Sentences with word «nonparticipants»

In summary, the regression discontinuity model suggests that there is no discernible difference between FTC Scholarship Program participants and nonparticipants in terms of reading test score gains, and there may be modest positive effects of participation for mathematics gains.

We matched 8,095 dual credit participants to an equal number of nonparticipants within the same high school at the point of postsecondary enrollment using propensity scores calculated through a two - level hierarchical generalized linear model with college type as a post treatment adjustment.

The nations in the club would impose a uniform tariff on nonparticipants.

If a climate coalition reduces its emissions, world prices change and nonparticipants typically emit more; they may also extract the dirtiest type of fossil fuel and invest too little in green technology.

Participants in short intensive learning experiences may feel that they get a lot out of them, but Feldon and his co-authors have found that the skills of doctoral students who participated in a boot camp or bridge program the summer just before or after their first year were no better than those of nonparticipants during their first 2 years of graduate school.

Slacker is a prescient look at an emerging generation of aggressive nonparticipants, and one of the key films of the American independent film movement of the 1990s.

Nonparticipants up to 95 percent of the students that should have been tested are retained in both the numerator and denominator of the calculation.

Minority students from low - income families who take part in early - intervention programs in high school have a better chance than comparable nonparticipants of enrolling in a postsecondary institution, concludes a report by the Washington - based Institute for Higher Education Policy and the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation.

At the elementary level, reading test scores and grades in most subjects were no higher for program participants than for nonparticipants.

While no differences were found between participants and nonparticipants regarding demographic and illness - related variables, 56 % of those asked declined to participate.

Previous small studies have documented improvements in body fat and aerobic performance in BOKS participants, compared with nonparticipants.

William Nordhaus at Yale has suggested using a «climate club,» a group of countries that set a common carbon price and level trade tariffs on nonparticipants (9).

Similarly, meta - analyses of studies of adults and older children have demonstrated no significant differences in outcomes between trial participants and nonparticipants who were treated similarly outside trials,» the authors write.

Students who participated in the preschool project generally did better in life than students who did not: Preschool participants» lifetime earnings were 14 percent higher, and their rate of homeownership was 32 percent higher than that of nonparticipants.

The 15 - year study showed medical school graduates involved in the program not only entered family practice residency training at higher rates than nonparticipants, but nearly half began their medical careers in rural locations.

Compared to nonparticipants, those involved in the summer program were also 30 percent more likely to enter primary care residency training, and twice as likely to choose family medicine specifically.

«The present study did not find differences in mortality or neonatal morbidity between trial participants and nonparticipants.

The film, directed by Richard Laxton, plays out as a love triangle that isn't — Ruskin is a nonparticipant — as Effie becomes drawn to the painter Everett Millais (Tom Sturridge).

All nonparticipants in the state exam will receive a score of zero, which will in turn impact school scores on the state's accountability system

This is best way to rule out unobserved differences between participants and nonparticipants but means it's hard to compare the DC results with those from Milwaukee and Florida.

A handful of experimental studies of desegregation programs compare participants with nonparticipants.

After 18 months in the program, the study found, the «little brothers and sisters» were half as likely as their nonparticipant peers to try drugs or skip classes, and only one - third as likely to use alcohol.

Texas has been a nonparticipant in many of the multi-state attempts at standards - based reform, yet it may be having more success.

We found no significant differences, though participants had a larger share of minority students than nonparticipants, with both groups being majority - minority.

The Boston study of just over 2,000 students in the public school district's universal program for 4 - to -5-year-olds found greater gains in vocabulary and math for participating students compared with nonparticipants, after one year, than seen in any other study of other large - scale pre-K programs around the US.

The authors of the study hold out hope that the positive finding on kindergarten retentions means that the TN - VPK had a positive effect on children's social / emotional development, which will lead to long term positive outcomes like those that were found in the famous Perry Preschool Project (in which, for example, participants were less likely than nonparticipants to have had encounters with the criminal justice system as adults).

Students who attend L.A.'s BEST, an after - school enrichment program in Los Angeles, are less likely than nonparticipants of similar backgrounds to drop out of school, a study has found.

Using statewide longitudinal data, the study analyzes dual - credit participation rates by race / ethnicity, gender and math and reading achievement on state tests and examines differences in outcomes for dual - credit participants and nonparticipants.

Texas — one of just four states not to adopt the Common Core State Standards and a nonparticipant in the administration's various Race to the Top competitions — wasn't widely expected to seek a waiver but surprisingly announced earlier this month that it now intends to do so.

A recent evaluation of the ACE - 21st Century Community Learning Centers1 found the following when program participants were compared to nonparticipants:

participants and nonparticipants in the public schools is that students who have transferred to the private sector using a FTC Scholarship appear to be keeping pace with the gains observed in the public sector.

So, unless you have specific reasons for wanting to continue to leave your money in the 401k plan (e.g. you have access to investments that are not available to nonparticipants and you think those investments are where you want your money to be), roll over your 401k assets into an IRA.

The rationale is that nonparticipants are damaging other countries because of their total emissions of GHGs, not only from those embodied in traded goods.

There was no significant variation in negative relationship quality between G1 participants and nonparticipants.

Participants tended to be slightly more educated and older and to have slightly heavier newborns than nonparticipants, p <.01.