Sentences with phrase «year outcomes measured»

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For the first time in years, advertisers may have at least one proper way of measuring the audiences of the future, but Gorman believes that measurement's future has two potential outcomes.

With such a program it is not possible to hide from participants whether or not they received the intervention and outcome measures rely on self - reports of events that may have occurred a few years in the past.

The various measures of underlying inflation recorded slightly lower outcomes in the quarter, although on a year - ended basis they show inflation at a similar rate to the headline measure (Table 14; Graph 71).

In the study that established the difference, researchers looking at people two years after they first showed up at a hospital for care found that they scored significantly better on most outcome measures than a comparable group in the West....

NICE recommends the use of a version of the Quality - Adjusted Life - Year as its principal outcome measure (EQ - 5D), partly to enable

report every five years to the Murray - Darling Basin Authority on the achievement of environmental outcomes at a Basin scale, by reference to the targets to measure progress towards the environmental objectives in Schedule 7 (Basin Plan Schedule 12, item 7).

Moreover, the study only measured dietary behaviors at the very beginning of the study, yet makes conclusions about health outcomes over 12 years.»

Participants will be able to compare their natural resource use from year to year and measure outcomes to changed practices.

From a completely mercenary standpoint, measures such as hospital birth and interventions at the start of life are cost effective because the desired outcome is years of functional life.

The outcomes were measured by a global hyperactivity aggregate (GHA), scores based on parent and teacher observations, and for 8 and 9 year olds, a computerized attention test.

Over the period from 8 to 18 years, sample members were assessed on a range of measures of cognitive and academic outcomes including measures of child intelligence quotient; teacher ratings of school performance; standardized tests of reading comprehension, mathematics, and scholastic ability; pass rates in school leaving examinations; and leaving school without qualifications.

Our outcome measures were the PPVT - III and WRAVMA scores at age 3 years and the KBIT - II, WRAVMA, and WRAML scores at age 7 years.

Launched in September 2013, through a three - year cooperative agreement with Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), the Home Visiting CoIIN works to achieve breakthrough improvements in select process and outcome measures, including benchmark areas legislatively mandated for the Federal Home Visiting program, while reducing or maintaining program costs.

Main outcome measures were hospital, doctor, or clinic visits, and hospital admissions for respiratory illness and infection in the first year of life.

Strengths of this study, Dr. Li noted, included that researchers used an objective measuring device and studied a short - term outcome (miscarriage) rather than one that will occur years or decades later, such as cancer or autoimmune diseases.

Outcome measures included the number of days spent in hospital, frequency of hospital admission, compulsory hospital admission and prescription of antipsychotics or non-antipsychotic mood stabilisers over a five year follow - up period.

The study's primary outcomes measure was the rate of exacerbation, defined as the number of exacerbation events per participant year.

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.

Averaged over a four - year follow - up period, operatively treated patients at least 80 years of age, had significantly greater improvement in all primary and secondary outcome measures compared with patients at least 80 years of age who received nonsurgical treatment.

The benefits of surgery in patients at least 80 years of age were similar to those in younger patients, except for the outcome measures of pain and physical function, which were higher in the under age 80 group.

«It was illuminating to see the association between measures of white matter integrity and important outcomes occurring months to years down the road in our study population.»

«We retrospectively analyzed the data from the DTI sequence to derive measures of white matter integrity, which we compared to clinical measures and subsequent outcome measures 6 months to 2.5 years after the initial evaluation.»

Important long - term outcomes take many years to measure, Stafford said.

The specialty rankings for this year were based on a blend of reputation, outcomes, and care - related measures such as nursing care, advanced technology, credentialing and other factors.

The researchers analyzed data from 148 previously published longitudinal studies that measured frequency of human interaction and tracked health outcomes for a period of seven and a half years on average.

Outcome measure: Child's body size information at 11 age points from 6 weeks to 8 years.

Here are the key details: Population = 1,755 institutionalised and community - dwelling Spanish people (985 females and 770 males), aged > 65 years Intervention = four different measurements of strength (grip, shoulder abduction, hip flexion and knee extension) using a hand dynamometer, compiled into a composite measure Comparisons = four quartiles of strength (high, medium - high, medium - low, and low) Outcome = risk ratios for mortality and hospitalisation To combine the four measurements of strength into one composite measure, the researchers used the following calculation.

We have shown that, despite their limitations, aggregate measures of non-cognitive skills based on student self - reports provide useful information about students» development, as both levels and year - to - year changes in students» self - ratings are associated with changes in related academic and behavioral outcomes.

Drawing on the same data, we will examine whether self - reported measures of students» non-tested outcomes predict related school behaviors (e.g., absences, suspensions, on - time grade progression, GPA) in subsequent years.

In response to the criticism that teacher impacts on student test scores are inconsistent over time, the authors show that «although VA measures fluctuate across years, they are sufficiently stable» that selecting teachers even based on a few years of data would have substantial impacts on student outcomes, such as earnings.

Outcomes were measured immediately at the end of the PD programs and one year later.

Moreover, many of the «performance measures» that get reported do not actually measure genuine outcomes, but instead simply relate the percentage of disabled students being tested each year, the percent being mainstreamed, and other workload measures.

Hard to choose but I think my favourite article from last year was either he interview with Andreas Schleicher on the impact of technology on learning outcomes (Research Files 14) or the story on how Nossal High School has shifted their reporting practices away from A-E grading and towards progress measures (Removing grades from student reports).

In addition, research showing that value - added measures outperform other teacher characteristics at predicting a teacher's impact on student growth in future years — and that they also capture information on teachers» impacts on longer - term life outcomes like teen pregnancy, college going, and adult earnings — served as an important justification for differentiating teacher effectiveness.

They've spent the past five years exploring connections between social - emotional skills and positive life outcomes, in the process measuring the efficacy of many programs that teach those skills.

In Year 1, we will work with a small number of teachers to refine our existing CEMS materials, to integrate the materials into their curriculum, and to validate outcome measures that assess multiple types of knowledge (e.g., procedural flexibility, conceptual knowledge and procedural knowledge).

The measures will deliver progress in the first two core ambitions, Ambition 1 to close the word gap in the early years and Ambition 2, closing the attainment gap in school outcomes between disadvantaged young people and their peers.

Research tells us that social and emotional skills trump the more traditional cognitive measures — like IQ, standardized test scores, and GPAs — in predicting major life outcomes when the individuals are in their early adult years.

With this year's IDEA determinations, the Department used multiple outcome measures that include students with disabilities» participation in state assessments, proficiency gaps between students with disabilities and all students, as well as performance in reading and math on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to produce a more comprehensive and thorough picture of the performance of children with disabilities in each state.

We now recognize that the approach used by Coleman 50 years ago does not yield «causal» estimates, i.e., it does not measure the degree to which spending more money causes outcomes to improve (or not).

However, no other data set combines measures of early exposure to bilingual education programs with measures of students» outcomes 10 years after high school.

In order to examine the effects of the organizational and instructional factors that we observed in these schools, it was necessary to create outcome measures that reflected the effects that might conceivably have occurred during our year of observation.

Measuring Child Outcomes in the Early Years (November 2015) W. Steven Barnett, Shannon Riley - Ayers, and Jessica Francis

But if comparable outcomes are the only measure used to drive grade boundaries we would be by definition, consigning the nation as a whole to pass rates designed to discourage, to tell a significant percentage of the population, year after year, they are not good enough irrespective of what they've learned in absolute terms.

Stanford University's John W. Gardner Center has found student perceptions to be linked to academic outcomes, and a recent synthesis of 15 years of research found that a healthy school climate — often measured through surveys — can help close the achievement gap.

The summative evaluation of two years of the Arts for Academic Achievement (AAA) program examines student learning outcomes of arts - integrated instruction measured by standardized tests, as well as effects not captured by standardized tests.

Our latest report — Back to the Staffing Surge — measures US public school employment growth versus student growth as well as teacher salary fluctuations and student outcomes over the past 65 years using publicly available data that state departments of education annually report to the U.S. Department of Education.

When you ran for president four years ago, I like many of my colleagues, were full of hope that you might take measures to address the negative outcomes that were the result of the No Child Left Behind mandates.

Talking to Dougco officials, you hear faint echoes of the «outcome - base education» theorists of 20 years ago, with their emphasis on «performance - based» assessments and their insistence that normed tests often fail to measure true intellectual strength.

More than half of districts use a number of outcome measures, including student end - of - year math grades, the percent of students advancing to the next level of math courses, student performance in state standardized tests, and teacher feedback on student outcomes (Figure 8).