Sentences with phrase «experimental evaluations of»

He has conducted numerous experimental evaluations of interventions to prevent tobacco, other drug use, high - risk sexual behavior, reading failure, and aggressive social behavior.

However, the strongest evidence for these effects comes from experimental evaluations of small, highly enriched programs.

Although regression discontinuity estimates are unbiased, we might also want to see effects of random assignment experimental evaluations of preschool for children from advantaged groups.

Learning from small - scale experimental evaluations of after school programs.

My colleagues and I just released a meta - analysis of 19 «gold standard» experimental evaluations of the test - score effects of private school choice programs around the world.

M. Danish Shakeel, Kaitlin Anderson, and I just released a meta - analysis of 19 «gold standard» experimental evaluations of the test - score effects of private school choice programs around the world.

Two recent experimental evaluations of the Louisiana Scholarship Program found negative effects of the program on student test scores but one study was limited to just a single year of outcome data and the second one (which I am leading) has only analyzed two years of outcome data so far.

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.

Earlier experimental evaluations of voucher programs were somewhat more likely to report achievement gains from the programs in math than in reading — the opposite of what was observed for the OSP.

In every experimental evaluation of private school voucher programs, the students who won the voucher lottery but did not consistently use their voucher to attend private schools have remained in the study over time as members of the treatment group, and the students who lost the voucher lottery but enrolled in private school have remained in the study as members of the control group.

The experimental evaluation of the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program is continuing into its fourth and final year of studying the impacts on students and parents.

In the experimental evaluation of the initial DC Opportunity Scholarship Program that I led from 2004 to 2011, the number of students in testing grades dropped substantially from year 3 to year 4, leading to a much noisier estimate of the reading impacts of the program, which were positive but just missed being statistically significant with 95 % confidence.

SCSF asked an independent research team to conduct an experimental evaluation of the impact of the intervention on student achievement and other outcomes, such as school climate and school quality, as reported by the students» parents or other guardians.

Currently, she is the principal investigator of an experimental evaluation of the 4Rs Program — a universal school - based intervention designed to integrate social - emotional learning and literacy development — funded by National Institute of Mental Health, the Institute for Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education, as well as by the William T. Grant Foundation.

«Using an Experimental Evaluation of Charter Schools to Test Whether Nonexperimental Comparison Group Methods Can Replicate Experimental Impact Estimates.»

However, the most recent experimental evaluation of the D.C. voucher program showed negative test - score effects after one year, even though the study did not rely on a state - mandated test — and despite the fact that an earlier study of the program showed no effects.

An experimental evaluation of Guided Reading and explicit interventions for primary - grade students at - risk for reading difficulties.

Experimental evaluation of the effects of a research - based preschool mathematics curriculum.

Finally, we test the wisdom of relying on an experimental evaluation of popular charter schools to make inferences about all other charter schools.

Experimental Evaluation of the Effects of a Research - Based Preschool Mathematics Curriculum

This paper presents the results of an experimental evaluation of a change in assessment practice in one comprehensive secondary school.

«The CAP review heavily relies on the most recent experimental evaluation of the D.C. voucher program.

She directs the Wisconsin Scholars Longitudinal Study, an experimental evaluation of the impact of need - based financial aid on college graduation.

Shifting Boundaries: Final Report on an Experimental Evaluation of a Youth Dating Violence Prevention Program in New York City Middle Schools (2011)

Findings from an Experimental Evaluation of Playworks: Effects on Play, Physical Activity and Recess

New report on the NightCool performance in test buildings: Experimental Evaluation of the NightCool Nocturnal Radiation Cooling Concept: Performance Assessment in Scale Test Buildings, Danny S. Parker, John R. Sherwin Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC)

Breaking the cycle of deprivation: an experimental evaluation of an early childhood intervention

The present study investigates two main issues: first it examines how differences in the participants» self - criticism are connected to resourceful personality traits that might buffer against harsh selfcriticism; second an experimental evaluation of intervention techniques after self - criticism takes place.

Funded by Atlantic Philanthropies and the Irish Government, the experimental evaluation of the Preparing for Life early childhood intervention in a community in Dublin, Ireland, is now reaching the end of its data collection period.

An experimental evaluation of positive behavior support in a community preschool program.

Not exact matches

An evaluation of Hawaii's Healthy Start program found no differences between experimental and control groups in maternal life course (attainment of educational and life goals), substance abuse, partner violence, depressive symptoms, the home as a learning environment, parent - child interaction, parental stress, and child developmental and health measures.25 However, program participation was associated with a reduction in the number of child abuse cases.

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Usually, experimental studies interested in HRI and participants» evaluations of humanoid service robots — due to limited resources — need to fall back on video stimuli.

Evaluation of a new bioresorbable barrier to facilitate guided bone regeneration around exposed implant threads: An experimental study in the monkey.

13:55 - 14:15 Roger Olsson, Lund University, Dept. of Experimental Medical Science Using zebrafish larvae in phenotypic CNS drug discovery and toxicology evaluation

An experimental system for the evaluation of retroviral vector design to diminish the risk for proto - oncogene activation.

The sample size of 15 in the 10 µg dose group and 30 each in the 25 µg and 50 µg dose groups was chosen to balance the need to detect any possible untoward reactions against the need to limit the number of volunteers exposed to an experimental vaccine for evaluation of safety.

An initial evaluation of monitoring methods for this project will occur over the next several weeks with experimental work occurring in the fall and next summer.

The Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center is one of 11 Lead Academic Organization sites of the National Cancer Institute's Experimental Therapeutics Clinical Trials Network (ETCTN), which supports the evaluation of early phase clinical trials on experimentaExperimental Therapeutics Clinical Trials Network (ETCTN), which supports the evaluation of early phase clinical trials on experimentalexperimental therapies.

Below we report the experimental results for a new selective mechanism of PNB generation around clusters of gold NPs, and the evaluation of the developed mechanism at cell level for the theranostics of prostate cancer cells growing amidst normal stroma.

This might be affected by the experimental conditions (e.g. evaluation of memory responses).

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.

The experimental design of the D.C. evaluation, while a methodological strength in many ways, makes it difficult to connect the context of students» educational experiences with specific outcomes in any reliable way.

The other parts of the study will focus on experimental research to establish the impact of mindfulness on the mental resilience of teenagers as well as an evaluation of the most effective way to train teachers to deliver mindfulness classes.

By choosing a random set of learners and comparing them with other learners receiving a particular intervention, an experimental evaluation can answer with reasonable certainty whether the effects are the result of the program or due to some other explanation.

Finally, there is nothing arbitrary or selective in our sample of experimental evaluations.

Experimental evaluations take the complete population of students who are eligible for a choice program and motivated to use it, then employ a lottery to randomly assign some students to receive a school - choice voucher or scholarship and the rest to serve in the experimental coExperimental evaluations take the complete population of students who are eligible for a choice program and motivated to use it, then employ a lottery to randomly assign some students to receive a school - choice voucher or scholarship and the rest to serve in the experimental coexperimental control group.

Sixteen evaluations of eight programs in Charlotte, North Carolina; Dayton and Toledo, Ohio; D.C.; Louisiana; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and New York City used «gold standard» experimental designs.

My survey included one experimental question and three universal questions, with each providing a nuanced understanding of whose voices state education policy makers value when making teacher evaluation policy decisions.

Earlier this year, EdNext published an evaluation of an experimental program at three community colleges in New York that was also aimed at changing the way remediation works.