Sentences with phrase «studies standards earlier»

Next Steps Based primarily on the results from the field test and feedback from educators and stakeholders, we have made the decision to review the social studies standards earlier than the traditional six - year cycle.

Based primarily on the results from the field test and feedback from educators and stakeholders, we have made the decision to review the social studies standards earlier than the traditional six - year cycle.

Not exact matches

Earlier this year, for example, Judy Zaichkowsky of Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business published a study indicating that the presence of just one woman on a company's board resulted in significantly higher standards of corporate governance (which has an established correlation to better financial performance).

For the early period, the studies by W. Montgomery Watt are standard, especially his Muhammad at Mecca.

Some of our studies were publish during the 80s and early 90s when reporting standards were different, they didn't give us the information we needed to assess these issues.

«This treatment has now been studied in our centre using the most sensitive measure of lung structure — a radiologic measurement of lung density — allowing us to detect changes far earlier than can be seen with standard breathing tests,» said Dr. Kenneth Chapman, Director of the Asthma and Airways Centre at Toronto Western Hospital and the Canadian research lead for the multicentre trial.

On a whim, while creating new dictionaries to expand the LIWC software's standard lexicon, she decided to create a list of words relating specifically to the task of negotiating travel, which participants in the earlier study had faced: words like «car,» «hotel» and «train.»

Between 2012 and 2014, the researchers tested extensively almost 3,000 Indonesian school children, then 9 to 12 years old, whose mothers had participated in an earlier study into the effects of consuming either multiple micronutrient (MMN) supplements or standard iron - folic acid (IFA) supplements during pregnancy.

«Early MRI may lower costs for prostate cancer treatment: Study finds MRI and MRI - guided biopsy cheaper long - term than standard ultrasound.»

Results of the first clinical study to assess the impact of providing early outpatient palliative care versus standard oncology care in a wide range of advanced cancers show that earlier care improved quality of life and patient satisfaction.

Offering a standard biomarker test earlier in pregnancy could potentially help doctors to better identify women at risk of giving birth prematurely, thus enabling health services to focus treatments on women at highest risk, according to a new study led by King's College London.

For both the early and standard tests, there was a noticeable increase in relative risk between the lowest and highest thresholds used in the study.

PALLAS: Palbociclib Collaborative Adjuvant Study: A Randomized Phase III Trial of Palbociclib with Standard Adjuvant Endocrine Therapy versus Standard Adjuvant Endocrine Therapy Alone for Hormone Receptor Positive (HR +) / Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 (HER2)- Negative Early Breast Cancer

A court in 1987 concluded that the LD50 studies in animals were «grossly inadequate» according to the standards in the early 1950's: the Army found that all mice died at 100 mg / kg and no mice died at 12 mg / kg, but the Army performed no further animal experiments.

A status review of California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS)(earlier post) for the period of 2011 and the first quarter of 2012 by Dr. Sonia Yeh at the Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis and Julie Witcover found that regulated parties in the LCFS — i.e., oil producers and importers to... Read more →

The study included 17 patients with early - onset Alzheimer's disease (age at onset < 65 years), 12 patients with logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia and 13 patients with posterior cortical atrophy [whole Alzheimer's disease group: age = 61.5 years (standard deviation 6.5 years), 55 % male].

«Much to our surprise, the trial showed that patients receiving standard therapy compared to those receiving cetuximab with standard therapy had no difference in outcomes,» said study author Dr. Steven Alberts, a professor of oncology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minn. «It also indicates that disease in earlier stages may be different than diseases in later stages.»

One of the earliest proponents of high protein diets was the distinguished German physiologist Dr. Carl Voit (1831 - 1908).1, 2 After studying laborers who consumed approximately 3100 Calories daily, he concluded that protein intake for people should be 118 grams (g) per day — this value became known as the «Voit standard.»

As far as brushing goes, by all means, do it when you feel like it... we recommend using a Bass brush (or) a chewing stick just like our early ancestors did which shows parallel, or even greater efficacy, as compared to standard brushing (see study).

For example, in an in - depth study of nine Michigan districts in the early 1990s, James P. Spillane of Northwestern University found wide variations in how teachers interpreted and applied the standards.

The prior federally funded studies of instructional materials, such as textbooks, were focused on earlier standards and not the CCSS.

The initial test - score gaps for Hispanic students in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study data were even greater than for blacks — 0.72 standard deviations in math and 0.43 standard deviations in reading.

Mr. Elder earned National Board Certification in Early Adolescence / Social Studies - History in 2009, instilling reflection as a standard part of his practice and resulting in an unending quest to improve his teaching for all students.

The research on class size is decidedly mixed, but the largest estimates (from the Tennessee STAR study) imply that a three - student increase in class size in the early grades would decrease test scores by 0.05 standard deviations after one year (and by less in future years).

To conduct this study, we teamed up with Education First, a consulting firm founded by standards - reform veteran Jennifer Vranek, who a decade earlier had herself launched Achieve's American Diploma Project — which is often viewed as the precursor to the Common Core standards.

The report of the Committee to Study Certification, released earlier this month, also details recommendations to raise the state's certification standards and improve the quality of the teaching ranks, such as by requiring periodic testing of teacher candidates during their training.

There have been 15 gold standard empirical studies of private school choice and academic outcomes: 10 are positive, 3 are neutral, and 2 are negative — only based upon on results in early years of those two studies.

The Century Foundation's Greg Anrig has argued in Pacific Standard magazine that reducing teacher evaluations to standardized tests amounts to subjecting education to Taylorism — the time - and - motion studies that so entranced corporate managers (and even Lenin) in the early 20th century and that boiled down worker performance to basic, repetitive tasks.

Content and lessons that reflect National Association for the Education of Young Children's (NAEYC) developmentally appropriate practice (DAP); Service - Learning Standards for Quality Practice; Common Core State Standards in English language arts and mathematics; national standards in social studies, science, fine arts, technology, and health; and Head Start Child Development and Early Learning Framework

Our two - hour long tour will help teachers meet state standards for Social Studies courses that focus on the American Revolution, the settlement of South Carolina, and early American history and culture, especially third grade, fourth grade, eighth grade, and US History course in South Carolina.

Nevertheless, all this «concern» has caused Commissioner of Education Candice McQueen to schedule an early review of the state's social studies standards.

Beyond Common Core State Standards in English / language arts and mathematics, DC has adopted these rigorous content - area learning standards and guides for arts, early learning, health and physical education, science, social studies, technology and world language.

But just a week earlier in the foreword to Fordham's new study judging the extent to which English teachers are changing instruction to meet Common Core, Kathleen and Checker talk about the «instructional shifts» Common Core standards «expect» and «demand.»

If students meet those standards, then the bachelor's in early childhood education can be completed in as little as four semesters, studying full - time without summer courses.

Earlier setbacks had taught proponents to stay away from history or social studies, to avoid identifying which books or authors students should read, and to cling to the safe ground of «skill - based» standards.

We have found little further research that builds upon and extends these early studies in the evolving context of state education policies and standards - based reform.

The mutation in NPHP4 described above, that causes an early onset cone - rod dystrophy in standard wire - haired dachshunds [49] was not present in the dachshunds studies by Miyadera, enabling that mutation to be excluded.

The goal of the study is to give doctors and veterinarians better treatment options and set up standards for earlier diagnosis.

This UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine study dovetails perfectly with the standard of care recommended by the American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior (AVSAB), which unequivocally encourages puppies to begin socialization classes as early as 7 - 8 weeks of age and seven days after the first set of vaccines.

And there is all the measured data that has been collected over many studies confirming the superb performance of Passivhaus Standard buildings since the early 1990s.

A recent study entitled Early emergence of anthropogenically forced heat waves in the western United States and Great Lakes was publicized in the Syracuse New York Post Standard under the headline Upstate NY among first to have most heat waves due to climate change.

A status review of California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS)(earlier post) for the period of 2011 and the first quarter of 2012 by Dr. Sonia Yeh at the Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis and Julie Witcover found that regulated parties in the LCFS — i.e., oil producers and importers to... Read more →

The Supreme Court of Canada released its Dunsmuir decision in early March 2008, hours before my administrative law class at the University of Ottawa, Common Law Section, was to embark on study of standard of review in substantive administrative law.

The treatment tested in this study combines 3 interventions that have shown some efficacy individually: early detection of prodromal symptoms, 4 enhancement of treatment compliance, 12 and induction of lifestyle regularity, 13 in a structured group intervention for euthymic bipolar outpatients receiving standard pharmacologic treatment.

This pragmatic trial was designed in accordance with the consolidated standards of reporting trials guidelines54 and was conducted by a research team independent of the programme, with an independent trial steering committee including chairman, parental representation and members with expertise in statistics; early years» intervention studies; and child psychiatry.

The study aimed to evaluate the impact of an enhanced feedback session, early in the helping process, on parents» adherence to service - engagement recommendations, compared to a standard feedback session, and to examine predictors of adherence to recommendations.

A cost of quality study can estimate the cost of operating an early childhood program that meets specific state standards.

Since the early days of the movement, several state boards of education and several countries have approved standards for social and emotional learning, and researchers continue to study its impact on children's academic and personal success.

Because the present study was designed to be an effectiveness trial and prior studies noted earlier showed that attrition before 12 sessions from child treatment is common in actual clinical settings, parents were given the choice of attending 6 two - hour meetings each of which covered two sessions or the standard 12 one - hour session procedure.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study examined the efficacy of standard Level 4 Triple P online, an eight - module intensive online positive parenting program for parents of children with early - onset disruptive behavior problems, compared with an «internet use as usual» group.