Sentences with phrase «several national evaluations»

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We calculated these transition probabilities using data from the longitudinal National Health and Nutrition Evaluation Survey, which assessed a cohort of women in 1987 and the same women again in 1992.25 Several limitations of these data affect our model: 1) because this national survey lacks data on women before age 35 years, women in our model could not develop hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, or MI before age 35 years; 2) because longitudinal survey data were only available for a 5 - year interval, we assumed that transition probabilities were stable within the 5 - year intervals and converted these probabilities from 5 - year to 1 - year intervals; 3) because the survey data were too few to provide stable estimates by year of age, we used transition probabilities for women in three age groups: aged 50 years and younger, 51 — 65 years, and 65 years anNational Health and Nutrition Evaluation Survey, which assessed a cohort of women in 1987 and the same women again in 1992.25 Several limitations of these data affect our model: 1) because this national survey lacks data on women before age 35 years, women in our model could not develop hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, or MI before age 35 years; 2) because longitudinal survey data were only available for a 5 - year interval, we assumed that transition probabilities were stable within the 5 - year intervals and converted these probabilities from 5 - year to 1 - year intervals; 3) because the survey data were too few to provide stable estimates by year of age, we used transition probabilities for women in three age groups: aged 50 years and younger, 51 — 65 years, and 65 years annational survey lacks data on women before age 35 years, women in our model could not develop hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, or MI before age 35 years; 2) because longitudinal survey data were only available for a 5 - year interval, we assumed that transition probabilities were stable within the 5 - year intervals and converted these probabilities from 5 - year to 1 - year intervals; 3) because the survey data were too few to provide stable estimates by year of age, we used transition probabilities for women in three age groups: aged 50 years and younger, 51 — 65 years, and 65 years and older.

The GOP's «interim performance evaluation» detailed the party's disagreements with several state policies, from the implementation of national curriculum standards called Common Core to gun control.

The MOX approach was selected based on several evaluations of plutonium disposition options, including a 1994 report by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) titled «Management and Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium.»

Technical coordinator of a national convention in France involving industry and universities on the same subject Since 1992: Organizer of a cycle of international conferences on «Heavy scintillators for scientific and industrial applications» First one in Chamonix, France in 1992 (200 participants), 9th one in Winston Salem (NC, USA) in 2007 (300 participants) 1994 - 2007: As Technical coordinator of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter at the LHC Large Hadron Collider, responsible for the technical development and the mass production of 76» 000 Lead Tungstate crystals (100 tons) 1994 - 2000: Organizer of the development and mass production organization of Lutetium Aluminum perovskite crystals, in particular for PET scanner applications Since 2000: Strong involvement in the development of dedicated breast imaging camera combining several modalities for a multiparametric evaluation of breast tumors (anatomic, structural and functional) Since 2002: Feasibility study and setting - up of an international medical imaging research centre, presently being built in Marseille (Cerimed)

He led numerous studies related to the international climate change negotiations and national climate policies, for example several evaluations of countries» performances in climate change.

Based on the literature reviews, observations in the schools and meetings with the departments at the Ministry of Education, the team presented several key policy considerations to the Ministry: (1) utilize a website, the National Play Day, and the Jamaican Teaching Council as platforms from which educators can develop and share best game - based learning practices; (2) promote a culture of collaboration through the Quality Education Circles (local discussion groups for educators), and by allocating time for teachers to develop and share game - based learning strategies; (3) provide resource support for schools in the form of workshops and training; and (4) create a monitoring and evaluation plan to be conducted at the school level.

The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is funding evaluations of several youth - violence intervention projects.

Yet independent evaluations of a proposed set of national standards, known as Common Core, show that they are rather mediocre and significantly worse than those in several states.

Field - Focused Study of the Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration Program (2003) presents findings from the Field - Focused Study (FFS), one of several components in the National Evaluation of the Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration (CSRD) Program.

Dr. Vinella has also served on several local, county, state and national committees with the most recent being the NASSP Student Leadership Advisory Committee, NJPSA / NJASA Joint Committee on Educator Evaluation and Graduation Requirements, and the NJDOE Principals Practice Pilot.

Teacher evaluation had already become a national focal point due to the release of several studies asserting that the classroom teacher is the most important school - based factor in improving student achievement.

She has served as principal investigator for national evaluations of several important secondary school reform initiatives, most recently an ongoing evaluation of the California Linked Learning District Initiative, which is managed by ConnectEd and supported by the James Irvine Foundation.

Ms. Russell currently directs several PSA evaluations of out - of - school time initiatives, including the evaluations of the Out - of - School Time initiative for the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development, and of the national demonstration of ExpandED for The After School Corporation.

She has worked on a number of other studies, including a longitudinal study of the effectiveness of inclusive STEM high schools funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Evaluation of Writing Project Professional Development for the National Writing Project, the National Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund Program for the U.S. Department of Education, evaluations of several school reform initiatives in Chicago, and the Bridging the Divide study that examined the transition from high school to college for the U.S. Department of Education.

In addition she contributed to several studies of teacher development including the Evaluation of the California Subject Matter Projects and the National Evaluation of Writing Project School Partnerships.

Several LA - area education journalists and academics presented and moderated at the 2013 Education Writers Association national conference held last week at Stanford University, where hot topics included early childhood, teacher evaluation, and school turnarounds.

She is currently working with research teams on several national impact and evaluation studies in the US involving early and adolescent reading, mathematics, literacy leadership, and Response to Intervention.

In 2011, we implemented two year school program, which was designed on the basis of several years» research on various curatorial programs, analysis of curatorial practices, consultations with relevant national and international experts, and an evaluation of the past program and consideration of effective models of education in the field of contemporary visual arts and theories.

It covers experiences on institutional arrangements for coordinating adaptation work at the national level, working with several agencies in initial considerations on monitoring and evaluation of adaptation efforts, accessing and mobilizing financial resources, and deploying programmatic approaches.

Mackinac's director of labor policy is Vincent Vernuccio, who chairs a committee of the labor task force of the Bradley - supported American Legislative Exchange Council and previously has worked at the Bradley - supported Capital Research Center and Bradley - supported Competitive Enterprise Institute... MCLF spent much of last year helping to defend the new right - to - work law, in policy and legal arguments, as well as in the larger public discourse in the state and nationally... MCLF is working with the Bradley - supported National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation on this and several other legal matters surrounding implementation of right to work in Michigan... On education, among other things, Mackinac is analyzing mroe [sic] than 200 collective - bargaining agreements (CBAs) in the state, covering some 75 % of the state's public - school students, to see if and if so, how, they are adhering to the teacher - tenure and - evaluation policy changes.

NRFC relies on multiple avenues to share information including: the fatherhood.gov website, media campaigns, social media, virtual trainings, outreach and presentations at events, written products to advance the fields of responsible fatherhood research and practice, and a National Call Center for fathers and responsible fatherhood practitioners.10 In addition, the ACF's Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) is implementing several research and evaluation projects, including the Building Bridges and Bonds (B3), the Parents and Children Together (PaCT) Responsible Fatherhood Evaluation, the Fatherhood and Marriage Local Evaluation and Cross-Site (FaMLE Cross-Site) project, and the Ex-Prisoner Reentry Strategies Study, all of which partner with Responsible Fatherhood programs.11 OPRE also awards grants to fund research on Healthy Marriage / Responsible Fatherhood, and provides information on the curricula used by Healthy Marriage / Responsible Fatherhood grantees through its Strengthening Families Curriculum Guide.12 To promote rigorous evaluation, strengthen the field of fatherhood research, and share information on effective fatherhood research and evaluation practices, OPRE funded the Fatherhood Research and Practice Network (FRPN).13 FRPN provides grants to study responsible fatherhood programs, develops and shares measurement instruments for use in fatherhood program evaluations, and provides training and technical assistance to practitioners and researchers through webinars, written documents, and its Researcher and PractitioneEvaluation (OPRE) is implementing several research and evaluation projects, including the Building Bridges and Bonds (B3), the Parents and Children Together (PaCT) Responsible Fatherhood Evaluation, the Fatherhood and Marriage Local Evaluation and Cross-Site (FaMLE Cross-Site) project, and the Ex-Prisoner Reentry Strategies Study, all of which partner with Responsible Fatherhood programs.11 OPRE also awards grants to fund research on Healthy Marriage / Responsible Fatherhood, and provides information on the curricula used by Healthy Marriage / Responsible Fatherhood grantees through its Strengthening Families Curriculum Guide.12 To promote rigorous evaluation, strengthen the field of fatherhood research, and share information on effective fatherhood research and evaluation practices, OPRE funded the Fatherhood Research and Practice Network (FRPN).13 FRPN provides grants to study responsible fatherhood programs, develops and shares measurement instruments for use in fatherhood program evaluations, and provides training and technical assistance to practitioners and researchers through webinars, written documents, and its Researcher and Practitioneevaluation projects, including the Building Bridges and Bonds (B3), the Parents and Children Together (PaCT) Responsible Fatherhood Evaluation, the Fatherhood and Marriage Local Evaluation and Cross-Site (FaMLE Cross-Site) project, and the Ex-Prisoner Reentry Strategies Study, all of which partner with Responsible Fatherhood programs.11 OPRE also awards grants to fund research on Healthy Marriage / Responsible Fatherhood, and provides information on the curricula used by Healthy Marriage / Responsible Fatherhood grantees through its Strengthening Families Curriculum Guide.12 To promote rigorous evaluation, strengthen the field of fatherhood research, and share information on effective fatherhood research and evaluation practices, OPRE funded the Fatherhood Research and Practice Network (FRPN).13 FRPN provides grants to study responsible fatherhood programs, develops and shares measurement instruments for use in fatherhood program evaluations, and provides training and technical assistance to practitioners and researchers through webinars, written documents, and its Researcher and PractitioneEvaluation, the Fatherhood and Marriage Local Evaluation and Cross-Site (FaMLE Cross-Site) project, and the Ex-Prisoner Reentry Strategies Study, all of which partner with Responsible Fatherhood programs.11 OPRE also awards grants to fund research on Healthy Marriage / Responsible Fatherhood, and provides information on the curricula used by Healthy Marriage / Responsible Fatherhood grantees through its Strengthening Families Curriculum Guide.12 To promote rigorous evaluation, strengthen the field of fatherhood research, and share information on effective fatherhood research and evaluation practices, OPRE funded the Fatherhood Research and Practice Network (FRPN).13 FRPN provides grants to study responsible fatherhood programs, develops and shares measurement instruments for use in fatherhood program evaluations, and provides training and technical assistance to practitioners and researchers through webinars, written documents, and its Researcher and PractitioneEvaluation and Cross-Site (FaMLE Cross-Site) project, and the Ex-Prisoner Reentry Strategies Study, all of which partner with Responsible Fatherhood programs.11 OPRE also awards grants to fund research on Healthy Marriage / Responsible Fatherhood, and provides information on the curricula used by Healthy Marriage / Responsible Fatherhood grantees through its Strengthening Families Curriculum Guide.12 To promote rigorous evaluation, strengthen the field of fatherhood research, and share information on effective fatherhood research and evaluation practices, OPRE funded the Fatherhood Research and Practice Network (FRPN).13 FRPN provides grants to study responsible fatherhood programs, develops and shares measurement instruments for use in fatherhood program evaluations, and provides training and technical assistance to practitioners and researchers through webinars, written documents, and its Researcher and Practitioneevaluation, strengthen the field of fatherhood research, and share information on effective fatherhood research and evaluation practices, OPRE funded the Fatherhood Research and Practice Network (FRPN).13 FRPN provides grants to study responsible fatherhood programs, develops and shares measurement instruments for use in fatherhood program evaluations, and provides training and technical assistance to practitioners and researchers through webinars, written documents, and its Researcher and Practitioneevaluation practices, OPRE funded the Fatherhood Research and Practice Network (FRPN).13 FRPN provides grants to study responsible fatherhood programs, develops and shares measurement instruments for use in fatherhood program evaluations, and provides training and technical assistance to practitioners and researchers through webinars, written documents, and its Researcher and Practitioner Forum.14

We applied our portfolio of measures to video - recorded visits in several studies, including MIHOPE (the national evaluation of the MIECHV Program), a randomized trial of a communication training course, and a study of the interactive effects of home visitor and parent preferences as influences on how they communicate.

Jacqueline has been the principal investigator on numerous early childhood, systems - building, accountability and evaluation projects, including the Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems evaluation, Project LAUNCH, Community - based Child Abuse and Neglect, several National Governors Association early childhood grants, and others.

McDonough is a data manager who has worked on several projects at MDRC: Supporting Healthy Marriage (SHM) is an evaluation of marriage education programs targeting low - income, racially and ethnically diverse married couples; Head Start CARES (Classroom - based Approaches and Resources for Emotion and Social skill promotion) is a national evaluation of three evidence - based strategies to improve the social and emotional development of children in Head Start; the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation (MIHOPE) aims to build knowledge about the effectiveness of the new federally funded Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home - Visiting Program (MIECHV) in improving outcomes for at - risk children andevaluation of marriage education programs targeting low - income, racially and ethnically diverse married couples; Head Start CARES (Classroom - based Approaches and Resources for Emotion and Social skill promotion) is a national evaluation of three evidence - based strategies to improve the social and emotional development of children in Head Start; the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation (MIHOPE) aims to build knowledge about the effectiveness of the new federally funded Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home - Visiting Program (MIECHV) in improving outcomes for at - risk children andevaluation of three evidence - based strategies to improve the social and emotional development of children in Head Start; the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation (MIHOPE) aims to build knowledge about the effectiveness of the new federally funded Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home - Visiting Program (MIECHV) in improving outcomes for at - risk children andEvaluation (MIHOPE) aims to build knowledge about the effectiveness of the new federally funded Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home - Visiting Program (MIECHV) in improving outcomes for at - risk children and families.

Jan2007DEC Companion Paper Promoting Positive Outcomes for Children with Disabilities: Recommendations for Curriculum, Assessment and Program Evaluation» The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) website includes several positi...

If you want to listen to a National Public Radio discussion of several experts (including me) questioning custody evaluations, click on this link: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16523618&ft=1&f=1070

As a part of the National Evaluation of the Responsible Fatherhood, Marriage and Family Strengthening Grants for Incarcerated and Re-entering Fathers and their Partners (MSF - IP), several project activities have strong outreach components.