Sentences with phrase «available empirical studies»

Greg Forster of the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice collected the results of all available empirical studies using the best available scientific methods to measure how school vouchers affect academic outcomes for participants, and all available studies on how vouchers affect outcomes in public schools.

This report collects the results of all available empirical studies using the best available scientific methods to measure how school vouchers affect academic outcomes for participants, and all available studies on how vouchers affect outcomes in public schools.

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But when the legislation passed, the only available evidence about the program consisted of testimony; a dozen or so empirical studies by the program's own staff that used primitive quasi-experimental designs; and the most - cited single study confounded the court - ordered introduction of the program with a simultaneously ordered reduction in class sizes of 40 percent.

A more recent summary, by Epple, Romano, and Urquiola, selectively included only 48 % of the empirical private school choice studies available in the research literature.

Little empirical data is available about the extent of preparation of social studies teachers to use technology.

«The evidence for the success of TVHR in this study depends on assumptions related to the reproductive physiology and behavioral ecology of domestic cats that, in our view, do not seem to be supported by available empirical evidence and remain to be better understood.»

By their nature, studies of aspects of the past which can no longer be directly measured but which may be partially revealed by various proxies will never have complete reliability, but they ARE being properly and rigorously pursued by long tested scientific methods of working with any available empirical data that might help improve the picture.

We compare the assumptions of the CPP studies to expert forecasts and empirical information available at the time the studies were conducted.

At the blog Empirical Legal Studies, Indiana University School of Law professor William D. Henderson stood that conventional wisdom against available data from NALP, the ABA's Young Lawyers Division and other sources, and, guess what — the conventional wisdom is pretty much right.

al, Let's Not Make A Deal: An Empirical Study Of Decision - Making In Unsuccessful Settlement Negotiations, 5 J. Empirical Legal Studies 551 - 91 (Sept. 2008), available at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/121400491/HTMLSTART.

Our study appears to be the first empirical attempt to understand the evolution of blockchain using metadata available on Github, a global software collaboration platform,» as per their claim.

The results of empirical studies testing the effectiveness of dyadic developmental psychotherapy, the primary approach Dr. Becker - Weidman uses, are available in several papers.

In sum, given the results from our simulation study and the empirical applications, we conclude that the multilevel TAR model is a valuable addition to the available techniques for analyzing intensive longitudinal data.

While the empirical evidence is limited, most of the available studies have examined problem gambling in relation to intimate partner violence (IPV) victimisation or perpetration.

Staff Report, Improving Consumer Mortgage Disclosures: An Empirical Assessment of Current and Prototype Disclosure Forms at 30, 37 (2007) available at http://www.ftc.gov/os/2007/06/P025505MortgageDisclosureReport.pdf (finding that respondents in the study were confused by the finance charge disclosure).