Sentences with phrase «scale impact evaluation»

Our Brazil partners are collaborating with Fundação Getulio Vargas and Harvard Graduate School of Education on a large - scale impact evaluation of Programa Compasso, the Brazilian adaptation of the Second Step curriculum.

The National Center for Education Evaluation has funded more than 34 large - scale impact evaluations since 2002.

Not exact matches

Lawmakers in both the Senate and Assembly have introduced bills that would scale back the impact of the evaluation law.

In October 1998, the government and representatives of the agricultural biotechnology industry agreed to conduct a series of closely - monitored Farm Scale Evaluations of the impact on biodiversity of herbicide - resistant genetically modified crops.

Scientists are involved in the evaluation of global - scale climate models, regional studies of the coupled atmosphere / ocean / ice systems, regional severe weather detection and prediction, measuring the local and global impact of the aerosols and pollutants, detecting lightning from space and the general development of remotely - sensed data bases.

The estimated impact of using a scholarship to attend a private school for any length of time during the three - year evaluation period was a gain of 5.3 scale points in reading.

Although the evaluation found no impact on student math performance, the estimated reading impact of using a scholarship to attend a private school for any length of time during the three - year evaluation period was a statistically significant gain of more than 5 scale points.

As Rossi phrased the «iron law of evaluation,» «the expected value of any net impact assessment of any large - scale social program is zero.»

The major AIR evaluation found that 21 of 24 models showed no significant impact on learning, and the RAND study of results in scale - up jurisdictions revealed equally uninspiring outcomes.

This evaluation has demonstrated the feasibility and benefits of using a large - scale, multisite random assignment research design to determine the impact of Career Academies on student outcomes.

[vii] The randomized evaluation of the i3 - funded scale up of Reading Recovery found quite large short - run impacts of the program at scale (0.3 - 0.4 standard deviation improvement from participation in the 12 - 20 week intervention).

The impacts of Reading Recovery at scale A study published in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis presents findings...

Small - scale study seeks to provide evidence to inform the debate among policymakers on how teacher evaluation should be changed to yield the greatest impact.

This evaluation is among the first at a large scale to measure the impact of afterschool programs on students» STEM - related attitudes and social - emotional / 21st - century skills.

Such projects have a broad range, and may include things such as: the construction and interpretation of climate change scenarios on local to national scales, the study of changes in extremes, the evaluation of impacts on infrastructure, forests, agriculture, and energy production and distribution.

A nine - year, large - scale federally funded evaluation of the Title V program found no measurable impact on increasing abstinence or delaying sexual initiation among participating youth.

She coordinates research - practice partnerships, designs interventions for testing in randomized trials, and conducts impact, implementation, and cost analyses for large - scale federal evaluations.

She is currently working on the implementation research and impact analyses for the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation (MIHOPE), a large - scale national evaluation of home visiting programs that intend to prevent child maltreatment and improve maternal and child health, parenting skills, and child developmentEvaluation (MIHOPE), a large - scale national evaluation of home visiting programs that intend to prevent child maltreatment and improve maternal and child health, parenting skills, and child developmentevaluation of home visiting programs that intend to prevent child maltreatment and improve maternal and child health, parenting skills, and child development outcomes.

Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning CASEL supports district - wide social - emotional learning (SEL) programs; conducts research and evaluation; works with program providers to strengthen their capacity as they respond to growing demand; develops tools to support SEL on a national scale; advances state - of - the - art assessment; develops clear, powerful messages and strategic communications about SEL and its impact; and advocates for federal and state legislation.

Of the global family functioning measures, the most commonly used were the Impact on Family Scale, the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scale, the FAD and the Family Assessment Measure.