Sentences with phrase «lack of research evidence»

Medications are not effective for all children, and there is uniform lack of research evidence for their long - term use (more than 2 years).

Puzzlingly, lack of research evidence has not stimulated rigorous research (funded by the federal government or the nation's many foundations, for example) into why so little if any progress occurred and how federal money was actually used by the schools or departments of education that spent it.

Not exact matches

There's little research on the impact of the number of MBAs in the boardroom, but a growing amount of evidence suggests that a lack of diversity can hurt a company.

The theory of evolution is no more lacking in evidence and research than the theory of gravity.

This is a beautiful well researched article that explains carefully what the problems are and the lack of any known mechanism by which they would work — and the lack of any study or evidence to show that they do work, plus potential dangers with their use.

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It allows the reader to hope that as we move into more recent research, a stronger conclusion (such as evidence supporting that it is safe, rather than a lack of evidence that it isn't) could be reached.

Four themes described current challenges: lack of placement opportunities, education versus clinical practice, evidence - based support of physiologic birth, and the need for more research on pedagogical strategies that effectively educate future nurses to advocate for minimal intervention birth options for all women.

The importance of touch for babies has been well researched and a strong body of evidence exists to support the impact touch (and / or lack of touch) has on a baby.

Conference is concerned about evidence from the research which shows that when members who are being bullied initiate Grievance Procedures against headteachers or other senior leaders, they may experience a lack of natural justice in the forms of honesty, fairness and impartiality because this same group are the most likely perpetrators of workplace bullying.

Co-authors David Merritt Johns and Gerald M. Oppenheimer make use of archival research and oral history to argue that there is lack of evidence that this «sugar conspiracy» actually occurred.

For some, this lack of evidence makes research into hyperalgesia look like a dead end.

There's a large body of research that says many would make different decisions, especially in surgery, if they understood the trade - offs and the lack of evidence involved,» says Jack Fowler, past president of the Boston - based Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making.

Burton Andersen, chief of infectious diseases at the University of Illinois, Chicago, agrees that further research into the nature of the Yanomami's lack of an immune response would bolster the scientists» evidence: «It's certainly possible they [the Yanomami] never evolved any special genetic background to protect themselves.»

«Lacking any direct evidence of research misconduct,... we are closing this investigation with no further action.»

«But the majority of the research evidence supports the causal direction being lack of sleep leading to problems rather than the other way around,» says study co-author Adam Winsler, a psychology professor at George Mason University.

An international research collaboration involving 14 institutions has now published evidence that a lack of RNase L may cause prostate cancer.

«Although it is widely postulated that a Western diet can promote prostate cancer progression, direct evidence supporting a strong association between dietary lipids and prostate cancer has been lacking,» said first author Ming Chen, PhD, a research fellow in the laboratory of Pier Paolo Pandolfi, MD, PhD, Director of the Cancer Center and Cancer Research Institute aresearch fellow in the laboratory of Pier Paolo Pandolfi, MD, PhD, Director of the Cancer Center and Cancer Research Institute aResearch Institute at BIDMC.

«The scientific community has long recognized the urgent need to summon science with its adherence to the identification, collection, and inspection of data, so that evidence may emerge and guide public policy,» Schaal wrote in an Op - ed published on 12 Sept. in The Hill, adding later, «Such scientific research is lacking in response to today's gun violence epidemic.

While the lack of chlorophyll in OpenSource diets provides convincing evidence for their use for in vivo imaging studies, the very nature of OpenSource purified diets argues for their use in all lab animal research.

Mars» «White Rock» feature lacks evidence of an aqueous origin: Results from Mars Global Surveyor S. W. Ruff, P. R. Christensen, R. N. Clark, H. H. Kieffer, M. C. Malin, J. L. Bandfield, B. M. Jakosky, M. D. Lane, M. T. Mellon, and M. A. Presley Journal of Geophysical Research 106 (E10), 23,921 — 23,927, doi: 10.1029 / 2000JE001329, 25 October 2001.

Dentists advise on the importance of flossing, but new research shows a lack of evidence for flossing!

Through my research I found a lack of evidence that mega doses of vitamins improves one's immune system and, in fact, it can actually have negative effects depending on the nutrient.

However, pharma - based physicians and groups have largely condemned the use of coconut oil, stating that all the evidence is «anecdotal,» lacking peer - reviewed scientific research.

There's not enough evidence to claim that lack of sleep could cause diabetes, but research has found a connection between the two.

The research also found there is a lack of high - quality evidence of what really boosts attainment for these disparate groups.

Research undertaken for the NASUWT revealed evidence that the lack of opportunity to work flexibly is driving teachers out of the profession to pursue opportunities elsewhere where there simply is greater acceptance of the importance of work / life balance and family - friendly working.

The most obvious error in the Review is the statement that there is a «lack of research - based evidence on what works best in education» (p.ix).

Consequently, school districts lack the kind of research - based evidence necessary to choose among such programs; often the only information they have comes from the program developers themselves.

Sue O'Neill:... The first issue I identified in the preservice beginning teacher preparation courses (from my research in 2014 and 2015) was that there was what I considered to be a lack of depth of evidence - based practices that have been proven to be effective from conducting well designed and rigorous research.

Ravitch is so reckless in her interpretation of evidence that she and anyone citing her would lack credibility in policy discussions with those possessing a passing familiarity with the research.

The research found a «significant disparity» between the enormous amount of effort teachers invest in marking and a lack of evidence on ways to improve the marking process.

Behind closed doors, insiders may or may not have exchanged their opinions on value - added evaluations, but since the evidence required for a meaningful debate over the real world effects of those evaluations did not exist, I wonder if the lack of research on the policy implications of value - added was considered.

There have been questions about the quality of the study, but this merely underscores one of NAS's fundamental problems: the lack of independent, reliable research on the effectiveness of its designs, a deficiency that allows decisions like Memphis's to be made more on the basis of politics than sound evidence about what works.

Crucially, for many purposes the law also treats as evidence - based a fourth category comprising activities that have a research - based rationale but lack direct empirical support — provided, that is, that they are accompanied by «ongoing efforts to examine the effects» of the activity on important student outcomes.

Citing research evidence about the lack of a relationship between spending and educational outcomes and about the ineffectiveness of previous court - mandated funding, the Supreme Court said that the lower court should also consider other school programs.

• Online instruction for students in grades K - 12 has little or no research backing, according to a recent study, which stated that policymakers lack scientific evidence of the effectiveness of online classes.

Considering the potential adverse effects and lack of evidence - based research on ESA programs, state policy makers need to take a step back on ESA programs, and ensure the implications of such programs are fully considered before enacting them into law.

The backlash against multiple intelligences due to a perceived lack of evidence in the research literature (i.e. Klein, 2003; Waterhouse, 2006) was not new, but was to this crop of teachers.

Additionally, while the report argues that increased spending on schools as they presently exist would necessarily be inefficient and ineffective, this contention is undermined by the lack of evidence for more efficient alternatives and by existing research validating the value of traditional resources.

ESSA requires three primary tiers of evidence for these funding streams, and educators can use a fourth tier to implement programs that lack empirical research but meet local needs.

They believe many of the reforms being put into place lack sufficient research - based evidence and insufficient public examination and discourse.

The National Research Council, an organization chartered by Congress, conducted the review and found some promising evidence of improvements, but the evaluators identified many persistent disparities, and noted a lack of comprehensive, accessible data.

The goal is to attain stronger positive student outcomes and reduce spending on programs that lack research and Evidence of Effectiveness.

Chetty might even agree with this assertion, although he would disagree with the EVAAS's (typical) lack of use of controls for student background variables / demographics — a point of contention that has been debated, now, for years, with research evidence supporting both approaches; hence, the intense debates about VAM — based bias, now also going on for years.

General Assembly leadership has focused on replicating a number of education initiatives from other states, most lacking any research - based evidence of delivering successful results to students.

The National Canine Research Council states that despite a lack of concrete evidence linking specific breeds to a higher rate of dog bites, as well as an outright lack of success in reducing the number of dog - bite related injuries, BSL is incredibly expensive for the communities affected by it, draining resources that could otherwise be used to promote more humane and effective forms of population control and in turn, reduce overcrowding in shelters.

Although research of bee products for dogs is still lacking, there is some evidence that these can be beneficial to dogs in some cases, such as stimulation of cortisol in arthritic dogs and helping with canine intervertebral disk disease (IVDD) with no side effects.

Since then, scientists have failed to find much physical evidence to support the report's assumptions, but that failure has not stemmed from any lack of taxpayer support of research that looks for such evidence.

All of these enviro - whackpot prognosticators of a global warming Apocalypse lack the intellectual curiosity to even wonder how there can be so much evidence - backed, statistically significant research showing that all past and historical global warming is completely explained by ENSO effects and other natural activity.