Sentences with phrase «more homogeneous groups»

It should be noted that GEE analyses that we used reflect a marginal model, i.e. the average person's change within the population, which constitutes a backdrop against which more homogeneous groups of girls with multiple mental health problems can be compared.

Growing interest in «blended learning» and other classroom uses of technology, which help teachers customize and individualize learning by letting some students move at their own pace online while teaching other kids in smaller, perhaps more homogeneous groups.

Teaching a more homogeneous group of students might allow teachers to adjust the material covered and the pace of instruction to students» needs.

Not exact matches

That's why, in the end, you're likely to find a better fit and more learning with a homogeneous sized, but industry diverse peer group.

The estimates for the 7 studies reporting exclusive feeding were more homogeneous (χ2 = 8, P = 0.23) than were the estimates from all 17 studies; the overall mean difference in total cholesterol from the 7 studies reporting exclusive feeding was stronger (mean difference: − 0.15 mmol / L; 95 % CI: 0.23, − 0.06 mmol / L; Figure 3) than that in the remaining 10 studies (14 388 subjects) that did not report exclusive feeding (mean difference: − 0.01 mmol / L; 95 % CI: − 0.06, 0.03 mmol / L; χ2 = 14, P = 0.12; test for difference between groups, P = 0.005).

This group represents a more homogeneous set of neonates than in other studies that consist of premature infants with a broader range of birthweights.

By insisting on larger, more homogeneous patient groups and longitudinal rather than cross-sectional studies, the field is poised to fulfill its ultimate role of linking defects in molecular biology to aberrant behavior.

With high and homogeneous image quality (the mean seeing in the g band is 0.78 arcsec), and reaching limiting magnitudes of around 25 across the ugriz filter set, this survey has yielded several dozen new gravitational lenses on both galaxy and group scales (Cabanac et al. 2007; More et al. 2012; Sonnenfeld et al. 2013; Gavazzi et al. 2014).

Participants in the healthy - lifestyle group demonstrated slightly more homogeneous distributions in health behaviors than those in the unhealthy - lifestyle group.

A meta - analysis comparing small - group work to individual work in K - 12 and college classrooms also found that students working in small groups achieved significantly more than students working individually, and optimal groups for learning tended to be three - to four - member teams with lower - ability students working best in mixed groups and medium - ability students doing best in homogeneous groups.

Even then, however, teachers work to «differentiate instruction,» which often means separating the kids back into homogeneous groups again, and offering more challenging, extended assignments to the higher - achieving students.

Being in a homogeneous group may feel more pleasant, she says, but diverse groups keep people on their toes.

At any point over at least the last 50 years, a synthesis of available empirical evidence would have suggested, quite unambiguously, that students having difficulty at school, especially those disadvantaged by their socioeconomic backgrounds, learn more when they are working in heterogeneous rather than in homogeneous ability groups (e.g., Oakes, 1985; Yonezawa, Wells, and Serna, 2002).

It is also becoming clear that female offenders are not a homogeneous group and that treatment approaches ultimately should be tailored to suit individual needs defined more specifically than by gender alone.

But it is also becoming clear that female offenders are not a homogeneous group and that treatment ultimately should be tailored to suit individual needs defined more specifically than by gender alone.