And
the positive effects of this program are obvious in the feedback received from past and present participants.
This is a 1st step on the way to vindicating
the positive effects of programs like the Blue Gym and Green Gym, as well as innovative interventions by practitioners which include outdoor exercising as part of holistic treatments for those experiencing depression and similar mental conditions.
In fact, failure to take adequate rest between sets will negate
the positive effects of this program.
[13] Consistent with the potential mechanisms outlined above, Scott - Clayton and Minaya (2016) find that
the positive effects of the program are concentrated among those students who likely would have worked in a different job had they not had access to FWS.
When
a positive effect of a program is not statistically significant, there is a decent chance that it really is 0 or even negative.
We found little evidence that the Choice program increased the test scores of participating students, though our final analysis revealed
a positive effect of the program on reading scores when combined with high stakes testing.
[viii] Focusing specifically on one urban school district because of the richness of available data, the study finds
positive effects of the program, similar to those for the broader state.
At the same time, these evaluations also detected large
positive effects of the programs on high school graduation.
The study also found that
positive effects of the program are not sustained into elementary school.
We find robust
positive effects of each program on third - grade test scores in both reading and math.
These findings replicate earlier reported
positive effects of the program for language minority students (Snow, Lawrence, & White, 2009).
Not exact matches
Jon Levs, author
of All in: How Our Work - First Culture Fails Dads, Families, and Businesses — And How We Can Fix It Together, studied the
effect of paid leave in California and New Jersey, which have paid family leave
programs, and found that the majority
of businesses reported that their state's paid leave
programs had either no
effect or a
positive effect on their business.
He also discussed the large - scale asset purchases
of the Fed's quantitative easing
program, casting doubt on much
of the literature
of the day — which tended to find
positive, but limited
effects of such purchases on reducing bond yields.
It may be that part
of what produces
positive results in health - based interventions like the Nurse - Family Partnership, or read - with - your - kids
programs, or even the Jamaican experiment, is that they involve home visitors urging parents to play and read and talk more with their infants — to engage in more serve - and - return moments, in other words — and those up - close parental interactions may have the
effect of promoting secure attachment, even if attachment was not the intended target
of the intervention.
But the educational value
of pre-K for children who aren't poor is still in dispute; studies have found little or no
positive effect (or even a negative
effect)
of universal pre-K
programs on the skills
of well - off children.
However, although these intervention
programs do show
positive effects on both infant and mother / family, the beneficial
effect was only short termed (peaking at 6 weeks
of age).
The
effect of these kinds
of supports on home visitors has not been well studied, but some research on similar interventions indicates implementation
of evidence - based practices with fidelity monitoring and supportive consultation predicts lower rates
of staff turnover, as well as lower levels
of staff emotional exhaustion relative to services as usual.29, 30,31 Moreover, a supportive organizational climate has been associated with more
positive attitudes toward adoption
of evidence - based
programs.32
A series
of randomized control trials
of a nurse home visitation
program show a range
of positive effects on maternal health, including decreases in prenatal cigarette smoking, fewer hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, and fewer closely spaced subsequent pregnancies., A randomized control study
of another
program that works with a particularly high - risk population found that participant mothers showed significantly lower depressive symptoms than those in the control group and were less likely to report feeling stressed a year after participation.
Furthermore, larger
positive effects of home visiting
programs are usually found when nurses and / or other professionals deliver services to families instead
of paraprofessionals.
Parent support
programs can have important
positive effects on both parenting behaviours and the social and emotional development
of young children.
Participatory help - giving practices that actively involve parents in deciding what knowledge is important to them, and how they want to acquire the information they need, have the greatest
positive effect on parents» sense
of competence and confidence.22, 5 Available research evidence also indicated that the social and emotional development
of young children is influenced by the ways in which
program staff provided parenting support.24, 32
Meta - analyses
of studies evaluating these
programs show
positive effects on the competence, efficacy and psychological health
of the parents, as well as on the behaviour
of the children.49, 50 A recent implementation study
of a strategy for parenting and family support showed that families in the treatment group had far fewer cases
of substantiated child maltreatment, abuse injuries and out -
of - home placements.51
A survey found that 91 percent
of employers said that the
program had either a
positive effect or no noticeable
effect on their profits.»
«We'd like to replicate the
program on a larger scale and are working on ways to extend the
positive effect of the intervention.
«We know these
programs have an immediate
positive effect so this study wanted to assess whether the skills stuck with students over time, making social - emotional learning
programs a worthwhile investment
of time and financial resources in schools.»
Giving serious consideration to physician views might help policymakers design
programs to have as
positive an
effect as possible on the quality
of health care.»
Molecular basis
of scouting behaviors in honey bees Zhengzheng Liang, Neuroscience
Program, University
of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, USA Dissociating epigenetic mechanisms
of memory in the hippocampus and perirhinal cortex
of rats Krista Mitchnick, Department
of Psychology, Collaborative Neuroscience
Program, University
of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada Determining the heritability
of locomotor sensitization to ethanol and its relationship to ethanol's
positive motivational
effects in mice David Linsenbardt, Indiana Alcohol Research Center and Department
of Psychology, Indiana University — Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Rufy1 or Hnrnph1 is a likely quantitative trait gene for methamphetamine sensitivity Camron Bryant, Laboratory
of Addiction Genetics, Department
of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Department
of Psychiatry, Boston University School
of Medicine, Massechusetts, USA
Put people instead on a plant - based diet and a modest exercise
program — mostly just walking - based, and within three weeks they can drop their bad cholesterol 20 %, and their insulin levels 30 %, despite the 75 - 80 % carbohydrate diet, whereas the paleo diets appeared to negate the
positive effects of exercise.
The deleterious
effects of a Paleolithic diet appear to undermine the
positive effects of a Crossfit - based high - intensity circuit training exercise
program.
These
positive effects on blood sugar can last for several hours after completion
of exercise, and I have always noted that when a patient finally engages in a regular
program of exercise that she has much less tiredness, develops better sleep patterns, can handle stress better, is more optimistic and less chance
of depression and will burn fat at an increased rate.
Research that ties soy to
positive effects on cholesterol levels is incredibly immature, said Ronald M. Krauss, MD, head
of the Molecular Medical Research
Program and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
After all, as with any number
of heralded pilots that have disappointed at scale, it's possible that the benefits
of the boutique Perry
program were due to an enthusiastic staff, high - touch attention from experts hoping to see
positive results, community buy - in, the Hawthorne
effect, or any number
of tough - to - scale factors.
As well, the
positive benefits
of the Kitchen Garden
Program in the school environment also has a flow - on
effect in the home, Janene adds.
A growing body
of research suggests that college remediation
programs — meant to bolster the skills
of students deemed underprepared for the rigors
of postsecondary study — seem to make very little
positive difference to students, and may even have a negative
effect on overall success in college.
Despite these differences, the bulk
of the available, high - quality evidence on school voucher
programs suggests that they do yield
positive achievement
effects for participating students.
First, they suggest that, in the absence
of higher - quality alternatives, participation in a low - intensity preschool
program may have some limited
positive long - term
effects.
The research included in this volume suggests that vouchers and faith - based
programs had slightly
positive effects relative to the traditional education systems in several nations (for instance, Chile, Columbia, and Sierra Leone), but the volume also includes some evidence that serves to counter an overly - optimistic view
of PPPs.
Finally, earlier evaluations
of these
programs found neutral to
positive effects on test scores.
A Little Rock, Arkansas, performance - pay
program lasted only three years and was not renewed by the local school board, despite evidence
of positive effects on student achievement in math, reading, and language.
Studies
of all these
programs have shown that each had a
positive effect.
In «New Kids on the Block,» (research), Sanbonmatsu, Kling, Duncan, and Brooks - Gunn report the findings
of their MTO study and offer several possible explanations for the
program's lack
of overall
positive effects on academic achievement.
Two experimental studies
of the Charlotte privately - funded scholarship
program, here and here, reported clear
positive effects on student test scores but were limited to just a single year after random assignment.
Of the program - and policy - based alternatives to exclusionary discipline, Steinberg and Lacoe report the most evidence for, and positive effects from, the Schoolwide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS) program, a strategy that aims to change a school culture by setting clear behavioral expectations, laying out a continuum of consequences for infractions, and reinforcing positive behavio
Of the
program - and policy - based alternatives to exclusionary discipline, Steinberg and Lacoe report the most evidence for, and
positive effects from, the Schoolwide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS) program, a strategy that aims to change a school culture by setting clear behavioral expectations, laying out a continuum of consequences for infractions, and reinforcing positive b
positive effects from, the Schoolwide
Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS) program, a strategy that aims to change a school culture by setting clear behavioral expectations, laying out a continuum of consequences for infractions, and reinforcing positive b
Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS)
program, a strategy that aims to change a school culture by setting clear behavioral expectations, laying out a continuum
of consequences for infractions, and reinforcing positive behavio
of consequences for infractions, and reinforcing
positive b
positive behavior.
Recent studies have explored the benefits
of blogging in supporting adolescent writers with learning difficulties (Jones, 2012), and the
positive effect of an internet pen - pal
program involving students in New England and Australia (Charron, 2007).
But beyond offering a safe haven, research and evaluation studies have demonstrated that the
programs can have a
positive effect on a range
of prevention outcomes, such as avoidance
of drug and alcohol use, decreases in delinquency and violent behavior, increased knowledge
of safe sex, avoidance
of sexual activity, and reduction in juvenile crime.
To eliminate the
effects of any chance differences in performance caused by other observable characteristics, our analysis takes into account students» age, gender, race, and eligibility for the free lunch
program; whether they had been assigned to a small class; and whether they were assigned to a teacher
of the same race — which earlier research using these same data found to have a large
positive effect on student performance (see «The Race Connection,» Spring 2004).
Summaries
of the
effects of multiple
programs generally show
positive effects, as does a meta - analysis
of gold - standard experimental research on school choice by Shakeel, Anderson, and Wolf (2016).
Overall, the study's findings suggest that, in the absence
of higher - quality alternatives, participation in a low intensity preschool
program may have some limited
positive long term
effects.
While it is difficult to disentangle the reasons for this strengthening over time
of the
program's estimated
effects, these findings nonetheless suggest that our first - year results may understate the
positive effect of the FTC
program on public school performance
The approach
of Picus and Odden to policies is simple: if a
program shows a large
positive effect in one study, it should immediately be implemented across the state.