Browsing by Subject "Evaluation"
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Bridging the gap: Using Veerman and Van Yperen s (2007) framework to conceptualise and develop evidence informed practice in an Irish youth work organisation
(Elsevier, 2016-04)While there is considerable support among the policy, practice and academic communities for the idea that practice in youth work should be based on evidence, Veerman and Van Yperen (2007) highlight the fact that little ... -
Evaluation of a companion robot for individuals with dementia: Quantitative findings of the MARIO Project in an Irish residential care setting
(Slack, 2019-06-25)The current study focuses on the short-term effect of MARIO, a social robot, on quality of life, depression, and perceived social support in persons with dementia (PWD) and evaluates their acceptability of MARIO. Ten PWD ... -
Evaluation of a markerless motion capture system in a Premier League Football Academy
(NUI Galway, 2021-08-17)Current practice of movement analysis in elite youth football Academies is largely qualitative and confounded by bias. This thesis aimed to investigate a novel Markerless motion capture system that attempts to infer ... -
Evaluation of pilot health and safety materials for use in post-primary schools
(Health Service Executive, 2009-06)Trends across a number of countries including Ireland indicate a high level of part-time employment in post-primary students. Research evidence indicates that such younger workers are at increased risk of non-fatal injury ... -
An evaluation of SPARQL federation engines over multiple endpoints
(NUI Galway, 2018-04-23)Due to decentralized and linked architecture underlying Linking Data, running complex queries often require collecting data from multiple RDF datasets. The optimization of the runtime of such queries, called federated ... -
The evaluation of the Mol an Óige common sense parenting programme
(UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway, 2017-04)The researchers are grateful to all who contributed to this study and especially the CSP Facilitators who carried out the quantitative data collection, and the parents who kindly gave out their time in completing ... -
An evaluation of the SPARX-R computerised mental health programme for improving mental health and wellbeing among adolescents attending alternative education
(2018-02-22)Introduction International evidence suggests that youth who leave mainstream education early have poorer mental health and social outcomes than their peers. In the European Union, 11.1% of youth leave mainstream education ... -
An evaluation of the use and impact of health promotion competencies in Europe
(NUI Galway, 2020-01-29)Introduction -While competency-based approaches have been developed in Health Promotion over the past three decades there has been limited focus on the evaluation of their use and impact. Five years after publication of ... -
Evidence-based training of health professionals to inform families about disability
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2013-05-09)Objective The development, delivery and evaluation of a training programme for medical and nursing professionals on best practice for informing families of their child’s disability. Design A 2 h training course on ‘Best ... -
The impact of knowledge transfer activities on farm level outcomes
(NUI Galway, 2018-10-12)Agricultural knowledge transfer (KT) activities are services that aim to improve farm level performance by building the capabilities of clients through improved problem solving, decision making and farm management skills. ... -
Implementation of a school-based mental health promotion programme in Ireland
(Ingenta, 2004-05)This paper reflects on the challenges associated with developing, implementing and evaluating a universal curriculum-based module promoting positive mental health for 15-18 year olds in Irish schools. The module consists ... -
Leadership in theory-based evaluation: an exploration of the feasibility and added-value of incorporating a focus on leadership in programme evaluation
(2014-02-18)Evaluation is a relatively new field that is becoming increasingly embedded in society as a social activity supporting modern norms and values. Theory-based evaluations are a contemporary approach to evaluation that aim ... -
Lessons learnt from the Named Entity rEcognition and Linking (NEEL) challenge series
(2017-03-13)The large number of tweets generated daily is providing policy makers with means to obtain insights into recent events around the globe in near real-time. The main barrier for extracting such insights is the impossibility ... -
A life course perspective: Life course learning for adult learners in Higher Education - an examination of the NUI Diploma in Applied Social Studies and the BA in Applied Social Studies
(NUI Galway, 2018-09-28)This research study examines the concept of the life course and why it may be considered an issue of critical importance in the context of teaching and learning policy and practice for adult learners in higher education. ... -
Measuring the Employment Effects of the Rural Renewal Tax Scheme
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2003)This paper presents evidence on the effectiveness of the Rural Renewal Tax Scheme introduced by the Irish Government in 1998. The rationale for the scheme puts the emphasis on new economic activity and economic growth in ... -
A prospective evaluation of involuntary admission from the viewpoint of service users
(2016-09-19)Introduction: Involuntary admission is often a traumatic experience for patients and it is associated with negative attitudes which can persist after the episode of illness has abated. Aims: The aims of the study were ... -
Researching the implementation of community mental health promotion programmes.
(Australian Health Promotion Association, 2007)Understanding the process of program implementation plays a critical role in advancing research, practice and policy in mental health promotion. This paper focuses on the implementation of community mental health promotion ... -
The sensitivity of the Draw and Write technique
(Emerald, 2002)This paper presents comparative data from two evaluations which employed the draw and write technique to collect data from primary school pupils (ages eight to ten years). Pupils from health promoting schools and schools ... -
Towards sharing task environments to support reproducible evaluations of interactive recommender systems
(NUI Galway, 2019-09-20)Beyond sharing datasets or simulations, we believe the Recommender Systems (RS) community should share Task Environments. In this work, we propose a high-level logical architecture that will help to reason about the core ...