Sentences with phrase «comparable schools in our study»

Not exact matches

The results of the research paper are consistent with those of a 2013 study which found that, while ACL injuries did not disproportionately affect female high school athletes overall, girls were found to have a significantly higher ACL injury rate than boys in sex - comparable sports (soccer, basketball, and baseball / softball), with girls 2 times more likely to suffer an ACL injury playing soccer than any other sport, and 4 times more likely to sustain such an injury playing either soccer or basketball than volleyball or softball.

But a 2009 study conducted at Italy's International School for Advanced Studies showed that bilingual babies have vocabularies in each language (about 50 words at 18 months) that are comparable to those of babies who are learning only one.

Based on a study of more than 30,000 elementary, middle, and high school students conducted in winter 2015 - 16, researchers found that elementary and middle school students scored lower on a computer - based test that did not allow them to return to previous items than on two comparable tests — paper - or computer - based — that allowed them to skip, review, and change previous responses.

If future clinical studies show comparable findings in patients, Terry Clyburn, M.D., professor of orthopaedics and director of Total Joint Services at the UTHealth Medical School, said antibiotic - containing microspheres could serve to prevent these rare but devastating and often hard - to - treat infections.

Although the study was conducted throughout Europe, where residents of countries such as Greece and Italy are thought to have healthier diets to begin with, the researchers say that results would probably be similar if the analysis had been done in the U.S. «There is no reason to expect a different effect in the U.S. vs. Europe for a comparable level of consumption,» Paolo Boffetta, of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and lead researcher on the study, wrote in an e-mail to ScientificAmerican.com.

«Activity levels at the end of adolescence were alarmingly low, and by age 19, they were comparable to 60 - year - olds,» says the study's senior author, Vadim Zipunnikov, assistant professor in the Bloomberg School's Department of Biostatistics.

African American and white men who live in racially integrated communities and who have comparable incomes have far fewer differences when it comes to behaviors that contribute to poor health — such as physical inactivity, smoking and drinking — compared to African American and white men overall in the U.S., according to a new study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Converting primary schools into academies has failed to raise standards, with pupils in primary academies doing no better in Key Stage 2 tests than those at comparable schools, according to a new study from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

The study found that pupils who were enrolled in a school prior to it becoming an academy did no better in their KS2 tests than those sitting the same exams at comparable schools, irrespective of the Ofsted grade of the school before it converted.

Nevertheless, studies have found that, after controlling for the size and structure of the school and the social background of its students, schools in provinces with external exams taught their students a statistically significant one - half of a U.S. grade - level equivalent more math and science by 8th grade than comparable schools in provinces that did not give curriculum - based external tests.

On the third page of the study, the authors write: «Negative voucher effects are not explained by the quality of public fallback options for LSP applicants: achievement levels at public schools attended by students lotteried out of the program are below the Louisiana average and comparable to scores in low - performing districts like New Orleans.»

Paul E. Peterson speaks with Patrick Wolf of the University of Arkansas about his study finding that students in Milwaukee who received vouchers to attend private schools were 2 - 5 percentage points less likely to be accused or convicted of crimes than comparable students who attended public schools.

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 sSchools students on standardized tests by a considerable amount after three and four years of experience in the choice schoolsschools.

Even when researchers can evaluate charter schools that are large enough to contribute useful results to a study, old enough to have a track record, and representative of a substantial share of all charter schools, they face a daunting analytical challenge: finding students in the regular public schools who are truly comparable to the charter school students.

Although comparable measures of the rate of student learning are not available for Chile, researchers studying the Chilean school system typically consider a difference in student achievement of 10 percent of one standard deviation to be a small to moderate effect.

Control group sites, which will consist of comparable secondary schools, will be selected for participation in this study as well.

According to a 2015 study of charters in urban regions across the country, conducted by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University, African - American students at charters out - performed comparable students at nearby public schools in math by roughly a half years» worth of learning.

A 2013 study by MDRC found that students attending new small schools in New York graduated at a rate nearly 10 percentage points higher than did citywide peers with comparable backgrounds and learning needs.

The sample of schools in the study was broadly comparable with other English schools with above average levels of disadvantage and thus the results are somewhat generalisable beyond the immediate context.

The same study found that 61 percent of Arizona charter parents gave their schools an A + or an A. Comparable surveys of Arizona parents with children in traditional public schools found only 38 percent grading their schools A + or A.

• According to a study by the Center for Reinventing Public Education, Newark parents have access to a higher percentage of schools that «Beat the Odds» than in any comparable city in the country.

Good Morning A new study from Patrick J. Wolf at the University of Arkansas found that students in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program were likely to commit crimes than comparable students who attended Milwaukee public schools.

A large - scale government - financed study has concluded that students in regular public schools do as well or significantly better in math than comparable students in private schools.

A 2015 study by MIT Department of Economics and the National Bureau of Economic Research measuring the effectiveness of the Louisiana voucher program, finding students that participated in the program performed substantially worse than comparable students who stayed in public schools.

The Stanford study provides the first comparable measures of ethnic achievement gaps in every U.S. school district, Reardon said.

Speculation has surrounded the baseline assessment since three approved providers rolled out their assessments in September 2015 only for a study to later find they were not comparable and the project was effectively cancelled although schools could still opt to take part.

One study that controlled for these factors found that the charters touted as successful — KIPP, Achievement First and Uncommon Schools — spend between 20 - 30 percent more than comparable public schools in their host disSchools — spend between 20 - 30 percent more than comparable public schools in their host disschools in their host districts.

A new study from Patrick J. Wolf at the University of Arkansas found that students in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program were likely to commit crimes than comparable students who attended Milwaukee public schools.

According to Allegretto's most recent teacher pay study, public school teachers» weekly wages in 2015 were 17 % lower than those of comparable workers — compared to just 1.8 % lower in 1994.

This is a fatal flaw that in my opinion should have prevented this study from being published, at least as is, as without this information we have no guarantees that teachers within these schools were indeed comparable.

While the method by which schools were matched was well - detailed, and inter-school descriptive statistics were presented to help readers determine whether in fact the schools sampled for this study were comparable (although statistics that would also help us determine whether the inter-school differences noted were statistically significant enough to pay attention to), the statistics comparing the teachers in REACH schools versus those not in REACH schools to whom they were compared were completely missing.

A recent study conducted by researchers from Stanford School of Medicine in the U.S. revealed that certain strain of microbes living in the intestines of mice raised on diets comparable to those of first world country citizens were at risk of extinction.

The briefer version of the PSC3 is broadly used, with > 40 published studies.23 These studies have shown that the PSC - 17 yields higher detection rates than pediatricians relying on clinical judgment alone24 and has risk rates comparable to those of the PSC - 35,3 semistructured interviews (Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School - Age Children — Present and Lifetime Version), 25 and longer questionnaire measures.2 The PSC - 17 was derived from the PSC - 35 through an exploratory factor analysis conducted on data collected from the 1994 to 1999 Child Behavior Study (CBS), a nationally representative sample of > 20000 pediatric outpatients.3 In that study, the exploratory factor analysis suggested that it was possible to create a briefer version of the PSC with 17 of the original 35 iStudy (CBS), a nationally representative sample of > 20000 pediatric outpatients.3 In that study, the exploratory factor analysis suggested that it was possible to create a briefer version of the PSC with 17 of the original 35 istudy, the exploratory factor analysis suggested that it was possible to create a briefer version of the PSC with 17 of the original 35 items.

This project sets out to systematically analyse sexual health behaviour data collected in the 2010 Irish Health Behaviours in School - aged Children (HBSC) study, which represents the first nationally representative and internationally comparable adolescent data in Ireland.

The current study validates the SDQ as a brief measure of emotional and behavioral problems in preschool children, with psychometric properties largely comparable to the extensively used school - age SDQ.

The seven schools were selected for three reasons: 1) they had a representative number of private and public schools with a large number of enrollments, 2) students» characteristics were comparable to all students in the Gulu municipality area, and 3) the school head teachers were willing to participate in the study.