Sentences with phrase «first rigorous study»

In 2013, Mathematica conducted the first rigorous study of the impact of EL middle schools on academic achievement outcomes.

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Omada Health's first product, called Prevent, is essentially an online version of the Diabetes Prevention Program, which grew out of an NIH study proving the most effective means of staving off diabetes is rigorous lifestyle intervention, overseen by health coaches.

I place absolutely first the need for rigorous adult formation, Bible study, attention to prayer and liturgy, and the development of Christian community as uncompromising as that of the New Testament church.

The problem of traditional Biblical study, according to Locke, is threefold: First, it replaces a rigorous rational scrutiny of all things with a credulous acceptance of miraculous and supernatural events.

This is believed to be the first study to use a rigorous nutritional analysis to evaluate healthfulness of food and drinks marketed by music stars, reviewing dozens of advertisements that were disseminated over a 14 - year period.

The study is believed to be the first rigorous experimental test of the role colonization history plays in adaptive radiation.

But new studies show that, if anything, the measures haven't been strict enough: A more rigorous culling policy in the first phase of the epidemic could have saved millions of animals, the researchers say.

The results are not surprising, says Bekoff, but it's the first rigorous scientific study to demonstrate that «wide - ranging animals don't like their freedom compromised.»

UNITY has completed a rigorous screening and preclinical testing process of candidate drugs, discovered in this study, and is launching a new clinical trial to assess its first drug, for patients with osteoarthritis of the knee this year.

A new study out today in Neurology, provides the first evidence that rigorous visual training restores rudimentary sight in patients who went partially blind after suffering a stroke, while patients who did not train continued to get progressively worse.

In her first few years of teaching, frustration with her inability to address the mechanical dysfunction some of her students possessed in a methodical and rigorous way motivated her to study kinesiology.

The first new film in nearly three decades from Portuguese auteur Vitor Gonçalves is a rigorous, elegant study of emotional crisis

Our study finds the first rigorous evidence that we know of showing that an online degree program can increase educational attainment.

The $ 6 billion funding for the federal Reading First program has helped more students «crack the code» to identify letters and words, but it has not had an impact on reading comprehension among 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders in participating schools, according to one of the largest and most rigorous studies ever undertaken by the U.S. Department of Education.

Arkansas will be the first state awarded federal money to promote a program that encourages high school students to pursue a more a rigorous course of study.

Two well - known commercial reading programs, which have been adopted by some of the nation's largest school districts and have met the strict requirements for research - based programs under the federal Reading First initiative, failed to earn ratings from the What Works Clearinghouse because they do not have any studies that satisfy the agency's rigorous evidence standards.

The plans are to introduce a more rigorous maths curriculum, new AS and A level maths qualifications and high quality «core maths» qualifications so that more young people can secure their first job, an apprenticeship or go on to further study.

At first blush, the most rigorous methodology, randomized field trials (RFT), appears not to fare well, since few such studies made the list.

Today CREDO, Mathematica Policy Research, and CRPE released three papers as part of the first comprehensive rigorous national study of online charter schools.

The Abell Foundation study is not the first to uncover the lack of rigorous and legitimate evidence on teacher certification.

The first and most rigorous of the studies, by Dan Goldhaber and Emily Anthony of the Urban Institute, found that on average North Carolina students in grades 3 - 5 whose teachers were board certified scored 7 to 15 percent higher on tests than students whose teachers attempted but failed to gain certification.

First, unlike the other studies mentioned above, the design of the FTC program precludes a rigorous research design.

At the time, this report was the first to apply a rigorous methodological approach to studying achievement across multiple KIPP schools.

The study, which the authors and other experts described as the first scientifically rigorous review of merit pay in the United States, measured the effect of financial incentives on teachers in Nashville public schools and found that better pay alone was not enough to inspire gains.

This is the first study to show that programs like MTP - S that focus on teacher - student interactions in a sustained manner using a rigorous approach can actually reduce the disproportionate use of exclusionary discipline with African American students.

A national study released earlier this year (the most rigorous to date) finds that, while Head Start modestly boosts reading and math skills during the time children are in the program, those gains disappear by first grade.

In this, our first, issue, Leadership Spotlight introduces a white paper highlighting school leadership development opportunities in ESSA and two recent research reports — a Wallace Foundation - funded study by the RAND Corporation and a George W. Bush Institute funded study by the American Institutes for Research — that identify leadership development programs meeting the rigorous research requirements under ESSA.

First, a caveat: Although we know a great deal from rigorous research about what distinguishes high - performing from low - performing schools, much less scientific study has been conducted to show how struggling schools become effective ones.

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The CLSD says that «this report is the most rigorous study of its type and the first comprehensive collection and analysis through Animal Control.»

Is this low number indicative of a serious problem for the great white shark species?Science Daily reports, «The study, published in the journal Biology Letters, is the first rigorous scientific estimate of white shark numbers in the northeast Pacific Ocean.

WASHINGTON, DC — A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences today provides some of the first rigorous peer - reviewed evidence that giving indigenous communities formal legal title to their land protects tropical forests.

Believed to be the first study to use a rigorous nutritional analysis to examine the healthfulness of food and drinks marketed by music stars, the team identified popular music stars as qualified by Billboard Magazine's «Hot 100» song charts from 2013 and 2014, as well as winners from the Teen Choice Awards.

This study was the first one in the world to systematically explore wellbeing in CALD individuals in the first six months of a cancer diagnosis using rigorous and culturally appropriate methodology.

This study was the first to use a rigorous scientific methodology with such a young population; most teen dating violence projects look at older students.