Not exact matches
Previous attempts to evaluate the Baby Friendly Initiative within an
observational study design have often been limited by small sample size or reliance upon ecological
measures of confounding factors.16, 17 The advantage of the Millennium Cohort Study is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding
practices, via area or individual population differences.
Many systems have multiple components, combining
observational measures of instructional
practice with
measures of student learning.
Moreover, the research suggests that value - added scores may be more effective as incentive tools when they are combined with
observational and other
measures that can give teachers information on
practices.
New
observational protocols are likely to be more useful than value - added
measures because they provide teachers with information on specific teaching
practices.
In addition to being costly to collect,
observational measures that favor particular teaching
practices may encourage a type of teaching that is not always best.
Teaching
practices were
measured by teachers» use of research - validated
practices, including
measures of teacher - researcher interactions, quantitative
measures of implementation fidelity,
observational measures of change in teacher and student behavior, and teacher satisfaction.
Mark is an author of Developmental Parenting: A Guide for Early Childhood Practitioners, the PICCOLO (Parenting Interactions with Children: Checklist of Observations Linked to Outcomes) parent - child interaction observation
measure and the HOVRS (Home Visit Rating Scales) an
observational measure of home visiting
practices.
Findings from the
observational measure indicated that parents in the Incredible Years group used less harsh / negative parenting
practices and more positive parenting
practices following the intervention compared to parents in the telephone support and medication groups.