The DEP also initiated the Gowanus Canal Use and Standards Attainment project, to meet the City's obligations under the Clean Water Act.
"Research suggests setting is not beneficial overall and that it's particularly detrimental to kids in low sets and streams, and yet consistently schools tell us they find it difficult to participate in our mixed-attainment projects because they are scared of parents.
We considered 12 factors including costs (both living and business), job growth (past and projected), income growth, educational attainment and projected economic growth.
The results also imply that manufacturing capability may enhance attainment of project manufacturing goals.
Finally, the positive association between manufacturing capability and attainment of project manufacturing goals depends on process maturity, complexity, time availability, and team size.
Findings indicated that not only did the teachers continue to develop as leaders over the three year project but also that the interventions designed to provide professional development to the teachers did indeed contribute to the attainment of project outcomes.
To identify successes, strengths, and strategies that can be replicated, as well as constraints that impede attainment of project objectives.
The evaluation also sought to assess UNICEF's contributions towards the attainment of project-level results by scrutinizing the innovations through the evaluation lenses of relevance, effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability.
While this approach may constrain the attainment of project objectives (given the limited time we have), we believe it is essential for fostering ownership and participation from the DHMTs.
While the post-institute and the mid-term surveys were designed and used to assess the participants' perception of the SMART institute and their engagement in their engineering and science practices (these surveys are not presented here), the pre-program and post-program surveys were designed to assess the attainment of the project objectives.
The young people had been in their current institution for about 8 months before starting goal attainment within our project.
