Sentences with phrase «years of program evaluation»

This report synthesizes 15 years of dramatic advances in the science of early childhood and early brain development, analyzes evidence generated by 50 years of program evaluation research, and presents a framework for driving science - based innovation in early childhood policy and practice.

These white papers share lessons drawn from over 15 years of program evaluation experience to benefit other principal preparation providers seeking to introduce self - evaluation processes or improve their approach.

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Just days released from four years in The Process, he's anxious get Oregon caught up to the three - year advance cycle of evaluations programs like Alabama already have.

Studies of the Nurse Family Partnership model followed children to 6 years and found significant program effects on language and cognitive functioning as well as fewer behaviour problems in a randomized controlled trial study.24 In addition, more recent evaluations of Healthy Families America have shown small, but favourable effects on young children's development.25, 26

A student who transfers from the Florida Virtual School full - time program to a traditional public school before or during the first grading period of the school year is academically eligible to participate in interscholastic extracurricular activities during the first grading period if the student has a successful evaluation from the previous school year pursuant to paragraph (a).

A student who transfers from a charter school program to a traditional public school before or during the first grading period of the school year is academically eligible to participate in interscholastic extracurricular activities during the first grading period if the student has a successful evaluation from the previous school year, pursuant to subparagraph 2.

There shall be made available for publication listing of all activity and program - related evaluations performed in the previous two years with guidance indicating the manner in which the public can gain access to the full text of such studies.

Starting this school year, they'll also be a part of the state's new teacher evaluation program, raising the stakes even higher.

Mr. Cuomo, who's working to establish a Women's Equality party line, conceded earlier this year that implementation of Common Core had been flawed and later reached a compromise with legislators to delay and restrict certain elements of the program, like testing and teacher evaluations.

Creates the position of Chief Privacy Officer, to be appointed by the Commissioner for a three - year term (which may be renewed) to provide services related to data management, conducting studies and / or evaluation of publicly funded programs

The panel recommends evaluation of the congestion reduction program's metrics twice a year, which would be published in a report that evaluates the effectiveness of the surcharge and zone pricing programs.

He is a first year AAAS S&T Policy Fellow at the Department of Defense in the Office of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation and will serve his second year at the Department of Energy in the National Nuclear Security Administration.

Gathered from the evaluation forms from past years of the program, one faculty member wrote, «In fact, I feel that I have learned as much from [my mentee] as she may have learned from me.»

During the past year alone, concerns about oversight of high - containment laboratories; vetting of personnel (personnel reliability); the efficacy of security measures in place for the select agent program; medical countermeasure research, development and distribution; bioterrorism and pandemic influenza preparedness; misuse of beneficial biological research and technologies; and microbial forensics have generated several policy evaluations and prompted the development of policy recommendations and legislation.

Seeds from new or newfound varieties can be sent to the Turfgrass Federation for inclusion in the National Turfgrass Evaluation Program, which distributes hundreds of cultivars a year to land - grant universities in the United States and Canada.

Last year, an evaluation of a decadelong $ 250 million program funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to improve the skills of some 70,000 science and math teachers in 31 states concluded that such efforts could make a difference — if they were done well, with high - quality materials, supported by policies, and sustained over many years.

Overall, in 2011, a year before the stewardship program was implemented, the NICU had an average of 21.2 late - onset sepsis evaluations per 100 days, which decreased to 8.4 evaluations by 2016.

The NNSA, in its annual evaluation of Los Alamos» overall performance for fiscal year 2014, judged the criticality safety program to be «below expectations» with deficiencies «similar to issues identified in past» evaluations; it particularly faulted the labels the lab had placed on nuclear materials and the guides the lab had prepared for workers performing plutonium handling chores.

2) I've spent the last year and half developing yoga programs for a variety of different kinds of clients so my advice is to always consult with a trained physical therapist for a full evaluation of your pelvic floor - especially if you have pain!

She has been working in the field of education for twenty years which includes management of various K - 12 education programs, development of project - based learning programs, research and evaluation and the development of anti-bias and social justice programs and curricula.

This report, developed by Catherine Awsumb Nelson, synthesizes the findings of a four - year evaluation of the A + Schools Program pilot in 25 North Carolina Schools.

The data indicate that members of the treatment group who were attending private schools in the third year of the evaluation gained an average of 7.1 scale score points in reading from the program.

The IES released the third - year impact evaluation of the Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) in April 2009.

The experimental evaluation of the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program is continuing into its fourth and final year of studying the impacts on students and parents.

Principals in Tennessee judged 98 percent of teachers to be «at expectations» or better last school year, while evaluators in Georgia gave good reviews to 94 percent of teachers taking part in a pilot evaluation program.

An evaluation of three useful teaching resources for early years: a maths games CD, cross-curriculum programs from 2simple and a recordable picture album.

Two recent experimental evaluations of the Louisiana Scholarship Program found negative effects of the program on student test scores but one study was limited to just a single year of outcome data and the second one (which I am leading) has only analyzed two years of outcome data Program found negative effects of the program on student test scores but one study was limited to just a single year of outcome data and the second one (which I am leading) has only analyzed two years of outcome data program on student test scores but one study was limited to just a single year of outcome data and the second one (which I am leading) has only analyzed two years of outcome data so far.

Your article on the Milwaukee school - choice evaluation («New Studies on Private Choice Contradict Each Other,» Sept. 4, 1996) accurately reports that our study of the Milwaukee choice program found that choice students outperformed a comparable control group of Milwaukee Public Schools students on standardized tests by a considerable amount after three and four years of experience in the choice schools.

In the experimental evaluation of the initial DC Opportunity Scholarship Program that I led from 2004 to 2011, the number of students in testing grades dropped substantially from year 3 to year 4, leading to a much noisier estimate of the reading impacts of the program, which were positive but just missed being statistically significant with 95 % confProgram that I led from 2004 to 2011, the number of students in testing grades dropped substantially from year 3 to year 4, leading to a much noisier estimate of the reading impacts of the program, which were positive but just missed being statistically significant with 95 % confprogram, which were positive but just missed being statistically significant with 95 % confidence.

[ii] The Arkansas and Tulane researchers will soon conclude research on year three of the program and will continue the evaluation over time.

«Although these students often have a difficult time engaging with mathematics, they threw themselves into the task of mastering the programming in the Game Maker software,» she wrote in a year - end evaluation.

Prior to attending HGSE, Afolabi worked for five years as a research analyst for Policy Studies Associates, where he conducted research and evaluation on programs and policies designed to improve the lives of youth.

Say the results of his first - year evaluation are disappointing, confirming the sense of his parents and teachers that the special education intervention program wasn't the best fit for his needs after all.

Applicants during the early years of the program were included in a federally mandated evaluation that compared students who won the voucher lottery to those who applied but lost.

For the past two years, Holland's students have been developing evaluation plans for parts of two NASA programs, Mars Public Engagement and the Robotics Alliance Project.

We are just finishing our research and evaluation for the programs from our 2013/14 school year and in two of our major initiatives, we are seeing statistically significant gains in Mathematics - it's in Math that these two schools have focused their blended methods on (often we pick a specific subject area to do a small scale pilot).

Before this year I was always really intimidated by research, policy, and evaluation — I had never heard of a «theory of change» before — and thought of myself as a small scale, community level «programming» person, believing that those other things just weren't for me.

While it lasted — for 13 years — the now - defunct Career Ladder had many of the elements that merit pay backers believed a good program should have, including multidimensional evaluations and a hierarchy of professional development (in other words, a career ladder) that was coordinated with significant financial and professional rewards.

All beginning teachers in the state also take part in an initial - licensure program that includes three years of mentoring, two of which the state pays for, as well as an evaluation of each teacher's classroom performance by a team of local experts.

Titled «Third - Year Evaluation of the Nine - Site Program Improvement Initiative,» it focused on 68 schools in the Title I compensatory - education program, then known as ChaProgram Improvement Initiative,» it focused on 68 schools in the Title I compensatory - education program, then known as Chaprogram, then known as Chapter 1.

Similar benefits were not observed in schools implementing the same program the following year with less support from the central office, suggesting the importance of sustained support for teacher evaluation reform to translate into improved student performance.

If the extension makes it into the final spending bills for fiscal year 2011, advocates say, that could mean more states will take the reform - minded steps emphasized in the Race to the Top program, such as revamping their teacher - evaluation systems and lifting caps on charter schools, in order to get a slice of the competitive grants.

First, the latest IES evaluation of the D.C. school - voucher program, which showed that voucher users lost ground (compared with non-users) during their first year in private schools, when judged by test scores.

There are beaucoup reasons why the new D.C. study ought not be taken too seriously — kids often do worse during their first year in a new school and an earlier IES evaluation of the DC program found significant long - term gains (notably high school graduation) for voucher users.

Two waves of developmental data (fall and spring) were analyzed from the first year of the evaluation of the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (RCCP), which includes 5053 children from grades 2 - 6 from 11 elementary schools in New York City.

Across the four schools, pilot middle - school teachers used a number of different learning programs, including Achieve3000, i - Ready, Khan Academy, ST Math, iLearn, and iPass, according to an SRI International report on the pilot's first year (see First - Year Evaluation sidebyear (see First - Year Evaluation sidebYear Evaluation sidebar).

More than 90 per cent of children who enrol in the program transition back to school and, according to a UK evaluation, 75 per cent are still in school four years down the track.

This evaluation was developed over 20 years, covering three different school systems and from a variety of leadership roles, educational programs, and curricula.

Each year since 1978 this organization has published non-partisan evaluations and recommendations of books, videos, toys, audio products, computer software, television programs, and magazines.

In evaluations carried out last year, more than 90 per cent of the principals involved said the program had improved their «ability to inspire, lead and sustain positive change» in their school communities.