Sentences with phrase «similar evaluation results»

Policy owners with similar evaluation results are placed in the same category and equally in the risks and rewards of that group.

Not exact matches

Given similar results from studies of a different oral cholera vaccine in Asia, the researchers argue that «additional evaluation of the optimal dosing schedule for oral cholera vaccines with the goal of improving long - term immunity is warranted.»
Along those lines, it is interesting to note that our evidence of differential effects by grade and subject is broadly similar to the results from evaluations of earlier state - level school - accountability policies.
The 2,308 students in the OSP study make it the largest school voucher evaluation in the U.S., making the achievement results even more compelling when compared to results from other, similar experimental evaluations of education policies undertaken by the federal government.
But when it comes to evaluations of the nation's schools and assessments of charter schools, they report results that are strikingly similar — despite that Ednext is an online poll (executed by Knowledge Networks), while PDK is a telephone poll (conducted by Gallup).
An evaluation instrument is considered reliable if the instrument can be used repeatedly with different groups of similar subjects and yield consistent results.
But when similar results emerge from the evaluations of school voucher programs in three very different cities, we can be fairly confident that the intervention is the main cause of the differences in achievement.
An independent evaluation of VTS in a very different district — in Miami - Dade County — found similar results.
If the focus remains on the compliance components of evaluation systems rather than on the practices and processes that create true education reform, then New Jersey is likely to see similar results.
I have a more - than - healthy respect for the way that a single outlier experimental run can continue to influence both evaluations of an entire set of the same experiment and the design of later experiments, such as determining whether a particular single - instance determination of the level of 9 - nor - delta tetrahydrocannabinate indicates prior use of Certain Substances all by itself... or requires a similar result from a retest of the same sample.
Not surprisingly, the Frame and Stone result is very similar to our evaluation of the FAR projections, finding that they accurately simulated the global surface temperature response to the increased greenhouse effect since 1990.
The positive results related to reading at 5.5 years are consistent with evaluations of Reach Out and Read, 36 — 38 a component activity of HS, and with the Early Head Start evaluation.31 In HS, similar findings were present at 2 to 4 months but not at 30 to 33 months, perhaps attenuated by the adoption of Reach Out and Read at some control sites during the intervention.
Similar results have been reported in an evaluation of Zippy's Friends in Norway which found that neither the teachers nor the parents reported improvements in children's emotional and behavioural problems as measured by the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire [17].
The effectiveness of cognitive behaviour therapy in this study was similar to that observed in patients who accepted treatment in the initial uncontrolled evaluation.10 The results differed, however, from those of the two previous controlled trials of cognitive behaviour therapy, one of which was a non-randomised comparison with a waiting list11 and the other a randomised comparison with basic medical care.12 The possible reasons for the greater effectiveness of cognitive behaviour therapy in our study include differences in the characteristics of the patients, longer follow up, and possibly less active medical care.
An evaluation of a similar parent resource developed by California First Five Initiative showed that parents» use of the resource resulted in significant increases in knowledge of child development, nutrition, and health care options.
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