Sentences with phrase «significant effect of the program»

However, some measures showed no statistically significant effect of the program.

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«[I] t appears that the effort to restructure the Medicaid program will have the effect of making significant reductions in a program that provides services to our most vulnerable populations, and already pays providers significantly less than the cost of providing care,» wrote AHA president and CEO Richard Pollack.

Studies of the Nurse Family Partnership model followed children to 6 years and found significant program effects on language and cognitive functioning as well as fewer behaviour problems in a randomized controlled trial study.24 In addition, more recent evaluations of Healthy Families America have shown small, but favourable effects on young children's development.25, 26

Interventions that have demonstrated a broad range of effects require significant resources and there will be ongoing pressure to use established program models while reducing the resources involved in their implementation.

The program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses has produced consistent effects on clinically significant outcomes in three separate trials with different populations living in different contexts and at different points in U.S. social and economic history.

Finally, a Finnish trial of universal home visiting by nurses35 and two U.S. programs implemented by master's degree - level mental health or developmental clinicians have found significant effects on a number of important child behavioural problems.36, 37 Additionally, a paraprofessional home visitation program found effects on externalizing and internalizing behaviours at child age 2; however due to the large number of effects measured in this study, replication of the findings is warranted.38

The Legacy program is based on the belief that parents can have a significant effect on their children's development, regardless of their circumstances.

«A significant body of research has resulted in a shift from thinking of placebos as just «dummy» treatments to recognizing that placebo effects encompass numerous aspects of the health care experience and are central to medicine and patient care,» said the article's coauthor Ted Kaptchuk, Director of the Program in Placebo Studies at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

«Most surprising is that the blast wave was still strong enough to cause significant effects in the atmosphere of Saturn, which is nearly a billion miles from the sun and has a magnetic field much larger than Earth's,» says Ed Stone of Caltech, chief scientist of NASA's Voyager program.

Besides, «unlike medication, which was found to have no significant effect on mild cognitive impairment, «the exercise program has numerous other benefits (of which we're all aware).

Significant effects of professional - development programs were found when programs focused on content knowledge in the math and science subject areas plus pedagogical training in teaching the subject matter.

As with the Opportunity Scholarship Program, the elimination of the Excellence Commission will not have a significant immediate effect on Florida schoolchildren.

The Milwaukee school choice program and the response of Milwaukee Public Schools are especially significant in light of Frederick M. Hess's study of the effects of competition on large urban school districts.

The second study, conducted by Mills and Wolf, showed similar negative effects in year one but also showed that by year two of the program, differences in math had moderated and there were no significant differences in literacy performance.

The final report on the Early Reading First program, conducted by outside researchers under contract to the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education, found the program has had the most significant effect in improving classroom activities and materials, as well as teacher practices related to literacy development.

A 2004 NCREL meta - analysis of 116 effect sizes from 14 web - delivered K — 12 distance - education programs between 1999 and 2004 found «no significant difference in performance between students who participated in online programs and those who were taught in face - to - face classrooms... in almost every comparison, students in distance education programs performed as well as students in classroom - based programs.»

Research on the effect of existing private school voucher programs has not shown significant achievements for students in those programs, the report asserts.

The uncertainty surrounding the achievement effects of the DC voucher program is because we set the high standard of 95 % confidence to judge a voucher benefit as «statistically significant», and we could only be 94 % confident that the final - year reading gains from the DC program were statistically significant.

Hyunsan Cho and colleagues conducted an experimental study of the program's impact and found no significant effect on delinquency immediately following the intervention or at the six - month follow - up.

Studies targeting the practice of mindfulness — and understand there are many mindfulness programs out there — have revealed significant benefits, which have prompted researchers to investigate the effects on mindfulness on children, including in school settings.

When a positive effect of a program is not statistically significant, there is a decent chance that it really is 0 or even negative.

While the jury is still out on the effects of these programs on student test scores, there is significant evidence that they positively influence how far students continue in their schooling.

Indeed, a recent federal evaluation of the School Improvement Grants program couldn't unearth any significant effects on learning, no matter how the data were diced.

In fact, effects that may appear significant at the conclusion of the program itself frequently fade to the vanishing point by the time youngsters have progressed as far as 3rd grade.

Even though our estimates of the program's impact are not statistically significant, we can not rule out the possibility of substantial positive effects.

An evaluation of the Apollo 20 program found that infusing these high - performing charter school best practices into HISD schools had a statistically significant effect on math achievement that rivals student - achievement gains in math of high - performing charter schools.

The scale - up grants are aimed at practices, strategies or programs in which sponsors can show strong evidence of having a statistically significant effect on improving student achievement or growth.

But the new study, just updated in December by Dartmouth College economist Elizabeth Cascio, finds that universal programs have a significant positive effect on the reading scores of poor kids, while targeted programs do not.

The validation grants are set aside for practices, strategies or programs that show promise of having a statistically significant effect on improving student performance.

A 2017 multi-state review of voucher programs by Carnoy with the Economic Policy Institute found that students in voucher programs scored significantly lower than traditional public school students on reading and math tests and found no significant effect of vouchers leading to improved public school performance.

The other study, which did not have ideal data, could not detect significant effects of the Milwaukee voucher program on segregation across Milwaukee schools.

A gold - standard study funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the federal Centers for Disease Control, and the W.T. Grant Foundation has demonstrated that The 4Rs Program has a significant positive effect on children's social, emotional, and academic competency, and on classroom climate.

All of these effects, however, were limited to the year they spent in the Head Start program; there were no significant positive effects in the kindergarten or first - grade years.

In a new report published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management today, researchers were able to show that Tulsa's pre-K program has significant, positive effects on students» outcomes and well - being through middle school.

Prior rigorous evaluations of the program have generally found positive effects of TFA teachers on students» learning in math and science and no significant differences in reading or language arts, compared with non-TFA teachers» effects in the same schools.

Finally, we find significant variance inflation in the estimated program effects when controlling for school fixed effects, and that the size of the variance inflation factor depends crucially on the length of the window used to compare graduates teaching in the same schools.

In addition to these four state - based studies of voucher program impacts on test scores, some recent studies do show positive effects on graduation rates, parent satisfaction, community college enrollment, and other nonachievement - based outcomes, but it is unclear if these outcomes are lasting and valid.23 For example, research shows that nationally, graduation rates for students in public schools and peers participating in voucher programs equalize after adjusting for extended graduation rates.24 Some critics suggest that private schools may graduate students who have not successfully completed the full program.25 Also, in regard to parent satisfaction, while some studies do show greater satisfaction among parents whose children participate in voucher programs, the most recent evaluation of the D.C. voucher program shows that any increase in parent or student school satisfaction is not statistically significant.26

Advocates continue to emphasize that research shows that quality early childhood programs can have significant effects in terms of lower crime, improved educational outcomes and other quality - of - life factors, for at least some period of time.

This 0.12 score drop is the equivalent of an average student in the 50th percentile dropping to the 45th percentile after participating in the D.C. voucher program for one year.36 According to the IES study, participating in the D.C. voucher program had no statistically significant effect on reading achievement.37

Contrary to this logic, hundreds of studies have documented the positive and statistically significant effects of afterschool programming on academic achievement («Taking a Deeper Dive» 4).

«One of the most significant effects of Acura's new racing program is the reintroduction of an American - made engine back into our prototype categories.

Results (Table S5) revealed a significant main effect of Maternal behavior (Wald = 12.98, P < 0.001): Puppies raised by mothers exhibiting more maternal behavior were more likely to be released from the program (OR = 3.39).

The mirrored effect of the image highlights the disparity between the extraordinary wealth of the elite and the lack of significant health and social programs for the country's struggling citizens.

On January 2, 2011, EPA's motor vehicle GHG emission standards will go into effect, making GHGs air pollutants «subject to regulation» under the Clean Air Act's Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) pre-construction permitting program.

In this direction, some recent studies investigated that children and adolescents who attended educational programs focused on the promotion of self - efficacy in life skills reduced the onset of at - risk and maladaptive behaviors (Griffin et al., 2003; Botvin & Griffin, 2004; Yankah & Aggleton, 2008; Menrath et al., 2012; Jegannathan, Dahlblom, & Kullgren, 2014): it was possible to observe a significant and positive effect for the reduction of health - risk behaviors in the intervention group, compared to control group (see Menrath et al., 2012), confirming the efficacy of school - based on life skills programs.

They have demonstrated small beneficial effects of educational television viewing over the medium - term for children of a lower socioeconomic status (SES) and negative, though generally not significant, effects of noneducational programming.

Although there were no significant differences between groups, positive effect sizes (range:.25 — .40) were found for the COPE program with respect to maternal state anxiety at 3 of the 4 postdischarge time points.

There were no statistically significant program effects for the nurses on women's use of ancillary prenatal services, educational achievement, use of welfare, or their children's temperament or behavior problems.

Although there was no statistically significant difference between the 2 study groups with respect to the adaptive skills composite and the internalizing composite, there were positive effects of the COPE program at 12 months (effect size:.45 and.38, respectively).

The effect was small, but was identified in the whole program group, instead of only in a smaller subgroup.86 In Memphis, more positive interactions were observed in the subgroup of women who possessed low psychological resources.87 Likewise, home - visited mothers in Early Head Start were rated as more supportive during play with their children than controls, though the effect was small.88 Maternal sensitivity was also examined in Hawaii Healthy Start, the Healthy Families evaluations in San Diego and Alaska, and the Comprehensive Child Development Program, though none identified significant eprogram group, instead of only in a smaller subgroup.86 In Memphis, more positive interactions were observed in the subgroup of women who possessed low psychological resources.87 Likewise, home - visited mothers in Early Head Start were rated as more supportive during play with their children than controls, though the effect was small.88 Maternal sensitivity was also examined in Hawaii Healthy Start, the Healthy Families evaluations in San Diego and Alaska, and the Comprehensive Child Development Program, though none identified significant eProgram, though none identified significant effects.