Sentences with phrase «cohort sizes as»

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 incomAs 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 incomas race, gender, and income.

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.

Primary pupils who took this year's key stage 2 SATs tests in small class sizes performed the same as their peers in larger cohorts, according to new government data.

The Principal Questionnaire for the Child Cohort recorded information on school characteristics, including size, challenges and ethos, as well as some personal details about the Principal.