Sentences with phrase «most educational interventions»

Research on private school choice, like most educational interventions, has focused on short - term outcomes like test scores and parent satisfaction.

Not exact matches

Optimal breastfeeding for the first 2 years of life is the single most effective intervention to prevent child deaths worldwide.1 Breastfeeding saves children's lives, supports their growth and development, preventsmalnutrition, ensures food security for infants, protects maternal and child health, reduces financial pressure on families, supports loving relationships and increases educational attainment.

The most important thing in this work is that our intervention based on educational materials has been successful, reaching 55.2 % of babies» breastfed exclusively until the age of six months.

On a positive note, most campuses offer health services, law enforcement and safety infrastructure, but many fall short on counseling services, victim advocacy, educational prevention, awareness raising efforts, men's programs and bystander intervention, the report said.

«Nutrition is likely one of the most powerful medicines and interventions to complement cancer therapy with impact on cancer metabolism and immune biology — at last a program with a well - balanced educational curriculum that addresses this important area of unmet medical need»

Those who swear by it frequently invoke the results of Project Follow Through, the largest and most expensive educational research study ever mounted by the federal government, which compared the outcomes of over twenty different educational interventions in high - poverty communities over a multiyear period.

Whitehurst rightly insisted, again and again, that valid information on the impact of an educational intervention can only be obtained through experimental research, most preferably by using a randomized field trial (RFT).

Although my overall goal is still the same, I have transformed the way in which I see how social entrepreneurship, behavioral science, and economic interventions play an important role in addressing some of Latin America's most pressing educational challenges.

Q: You call Sesame Street «the most powerful and successful informal educational intervention ever devised.»

In the past five years, Response to Intervention (RtI) has become one of the most discussed, researched, and implemented educational improvement programs.

Imitation is a common means by which learning takes place in early childhood classrooms; the ability to imitate is also a hallmark of success in ASD interventions based on Applied Behavioral Analysis, which are currently considered the most effective educational treatments for individuals with ASD (Winerman, 2004).

What is particularly attractive about universal pre-K as an educational policy is that it is perhaps the most cost - effective intervention that is relevant for all students, not just targeted groups of students.

These are large effect sizes, and are much bigger than most of those found for educational interventions.

Even the most ambitious educational interventions, then, will be largely futile.

Cizek says even the most powerful curriculum changes or educational interventions usually produce gains of only a quarter or half a standard deviation.

Black and William report that studies of formative assessment show an effect size on standardized tests of between 0.4 and 0.7, larger than most known educational interventions.

Most recently, Stacy has been working on projects assessing the values and goals of underrepresented students in a variety of educational contexts (two - year colleges, regional universities, and research universities in varied geographical areas of the United States), and developing interventions for underrepresented students in each context.

This line of work indicates that the most efficacious interventions comprised skills training and supportive educational components such as psychosocial coping skills, family involvement and symptom management.13 While there is a good evidence base for caregiving interventions, most of the work has been conducted in Western settings.13, 14

However, the problem with this literature is that most behavior management intervention studies evaluate the impact on short - term behavior outcomes, not academic and educational outcomes.

Early interventions to promote the health and well - being of children have been shown to help mitigate the negative consequences of child maltreatment and have long - term positive effects on the health of maltreated children.5 Services are required that provide support to families as soon as they need it, and provide early permanency decisions.6 Interventions that exhibit these characteristics are most likely to improve children's mental health and well - being and reduce health and societal costs over the long term through increased likelihood that children will have higher educational achievements, successful lives and be less likely to be dependent interventions to promote the health and well - being of children have been shown to help mitigate the negative consequences of child maltreatment and have long - term positive effects on the health of maltreated children.5 Services are required that provide support to families as soon as they need it, and provide early permanency decisions.6 Interventions that exhibit these characteristics are most likely to improve children's mental health and well - being and reduce health and societal costs over the long term through increased likelihood that children will have higher educational achievements, successful lives and be less likely to be dependent Interventions that exhibit these characteristics are most likely to improve children's mental health and well - being and reduce health and societal costs over the long term through increased likelihood that children will have higher educational achievements, successful lives and be less likely to be dependent on the state.