The
primary measured outcome for the study was the difference in maximum treadmill walking distance at 12 months between the groups.
Advocates maintain that their success is best measured
by measuring the outcome only of students who don't drop out or leave to pursue other types of schooling.
Other measured outcomes included quality of life, functional independence, long - term cognitive status, and overall survival.
Only cardiovascular tissues associated with one male pup per litter per
measured outcome variable were used to control for sex and within - litter variation.
Unfortunately, state tests do
not measure every outcome parents and taxpayers (and students) expect from schools, and cost is a factor in determining what gets measured.
In short, look at the details of how the study was done, how many completed the study, and if the testing really
measured an outcome directly caused by the intervention.
Finally, research has also shown that improving reading comprehension and preventing poor reading outcomes require
measuring outcomes at every stage of learning.
How do I show how I am
measuring outcomes if I am running a new program that was started within the last few months?
The program has a system for using information for learning and program improvement as well as for
measuring outcomes relevant to program activities.
Resources in this section provide information and tools to help
agencies measure outcomes and ensure the quality of contracted services, including performance - based contracting.
The resulting study focused on rural students in middle or junior high school and
measured outcomes before the course started and then one year later.
The impacts are presented as effect sizes (which represent the differences between groups in standard deviation units) for eight
measured outcomes across the domains of literacy, language, and math.
A scientific account of human values is one that
measures the outcome of world states with the outcome of brain states.
This includes carefully tracking the details of their own performance, since only
by measuring outcomes can they later analyze which approaches work and which do not.
A shift to a focus
on measuring outcomes will open the licensure process to high - quality alternative pathways into teaching and encourage innovation among higher education providers who wish to compete on cost and quality rather than on traditional curriculum and seat - time requirements.
The four - year, randomized control trial includes a diverse group of mothers and will
measure outcomes such as breastfeeding, parenting skills, and children's social - emotional development.
Standard definitions are needed for
measuring outcomes when evaluating vaccine safety studies in pregnant women, a problem recently highlighted by the World Health Organization.
Just be sure you're clear on what your strategic goals are, and how free work serves those goals — and then
measure the outcome so you can improve your efforts the next time around.
Adding DGP to routine care did not improve frequency of self - harm or other
measured outcomes over 1 year among adolescents who had repeatedly self - harmed.
In contrast to previous studies of access to care in Massachusetts that have relied on patient surveys, which the authors say may be subject to potential biases due to patient recall or other factors, the new study is one of the few to rely on
objectively measured outcomes and was based on nearly every hospital admission occurring in Massachusetts and the comparison states for nearly two years before and two years after the reform was implemented.
There is no question about the benefits of competency - based training for a healthcare facility, as one of the fundamental advantages to this approach is the ability to
measure the outcomes delivered after training and during the performance period that follows.
OJJDP's National Mentoring Resource Center offers a variety of research - based resources, including mentoring model / population reviews, information about promising and effective mentoring programs, and a Measurement Guidance Toolkit to help
programs measure outcomes more effectively.
To achieve the best SEL implementation results, schools must select a quality, research - based assessment that will help streamline instruction, tailor supports to achieve predefined learning goals, and
effectively measure outcomes.
When Gort first visited in 1951, it spent little effort on climate change issues, focusing on other aspects of our planet instead: Gort returned in 2012 to answer puny human climatologist questions about whether climate change caused particular weather phenomena by making an obvious point: rather than struggle with theoretical analysis, you can simply use your Climate Changeometer to remove all the excess greenhouse gases and aerosols above natural levels and
then measure the outcome.
Offsetting through our integrated Climate + Care projects means you not only fund emission reductions to address your unavoidable carbon footprint, but deliver
measured outcomes which can contribute to the UN Global Goals and your other business objectives.
Our unique process of learning shifts the focus
from measuring outcomes to driving children's learning and development
«If you apply our tool [and] measure your outcomes against your costs,» she said, «you can clearly make an argument for many of these new advances.»
Using age - and gender - specific z scores for the
repeated measures outcome variable and birth weight as the covariate, the between - group variable (breastfeeding medication group) was significant (P =.005).
Our team is excited to work with our collaborators at the University of Maryland to help develop a technique that can more
globally measure these outcomes.
They note that surgery also led to an average 76 percent improvement in the migraine - specific MHI score,
measuring outcomes like headache frequency, duration, and severity.