Sentences with phrase «examined whether children»

The present study examined whether children's peer rejection moderated the relationship between children's math and verbal self - concepts and their behavioral problems at school.

After establishing the presence of intervention and timing effects on ANS and HPA axis reactivity, we examined whether children exposed to institutional rearing differed from never institutionalized children (NIG).

The study is one of the first to examine whether a child's participation in the federal program benefits mothers and fathers — in particular parents» educational attainment and employment.

[13] In order to assess social and academic development more broadly, we examine whether the child was ever held back prior to third grade.

Triadic coordination: an observational method of examining whether children are «caught in the middle» of interparental discord

In addition, we examined whether child age moderates the association of parenting style and well - being in an adolescent sample.

In the final section, four GEEs are conducted to examine whether child ER varies across group, parent report, or emotion type.

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Nevertheless, we need to examine whether the biological and genetic link between parent and child is so important that addressing infertility should take priority over other pressing medical concerns.

LISA WEISS: And one of the very first thing you should do if you have any concern is to get a vision examine whether its infancy between six months and a year or whether it's an older child.

Over the next two days, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will be examining whether food dyes adversely impact children's health.

Paul Tough's new book, «How Children Succeed,» examines whether character is more important than cognition and what is possible through ideas and innovation.

The scientists then examined whether structural variants in these regions were associated with autism by examining the pattern of transmission from parents to their autistic and nonautistic children.

With video games, phones and the internet in abundance, this article in Educational Psychology examines if such leisure activity is impacting children's cognition or academic performance or whether it would be more beneficial to read.

This study offered insight into delayed ASD diagnosis in black children by examining whether the concerns parents reported to providers about their child's development prior to diagnosis differed based on a parent's race.

Wendy Oddy at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research in Subiaco, Western Australia, and colleagues examined whether having been breastfed affected the test scores of over 1000 10 - year - olds.

Finally, they examined whether having grandparents on hand to care for children might validate living into old age, and they developed the first mathematical genetic model to describe this idea.

To investigate whether the underlying illness could be the cause of the effect on the children, and not paracetamol itself, the researchers examined a different type of analgesic with another type of mechanism of action (ibuprofen).

By videotaping samples of children's and parents» speech and gestures during interactions at home, the researchers were able to examine in what way and how often gestures were used to communicate, and whether that might help predict the child's language acquisition.

Computer scientists from the University of Lincoln, UK, the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and University College Cork, Ireland, worked with a leading special needs school in Lincoln to examine whether new motion - based gaming technologies and interactive design approaches could make video games more accessible and appealing for children who use powered wheelchairs.

The objective of the «SOSTA - net Trial,» led by Christine Freitag and coordinated by Hannah Cholemkery and in which six university hospitals in Germany participated, was to examine whether the social responsiveness of children and adolescents with ASD could be raised by means of group - based behavioural therapy.

The researchers also looked at sociodemographic information to examine whether any factors were associated with differences in diet quality among subgroups of children.

And it could be that because men can reproduce throughout their lives, they are less vested in anyone other than their own children; Lummaa is examining whether men continue to procreate into old age, although a monogamous culture such as Finland's argues against it.

Decety has expanded his research to examine the effects of religion on children's behavior in 14 countries, and is also exploring whether religion influences how children decide to distribute goods among different people in a group.

«Many studies have examined how children's invented spellings improve as they get older, but no previous studies have asked whether children's spellings improve even before they are able to produce spellings that represent the sounds in words,» Treiman said.

Signe Sorup, Ph.D., of the Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark, and colleagues examined whether the live MMR vaccine was associated with lower rates of hospital admissions for infections among children in a higher - income setting (Denmark).

Researchers who examined studies that compared EEN with steroids in children with active Crohn's disease found that EEN was just as effective as steroids in controlling the inflammation of Cohn's disease whether during the first attack or a relapse.

Few studies have examined the DMN in children, and none have tested whether the neural regions that comprise the DMN during a resting condition are the same regions that show reduced activity when children engage in cognitive tasks.

Today, Maureen Dowd penned a column in the New York Times entitled «Beware Our Mind Children,» examining how critics are divided over whether Ex Machina is a feminist fable or misogynistic nightmare.

In particular, I examine 1) whether a child was below grade for age while still of school age (a proxy for grade retention); 2) three indicators of adult educational attainment (high school dropout, high school degree only, and some college); 3) adult wage and salary earnings and indicators of employment and receipt of public assistance income; and 4) an indicator for residence in institutionalized group quarters, a widely used proxy for incarceration.

The students then spend five to six more class periods examining the question of whether a school district that prohibited Sikh school children from bringing a metal bladed kirpan onto school grounds violated the Sikh school children's first amendment right to exercise their religion freely.

More specifically, the researchers 1) examine possible differences by classroom, school, and literacy models; 2) explore the relationship between observable features of the classroom literacy environment and children's literacy growth during the first grade year; 3) characterize the variability in the levels of teacher understanding of the chosen literacy model and of early literacy development; and 4) assess whether there are qualitative differences in children's oral discourse skills and writing skills with the school's chosen model of literacy instruction.

Martiniello's research examined whether math tests — like the one given as part of the MCAS — are equally valid for children not proficient in English, considering a majority of math questions are word problems.

Specifically, he will work with the PI and core project staff to develop an analysis plan, direct the evaluation of the efficacy of the Core Knowledge Language Arts Listening and Learning Read Aloud Program, articulate the fully specified multi-level models used to estimate treatment impacts on child - level vocabulary, listening comprehension and domain knowledge outcomes, and guide the secondary analyses that examine whether the quality of read alouds mediate treatment effects on child outcomes and the baseline, child - level moderators of treatment effects.

Specifically, we examine whether the negative spillovers associated with children from troubled families are smaller after the parent files the case than before the case is filed.

In addition, this allows us to examine whether the presence of children exposed to domestic violence is merely a proxy for other peer characteristics, such as family income.

A report examining whether students are using the school choice mandates of the No Child Left Behind Act highlights these districts, where it says choice is helping to integrate schools by race and income.

One way to examine this is to see whether children with different initial achievement levels gained from tracking differentially in terms of the difficulty of the material that they learned.

This analysis examines whether the current mechanisms for providing federal education funding to disadvantaged children are effective and whether the system works as originally intended.

Parents choosing a private school over a public school should examine whether the school offers a substantially different program than the public schools to meet the special needs of their gifted child.

«It has been four years since major SEND reforms were introduced and it's important we examine whether the government's stated ambitions for simpler, improved and consistent help for children and young people with SEND have been met,» said Robert Halfon, the committee chair.

Additionally, to address the CCSSO demand that states support learning for all students, we considered the issue of English as a Second Language and / or bilingual learners, examining whether or not the state documents explicitly attend to the needs of those particular children.

Nevertheless, recent studies have begun to question whether incidental instruction through book reading may be substantial enough to significantly boost children's oral vocabulary development.19 Several meta - analyses, for example, have reported only small to moderate effects of book reading on vocabulary development.20 One group of researchers examined the added benefits of dialogic reading, an interactive reading strategy, on children's vocabulary growth and reported only modest gains for 2 - to 3 - year - olds.21 Further, these effects were reduced to negligible levels when children were 4 to 5 years old or when they were at risk for language and literacy impairments.

Then, I examine whether the strength of neighborhood effects on children's outcomes has changed as consequence of a potentially weakened neighborhood - school link.

As the number of dual language learners (DLLs) in early care and education (ECE) programs increases, it is critical to examine whether the quality of practices in these settings reflect the needs of the diverse groups of children being served.

Vice President of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, asked Hedy Chang to examine, on behalf of the Foundation, whether missing too much school in the early grades was one of the reasons so few low - income children were reading proficiently by the end of 3rd grade.

is a working paper from the University of Virginia that examines whether parents» evaluation of their child's program is explained by an extensive set of quality measures.

«If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.»

I also urge the board to examine whether the design and marketing approach to loot boxes in games geared toward children is being conducted in an ethical and transparent way that adequately protects the developing minds of young children from predatory practices.

The Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One, examines in Brenda D. v. Department of Child Safety (DCS), Z.D. (minor child), (2017), whether a parent's 25 minute tardiness to a juvenile court parental termination hearing constitutes a «failure to appear» within the meaning of Arizona Revised Statutes («A.R.S.») section 8 - 863 (C) and Arizona Rule of Juvenile Procedure 66 (D)(2) for a Juvenile Court parental rights termination Child Safety (DCS), Z.D. (minor child), (2017), whether a parent's 25 minute tardiness to a juvenile court parental termination hearing constitutes a «failure to appear» within the meaning of Arizona Revised Statutes («A.R.S.») section 8 - 863 (C) and Arizona Rule of Juvenile Procedure 66 (D)(2) for a Juvenile Court parental rights termination child), (2017), whether a parent's 25 minute tardiness to a juvenile court parental termination hearing constitutes a «failure to appear» within the meaning of Arizona Revised Statutes («A.R.S.») section 8 - 863 (C) and Arizona Rule of Juvenile Procedure 66 (D)(2) for a Juvenile Court parental rights termination case.

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