Sentences with phrase «uses rigorous research»

Funded by the Administration for Children and Families, SHM uses a rigorous research design to test the effectiveness of a new approach to improving outcomes for low - income children: strengthening the marriages and relationships of their parents as a foundation for family well - being.

Many of our models include a return on investment component, which uses rigorous research to estimate the returns realized by a program or by a comprehensive early childhood system.

AIR's international work improves the quality of life in developing countries by using rigorous research and evaluation to enhance education and social development.

This longitudinal, field - based study of programs of study (POS) / career pathways was designed using rigorous research methods to estimate the impact of POS on high school students» academic and technical achievement outcomes through the completion of high school.

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They use rigorous research and humour to expose alarming truths, including the art world's slow pace of change.

PAT is an evidence - based program model that has been tested using rigorous research designs including:

In each site, the key component of the evaluation was an impact analysis that used a rigorous research design to measure the programs» effects on outcomes, including employment, welfare use, and child well - being.

Woodbridge is leader of the Training, Coaching, and Technical Support services for the Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Appalachia, which works in partnership with education stakeholders to conduct and use rigorous research and evidence to inform policies and practices that benefit students in the Appalachian region.

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Rigorous research confirms using Facebook is detrimental to physical and mental health.

Bespoke's portfolio management team uses rigorous in - house research to construct portfolio strategies for investors based on their financial goals and needs.

We have used rigorous quasi-experimental methods to overcome potential confounding that is not addressed in the majority of previous research.

Given the limited rigorous research evidence on home visiting's effectiveness to prevent child maltreatment, one potential impact of using an approach like Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness, which attaches state funding to the quality of the evidence, may be to increase the amount and quality of the child maltreatment prevention research conducted globally.

Overall, the research on home visiting to prevent child maltreatment could be improved with use of rigorous methods, appropriate measures, longer follow - up periods, and inclusion of and reporting on important subgroups.

We also sometimes use it formally, to describe a particular course of learning: often one that requires rigorous research and study.

Although the phraseology Ezzo uses to describe GFI's «survey» of more than 500 infants leaves an impression of rigorous medical research, no actual peer review process, as defined by the scientific community, was employed.

To clarify the current evidence, additional research using the rigorous scientific methodology of the randomized clinical trial will be necessary.

The research team simplified this data using voxel - based morphometry, or VBM — a technique that breaks the brain into 3 - D pixels and permits rigorous statistical comparison of brain tissue density among people.

In a recent publication in ACS Nano, Reilly and Ingber developed this method by combining computer animation software approaches from the entertainment industry with rigorous molecular dynamics simulation tools commonly used in biological research.

Out of thousands of studies considered for the analysis, a mere 63 met the research team's strict criteria: Studies had to use rigorous methods and establish cause and effect.

«We are really behind when it comes to regulatory oversight for the marketing of these supplements, and for rigorous scientific research showing the impact of their widespread use on children,» Lampl says.

And the study uses neither blinding nor a placebo group, design elements considered essential for rigorous medical research.

Using simple statistics, without data about published research, Ioannidis argued that the results of large, randomized clinical trials — the gold standard of human research — were likely to be wrong 15 percent of the time and smaller, less rigorous studies are likely to fare even worse.

They also learned about ongoing efforts worldwide to improve science teaching through the use of rigorous research methods.

We are proud of our commitment to service and strive to use discovery and rigorous research to benefit our neighborhoods, our city and our world.

The research team noted that even though the flu shot has been in use for more than half a century, there have been very few studies that have tracked the immune system health of recipients in such a rigorous way.

If even rigorous research fails to show a consistent relationship between test scores and later success, why would we think that regulators and policy makers with less rigorous approaches to test scores could use them to reliably identify school and program quality?

Two blockbuster research findings reported recently in the national press — one from the field of education, the other from medicine — have something important in common: They are the latest cases in which widely used, widely accepted practices have been challenged by scientifically rigorous evaluations.

The Commission, chaired by Dr. Paul Hill of the University of Washington, carefully reviewed the research on the impact of school choice on student achievement and included in its report the following statement: «The most rigorous school choice evaluations that used random assignment... found that academic gains from vouchers were largely limited to the African - American students in their studies.»

Though she uses stories to illustrate her points, she also makes reference to rigorous research, including some of her own.

Not only does the law require that districts use curricula that rely on «scientifically - based reading research,» a phrase, defined at length that appears 25 times in the statute; it further instructs the Department of Education to assist and hold states accountable in meeting this rigorous requirement.

The No Child Left Behind Act famously endorses the use of «scientifically based research,» the federal Institute of Education Sciences has elevated the profile of rigorous scholarship, and presidential candidates tout studies on teacher quality, testing, and school choice.

Four recent rigorous studies — in the District of Columbia, Louisiana, Indiana, and Ohio — used different research designs and reached the same result: on average, students that use vouchers to attend private schools do less well on tests than similar students that do not attend private schools.

For example, the Practice Guides distill a wealth of research into clear steps teachers can take to improve the learning of their students.7 The What Works Clearinghouse was created with the idea of helping the public understand research results and whether they were completed using rigorous methods.

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Using rigorous non-experimental methods, a 2013 study of charters in 16 states by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes found that average charter school effectiveness increased overall, due in large part to closures of poorly performing schools.

Each government's wisdom is dependent on knowing as much as possible about the people, places and problems encountered in Historia, so students conduct rigorous, content - based research and use the lessons they learn along the way to solve problems, shape strategies and create their very own people's history.

This work reinforces previous assessments of ECE's impact on student progress, placement, and completion, but it covers a wider age range, reflects a mix of historical and contemporary research, and uses more rigorous criteria in designing its research parameters.

Based at UCL's Institute of Education, and match - funded by the European Regional Development Fund and UCL's partners — UCL Engineering, the British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA), Nesta and F6S — EDUCATE offers a rigorous and comprehensive training programme focusing on pedagogical research to help EdTech start - ups, SMEs, entrepreneurs and educators develop, evaluate and improve their products and services with the use of research evidence.

Research supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has advocated for more rigorous teacher evaluations, suggests that using two evaluators tends to yield more accurate assessments than using one.

Four recent rigorous studies — in the District of Columbia, Louisiana, Indiana, and Ohio — used different research designs and reached the same result.

The most popular WWC products are practice guides, which are developed by panels of researchers and education practitioners and use a rigorous rating system to characterize the research evidence for each recommendation.

RPP 3 works to build the capacity of educators and stakeholders to make effective use of data and rigorous research evidence to inform their decisions.

Based on rigorous selection criteria, the authors narrowed the field to the 19 studies — representing 11 voucher programs — that used randomized controlled trial (RCT) methodology — the «gold standard» for research.

In fact, the research I reviewed on rigorous evaluations of long - term outcomes from choice programs suggests that using test scores to decide whether a bunch of schools should be closed or expanded would lead to significant Type 1 and Type 2 errors.

We conduct rigorous research and evaluation studies using quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods that inform education policy, promote equity, and improve student outcomes.

This research study included the development and implementation of the MQI Coaching Cycle, as well as a rigorous evaluation of the program's effectiveness using a teacher - level random assignment design....

PCN advances college opportunity by promoting the use of research - based policies and practices, the development of new research that is both rigorous and actionable, and the alignment of efforts across middle school, high school, and higher education in order to improve college access and success for underserved students.

One of the first steps is to train school leaders to use CEL's rigorous 5 Dimensions of Teaching and Learning, a research - based framework for observing and analyzing classroom instruction and providing meaningful feedback to teachers.

Collectively we promote the use of rigorous research to figure out «what works,» and why, to improve student outcomes and then share those findings with policy - makers, practitioners and the general public.