Sentences with phrase «scale national evaluation»

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 development outcomes.

She has led MDRC's partnership with service providers for multiple large - scale national evaluations, including two offering some of the most promising models serving pregnant women, new mothers, and their infants — the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation (MIHOPE) and MIHOPE - Strong Start — and one offering a promising model for young adults, the YouthBuild Evaluation.

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The new National Center for Development and Evaluation should solicit and implement large - scale, systematic development projects - a role that has been largely missing from the Department of Education's agenda in recent decades.

The studies range from large - scale assessments (National Assessment of Educational Progress [NAEP] and Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study [TIMSS]-RRB-, to evaluations of specific interventions (class - size reduction and vouchers), to commission reports (National Reading Panel, National Commission on Teaching and America's Future), to data analyses (Education Trust on teacher quality, Jay Greene on graduation rates).

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

From 2008 - 2013, Jennie worked American Institutes for Research conducting large scale program evaluations and research projects at the district, state, and national level.

WestEd is a leader in moving research into practice by conducting research and development (R&D) programs, projects, and evaluations; by providing training and technical assistance; and by working with national, regional, state, and local policymakers and practitioners to carry out large - scale school improvement and innovative change efforts.

This evaluation of the first two years of the national demonstration of ExpandED Schools (the 2011 - 12 and 2012 - 13 school years) focused on the implementation of TASC's model and on strategies used by schools and community partners to scale up and institutionalize expanded learning.

Our pivotal role is to lead a multidisciplinary consortium to provide schools and communities with technical expertise in: school improvement; teacher training and behaviour change programmes at a national scale; girls» education, protection and rights; community mobilisation and cash transfers; primary health care, school health and non-state slum education; and monitoring, research and evaluation in education.

Conducted by Policy Studies Associates (PSA), the evaluation of the first two years of the national demonstration of ExpandED Schools (the 2011 - 12 and 2012 - 13 school years) focused on the implementation of TASC's model and on strategies used by schools and community partners to scale up and institutionalize expanded learning.

An overview of (1) key research findings on the Research for Action (RFA) scale - up and sustainablity study and case studies of the LDC and MDC initiatives; and (2) the UCLA National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) evaluation of LDEvaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) evaluation of LDevaluation of LDC and MDC.

She is a nationally recognized expert on accountability for early childhood programs, assessment, and large - scale studies of children with disabilities, serving on national advisory boards and consulting to major evaluations to help create designs that adequately address such issues as oversampling and measurement of disability.

Research conducted by the TCC Group, a national program and evaluation firm, found that organizations operating as Service Enterprises outperform peer organizations on all aspects of organizational effectiveness, and are more adaptable, sustainable and capable of scaling their work.

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.

Importantly, states were required to spend at least three - quarters of the federal funds on home visiting models that met federal standards of evidence - based effectiveness.1 As many policy scholars have noted, that a national initiative brought the importance of evidence - based practice to the forefront of public policy is a triumph for social science and demonstrates the importance of rigorous program evaluation.2 With that triumph, however, comes a responsibility to ensure that the public's expectations for success of these programs are consistent with what researchers understand about the empirical evidence — will the same positive outcomes found in programs» randomized controlled trials emerge when those programs are taken to scale?

A national evaluation of the MIECHV program will also provide new insights into the effects of evidence - based home visiting programs for families with infants when scaled up across the country.

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.

Woodbridge currently directs multiple large - scale national, statewide, and local research, evaluation, and technical assistance projects.