Sentences with phrase «little empirical evidence on»

There is very little empirical evidence on what factors actually lead to individual differences in the self - concept structure.

This finding prompted him to conclude that «despite its increasing popularity within education, there is little empirical evidence on test - based accountability» (p. 4).

However, there is surprisingly little empirical evidence on the relationship between students» exposure to teachers of their own race and their subsequent academic performance.

Not exact matches

There is little or no empirical evidence supporting Darwin's claim of macroevolution yet on «faith» someday we will prove it.

As noted, the majority of the audience of religious television programs are people who are already actively involved in a local church and there is therefore little empirical evidence to support the contention that religious programs on television are «draining people out of the local churches.»

This means their parents — who may be sleep deprived or suffering from PTSD — are being expected to give consent for an intervention that is based on little to no empirical evidence.

Until recently, little empirical evidence existed regarding the impact of data sharing and withholding on these and other aspects of science.

There is little empirical evidence supporting SMR, and the literature that does exist mainly reports the chronic, but not the acute effects, of myofascial release on muscle performance.

After spending four years sifting through hundreds of studies on teacher education, a national panel has concluded that there's little empirical evidence to show that many of the most common practices in the field produce effective teachers.

While there is little empirical evidence that the use of technology improves student learning, the descriptive evidence of technology's affect on student social studies experiences is strong.

To the contrary, consider the following statement from the Brookings Institution: «The empirical evidence suggests that the Common Core will have little effect on American students» achievement.

There is little empirical evidence, however, about the potential impact of these alternate approaches on current evaluation systems.

Unfortunately, there is little empirical evidence that strategies which rely on buying stocks with strong historical earnings growth tend to generate excess returns.

The 2012 study found that modern breeds only emerged in the 19th century and that claims of their antiquity are based on little or no historical or empirical evidence.

This adjacent plot of 5 - year temperature change versus 5 - year atmospheric CO2 level change is based on the most recent empirical evidence published by the government's GISS / NASA scientists (and they happen to be some of the largest proponents of chicken little global warming calamities).

Based on the gold - standard empirical evidence, it can safely be said that the increased atmospheric CO2 levels of 2016 had little acceleration impact, if any, since the earlier period - at a much lower level CO2 - exhibited greater atmospheric temperature acceleration.

Whatever your position, you got ta admit that it is strange that we have so little (in fact, none) empirical evidence on something that appears to be so basic and important.

Despite this consensus on writing's importance, little empirical evidence suggests that «good» brief writing actually makes a difference.11 Proving this proposition is difficult for at least two reasons.

The empirical evidence suggests, however, that age has little bearing on the process, and may even slightly increase your chances of success.

Generally too, there is little empirical information available on people's post-release experiences and what is available has been garnered from anecdotal evidence or assumptions made from the available data on recidivism.

Many economists suspect that downward nominal wage rigidities in ongoing labor contracts are an important source of employment fluctuations over the business cycle but there is little direct empirical evidence on this conjecture.