Sentences with phrase «rigorous study and research»

Teaching facts requires knowledge, which is acquired through rigorous study and research.

From rigorous study and research to the free exchange of ideas, their minds are opened and nourished.

Not exact matches

The PhD program at the Rotman School of Management provides a rigorous environment for academic research and study.

BOEM's Environmental Studies Program develops, funds, and manages rigorous scientific research specifically to inform policy decisions on the development of energy and mineral resources on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).

Through a rigorous pharmaceutical approach, Gnosis carries out a seamless flow of operations, from product concept to research and development, preclinical and clinical studies, regulatory filing and Intellectual properties, manufacturing and distribution standing alongside customers.

Third, efforts to augment existing home visitation services with mental health interventions aimed at preventing and treating maternal depression should be further tested with rigorous research studies and scaled up as appropriate.

We also sometimes use it formally, to describe a particular course of learning: often one that requires rigorous research and study.

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.

New York State has the greatest gap between rich and poor in the United States.And the most rigorous research over the past 15 years, including studies comparing job growth trends in neighboring counties across state lines with different minimum wages, have found that higher minimum wages do not result in job losses.

«We expect them to look at more rigorous research, which includes other studies and hearing the real world experiences of other cities.»

Out of thousands of studies considered for the analysis, a mere 63 met the research team's strict criteria: Studies had to use rigorous methods and establish cause and studies considered for the analysis, a mere 63 met the research team's strict criteria: Studies had to use rigorous methods and establish cause and Studies had to use rigorous methods and establish cause and effect.

A federal board wanted study details redacted for biosecurity reasons but 22 experts convened last week at a WHO meeting disagreed and will create a system for more rigorous oversight of such research

«Clarification based on rigorous research studies will permit researchers to identify the conditions under which depression can influence substance abuse treatment retention and outcomes, which in turn will help to specify when depression needs to be directly addressed with this population of young people,» explained the researchers.

And the study uses neither blinding nor a placebo group, design elements considered essential for rigorous medical research.

Using simple statistics, without data about published research, Ioannidis argued that the results of large, randomized clinical trials — the gold standard of human research — were likely to be wrong 15 percent of the time and smaller, less rigorous studies are likely to fare even worse.

In his earlier work, Fogel had helped pioneer the application of rigorous statistical analysis and other economics - based mathematical methods to the study of history (research that earned him a Nobel Prize in 1993).

The fda and the International Society for Stem Cell Research warn that no rigorous studies have demonstrated that such treatments safely and effectively repair damaged connective tissue in people.

«Lila is a rigorous biophysical chemist, but unlike most chemists who avoid complexity and prefer reductionist type studies, Lila's whole career has been focused on applying chemistry and biophysical methods to the study of peptides and their role in biology as well as protein folding and trafficking in vivo,» says Jeffrey W. Kelly at The Scripps Research Institute.

Complementary remedies don't have much rigorous scientific research behind them, and the findings from studies that do exist seem to flip - flop faster than a gymnast.

There is some preliminary evidence that the effectiveness of the flu vaccine may wane over the course of a flu season, Dr. Barnett adds, but «at this time, this information does not represent a rigorous study of the phenomenon,» she says, and the research certainly isn't strong enough to warrant getting another shot.

In a recent and rigorous meta - analysis of 11 individual green tea research studies, scientists concluded that green tea not only helped with significant weight loss, but also helped people keep weight off afterwards — one of the biggest challenges of leading a healthy lifestyle after a cut [2].

... literally thousands of medical, scientific and sports medicine research studies... plus my Engineering background, decades of Eastern Medicine and holistic healing experience, Quantum Energy Medicine training... and my own rigorous research and testing of optimal light wavelengths and synergistic blends over the past 7 years.

UACIM research activities contribute rigorous scientific studies on the integration of complementary therapies with conventional medicine, with a focus on educational research, corporate health improvement research, and methods to study clinical outcomes in integrative medicine.

Yoga research for individuals with PTSD is in the early stages, and more empirically rigorous studies are needed to understand the specific mechanisms (cognitive, emotional, behavioral, physiological, etc.) that might be affected by regular yoga practice, as well as yoga's direct effects on PTSD symptoms.

They weren't able to find a single rigorous study showing the effectiveness of the algorithms, and other research suggests it's extremely difficult to predict the likelihood that a relationship will succeed before two people meet.

«This is well - documented in the decade - long role HGSE has played in this rigorous experimental evaluation study led by Dennis Barr and implemented by many HGSE alums on the research team.

She is a graduate of a nationally accredited preparation program, where she received a rigorous liberal - arts education, studied research - based pedagogy, and worked with real students in real schools.

IES is also sponsoring a national effort (the What Works Clearinghouse) to survey the research literature and summarize the evidence on multiple education - related topics, giving the greatest weight to rigorous studies based on randomized trials.

The shortcomings of this study, the paucity of independent research on the National Board, and the large investments being made by states in rewarding National Board - certified teachers highlight the need for a rigorous and arm's - length cost - benefit study of National Board certification.

Two well - known commercial reading programs, which have been adopted by some of the nation's largest school districts and have met the strict requirements for research - based programs under the federal Reading First initiative, failed to earn ratings from the What Works Clearinghouse because they do not have any studies that satisfy the agency's rigorous evidence standards.

Quantitative Policy Analysis in Education integrates three strands of coursework — rigorous training in quantitative research methods, focused disciplinary study, and substantive study of educational institutions and policies — with a minimum of one intensive research apprenticeship.

The Commission, chaired by Dr. Paul Hill of the University of Washington, carefully reviewed the research on the impact of school choice on student achievement and included in its report the following statement: «The most rigorous school choice evaluations that used random assignment... found that academic gains from vouchers were largely limited to the African - American students in their studies.»

A recent rigorous and quantitative study by the American Institutes of Research (AIR) demonstrates the effectiveness of schools that are designed to develop these outcomes.

«Clearly, there is a great need for rigorous evaluation research, which should focus both on the impact of school discipline reforms and on their potential unintended consequences,» the authors note, emphasizing that reducing suspensions is a starting point in effective school discipline reform but that changing school culture can have «spillover» effects on teachers and peers which raise important questions for further study.

We have rigorous statistical evidence from Stanford's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) that urban charter schools outperform traditional schools (the table below comes from their 2015 study of charters in 41 urban regions), and I believe this should be our nation's preferred school improvement strategy.

Today CREDO, Mathematica Policy Research, and CRPE released three papers as part of the first comprehensive rigorous national study of online charter schools.

Jennings also appears unaware that there are rigorous studies on the effects of NCLB and other high - stakes accountability systems, such as those by Thomas Dee and Brian Jacob (see «Evaluating NCLB,» research, Summer 2010) and those published by Stanford University researchers Eric Hanushek and Margaret Raymond in 2005, and Martin Carnoy and Susanna Loeb in 2002.

The No Child Left Behind Act famously endorses the use of «scientifically based research,» the federal Institute of Education Sciences has elevated the profile of rigorous scholarship, and presidential candidates tout studies on teacher quality, testing, and school choice.

Four recent rigorous studies — in the District of Columbia, Louisiana, Indiana, and Ohio — used different research designs and reached the same result: on average, students that use vouchers to attend private schools do less well on tests than similar students that do not attend private schools.

Specific practices and programs shown by multiple, rigorous, peer - reviewed studies to benefit K - 12 youth are described on the Evidence - Based Programs page of the SEL research review.

Finally, they said accountability would be ensured by the U.S. secretary of education and Mayor Williams and by rigorous research studies supported by the department.

A core intellectual contribution of the current study will be to produce the most comprehensive and rigorous synthesis to date of the causal research evidence on this topic.

From single schools to states and nations, we conduct research and evaluation studies that are rigorous, thorough and evidence - based.

SEDL conducts rigorous research studies to advance education knowledge, enable educators and policymakers to make informed decisions, and solve significant problems in education.

This brief and related report synthesizes findings from 143 rigorous research studies and finds that community schools can improve outcomes for all students, especially those facing lack of access to high - quality schools and out - of - school barriers to learning.

Yoon and associates (2007), in reviewing experimental professional development studies in which teachers were randomly assigned to various professional development programs, uncovered only nine studies that met this rigorous research strategy.

This report, which synthesizes findings from 143 rigorous research studies, finds community schools can improve outcomes for all students, and especially those facing lack of access to high - quality schools and out - of - school barriers to learning.

TNTP also reviewed the broader research literature and commented on findings from the most rigorous studies that had been done by the Institute of Education Sciences: «teachers who received the best of the best [professional development] were no more likely to see large, lasting improvements in their practice, knowledge, or student learning.

Four recent rigorous studies — in the District of Columbia, Louisiana, Indiana, and Ohio — used different research designs and reached the same result.

«New Jersey had a rigorous process for vetting teacher evaluation models requiring a strong research - base and validation studies,» said Michael Toth, CEO, Learning Sciences International.