Sentences with phrase «year pilot study»

Bernardi Human Resource Law is participating in the Mental Health Commission of Canada's 3 - year pilot study tracking the rollout of the standard in several participating organizations.

In a three - year pilot study at 20 elementary schools in New York City with a diverse population of children, students using CKLA had significantly larger gains than students in similar schools.

Kindergarten group Victoria Educational Organisation announced today its new partnership with Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education, which will take the form of a two - year pilot study, called «Agency by Design: Early Childhood in the Making».

Teacher speaks to Professor David Lynch about a five year pilot study that explored the characteristics of an outstanding school.

The academic led a five year pilot study at a Sydney primary, from 2009 onwards, on creating an outstanding school.

In addition to the 2 - year pilot study, USF researchers are competing to win funds for an additional 15 years of monitoring and special studies.

Not exact matches

High beverage sugar as well as high animal protein intake at infancy may increase overweight risk at 8 years: a prospective longitudinal pilot study

Take a pilot study done with nine - year - olds.

But that study helped stimulate a similar three - year pilot program in 15 schools statewide by the Illinois Nutrition Education and Training program, a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

About nine years ago, the school nurse suggested the change, and the school conducted a pilot study, tracking food waste and visits to the nurse along with anecdotal reports on student behavior.

The Itasca - based engineering firm of Cowhey Gudmundson Leder Ltd. was contracted last year to do a pilot study of shoreline erosion problems at Evergreen Park, on...

The pilot is for a five - year period, and after the third year, the federal education secretary will do a study to see how the states are doing and could then open it up to all states, according to federal lawmakers.

To reverse this trend, this year Hoosick Falls Central School (HFCS) is piloting its College Completion Project, a program that introduces students to career options and helps them develop the skills and the knowledge necessary to successfully complete post - secondary studies and attain a degree or professional certification.

- Pilot Grant Awards The Foundation's Pilot Grants Program awards support for up to two years for studies of the clinical, biological, or psychosocial aspects of suicide.

Finally, the bill restricts travel by Collins and his staff until the NIH implements a pilot study on the medical - insurance coverage of patients in clinical trials that was requested by Congress last year.

Etzioni said the next step is to develop an interface and test the nomogram in a pilot study tentatively planned for later this year.

NRC officials hope to begin exploring these issues later this year with a series of pilot studies that will culminate in a full - blown survey in 2003 - 04.

Even this pilot study will take the better part of a year.

The one year results of the remede ® system pilot study were revealed for the first time by lead author Professor William T. Abraham from the Ohio State University.

Until a smaller study on sex mismatches by the same Dutch team six years ago, no one had thought to look at the pregnancy history of red blood cell donors, says Rutger Middelburg, an epidemiologist with Sanquin Research in the Netherlands, who helped lead that pilot work and the study published Tuesday.

The pilot study — an autumn 2014 online survey complemented with focus groups — looked into the career paths of some 500 young scientists who had obtained a Ph.D. in the previous 7 years and done at least one postdoc with one of a small and diverse range of research and funding organizations.

«I feel lethargic when I sit all day,» said Gerald Alexander, an 82 - year - old retired social service worker among the 25 Group Health patients who participated in the Take Active Breaks from Sitting (TABS) pilot study.

An international consortium of research institutions, including the Fraunhofer research organization and the Technical University of Munich in Germany, hopes to raise $ 10 million in philanthropic funding to launch a ten - year pilot project later this year that will study long - term, sustainable conservation and restoration approaches at Pompeii.

In a pilot study reported last year in Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, the researchers assigned participants to either a control group or to six sessions of mindfulness - based therapy over three weeks.

[George W. Holden, Paul A. Williamson and Grant W. O. Holland, Eavesdropping on the family: A pilot investigation of corporal punishment in the home] Previous studies using parental self - reports have estimated that parents spank about 18 times per year.

Researchers studied the performance of 118 noncommercial pilots from 40 to 69 years of age during flight simulation exercises (in a cockpit modeled after a single - engine plane) for three years.

The projected 10 - year, $ 4 billion All of Us study, proposed by then - President Barack Obama in 2015 as part of a push for personalized medicine, has already enrolled more than 12,000 participants for pilot testing.

A pilot study published earlier this year in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, was conducted in the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, where active exploration and manipulation of tools is encouraged.

Trotti, Maness and colleagues didn't set out to dive into ME / CFS — they explicitly label this paper a pilot study, and the results say more about the «hypersomnolent» group of patients they have been seeing for the last several years, rather than the broader ME / CFS population.

A pilot study of definitive proton therapy (60 GyE in 15 fractions) for mucosal melanoma of the head and neck demonstrated a 3 - year survival rate of 58 % and local treatment failure in only 1 of 14 patients, without unacceptable treatment toxicity.

We have... We entered this as a pilot study to look at ten children, we've now looked at 40 children, we've been going for a year; we sincerely hope that we can (CUTS) something to ameliorate the damage that has been done, but we do not yet know whether that's the case.

Some granting agencies have programs offering small amounts of financial support for one year of work; these special opportunities are particularly valuable for scientists seeking to conduct pilot studies.

Effect of comprehensive lifestyle changes on telomerase activity and telomere length in men with biopsy - proven low - risk prostate cancer: 5 - year follow - up of a descriptive pilot study.

Ornish, Dean, et al. «Effect of comprehensive lifestyle changes on telomerase activity and telomere length in men with biopsy - proven low - risk prostate cancer: 5 - year follow - up of a descriptive pilot study.»

In a pilot project this year in two suburban Atlanta high schools, students earned $ 8 an hour to attend study sessions in math and science.

Joo further reflects on how her year at HGSE motivated the idea for the experiential pilot trip, specifically citing the learning opportunities led by Visiting Lecturer Bruno della Chiesa, Senior Lecturer Kay Merseth, Lecturers Todd Rose and Mandy Savitz - Romer, and Assistant Professor Stephanie Jones, as well as the mentorship of Special Studies Program Director John Collins.

Boosted by a recent study linking Arizona's career - ladder program for teachers to higher student achievement, some state lawmakers are trying to expand the five - year - old pilot program.

But the pilot offers a shot at increasing the effectiveness of federal programs like Title I. Despite an annual budget of $ 15 billion, study after study has shown the 53 - year - old cornerstone of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty is not having the intended effect of improving impoverished students» outcomes.

Several years ago, a colleague and I conducted a pilot study that involved teaching 24 gifted elementary students how to meditate and practice other...

The pilot study included 40 children between 8 and 12 years of age who were diagnosed with ADHD and not on medication.

Fifteen years after the first charter school opened in Boston, a research team led by Professor Tom Kane released a highly publicized study that shows that charter schools outperform other public schools in the city, including pilot schools.

In the pilot's first year, «blended learning... encourage [d] experimentation,» wrote Klein and Douglass in a January 2013 update to the case study.

Rather than administering separate social studies and English tests at the end of the year, Louisiana schools participating in the pilot will teach short social studies and English curriculum units in tandem over the course of the year, pausing briefly after each unit to assess students» reading, writing and content knowledge.

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Copyright 1988 The study looked at student achievement in the 16 school systems participating in the three - year - old pilot program, which seeks to improve the teaching force through incentives, performance - based pay, and improved evaluation techniques.

The rankings are based on various standards set over eight years and ten pilot studies.

The district has been piloting the courses for the past few years, and Mr. Carranza said the data collected show that enrollment in ethnic - studies classes leads to better attendance and better grades.

As a member of EPAC for the past two years, my responsibilities have included reading research studies on teacher evaluation programs around the country, learning about evaluation tools and ways to manage data, and collaborating with educators from pilot districts.

The fate of a pilot study abroad program launched this year in Oakland Unified to help low - income students learn firsthand about other cultures is up in the air as the district grapples with its budget priorities for next year.

Eight years in development, including 10 pilot studies, and applying standards based on valid research on effective teaching, the evaluations in the report provide convincing evidence that a large majority of our nation's teacher preparation programs are miserably failing our aspiring teachers and our children.