Sentences with phrase «on early evaluation»

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On - ground monitoring and evaluation activities detailed in the Monitoring and Evaluation Plan commenced earlevaluation activities detailed in the Monitoring and Evaluation Plan commenced earlEvaluation Plan commenced early in 2015.

Their early school experiences were saturated with joy and curiosity, but by the time they reach high school, schoolwork had become a hated activity, «forced» on them by adults, serving no purpose beyond assessment and evaluation.

Seek the advice of your pediatrician and / or an early intervention evaluation by an occupational therapist or speech therapist trained in infant feeding if your baby has difficulty with coordinating the suck / swallow / breathe pattern, chokes or gags during feedings, loses a lot of liquid during feedings and can't form a seal on the nipple or has a tongue tie.

Newborns should be nursed whenever they show signs of hunger, such as increased alertness or activity, mouthing, or rooting.85 Crying is a late indicator of hunger.86 Newborns should be nursed approximately 8 to 12 times every 24 hours until satiety, usually 10 to 15 minutes on each breast.87, 88 In the early weeks after birth, nondemanding babies should be aroused to feed if 4 hours have elapsed since the last nursing.89, 90 Appropriate initiation of breastfeeding is facilitated by continuous rooming - in.91 Formal evaluation of breastfeeding performance should be undertaken by trained observers and fully documented in the record during the first 24 to 48 hours after delivery and again at the early follow - up visit, which should occur 48 to 72 hours after discharge.

Referrals to craniofacial centers for evaluation of deformational plagiocephaly and brachycephaly are increasing.8 This increase in deformations has been temporally linked to the Back to Sleep program advanced by the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1992 that advises the avoidance of the prone sleeping position as a method of reducing the rates of sudden infant death syndrome.10,, 12,13 There is a delay in early gross motor milestones in children forced to sleep supine but these delays seem transient and have not been linked as yet to any longer term problems.14 Children who are encouraged to sleep on their backs and develop abnormal head shapes as a result are a different population than children who spontaneously restricted their movement in bed for one reason or another.

Findings from the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, a rigorous Congressionally - mandated study, indicate that the program had modest but positive impacts on EHS children at age three in cognitive, language, and social - emotional development, compared to a control group.xxiii In addition, their parents scored higher than control group parents on such aspects of the home environment as parenting behavior and knowledge of infant - toddler development.

Early evaluation of the special needs baby by a multidisciplinary team is required to assess the baby's feeding challenges and decide on an appropriate management strategy

having experienced early child health clinics in Australia, UK and now Israel, I have found that whilst the style here seems quite paternalistic, with a lot of advice and some rather archaic and informal evaluations, it really depends on the individual nurse.

Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, National Forum on Early Childhood Program Evaluation, and National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, A Science - Based Framework for Early Childhood Policy: Using Evidence to Improve Outcomes in Learning, Behavior, and Health for Vulnerable Children, Cambridge, Mass.: Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University, 2007.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo earlier today told Susan Arbetter on «The Capitol Pressroom» that the 2010 teacher evaluation law, now the subject of a contentious lawsuit between teachers unions and the state Education Department, was flawed because it's too complicated.

Most evaluations of early education programs show that such programs improve children's school readiness, specifically their pre-academic skills, although the distribution of impact estimates is extremely wide, and gains on achievement tests typically fade over time.

Cuomo and lawmakers also passed legislation that provides a «safety net» for teachers whose evaluations were negatively affected by the drop in student performance on the early administrations of Common Core exams.

Working to remedy this, Governor Cuomo announced an agreement earlier this year on a new statewide teacher evaluation system.

The governor in New York does not directly control education policy, but earlier this year Cuomo inserted into the state budget the requirement that new teacher evaluations be more dependent on standardized tests.

Though he told former Gov. David Paterson in a radio interview yesterday that he felt a bill dealing with the disclosure of teacher evaluations could be put on hold, Gov. Andrew Cuomo introduced his own program bill early Tuesday morning anyway.

There was something for everyone on the menu: using Apple technology, developing research - based practices to teach students in the early grades, engaging students through digital instruction, understanding the new teacher evaluation system as set by state law, preventing high - risk student behaviors and how Community Learning Schools meet the needs of students and their families.

Earlier this week, the Regents passed emergency regulations putting a hold on the use of state test scores on teacher and principal evaluations.

Magee said she also pushed early on for a lawsuit over the teacher - evaluation system.

A new teacher evaluation system for city schools could be implemented as early as June 1, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Feb. 20.

The state Public Employment Relations Board on May 15 rejected an appeal by the city's Department of Education of PERB's earlier decision to appoint a mediator to help resolve the issue of teacher evaluations in 33 schools.

«On the whole, children in NC Pre-K exceed normal expectations for the rate of developmental growth, both while in the program and afterward in kindergarten,» said Ellen Peisner - Feinberg, director of FPG's National Pre-K and Early Learning Evaluation Center and lead author of the report.

Based on nationwide monitoring data, the study «offers valuable insight into the early identification of ASD and suggests some progression towards lowering the age of first evaluation in participating communities,» write Dr. Daisy Christensen of the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities and colleagues.

The new findings were based on detailed, in - person ASD evaluations performed during an earlier Autism Speaks study by the same investigators.

That is, the algorithm would randomly recall a particular game episode, including its own actions, that it encountered earlier on from its memory bank and would retrain itself using this earlier experience, updating its evaluation function appropriately.

«By embedding mental health screening in the emergency department, we are making it part of our health care culture — reducing the stigma associated with mental health problems and providing the opportunity for early identification and treatment for all children,» said Jeffrey I. Gold, PhD, director of the Children's Outcomes, Research and Evaluation program at CHLA and an author on the study.

«The current analyses reported here were performed to update the earlier evaluation by expanding the diagnosis years from 2004 to 2011, and including data on 100 percent of the Appalachian and non-Appalachian populations,» Wilson said.

«Scientific evidence on the impacts of early childhood education has progressed well beyond exclusive reliance on the evaluations of the Perry Preschool and Abecedarian programs,» says Yoshikawa, the Courtney Sale Ross University Professor in NYU Steinhardt's Department of Applied Psychology and lead author of the brief.

In the next decade, molecular research is going to further develop along five lines: predictive medicine, that investigates the genetic conditions predisposing to tumor risk; early molecular diagnosis; the evaluation of each patient's prognosis based on his / her genetic profile, in other words, the analysis of what kind of mutation affects the DNA of altered cells; the investigation of the individual response to drugs, based on our genetic knowledge; «smart drugs», molecules able to hit the target in a selective way, killing only the deprogrammed cells.»

Gish implies that his earlier evaluation of 1470 was based on preliminary information, but the photos and descriptions on which Gish based his earlier opinion were published as early as 1973.

The Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center is one of 11 Lead Academic Organization sites of the National Cancer Institute's Experimental Therapeutics Clinical Trials Network (ETCTN), which supports the evaluation of early phase clinical trials on experimental therapies.

The earlier testing program on the Gross leukemia virus, along with the development of new assays for large - scale screening, prepared Southern Research to greatly expand evaluation of potential HIV / AIDS compounds.

I'll be attending the coveted Marco Island meeting early next month (February 4 - 8), where I'll present a poster on my evaluations of short read aligners for next - gen sequencing data.

If you're older than 35, remember that trying to conceive can take longer because of the impact on your eggs; if this is the case, and you have been trying to conceive for at least six months, you may consider starting your evaluation early (e.g. after six months, rather than a year).

On the other hand, CIMT evaluation can identify early signs of heart disease in young to middle - aged people, including those with zero CAC scores (23).

2018-04-07 16:47 Includes: the very earliest miscarriage, early symptoms and signs of an early miscarriage, other symptoms and signs, medical attention and evaluation, and This is excellent information to have on hand.

Includes: the very earliest miscarriage, early symptoms and signs of an early miscarriage, other symptoms and signs, medical attention and evaluation, and This is excellent information to have on hand.

For instance, the opportunity gap would force us to look more at how all students should have access to early education versus the achievement gap which has focused more on developing standards, accountability, and evaluation.

An evaluation report for a pilot summer group concentrating on PSED; an extremely effective scheme for transition into the early years.

Because Paedae taught advanced math to eleventh and twelfth graders, while the Florida FCAT only tested students through grade eight, 50 percent of her evaluation was based «on the school - wide performance of students taking the tenth - grade FCAT reading test — a test in a different subject administered... to different students in an earlier grade» (p. 3).

Finally, earlier evaluations of these programs found neutral to positive effects on test scores.

I was contacted early on by a large urban district in New Jersey that... had a horrible evaluation system.

While Duncan's arrival in Washington in early 2009 was followed by a national emphasis on refining teacher evaluation systems, his departure from Chicago marked a move away from the rigorous year one implementation of the EITP pilot.

So you will see that by early next year [2012] we have to deliver on the first model, which is [teacher evaluations in] the tested subjects.

A survey commissioned by the Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) and conducted by Grunwald Associates earlier this year looked at the views of parents, teachers and district administrators on assessment in education — and found that in many ways, the views of all three stakeholders are aligned.

A broad CDC - backed study of 11 states, for example, found that the ratio of boys to girls diagnosed with autism depended somewhat on the diagnostic services available within a district or school — schools with strong special education services had more comprehensive evaluations and earlier diagnoses for students.

While little impact - evaluation research exists on the efficacy of early - warning indicator systems in reducing the use of exclusionary discipline, implementation research suggests that if early - warning systems are not paired with a behavioral - support approach, they are unlikely to be effective.

New research on those systems has also begun to roll out, and early adopters are even beginning to tweak their systems based on lessons learned: Tennessee, Louisiana, and the District of Columbia are among those that recently announced alterations to their teacher - evaluation systems.

However, the most recent experimental evaluation of the D.C. voucher program showed negative test - score effects after one year, even though the study did not rely on a state - mandated test — and despite the fact that an earlier study of the program showed no effects.

Early evaluations showed that, compared to statewide averages, students in these programs had higher graduation rates and better pass rates on the California High School Exit Exam.

For example, Head Start has been and continues to be a leader in its focus on family engagement and comprehensive services, on children with disabilities, and on children from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds; in its commitments to accountability for program quality; in its investments in the professional development of the early childhood education workforce that led to the development of the Child Development Associate (CDA) credential; and in its commitment to and investment in research and evaluation to strengthen quality, improve child outcomes, and reduce the achievement gap.