OJJDP's National Mentoring Resource Center offers a variety of research - based resources, including mentoring model / population reviews, information about promising and effective mentoring programs, and a Measurement Guidance Toolkit to help
programs measure outcomes more effectively.
Not exact matches
With such a
program it is not possible to hide from participants whether or not they received the intervention and
outcome measures rely on self - reports of events that may have occurred a few years in the past.
The properly
measured economic return to community college has to take into account the counterfactual
outcomes that entrants would face in the absence of community college, rather than compare community college entrants to students who enter university
programs after high school.
In order to accurately
measure the efficacy of several home visiting
programs, a comprehensive assessment that includes
measures of multiple child and family
outcomes at various points in time should be favoured.
Launched in September 2013, through a three - year cooperative agreement with Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), the Home Visiting CoIIN works to achieve breakthrough improvements in select process and
outcome measures, including benchmark areas legislatively mandated for the Federal Home Visiting
program, while reducing or maintaining
program costs.
How do we compare the efficacy and value of
programs with different goals and
outcome measures?
To develop an evaluation plan to
measure the process, impact, and
outcomes of
program activities.
These key components are linked to
outcome measures through
program goals and
outcomes.
How do I show how I am
measuring outcomes if I am running a new
program that was started within the last few months?
They
measured educational
outcomes using standardized tests and looked at demographic data, including attendance and suspension; race and ethnicity; free and reduced price lunch status; and participation in gifted education, special education, or
programs for English learners.
«There should be a study,» says graduate school dean Lawrence Martin of the State University of New York, Stony Brook, who is also head of a panel of land - grant colleges that has drafted a position paper urging coverage of more fields, greater use of objective research criteria, exploration of some
measures of
program outcome, and ranking institutions by cluster rather than individually.
NSQIP is the leading nationally validated, risk - adjusted,
outcomes - based
program to
measure and improve the quality of surgical care in hospitals.
The NSQIP database is the leading nationally validated, risk - adjusted,
outcomes - based
program to
measure and improve the quality of surgical care in hospitals.
In addition, this new
program focuses more on morbidity as a
measure of surgical
outcomes, rather than mortality, which Dr. Moss said better encompasses the specific nature of pediatric surgery.
ACS NSQIP is the leading nationally validated, risk - adjusted,
outcomes - based
program to
measure and improve the quality of surgical care in hospitals.
The American College of Surgeons» National Surgical Quality Improvement
Program is an outcomes - based program to measure and improve the quality of surgical care across surgical speci
Program is an
outcomes - based
program to measure and improve the quality of surgical care across surgical speci
program to
measure and improve the quality of surgical care across surgical specialties.
Observational studies have a high risk of bias owing to problems such as self - selection of interventions (people who believe in the benefits of meditation or who have prior experience with meditation are more likely to enroll in a meditation
program and report that they benefited from one) and use of
outcome measures that can be easily biased by participants» beliefs in the benefits of meditation.
Kate Copping - Westgarth Primary School, Victoria Using Data to Develop Collaborative Practice and Improve Student Learning
Outcomes Dr Bronte Nicholls and Jason Loke, Australian Science and Mathematics School, South Australia Using New Technology for Classroom Assessment: An iPad app to measure learning in dance education Sue Mullane - Sunshine Special Developmental School, Victoria Dr Kim Dunphy - Making Dance Matter, Victoria Effective Differentiation: Changing outcomes in a multi-campus school Yvonne Reilly and Jodie Parsons - Sunshine College, Victoria Improving Numeracy Outcomes: Findings from an intervention program Michaela Epstein - Chaffey Secondary College, Victoria Workshop: Developing Rubrics and Guttman Charts to Target All Students» Zones of Proximal Development Holly Bishop - Westgarth Primary School, Victoria Bree Bishop - Carwatha College P - 12, Victoria Raising the Bar: School Improvement in action Beth Gilligan, Selina Kinne, Andrew Pritchard, Kate Longey and Fred O'Leary - Dominic College, Tasmania Teacher Feedback: Creating a positive culture for reform Peta Ranieri - John Wollaston Anglican Community School, Western A
Outcomes Dr Bronte Nicholls and Jason Loke, Australian Science and Mathematics School, South Australia Using New Technology for Classroom Assessment: An iPad app to
measure learning in dance education Sue Mullane - Sunshine Special Developmental School, Victoria Dr Kim Dunphy - Making Dance Matter, Victoria Effective Differentiation: Changing
outcomes in a multi-campus school Yvonne Reilly and Jodie Parsons - Sunshine College, Victoria Improving Numeracy Outcomes: Findings from an intervention program Michaela Epstein - Chaffey Secondary College, Victoria Workshop: Developing Rubrics and Guttman Charts to Target All Students» Zones of Proximal Development Holly Bishop - Westgarth Primary School, Victoria Bree Bishop - Carwatha College P - 12, Victoria Raising the Bar: School Improvement in action Beth Gilligan, Selina Kinne, Andrew Pritchard, Kate Longey and Fred O'Leary - Dominic College, Tasmania Teacher Feedback: Creating a positive culture for reform Peta Ranieri - John Wollaston Anglican Community School, Western A
outcomes in a multi-campus school Yvonne Reilly and Jodie Parsons - Sunshine College, Victoria Improving Numeracy
Outcomes: Findings from an intervention program Michaela Epstein - Chaffey Secondary College, Victoria Workshop: Developing Rubrics and Guttman Charts to Target All Students» Zones of Proximal Development Holly Bishop - Westgarth Primary School, Victoria Bree Bishop - Carwatha College P - 12, Victoria Raising the Bar: School Improvement in action Beth Gilligan, Selina Kinne, Andrew Pritchard, Kate Longey and Fred O'Leary - Dominic College, Tasmania Teacher Feedback: Creating a positive culture for reform Peta Ranieri - John Wollaston Anglican Community School, Western A
Outcomes: Findings from an intervention
program Michaela Epstein - Chaffey Secondary College, Victoria Workshop: Developing Rubrics and Guttman Charts to Target All Students» Zones of Proximal Development Holly Bishop - Westgarth Primary School, Victoria Bree Bishop - Carwatha College P - 12, Victoria Raising the Bar: School Improvement in action Beth Gilligan, Selina Kinne, Andrew Pritchard, Kate Longey and Fred O'Leary - Dominic College, Tasmania Teacher Feedback: Creating a positive culture for reform Peta Ranieri - John Wollaston Anglican Community School, Western Australia
[8] Comparing just these two
programs, it's impossible to tell if this is the result of differences in
program design,
outcomes measured, the maturity of the
program, or something else.
Performance
measures may address the type or level of
program activities conducted (process), the direct products and services delivered by a
program (outputs), and / or the results of those products and services (
outcomes).
Outcomes were
measured immediately at the end of the PD
programs and one year later.
As Bauerlein notes, this was a pretty radical shift for grantees used to evaluating
programs by handing out questionnaires to students at the end of the
program «that
measured their attitudes and enjoyment» and not «learning
outcomes.»
In particular, she has established a research
program investigating: (1) effective ways to
measure bilingualism in schools; (2) how bilingualism and executive functions interact to influence language and literacy
outcomes; and (3) relationship between academic
outcomes, quality and quantity of bilingual experience.
Lazar says it is logistically difficult to
measure outcomes beyond anecdotally but cites positive feedback from teachers and outreach from principals who want their schools to more deeply engage on digital citizenship as part of their wellbeing
programs.
They've spent the past five years exploring connections between social - emotional skills and positive life
outcomes, in the process
measuring the efficacy of many
programs that teach those skills.
But the best
programs, she says, identify their desired
outcomes and have those goals drive all aspects of their
program — student recruitment,
program development, staff training — and
measure themselves against those goals.
(*)
Programs and practices listed here received support from at least three studies by independent evaluators and / or peer - reviewed publications, using controlled experimental designs and independent
outcome measures.
The
program has a system for using information for learning and
program improvement as well as for
measuring outcomes relevant to
program activities.
Table 1, in the appendix (please see attached PDF), compares features of the four studies, including the populations served by the
programs, sample sizes of the studies, the test that studies used as their
outcome, and how the studies
measured impacts on those tests.
Measuring the impact of activities and the
outcomes from your education
programs provides feedback on your
program design and also allows you to promote your education
programs with confidence.
In 2014, 58 summer
program sites in Greater Boston implemented common
program quality measurement tools to consistently define, implement, and
measure program - level
outcomes.
Robert Pianta, dean of the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education, explained that Relay is creating a «feedback loop,» using child - level data to
measure the
outcomes of its teacher - training
program, and using those
measures to make decisions about
program design.
However, no other data set combines
measures of early exposure to bilingual education
programs with
measures of students»
outcomes 10 years after high school.
RCTs are the gold - standard for evaluating the effectiveness of social
programs because the act of randomly assigning participants to the
program or control group assures that, to a statistically determinable margin of error, the two groups are identical on everything that could influence the
outcomes being
measured except their group assignment.
Although VAM makes an important contribution to our understanding of
program outcomes, we likely need multiple
measures to capture something as complex as preparation quality.
The handbook is organized according to how
program inputs and outcomes have been conceptualized and validated in evaluation research on leadership preparation programs and will help program designers: 1) Identify Formative and Summative Assessments; 2) Identify Measures and Outcomes (e.g., program and participant outcomes); 3) Evaluate the Relationship Between the Program Attribute and the Outcome; and 4) Use Data for Preparation Program Impro
program inputs and
outcomes have been conceptualized and validated in evaluation research on leadership preparation programs and will help program designers: 1) Identify Formative and Summative Assessments; 2) Identify Measures and Outcomes (e.g., program and participant outcomes); 3) Evaluate the Relationship Between the Program Attribute and the Outcome; and 4) Use Data for Preparation Program Impr
outcomes have been conceptualized and validated in evaluation research on leadership preparation
programs and will help
program designers: 1) Identify Formative and Summative Assessments; 2) Identify Measures and Outcomes (e.g., program and participant outcomes); 3) Evaluate the Relationship Between the Program Attribute and the Outcome; and 4) Use Data for Preparation Program Impro
program designers: 1) Identify Formative and Summative Assessments; 2) Identify
Measures and
Outcomes (e.g., program and participant outcomes); 3) Evaluate the Relationship Between the Program Attribute and the Outcome; and 4) Use Data for Preparation Program Impr
Outcomes (e.g.,
program and participant outcomes); 3) Evaluate the Relationship Between the Program Attribute and the Outcome; and 4) Use Data for Preparation Program Impro
program and participant
outcomes); 3) Evaluate the Relationship Between the Program Attribute and the Outcome; and 4) Use Data for Preparation Program Impr
outcomes); 3) Evaluate the Relationship Between the
Program Attribute and the Outcome; and 4) Use Data for Preparation Program Impro
Program Attribute and the
Outcome; and 4) Use Data for Preparation
Program Impro
Program Improvement.
To complete her analysis, Cascio compared the academic
outcomes of preschoolers who qualified for federal free - or reduced - price lunch
programs, a standard
measure of poverty, in states that offered universal preschool to similar preschoolers in states that offered only targeted preschool.
Set your
program up for success by taking some time to define SEL standards and how you are going to
measure the reliability of your SEL
program's expected
outcomes over time.
This report addresses research questions regarding the
program's 1) implementation fidelity, 2) performance goals, 3) impact on student attendance and mathematics achievement
outcomes, 4) impact on student aspirations for college, studying STEM subjects in college, and pursuing STEM careers, and 5) impact on
measures of teacher effectiveness.
The summative evaluation of two years of the Arts for Academic Achievement (AAA)
program examines student learning
outcomes of arts - integrated instruction
measured by standardized tests, as well as effects not captured by standardized tests.
The new Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) just endorsed the use of student
outcome measures to judge preparation
programs.
Districts, states, and schools can, at least in theory, generate gains in educational
outcomes for students using value - added
measures in three ways: creating information on effective
programs, making better decisions about human resources, and establishing incentives for higher performance from teachers.
With support from Lumina Foundation for Education and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Evaluation Toolkit was developed for two purposes: (1) To develop a freely accessible, research - based resource that will enable outreach
programs to more readily and systematically use data and
outcome measures to improve service delivery, and (2) promote research that will identify effective
program models across outreach
programs and document the collective impact of
programs by using the evaluation data generated through a common assessment framework.
We determined that in order to assess school quality, and thus the academic performance of its
programs, we would need to
measure student
outcomes.
The Commission of Higher Education is working to: 1) improve the quality of teacher preparation and performance; 2) open the level of dialogue among superintendents and principals and higher education teacher preparation
programs; 3) expand communication among vertical teams in P - 16 to support students entering post-secondary education; and 4) review and
measure learning
outcomes at all levels, including higher education and demonstrate significant value - added for post-secondary options.
Promote evidence - based practices and accountability for student success by improving the use of data, research, and evaluation to assess longitudinal student
outcomes, improve school and
program results, and otherwise
measure progress toward consistently delivering high quality
programs and services.
The High School After School Quality Self - Assessment Rubric (QSAR) was created to support the growing number of high school
programs and establish a framework to
measure program outcomes and quality in California and Nationwide.
The school also offers an independent directed studies
program where students, working from learning
outcomes, design the objectives, assignments, and assessments that will guide, support, and
measure their learning.
In May 2016, EdChoice released a report in which it examines 100 empirical studies of private school choice
programs, 18 of which used the «gold standard» random assignment to
measure outcomes.
Family surveys and student academic
outcomes will be used to
measure and continually improve the
program.