Sentences with phrase «control group of students»

The impact of the Lions Quest Skills for Adolescence programme was clearly documented showing positive outcomes on reducing prevalence of current use as well as intention to continue using alcohol, tobacco or cannabis in the intervention compared to the control group of students who did not receive the programme.

Researchers have found university students reported significantly less stress and anxiety, and increased happiness and energy, immediately following spending time in a drop - in session with a dog present, when compared to a control group of students who didn't spend any time with a therapy dog.

A 2011 paper that investigated the effects of tutoring provided by teachers found that students who received tutoring in either reading or math performed significantly better on the state standardized test than a control group of students with similar prior scores who did not receive tutoring.19 Even when programs are less structured and instruction is not provided by trained teachers, tutoring can have a notable effect on student performance.

Yet Alan Krueger of Princeton University analyzed the STAR results for the control group of students who were in the «larger» classes and found that within this range, the smaller the class, the better the outcome.

A federal program that pays private - school tuition for poor DC families, for instance, has been shown to raise students» reading performance by more than two grade levels after just three years, compared to a control group of students who stayed in public schools.

The bad news came in the study released this month: It found that, by the end of the first grade, children who attended Head Start are essentially indistinguishable from a control group of students who didn't.

This enabled the CREST participants to be matched with a control group of students who did not take part in CREST, but had similar characteristics to those who did.

Studies adopting this approach take the students interested in attending a charter school, use a lottery to assign them randomly either to the charter school or to a control group of students who would not have access to that school, and then compare the achievement of the students given access to the charter school with that of the students in the control group.

Propensity Score Matching was used to create a control group of students who did not take part in CREST, but had similar characteristics to those who did.

Not exact matches

Students at the Florida school where 17 people died last week said Sunday they will organize nationwide marches for gun control next month and try to create a «badge of shame» for politicians who take money from the National Rifle Association and other gun rights groups.

Organizers at national gun control groups, who provided logistical support and public relations advice as the students planned the Washington rally, said they believed that the students would not become disillusioned by the lack of immediate action in Congress.

Those calling attention to the disparity in reactions have also highlighted the work of the Dream Defenders, a Florida - based group founded after the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin in 2012, arguing that it helped pave the way for the current student movement for gun control.

A study of the patients visited regularly by the students (compared with a matched control group of other patients) showed that the program had made a significant difference in the general improvement and discharge rate of those visited.

These experiments have their roots in a technique Cohen developed as an assistant professor at Yale in the late 1990s that he called wise intervention — brief, controlled interactions that served to counteract students» fears that their teachers were judging them not as individuals but as members of a stereotyped group.

BAM uses group discussions and role - playing exercises to help develop anger - management and self - control capacities in the students, all teenage boys, who are selected for the program because they are considered to be at especially high risk of dropout or of involvement with the criminal - justice system or both.

Hey Bettina: I meant to send you a message for a long time — I wanted to let you know that we formed a group of parents to control the unhealthy food given to students for celebrations, fundraisers and rewards at our school.

She really does care about each and every one of her students, and just having that love from her and from the others in my group helped me get over a lot of the grief and fear I felt after having no control over my birthing experience.

When researchers randomly assigned some primary school students to perform three acts of kindness each week, those kids became more popular than did children in a control group (Layous et al 2012).

But among African - American students, the difference was stark: 72 % in the «high expectations» group revised their papers, compared to 17 % of students in the control group.

At 4 p.m., CUNY student groups and individual students urge the Board of Trustees to reject a proposal that would virtually terminate students» control of their Activity Fee funds designated for political free speech activities, outside Shepherd Hall at 138th St. and St. Nicholas Avenue, Manhattan.

Miliband's repeated use of the language of «our economy», «wages,» and «working people,» coupled with his shunning of variants of «control» and of references to «migrants» as a group or in particular categories such as students and family members, supports this sort of interpretation.

The two were part of a group of four female students returning from school to their homes when a Nissan Navara pickup from Atebubu heading to Sunyani, lost control and run over them around the Ejura Agriculture School at about 1:15 pm on Tuesday 13th March, 2018.

In front of a small crowd of supporters and Syracuse University students, congressional candidate Steve Williams said the United States is becoming an oligarchy — more controlled by a small group of wealthy elites.

BOISE, Idaho — A Republican Idaho state senator yelled «abortion is murder» at a group of students who were pushing for birth control legislation at the Statehouse and now faces...

The two were part of a group of four female students returning from school to their homes when a Nissan Navara pickup from Atebubu heading to Sunyani, lost control and run over them around...

«After 40 days, 40 percent of the mice who were treated using the microneedle patch survived and had no detectable remaining melanoma — compared to a zero percent survival rate for the control groups,» says Yanqi Ye, a Ph.D. student in Gu's lab and co-lead author of the paper.

A control group of 1500 students merely filled out the religious survey.

One of the limitations of the study was that the component of the trial that studied which students sought help for depression did not have a control group.

Their performance was compared to that of a control group of non-experts who were attending the same meeting, as well as a group of untrained students.

Last Friday at ScienceInsider, Eric Hand reported that «[a] group of crowd - funded amateurs, students, and NASA retirees are on the cusp of resurrecting — and possibly taking control of — a disused NASA spacecraft that has been coasting around the solar system since the days of disco.»

A team led by Kording and Wei recruited three groups of people: Chinese migrant workers with no computer experience, workers who were matched by age and education but did have computer experience through a job, and a control group of college students who were computer proficient.

Black students in the experimental group, in contrast, did significantly better academically than their peers in the control group — cutting in half the average achievement gap between racial groups seen at the start of the study.

893 first - year female students at three Canadian universities (the universities of Calgary, Guelph and Windsor) were randomly assigned to either the EAAA resistance program or brief exposure to brochures about sexual assault (control group), which is what most universities have available to students on campus.

A group of crowd - funded amateurs, students, and NASA retirees are on the cusp of resurrecting — and possibly taking control of — a disused NASA spacecraft that has been coasting around the solar system since the days of disco.

Christakis and Fowler report online today in PLoS ONE that students in the friend group showed signs of the flu between 14 and 69 days before the epidemic peaked in the control group of randomly selected undergraduates.

Rice statistician Marina Vannucci and lead author Sharon Chiang, an M.D. / Ph.D. student at Rice and Baylor College of Medicine, and their co-authors detailed their technique to analyze brain activity data from patients with epilepsy and control groups to see how distinct structures in the brain spontaneously interact.

Under Busby's watch, the center established an Automated Astronomy Group of faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, researchers, and support staff with automated telescopes, advanced control systems and systems identification, and applied mathematics.

«We are bringing together students and the world's best energy storage and powertrain engineers to tackle challenges in advancing vehicle technology,» said MaryAnn Wright, group vice president industry relations at Johnson Controls Power Solutions, which is the world's largest manufacturer of auto batteries.

Students who practiced the Transcendental Meditation program showed significant increases in math and English scale scores and performance level scores over a one - year period.A significant portion of the meditating students — 41 percent — showed a gain of at least one performance level in math, compared to 15 percent of the non-meditating students in the control group.Among the students with the lowest levels of academic performance, «below basic» and «far below basic,» the meditating students showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a sligStudents who practiced the Transcendental Meditation program showed significant increases in math and English scale scores and performance level scores over a one - year period.A significant portion of the meditating students — 41 percent — showed a gain of at least one performance level in math, compared to 15 percent of the non-meditating students in the control group.Among the students with the lowest levels of academic performance, «below basic» and «far below basic,» the meditating students showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a sligstudents — 41 percent — showed a gain of at least one performance level in math, compared to 15 percent of the non-meditating students in the control group.Among the students with the lowest levels of academic performance, «below basic» and «far below basic,» the meditating students showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a sligstudents in the control group.Among the students with the lowest levels of academic performance, «below basic» and «far below basic,» the meditating students showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a sligstudents with the lowest levels of academic performance, «below basic» and «far below basic,» the meditating students showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a sligstudents showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a sligstudents in the control group, which showed only a slight gain.

«But not having a comparison to a control group [of children without ADHD], I'm not sure that's higher or lower than what the student population would be doing.»

A third group of college students served as controls and did no special exercise program.

They randomly assigned twenty - five, sedentary college students to either 8 - weeks of Vinyasa yoga, 1 hour per day, 3 days per week (11 students), or a no - treatment control group (14 students).

NBC's «Community» follows a study group of seven community college students whose lives tend to spiral out of control.

At a prestigious, predominantly white university, a group of students are forced to confront prejudices about their own and other people's cultures — racial, sexual and socio - economic — when a party meant to target an on - campus faction goes out of control.

Logline: At a prestigious, predominantly white university, a group of students are forced to confront prejudices about their own and other people's cultures — racial, sexual and socio - economic — when a party meant to target an on - campus faction goes out of control.

11 Minutes (11 Minut)-- Jerzy Skolimowski, Poland / Ireland North American Premiere A jealous husband out of control, his sexy actress wife, a sleazy Hollywood director, a reckless drug messenger, a disoriented young woman, an ex-con hot dog vendor, a troubled student on a mysterious mission, a high - rise window cleaner on an illicit break, an elderly sketch artist, a hectic paramedics team and a group of hungry nuns: a cross-section of contemporary urbanites whose lives and loves intertwine.

Over an average of five weeks the blended students» improvement between the entrance and the exit test was 9 points, compared to an average score increase of 3 points for the students in the control groups during the same time period.

Among rural participants, 73 percent of the treatment - group students agree versus 63 percent of the control group.

In addition, statistical techniques can control for the influence of differences in the background of students in each group or in the additional resources provided to each group.

To explore whether that occurred in our experiment, we compare the observed characteristics of treatment and control group students.