Sentences with phrase «outcome measures across»

The project demonstrated the feasibility and usefulness of using common outcome measures across programs.

Of 170 child behaviour outcomes measured across 36 studies, 59 % were statistically significant and favoured parenting programme over control, with the remaining outcomes showing no statistically significant difference (a neutral outcome).

Of 170 child behaviour outcomes measured across 36 studies, 59 % were statistically significant and favoured parenting programme over control, with the remaining outcomes showing no statistically significant difference (a neutral outcome).

Not exact matches

A number of good examples already exist, whether that is Marine Stewardship Council's longstanding focus on regional fisheries as the certification unit, the Alliance for Water Stewardship's approach to watershed - level management, Rainforest Alliance measuring conservation outcomes across regions with a prevalence of certified enterprises, or the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil partnering with state - level governments to move whole jurisdictions towards certifiable production.

«Although it's stepping away from the position Jalna has held since 2015 — of consistency in its support across all religious certification — we feel that the public response has warranted reconsideration of this position as an interim measure, whilst we await the full outcome of the Senate Inquiry into transparent religious certification practices and management,» the statement said.

If another woman doing her Internet research comes across this sad story and decides to take measures that are safer leading to a better outcome, than her story serves a purpose.

Absolute inequality measures reflect not only inequalities across socioeconomic subgroups but also public health importance of the outcome in consideration, and they could provide different, even contradictory, patterns of inequalities from relative measures in a given outcome.21, 22 However, measuring absolute inequality is often neglected in health inequalities research.23 Relative risks (RRs) and absolute risk differences (RDs) of discontinuing breastfeeding among mothers with lower education compared with mothers with complete university education (reference category) were separately estimated in the intervention and in the control group and then compared between the two groups.

We also estimated relative indices of inequality (RII) and slope indices of inequality (SII) as summary measures of relative and absolute inequalities of breastfeeding outcomes, respectively, across the entire distribution of maternal education.24 For child IQ, linear regression analyses using GEEs were performed to estimate mean IQ differences in lower maternal education from the reference category in each intervention group and compared between the groups.

Low family income during the early childhood has been linked to comparatively less secure attachment, 4 higher levels of negative moods and inattention, 5 as well as lower levels of prosocial behaviour in children.2 The link between low family income and young children's problem behaviour has been replicated across several datasets with different outcome measures, including parental reports of externalizing and internalizing behaviours,1 - 3, 7 -9,11-12 teacher reports of preschool behavioural problems, 10 and assessments of children based on clinical diagnostic interviews.7

Standardised mean differences were derived to take account of the variety of behavioural outcome measures included and random effect models adopted in view of variability of the intervention and target populations across studies.

Our review was restricted to a limited number of behavioural outcomes and we were unable to exploit the full range of behavioural outcome measures used across included studies and for some studies reporting of multiple measures of child behaviour in the meta - analysis.

Given the ambiguity surrounding the concept of satisfaction, it was not surprising to find inconsistency in the instruments, scales, timing of administration and outcomes used to «measure» satisfaction across studies.

When comparing outcomes across birth settings, the use of consistent definitions and inclusion criteria across cohorts, and reliable outcome measures, is imperative.

Pickles has referred to unauthorised Traveller sites as a «blight», despite chairing a 2012 ministerial working group report which found travellers often suffered poor outcomes across a range of societal measures.

While some research was previously done by his and other groups on a smaller scale, «This is the first real description of a method that could be used broadly across a range of conditions to operationally measure diagnostic errors and associated bad outcomes so that we can track our performance and see whether our interventions are making a difference,» Newman - Toker says.

Among women with diabetes, increased risk was statistically significant for all cardiovascular outcomes measured and across all sizes of particulate matter.

However, in analyses that accounted for important patient characteristics such as age, sex, comorbidities, and the reason for hospitalization, the quality of care of the discharging hospital and SNF facility characteristics, outcomes did not vary meaningfully across SNFs that differed in staffing ratings or their performance on clinical measures related to pain or delirium.

«We found a consistent pattern of success across a number of different outcome measures,» says the study's principal investigator John Walkup, MD, an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a faculty member within the Center for American Indian Health.

While the Affordable Care Act requires hospices to report quality measures across a range of processes and practices, this is the first study to examine the link between hospice preferred practices and outcomes for patients receiving hospice care.

The American College of Surgeons» National Surgical Quality Improvement Program is an outcomes - based program to measure and improve the quality of surgical care across surgical specialties.

Simply put, just because a 22.7 percent spending increase is large enough to eliminate the average outcome differences between the poor and non-poor it does not mean that a 22.7 percent spending increase is large enough to eliminate the difference in outcome between the very poor and the very wealthy or differences across other measures of socioeconomic status.

In response to the criticism that teacher impacts on student test scores are inconsistent over time, the authors show that «although VA measures fluctuate across years, they are sufficiently stable» that selecting teachers even based on a few years of data would have substantial impacts on student outcomes, such as earnings.

Alternative systems, competing across the board with government - operated schools, seem to have stimulated the latter to be more efficient (as measured by cost) and more effective (as measured by outcomes) than systems in countries where no such competition exists.

[9] These more market - like education systems outperformed more centralized ones by a ratio of 15 statistically significant findings to one across numerous different measures of educational outcomes, including:

The impacts are presented as effect sizes (which represent the differences between groups in standard deviation units) for eight measured outcomes across the domains of literacy, language, and math.

The proper approach, as Rothstein notes, is not to ask whether all these measures correlate with each other or over time or across classrooms, but whether they lead to various types of better student outcomes in a high - stakes, real life context.

KNOWLEDGE BRIEF 13 by Susanna Loeb In an effort to improve educational outcomes, states and districts across the country are collecting value - added measures to assess the quality of their teachers.

However, we might be less comfortable using a single measure of student outcomes if the value - added estimates varied a lot across topics.

If a teacher who is very good at teaching one topic is also very good at teaching another — if her value - added measures are similar across topics — we might be comfortable using value - added measures based on a subset of student outcomes, for example, just math or just reading.

With support from Lumina Foundation for Education and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Evaluation Toolkit was developed for two purposes: (1) To develop a freely accessible, research - based resource that will enable outreach programs to more readily and systematically use data and outcome measures to improve service delivery, and (2) promote research that will identify effective program models across outreach programs and document the collective impact of programs by using the evaluation data generated through a common assessment framework.

These analyses provide evidence that FAST ™ reading measures meet or exceed standards for classification accuracy at the «convincing evidence» level (62 %) or «partially convincing evidence» level (32 %) for an overall outcome that included 95 % of the individual comparisons across grades and states.

Noting the lack of rigorous analysis of the role principals play in determining student outcomes, the study's authors measure how average gains in achievement, adjusted for individual student and school characteristics, differ across principals - both in different schools and in the same school at different points in time.

I argue there are three distinct, yet overlapping, logics of instructional leadership most relevant to the principals in this study: the prevailing logic, a broad and flexible set of ideas, easily implemented across a wide variety of school settings; the entrepreneurial logic, which emphasizes specific actionable practices that lead to increases in student achievement as measured by standardized test scores; and the social justice logic, focused on the experiences and inequitable outcomes of marginalized students and leadership practices that address these outcomes through a focus on process.

Members, whom include legislators and education leaders across the state, must factor in teacher evaluation measures and student performance outcomes.

Thankfully, research on which policies work in other states show us that educational choice programs supported by ALEC members have a record of success across different measures, from test score increases, to parental satisfaction, to better life outcomes for students.

Poverty in particular has been a persistent and overwhelming predictor of poor outcomes on all measures of child achievement and wellbeing across the United States, which several decades of school reform have not been able to change.

From interviewing executives to determine what they see as key corporate objectives, to addressing these in your instructional design, to then measuring learning outcomes through your LMS and Talent Management System, you must execute across the organization and across your training systems to make the best possible case.

A global review of the scientific research comparing different types of education systems reveals that the most market - like, least regulated systems consistently outperform more centralized and regulated ones - by a ratio of 15 statistically significant findings to one, across seven different measures of educational outcomes.

Looking at the issue of gender with a racial lens, this new area of Schott's work — including the ongoing biennial report series on Black Boys educational achievement nationwide — has led school districts across the country to re-examine how they educate and measure the outcomes of the students who are most vulnerable to failure in the education system.

Third, in one of the best and most well - respected studies we have on this to date, Papay (2010)[in his Different tests, different answers: The stability of teacher value - added estimates across outcome measures study] found that value - added estimates WIDELY range across different standardized tests given to the same students at the same time.

The accountability movement in schools has brought a needed focus to issues of equity and achievement in schools, and this has required schools to develop standardized measures for the comparison of school outcomes across contexts.

To read more about this, the best research study explaining why doing just this will set any state up for lawsuits comes from Brown University's John Papay in his highly esteemed and highly cited «Different tests, different answers: The stability of teacher value - added estimates across outcome measures» article.

In the study titled «Different Tests, Different Answers: The Stability of Teacher Value - Added Estimates Across Outcome Measures» published in 2009 by the 3rd best and most reputable peer - reviewed journal, American Educational Research Journal, Papay presents evidence that different yet similar tests (i.e., similar on content, and similar on when the tests were administered to similar sets of students) do not provide similar answers about teachers» value - added performance.

While we often have very strong views about long - term and full - cycle market outcomes (based on valuation measures that we find strongly correlated with those outcomes in market cycles across history), we rarely have pointed short - term market expectations.

In situations where probabilities can not be defined, economic analysis can define scenarios that describe a possible set of outcomes for each adaptation measure which meet some criteria of minimum acceptable benefits across a range of scenarios, allowing the decision - maker to explore different levels of acceptable benefits in a systematic way.

Matterhorn online dispute resolution has produced positive and meaningful results for court customers across all key outcome measures.

Analysis of these measures, both at the individual court level — as well as across the full spectrum of aggregated court data — reveals significant and positive outcomes for each of the metrics.

Total case volumes, venues, settlement propensities, merits outcomes and other measures of strategic behavior can be quantified across the ANDA case set.

Creation of an Early Integrated Data System (ECIDS) allowing for reporting across programs and measuring outcomes over time;

Results showed relationships between measures of parenting and adolescent problem behavior outcomes are not uniform across reporters or across behaviors, and that, in some cases, the discrepancies between child and parent report may be important.