Sentences with phrase «control group learned»

The time preservice teachers in the LLMT group spent on these activities was spent by the control group learning to teach mathematics topics of the K - 6 curriculum other than whole numbers and operations and rational numbers.

Not exact matches

Nonetheless, when they tested both a control group who hadn't encountered these «pre-questions» and an experimental group who had, those who were exposed to questions actually ended up learning more in the end.

«The children in the group who did a task in a way that made them laugh learned the target actions more than those in the control group who were not laughing during the learning period,» she reports.

It has been my experience that those church leaders who are more into control and performance will get very uncomfortable and irritable when someone joins the group who actually want to talk with God in order to learn from Him, rather than talk (or yell) at Him in the hopes of sounding super-spiritual and maybe even manipulating something out of Him.

He thinks the reason he was so successful was that he wasn't just following a menu plan - he learned how to use food group units to control his diet.

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An evaluation of Hawaii's Healthy Start program found no differences between experimental and control groups in maternal life course (attainment of educational and life goals), substance abuse, partner violence, depressive symptoms, the home as a learning environment, parent - child interaction, parental stress, and child developmental and health measures.25 However, program participation was associated with a reduction in the number of child abuse cases.

A number of model programs were unable to document program impacts on parenting and home environment factors that are predictive of children's early learning and development through control group designs.

However, they could not learn the words associated with the gestures better or faster than their control group.

Intervention: a community - based worker carrying out 2 activities: 1) 1 home visit to all pregnant women in the third trimester, followed by subsequent monthly home visits to all infants aged 0 — 24 months to support appropriate feeding, infection control, and care - giving; 2) a monthly women's group meeting using participatory learning and action to catalyse individual and community action for maternal and child health and nutrition.

An influential city advisory group is pushing to limit mayoral control of the public schools, the Daily News has learned.

ALBANY — A breakaway group of state Senate Democrats is in talks to end their power - sharing arrangement with Republicans and return the body to Democratic control, The Post has learned.

A new nonprofit group created to advocate for the Harlem community is controlled by workers and allies of local elected leaders, The Post has learned.

The first group also scored up to 17 percent lower than the control group on multiple - choice tests, evidence that engaging in messaging unrelated to the class hurts student learning.

Participants in a control group practiced a different technique known as cognitive reappraisal, in which they learned to generate fewer negative thoughts.

Dr Wilkinson concluded: «This, together with differences in behaviour between experimental and control groups, suggests that learning by imitation is likely to be based on ancient mechanisms.

Adult learning also carries different meanings for different age groups: for younger age groups, liberal adult education serves as a stepping - stone to society by increasing the feeling of being able to control one's life.

The other half — the control group — felt no taps to help them learn.

The ASD participants took longer than the control group to learn the task, demonstrating altered implicit learning in ASD.

He endorses the conclusions of No Place to Learn and enlarges the debate by discussing a subject that Pocklington and Tupper don't emphasize, the poisoning of university life by rights - seeking groups who insist (Whitaker writes) that academic life is naturally «sexist and racist and can only by kept in check through intensive regulation and control... Everything that goes on must be monitored and policed.»

The mice that had received the chemotherapy regimen took longer to find the platform and were slower to learn the task compared with the control group.

These last two groups were controls to see if learning to differentiate among faces of any race, different from one's own or the same, produced results that generalized to a third.

Nicola Nadeau led a group of researchers that set out to learn what controls wing colors in these butterflies.

The expert review panel recommended one practice guideline based on a 2005 randomized trial that provided data to support a memory retraining protocol.12, 13 The trial enrolled 29 subjects with MS - related learning deficits and randomized them to either the control group (n = 14) or the experimental group (n = 15).13 Both groups participated in 8 «treatment» sessions, which consisted of nontraining memory tasks for the control group and the Story Memory Technique (SMT), which taught the skills of visualization and context to improve learning, for the experimental group.13 In subjects with moderately severe impairment, 88 % in the experimental group showed significant improvement in learning abilities compared with 38 % in the control group (P <.01).13 Subjects with mild impairment showed little improvement.13 On this basis, the technique used in this study was recommended by the review panel as a practice guideline for the rehabilitation of learning and memory in persons with MS. 12

I started teaching anxiety groups and learned to really concentrate on what I can control.

This study used the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking to measure figural and verbal creativity in a control group and in a group that subsequently learned the Transcendental Meditation technique.

Impressively, rats in the astragalus group showed dramatic reductions in anxiety compared to the control group, along with improved spatial learning, memory, and even immune response.

Another study revealed that participants could learn vocabulary 20 percent faster after intense physical exercise, compared to the control group.

In a study of fourth - and fifth - grade students, we found that those randomly assigned to learn the WWWDOT framework became, as compared to their pre-test and to a control group, more aware of the need to evaluate information on the internet for credibility and better able to evaluate the trustworthiness of websites on multiple dimensions (Zhang & Duke, 2011).

The control - group performance was hardly better than chance in identifying factual information about these paintings, but they never had the opportunity to learn the material.

This allows them to control the group dynamics and foster a more supportive Virtual Learning Environment.

The staff like the fact that all the control buttons for the ventilation and sliding door are grouped logically on the dash, and they are easy to learn.

• We learned that the use of video did not save administrators» time; in fact, treatment administrators reported spending more time on the observation process than the control group.

They were controlled by powerful interest groups who cared about things other than student learning.

And what we found was that students who had been randomly assigned to... the purpose for learning, or the growth mindset, or the combination of the two, compared to the control group, those students did significantly better.

The first thing she did after coming up with the idea was to turn to the Illinois Learning Standards, where she quickly found a group of science standards — conducting controlled experiments, collecting and organizing data, formulating alternative hypotheses, defending conclusions to an audience — that became the focus of her project.

A «lean» district office will focus on policymaking instead of top - down operational decisions, including a small «strategy group» that will set learning standards and ensure the equitable allocation of resources, but will not mandate teaching methods or control school spending.

Of course, pieces of this — particularly the scripted questions — might be relevant for portions of the day when teachers might bring students together to have group conversations that deepen the learning, but planning to control all the activities minute by minute in a blended - learning environment is a non-starter.

In the study, students whose teachers were in the New Teacher Center's mentor program gained an additional two to four months of learning in reading and an additional two to five months of learning in math when compared to their peers in the control group.

If a student in their learning group goes off task, for example, they can't control that student's actions, but they can focus their own attention on learning.

This method honors student choice, but also gives you some modicum of control based on what you might already be learning about your new students — individually and as a group.

The study showed that «Explore Learning members» improvement in maths was 30 % higher than that of the comparison group after controlling for gender, age, year group and special educational needs.»

The research team found that, in these circumstances, students were very positively disposed to the learning but actually did not show stronger learning outcomes than the control group that enjoyed none of the levity.

It's not easy giving up some control and merging cultures, but schools and community groups are learning to become partners in education.

Teachers assigned to the control groups already might have been meeting to discuss student data, meaning that all of the teachers had roughly the same opportunities to learn about student performance.

In other words, we can use each student in our study as his or her own control group to learn whether disability designations vary by sector.

It's true that I spent much of the last few years working on a large - scale experiment in which we assigned by lottery nearly 11,000 students to tour an art museum or serve in the control group to identify what students learn from field trips to art museums.

Another recent study comparing «personalized learning» to a control group in traditional schools found that students in the control group «reported greater enjoyment and comfort in school, and felt their out - of - school work was more useful and connected to their in - school learning.»

After two years of enrollment, LSP scholarship users scored 0.18 standard deviations (roughly six months of learning) lower than the control group in English Language Arts (ELA), but this point estimate was not statistically significant, meaning that we can not rule out no effect or a positive effect;

The validity of the finding that instructional support by teacher leaders, including lesson planning, positively impacted student learning was supported by the use of control groups (Balfanz et al., 2006; Ruby, 2006; Weaver & Dick, 2009), the use of multiple sources of data (Balfanz et al., 2006; Ruby, 2006) and the inclusion of detailed description of data collection and analysis procedures (Balfanz et al., 2006; Ruby, 2006; Weaver & Dick, 2009).