Sentences with phrase «policy evaluation research»

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The paper concludes with recommendations for future research, policy and programme design and evaluation.

His research interests are in health policy, organizational change, health behavior during developmental transitions, influence of sports participation on health, social determinants of health, program evaluation, prevention of alcohol attributable harm, physical activity promotion, obesity prevention, and motor vehicle safety.

Funding: This study combines the Evaluation of Maternity Units in England study, funded by the National Institute for Health Research Service Delivery and Organisation (NIHR SDO) programme, and the Birth at Home in England study funded by the Department of Health Policy Research Programme (DH PRP).

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.

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As well as leading on and participating in a range of research and evaluation projects, the team also contributes to the development of effective policy and practice through the interpretation, synthesis and dissemination of research findings, and acts as a knowledge broker between policy and practice stakeholders, researchers and the academic sector (in the UK and Europe) to strengthen links and collaboration.

That research will provide a sound evidence - base to inform policy development, implementation and evaluation.

«Senior Officers posted within HQ NAF include AVMs Nurudeen Balogun who is now Chief of Training and Operations; Muhammadu Muhammed, Chief of Policy and Plans; Charles Otegbade, Director of Plans; Olusoji Awomodu, Director of Museum and Archives; Sani Ahmed, Director of Policy; Muhammad Abdul - Wahab, Air Secretary; Kingsley Lar, Chief of Standards and Evaluation; Napoleon Bali, Director of Training; Christian Dii, Managing Director Aircraft Engineering and Technical Services Limited; Abdulganiyu Olabisi, Chief of Aircraft Engineering; Charles Oghomwen, Chief of Communications, Cletus Udeagulu, Director Research and Development and Paul Dimfwina, Director of Evaluation.

Beyond Satisfactory: A New Teacher Evaluation System for New York Educators for Excellent (E4E), 2011 After five months of research and debate, E4E's Evaluation Policy Team issued this report detailing an evaluation framework for New York teachers based on what actual classroom teachers would Evaluation System for New York Educators for Excellent (E4E), 2011 After five months of research and debate, E4E's Evaluation Policy Team issued this report detailing an evaluation framework for New York teachers based on what actual classroom teachers would Evaluation Policy Team issued this report detailing an evaluation framework for New York teachers based on what actual classroom teachers would evaluation framework for New York teachers based on what actual classroom teachers would recommend.

Laura Ahearn is a AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow who was placed in her first year in the Research and Innovation Fellowships at the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) Global Development Lab where she was a monitoring and evaluation specialist.

Access to state - supported early childhood programs significantly reduces the likelihood that children will be placed in special education in the third grade, academically benefiting students and resulting in considerable cost savings to school districts, according to new research published today in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, a peer - reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Assoresearch published today in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, a peer - reviewed journal of the American Educational Research AssoResearch Association.

«More than unearthing deficiencies in the 2017 analysis, our evaluation signals a need for improved protocols in developing valuation measures, as well as government - research - community partnerships to support timely and credible environmental policy analyses,» said Boyle.

With an undergraduate degree in nursing and a master's in health promotion, completed in 1995, from TMDU, Moriguchi first worked at a health policy think tank in Tokyo and then in August 1999 joined the University of Tokyo's Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology where he worked on policy issues related to drug evaluation and medical economics.

«Despite the presence of a universal health insurance system in Ontario, our research highlights the persistence of significant health disparities in breast cancer screening, particularly for women who are more vulnerable due to severe disability, multiple chronic conditions, low income and lower education,» said Dr. Guilcher, who has a PhD in Clinical Epidemiology at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto.

State higher education performance funding is falling short of its intended goals of raising student retention and degree completion rates at community colleges, according to new research published today in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, a peer - reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Assoresearch published today in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, a peer - reviewed journal of the American Educational Research AssoResearch Association.

During the past year alone, concerns about oversight of high - containment laboratories; vetting of personnel (personnel reliability); the efficacy of security measures in place for the select agent program; medical countermeasure research, development and distribution; bioterrorism and pandemic influenza preparedness; misuse of beneficial biological research and technologies; and microbial forensics have generated several policy evaluations and prompted the development of policy recommendations and legislation.

An evaluation of the program, the Vajpayee Arogyashree Scheme (VAS), funded by the World Bank Group and led by Neeraj Sood, professor and director of research at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics found that:

How Changing Reputations Alter Demand for Selective U.S. Colleges,» by Randall Reback, associate professor at Barnard College of Columbia University, and Molly Alter, a research analyst for the Research Alliance for New York City Schools at New York University, will be published online this month in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (EEPA), a peer - reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Assoresearch analyst for the Research Alliance for New York City Schools at New York University, will be published online this month in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (EEPA), a peer - reviewed journal of the American Educational Research AssoResearch Alliance for New York City Schools at New York University, will be published online this month in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (EEPA), a peer - reviewed journal of the American Educational Research AssoResearch Association.

The authors propose policy solutions including increasing investments in MPA management, prioritizing social science research on MPAs, and strengthening methods for monitoring and evaluation of MPAs.

'' [R] emoval of the current barriers to firearm - related research, policy formation, evaluation and enforcement efforts.»

New research from the Texas Policy Evaluation Project (TxPEP) exploring the impact of House Bill 2 (HB 2)-- the restrictive Texas abortion law that was struck down by the Supreme Court — found that increases in travel distance to the nearest abortion clinic caused by clinic closures were closely associated with decreases in the official number of abortions.

While the European Research and Higher Education Area is emerging, evaluation practices and policies are still very much linked to national traditions and institutional frameworks.

I came to the field after holding varied positions in research, non-profit, and public program management, most recently within the digital inclusion evaluation and policy spac

Pediatricians should consider the possibility that delayed puberty in boys may be due to obesity,» says Lee, who is also with Mott's Child Health Evaluation and Research Unit and the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation.

An Economic Evaluation of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Biofuel Program: An Industrial Policy Approach, Jay Kesan and Atsushi Ohyama, Social Science Research Network, LE09 - 035, Aug. 19, 2010.

Additional authors include Christine Stewart, PhD, and Gregory Simon, MD, MPH, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle; Karen Coleman, PhD, Kaiser Permanente Southern California Department of Research and Evaluation, Pasadena; Rebecca Rossom, MD, MS, HealthPartners Institute, Minneapolis; Brian Ahmedani, PhD, Henry Ford Health System, Center for Health Policy and Health Services Research, Behavioral Health Services, Detroit; Arne Beck, PhD, and Samuel Hubley, PhD, Kaiser Permanente Colorado Institute for Health Research, Denver; John Zeber, PhD, Baylor Scott & White Health, Center for Applied Health Research, Temple, Texas; and Yihe Daida, PhD, and Connie Trinacty, PhD, Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, Honolulu.

Through its dedicated disability employment portfolio, the Center conducts research and performs evaluation activities that seeks to generate new knowledge about the impact of public policies and programs on the inclusion of people with disabilities into the workforce, and identify, through rigorous research and evaluation, promising «to work» strategies and practices in the field that are showing success in helping people with disabilities to seek and retain competitive employment.

About Blog African Health Sciences is an open access, free online, internationally refereed journal publishing original articles on research, clinical practice, public health, policy, planning, implementation and evaluation, in the health and related sciences relevant to Africa and the tropics.

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Through grants for research, innovation, communication, and evaluation, as well as policy education and leadership development, Lumina Foundation addresses issues that affect access and educational attainment among all students, particularly underserved student groups, including adult learners.

Professor Thomas Kane and the team at the Center for Education Policy Research are experts at working closely with districts and harnessing big data to identify effective policies and practices in teacher preparation, teacher evaluation, and learning technologies.

In the coming years, Muralidharan expects his research to focus on systematically evaluating the effectiveness of various policy options to improve education in developing countries through rigorous randomized evaluations.

The following list does not include $ 66.3 million the foundation has spent on policy, research, and evaluation projects related to the reform of secondary education.

With the importance of education fresh in her mind, Vegas went on to pursue a master's in public policy at Duke and then a doctorate at the Ed School, where her dissertation was an economic and research - based evaluation of «how we could design policies to attract, retain, and motivate better teachers,» she says.

Early last year, MDRC, a respected research firm that specializes in evaluations of social policies, released the results of a randomized trial at the City University of New York (CUNY).

The Best Foot Forward project, run by the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, is currently studying the impact of having teachers videotape their own lessons and upload them for their own development and for evaluation.

• The Ed Tech Rapid Cycle Evaluation (RCE) Coach, created by Mathematica Policy Research, gives schools and districts a process to follow and a tool to evaluate educational technology.

Research and evaluation need to be carried out objectively and reported accurately - even if the results challenge some of the policies of the current administration.

It provides concrete advice to lawmakers around two important policy areas, yet no one would mistake it for IES - style, gold - standard research or evaluation.

Catherine Fisk, coordinator of the policy and research unit in the education department's Bureau of Program and Teacher Evaluations, said Connecticut is sharing its knowledge.

He also served as a program associate in planning and evaluation at the MacArthur Foundation and as a graduate fellow at the National Science Foundation / Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern.

The Institute of Education Sciences, the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education, has overseen 11 randomized control trials of specific education programs or policies, including the OSP evaluation.

A casual review of back issues of the premier journals in the field, such as the American Educational Research Journal or Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, tells a similar story.

In 2004, the Chicago Public Schools changed its policies to allow principals» evaluations of untenured teachers to influence layoff decisions (see «Principled Principals» research).

His research focuses primarily on (1) strengthening economic evaluations of preventive interventions, (2) facilitating evidence - based policy - making through strategic investments in preventive services, and (3) evaluating the utility of performance - based financing to access new resources for improving health.

This strand is designed for students with a strong interest in policy, program development and evaluation as well as educational research or to gain experience in research in preparation for doctoral study.

In a Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) study of the new evaluation system's 1999 — 2000 pilot, 75 percent of teachers said the new teaching standards were valid descriptions of good teaching.

Prior to attending HGSE, Afolabi worked for five years as a research analyst for Policy Studies Associates, where he conducted research and evaluation on programs and policies designed to improve the lives of youth.

Dr. Crowley teaches courses and workshops on social policy and finance, research methods and program evaluation, and the use of evidence for public policy.

According to David Silvernail, director of the Center for Education Policy, Applied Research, and Evaluation, it's no surprise that King Middle School remains an anomaly, even in Maine.