Sentences with phrase «disappointing part of the study»

The curious and disappointing part of the study is that poorest pupils, who would receive free school lunches, did not seem to benefit.

Not exact matches

In this way, we seek to avoid the two - sided performer - user pitfall that we have observed in earlier and related federal agency endeavors to promote research / knowledge utilization: on the one hand, requiring or inducing academic grantees to torque or overstate their research findings in order to connect to immediate policy issues; on the other hand, creating unrealistic or premature expectations on the part of users that early stage fundamental research will be directly relevant to their immediate needs, leading them to be disappointed or disenchanted when well conceived and implemented academic studies fail to produce such information.

The most interesting part of all those studies is that none of them were ever published and their reasoning was that they were disappointed in the results.

The report painted schools that mix online and in - person instruction with the same brush as virtual schools, finding that many of the research studies on the impact of blended learning or part - time online learning «has been produced by organizations that promote this strategy,» and yield disappointing results over time.