Sentences with phrase «larger effect sizes at»

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

The increased number of significant associations between anti-smoking practices and cognitions, as well as the larger effect size at Step 3 in the Grade 9 analyses could indicate this.

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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.

The effect sizes at 2 h were 1.22 for full - fat milk, 1.37 for skimmed milk, 1.03 for ORS, and 0.87 for orange juice (all large to very large effects).

The effect sizes at 4 h for cumulative urine output compared with still water were 1.04 for full - fat milk, 0.85 for skimmed milk, and 1.09 for ORS (all large effects), with an effect size of 0.65 for orange juice (a medium effect).

While «most studies (90 %) demonstrated significant improvements on at least one outcome indicator,» with effect sizes «moderate to large,» several limitations of the studies are also discussed.

«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.

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 authors concluded that with the inclusion of studies with larger patient samples, the mean weighted effect size of rTMS directed at the left temporo - parietal area for AVH has decreased, although the effect is still significant.

The effect sizes at 2 h were 1.22 for full - fat milk, 1.37 for skimmed milk, 1.03 for ORS, and 0.87 for orange juice (all large to very large effects).

Production values are at the highest levels, so we can also expect nominations for cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema, who figured out how to take large - size cameras into challenging small places, production designer Nathan Crowley, editor Lee Smith, costume designer Jeffrey Kurland, VFX supervisor Andrew Jackson, and special effects supervisor Scott Fisher, not to mention composer Hans Zimmer, who is often taken for granted but is at the top of his game here.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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.

I understand the explanation that students are very good at predicting their performance in terms of their learning but don't understand the mechanism or link that has caused such a large effect size.

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-...]

, killing zombies, and completing quests grants progress towards three distinct skill trees: Agility, which handles the parkour abilities like slide - dashes and drop - kicks (the latter of which I found utterly useless, though the Internet at large has taken to calling the game as a whole «Drop Kick Simulator»); Survivor, which deals with crafting recipes, backpack size increases, and general quality - of - life upgrades; and Power, which focuses on dealing damage, granting elemental effects, and making melee weapons last longer.

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.

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.

While these effects are modest in size, they demonstrate that internet delivered cognitive behavioural therapy has the potential to be applied as a low intensity psychosocial intervention to large numbers of people being treated for cardiovascular disease, at minimal cost.

Our sample can be characterized as high risk (baseline ECBI T score > 55) 42 or at the borderline of clinical (T score > 60), 34 which is typical of previous randomized clinical trials of parent training for young children.41 The results across methods in this study are impressive given that effect sizes have been shown to be associated with the magnitude of symptom severity at baseline, 43 and thus it is typically more difficult to find large effects in prevention than in intervention trials.

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.

Cohen's d estimates the effect size of parent outcome at the 2 - month follow - up (small effect d = 0.2, medium effect d = 0.5, large effect d = 0.8, very large effect d = 1.45).

The meta - analyses showed the most pronounced effect sizes for parent — child interaction and maternal sensitivity, whereas the effects on child behaviour and cognitive development were either small or not significant; however, small effect sizes can have meaningful impact on population - level outcomes.60 The non-significant outcomes for internalising and externalising behaviours were also small, but may be clinically relevant for large, at - risk populations.

The effect size of the full model was medium at T1, large at T2 and small in the longitudinal analysis.

Effect sizes were medium at T1, large at T2 and small in the longitudinal analysis.

The quasi-experimental design reduces spillover effects and makes it easier to implement the program, but does not eliminate the possibility of selection bias.35, 36 The use of prospectively defined controls at quasi-experimental sites likely contributed to minimized discrepancies in outcomes between randomization and quasi-experimental groups.37 For several parenting outcomes, such as discipline practices, findings were of similar magnitude and direction at randomization and quasi-experimental sites, but statistically significant at only quasi-experimental sites, where the sample size was larger; they were significant in the pooled sample, as well.

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

Overall, Chamberlain, Leve, and DeGarmo (2007) found that the effects that had been found at 1 year were maintained at the 2 - year follow - up assessment, with a slightly larger effect size for Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care — Adolescents (MTFC — A) girls.

PMT may have significant preventive effects, especially if it is applied during the preschool period, 42 or is a component of broader preventive interventions for school - age children at risk for conduct problems.43, 44 An integrative review of 26 reviews and meta - analyses (1,075 studies) published between 1990 and 2008 found that PMT interventions had a larger effect size than either child focused or school / community based interventions (ds =.56,.41, and.28, respectively).45 If PMT can play a role in the prevention of conduct problems, that will have important implications for reducing the need for ongoing interventions throughout the developmental period and adulthood.

As previously reported, the pretreatment to post-treatment effect size on the primary outcome of health anxiety HAI was d = 1.8 in the ICBT group and d = 1.2 in the IBSM group, indicating that both treatments yielded large improvements in health anxiety.12 Mixed - effects models analysis showed that ICBT led to significantly larger reductions of health anxiety compared with IBSM (F = 3.9; df = 2, 121; p = 0.022; between - group d at post-treatment = 0.3).

Given the relatively small magnitude of the apparent effect size, if joint - custody and paternal custody children really do differ in adjustment, more studies with larger samples may be needed to detect the effect at the level of statistical significance.

Large effect sizes following I - PCIT were demonstrated across both mother report and observations of parent — child interactions, and these gains were maintained at a 4 - month follow up.

Lastly, the effect sizes (pre - to post-treatment) found for parenting outcomes (observed do and don't skills and parenting discipline practices) in the current study (d = 1.93 — 6.04) were also larger than those reported in traditional PCIT (d = 1.11 — 3.11) and were better maintained at the 3 — 4 month follow - up: d = 1.09 — 3.50 (current study I - PCIT) versus d = 0.61 — 0.94 (traditional PCIT).