Sentences with phrase «little evidence of positive»

Although students overwhelmingly like to use their devices, a growing research base finds little evidence of positive effects and plenty of indications of potential harm.

Not exact matches

some indicating strength, some showing weaknesses, with little evidence to justify the expectation of either a positive or negative performance for this stock relative to most other stocks.

Among those who were aware of the meeting, which resulted in the adoption of a new national plan to tackle climate change and spur clean energy, reactions to the outcome were broadly positive, with little evidence of anxiety.

The primary factors that have impacted our rating are mixed some indicating strength, some showing weaknesses, with little evidence to justify the expectation of either a positive or negative performance for this stock relative to most other stocks.

The primary factors that have impacted our rating are mixed — some indicating strength, some showing weaknesses, with little evidence to justify the expectation of either a positive or negative performance for this stock relative to most other stocks.

Little argument is offered, alternative positions are rarely mentioned and never analyzed nor refuted, no real evidence for his positive proposals is provided, there is page after page of blunt assertion, and after the first chapter I simply lost count of the leaps of logic which larded every section.

«While many people fear that decriminalisation will lead to increased use, there is little evidence to support such fears, and even less evidence that the current punitive sanctions provide any sort of positive return on investment for society.»

As it stands, the evidence on offer in his rendition of Macbeth shows little else than that the $ 170 million video game adaptation Assassin's Creed he has signed up to may well be the perfect project for Kurzel (and I mean this in both a positive and a negative sense).

A Little Rock, Arkansas, performance - pay program lasted only three years and was not renewed by the local school board, despite evidence of positive effects on student achievement in math, reading, and language.

«Little is known about whether (professional development) can have a positive impact on achievement when a program is delivered across a range of typical settings and when its delivery depends on multiple trainers,» conclude Wayne and co. «Despite a consensus in the literature on the features of effective (professional development), there is limited evidence on the specific features that make a difference for achievement.»

However, research to date finds little evidence of a strong positive effect of teachers» pay on student achievement.

We found little evidence that the Choice program increased the test scores of participating students, though our final analysis revealed a positive effect of the program on reading scores when combined with high stakes testing.

In a study of two state - mandated programs of this type, Hoffman and his colleagues found some positive effects for such programs in supporting teachers through their first year of teaching, but they found little evidence that the programs or the criteria were effective in screening out incompetent teachers (Hoffman et al., 1986)

EEF publish review of marking little evidence to show which strategies will have a positive impact on pupil progress

The gains at the high school level were «particularly noteworthy, as there is little systematic evidence that any of the many high school reforms attempted to date have had a positive effect on student achievement.»

Though nearly all schools deliver some form of professional development, there is little evidence that common types of professional development efforts, such as workshop - type training, have positive impacts on teacher quality or student outcomes.

Responding to and in the manner of KK Tung's UPDATE (and, you can quote me): globally speaking the slowing of the rapidity of the warming, were it absent an enhanced hiatus compared to prior hiatuses, must at the least be interpreted as nothing more than a slowdown of the positive trend of uninterrupted global warming coming out of the Little Ice Age that has been «juiced» by AGW as evidenced by rapid warming during the last three decades of the 20th Century, irrespective of the fact that, «the modern Grand maximum (which occurred during solar cycles 19 — 23, i.e., 1950 - 2009),» according to Ilya Usoskin, «was a rare or even unique event, in both magnitude and duration, in the past three millennia [that's, 3,000 years].»

It was grounded on unparalleled access to the relevant documents and in the candid oral evidence of the key individuals, and if very little is positive in the report's findings, the honesty and acuity of its conclusions is at least one good that has come out of Operation Telic.

With contradictions possibly related to child age, some studies suggest that child negative emotionality elicits more parental warmth, 10 whereas other studies suggest it has mixed associations with parental warmth.11 However, there is more consistent evidence that high levels of parental sensitivity / responsivity lead to less child negative reactivity.8, 12 There is also some evidence that child negative emotionality predicts more negative parental control, 7 and a little evidence that negative parental control predicts more negative emotionality.13 In terms of more specific aspects of negative emotionality, child fearfulness predicts more parental warmth and more positive control.14 Similarly, low levels of parental warmth predict increases in fearfulness.12

Temperament — Parenting: There is some, but not much, evidence that child positive emotional reactivity may elicit higher levels of parental warmth.6, 7 There is also a little evidence of the opposite direction of effects, suggesting that parental warmth gives rise to more child positive emotionality.8, 9 We do not yet have enough evidence to know whether child positivity and parental control influence one another.

Although there is some evidence from familial research that positive relationships may influence outcomes, the importance of prosocial influences on outcomes has traditionally received little attention.59 The review suggests that this may be a particularly important construct to investigate in future studies of staff - patient relationships, as it has been linked to patient outcomes as well as staff characteristics.