Sentences with phrase «greater effect sizes»

Good teachers make a habit of applying those strategies that produce the greatest effect size.

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A topic of intense debate among economists is what the size of the labor force would be absent the effects of the great recession.

While the effect size of support interventions on reducing the cessation of any breastfeeding is modest, there is evidence of a greater effect on the prolongation of exclusive breastfeeding.

Schwarzkopf suggests that this is because the circuits in the visual cortex responsible for the illusion are the same size in everyone, but cover a greater proportion of a smaller visual cortex, causing a stronger effect.

«Our study suggests that the cumulative survival from hatchling to maturity, which may take 30 years, combined with present - day climate effects on mature females, has a greater influence on annual nesting population size than does the exclusive impact of survival during the first year of life as hatchlings,» Saba said.

«We became interested in studying the effects of economic downturns on public spending during the Great Recession of the late 2000s, when media outlets were filled with stories about states cutting optional Medicaid benefits, increasing school class sizes and reducing course offerings,» said Ho, who is also a professor of economics at Rice and a professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.

Because many of the genes influencing facial morphology are likely to have small effects, successfully mapping a large number of these genes will require much greater sample sizes and a more comprehensive approach to quantifying facial features of interest.»

Since all three RNAi constructs were almost equally effective at reducing the levels of mRNA transcripts in our conditions (S2 Fig), and because GBP1 and GBP2 appeared to account for greater effects on body size, we excluded GBP3 for further analyses.

However, the size of the meal also has a great impact on how much the thermic effect of the food you eat will vary.

When it comes down to it, the reason we strive to be healthy can't be so that we fit into the same size clothes we did in college or so we have flawless skin (though those can be great side - effects of being healthy), but so that we can have more time to enjoy the blessings of this life and the health and energy to be able to live it the best way possible.

The greater gains in strength - to - size that result from an increase in specific tension are not reflected in improvements in muscle power, because the reduction in contractile velocity counteracts the effects of the increased muscle fiber force (Erskine et al. 2011).

* I've been wanting a choker length pearl necklace in a small pearl size for a long time, basically because of the costumes in movies like Dangerous Liasons, Valmont, and anything set in 18th century France, in which they are often worn by young, unmarried women to great effect.

Off course ruffled lines garments look extremely hot and attractive for catwalks but since they come in various shapes and sizes, they are used by many designers to give a great effect.

And since miniaturization is the whole schtick of Ant - Man, we get to gee Marvel's famous and often seamless special effects, this time dealing with the world of bugs the size of elephants, carpet fibers like great stalks of corn and an army of various ants that help Lang defeat as many bad guys as possible.

The size of this estimated effect is similar to the effect of a larger black population, about 2 percent greater enrollment in charter schools accompanying a one - standard - deviation increase in the fraction of college - educated adults in the state.

This is greater than the two - point gain we found in Iceland and Greece, but it is within the standard error of these estimates, suggesting that the actual effect of reducing class size in Iceland and Greece could be as large as Krueger found in the United States.

Not just a great book for math, the effect sizes discussed are relevant across disciplines and therefore an excellent read for all teachers and administrators.

But the total effect on test scores also increases because the positive effect of adding a day to the school year is always greater than the negative effect of the needed reduction in class size.

A great researcher named John Hade just analyzed about 146,000 studies and the effect size of 138 variables and rank - ordered them in terms of the average effect size of those variables.

The effect size of the teacher / student relationship comes in quite high at a.72 (remember that the desired number is.4 or greater).

Based on scores in nationally standardized tests (fourth grade reading and math and eighth grade reading and math), greater union membership of educators tends to have a positive impact on student test scores while larger class sizes tend to have a negative effect.

Since Hattie's (2009) review of effect sizes on student outcomes, with feedback (0.73) in the top 10, marking has begun to receive greater attention from teachers and policymakers.

However, these children made greater progress than the random sample on two of three measures and the effect sizes were reduced, suggesting a trend towards closing the gap.

Evidence about class size effects not only identifies optimum sizes, it also suggests that the greatest benefits of reducing class size are found in the first two years of schooling when accompanied by appropriate adaptations to instruction (e.g., Finn, 2001).

Therefore, anything with an effect size greater than 0.40 has an above average impact on students.)

Each of the ten observation «look - fors» on this form has an effect size of.40 or greater.

This tool contains an additional 11 high - yield «look - fors» identified in Dr. Hattie's (2009) meta analyses, all with an effect size of.40 or greater.

Ram +30 % Both the full - size Ram and the mid-size Dakota topped last April by about one - third, but the effect was 10 times greater for the big pickup because of its bigger volume.

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While great nutrition will be found, you may find other after effects aren't beneficial such as struggling to change to a different taste and size kibble when your dog reaches adulthood.

This small boutique resort has incredible views over this incredible scenery and you also have the advantage of begin closer to the traditional and rarely visited east coast beaches and the south of Bali.Santi Mandala Villa and Spa in Ubud is a traditional resort which is great if you are looking for the traditional culture which is still very strong in the east of the island, you will feel very close to this and the effect is an even deeper calming sensation than the scenery provides.The rooms options are inline with the humble and modest size of its grounds, 3 and a half hectors is ample space for the 14 separate villas including the Garden villas, Family Garden Villa, the three Plunge Pool Villas, the family Pavilion villa and the sort after one and two bedroom pool villas.

Obviously the complexity and size of assets has to be managed, but at NaturalMotion Games we're using Morpheme and Euphoria to great effect on mobile,» he says.

The vehicles show off plenty of details and offer a fair bit of variety when it comes to physical shape / size / performance, the environments look great (when you can spare a split second to give them any consideration, that is), and the different particle effects help to sell that sense of speed and tearing through mud.

In this framework, a research finding is less likely to be true when the studies conducted in a field are smaller; when effect sizes are smaller; when there is a greater number and lesser preselection of tested relationships; where there is greater flexibility in designs, definitions, outcomes, and analytical modes; when there is greater financial and other interest and prejudice; and when more teams are involved in a scientific field in chase of statistical significance.

1) the studies conducted in a field are smaller; 2) when effect sizes are smaller; 3) when there is a greater number and lesser preselection of tested relationships; 4) where there is greater flexibility in designs, definitions, outcomes, and analytical modes; 5) when there is greater financial and other interest and prejudice; and 6) when more teams are involved in a scientific field in chase of statistical significance.»

Climate - change campaigners made a great mistake early on in opposing this approach — arguing, in effect, that sin should be prohibited not taxed, and that cuts of a certain size had to be assured.

Size does matter (see www.wind-watch.org/documents/low-frequency-noise-from-large-wind-turbines-2/) as the larger more powerful turbines emit proportionately more LFN, the adverse effect on the neighbours from this LFN is much greater.

If sample size is not masking a significant correlation, the greater readability advantage in federal courts may be explained by the factors that depress the summary judgment success rate in state courts: more restrictive state summary judgment standards, the lack of state court resources compared with those in federal court, and state court judges» relative reluctance to grant summary judgment.111 Although greater readability could still influence the outcomes in some state cases, which would be consistent with the slight readability advantage in our sample, on the whole the anti-summary-judgment factors would reduce the potential readability effect on summary judgment outcome.

The volatility is attributed to the size of the buyers and sellers having a greater effect on the price of the asset.

The trial was powered to capture effect sizes reported for parenting trials in general most of which are in clinical or targeted settings where opportunities for improvement are greater than in universal populations.

A Hedge g effect size estimate was used in the power analysis because it includes a correction for sample size and is therefore more appropriate to use with small samples.26 The interpretation of g is similar to the interpretation of the Cohen d: 0.80 or greater is considered large, 0.50 to 0.79 is considered medium, and 0.20 to 0.49 is considered small.27 A minimum effect size of g = 1.0 was expected based on prior uncontrolled studies of CBCT and the broader psychotherapy research for PTSD.28 An effect size of g = 1.0 represents an approximately 25 - point improvement in total CAPS scores.

More hours of child care have been related to heightened behaviour problems, beginning at age 2 and extending into early middle childhood.23,25 - 27 In addition, early centre - care experience is associated with more problem behaviours.28 The negative effects of child care hours in the NICHD Study have been found to be more strongly related to externalizing behaviour in early childhood when children received poorer care from their child care providers and when children spent a greater proportion of time with a group of peers that was larger in size than recommended by experts.29

A higher effect size is indicative of greater sensitivity and specificity of the measure.

Overall, the effect sizes were slightly greater for subscales assessing specific symptoms compared with indices of combined ADHD symptoms.

Results indicated that there was no significant difference between groups for therapeutic alliance score (t47 = — 1.02, P =.31, d = 0.29; according to Cohen [37], an effect size of 0.2 to 0.3 represents a small effect, around 0.5 represents a medium effect, and 0.8 or greater represents a large effect).

For example, Hampson et al.'s (2001) meta - analysis of interventions found very small effect sizes (mean = − 0.15) interventions on self - management among adolescents with type 1 diabetes compared with greater effects (M = 0.37) on psychosocial outcomes, such as family adjustment.

Effect sizes where somewhat greater for outcome measures of social competence than for measures of anti-social behaviour, particularly when delinquency was assessed