Sentences with phrase «qualitative evidence of»

The aim of this study is to provide strong quantitative and qualitative evidence of the efficacy of the Electronic Personal Administration of Cognitive Therapy — ePACT — as a treatment of depression and anxiety in adults with chronic Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) living in the community.
According to Isabel, work experience allows you to demonstrate the abilities, attitudes and motivation that recruiters look for, while providing them with quantitative and qualitative evidence of your skills.
As far as air temps based on the instrument record, there are some dubious conditions which I have personally observed with especially siting of official recording sites (e.g., ASOS, AWOS sites), even though there are certainly some qualitative evidence of general warming.
It also provides qualitative evidence of a growing confidence across head teachers who feel better prepared to meet the ever - rising demands placed on them as school leaders.
The district has extensive qualitative evidence of impact.

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The Report goes on to use qualitative empirical evidence to evaluate the success of the ACCC in enforcing the unconscionable conduct provisions in a number of key cases concerning retail leasing, franchising and consumer transactions.
This is, I think, my go - to piece of anecdotal and qualitative evidence that Liverpool have grown over the past five years.
One clear barrier to change is a lack of clarity on stakeholders (women and clinicians) understanding and knowledge of what constitutes WCC, and a lack of evidence that gives a qualitative voice to women's views, experience and preferences while availing of current maternity services [10, 11].
But qualitative and anecdotal evidence of the transformative power educating women and girls abounds.
He conducts two streams of interdisciplinary and multi-method research: the first uses quantitative and qualitative approaches from corpus linguistics to investigate British media portrayals of migrant groups, borders, and citizenship, while the second set of projects explores how data, evidence - based research, and «impact» are constructed, shaped, and visually communicated by civil society organisations in their public - facing work.
The material released provides both qualitative and quantitative evidence for dismissing the claims — frequent in August, and spread by for example by an Associated Press story still up on thousands of websites — that social media like Facebook and Twitter were central organizing tools for those involved.
Secondly, qualitative studies of the impact of IMF programmes on social spending can yield more refined theories and nuanced empirical evidence.
I would just ask you also to look at the qualitative evidence, including journalism: it's not even subtle - there is a massive shutdown of life chances for the lowest - skilled fifth of the population and that's to do with patterns of supply and demand for skilled labour.
In a new systematic review appearing this week in PLOS Medicine, Meghan Bohren and colleagues of the WHO Department of Reproductive Health and Research, including HRP, and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health synthesize qualitative and quantitative evidence to form a clearer picture of the extent and types of mistreatment that occurs during childbirth in health facilities.
The «whole language» approach to teaching reading cites qualitative evidence as proof of its effectiveness.
The workshops will be an opportunity for Ofqual to gather qualitative evidence about things that have gone well and any areas of concern.
The hard data, as opposed to the more qualitative evidence, show that the majority of unwed births are unintended.
Global Search for Education contributor Pasi Sahlberg believes that good education must be evaluated from a variety of evidence which includes both the quantitative and the qualitative.
In line with the MET report, I think some kind of triangulation of qualitative and quantitative data that utilizes student feedback (with teacher reflection), teacher and / or Professional Learning Community evidence of student learning and growth (with teacher reflection), and supervisor feedback from classroom observations (with teacher reflection) would help to provide a balanced and multi-dimensional approach for more intentionally and comprehensively understanding teaching and learning.
Given this weak statistical evidence of positive relationships between student achievement and district or school data use (as reflected in the principal and teacher survey items), we turned to our qualitative data, which provided the following insights:
No general claims about the relationship between student learning and school leadership distribution can be made on the basis of evidence derived from qualitative research at five schools.
The standards of evidence drew on numerous writings about research rigor, quality, and reporting, including efforts to address quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methodologies.
These qualitative data provide convincing evidence that in the teachers» own judgments, their content knowledge for teaching mathematics, and their understandings of their students» mathematics thinking were both enhanced throughout the yearlong oTPD program.
Accountability requires the use of multiple forms of qualitative and quantitative evidence from both academic and non-academic areas to assess students, schools and districts and determine how to make improvements.
In her role, Hebert collaborates with the Center and with UIC College of Education's EdD program to gather and present qualitative and quantitative evidence of the practice, progress, and successes of EdD program candidates.
While the Teacher Disposition Survey did not provide quantitative evidence of broad change in our qualitative research, particularly in teacher candidate reflections and interviews, the resources appeared to be having an impact on their orientation toward student thinking and their efforts to anticipate students» experience of the mathematics.
Creswell and Miller (2000) stressed that validity in a qualitative study is strengthened when researchers go through the difficult process of searching for evidence that disconfirms their assertions.
Using a multiple methods approach, this study critically analyzed retrospective quantitative and qualitative data to better comprehend and understand the evidence collected from four teachers whose contracts were not renewed in the summer of 2011, in part given their low SAS ® EVAAS ® scores.
This webinar explores how pedagogical documentation is connected to collaborative inquiry (CI) processes and how it can provide rich qualitative evidence to monitor the effectiveness of CI.
A report that delves into LDC's evidence of impact, including both quantitative and qualitative evidence demonstrating impact on improving the teacher skills necessary to improve student outcomes.
We also present qualitative evidence that loan - forgiveness recipients were of higher quality (as measured by value added) than nonrecipients who taught in the same subject but were not certified and thus ineligible.
Performance management software that supports coaching ties qualitative feedback to a common piece of evidence like a lesson plan, sample student work, or video of teaching.
Oklahoma State Representative Scooter Park said that «HB2957 is a step in the right direction — driven by the support of Superintendents across the state, we can continue to remove the costly and time - consuming portions of the TLE system such as unnecessary data collection requirements as well as open the door for local school districts to develop their own qualitative evaluation system for their teachers according to their choice of a valid, reliable, research based and evidence - based qualitative measure.»
One source of evidence is the qualitative case study which is typically conducted in exceptional school settings (e.g., Gezi, 1990).
The qualitative portion of our research will address this limitation by (a) developing a relatively large number of cases of successful leadership, (b) reporting the results of systematic cross-case analyses and (c) carrying out quantitative tests of the results provided by the qualitative evidence.
The preponderance of the evidence — quantitative, qualitative, and meta - analytic — leads to the inescapable conclusion that teacher efficacy matters.
A Study of An Alternative School for Pregnant and / or Parenting Teens: Quantitative and Qualitative Evidence.
There is a wealth of empirical evidence — both qualitative and quantitative — that supports the claim that alternative schools for pregnant teens can have a positive impact on not only the educational outcomes of teen parents, but also the health outcomes of both parents and children.
That this report has Affiliation with (I will not show the long list of scientific organizations affiliated with this study, Skeptical Science, for obvious reasons, is not mentioned) Publication Date: 12/2011 «Our interpretation, based on ikaite isotopes, provides additional qualitative evidence that both the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age were extended to the Southern Ocean and the Antarctic Peninsula.»
«The confidence metric provides a qualitative synthesis of an author team's judgment about the validity of a finding, as determined through evaluation of evidence and agreement.
Their qualitative approach precluded any quantitative summary of the evidence at precise times, limiting the value of their review as a basis for comparison of the relative magnitude of mean hemispheric 20th - century warmth (Mann and Jones, 2003; Osborn and Briffa, 2006).
Part of the proposed pilot project include quantitative (paras. 170 - 172) and qualitative (paras. 173 - 175) monitoring, which should help collect the appropriate evidence.
[51] In her judgment Andrews J referred to examples of the type of evidence required to attract legal advice privilege, to include a qualitative assessment of the evidence or any thoughts about its importance or relevance to the inquiry, or indications of further areas of investigation that the author of the notes considered might be fruitful.
The wording in s. 16 (4) only requires the ability to communicate evidence as the only requirement under s. 16 (3), and additional qualitative requirements would flout the utility of s. 16 (4).
There is strong evidence, both quantitative and qualitative, that lawyers do not serve the entire potential market for legal services — in fact, it would appear that we serve only a small percentage of potential legal system users.
While these organizations relied on qualitative or anecdotal evidence of improvement related to business operations and risk reduction, those that provided estimates, reported time saved in the execution of compliance and risk tasks ranging between 25 % and 30 %.
Comments from the floor ranged from defensive (the APA staff essentially said, «If we want to be a player here with psychiatry we need to get these guidelines out now»; representatives from division 39, psychoanalysis, claimed unfair treatment of psychoanalysis and psychodynamic TX,) to accurate (the president of the Women's division strongly suggested that decontextualizing PTSD was dangerous to those who suffered from it,) to the idiotic (sorry about casting aspersions here — but I am always fascinated when psychologists in love with RCTs and meta - analyses as the only viable evidence base stand at the mic and spout effect sizes etc. — overlooking the important contributions from qualitative research, and misunderstanding how RCTs are based on drug trials that simply do not translate to humans.
Focus group discussions with the health visitors delivering the intervention37 and in - depth one - to - one interviews with participating mothers38 provide a contrasting insight into the effect of the programme from that offered by the quantitative data.38, 39 Although these qualitative data can not provide evidence of overall effectiveness, they suggest that the participants experienced changes, that would not have been captured with the standardised outcome instruments used in this trial.
Qualitative evidence indicated an increase in access related to ICDP activities such as the removal of cost barriers to medicines; removal of transport barriers to attend services; improved cultural safety in general practices; support and assistance from ICDP workforce for Indigenous people to access healthcare services; and more community programmes / resources to support healthy lifestyle choices and health - seeking behaviours.
The evidence base for FLNP includes qualitative research showing that parents recruited through schools value the programme and perceive it to have an impact on family relationships, children's behaviour and their own mental health51; «before and after» studies in community groups showing impact on self - report measures of relationship quality and well - being52; and routine evaluation by parents attending programmes showing that the great majority value the programme.53
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