Sentences with phrase «using school effectiveness»

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Since the professional effectiveness of teachers, ministers, social workers, counseling psychologists, nurses, and psychiatrists depend so much on their skills in relating and communicating, graduate schools training them should make extensive use of growth groups.

In the US, the Obama administration has funded a range of initiatives that require the use of evidence - based strategies in areas such as teen pregnancy prevention, home visiting, education and workforce innovation.2, 3 In the field of home visiting, an increasing number of programs have been rigorously evaluated and have demonstrated evidence of effectiveness in outcome domains such as parenting, maternal and child health, child development and school readiness, reductions in child maltreatment, and family economic self - sufficiency.4, 5,6

In 2000, long - time teacher Marlene Pearson was asked by the National Marriage Project to review the effectiveness of several marriage and relationship programs used in schools.

Also, schools want flexibility with finding ways to improve their cost effectiveness, and that might include using alternate energy, or greater freedom to share services and administration between schools and units of local government.

Brooke Blevins, Ph.D., assistant professor of curriculum and instruction and Karon LeCompte, Ph.D., assistant professor of curriculum and instruction in Baylor's School of Education studied the effectiveness of iCivics, a free online website founded by retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor that teaches civics concepts using 19 educational games.

Working with colleagues from Harvard Medical School and Würzburg, researchers from Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin have been examining the use of deep brain stimulation in the treatment of Parkison's disease in an attempt to optimize treatment effectiveness.

Many patients and physicians assume that the safety and effectiveness of newly approved drugs is well understood by the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-- but a new study by researchers at Yale School of Medicine shows that the clinical trials used by the FDA to approve new drugs between 2005 and 2012 vary widely in their thoroughness.

In addition to supporting the overall effectiveness of school - based mental health care, follow - up analyses revealed that school - based services targeting child behavior problems were particularly effective, relative to services targeting child attention problems, mood and anxiety problems, or substance use.

In a review of existing literature, Marteau did find descriptions of nudging being used to improve health behaviors — one study reports a 70 % increase in the amount of fruit bought by school children at lunchtime after fruit was placed by the cash register — but these interventions have not been evaluated on a large scale or assessed for cost - effectiveness.

Researchers from the University of Missouri School of Medicine have developed an imaging technique using a specific form of helium to measure the drug's effectiveness.

Research led at the Yale School of Public Health have found that the majority of published papers analyzing the cost - effectiveness of a widely used test for breast cancer used a study design that can increase bias.

Information technology and new concepts in clinical outcomes assessment are particularly well - suited to evaluating the effectiveness of naturopathic treatment protocols and are being used in research, both at naturopathic medical schools and in the offices of practicing physicians.

We use a straightforward and transparent A ─ F grading system to give parents simple and accurate information about the effectiveness of their schools.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadschools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

Over 2000 schools have achieved this quality mark and can demonstrate their effectiveness in their use of ICT delivering benefits to all aspects of school and student life and extending more broadly into the community.

A $ 272 million program to help states and school districts use technology for education would be axed under President Bush's fiscal 2007 budget, partly because the White House says it lacks rigorous data on its effectiveness.

New research explores how Australian schools are addressing issues of bullying and cyber bullying and the perceived effectiveness of the strategies used.

Staff were also asked to indicate how often their school had used six intervention methods in actual cases of bullying (direct sanctions; strengthening the victim; mediation; restorative practice; the support group method; and, the method of shared concern) and their effectiveness.

Believing that all schools and academies in the country should have a reference point to assess their operational effectiveness, NASBM is encouraging practitioners to use the standards to assess their individual practice and to inform future CPD and career progression plans.

In general, teacher evaluation refers to the formal process a school uses to review and rate teachers» performance and effectiveness in the classroom.

Using the guide I wanted to evaluate the use of nasen's practical guidance, The Nasen Guide for Primary and Secondary SENCOs Preparing for School Inspection, and so this seemed to be an ideal opportunity to help direct the SENCO while considering the effectiveness of the guide as a whole - school improvementSchool Inspection, and so this seemed to be an ideal opportunity to help direct the SENCO while considering the effectiveness of the guide as a whole - school improvementschool improvement tool.

John H. Hollifield, in his letter to the editor, called the Scholastic Aptitude Test «the specific measure that we use to judge all... high schools («An «Effective» School That Fails To Meet the Standard Measure of Effectiveness,» Education Week, March 21, 1984).

And many schools struggle to use data to pinpoint their specific needs and to monitor the effectiveness of the program.

Amrein and Berliner also used trends on the SAT, the ACT, and Advanced Placement (AP) exams to assess the effectiveness of minimum - competency exams in the 18 states where students must pass such tests in order to graduate from high school.

The What Works Clearinghouse, which the U.S. Department of Education operates, lists more than a dozen school interventions that have shown significant effectiveness in rigorous evaluations, several of which used random assignment.

In the final year of the project, we will use data from the experiments to scale - up the most cost - effective version of the READS program.The project has three phases: Phase 1 Validation, which includes testing READS in several districts including DPS and an effort to increase the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of the program; Phase 2 Validation, which involves expansion into more districts and many more schools and testing the cumulative impact of READS across summers; and Phase 3 Scale - Up, which involves expansion into 20 more districts.

Moreover, even small differences in measured effectiveness can have practical consequences for schools and teachers, depending on how these assessments are used.

First, it should be conceded that Duncan has a great idea, rewarding states willing to undertake reforms such as launching high - quality charter schools (while closing bad ones) and using data to evaluate teacher effectiveness.

Additionally, the school system's goal is to increase student achievement by maximizing efficiency and effectiveness while using its resources to support school needs.

While the proponents of these NSF - sponsored math programs may be able to claim that the research shows no evidence that the programs are «ineffective,» the mathematics community, and parents who are protesting to the various school boards across the United States, can now claim that the research can not be used to support claims of superior effectiveness — or any effectiveness at all.

Schools use data to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions.

This would allow the school to use the subsequent 12 months to evaluate the program's effectiveness.

We can either use reading and math gains as imperfect indicators of effectiveness while working to build better measures — buttressed by school visits and the like — or we can succumb to «analysis paralysis» and do nothing.

«We study teacher effectiveness, where teachers went to ed school, we know what their SAT scores were, but we pay no attention to what materials they're using in the classroom,» Sahm observes.

Hanushek suggests a different approach: «We need to refine the evaluation of teacher effectiveness, and we need to introduce the serious use of evaluations into the schools, evaluations that guide tenure, retention, and pay decisions.»

The methods used by the Center for Research on Educational Outcomes (CREDO) to analyze charter school effectiveness offer a reasonable alternative when the gold standard is not feasible or possible.

I was no less enthusiastic than those standing on the podium as this was for me an opportunity to evaluate for the first time a school voucher initiative by means of a randomized field trial, the gold standard for evaluating the effectiveness of a program, the same design as the pill - placebo design used in medical research to ascertain whether pills are effective.

There are a number of reasons: 1) student achievement probably wasn't used as the measure of teacher effectiveness; 2) before the advent of the modern computer, in the mid-1960s, some of the more sophisticated analyses were not feasible; 3) the structure and makeup of schools change, making the findings less applicable to the current situation; 4) most important, older studies may not control for critical variables, such as students» backgrounds or past achievement.

«Using School Choice Lotteries to Test Measures of School Effectiveness.»

Supported by funding from Nominet Trust, EduKit offers two free - to - access products: «Insight» — a powerful, easy to use, analytics tool that allows schools to analyse student well - being and to track the effectiveness of youth programmes; and «Connect» — an online database of thousands of free and low - cost youth development programmes run by charities and social enterprises, classified by their impact and location.

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.

Their literature review looked at studies from around the world exploring evidence of the effectiveness of PBL — including the use of concept maps in Hungarian Kindergartens, a primary school PBL program for low SES students in the United States and a STEM - based project involving female high school students in Taiwan.

Today we find out how one school has been using prototypes and cardboard mock - ups to test the effectiveness of different learning settings and configurations in preparation for a site rebuild.

'... Teachers take responsibility for changes in practice required to achieve school targets and are using data on a regular basis to monitor the effectiveness of their own efforts to meet those targets.»

During that time he became involved in the first use of computers in schools (in the 1980s) and at that time first questioned the effectiveness of cpd provision for teachers and began to produce materials to reflect on and address his concerns.

To enhance the educational effectiveness of video in the schools, educators are urged to promote active viewing and critical analysis of media texts, assign video as homework, use segments of no more than ten to 15 minutes, and use television programming as a bridge to public television, museums, community groups, cultural organizations, and professional and industry associations.

(i) Conduct a self - assessment that evaluates the program's progress towards meeting goals established under paragraph (a) of this section, using aggregated child assessment data where applicable, compliance with program performance standards throughout the program year, and the effectiveness of the professional development and family engagement systems in promoting school readiness, using classroom, professional development, and parent and family engagement data, as appropriate;

The Times analysis used a «value added» statistical analysis of math and English scores from the school district — the nation's second largest — to estimate the effectiveness of third - through fifth - grade teachers.

These and other findings with respect to the correlates of teacher effectiveness are obtained from estimations using value - added models that control for student characteristics as well as school and (where appropriate teacher) fixed effects in order to measure teacher effectiveness in reading and math for Florida students in fourth through eighth grades for eight school years, 2001 - 2002 through 2008 - 2009.

Evaluate the effectiveness of student wellbeing policies and safe working practices using current school and / or system, curriculum and legislative requirements and assist colleagues to update their practices.