Sentences with phrase «meaningful differences in outcomes»

Without meaningful differences in outcomes between programs, policymakers, school districts, potential candidates, and programs themselves have little information about program quality.

Not exact matches

«We found small but meaningful differences in developmental outcomes between late preterm infants and full term groups, which if applied to larger populations, may have potentially significant long term public health implications,» says lead author Prachi Shah, M.D., a developmental and behavioral pediatrician at U-M's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital.

To paraphrase a spy, scientists often find education - focused conferences and meetings insipid, focused more on the manipulation of vague ideas and ill - defined symbols than on real and meaningful (and measurable) initiatives and outcomes — but these HHMI Professors presented a wide array of well - conceived and - executed (not to mention well - financed) projects that are likely to make a real difference in the education of tomorrow's scientists.

The idea that a six - hour delay in the start of the month - long, mostly random process of making antibodies could make any meaningful difference to the outcome doesn't make much sense to me.

In general, the content - centered preschool classrooms produced strong and immediate effects on cognitive and pre-academic outcomes compared with the child - centered approach, but no meaningful differences lasted through the end of 2nd grade.

And while the lawyer drafting a predictive office memorandum can try to take these factors into account, there typically is little meaningful information to rely on in assessing how differences between judges might affect the possible outcome.