This resource is designed to help schools, school districts, and educational program developers identify potential researchers (individuals and organizations) to conduct studies of
effectiveness of educational interventions.
In addition, the authors identify the
kinds of educational interventions that can support thoughtful reflection around maker - centered learning and the made dimensions of our world.
Study investigators, who were aware of the
status of the educational intervention collected information about resident behaviors by performing telephone interviews with breastfeeding mothers.
This study examines the
effect of an educational intervention on pediatric residents» knowledge and confidence about breastfeeding, and on their counseling behaviors during clinical encounters with breastfeeding mothers.
Additionally, the finding that the skills of today's young people are no better than those of young people in 1996 should be seen in the context of the massive real - terms rise in school spending during the time they attended school and a large
number of educational interventions aimed at raising standards.
In recent decades, developments in research methodology, administrative record keeping, and statistical software have significantly enhanced the capabilities of researchers to make well - informed evaluations of the causal
impacts of educational interventions.
There are public school districts across the country that have engaged in innovative contracts between teachers and the central office, and there are multiple
models of educational interventions, including at the curricular level, that show real promise and do not depend on wholesale structural reform.
«Over the past decade we've been able to identify a growing
number of educational interventions that have managed to have notable impacts on students» academic achievement as measured by standardized tests,» West says.
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).
Turning to that
type of educational intervention, she states bluntly that its political and logistical impediments are even greater than those facing no - excuses charters — and suggests that those impediments exceed the likely benefit to children.
In 1975, Levin detailed the «ingredients method» for determining
costs of educational interventions, which begins with the identification of all resources required to implement a program.
Dads as breastfeeding advocates: results from a randomized controlled trial of an educational intervention
The phenomena of interest are the effects
of educational interventions, which are inclusive of both family caregivers and individuals with HF, on outcomes for both.
Co-variates that may moderate the effects
of educational interventions are also of interest.