Sentences with phrase «program evaluation research»

Dr. Bagnato specializes in authentic curriculum - based assessment and applied program evaluation research for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers at developmental risk and with neurodevelopmental disabilities and neurobehavioral disorders and their families.

Outlining basic concepts from four decades of program evaluation research, this video and brief help explain how society can ensure that children have a solid foundation for a productive future by creating and implementing effective early childhood programs and policies.

This report synthesizes 15 years of dramatic advances in the science of early childhood and early brain development, analyzes evidence generated by 50 years of program evaluation research, and presents a framework for driving science - based innovation in early childhood policy and practice.

Program evaluation research highlights effective strategies to create the conditions in which children and their families thrive, even in the face of adverse circumstances.

Fortunately, program evaluation research demonstrates that quality, research - based early intervention programs that begin early can improve the odds of positive outcomes for the nation's youngest and most vulnerable children well into the adult years.

He has focused and written extensively in the areas of public policy, program evaluation research, social intervention, and field research methodology.

He created Project S.A.M.E. a US - Soviet Youth Exchange that brought students from the US and USSR together to advocate for peace; founded Students Concerned about Bias in Society (SCABS) who fought for implementation of Title IX in Maine schools; directed the University of Maine Aspirations Project and launched 35 statewide student leadership teams to bring students» voices to educational reform; conducted program evaluation research on the effects of the Maine Civil Rights Teams Project whose 50 student teams fought against bigotry and intolerance in Maine communities; founded the Center for School Climate and Learning and worked in hundreds of schools supporting students, teachers and administrators to bring youth voice to school reform in the US; co-authored two books, The Respectful School, and Transforming School Climate and Learning to share what I have learned.

To this end, the Center has developed a three - stage knowledge transfer process: (1) Knowledge Synthesis — a critical analysis of cutting - edge science and program evaluation research to identify core concepts and evidence - based findings that are broadly accepted by the scientific community; (2) Knowledge Translation — the identification of gaps in understanding between scientists and the public, and the development of effective language to communicate accurate scientific information in a way that can inform sound public discourse; and (3) Knowledge Communication — the production and dissemination of a wide variety of publications and educational media via print, the Web, and in - person presentations.

This interdisciplinary group of 10 researchers from several universities assesses, interprets, and translates program evaluation research for policymakers, primarily at the state level.

With these concepts in mind, the Center employs the following three - stage process: • Knowledge Synthesis — a critical analysis of cutting - edge science and program evaluation research to identify core concepts and evidence - based findings that are broadly accepted by the scientific community.

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Get resources to help answer questions and avoid common pitfalls that could skew the results of your program evaluations or research studies.

Fourth, evaluation and research; this means continual looking at the needs of communities as they change in order to keep the program geared to these needs.

The 2011 recipient was Karen Schmidt, a professor in the Department of Animal Sciences and Industry at Kansas State University, Schmidt's teaching responsibilities include Fundamentals of Milk Processing, Food Product Evaluation, Dairy Foods Processing and Technology and Quality Assurance of Food Products, and her research program focuses on processing and quality of dairy and non-dairy foods.

The International Network for Quality Rice (INQR) consists of members who work on rice research, quality evaluation in rice improvement programs, and private sector equipment manufacturers.

«Outcomes will include a collaborative culture in the program, effective reporting, evaluation, support and rigorous monitoring of scientific effort to promote high quality targeted research to meet the objectives of the program,» the tender document says.

Design, implement, and collaborate with external researchers to carry out evaluation and impact assessment research for Rainforest Alliance's agriculture sustainability certification programs as well as broader research on the effectiveness of strategies to conserve forests, promote the sustainability of production systems, and improve human wellbeing in the context of agriculture and forestry landscapes and supply chains.

The Staff Scientist will be an integral part of Rainforest Alliance's Evaluation & Research program and of the AFi team.

Results of the Cycle IV Germ Plasm Evaluation (GPE) Program at the USDA Meat Animal Research Center (MARC), Clay Center, Nebraska, showed the Galloway crosses placing at the top of the chart for flavor, juiciness and tenderness.

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

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.

The DOHVE project provides research - and evaluation - related technical assistance (TA) to MIECHV program grantees.

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.

The ACF Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) awarded the TEI contract to provide technical assistance, leadership, and support to promote excellence in community - based research and evaluation of MIECHV initiatives that serve American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) children and families through the Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Research and Evaluation (OPRE) awarded the TEI contract to provide technical assistance, leadership, and support to promote excellence in community - based research and evaluation of MIECHV initiatives that serve American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) children and families through the Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home VisitinEvaluation (OPRE) awarded the TEI contract to provide technical assistance, leadership, and support to promote excellence in community - based research and evaluation of MIECHV initiatives that serve American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) children and families through the Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting research and evaluation of MIECHV initiatives that serve American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) children and families through the Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visitinevaluation of MIECHV initiatives that serve American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) children and families through the Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting program.

He has conducted extensive research in maternal and child health and nutrition, long - term birth cohort studies, inequalities in health, and on the evaluation of the impact of major global health programs.

Findings from the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, a rigorous Congressionally - mandated study, indicate that the program had modest but positive impacts on EHS children at age three in cognitive, language, and social - emotional development, compared to a control group.xxiii In addition, their parents scored higher than control group parents on such aspects of the home environment as parenting behavior and knowledge of infant - toddler development.

The Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program responds to the diverse needs of children and families in at - risk communities and is required to carry out a continuous program of research and evaluation activities in order to increase knowledge about the implementation and effectiveness of home visiting prProgram responds to the diverse needs of children and families in at - risk communities and is required to carry out a continuous program of research and evaluation activities in order to increase knowledge about the implementation and effectiveness of home visiting prprogram of research and evaluation activities in order to increase knowledge about the implementation and effectiveness of home visiting programs.

The Effectiveness of Whole - School Anti-bullying Programs: A Synthesis of Evaluation Research.

Dr. Brownlee served for eight years as Planning, Evaluation and Applied Research Coordinator for the Project for Strengthening Health Delivery Systems in Africa (a 20 - country project), for ten years as Senior Technical Advisor for Program Development, Evaluation and Research at Wellstart International, and taught at UCSD for sixteen years.

She has served as team leader on a number of health program evaluations and lead trainer for «training of trainer» workshops in Africa and Asia and has published extensively in the fields of breastfeeding and infant and young child feeding, cross-cultural health, health systems research, and health assessment.

A briefing book that accompanied the State of the State speech says, «the medical marijuana program will allow scientific research and evaluation into whether medical marijuana can be dispensed in an effective and controlled way without being abused.»

Researchers and a professional evaluator have also assisted in development of an evaluation program that measures progress toward goals identified by research.

The Center for Biological Evaluation and Research (CBER) would reduce its applied scientific research and cut back the number of research fellows hired to support the regulatory science Research (CBER) would reduce its applied scientific research and cut back the number of research fellows hired to support the regulatory science research and cut back the number of research fellows hired to support the regulatory science research fellows hired to support the regulatory science program.

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.

«A hybrid such as this could go completely undetected should it invade another country,» Research Director leading CSIRO's Biosecurity Risk Evaluation and Preparedness Program Dr Paul De Barro said.

That's unfortunate because using citizen science in studies would not only highlight volunteers» role in science, it could also could attract more investment into future research, said Rick Bonney, director of program development and evaluation at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, who reviewed Cooper's study.

«We have not made a decision there but that is something we are looking into,» says Douglas Throckmorton, deputy director of regulatory programs at the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.

With the recent emphasis on translational and outcomes research, it should not be difficult to find a training program in fields related to CER, says Milton Weinstein, director of Harvard University's Program on the Economic Evaluation of Medical Technology and co-author of the book Decision Making in Health and Medicine: Integrating Evidence and program in fields related to CER, says Milton Weinstein, director of Harvard University's Program on the Economic Evaluation of Medical Technology and co-author of the book Decision Making in Health and Medicine: Integrating Evidence and Program on the Economic Evaluation of Medical Technology and co-author of the book Decision Making in Health and Medicine: Integrating Evidence and Values.

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:

Albeit slow to produce marketable pharmaceuticals, evaluation programs have been very effective in creating a necessary research infrastructure.

I also built an analytics division, a group of very talented science Ph.D. s with whom I worked to carry out evaluations of research programs including the NIH Loan Repayment Programs, the K program, and most recently the relationship between race, ethnicity, and the NIH awards programs including the NIH Loan Repayment Programs, the K program, and most recently the relationship between race, ethnicity, and the NIH awards Programs, the K program, and most recently the relationship between race, ethnicity, and the NIH awards process.

«By embedding mental health screening in the emergency department, we are making it part of our health care culture — reducing the stigma associated with mental health problems and providing the opportunity for early identification and treatment for all children,» said Jeffrey I. Gold, PhD, director of the Children's Outcomes, Research and Evaluation program at CHLA and an author on the study.

Upon examining these award programs» selection and evaluation criteria, the quality of the data used, and the independence of the rating programs, Juravich and research assistant and co-author Essie Ablavsky concluded that these ratings and awards can not be seen as objective measures of corporate performance.

In my most recent position, as a senior manager in clinical research, I design and manage Phase IV clinical evaluation programs for large general practitioner audiences within very short timelines.

Through these endeavors and my current research program, I am actively engaged in fostering collaborations with academic, non-profit and industry partners to conduct large - scale rodent behavioral evaluations and preclinical studies.

This research was supported by a WCU (World Class University) program through the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, the National Research Foundation of Korea Grant, the Korea Healthcare technology R&D Project, the Ministry of Health & Welfare, Korea and the International Cooperation of the Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP) grant funded by the Korean government Ministry of Knowledge research was supported by a WCU (World Class University) program through the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, the National Research Foundation of Korea Grant, the Korea Healthcare technology R&D Project, the Ministry of Health & Welfare, Korea and the International Cooperation of the Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP) grant funded by the Korean government Ministry of Knowledge Research Foundation of Korea Grant, the Korea Healthcare technology R&D Project, the Ministry of Health & Welfare, Korea and the International Cooperation of the Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP) grant funded by the Korean government Ministry of Knowledge Economy.

The focus of the research programs in the Laboratory of Clinical Psychopharmacology is the clinical evaluation of potential medications for protracted abstinence and relapse prevention in alcohol use disorder and related disorders such as nicotine and cannabis use disorders.

Program research protocols include clinical evaluation, experimental drug studies, neuroimaging, magnetoencephalography, and surgical evaluation.

NISER's staff has experience in systems - level evaluation, a deep understanding of interdisciplinary team science, a professional collaborative approach to program evaluation and research, and the ability to untangle the complexity of large - scale STEM programs.

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