Sentences with phrase «rigorous evaluation program»

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We first considered Living Goods in 2009 and noted that it stood out for subjecting its program to a rigorous evaluation.

Still in draft form, the Code of Conduct commits signatories to faithful compliance with Charitable Choice; to straightforward and consistent communication about their religious identity among their volunteers, service beneficiaries, donors and government partners; to refraining from using government funding for «confessional activities»; to winsome and gentle witness; to love of neighbor; to freedom from religious coercion; to nondiscrimination toward program participants; to faithfulness to their mission; to credible and objective evaluation procedures; to avoidance of «turf wars» with other FBOs and nonprofits; and to rigorous financial accountability.

«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.

That's why all sport - for - development programs need rigorous monitoring and evaluation.»

Researchers should continue building the knowledge base about how to implement home visiting programs effectively by reporting information on implementation alongside results of rigorous effectiveness evaluations.

The majority of the funding is used by states to implement program models that have demonstrated their effectiveness based on rigorous evaluation findings.

Promoting rigorous evaluation of fatherhood 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 company initially sought the input of Dr. Lee Newman, director of the Center for Health, Work & Environment in 2016 to conduct a rigorous third - party evaluation of their workplace health programs.

Through its dedicated disability employment portfolio, the Center conducts research and performs evaluation activities that seeks to generate new knowledge about the impact of public policies and programs on the inclusion of people with disabilities into the workforce, and identify, through rigorous research and evaluation, promising «to work» strategies and practices in the field that are showing success in helping people with disabilities to seek and retain competitive employment.

After a rigorous evaluation of our readiness, it was determined by the faculty and staff of the School of Naturopathic Medicine that it was best to delay the program launch.

Primal Kitchen is proud to uphold strict non-GMO standards, and to undergo rigorous testing and evaluation by this highly regarded third party verification program.

Primal Kitchen is proud to uphold strict non-GMO standards, and to undergo rigorous testing and evaluation by the Non-GMO Project Verification program.

Bystander - based programs have shown promise to reduce interpersonal violence at colleges, yet limited rigorous evaluations have addressed

• Hope Street Group, a consulting firm that was instrumental in formulating Race to the Top, sponsors a Teaching Fellows program that awards $ 5,000 stipends for teachers who are involved in implementing reforms, such as rigorous teacher evaluations, in their respective states.

Conclusions School voucher initiatives such as the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program will remain politically controversial in spite of rigorous evaluations such as this one, showing that parents and students benefited in some ways from the pProgram will remain politically controversial in spite of rigorous evaluations such as this one, showing that parents and students benefited in some ways from the programprogram.

Yet continual monitoring and rigorous, well - designed evaluations are critical to the success of any eLearning program (iNACOL, 2008).

For example, two of the current top priorities of the U.S. Department of Education are to get states to implement rigorous teacher evaluation systems and to improve the quality of the nation's teacher preparation programs.

Those reforms have never been evaluated using rigorous methods of program evaluation.

To provide a more rigorous evaluation of the program's impact, we compare the reading and English performance of individual students attending NLP and comparison schools in 1997 and 1998, while taking into account a wide variety of school characteristics that could also influence student achievement.

We believe our report lays the groundwork for a rigorous and credible program of evaluation and research, one that would bring to the problems of education in DC the very best available expertise and reasoned judgment.

This design report describes the B3 study, a rigorous evaluation of new program approaches to support low - income fathers in working toward economic stability and improved relationships with their children.

To be eligible for that program, states had to adopt Common Core (or similarly rigorous standards and assessments), and they had to put into place teacher evaluation systems that use student test score growth as a «significant» part of both teacher and school principal evaluations.

She leads a number of studies that evaluate education programs using rigorous econometric methods, including randomized control trials, propensity score matching methods, and other quasi-experimental evaluation designs.

That's why smart policy — namely, strong teacher professional standards, rigorous standards for and assessments of prep programs, and exacting rules on educator evaluations and certification — is a huge part of the answer here.

Education researchers had for decades largely ignored the emergence of more rigorous methods for program evaluation and, as a result, the evidentiary cupboard was bare.

The State Evaluation of Principal Preparation Programs Toolkit — or SEP3 Toolkit — provides essential guidance on implementing a more in - depth and rigorous principal preparation evaluation process, thereby enabling states to accurately assess quality, promote improvement, and intervene in the case of performance that raisesEvaluation of Principal Preparation Programs Toolkit — or SEP3 Toolkit — provides essential guidance on implementing a more in - depth and rigorous principal preparation evaluation process, thereby enabling states to accurately assess quality, promote improvement, and intervene in the case of performance that raisesevaluation process, thereby enabling states to accurately assess quality, promote improvement, and intervene in the case of performance that raises concerns.

Establish appropriate and rigorous research and evaluation components in the development of the process in order to measure the effectiveness of the program related to school leadership practices and their impact on student learning.

In addition, the study's analyses of TAH grantee evaluations found that the evaluations were not sufficiently rigorous to determine the impact of the TAH program on student achievement or teacher knowledge.

In fact, the research I reviewed on rigorous evaluations of long - term outcomes from choice programs suggests that using test scores to decide whether a bunch of schools should be closed or expanded would lead to significant Type 1 and Type 2 errors.

This research study included the development and implementation of the MQI Coaching Cycle, as well as a rigorous evaluation of the program's effectiveness using a teacher - level random assignment design....

The Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Policy and Evaluation is a full - time program that prepares you to conduct rigorous, high - impact and interdisciplinary research on education policy.

The paper presents findings from Mathematica's rigorous multi-year evaluation of the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) charter school network.

Our recent research examines the evaluation of the Student Achievement Guarantee in Education (SAGE) program (Molnar, Smith, and Zahorik, 2000; Molnar et al., 2001; Zahorik, Molnar, Ehrle, & Halbach, 2000), an initiative that requires participating schools to maintain the student - teacher ratio in K — 3 classes at 15:1 and develop rigorous, standards - based academic curriculums.

For example, high - quality child care and high - quality pre-K programs have been shown by rigorous evaluation to have a large effect on improving future prospects per dollar spent.

Last fall, UW researchers completed their most rigorous evaluation to date of the tutoring program.

EIR uses a tiered - evidence approach that has two important design principles: it provides more funds to programs with higher levels of evidence, and it requires rigorous and independent evaluations so that programs continue to improve.

Develop a rigorous evaluation process, including significant input from professional educators, to measure the effectiveness of the funded activities and to propose improvements in the respective grant programs.

PAR is a program of structured mentorship, observation, and rigorous, standards - based evaluation of teachers by teachers.

But the program also has prompted a number of states to lift arbitrary caps on charter schools and, perhaps most importantly, has gotten 36 states and the District of Columbia to introduce more rigorous teacher - evaluation systems.

There are many books and professional development programs that purport to help teachers make use of student data to improve instruction and student achievement (Boudett, City, and Murnane 2010; Bernhardt 2009; Love 2008), but there is little rigorous evaluation of these programs.

These programs include structured mentorship, observation, and rigorous standards - based evaluation of teachers designed to develop great teachers.

Teacher prep programs must get more rigorous, evaluations aligned with student outcomes (not I said outcomes not test scores so don't put words in my mouth)...

«Rigorous evaluations of the federal Head Start program have long shown that gains made during the preschool years tend to fade when children get to kindergarten and first grade.

I will concede the solutions would need more funding, but the solutions include changing the teaching profession, requiring different expectations at teacher prep programs, reinventing professional development, having a more rigorous human capital department (from hiring to evaluations), more choice, more parent engagement... I also think teaching is not a right, but something you must earn, you should have a society that invests in the teaching profession and teachers investing in it too.

For the promise of personalized learning to be realized, the following combination is needed: a rigorous digital curriculum, technology that enables access for all students, an implementation plan that provides professional learning and support for educators, and ongoing evaluation against program goals.

The most methodologically rigorous evaluations find that the academic benefits of preschool programs are quite modest, and these gains fade after children enter elementary school.

He served as principal investigator for the first rigorous, nationwide examination of the effectiveness of nonprofit charter - school management organizations, and played the same role on the first nationwide evaluation of the effects of the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) schools.

The CREDO team conducts rigorous and independent analysis and evaluation of promising programs that aim to improve outcomes for students in U.S. K - 12 public schools.

We offer deep expertise in program evaluation and in conducting complex and rigorous research within the pk - 16 policy landscape.