He describes the results of a randomized experiment by researchers from the University of Arkansas that
found measurable benefits for students who took a field trip to an art museum.
«We were surprised to
find no measurable benefit and actually a business loss,» says Ellen Silbergeld, professor of environmental health sciences at Johns Hopkins and one of the authors of the study.
Not exact matches
State economic development officials Monday approved spending an additional $ 25 million on business and tourism commercials despite an independent audit that
found they produced no
measurable benefits.
«As a field, we've often focused on understanding and changing individual psychological processes, but these
findings show that changing individual psychology can trigger important second - order effects with
measurable benefits for everyone in the environment.»
Benefits have been well documented, and
measurable risks have not been
found.
For the second time in just over a year, a clinical trial
found that LDL reduction did not translate into
measurable medical
benefits.»
Girish Shambu
finds the artistic merit of Loach's I, Daniel Blake as valuable as the already
measurable impact it's had on the debate over Britain's
benefits system.
Several research reports in the UK, since 2008,
found that the use of film in literacy classrooms resulted in
measurable improvements in writing (including more sophisticated vocabulary and more complex sentences), reading, critical and creative thinking skills as well as a host of other personal and interpersonal
benefits (Marsh and Bearne, 2008, Brooks, Cooper and Penkem 2012).
Economist Robert Lynch recently released a study, Enriching Children, Enriching the Nation, which
found that providing pre-K education produces large,
measurable economic
benefits for children and the nation.
Indeed,
benefits that did not accrue to government finances but were
measurable represented a sizeable portion of the total
benefits found in studies of high - quality prekindergarten programs.
Based on economic evidence that included program - based
findings, earnings, and educational achievement, the authors
found that all assessed programs demonstrated
measurable benefits that exceeded their costs, noting, «On average, for every dollar invested equally across the six SEL interventions, there is a return of eleven dollars, a substantial economic return.»
Based on three completed program cycles, Sun has
found that the SEED program is very efficient and low - cost to run, while producing substantial,
measurable benefits for mentees, their managers, their mentors, and the company.
A 2015 study by researchers at Columbia University
found that the
measurable benefits of SEL exceed the costs, often by considerable amounts.
The most important empirical
finding is that each of the six interventions under consideration for improving SEL shows
measurable benefits that exceed its costs, often by considerable amounts.