Sentences with phrase «studies against the criteria»

The authors evaluated the studies against the criteria set forth in ESSA for determining which interventions may be considered «evidence - based» and found that there is sufficient evidence to support the broad use of community schools as an «evidence - based» reform strategy.

Not exact matches

My proposal is that what unifies this set of practices, making them genuinely «theological» practices and providing criteria of excellence, is that they are all done in service of one end: To understand God more truly by focusing on study about, against, and for Christian congregations.

Another strength of the present study is the identification of cow's milk allergy cases through the Special Reimbursement Register, as the requirement for the special reimbursement was based on clinical diagnosis made by a pediatrician and further reviewed against diagnostic criteria by another clinician.

«I would want my own experiments to be judged against those criteria,» he says, provided that a «robust» committee is assembled to assess proposed studies.

After the release of our December study — which found that just one percent of district and charter school turnarounds were successful, as defined as reaching at least the 50th percentile in state proficiency in reading and math — Bryan wondered whether charter start - ups in similar neighborhoods would fare any better against such rigorous criteria.

The extensive alignment studies — conducted in grades 5 and 8 by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and in high school by the Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO)-- evaluated Smarter Balanced end - of - year tests against the high - quality assessment criteria created by the Council for Chief State School Officers (CCSSO).

We summarized the findings and evaluated the studies against ESSA's criteria for «evidence - based» interventions, which define different tiers of evidence based on research methodology.

To answer that question, we analyzed 125 studies against ESSA's evidence - based criteria.

These studies also find that the impacts are highly conditional on assumptions made in the assessment, for example, with respect to weightings of global climate models (GCMs)-- according to some criteria, such as performance against past observations — or to the combination of GCMs used.

Investigators have used it as the criterion for diagnosis of behavior disturbance against which to gauge the validity of both screening instruments27 and psychological interview measures.28 The published Spanish version of the CBCL used in this study has been found to have good internal consistency and concurrent validity in Spanish - speaking populations.29 The CBCL was chosen as the standard of comparison to avoid basing the calculation of PSC validity on a small subset of the data as done in previous studies using structured interviews as the standard24,30 - 32 and because the CBCL has been widely used as the criterion standard in previous PSC research in both middle - class30, 33 - 35 and low - income minority populations.8

Study eligibility will be assessed by two researchers against preset inclusion and exclusion criteria.

Another criticism leveled against manual - based treatments is that clinical situations rarely mirror the tightly controlled conditions of a clinical research study.1 Criteria for participation in psychotherapy research often require accurate and differential diagnosis, which can be time consuming and costly.

Studies were assessed against quality criteria, including: random sequence generation; allocation concealment; blinded assessment; withdrawals; tolerability; reporting of data; intention - to - treat analysis.

A second level of screening will then take place, where two pairs of review authors (AS, MM, JD and LT) will independently assess and select studies for inclusion against the inclusion criteria described above (Criteria for considering studies for this criteria described above (Criteria for considering studies for this Criteria for considering studies for this review).

Examination of these records against exclusion criteria yielded 11 studies that focused on the associations between attachment orientation and perpetration of sexual coercion (n = 3), sexual coercion victimization (n = 3), or both perpetration and victimization (n = 5).