Sentences with phrase «comparison groups»

Comparison groups included course format (FTF vs. online), discussion format (chat vs. discussion board) and discussion format option (choice vs. no choice).

Evidence based programs have research that aligns with guidelines for high - quality research including comparison groups, reliable measures of student performance, appropriate statistical analyses, and statistically significant positive results.

Large districts will have large comparison groups; small districts can band together to create comparison groups of sufficient size.

Pupils in your intervention and comparison groups should be starting from the same point.

A significant need exists to enhance teachers» knowledge of mathematics content and instruction to address the learning needs of all students and to begin to ameliorate the performance differences between U.S. students and their international comparison groups, as well as between various subpopulations within the United States (Mullis et al., 2012; NCES, 2013).

Final comparison groups should have no less than 30 schools to allow for a basic level of statistical analysis.

Johanson et al. (2001) used comparison groups of mathematics and science students to look at student attitudes towards these subject areas; Shanahan et al. (2006) compared results on state tests in mathematics of students of teacher leaders with average student scores at the district and state levels.

Subtracting these two — taking the difference of the two differences between the treatment and comparison groups — yields a credible estimate of the policy effect.

Instead of funding a national network of 10 regional education labs, suppose those funds were made available on a competitive basis to individual state agencies willing to help districts track the impacts of their own efforts, to identify matched comparison groups for their initiatives (using other students and schools in a state) and to generate reports on impacts.

(Researchers should also be encouraged to retrospectively construct non-experimental comparison groups for past randomized trials.)

I find that students in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program had faster math score gains than, but similar reading score gains to, the comparison groups.

However, Anyon and Wiley explain, the report uses misleading causal («consequences») language in the title and to describe study results, even though the study design is limited by unmeasured confounding factors and inappropriate comparison groups.

Moreover, the report uses misleading causal («consequences») language in the title and to describe study results, even though the study design is limited by unmeasured confounding factors and inappropriate comparison groups.

For example, many studies show little or no differences between CTE participants and comparison groups in terms of academic achievement, high school graduation or college enrollment.

We've gathered data on their early results from the first two years, and we report all the data for which comparison groups were possible.

We need a way to pool data among school districts, most of which are too small to assemble sufficient comparison groups on their own.

Few agencies have the technical staff to create treatment and comparison groups, pull together the data, and analyze the results.

Their success has also been replicable: There are now seven international schools in Seattle Public Schools (an eighth will open in fall 2013), and in six of the seven, students outperform district comparison groups on state tests.

Without comparison groups, the before and after results could simply mean that the particular instruction is the most effective method for teaching that specific content to all students (Pashler, et al).

After a month of use, mothers» milk volume increased 33 percent compared to a 15 percent drop in two comparison groups, one of which was taking fenugreek.

In April, an investigation at Rutgers University finally concluded that «substantial (clear and convincing) evidence exists that research fraud has occurred in several areas» including «biased selection of subjects who were to be included in the symmetry / asymmetry comparison groups so as to artificially obtain desired results.»

The only suitable comparison groups include women who carry their unwanted pregnancy to term and either raise the child or give it up for adoption, Major explains, because these are the two main options in addition to abortion that a woman has once she is faced with an unwanted pregnancy.

The factors that may differ between the groups, such as older age, obesity, smoking and diabetes, are known and can be controlled for, providing for comparison groups that may provide more information on the impact of heart failure on subsequent cancer occurrence than other heart disease groups.

In some cases, such as in the selection of participants for studies on suicide, the bias in the original studies may have underestimated the association between access to firearms and suicide, because both study and comparison groups were recruited from health care settings where they may have been seeking treatment for suicidal planning.

The combination of being able to identify people online for a baseline survey, then reach them going door - to - door, and finally resurvey those same people online at a later point has dramatically reduced the canvassers» need to knock on doors by one or two orders of magnitude, and makes comparison groups much more feasible.

Some proponents of RCTs claim that random assignment of patients to treatment and comparison groups should ease concerns about individual differences.

We had 2 comparison groups of planned hospital births.

The rate of Apgar scores that were less than 7 at 5 minutes in the home birth group, excluding stillbirths and babies with congenital anomalies, was 0.9 %, which was not different from those in the comparison groups.

Furthermore, some hospitals to which infants in the home birth and comparison groups were transferred were also not enrolled in the registry.

Several of those studies were done in countries where they DO have hospital comparison groups, and they were no different.

«(I) mplicit stratification to maximise balance in intervention and comparison groups.

But there were no comparison groups included in the study to validate such a conclusion — no infants lounging around at home with much lower cortisol levels — so it's unfair to assume that the sleep - trained infants were stressed.

Information includes type of comparison; child behaviour outcome measures demonstrating a significant difference between comparison groups; numbers of children in each comparison group.

The relative benefits and risks of birth in different settings have been widely debated in recent years.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 A problem when trying to evaluate the effect of birth setting on perinatal outcomes has been the use of actual place of birth rather than planned place of birth to define comparison groups.

The GS team concludes that the labor market in particular has outperformed their historical comparison groups, as shown through the unemployment rate comparison below.

Optimal Solutions Group ran two comparison groups for greater accuracy.

The Dun & Bradstreet comparison group showed revenue growth of 6.2 percent.

It's also greater than the 3.4 percent rate of employment growth measure in a comparison group of small, non-clustered businesses based on Dun & Bradstreet data.

There was no comparison group for revenue growth based on U.S. census numbers because the firm - level data is either not available or not made public.

This comparison group should also be based on the firm's strategy.

If you look at an individual they will alter their comparison group accodingly so that they still come out on top.

If you are happy odds are it's because you feel better off compared to your comparison group.

Today, as adults, they earn an average of 25 percent more per year than the subjects whose parents didn't receive home visits; by a variety of measures, including wages, these formerly delayed infants have now caught up with a comparison group of their peers who didn't show any signs of delay in infancy.

So, actually completing an RCT study might well be off the table, leaving equivalent comparison group methodology as the best available.

• When fathers of four - week - old infants were given a brief training in baby massage and the Burleigh Relaxation Bath technique with a particular emphasis on the father - infant relationship they were more involved with their infants (than a comparison group of fathers) two months on.

Twenty percent of the women who had lactation consultants only were frequently breastfeeding at three months, compared to 17 percent of those who got the consultant and electronic prompts and only 8 percent in the comparison group, Bonuck's team reports in the American Journal of Public Health.

«Fathers at Work», a more recent multli - site US demonstration project which, like previous programmes, combined work around fathering with training / employment support reports participants earning $ 11,025 per year at follow - up (about twice as much as a comparison group and on average $ 4,602 more than before entering the programme).

Participants with support orders in place paid an average of $ 90.32 in child support in the month before the follow - up interview, significantly more than was paid by comparison group fathers (an average of $ 38.13).

«The sheer magnitude of numbers in de Jonge et al. — over half a million midwife - attended low - risk births, either at home or in the hospital — combined with a true comparison group (low - risk, women who chose hospital birth but could have chosen a home birth; both home and hospital groups, attended by the same group of midwives) makes this a valuable study (Freeze, 2010, p 8).»

The program to encourage breastfeeding seemed to work - by three months out, 43 percent of mothers who gave birth at intervention hospitals were still exclusively breastfeeding, compared to six percent of women in the comparison group.