Sentences with phrase «cohort size of»

The estimate assumes a minimum cohort size of 10 and that sufficient schools are in the programme to make it viable.

In contrast, school populations closer to the high end of the performance spectrum were only about 5 percent African American, 10 percent Hispanic, and 16 percent poor, with a mean cohort size of only 114 and a mean pass rate of 84 percent on the 8th - grade math exam.

This segment focuses on known disease state sample vs treatment outcome or normal samples and cohort sizes of 50 - 100 range.

Not exact matches

Caplan said a cohort of 75 people feels like the right size and allows for continuity between the different programs.

This is especially true in large countries, such as China and India, where the sheer size of the millennial population is already having a global impact, but also here at home in Canada, where the millennial cohort is becoming an important strategic voting bloc.

Meanwhile, Coast Mountain Bus Company, the Translink subsidiary that provides transit services in the Lower Mainland and employs over 3000 bus drivers, is enthusiastically complying with the new law, and already has a small cohort of over-65 drivers in its fleet, with eight full - sized buses now being driven by the older drivers, and 17 of the company's van - sized smaller buses.

They would have to show, in effect, what would be the «present value» of a child born today, and also to show how that present value would be changed by altering the size of the baby's cohort of peers, or the cohorts following.

To increase sample size and allow for representative state - level analyses stratified by race, a cohort of children born during 2010 — 2013 was created by combining data from the 2011 — 2015 surveys.

This economic evaluation was based on a rigorously conducted cohort study of sufficient size to detect clinically important differences in adverse perinatal outcomes.

Further design details for the cohort study, including the eligibility criteria, sample size calculations, derivation of risk status, outcome measures, and ethical procedures, are reported elsewhere.13

Previous attempts to evaluate the Baby Friendly Initiative within an observational study design have often been limited by small sample size or reliance upon ecological measures of confounding factors.16, 17 The advantage of the Millennium Cohort Study is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding practices, via area or individual population differences.

The cohort study aimed to collect data in every NHS trust in England that provides home birth services, every free standing midwifery unit, every alongside midwifery unit, and a random sample of obstetric units, stratified by unit size and geographical region, over varying periods of time within the study period (1 April 2008 to 31 April 2010).

Analysis of Maternal and Fetal Outcomes by Birth Place — Members of the Research and Data task force are making plans for an analysis of maternal and fetal outcomes by birth place in the US, comparing existing MANAStats data on home and birth center births with a matched cohort of low risk women who planned a hospital delivery (total sample size ~ 80,000).

Some items in the Index relate to rigour common to all research studies, addressing issues such as clarity of key terms, definitions of the «intervention» (i.e. place of birth), integrity of data, appropriateness of sample size and selection, transparency of methods and comparability of cohorts.

The baby - boomers have turned out to be the most privileged of cohorts our country has produced when common sense would suggest that this extraordinarily large group, born in the wake of the 1945 peace, would be disadvantaged by their size.

A cohort of ~ 40 pet Border Collie dogs were assigned to three different conditions, and tested in an intensive series of inhibitory control tasks, such as wait - for - treat, and cognitive measures, such as size constancy over a period of 18 months.

To work around this problem of self - reported data, the psychologists employed what is called an unmatched count technique, which has been previously validated for estimating the size of other underreported cohorts, such as the LGBTQ community.

This shows up in Webber's analysis in the size of the selection - bias correction and how it changes between cohorts.

From this survey data, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope as well as large ground - based observatories will be able to further characterize the targets, making it possible for the first time to study the masses, sizes, densities, orbits, and atmospheres of a large cohort of small planets, including a sample of rocky worlds in the habitable zones of their host stars.

Several features make the initiative different from previous CFS studies, Carlson says — the technology Lipkin will use, the size and careful characterization of the cohort, the investigators involved, and the business - driven approach.

The total size of the graduate cohort was 279 students (i.e., all students in the cohort participated in the leadership course); a 100 % response rate was obtained for part 1 of the study, which was done in accordance with the standards of the local ethical review board.

Three - quarters of patients had a tumor between 2 cm or smaller in size; 62 % underwent a lumpectomy, and a total of 73 % of the cohort did undergo a SLN biopsy.

With TESS, it will be possible to study the masses, sizes, densities, orbits and atmospheres of a large cohort of small planets, including a sample of rocky worlds in the habitable zones of their host stars.

We were not able to detect beneficial effects of rapamycin on aortic degeneration in our mouse cohorts (Supplemental Figure 5 and Supplemental Table 5), although larger sample sizes may be required to detect possible effects of rapamycin on aortic degeneration.

Moreover, some of our analyses, particularly some of the count - based histopathological analyses in the older cohorts, are limited, as sample sizes were too low to draw definitive conclusions about possible effects of rapamycin or the absence thereof.

The strengths of the present study include the large size and the relatively homogeneous nature of the cohort, which reduced confounding by several variables, such as access to medical care, educational attainment, and socioeconomic status.

The strengths of the study were the cohort design, large sample size, and prospective data collection as well as the combination of screening, referrals, and registry linkage for detection of ASD cases.

If we divide the period into three spans of about 10 years (1968 — 78, 1979 — 88, and 1989 — 99), we find that the estimated relationship between the single - parent family structure variable and educational attainment more than tripled in size, from -0.11 for the earliest cohorts to -0.43 in the latest cohorts (see Figure 3).

In a typical year during the 1990 - 91 to 1998 - 99 period, there were about 3,300 schools in Texas that enrolled 3rd graders; the size of the median cohort was about 80 students.

We went back to our data and analyzed the effect of these cohort size differences on test scores.

As a first test for nonrandom selection of students into or out of particular schools and cohorts of students, we examined whether peer family violence appears to have an effect on cohort size or student characteristics such as race, gender, and income.

For the educators themselves, it's important to gather relevant data that can inform on the size of each local cohort and when they're expected to arrive in schools.

For these reasons I introduced an adjustment for the size of students» birth cohorts.

And the size of the change in test scores across these consecutive cohorts should correspond to the change in the average value added across all teachers in the grade.

With perfect compliance, equal - sized cohorts, and no dropouts or loss to follow - up, the first stage for the middle school lotteries would be two years, since this is the average time spent in middle school as of MCAS exams in sixth, seventh, and eighth grade.

Due to the small size of the cohort and the high level of interest, we are unable to accommodate requests to connect with doctoral alumni.

One critique of Success Academy is that the school is pushing out low achievers, resulting in decreasing cohort sizes as students reach higher grades.

The CAS Network of Excellence has proved that it helps schools increase cohort sizes and improve GCSE results.

The most striking difference across school types involves cohort sizes (the average number of students in each grade).

In short, we find little evidence that the negative effects of attending a middle school are attributable to differences in resources, cohort sizes, or educational practices.

To give you a better sense of this growth, the number of successful early algebra takers rose from 52,000 in 2002 to 170,000 in 2013, while the cohort size barely budged.

Meanwhile, the number of looked - after children in year 11 (age 16) dropped by 3 per cent overall — again related to a change in the overall cohort size.

Our story had revealed that Harris had six schools in England's top 50 ranked by checking how much the year group taking GCSEs in 2013 had shrunk compared with the size of the same cohort when it entered secondary education.

Cohorts ranged in size from 22 to 31, with an average of 28.

Within the data, a breakdown of school cohort size revealed that pupils scored nearly the exact same average scaled score regardless of cohort size — although there was a slight benefit of smaller cohorts in reading.

Although it started out smaller than the cohort of current 8th graders, it's now about the same size that cohort was in 4th grade.

Regardless of the cohort size, candidates are divided into small Inquiry Groups (peer study groups) to optimize opportunities for collaboration, dialogue, and ongoing support by an E-Mentor assigned to each Inquiry Group.

By comparing the size of the Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate (ACGR) cohorts for the classes of 2011 and 2015 with the size of their actual ninth grade enrollments in 2007 - 08 and 2010 - 11 (the years those two cohorts entered ninth grade), it is possible to compare the count of ninth grade students with the adjusted cohort for that grade, which is calculated later and adjusted for students who have transferred in or out of the cCohort Graduation Rate (ACGR) cohorts for the classes of 2011 and 2015 with the size of their actual ninth grade enrollments in 2007 - 08 and 2010 - 11 (the years those two cohorts entered ninth grade), it is possible to compare the count of ninth grade students with the adjusted cohort for that grade, which is calculated later and adjusted for students who have transferred in or out of the ccohort for that grade, which is calculated later and adjusted for students who have transferred in or out of the cohortcohort.

Schools that don't backfill don't replace those students, allowing the size of a grade cohort to shrink from year to year.

Therefore, although growing up with single or cohabiting parents rather than with married parents is linked with less desirable outcomes for children and youth, comparisons of the size of such effects, across outcomes, ages, and cohorts, is not possible.