Sentences with phrase «large effect sizes from»

Six of them, Reading Recovery, Success for All, Sound Partners (1 - 1 tutoring by paraprofessionals), Lindamood (small group tutoring by teachers), Targeted Reading Intervention (1 - 1 tutoring by teachers), and Empower Reading (small group tutoring by teachers) all have large effect sizes from randomized experiments and have been proven in from two to 28 studies.

Not exact matches

They identify idiosyncratic volatility shocks as large deviations from the volatility predicted out - of - sample by a regression model that accounts for market, size and book - to - market effects.

Once again, autistic children received more structural variants from their fathers but not mothers — though the size of the effect wasn't quite as large in this second sample.

The simulations suggested that the indirect effects of increased CO2 on net primary productivity (how much carbon dioxide vegetation takes in during photosynthesis minus how much carbon dioxide the plants release during respiration) are large and variable, ranging from less than 10 per cent to more than 100 per cent of the size of direct effects.

These systematic violations can be used to identify whether an action or condition causes a certain effect (high lead - blood levels causing ADHD) from large enough sample sizes of observational data.

«In addition, we found that sexual selection favored males that were bigger and moved over larger areas, though the effect of body size can not be disentangled from last - male precedence.»

The valuable cooling effects of large urban green spaces has been established; now scientists from Forest Research, the research agency of the Forestry Commission, have studied small and medium sized parks in London to determine the optimum size, distribution and composition of urban green spaces needed to achieve urban cooling.

And the results of the P - curves suggested that about 95 percent of the recent studies and those from a decade earlier had a large enough effect size, or the size of the difference in the effect being studied.

«There's been quite a bit of research that shows how larger carnivores have negative effects on fishers, but this is some of first research to look at their interactions with carnivores of about their same size,» said Green, whose group also included researchers from North Carolina State University, the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Square pillows come in different sizes ranging from 18 inches to 24 inches, so you can stack smaller pillows on top of larger ones to create the effect you want.

Of all of the things that I should do to improve my teaching quality, I have to choose the one with the largest effect size, to borrow a page from Robert Marzano.

• Duke researchers Charles Clotfelter, Helen Ladd, and Jacob Vigdor found that being taught by a sub for 10 days per year has a larger effect on a child's math scores than if he'd changed schools, and about half the size of the difference between students from well - to - do and poor families.

However, there is no clear pattern in countries» average class sizes that distinguishes the two countries where substantial class - size effects exist from either the six countries where we ruled out any noteworthy class - size effects or from the five countries where we ruled out at least large class - size effects.

Egalite found, «The competitive threat of the LSP ranges from negligible to modestly positive in the public schools exposed to the threat of competition, with effect sizes growing in magnitude as the competitive threat looms larger.»

The size of this effect is larger in some studies than in others, and, in some cases, additional funding appears to matter more for some students than for others — in particular students from low - income families who have access to fewer resources outside of school.

«In some cases, these charter schools have quite large effects, such that attending one for three years produce test - score gains that are equivalent to the size of the U.S. black - white achievement gap,» said Sarah Cohodes, an assistant professor of education and public policy at Columbia University in a publication from Princeton University and the Brookings Institute.

As predicted, the effect sizes from highly structured approaches (M - 0.517) were larger than those from the less structured programs (M = 0.298; t = 4.671, d.f. = 386, p < 0.001).

Effect sizes are more accurate when calculated from a large sample.

Jaguar's InControl infotainment and sat - nav system and electric leather seats are standard across the range, while wheel sizes range from 18 - 22 inches, although the larger rims don't have a particularly detrimental effect to the F - Pace's ride.

25 years of neuter / return has effect comparable to reducing average litter size from four kittens to one MOUNT RANIER, Maryland ---- The largest return of data yet from a national survey of cat rescue and sterilization programs shows a cumulative reduction of 72 % in kitten births at monitored colonies since the introduction of neuter / return feral cat -LSB-...]

Relatively small amounts of raisins can prove life - threatening even for large breeds, so it would be unwise to assume that your dog's size will protect them from raisins» harmful effects.

When he drew a life - size image of a car on a large, white cardboard box in the center of the main gallery at the New Museum, then proceeded to smash the «windows» with a crowbar, shattering a «door» and climbing into the «vehicle» to cause more damage from the inside, the effect of this fake violence was not fake at all.

This, and more recent work I've been doing on the loss of large sized invertebrates from the coast, makes the point that looking at biodiversity is not nearly enough to understand the effects of the Anthropocene.

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.

Nevertheless, the MECSH trial showed some significant results and some trends that require replication in larger samples of mothers drawn from a similarly widely defined at - risk group, including older, multiparous mothers, and mothers with higher levels of education than have been reported in other trials.1 14 Mothers of infants and toddlers in the intervention group provided a home environment that was statistically significantly more supportive of their child's development through more verbal and emotional responsivity; however, the effect size was small.

Existing SNHV trials show relatively modest effects (effect sizes of 0.2 — 0.4 SDs) for outcomes such as child mental health and behaviour, and cognitive and language development, from infancy to mid - childhood.19 While effect sizes of 0.25 — 0.3 SDs can be meaningful and impactful at the whole of population level, 59 targeted public health interventions such as SNHV include a cost and intensity such that larger effects in the short - to - medium term might be necessary to justify implementation at a population level.

Effect size was calculated by using Cohen's d from F tests (d = 0.2, small; d = 0.5, medium; and d = 0.8, large).27 SPSS version 23.0 (IBM SPSS Statistics, IBM Corporation, Armonk, NY) was used for statistical analyses.

Yet the comparative large effect sizes may be actually due to the mode of delivery, whereby those participants signing up to an online course of their own accord prefer to access the mindfulness exercises from their homes or other familiar surroundings, enabling them to use the learned skills in situations where they might be more readily recalled and more effectively used.

Larger effect sizes were found in studies with higher proportion of girls, with a healthy control group, from developing countries, published before 1990, and that used parent rating or clinician ratings rather than child ratings.

Effect sizes were small for joy and social support from friends, medium for overall spirituality, and nearly large for transpersonal spirituality.

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

These findings are in keeping with evidence from a meta - analysis by Durlak et al. [3], which showed larger effect sizes (0.69 versus 0.01) for school - based social - emotional interventions (N = 213 interventions involving 270 034 children aged 5 — 13 years) that followed principles including, structure, sequenced learning, active involvement and repetition.

Many trials used volunteers or people selected by referrers as willing to take part in parenting projects, thus excluding many disorganised, unmotivated, or disadvantaged families, who have the most antisocial children.2 A review of meta - analyses of published trials of psychological treatments for childhood disorders found that in university settings the effect size was large, from 0.71 to 0.84 SD.12 In contrast, a review of six studies of outcome in regular service clinics since 1950 showed no significant effects, 12 and a large trial offering unrestricted access to outpatient services found no improvement.13 Reasons suggested for the poor outcome in clinic cases include that they have more severe problems, come from more distressed families, and receive less empirically supported interventions from staff with heavier caseloads.

No significant differences with an effect size larger than Cohen's d = 0.10 emerged when respondents were compared with those who actively declined participation and those who ignored the study, and the combination of the latter two groups (non-participants) based on variables derived from their postal addresses.

Effect sizes were weighted by the inverse of their variance (i.e., sampling error), so that effect sizes derived from studies using samples of larger size contributed more to the overall effect size estimate than effect sizes derived from studies using samples of smallerEffect sizes were weighted by the inverse of their variance (i.e., sampling error), so that effect sizes derived from studies using samples of larger size contributed more to the overall effect size estimate than effect sizes derived from studies using samples of smallereffect sizes derived from studies using samples of larger size contributed more to the overall effect size estimate than effect sizes derived from studies using samples of smallereffect size estimate than effect sizes derived from studies using samples of smallereffect sizes derived from studies using samples of smaller size.

Results, including the magnitude of effect sizes, are consistent with findings from a large - scale cluster - randomized trial demonstrating the effectiveness of StandUp's predecessor, Teen Choices, in preventing peer violence (Levesque et al., in press).

Effect sizes ranged from small to large.