The story behind school
choice study The results are more complicated than they are sometimes portrayed.
Not exact matches
I recognize that based on
studies that is a less - than - optimal
choice on average and that it is not «normal» and could disrupt the birth process and
result in complications for the mother and baby.
In a new
study commissioned by The March of Dimes Foundation and published in Fertility and Sterility, researchers from The Hastings Center and Yale Fertility Center examined the practical circumstances of infertility treatment in the US that influence patients and their doctors to make treatment
choices that too frequently
result in multiple births.
In today's New York Times, Jane Brody reports on the recently released
results of the CHildhood Obesity Cost - Effectiveness
Study (aka «
CHOICES»), which examined various possible approaches to curbing childhood obesity and chose two as most likely to help: the imposition of taxes on sugary beverages and curbs on children's junk food advertising, both measures long supported here on The Lunch Tray.
Still, this
study's
results are unequivocal about the fact that an elective C - section is still the best
choice for a breech baby, since a vaginal delivery could kill the infant.
We would have considered it reasonable to combine the
results from both if there was little heterogeneity between the
study designs and the interaction between the effect of intervention and the
choice of randomisation unit was considered to be unlikely.
Mayim Bialik, best know for her roles as «Blossom» and «Amy» in the Big Bang Theory, who holds a PH.D if Neuroscience and is the recent author of «Beyond the Sling», mentioned that while in graduate school
studying the hormones of human attachment as part of her thesis, she started seeing the
results of these kinds of parenting
choices.
The
study's author noted (and anti-home-birth advocates are quick to point out) that the outcomes were a
result of «a good risk - selection system, good transport in place, and well - trained midwives,» factors that are no doubt influenced by the collaboration of Dutch doctors and midwives and a national health system that support home births as a viable
choice for women.
When relating the
results of animal
studies to human infants, important factors to consider include the
choice of animal species for
study, the stage of development (eg, prenatal or postnatal), and the duration and severity of deficiency or excessive intake.
The
study includes
results from 359 multiple -
choice test items administered to over 20,000 students in grades 4 through 12 from across the U.S..
Dr Allan Debelle, who conducted the
study as part of his PhD under the supervision of Dr Rhonda Snook at the University of Sheffield, said these
results suggest that mate
choice can be an important driver of the evolution of motor performance, «Our research shows that when, at each generation, females are given a
choice among several mates performing energetically costly courtship, the motor performance of males in that population can respond to this selection process and progressively improve.»
The
results of this
study counter the rational
choice models that are currently used in sexual selection theory, suggesting they may prove inadequate to explain decisions in socially complex and dynamic mating arenas.
He points out that the
results are contradictory and disparate, while showing that this is mainly due to shortcomings in the design and reporting of the
studies — since the
choice of methodology, purpose and target group are not clearly presented.
The average educational debt carried by emergency medicine residents is approximately 25 percent higher than the average mortgage in the United States, according to the
results of a
study published online last Thursday in Annals of Emergency Medicine, and has profound effects on their career and life
choices.
«This is the first
study to examine mate
choice among wild - spawning fish of both hatchery and wild origin, and the
results suggest that greater diversity of immune genes between wild - born pairs of coho salmon may increase offspring survival,» said Amelia Whitcomb, who did the research as a master's student at OSU and is lead author on the publication.
Investigator Dr Noor Danhof from the AMC Centre for Reproductive Medicine in Amsterdam says the
results of the
study, a large randomised trial performed in the Netherlands, now make this «least expensive and least invasive stimulation agent» the drug of
choice in IUI.
«Based on the
results of our
study, there is much to be done to encourage 9 - to -10-year-old children and their families to make healthier food
choices.
Steve Jewson, The problem is that the
studies that do not use a flat prior wind up biasing the
result via the
choice of prior.
I agree that no - one should be able to bias the
results by their
choice of prior: there needs to be a sensible convention for how people choose the prior, and everyone should follow it to put all
studies on the same footing and to make them comparable.
«At the moment the great majority of doctors use the braided tape material, and I would say that until the
results of that
study become available, the material of
choice should be the nylon and not the tape,» he said.
Although this may suggest a low - carb diet is the healthier
choice of the two, making health - care decisions based on a single
study can
result in errors, Johnston said.
Due to the sex - related disparities in pharmacokinetics and bioavailability
results reported by different authors (Soldin, Chung, & Mattison, 2011; Soldin & Mattison, 2009), the
choice of a single genus was chosen to avoid a high dispersion in the data, and the availability of healthy young adult female volunteers for the
study.
You don't have to worry about that with Tru Burn Plus; several scientific
studies have confirmed that this diet supplement truly does deliver the
results, so it is a great
choice if you are looking for a safe and reliable weight loss supplement.
Even though
studies have found that the right post-workout meal is important in order to obtain good
results, what you eat the rest of the day is important as well — you need to make smart, healthy
choices throughout the day for optimal
results.
Match.com has just released the
results of its latest Singles in America
study, sharing findings about the modern dating habits, sexual preferences and lifestyle
choices of American singles.
TECHNOLOGY REVIEW — July 17 — A
study published last month in the journal Cyberpsychology and Behavior, shows that having more search
results leads to a less careful partner
choice.
What this
study shows is that, while social media may be allowing individuals to expand their set of
choices of a partner, it does not necessarily
result in a higher incidence of STDs.
I've written about this at greater length elsewhere (see here and here), but we have eight rigorous
studies of school
choice programs in which the long - term outcomes of those policies do not align with their short - term achievement test
results.
The
results reported here are consistent with four similar
studies - the 1973 High School Seniors Cohort
Study, the National Educational Longitudinal
Study, the Latino National Political Survey, and data collected from participants in school -
choice programs in Washington, D.C., and Dayton, Ohio.
Because this sector has proven to be such a powerful tool for innovation,
choice, and great
results, subfields within K — 12 are
studying ways to use chartering.
But there is risk of overstating
results from any single
study, especially on issues as controversial and polarizing as private school
choice.
TIP provides a new way to look at what is going on behind the school gate, as Susan Craig states: «Traditional explanations of children's disruptive behaviours often emphasise their volitional aspects, suggesting that they occur as a
result of bad
choices, or intentional defiance... Recent
studies of trauma and self and self - regulation provide an explanation.»
In the absence of a low - stakes check, I'm highly skeptical of whether
choice schools suddenly improved in quality when they were required to administer the high - stakes tests that the
study subjects had been taking all along with lower
results.
Seven of the eight previous
studies using similar definitions of segregation found that, on average, students move from more segregated to less segregated schools as a
result of school
choice.
If the
results are largely inconsistent with the hypothesis, as in the case of our
study, one retains a healthy amount of doubt regarding the association between achievement and attainment
results of school
choice evaluations.
The Indiana
Choice Scholarship Program, launched in 2011, offers a rich opportunity to
study how a large - scale tuition - voucher program works and to analyze the
results it has produced in its first few years.
As a
result of our findings of no consistent statistical association between the achievement and attainment effects in school
choice studies we urged commentators and policymakers «to be more humble» in judging school
choice programs or schools of
choice based solely or primarily on initial test score effects.
In Mike's fourth post criticizing our
study he chastises us for generalizing the
results from evaluations of entire school
choice programs to regulator behavior regarding individual schools.
In his third post criticizing our
study Mike makes much out of the 8 school
choice studies (as he defines school
choice) with ELA
results and college enrollment
results and the 7
studies combining math effects and college enrollment effects.
The
results of the
study should lead to more support for school
choice options, Chingos said in an interview with School Reform News.
Looking at longitudinal
studies in Milwaukee and Louisiana, she describes them in a way that will leave the impression that the
results were negative for school
choice: «In both cases, programs were used primarily by black students and generally did not exacerbate segregation in public schools; however, students using vouchers did not gain access to integrated private schools, and segregation in private schools actually increased.»
The introduction of randomized field trials to education research is as much a boon to knowledge as the
results from any single
study on school
choice.
Results from other
studies on private school
choice, however, do not indicate a relationship.
Policymakers should be cautious about drawing any conclusions based on any
study that reports
results for only a few years of any program or cohort of students, especially at the beginning of a school
choice program, when various stakeholders, such as participating students, their parents, school leaders, and state - level administrators, are on a learning curve.
Fordham rests its claim on the
results of but a single year in a single
study of a single school
choice program: the final year of the School Choice Demonstration Project's five - year analysis of the Milwaukee voucher pr
choice program: the final year of the School
Choice Demonstration Project's five - year analysis of the Milwaukee voucher pr
Choice Demonstration Project's five - year analysis of the Milwaukee voucher program.
Whereas school
choice programs with a lighter regulatory burden yielded positive
results, the technocratic attempt to ensure quality through regulation yielded the first negative
results of any school
choice program ever
studied.
Dr. Matt Chingos of the Urban Institute released a new
study that shows very favorable long - term outcomes for students who enroll in the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program — the largest private school
choice program in the country.The
results are clear: the Florida program significantly increases college matriculation, especially when students were enrolled in the FTC program for a longer period of time.
«We are incredibly pleased to see the
results of this
study by Dr. Matt Chingos of the Urban Institute, as it confirms what we have known to be true for years: private school
choice programs provide families, especially disadvantaged families, greater opportunities to achieve academic success.
There have been 15 gold standard empirical
studies of private school
choice and academic outcomes: 10 are positive, 3 are neutral, and 2 are negative — only based upon on
results in early years of those two
studies.
Today, researchers from the School
Choice Demonstration Project at the University of Arkansas and the Education Research Alliance for New Orleans at Tulane University will release findings from their
study of the third year of
results from the Louisiana Scholarship Program at the Urban Institute in Washington.