Sentences with phrase «national evaluation»

She has served as principal investigator for national evaluations of several important secondary school reform initiatives, most recently an ongoing evaluation of the California Linked Learning District Initiative, which is managed by ConnectEd and supported by the James Irvine Foundation.

NRC panel members were particularly critical of National Evaluation Systems (NES) for refusing «to provide the committee with enough information about its exams to evaluate them.»

Programs often lack transparency in terms of the criteria used for evaluation, so consequently several questionable firms are included in awards, and many of the firms conducting national evaluations also provide consulting services to the very companies they are rating.

Candidates must also pass the required National Evaluation Series (NES) Essential Academic Skills Test and the Minnesota Teacher Licensure Examinations (MTLE).

Teacher licensing tests had been suspended in 1985 as a result of a lawsuit by African American educators demonstrating that the state's exams designed by National Evaluation Systems were racially biased and improperly validated (see Examiner, Spring 1987).

Annual National Evaluation Institute of the Center for Research on Educational Accountability and Teacher Evaluation

While with Mathematica Policy Research, he wrote or contributed programming for U.S. Department of Agriculture reports on the participation trends and household characteristics of SNAP participants, and also worked on national evaluations of SNAP demonstration pilots and the Summer Food Service Program.

This study provides the first national evaluation of a significant proportion of women choosing publicly funded homebirth in Australia; however, the sample size does not have sufficient power to draw a conclusion about safety.

Contributing Sponsors College Board CTB / McGraw Hill Measured Progress National Evaluation Systems Pearson Educational Measurement Riverside Publishing Company

This report presents the first findings from the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation (MIHOPE), the legislatively mandated national evaluation of MIECHV.

Included on the Healthy Start National Evaluation Program Survey

She is currently working on the implementation research and impact analyses for the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation (MIHOPE), a large - scale national evaluation of home visiting programs that intend to prevent child maltreatment and improve maternal and child health, parenting skills, and child development outcomes.

The Commission is particularly concerned that a comprehensive national evaluation strategy is not in place.

He has overseen the redesign of several performance measurement systems, including for the MIECHV program and leads or co-leads several national evaluations.

We analyzed data collected prospectively from the Healthy Steps for Young Children national evaluation.

Layzer JI, Goodson BD, Bernstein L, Price C. National Evaluation of Family Support Programs, Final Report Volume A: The Meta - Analysis.

Before going to Stanford, she was an analyst at the U.S. Department of Education (ED), where she coordinated national evaluations of school choice initiatives, comprehensive school reform, and bilingual education.

National Evaluations Again Confirm Quality and Alignment of Smarter Balanced End - of - Year Test

Contributing Sponsors College Board Educational Testing Service National Evaluation Systems Pearson Educational Measurement Riverside Publishing Company

To keep their positions, the successful teachers are now being forced to meet state requirements by passing either all three parts of the NTE, or replacement exams called the Liberal Arts and Sciences Test (LAST) and Assessment of Teaching Skills - Written (ATS - W), both manufactured by ETS competitor National Evaluation Systems (NES)(see Examiner, Fall / Winter 1995 - 96).

Did a local or even national evaluation publication, one that's credible and really pulls together the data, anoint you as number one?

Systems of Care National Evaluation Logic Model (PPT - 23 KB) Describes the grantees» strategic planning of infrastructure and service delivery as well as the cross-site process and outcome evaluation for the initiative.

A Reclaiming Futures national evaluation report.

A very recent national evaluation of Active Parenting Now (2003) and the revised Active Parenting of Teens (1998) programs (Mullis, 2006) add to the growing evidence of the effectiveness of the model.

He has been involved with research on infants and young children since 1964, has been associated with the Michigan Longitudinal Study of Family Risk for Alcoholism over the Life Course for 30 years, was a member of the Steering Committee of the Early Head Start national evaluation research consortium group for 15 years

The NES ® (National Evaluation Series ™) addresses needs for knowledgeable teachers in today's classrooms.

The teacher tests in Massachusetts and New York were developed by National Evaluation Systems, the same company that created the controversial and doomed Alabama teacher test more than ten years ago.

She has presented findings of her research at various national conferences such as the American Educational Research Association, University Council for Educational Administration, and National Evaluation Institute.

The authors concluded that the findings of this study provided the first national evaluation of a significant proportion of women choosing publicly funded home birth in Australia; however, the sample size did not have sufficient power to draw a conclusion about safety.

Contributing Sponsor College Board CTB / McGraw Hill Harcourt Assessment Measured Progress National Evaluation Systems Pearson Educational Measurement Riverside Publishing Vanatage

This report presents the first findings from MIHOPE, the legislatively mandated national evaluation of the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting program.

She has led MDRC's partnership with service providers for multiple large - scale national evaluations, including two offering some of the most promising models serving pregnant women, new mothers, and their infants — the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation (MIHOPE) and MIHOPE - Strong Start — and one offering a promising model for young adults, the YouthBuild Evaluation.

National Evaluation Systems Incorporated, the organization that constructed the Massachusetts test, provides teacher - assessment tests to seven other states.

This parenting index was similar to one devised for the evaluation of Sure Start (National Evaluation of Sure Start 2008), although GUS does not contain the observational measures used in the Sure Start evaluation.

A national evaluation of parenting programs in Sweden: The short - term effects using an RCT effectiveness design.

The company's chairman said in October that it was exploring the possibility of developing the area as part of a national evaluation of its real estate portfolio, though a spokesperson said that nothing was imminent.

Deadline for the next round of applications to be reviewed by the national evaluation committee is Friday February 27.

Jeremy has directed, co-directed or participated in a large number of national evaluation and research projects on curriculum change in the UK, with research council and governmental reports, journal articles, papers and books in this area.

Currently, seven states use the National Evaluation System's tests, 27 use the National Teachers Exam, 43 ask new teachers to pass basic skills tests, and 32 require teachers to demonstrate proficiency in the subjects they teach.

Having been involved in many evaluation efforts of federally funded programs, including Early Head Start, Head Start, and the National Evaluation of Home Visiting, Brooks - Gunn knows that any new program put in place, whether it is universal prekindergarten or something else, needs evaluation.

In 1993, PES published selected excerpts from the preliminary results from Prospects, the national evaluation of Chapter 1 (later renamed Title I), before the full results of the preliminary assessment had been made public.

«A national evaluation in 2005 found that 30 percent of fourth - graders had grades below 150 out of 500.

In an attempt to curtail criticism of college - based teacher - training programs and improve the quality of their graduates, the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education is calling for a national evaluation system for prospective educators, as well as the development of a database that links their alma maters to pre-K-12 student performance.

High school reform researchers consistently find that immediate positive outcomes are more likely when launching a brand - new school like Manor New Tech, as compared to redesigning underperforming schools (National Evaluation of High School Transformation, 2006; cited in E3 Alliance, 2009).

She is currently the deputy project director for two U.S. Department of Education studies: the national evaluation of Race to the Top and School Improvement Grants as well as a study that will assess the feasibility of conducting an impact evaluation of paraprofessional reading tutors.