impact of food advertising on children's knowledge about and preferences for healthful food.

Existing evidence does not suggest that concerns about the impact of breastfeeding on an HIV - positive mother's health should be the basis for the infant feeding decision.

The Scottish Government reduced its limit to 50mg / 100 ml in 2014, but similar measures in the rest of the UK have been resisted because of fears of their impact on pubs About the Institute of Alcohol Studies The Institute of Alcohol Studies is an independent institute bringing together evidence, policy and practice from home and abroad to promote an informed debate on alcohol's impact on society.

Osborne said the Treasury would offer more evidence about the short - term economic impact of Brexit — including on house prices and wages — in a second report in the coming days.

Notes to Editors The report, «How alcohol industry organisations mislead the public about alcohol and cancer», by Mark Petticrew, Nason Maani Hessari, Cécile Knai and Elisabete Weiderpass, will be published online in Drug and Alcohol Review at 22:00 6 September 2017 The Institute of Alcohol Studies is an independent institute bringing together evidence, policy and practice from home and abroad to promote and informed debate on alcohol's impact on society.

Theresa May faced accusations from within government that she tried to remove evidence about the positive impact of immigration on the British economy from a critical report that was published before the EU referendum.

«We're getting stronger evidence that there's something unusual about the core - mantel boundary under Africa that could be having an important impact on the global magnetic field.»

«We're getting stronger evidence that there's something unusual about the core - mantel boundary under Africa that could be having an important impact on the global magnetic field,» Tarduno says.

«There are a lot of disparate theories about what could have a profound impact on aging and age - related processes, but at this point, we simply do not have evidence - based strategies to significantly change our life expectancy that come in the form of a pill,» says Ronald DePinho, professor of cancer biology and president of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

«But there's growing evidence that the combination of foods in your diet impacts your disease risk more than any single nutrient, so we think our central finding that healthier diets cost about $ 1.50 more has the most public health relevance.»

The Chancellor should appoint a Chief Scientific Adviser to develop the evidence - base and lead a debate about the future direction of the government's economic impact agenda prior to the next spending review.»

However, more evidence is needed to draw causal inferences about the long - term impact of school breakfast on academic outcomes, according to the study background.

Until the discovery of P4, they had not worried about dust near Pluto affecting the spacecraft because there was no evidence to suggest that small impacts could release it from the surface of Pluto or Charon.

The new evidence has the potential to alter perceptions about which planets in the universe could sustain life and may mean that humans are having an even greater impact on levels of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere than accepted evidence from climate history studies of ice cores suggests.

When I asked about evidence on impacts, I was directed to a perfunctory questionnaire.

«We're getting stronger evidence that there's something unusual about the core - mantle boundary under Africa that could be having an important impact on the global magnetic field.»

As you'll see when you get our book, we give great weight to avoiding toxic compounds in plant foods, but have no strong recommendations about vegetables — we recommend eating them to taste, since the evidence suggests their health impact is minimal, not clearly positive or negative.

In a recent article in Education Next, «Valuing Teachers,» I presented evidence about the huge economic impacts of highly effective teachers.

«Little is known about whether (professional development) can have a positive impact on achievement when a program is delivered across a range of typical settings and when its delivery depends on multiple trainers,» conclude Wayne and co. «Despite a consensus in the literature on the features of effective (professional development), there is limited evidence on the specific features that make a difference for achievement.»

While there is considerable anecdotal evidence that principals are important — including various movies about the charismatic principal or the bumbling bureaucrat, there has been very little systematic evidence about the magnitude of differences among principals or about their impact on student learning.