Sentences with phrase «found positive effects»

Parent Training Program Fifteen studies evaluated the Incredible Years parent training component in isolation of other components and found positive effects on the parent - child relationship and / or child behavior.

Research conducted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute and Duke University found positive effects associated with participation in Smart Start and NC Pre-K.

Previous studies of the effectiveness of home visiting programs have found some positive effects, but research methods have been inconsistent across studies of different program models.

The Early Head Start evaluation found positive effects on children's development, as well as on parents» support for development and more positive discipline techniques.

Similarly, a study of the Oklahoma preschool program found positive effects on third - grade math scores.

One study of Child FIRST found positive effects on involvement with child protective services at three years.24 There are studies of Early Head Start — Home Visiting (EHS — HV), HFA, Healthy Steps, and NFP that measure effects on emergency room or doctor visits for injuries or ingestions but only NFP showed positive effects.13, 18,25,26

We have found and reported short - term positive effects of this intervention package on behavior, school bonding, and achievement of children receiving the intervention during grades 1 through 4.28,29 We have also found positive effects on children from low - income families at the end of grade 6.30

Only 3 studies found positive effects in any of these domains.

Of the 12 studies looking at civic values and practices outcomes, eight found positive effects.

Three studies have examined these effects so far and found positive effects on educational attainment for at least one subgroup of students.

While the researchers found some positive effects in science, specialization hurt student learning in many subjects and grade levels — including fifth grade math.

In a study of four provisions for teaching mathematically talented students, one researcher found positive effects for using pull - out grouping to include good interaction between teachers and students, significant progress in level of skills, and increases in motivation.

Prior rigorous evaluations of the program have generally found positive effects of TFA teachers on students» learning in math and science and no significant differences in reading or language arts, compared with non-TFA teachers» effects in the same schools.

(District of Columbia) Echoing research that dates back almost 50 years, the latest evaluation of the effectiveness of the federal Head Start program found positive effects on general reading achievement but nothing more.

By 2013, eleven studies using the same high - quality research method had found positive effects for students, while one study had found no impact.

Research about the most effective ways to improve composition has found positive effects for such strategies as literary models, freewriting, sentence combining, and scales (also called rubrics).

Similarly, a study of the Oklahoma preschool program found positive effects on third - grade math scores.

In a study of two state - mandated programs of this type, Hoffman and his colleagues found some positive effects for such programs in supporting teachers through their first year of teaching, but they found little evidence that the programs or the criteria were effective in screening out incompetent teachers (Hoffman et al., 1986)

Some experimental studies have found positive effects of specific professional development programs on leadership practice — or an association between particular types of professional development and improved student performance, school climate, teacher collaboration, or principal retention — but there is little expert consensus about the most effective design for professional development programs.

In a presentation to the State Board of Education earlier this month, Vanderbilt researcher Gary Henry said he found positive effects from turnaround efforts in North Carolina's bottom ranked elementary schools — but without continued state funding to replace the temporary federal dollars that were put toward this initiative, those gains won't continue.

That study found positive effects as well.

In 2013, researchers found positive effects in reading, math, science, and social studies for KIPP middle schools.

Researchers with Mathematica Policy Research, an independent group, found positive effects both for the combination of KIPP pre-K and KIPP early elementary grades and for KIPP pre-K programs alone.

A quasi-experimental study of the impact of a merit - based college scholarship program found positive effects on high school student performance in Kalamazoo, Michigan, for example.

While some «contract researchers found little or no significant improvement in voucher students» achievement,» other investigators «found some positive effects.»

If I had to bet on which intervention is most likely to work at scale, I'd be inclined to bet on a massive data set that found positive effects on test scores rather than a very narrow data set of three studies where only two study found higher degree attainment.

Researchers have also found positive effects behind the mere act of notifying schools in need of improvement that they faced the potential of sanctions.

Six studies found positive effects for all students while three found positive effects for only some students (particularly African - American students).

A group in Bahrain conducted a pilot study of 13 obese patients and found positive effects (65).

However, two Dutch studies on subjects aged 24 - 81 years also found positive effects of caffeine on cognition, mainly reaction time and verbal memory, but no age - related differences11, 12.

Despite that, reviews of studies have found the positive effects of homeopathic treatment for certain conditions — including acute diarrhea, flu, and allergies — can not be explained by a placebo effect alone (the placebo effect is when people get better because they are receiving some pill, even if that is a neutral «sugar pill»).

More than 55 % of all studies found positive effects in these 2 main categories.

For buprenorphine, the results were «less robust» — only three of eight studies found positive effects of psychosocial interventions.

Evaluating prior studies on parent - child reading in children up to age 6, researchers in Hong Kong found positive effects for both sides in so - called psychosocial functioning, which includes mental well - being, emotions, behavior and relationships with others.

«Interestingly... we find positive effects for females in higher - wage jobs,» the study says.

Recent trials reviewed here find positive effects of a variety of family - related interventions focused on parental guidance.

A study using a supplement of a concentrated form of the medium - chain fatty acids in coconut oil, purported to be the active ingredient, did not appear to find any positive effects for mild to moderate Alzheimer's patients.

Researchers have found a positive effect of high EPA fish oils on psychiatric illnesses such as depression and bipolar disorder.

Studies to date, while few in number, find no positive effects on workforce quality of back - loading pension wealth.

The studies finding positive effects from older peers are based on classrooms where the age variation is typical — usually a few months.

Moreover, even in studies finding a positive effect, there is no evidence that across - the - board pay increases are a cost - efficient policy.

These studies generally found null to negative impacts of assignment to remediation in terms of credit and degree completion for community college students, though a study of four - year college students using a different method finds some positive effects.

Second, by comparing students in Florida schools graded «F» on accountability and subject to increasing sanctions with almost identical schools scoring just above at «D», David Figlio and Cecilia Rouse find positive effects of school accountability.

When they replicated Howell and Peterson's statistical model, they found a positive effect for African American students; when they replicated Krueger and Zhu's, they found no visible effect.

All of these independent replications (except for Krueger and Zhu) confirm the basic findings of the original analyses by also finding positive effects.

As Jay points out, the most rigorous charter research finds positive effects on test scores rather than attainment.

[viii] Focusing specifically on one urban school district because of the richness of available data, the study finds positive effects of the program, similar to those for the broader state.

We find positive effects for credits earned and a decrease in days spent in suspension for all students, but we find significant effects on GPA only for African Americans.

The only studies that consistently find positive effects of resources are those that rely on student performance and school data averaged across all students and schools in a state.These aggregate studies, of which the RAND study is one, rely on limited data and are prone to serious statistical shortcomings, so they have been heavily discounted in the past.

Of the 11 studies on the topic, eight find a positive effect; three find no visible effect; none find a negative effect.