Sentences with phrase «large effect sizes in»

In general, of course, we want large effect sizes in our practice, and we want clinically meaningful effects.

CONCLUSIONS: The large effect sizes in this study show that this 12 - week culturally tailored parenting support program was associated with short - term improvements in children's behavior.

My advice to any teacher, department or school seeking to improve student achievement is to start with feedback, that thing which we know has the largest or near largest effect size in respect of student learning.

Sue Johnson, Ed.D. is the developer of the model of couple therapy that obtains the largest effect size in the couple therapy field.

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For example, Warshay worked with a pair of entrepreneurs who spent time in the prenatal vitamin section at Whole Foods, where they discovered women didn't like the large size of vitamin pills and potential side effects of nausea and constipation.

Soon after its discovery in 1981, the size effect reversed for the balance of the century in most countries, with smaller stocks underperforming large ones.

«On the floor in room corners, Large size Brilliant Pebbles reduces comb filter effects caused by very high sound pressure levels that develop in the corners when music is playing — as much as 3 or 4 times higher than the average sound pressure level in the room!!

However, individual studies have been modest in size and lacking in statistical power to exclude even quite large effects on diabetes risk.

And the effects of federal nationwide cuts are even worse in New York City, Mr. de Blasio said, because of NYCHA's large size and aging buildings.

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 earbud covers also come in small, medium, and large sizes to produce an effective noise canceling effect.

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.

«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.

A number of studies have used quantum dots to produce the similar effects but because the dots are much larger and not uniform in size, due to the nature of their synthesis, the results have not been reproducible — not every device made with quantum dots behaved the same way.

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.

While the researchers stress that no current or planned wind farm approaches the size or concentration that would cause the slowdown effect, their results suggest the phenomenon tied to large wind farms needs to be accounted for in future planning of wind energy.

With its large sample size, this study had the power to find copy number variants with large effects that occur in more than 0.1 percent of schizophrenia cases.

The list of accomplishments is far too large to fit within one article, but they include: the first search for extraterrestrial intelligence; creation of the Drake equation; discovery of flat galactic rotation curves; first pulsar discovered in a supernova remnant; first organic polyatomic molecule detected in interstellar space; black hole detected at the center of the Milky Way; determination of the Tully - Fisher relationship; detection of the first interstellar anion; measurement of the most massive neutron star known; first high angular resolution image of the Sunyaev - Zel» Dovich Effect; discovery of only known millisecond pulsar in a stellar triple system; discovery of pebble - sized proto - planets in Orion, and the first detection of a chiral molecule in space.

The CDR potential and possible environmental side effects are estimated for various COA deployment scenarios, assuming olivine as the alkalinity source in ice ‐ free coastal waters (about 8.6 % of the global ocean's surface area), with dissolution rates being a function of grain size, ambient seawater temperature, and pH. Our results indicate that for a large ‐ enough olivine deployment of small ‐ enough grain sizes (10 µm), atmospheric CO2 could be reduced by more than 800 GtC by the year 2100.

We were not able to detect beneficial effects of rapamycin on aortic degeneration in our mouse cohorts (Supplemental Figure 5 and Supplemental Table 5), although larger sample sizes may be required to detect possible effects of rapamycin on aortic degeneration.

Lastly, while our sample sizes are large overall, we had limited power to examine the potential effect of rice consumption on certain cancer sites with relatively low incidence in the US.»

Many customers like to size up in silk because it has such beautiful drape and movement; for example, I love to wear my Florence Pant in Silk Crepe a size larger than normal for a palazzo - effect.

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.

For example, a quasi-experimental study by the Educational Testing Service found that teachers with a high level of engagement in a large - scale mentoring program (California Formative Assessment and Support System for Teachers) improved both teaching practices and student achievement, producing an effect size equivalent to half a year's growth (Thompson, Goe, Paek, and Ponte, 2004).

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.

Further bolstering support for this third theory, the largest effect sizes we uncover demonstrate perceived differences in instructional techniques that are associated with teacher / student demographic similarity.

In an additional five school systems, we can rule out the possibility of large class - size effects: French Belgium, the Czech Republic, Korea, Romania, and Spain.

In four of the countries, Australia, Hong Kong, Scotland, and the United States, the standard error of the estimated effects of class size was extremely large, indicating that little confidence should be placed in the resultIn four of the countries, Australia, Hong Kong, Scotland, and the United States, the standard error of the estimated effects of class size was extremely large, indicating that little confidence should be placed in the resultin the results.

Alternatively, considering the small classroom size and strict environment at West Point, the negative effects of technology could be larger in more standard college settings.

In 11 of the 18 nations, the estimate of the effects of class size were positive and statistically significant, suggesting that students in larger classes perform significantly better than students in smaller classeIn 11 of the 18 nations, the estimate of the effects of class size were positive and statistically significant, suggesting that students in larger classes perform significantly better than students in smaller classein larger classes perform significantly better than students in smaller classein smaller classes.

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.

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.

Overall, results showed a slight advantage of grouping as compared to non-grouping in promoting student learning, with large variability in the effect sizes.

The magnitude of these benefits is larger than typically seen (effect sizes in the 0.3 to 0.6 range) for longitudinal outcomes of interventions restricted to preschoolers.

And of course my use of a class - size effect on the larger end and a days - in - school effect on the smaller end means that the total effects may well be larger than my conservative estimates suggest.

While it is true that if you look at the research on all of the various types of strategies that we know can be used in the classroom, there will be some that, in general, have a larger — the technical term is «effect size» — than others.

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 InstitutIn 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 Institutin a publication from Princeton University and the Brookings Institute.

In this research assessment, Achieve3000 was shown to have the largest effect size at the middle and high school levels.

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.

By the end of fifth grade in France, the relative benefit to disadvantaged pupils who start at the amazingly early age of 2 rather than 4 is over one - half of a standard deviation, quite a large effect size.

«Schools that adopt an intensive «No Excuses» attitude towards students are correlated with large gains in academic performance, with traditional inputs like class size playing no role in explaining charter school effects,» researchers write.

This is most apparent in the large effect sizes for Text Reading Level (d = 2.02), the Ohio Word test (d = 1.38), Concepts About Print (d = 1.10), Writing Vocabulary (d = 0.90), Hearing and Recording Sounds in Words (d = 1.06), and the Slosson Oral Reading Test - Revised (d = 0.94).

It's better to have data about a program's effects presented as an effect size, which helps us decide whether the program's effect, despite all the complications in the study's design, is potentially large enough to be worth pursuing in terms of time, money, and personnel costs.

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.

Effect sizes tended to be larger in schools where students had lower average reading performance overall.

In line with the earlier literature, we find that schools that adopt an intensive «No Excuses» attitude towards students are correlated with large gains in academic performance, with traditional inputs like class size playing no role in explaining charter school effectIn line with the earlier literature, we find that schools that adopt an intensive «No Excuses» attitude towards students are correlated with large gains in academic performance, with traditional inputs like class size playing no role in explaining charter school effectin academic performance, with traditional inputs like class size playing no role in explaining charter school effectin explaining charter school effects.

Taken together the various teacher credentials exhibit quite large effects on math achievement, whether compared to the effects of changes in class size or to the socio - economics characteristics of students.