Sentences with phrase «average effect»

First, the negative average effects of attending a charter school are driven largely, but not entirely, by students making unusually small gains during their first year in a charter.

In addition, while regulators care about average effect sizes, practitioners want to know whether a given intervention will work in their own classrooms.

Our preferred models suggest that the combined average effects on test scores of investments in both programs at 2009 funding levels are equivalent to two to four months of instruction in grade 3.

«When you have really small sample sizes, you should just be looking at main average effect across all neighbouring schools,» she said.

Clinical trials determine average effects of a treatment on a population of people.

But Fantastic Four scores cheesy dialogue, plot holes and below average effects.

What should be looked at is a «main average effect across all neighbouring schools», she added.

It will never be that obvious of course because we are considering a net average effect over time but the mental image may be helpful.

Even so, we see no reason to suspect that the true average effects are not negative.

They didn't all have to do with instruction, but of the instructional strategies I believe feedback had the highest average effect size.

A substantially larger average effect size was found for multi-component interventions.

Thermometry is achieved by probing motional averaging effects in a magnetic - field gradient.

Chatterbooks had an estimated average effect of slowing progress in reading by 2 months, although we could not be confident this negative effect hadn't arisen by chance.

On limitations and implications: We are looking at average effects of shifts in the amount of time spent lecturing, but we do not suggest that lecturing vs. problem - solving activities is an «either / or» choice.

For each policy, the literature was reviewed from January 2000 through July 2012 to find evidence of effectiveness and to create average effect sizes.

The variation of 2 fold by latitude is I think irrelevant as the temperature being discussed is the global average, so the model is already taking into account the variation from place to place on the earth by averaging the effect over all the different locations.

But a strong cast and above - average effects work help hold our interest until the requisite dramatic...

A recent follow - up study tracking the continued success of the 2010 and 2011 graduates of small high schools indicates the positive average effects of small schools on four - year graduation rates have been sustained.

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In nature, inequality is counteracted by natural enemies — including disease — that have an above - average effect on the dominant species.

They are the «communal customs,» the «large average effects,» the «average regulative conditions» to which Whitehead refers.

Social psychology researchers call it the «above average effect»: We assume fat talk is the social norm, and in order for people to like us, we have to do a little self - depreciation.

For each policy, literature was reviewed from January 2000 - July 2012 to find evidence of effectiveness and to create average effect sizes.

Effect sizes (ES) were calculated using Cohen's d. For each study, overall effectiveness was calculated by averaging effect sizes...

An effect size was calculated or estimated for each contrast, and average effect sizes were computed for fully online learning and for blended learning.

The report also clarified that the average effects weren't driven by a few lower performing schools but reflect the industry as a whole.

Of course, the fact there was no average effect might just have been masking changes in the low wage market, where many immigrants tend to find work.

The better - than - average effect is just one of a number of positive illusions — ways we kid ourselves that we are special.

This egotistic illusion has been imaginatively dubbed the «better - than - average effect».

Second, the average effects of vitamin E that are calculated in meta - analyses may not be valid for many population groups.

«It's not all - or - nothing — it's an average effect,» he stresses.

Bellen adds that among other things, the method eliminates the need to reintroduce the same transgene over and over again and look for an average effect: «Now you need only one transgene, because if you inject into the same site, you'll always have the same expression level and the same position effect.

Three previous studies investigated the average effects of ride - hailing services on crashes, providing clues about the possible overall impact of the technology, which allows riders who've been drinking to summon a lift home from the palm of their hand.

It is a point where, even if the disorder is weak (nanometric), the average effect of the structure is even weaker.