Sentences with phrase «few rigorous studies»

The prevalence of attachment disorders is difficult to estimate as few rigorous studies have been conducted in populations in which this would be detectable.

There are few rigorous studies addressing this in the instrumented era and no papers seem possible to cover earlier times.

Relatively few rigorous studies look inside the classroom to see what kinds of teaching styles are the most effective.

Schwerdt and Wuppermann observe that in recent years, a consensus has emerged among researchers that teacher quality «matters enormously for student performance,» but that relatively few rigorous studies have looked inside the classroom to see what kinds of teaching styles are the most effective.

Although some men believe that taking testosterone medications may help them feel younger and more vigorous as they age, few rigorous studies have examined testosterone therapy in men who have healthy testosterone levels.

But few rigorous studies have been conducted on them, and many researchers question whether even the best programs do anything more than make people better at the game itself.

But few rigorous studies have looked at the long - term costs and yields of organic farming.

However, few rigorous studies have evaluated whether higher protein intake among older adults provides meaningful benefit.

Not exact matches

Although there are studies of home visiting that report effects of child maltreatment on child and family outcomes, relatively few of them use rigorous methods that support drawing causal inferences about effectiveness.

A few longitudinal prospective studies provide rigorous insight but often at the expense of simplification of concepts (variables) in a limited number of countries.

The research team noted that even though the flu shot has been in use for more than half a century, there have been very few studies that have tracked the immune system health of recipients in such a rigorous way.

In her first few years of teaching, frustration with her inability to address the mechanical dysfunction some of her students possessed in a methodical and rigorous way motivated her to study kinesiology.

Although many athletes say they've experienced benefits from the therapy, there are few rigorous scientific studies on the topic, and it's unclear if the treatments» perceived benefits could be due to the placebo effect, experts said.

As I warned a few weeks ago, rigorous studies will take time.

Commenting on the figures, Rudolf Eliott Lockhart, chief executive of the Religious Education Council of England and Wales, said: «While it is fantastic to see increasing numbers of students opting to take the full course GCSE in Religious Studies, a reflection of the attraction of an academically rigorous subject that helps prepare students to understand an increasingly diverse modern world, we should not ignore the troubling news that declining entries for the short course mean that more than 100,000 fewer young people have studied the subject at GCSE level this year than in 2010.

At first blush, the most rigorous methodology, randomized field trials (RFT), appears not to fare well, since few such studies made the list.

While one case study by Sarah Fairbanks and colleagues in 2007 suggests that office referrals decreased following implementation of RTI, and teachers rated student misbehavior to be less intense and less frequent, few rigorous evaluations of RTI have been conducted.

The majority of the evidence comes from the USA, and there are few rigorous UK studies.

On tap for 2014: fewer kids prepared for rigorous study, which will have long - term effects on North Carolina's economy.

And rigorous studies of large - scale curricular reforms are few and far between, so we don't have a huge body of research to pull from and one study should never be relied on too heavily.

Not much has changed during the last decade in terms of the limited amount of rigorous research, although a few more studies have been conducted.

At present, there are many K - 12 / university partnerships in place to support technology integration across the country (Hartshorne, Ferdig, & Dawson, 2005) but few rigorous, longitudinal studies designed to examine learning outcomes within them.

Although there are studies of home visiting that report effects of child maltreatment on child and family outcomes, relatively few of them use rigorous methods that support drawing causal inferences about effectiveness.

Few rigorous research studies exist to define the impact problem gambling may have on the workforce and the workplace.

It would be interesting to compare these figures to the cost of preventing maltreatment, but few intervention programs have been proven to be effective in rigorous studies.

A few longitudinal prospective studies provide rigorous insight but often at the expense of simplification of concepts (variables) in a limited number of countries.