The Social Science Research Council recently submitted a response to an RFI from the National Institutes of Health’s Common Fund, detailing how the NIH could improve the reliability of evidence in behavioral research by borrowing the idea of master protocols from the field of oncology. Master protocols are coordinated multisite trials followed by meta-analysis designed to assess both the internal and the external validity of interventions across populations. Here, we share a related submiss...| Items
Social Science Research Council President Anna Harvey shares a recent submission to an RFI from the NIH’s Common Fund, detailing how the NIH could improve the reliability of evidence in behavioral research by borrowing the idea of master protocols from the field of oncology. Master protocols are coordinated multisite trials, followed by meta-analysis, to assess both the internal and external validity of interventions across populations. NIH support for master protocols to evaluate the impac...| Items
Among NYSAIS schools that are also ERB members, however, student learning has made a complete recovery from the COVID disruption. Assessment data from the 2023-2024 school year shows that the pace of student learning matches pre-pandemic rates of growth in ELA and exceeds pre-pandemic growth in Math. [...] read more| Educational Records Bureau
Among ISAS schools that are also members of ERB, however, student learning has made a complete recovery from the COVID disruption. Assessment data from the 2023-2024 school year show that the pace of student learning fully matches, and in mathematics even exceeds, pre-pandemic rates of growth. [...] read more| Educational Records Bureau
Among CAIS member schools, however, student learning has made a complete recovery from the COVID disruption. Assessment data from the 2023-2024 school year shows that the pace of student learning exceeds pre-pandemic rates of growth, both in subject knowledge and in reasoning ability. [...] read more| Educational Records Bureau
Among SAIS schools that are also members of ERB, however, student learning has made a complete recovery from the COVID disruption. Assessment data from the 2023-2024 school year show that the pace of student learning fully matches, and in mathematics even exceeds, pre-pandemic rates of growth.| Educational Records Bureau
A Message from the President This post is also available in: Arabic, French, German, Italian, Māori, Spanish, and Swahili Hope, defined in general terms as an optimistic state of mind based on an expectation of positive outcomes in respect to events and circumstances in one’s life or the world at large, often inspires us to Read More| CLIR
Among NAIS member schools that are also ERB members student learning has made a substantial recovery from the COVID disruption. Assessment data from the 2023-2024 school year show that the pace of student learning approximates pre-pandemic rates of growth in ELA and has exceeded pre-pandemic growth in Math.| Educational Records Bureau
As with any challenge to the value and integrity of schools, this is an opportunity to reaffirm our core commitments as educators. Teaching about the Middle East is part of the educational mission of schools| Educational Records Bureau
July 17-21 found myself and fellow co-founder Tomás Spath walking the halls of Congress again for the first time post-pandemic. It felt really good to be back. But you may wonder, why do we do that? We try to walk the halls every year for a number of reasons. First, and perhaps the most important,... The post From the President’s Pen appeared first on Institute for Civility.| Institute for Civility