Sentences with phrase «important outcome of the program»

Although twelve CEUs were an important outcome of the program, networking opportunities particularly for trainees and therapists, working in college counseling centers, seemed to be the highlight for all who attended.

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Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

And although they did not investigate the potential causes of the outcome, they suspect it may be due to some combination of successful training programs about gender and hiring, a growing belief that gender balance among STEM faculty is important, and the retirement of older faculty.

«During the Apollo program this nation was in a race, and we perceived the outcome as important to national security,» says Lennard Fisk, former NASA chief scientist and a space science professor at the University of Michigan.

«An important milestone for the program is the ability to analyze hospital performance in multiple outcomes and by surgical specialty,» said Dr. Saito, who is the lead author of the study.

The IFN Academy ™ has created important learning outcomes (statements that describe significant and essential learning that participants have achieved and can reliably demonstrate at the end of each track) that identify what you will know and be able to do by the end of a course or program.

«The curriculum outcomes are at the core, but there's a whole host of other more socio - cultural outcomes that are just as important that come out of the program,» he said.

Just try to decipher this recent press release about a new study proving «rubric - based assessment can be taken to scale and can produce valid findings with credible and actionable information about student learning that can be used to improve curricular and assignment designs and to increase effectiveness of programs and classes in advancing the most important learning outcomes of college.»

Although VAM makes an important contribution to our understanding of program outcomes, we likely need multiple measures to capture something as complex as preparation quality.

«This brief is intended to serve as a tangible resource for practitioners seeking to ensure that their efforts — are based in research and targeted in ways that will produce the most positive outcomes for students — particularly given limited program resources,» said IHEP President Michelle Asha Cooper, Ph.D. «With the prevalence and positive impact of mentoring generating a large body of social science research, IHEP and NCAN believe it's important to make meaningfully contributions to the existing conversation about mentoring to help support students along the high school - to - college continuum, and ultimately improve student outcomes and completion rates.»

It is surprising how little we know about the impact of TPPs on student outcomes given the important role these programs could play in determining who is selected into them and the nature of the training they receive.

Charter public schools provide school teachers, administrators, and board members the flexibility to shape important decisions about working conditions; the mission, curriculum and instruction, programs and services, schedules, budgeting, and staffing — with the goal of improving educational outcomes for students.

A fresh, independent evaluation of your programs, policies, and student outcomes is a powerful way to identify needs in your school or district and to start important conversations about equity in your community.

[The move was especially ironic considering early childhood education is considered the single most important factor in producing better educational outcomes for students and Governor Malloy's «education reform plan» calls for expanding the amount of early childhood programming in those districts that have lower test scores]

In charter schools, teachers, administrators, and board members shape important decisions about working conditions, including the mission, curriculum and instruction, programs and services, schedules, budgeting, and staffing — with the goal of improving educational outcomes for students.

Whether a school adopts a model that offers a comprehensive package of practices or decides to build its own from individual research - proven components, decision makers need reliable information to help them answer the central question: Which of these programs work well to raise student achievement or accomplish other important student outcomes?

In this paper, we seek to provide a fairly comprehensive and up - to - date snapshot of the most important postsecondary education and labor market outcomes in the U.S. using two nationally representative sources of data: The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and The National Educational Longitudinal Survey (NELS).

Before we launch a universal preschool program and dedicate billions of dollars in federal funds, however, it is important that we take into account the outcomes of students participating in the existing federal preschool program: Head Start.

Having rigorous studies of these preschool - program outcomes is important to ensuring that children are receiving the quality of education they need.

These models allowed us to evaluate the association between individual task score and program outcome after adjustment for important confounders (breed, maternal parity, sex of puppy, and age at return).

The most important component of any dog training program is the outcome.

Our School Surfing Programs can directly meet a number of important Student Learning Outcomes ensuring that when your students are completing their Programs with us, not only are they have a lot of fun but they are also beneficially utilising their time by achieving beneficial learning outcomes, learning and understanding vital lifelong information and developing important practicalOutcomes ensuring that when your students are completing their Programs with us, not only are they have a lot of fun but they are also beneficially utilising their time by achieving beneficial learning outcomes, learning and understanding vital lifelong information and developing important practicaloutcomes, learning and understanding vital lifelong information and developing important practical skills.

«Ensuring access and equity is an important part of our process and our desired outcomes,» said Travis Laughlin, Senior Director of Programs at the Joan Mitchell Foundation.

For professionals supporting parents of young children 1 — 3, learn how to assess parent - child interactions, identify important parenting behaviors, develop interventions to help parents build skills, and track your program's outcomes

They are included to provide a more complete description of program effects on clinically important outcomes.

Home visiting has been promoted by the American Academy of Pediatrics as an important complement to office - based practice.1 It has been advocated as a way to improve the outcomes of pregnancy, 2 to reduce the rates of child abuse and neglect, 3 and to help low - income families become economically self - sufficient.4 The background of visitors, however, seems to affect program success.5 — 8 When examined in randomized trials, paraprofessional home visitors (those with no formal training in the helping professions) have produced small effects that rarely are statistically significant.5 — 8 Is the absence of their effect attributable to lack of professional training or underdevelopment of the program models they delivered?

Caution is advised in comparing the outcomes of different home - visitation programs, because they may vary in important ways, including the following:

Improving the Performance and Outcomes of Child Welfare Through State Program Improvement Plans (PIPS): The Real Opportunity of the Child and Family Services Review (PDF - 300 KB) Center for the Study of Social Policy (2003) Encourages States to consider the CFSR process as an opportunity to reform child welfare systems by outlining principles for improvement and examining the important components of PIPs.

However, existing performance measures do not measure all of the ways participation in home visiting programs is related to positive outcomes for children and families.Given the high level of investment at the federal and state level into evidence - based home visiting programs, identifying the extent to which home visiting programs provide value for families and children even if they do not complete the program is important for demonstrating home visiting as a sound investment.

The concept showed promise as part of a job readiness and job search assistance program for seventeen - to twenty - four - year - old couples.60 Helping young people get off to a solid start in careers can be important for improving couple outcomes and avoiding nonmarital births.

Core Intervention Components: Identifying and Operationalizing What Makes Programs Work Blase & Fixsen (2013) United States Department of Health and Human Services, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Explores key implementation considerations important to consider when replicating evidence - based programs for children and youth focusing on the importance of identifying, operationalizing, and implementing the core components of evidence - based and evidence - informed interventions that likely are critical to producing positive oPrograms Work Blase & Fixsen (2013) United States Department of Health and Human Services, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Explores key implementation considerations important to consider when replicating evidence - based programs for children and youth focusing on the importance of identifying, operationalizing, and implementing the core components of evidence - based and evidence - informed interventions that likely are critical to producing positive oprograms for children and youth focusing on the importance of identifying, operationalizing, and implementing the core components of evidence - based and evidence - informed interventions that likely are critical to producing positive outcomes.

This important manual — along with its companion book, Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (available separately), distills the essential components of RO DBT into a workable program you can start using right away to improve treatment outcomes for clients suffering with OC.

Regardless of how well your continuous quality improvement program is working, it is important to regularly look at the outcomes being measured and the tools used to measure the outcomes to see if they need revision.

High preschool classroom quality promotes a range of child outcomes, cognitive as well as social and behavioural, 24 and the development of executive functions and self - regulation appears to be an important mediating link.25 A randomized controlled experiment26 studied the joint effects of the Program for Alternative Thinking Strategies (PATHS) and an interactive storybook reading intervention added to a regular Head Start curriculum.

Knowledge of mechanisms of change in parent training programs may be particularly important given poor treatment outcomes for a proportion of children, suggesting that distinct mechanisms of change might operate in distinct subgroups of families referred for child conduct problems.

The MIHOPE - Strong Start trial provides an important opportunity to determine the degree to which the NFP continues to produce impacts on outcomes of public health importance, and it will inform efforts to further strengthen the program.

As the Obama administration proposes greater investment in preschool as Republican members of Congress think about ways to improve Head Start and other early learning programs — there is an opportunity to come together with targeted investments in evidence - based programs that produce outcomes in the skills that lead to literacy and numeracy while ensuring that children learn those important behaviors like how to share, take turns, play together, persist when frustrated, have grit and solve problems with words.

SRI conducted research to answer important questions about four subgroups of children participating in Head Start programs with the highest risk for poor health, developmental, and school readiness outcomes.

Evaluating Activities Intended to Improve the Quality of Child Outcomes Data Presenters: Kathi Gillaspy (DaSy, ECTA), Ruth Chvojicek (WI Birth - Three Program), Kate Rogers (VT Early Childhood Special Education), Lauren Barton (DaSy, ECTA), Katrina Martin (DaSy, ECTA), & Kellen Reid (DaSy) This session explores evaluation questions that are important to ask throughout... Read more

Below we outline several outcome areas for mental health consultation that may be important to monitor as part of your program's ongoing quality improvement efforts, including: child outcomes, family outcomes, staff / classroom outcomes, and program outcomes.

It is important to note that the approach that we are describing here for outcome - based continuous program improvement does not strive to achieve a high level of scientific rigor that would involve the use of comparison groups or other strategies to determine whether the mental health services and consultation «caused» specific outcomes.

The brevity of the training program (less than 10 min) and lack of face - to - face individualized training were viewed as important in terms of practical concerns; however, overall the intervention did not demonstrate sufficiently robust results, especially in terms of child outcomes.

Editors» Strategic Implications: In this important and well controlled trial, the authors demonstrate that university partnership - supported community teams, especially when supported with ongoing technical assistance, can continue to produce positive outcomes even after much of the control over delivery of programs is turned over to representatives of the communities in which they are implemented.

An important outcome of the NILAC program is to improve the legal skills, capacity and training opportunities for Indigenous people, in response to Recommendation 212 of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.