Not exact matches
«This
evaluation is intended to point out where forensic practice is well
founded in science and where it is not and to produce a research agenda to serve as the basis for arriving at forensic methods that will inspire greater confidence in our criminal justice system,» says the report, the
second of two AAAS reports on the state of forensic science, the first focusing on the quality of fire investigations in the United States.
Hospitalists typically work in shifts; therefore, within the same hospital, patients treated by hospitalists are plausibly quasi-randomized to a given physician based on when patients become sick and based on hospitalists» work schedule.34 We defined hospitalists using a validated approach: general internists who filed at least 90 % of their total
evaluation and management billings in an inpatient setting.35
Second, to evaluate whether our
findings were sensitive to how we attributed patients to physicians, we tested the following 2 alternative attribution methods: attributing patients to physicians who had the largest number of
evaluation and management claims and attributing patients to physicians who billed the first
evaluation and management claim for a given hospitalization.25, 36,37 Third, within some hospitals, male internists may be more likely to work in intensive care units and have severely ill patients.
Two recent experimental
evaluations of the Louisiana Scholarship Program
found negative effects of the program on student test scores but one study was limited to just a single year of outcome data and the
second one (which I am leading) has only analyzed two years of outcome data so far.
I compare the impacts of increased family support on student test scores from these four studies with the impacts of pre-K school readiness interventions using, first, a synthesis of
findings from 67 pre-K
evaluations of test outcomes 2 - 4 years after pre-K, [xv] and,
second, the follow - up
findings from the Head Start Impact Study [xvi] for 3rd graders.
This report presents
findings from the
second year of the Enhanced Reading Opportunities (ERO) study, a demonstration and random assignment
evaluation of two supplemental literacy programs — Reading Apprenticeship Academic Literacy and Xtreme Reading — that aim to improve the reading comprehension skills and school performance of struggling ninth - grade readers.
The rapid - turnaround randomized
evaluation found that the short - term intervention did not improve attendance rates during the
second semester of the 2015 - 2016 school year.
The
Second Evaluation of the Improving Literacy Through School Libraries Program (2009) provides
findings on how grant funds are targeted to schools, uses of the grant funds, staff collaboration and professional development, and the relationship between participation in the program and reading achievement scores.
No Child Left Behind Waivers: Promising Ideas from
Second - Round Applications An
evaluation of states» No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waiver plans by the Center for American Progress (CAP)
finds states are significantly changing their school accountability and educator effectiveness policies but that certain details of their reform plans remain murky.
When he
found out the board was weighing giving districts the option to count test scores for up to 40 percent of
evaluations at the last
second, he decided to take action.
The
second year
evaluation report can be
found here.
The
evaluation of the early effects (short - run) of SSLP
found mixed effects, with beneficial effects for some groups, but adverse effects for children from families with higher needs and experiencing greater disadvantage.3 Results from the
second phase of the
evaluation were more positive.
The
evaluation of the
Second Action Plan, undertaken by consultants and delivered in 2017,
found that not enough has been done to account for the needs of high risk groups like Indigenous women, women from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and women with a disability.
This report presents
findings of the
second year of
evaluation.