Sentences with phrase «national evaluations of»

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The only major national evaluation of the charter sector was carried out by economist Margaret Raymond at Stanford University.

Field - Focused Study of the Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration Program (2003) presents findings from the Field - Focused Study (FFS), one of several components in the National Evaluation of the Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration (CSRD) Program.

National Evaluation of Title III Implementation Supplemental Report: Exploring Approaches to Setting English Language Proficiency (ELP) Performance Criteria and Monitoring English Learner Progress (2012).

National Evaluation of Title III Implementation: Report on State and Local Implementation (2012).

SRI investigated one such strategy in a national evaluation of National Writing Project school partnerships at the middle grades.

The recent release of When Schools Stay Open Late: The National Evaluation of the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program elicited strong reactions from proponents of after - school programs.

Her past project work also includes National Charter School Resource Center Task Order 1, the National Evaluation of Writing Project Professional Development, the Teaching and California's Future study, and a study examining local partnerships in support of arts education.

Library Power Executive Summary: Findings from the National Evaluation of the National Library Power Program

She has worked on a number of other studies, including a longitudinal study of the effectiveness of inclusive STEM high schools funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Evaluation of Writing Project Professional Development for the National Writing Project, the National Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund Program for the U.S. Department of Education, evaluations of several school reform initiatives in Chicago, and the Bridging the Divide study that examined the transition from high school to college for the U.S. Department of Education.

In addition she contributed to several studies of teacher development including the Evaluation of the California Subject Matter Projects and the National Evaluation of Writing Project School Partnerships.

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

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

As part of the national evaluation of family support programs mandated by the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1993, the Administration on Children, Youth and Families contracted with Abt Associates Inc. to conduct a meta - analysis of existing research about the effectiveness of different types of programs and the impact of services on families with a variety of needs and characteristics.

National Evaluation of the Safe Start Demonstration Project: Implications for Mental Health Practice Hyde, Lamb, Arteaga, & Chavis Best Practices in Mental Health, 4 (1), 2008 View Abstract Discusses the role mental health practitioners can play in assessing children exposed to violence and addressing the negative consequences often associated with exposure.

The national evaluation of EHS was planned from its inception and included randomized controlled trials of different aspects of the program.

The analyses reported here were based on the national core data sets collected for the National Evaluation of the Head Start / Public Schools Early Childhood Transition Demonstration Project directed by Sharon Landesman Ramey, PhD, and Craig Ramey, PhD, which was designed and implemented by the National Transition Demonstration Consortium.

The National Evaluation of the Court Improvement Program U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Children's Bureau, & Planning and Learning Technologies (Pal - Tech)(2006) Provides information on the National Evaluation of the Court Improvement Program, which describes how State courts improve their oversight of foster care and adoption cases and analyze the outcomes achieved.

The present research develops and validates a youth mentoring relationship quality inventory, based on data from a national evaluation of Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) mentoring programs (N = 347 youth).

A new report to Congress presents the first findings from the national evaluation of the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program.

The national evaluation of Sure Start was one of the few rigorous evaluations.

This article presents results from the national evaluation of Healthy Steps, the first large clinical trial of an intervention in pediatric practices to improve delivery of developmental and behavioral services.

The report also offers preliminary findings from a national evaluation of the home visiting initiative.

These include partnering with states to provide evidence - based home visiting services to at - risk families, working with tribal communities to implement culturally competent home visiting programs, and developing a mechanism to systematically review the evidence of effectiveness for home visiting program models and to conduct a national evaluation of the MIECHV program.

Impact Findings from the Head Start CARES Demonstration: National Evaluation of the Three Approaches to Improving Preschoolers» Social and Emotional Competence Morris, Mattera, Castells, Bangser, Bierman, & Raver U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (2014) Describes the impact of the CARES demonstration, focusing on outcomes during the spring of the preschool year in: (1) teacher practices; (2) classroom climate; (3) children's behavior regulation, executive function, emotion knowledge, and social problem - solving skills; and (4) children's learning behaviors and social behaviors.

A federally contracted consortium of researchers lead by MDRC out of Baltimore, Maryland will conduct the national evaluation of home visiting.

MDRC is conducting the national evaluation of home visiting programs for families with young children as well as creating and studying programs to enhance the quality of child care and preschool settings.

We applied our portfolio of measures to video - recorded visits in several studies, including MIHOPE (the national evaluation of the MIECHV Program), a randomized trial of a communication training course, and a study of the interactive effects of home visitor and parent preferences as influences on how they communicate.

A national evaluation of the MIECHV program will also provide new insights into the effects of evidence - based home visiting programs for families with infants when scaled up across the country.

McDonough is a data manager who has worked on several projects at MDRC: Supporting Healthy Marriage (SHM) is an evaluation of marriage education programs targeting low - income, racially and ethnically diverse married couples; Head Start CARES (Classroom - based Approaches and Resources for Emotion and Social skill promotion) is a national evaluation of three evidence - based strategies to improve the social and emotional development of children in Head Start; the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation (MIHOPE) aims to build knowledge about the effectiveness of the new federally funded Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home - Visiting Program (MIECHV) in improving outcomes for at - risk children and families.

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

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.

To develop design options for conducting a national evaluation of the new federal home visiting program.

The DOHVE project provided the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services with design options for conducting a national evaluation of the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood (MIECHV) home visiting program.

It also required a national evaluation of the programs.

National Evaluation of Three Approaches to Improving Preschoolers» Social and Emotional Competence

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.

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.

This report follows a similar approach to the one taken by in the evaluation of the Sure Start programme (National Evaluation of Sure Start 2008).

This article describes the findings of a national evaluation of Parents Anonymous ® by assessing whether participation in Parents Anonymous ® is associated with changes in child maltreatment outcomes and in risk and protective factors.