Sentences with phrase «program effectiveness studies»

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The Comptroller General of the United States (referred to in this section as the Comptroller General) shall conduct a study addressing the effectiveness and overall impact of the following priority review voucher programs, including any such programs amended or established by this Act:

W. H. Rockenstein, «Children and Religious Television: An Experimental Study of the Reactions of Children in the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Grades in Monogalia County, West Virginia to Children's Religious Television Programming,» Ph.D. dissertation, Northwestern University, 1966, pp. 161 - 75; Frank Klos, «A Study of the Origin, Utilization, and Impact of the «Davey and Goliath» Series 1959 - 77 and Its Present Effectiveness in Teaching Religious Values to Children,» Ed.D. dissertation, Temple University, 1979, pp. 177 - 82.

Planned variation studies, in which program components, content, home visitor training, or dosage of services is varied, can identify core dimensions of implementation that are critical for achieving program impacts, as well as dimensions that could be adapted for different contexts and populations without threatening the program's effectiveness.

The effectiveness study will also include an implementation analysis that will examine how the program models operate in their local and state contexts and describe the families who participate; and an economic analysis that will examine the financial costs of operating the programs.

In other words, even when home visitation programs succeed in their goal of changing parent behaviour, these changes do not appear to produce significantly better child outcomes.21, 22 One recent exception, however, was a study of the Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) model with low - income Latino families showing changes in home parenting and better third - grade math achievement.23 Earlier evaluations of HIPPY found mixed results regarding program effectiProgram for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) model with low - income Latino families showing changes in home parenting and better third - grade math achievement.23 Earlier evaluations of HIPPY found mixed results regarding program effectiprogram effectiveness.

The study includes: an analysis of the state needs assessments that were provided in the state MIECHV applications and an effectiveness study that includes an impact analysis to measure what difference home visiting programs make for the at - risk families they serve in areas such as prenatal, maternal, and newborn health; child development; parenting; domestic violence; and referrals and service coordination.

We identified 2 studies that evaluated the effectiveness of program add - ons on breastfeeding outcomes.

We believe that the effectiveness of this particular program was owing to a careful design incorporating elements shown to be most successful in previously published peer counseling studies.

According to a Federal Highway Administration study on the effectiveness of red light camera programs, that's not surprising.

In our continuing effort to improve player safety and to try to defend the program we had been selling for two years, USA Football commissioned the Datalys Center for Sports Injury Research and Prevention paid for to conduct an independent study to review the effectiveness of Heads Up Football since we had already been marketing it for two years for children age five and up.

Download the «School Lunch Initiative Evaluation,» a study that demonstrated the effectiveness of a program combining gardening, cooking, improvements in school food, and integrating learning about food and the environment into the academic curriculum.

In this issue of CMAJ, Barr and colleagues5 report the results of their study on the effectiveness of the Period of PURPLE Crying program.

Cuomo wants to use the 1980 Olivieri law to study the effectiveness of a medical marijuana program and has charged the state's Department of Health with implementing the policy.

The President's pilot program is allowed, according to the Administration, because of a provision in the Higher Education Act that allows the Education Department to study the effectiveness of a student - aid program without approval from Congress.

Our research team studied the effectiveness of this program; we found that City Academies do meet their goal of increasing physical activity rates for adult women in these communities.»

With funding from the Organization of Autism Research, Savage has begun the new «Step It Up» study at FPG to evaluate the effectiveness of a self - managed exercise program in which adults with autism and an intellectual disability will use Fitbits.

case study 4.png This case study is based on an article that analyzes the effectiveness of the H5N1 poultry vaccination program and vaccines used in Egypt's national H5N1 surveillance program.

The study, titled, «The Effectiveness of a Low - Impact Exercise Program on Musculoskeletal Health of Asian Older Adults,» will be presented at the American College of Rheumatology / Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals annual meeting on November 9 in San Francisco.

The study was designed as a preliminary assessment of the program's effectiveness in reducing overdose deaths among recently incarcerated people, meaning those who had been incarcerated within a year of their deaths.

The researchers looked at 156 studies on the effectiveness of parenting programs for reducing disruptive behavior in children ages 2 to10; the studies involved more than 15,000 families from a range of socioeconomic backgrounds in 20 countries.

Published in the October issue of the American Journal of Public Health, this study has important implications for the way that states finance and deliver mental health programs, and speaks to the effectiveness of well - funded, comprehensive community programs.

The RAND study included a comprehensive review of the scientific literature about correctional education programs for adults and a meta - analysis to synthesize findings from multiple studies about the effectiveness of correctional education programs.

There's also a general lack of long - term studies that might give researchers a clearer picture of the programs» effectiveness, McClelland said.

Working in partnership with Wellframe, a Boston - based company that enables health plans and providers to better manage risk and amplify existing support resources, McLean Hospital's Waverley Place community support program successfully completed an important and promising study to gauge the effectiveness of a new smartphone app as a support model for people with severe mental illness.

Through the UCSD Clinical Cardiovascular Cell Therapy program, Dib and collaborating cardiology faculty plan to conduct clinical studies in a number of areas, including the effectiveness of adult stem cell transplant as a treatment for congestive heart failure; as a way to minimize heart damage after a heart attack; and in the formation of new blood vessels (angiogenesis) to increase blood flow to the heart for patients experiencing chest pain.

In addition to youth prevention, our team is conducting several studies aimed at improving the effectiveness of adult smoking cessation programs.

Although there have not been any independent scientific studies of its effectiveness, and the spiritual component of 12 - step programs may dissuade some people, the organization now boasts more than 200 locations in the United States.

The study also reported that this type of training program can have potentially exciting possibilities due to its time efficiency and effectiveness.

Short term studies of muscle hypertrophy with untrained or lightly trained subjects is not the best way, in my opinion, to evaluate the long term effectiveness of a strength training program because a) the study is too short to form a long term conclusion, b) untrained and lightly trained subjects gain muscle from any resistance training (for example, I, as a young non-exercising man, gained 20 lbs of muscle in my first 4 months in the Army by doing nothing but high rep calisthenics, running, and road marching) and c) muscle hypertrophy is not a great proxy (substitute) for determining actual long term strength gains.

Lead author on the study noted, «The study suggests regulating the timing of eating and sleep could improve the effectiveness of weight management programs.»

In their analysis, they found that Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound (ELOB) had highly promising and significant evidence of effectiveness (six studies across multiple states) to support the positive impact the program has on student achievement.

The First Things First evaluation was one of two study reviews posted online Jan. 24 by the What Works Clearinghouse, which the U.S. Education Department set up to vet existing research evidence on the effectiveness of educational programs and practices.

This study leaves open the question of whether a bonus program that rewards teachers for their own specific effectiveness would be more successful.

Our study gathered no information about the teacher education programs themselves, but did examine carefully the classroom effectiveness of graduates who taught within Florida.

The reports concludes with: «The small body of research focused on the effectiveness of K12 virtual schooling programs supports findings of similar studies on online courses offered in higher education.

The program is popular, but studies have raised questions about its effectiveness.

The new federal grant to study the effectiveness of preschool programs in Boston Public Schools will provide evidence of what should be sustained and changed to ensure positive outcomes for young children,» Payzant said.

But the pilot offers a shot at increasing the effectiveness of federal programs like Title I. Despite an annual budget of $ 15 billion, study after study has shown the 53 - year - old cornerstone of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty is not having the intended effect of improving impoverished students» outcomes.

Numerous studies show that reading programs with a well - developed systematic and explicit phonics component routinely and consistently have greater effectiveness for children learning to read than programs without a good phonics component.

The second study's authors, Donald Boyd, Pamela Grossman, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, and James Wyckoff, also find few significant differences in effectiveness between traditionally certified New York City teachers and teachers entering through alternative pathways, such as Teach For America or the New York City Teaching Fellows program.

The Queensland academic will be sharing details of several studies exploring the impact and effectiveness of the Principals as Literacy Leaders (PALL) program.

The findings, discussed at the fall meeting of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, are part of a comprehensive, three - year study of the program, which trains 10,000 teachers each year.

Their literature review looked at studies from around the world exploring evidence of the effectiveness of PBL — including the use of concept maps in Hungarian Kindergartens, a primary school PBL program for low SES students in the United States and a STEM - based project involving female high school students in Taiwan.

The effectiveness of voucher and charter school programs has long been debated, and pro and con camps both cite studies to back up their points of view.

Separate studies on the SEM have demonstrated its effectiveness in schools with widely differing socioeconomic levels and patterns of program organization.

Just try to decipher this recent press release about a new study proving «rubric - based assessment can be taken to scale and can produce valid findings with credible and actionable information about student learning that can be used to improve curricular and assignment designs and to increase effectiveness of programs and classes in advancing the most important learning outcomes of college.»

This study is evaluating these performance - based compensation systems to examine issues like the impact of pay - for - performance on student achievement and educator effectiveness, and helping to answer pressing policy questions about how the programs are designed, communicated, and implemented.

This resource is designed to help schools, school districts, and educational program developers identify potential researchers (individuals and organizations) to conduct studies of effectiveness of educational interventions.

This resource collects, screens, and identifies studies on the effectiveness of educational programs, products, practices, and policies for educators, policymakers, researchers, and the public.