Sentences with phrase «effective schools in our study»

In fact, it may be accurate to say that schools like the most effective schools in our study may be the first to produce students for whom these two types of cognitive ability are consistently decoupled, providing an opportunity to study just which kinds of outcomes are enabled by gains in crystallized knowledge alone.

Across the four most effective schools in this study, reading was clearly a priority.

Not exact matches

«A recent study at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine suggests that abstinence - only» education can be effective in delaying sexual activity among sixth - and seventh - grade children.

In a nutshell, theological schools can provide solid and effective professional education only if it is clear to the students that their school studies and experiences are pertinent to their future ministry.

We believe, and studies have shown, that school meals are a really effective tool in being helping to end childhood hunger and alleviate food insecurity.

A 2016 study by Broglio [46] found that a rule change limiting full - contact high school football practices appears to have been effective in reducing head - impact exposure for all players, with the largest reduction occurring among lineman.

«Our study suggests fathers who are most effective are those who listen to their children, have a close relationship, set appropriate rules, but also grant appropriate freedoms,» said Laura Padilla - Walker, co-author of the study and associate professor in the School of Family Life at BYU.

There are net benefits of immigration, studies show that migration brings economic gains, but those will be easily disregarded if people don't see effective responses to ensure schools or doctor's surgeries in areas which might face most churn can cope.

Effective teaching and learning have been hampered at the La Presby Senior High School, as students, including beneficiaries of government's Free SHS policy, are forced to study in uncompleted buildings without marker boards and adequate desks.

The authors — Martin Llewelyn, a professor of infectious diseases at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, and nine British colleagues — point to recent studies that have shown shorter courses of certain drug classes such as quinolones are as effective as the longer courses that have been recommended in the past.

Dr. David Cavanagh, of the University of Edinburgh's School of Biological Sciences, who led the study, said: «There is a desperate need for an effective vaccine, which can be made easily in large quantities, to protect against this devastating disease.

«Our results indicate that this simple intervention could be an effective and scalable approach to use the design of electronic health records to increase the rate of flu vaccinations, which are estimated to prevent millions of flu cases and tens of thousands of related hospitalizations every year,» said study lead author Mitesh S. Patel, MD, MBA, MS, an assistant professor of Medicine and Health Care Management in Penn's Perelman School of Medicine and The Wharton School, a staff physician at the Crescenz VA Medical Center, and director of the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit, whose work is supported by the Penn Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics.

The need arose from the Supporting Teachers and Children in Schools study, led by Professor Ford, which is analysing whether a course designed to improve teachers» classroom management skills is effective.

The study, published in The Journal of Social Studies Research, shows iCivics is an effective tool for teaching civics concepts to primary and middle school students.

Providing women who take a powerful acne drug with a fact sheet about contraception while visiting the dermatologist can significantly improve their awareness of the most effective birth control options and may prevent unintended pregnancies and birth defects that can be caused by the drug, according to a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine study published Feb. 4 in the journal JAMA Dermatology.

«TBI laws effective at reducing rate of recurrent concussions, new study shows: Approximately 671 concussions reported in high school sports each day in US.»

Dr Sian Clarke from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, also a principal investigator in the research, said: «This study shows that rapid diagnostic tests can improve the use of artemisinin - based combination therapies — the most effective treatment for malaria — in drug shops, but it's not without its challenges.

«While the majority of siblings of children with ASD will not develop the condition themselves, for those who do, one of the key priorities is finding more effective ways of identifying and treating them as early as possible,» said lead author Katarzyna Chawarska, associate professor in the Yale Child Study Center and the Department of Pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine.

«These findings provide strong support for Family Based Interpersonal Psychotherapy as an effective treatment for depression in children between the ages of 7 - 12,» said Laura J. Dietz, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and principal investigator of the study.

«By helping us understand that lower levels of RNF125 confer resistance to BRAF inhibitors, we have a new strategy to stratify patients for currently approved therapy versus participation for human clinical trials to investigate whether targeting JAK1 will be more effective in patients whose tumors exhibit reduced RNF125,» said Keith T. Flaherty, M.D., associate professor, Harvard Medical School, and director of Developmental Therapeutics, Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, and co-author of the study.

«Prior research at Yale has demonstrated that buprenorphine treatment is highly effective in primary care, and this study was designed in part to expand the reach of this treatment to this critical ED patient population,» said Dr. Patrick O'Connor, professor of medicine and chief of general internal medicine at Yale School of Medicine.

The study, «Scaling and Sustaining Effective Early Childhood Programs Through School - Family - University Collaboration,» was conducted by Dr. Arthur Reynolds, a University of Minnesota professor of child development, and colleagues in the Human Capital Research Collaborative (HCRC).

Frozen sperm taken by biopsy from testicles in men with no sperm in their semen is as effective as fresh sperm taken by biopsy in helping couples conceive through in vitro fertilization (IVF), according to a study at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

New research indicates that hormonal intrauterine devices (IUDs) and contraceptive implants remain highly effective one year beyond their approved duration of use, according to a study at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

«Although data clearly indicate better immune responses and vaccine efficacy against both genital warts and cervical dysplasia when vaccination occurs before age 14, this study suggests that HPV vaccination may be effective in reducing abnormal Pap test results even after sexual debut,» explained co-author Rebecca Perkins, MD, MSc, assistant professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Boston University School of Medicine and a gynecologist at Boston Medical Center.

The research group «Viral infections in cattle» at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, which carried out this study, is currently engaged in projects that seek to identify the most effective ways of preventing new infections in herds.

Study co-author Nigel Bamford, a pediatric neurologist at the University of Washington School of Medicine, says that if similar changes occur in humans, it will indicate that an effective way to fight addiction may be to design therapies that target the affected area — the striatum, a forebrain region that controls movement but also has been linked to habit - forming behavior.

We found that performing MRI before biopsy and using that information to alter biopsy pathways would be a strategy that would add health benefits to the patient population in a cost effective manner,» said Vikas Gulani, MD, PhD, study advisor and associate professor of radiology, urology, and biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and member of both the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and Case Center for Imaging Research.

Our findings are encouraging in showing how — with sufficient training and support — mental health services can be quite effective when delivered by school - based professionals who are naturally in children's lives» added the study's senior author, Jonathan Comer, PhD., also of the Center for Children and Families at Florida International University.

A study led by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers found that injecting a vaccine - like compound into mice was effective in protecting them from malaria.

«The high burden of early complications in youth with diabetes requires additional research to clarify the underlying causes and to identify effective intervention strategies,» said Dr. Dana Dabelea, lead author and co-chair of the national SEARCH Study and professor of epidemiology at the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

However, we did not know what would be effective in terms of treatment,» says the study's leader, Annette Erlangsen, DPH, an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

The new study, led by Giulio Maria Pasinetti, PhD, Saunders Professor of Neurology, and a team of investigators from the Center for Integrative Molecular Neuroresilience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, found that a bioactive dietary polyphenol preparation — a combination of three grape - derived polyphenol products, including a select Concord grape juice, a select grape seed extract, and trans - resveratrol — was effective in promoting resilience against stress - induced depression in mice.

In a study appearing today in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS)(a research summary was presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeonsin March), researchers found that universal neuromuscular training for high school and college - age athletes — which focuses on the optimal way to bend, jump, land and pivot the knee — is an effective and inexpensive way to avoid ACL sprains and tearIn a study appearing today in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS)(a research summary was presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeonsin March), researchers found that universal neuromuscular training for high school and college - age athletes — which focuses on the optimal way to bend, jump, land and pivot the knee — is an effective and inexpensive way to avoid ACL sprains and tearin the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS)(a research summary was presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeonsin March), researchers found that universal neuromuscular training for high school and college - age athletes — which focuses on the optimal way to bend, jump, land and pivot the knee — is an effective and inexpensive way to avoid ACL sprains and tears.

For those who prefer a contraceptive implant, getting the procedure in the hospital immediately after giving birth is more cost - effective than delaying insertion to a 6 - 8 week postpartum visit, according to a new study by Yale School of Medicine researchers.

Pembrolizumab, an antibody drug already used to treat other forms of cancer, can be effective in the treatment of the most common form of mesothelioma, according to a new study led by investigators from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

«Helping people cultivate a purpose in life could be an effective drug - free strategy to improve sleep quality, particularly for a population that is facing more insomnia,» said senior study author Jason Ong, associate professor of neurology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

«It's not that birth control pills aren't effective, because they are — when they're used perfectly,» says Jeffery Peipert, M.D., a study author and professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Washington University Medical School, in St. Louis.

Similar to the «dosage» problem, the high degree of heterogeneity of yoga program types made it difficult to compare results across studies, or to understand which particular aspects of yoga were most effective in schools.

According to a study by The University of New South Wales School of Medicine, high - intensity intermittent exercise like anabolic running is more effective in reducing abdominal and subcutaneous body fat than other types of exercise.

Two other studies — one involving 79 pairs of teachers in Los Angeles (which I wrote with Douglas Staiger) and the Measures of Effective Teaching study involving 1,591 teachers in six different school districts (which I wrote with Dan McCaffrey, Trey Miller and Douglas Staiger)-- randomly assigned teachers to different groups of students within a grade and subject in a school.

In a longitudinal study of dropout rates, researcher Argun Saatcioglu concluded, «desegregated schools likely played a more effective role in counterbalancing student - level nonschool problems than did segregated ones.&raquIn a longitudinal study of dropout rates, researcher Argun Saatcioglu concluded, «desegregated schools likely played a more effective role in counterbalancing student - level nonschool problems than did segregated ones.&raquin counterbalancing student - level nonschool problems than did segregated ones.»

Serving as a think - tank intermediary to devise such a strategy, PASA developed a plan called Learning in Communities / Providence, led by Rhode Island Kids Count (RIKC) and funded by the Wallace Foundation, which had taken an interest in the needs of the city's after - school programs in April 2003 after several studies reported that high - quality after - school programs are an affordable and effective way to improve school attendance and success.

In a study that examined whether some countries are particularly effective at teaching students from disadvantaged backgrounds, Eric A. Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson, and Ludger Woessmann find little difference in the rank order of countries by the performance of students from families where a parent had a college education and the rank order of countries by the performance of students whose parents had no more than a high school diplomIn a study that examined whether some countries are particularly effective at teaching students from disadvantaged backgrounds, Eric A. Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson, and Ludger Woessmann find little difference in the rank order of countries by the performance of students from families where a parent had a college education and the rank order of countries by the performance of students whose parents had no more than a high school diplomin the rank order of countries by the performance of students from families where a parent had a college education and the rank order of countries by the performance of students whose parents had no more than a high school diploma.

It's a sign of the effective leadership training that independent research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies shows that teachers who train on our programme are seven times more likely to attain leadership positions in schools.

She's currently conducting a study sponsored by the National Science Foundation that's giving teachers in grades four and five in a suburban Boston school the tools to conduct self - evaluations through online videos that model effective math instruction.

The lottery study corroborates these results, as students admitted to the G&T magnet schools show little improvement in test scores by 7th grade, despite having higher - achieving peers and being taught by more effective teachers.

The Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries, launched at the New Brunswick, N.J., campus this month, will promote further study of the potential for school libraries to support instruction, the dynamics of effective programs, and the training and resources that library staff members need to best serve stuSchool Libraries, launched at the New Brunswick, N.J., campus this month, will promote further study of the potential for school libraries to support instruction, the dynamics of effective programs, and the training and resources that library staff members need to best serve stuschool libraries to support instruction, the dynamics of effective programs, and the training and resources that library staff members need to best serve students.

The gains in schools that received «high - dosage tutoring in math were dramatic,» and the study found that although the tenets of the program worked together to produce strong overall results, tutoring was, on its own, «highly effective in increasing achievement.»

A 2015 study by Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) found Newark charter schools outperformed traditional district schools: 77 percent of Newark's charters were more effective at raising test scores in reading, and 69 percent were more effective at raising scores in math.