Sentences with phrase «evidence of impact under»

The RAND Corporation review found that the Playworks Coach service is one of only seven elementary school SEL interventions to meet the highest criteria for evidence of impact under...

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My guess is that it will be a difficult case to argue against the impact of the contraceptive coverage rule as anything but an «incidental effect» given it targets a market and there's no evidence that the rule is over or under inclusively fashioned as a pretext to target the religious beliefs of those opposed to contraception.

The discovery of coesite in the Chicxulub Crater under the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico was significant evidence that this geological formation resulted from the impact of a comet or large asteroid.

«There is plenty of evidence that maternal asthma has a negative impact on the health of pregnant mothers and their babies, and so our general advice is that women should take steps to get their asthma under control before trying to conceive,» he says.

Under IMPACT, the district sets detailed standards for high - quality instruction, conducts multiple observations, assesses individual performance based on evidence of student progress, and retains and rewards teachers based on annual ratings.

With the increasingly high stakes generated by inclusion under the Race to the Top, people have intensively searched the existing research evidence — sometimes with the intent of understanding the potential impacts but perhaps more frequently with an eye to supporting one or the other political side.

Changing the common sense beliefs of teachers about heterogeneous grouping effects on the learning of struggling students requires those providing leadership to bring relevant evidence to the attention of their colleagues in accessible and convincing ways, to encourage actual trials with heterogeneous groupings under conditions which include opportunities for practice, feedback and coaching and to help teachers generate «the kind of assessment information that will make the impact of tracking and detracking more visible» (Riehl, 2000).

Under Cardinali's leadership, the organization has developed and embraced an evidence - based model of integrated student service provision and has launched a national growth strategy to increase the organization's impact on improving public education.

The continuing growth of awareness of evidence and evaluation mean that CPD providers will, rightly, be under ever greater pressure to show that their advice is aligned to a strong evidence base and that they take evaluation of impact seriously.

No More Sea Shells by the Sea Shore — New Evidence of the Impacts of Rising CO2 Levels Clam and scallop shells show detrimental effects from increasing levels of carbon dioxide, and even when grown under current levels.

Compiled by 80 scientists from 12 countries, it highlights detectable scientific evidence of impacts on marine life, from microorganisms to mammals, which are likely to increase significantly even under a low emissions scenario.

Margolis, R.M. and D.M. Kammen, 1999: Evidence of under - investment in energy R&D in the United States and the impact of federal policy.

The Court unanimously found that, while the actions of the Downtown Ambassadors had negatively impacted the street homeless population, and that Indigenous and disabled persons (groups protected by human rights law) are over-represented in the street homeless population, the evidence presented was not enough to show that Indigeneity and disabled status were factors in the negative treatment experienced by the group to show discrimination under the Code.

Having examined the foundational weaknesses of the Bell coalition's website blocking plan (existing Canadian law, weak piracy evidence, limited impact) and its negative effects (lack of court orders, overblocking, ineffectiveness, violation of net neutrality, vulnerability on freedom of expression grounds, higher Internet costs, privacy risks), the case against the plan enters the final phase with several posts on how it fails to meet the requirements under the Telecommunications Act.

(ii) The matters to be dealt with are: - the aggravating and mitigating factors of the offence (not personal mitigation); - any statutory provisions relevant to the offender and the offence under consideration so that the judge is made aware of any statutory limitations on sentencing; - any relevant sentencing guidelines and guideline cases; - identifying any victim personal statement or other information available to the prosecution advocate about the impact of the offence on the victim; - where appropriate, any evidence of the impact of the offending on a community; - an indication, where applicable, of an intention to apply for any ancillary orders, such as anti-social behaviour orders and confiscation orders, and so far as possible, indicating the nature of the order to be sought.

In fact, there is evidence that where ABS have been there has been little impact on providing great access to the most under - serviced areas of law such as family and criminal matters.

Further, in describing flaws in the data the EEOC's expert Kevin Murphy relied upon to support the disparate impact claim, the Judge labeled these reports as 1) «laughable»; 2) «based on unreliable data»; 3) «rife with analytical error»; 4) containing «a plethora of errors and analytical fallacies,» and a «mind - boggling number of errors»; 5) «completely unreliable»; 6) «so full of material flaws that any evidence of disparate impact derived from an analysis of its contents must necessarily be disregarded»; 7) «distorted»; 8) «both over and under inclusive»; 9) «cherry - picked»; 10) «worthless»; and 11) «an egregious example of scientific dishonesty.»

despite the reforms to the native title system, the high cost, complexity and strict rules of evidence applying to claims under the Native Title Act, have a negative impact on the recognition and protection of the right of indigenous peoples to their ancestral lands.

In partnership with researchers from related projects in Canada, the UK, South Australia, the Northern Territory and Western Australia, Aboriginal organisations and policymakers, we will analyse whole - of - population data for New South Wales (NSW) to investigate the determinants of positive early childhood development in Aboriginal children, and assess the impacts of two «real - world» programmes that were implemented under circumstances where evidence of their efficacy was unable to be derived from RCTs: the NSW Aboriginal and Maternal Infant Health Service (AMIHS) 45 and the NSW Department of Family and Community Services (FACS) Brighter Futures Program.46 Early evaluations of these programmes suggested some positive changes in proximal outcomes related to their objectives.45, 47, 48 However, each of these evaluations was limited by one or more of the following: use of single data sets, less than 2 years of outcome data and / or issues of confounding and selection bias.