Sentences with phrase «observable characteristics»

At the start of the study, there were no statistically significant differences between the Triple P and control group counties in observable characteristics (e.g., child maltreatment rates over the prior five years, poverty rates, racial composition).

If the benefits of marriage for children can be explained by other observable characteristics of the family, and especially money or parenting behavior, then policy may be more successful if focused on those pathways.

Semiparametric lower bound estimates of the variance in teacher quality based entirely on within - school heterogeneity indicate that teachers have powerful effects on reading and mathematics achievement, though little of the variation in teacher quality is explained by observable characteristics such as education or experience.

In their Florida study, Matthew Chingos and Daniel Kuehn do their best by matching students on observable characteristics that are somewhat removed from the outcome of interest.

• Only eight percent of students in the cities were enrolled in schools that «beat the odds» by outperforming schools with similar observable characteristics elsewhere in the state.

But, he adds, «I think by far the interpretation most consistent with observable characteristics of the moons aside from their orbits --[their] density, spectral properties, [dark color]-- would be that they're captured asteroids.»

By decoding this information, biologists can find hidden links between genetic makeup and observable characteristics such as shape or morphology, development and behaviour.

The basic regression model can, therefore, be improved by adding controls for observable characteristics to increase the reliability of the estimated impact by accounting for minor differences and improving the precision of the overall statistical model.

The results are quite surprising: after adjusting the data for the effects of only a few observable characteristics, the black - white test - score gap in math and reading for students entering kindergarten essentially disappeared.

Now character is a not very compelling inference one might or might not draw from observable characteristics.

We can also eliminate any other observable characteristics like perceived attractiveness or trustworthiness.»

Therefore, we need to rely on global observable characteristics to estimate the star - formation rate of galaxies located far away.

Only about 3 percent of the contribution teachers made to student learning was associated with teacher experience, degree attained, and other readily observable characteristics.

CBO's analysis compared federal civilian employees with private - sector employees who resembled them in the following observable characteristics:

The results of this initial analysis reveal that students in charter schools, on average, make annual gains that are 0.06 standard deviations less in reading and 0.08 standard deviations less in math than students in traditional public schools with similar observable characteristics.

If the benefits of marriage for children can be explained by other observable characteristics of the family, and especially money or parenting behavior, then policy may be more successful if focused on those pathways.

We also find that little of the changes in teacher effectiveness estimates within teachers can be explained by observable characteristics.

If black students in the sample continue to lose ground through 9th grade at the rate experienced in the first two years of school, they will lag behind white students on average by a full standard deviation in raw math and reading scores and by more than two - thirds of a standard deviation in math even after controlling for observable characteristics (the gap would be substantially smaller in reading).

after adjusting the data for the effects of only a few observable characteristics, the black - white test - score gap in math and reading for students entering kindergarten essentially disappeared.

These rubrics allow children to compare their work against relationally strong and weak samples of work, setting goals based on observable characteristics.

If we grow out these seeds, the observable characteristics of the resulting pods will be near identical (for the sake of argument, let's say we get lucky and our cross is orange with purple spots, is Jalapeno shaped and has the heat and flavour of a Habanero — in reality this will never happen.

Psychologists and others define personality phenotypes — sets of observable characteristics — based upon quantitative scoring of these five factors.

The relationship is non-linear because phenotype, or set of observable characteristics, is determined by a complex interplay between an organism's genes — tens of thousands of them, all influencing one another's behaviour — and its environment.

The matching of human and rodent phenotypes — observable characteristics — to find human mutations was a novel idea among hair researchers.

Phenotypic microarrays are a high - throughput system featuring plates with 96 wells per plate, each well representing a different condition under which to research the phenotypes — the observable characteristics — of the examined mutants.

Experiments in germ - free mice showed that one gut bacterium in particular, Christensenella minuta, can influence the phenotype — the composite of observable characteristics or traits — of the host.

Phenotypic approaches screen for the effects of small molecules on an observable characteristic of an animal, tissue or cell model, typically without a priori knowledge of the target.

This experiment illustrates the direct link between an organism's genetic complement (genotype) and its observable characteristics (phenotype).

It's one thing to know the human genome, but another to know what factors dictate how it relates to our observable characteristics or phenotype.

If our accumulated genetic material (or genome) serves as our program, our gaming experience is our phenotype, an organism's observable characteristics.

In Hyderabad, students attending recognized and unrecognized private schools outperformed their peers in government schools by a full standard deviation in both English and math (after accounting for differences in their observable characteristics).

To eliminate the effects of any chance differences in performance caused by other observable characteristics, our analysis takes into account students» age, gender, race, and eligibility for the free lunch program; whether they had been assigned to a small class; and whether they were assigned to a teacher of the same race — which earlier research using these same data found to have a large positive effect on student performance (see «The Race Connection,» Spring 2004).

We also find no evidence that teachers are systematically assigned students with better (or worse) observable characteristics in their evaluation year compared to prior and subsequent years.

These improvements did not reflect changes in the observable characteristics of the schools» student bodies or in the schools» levels of spending.

Since the three groups of schools are similar in their observable characteristics, such as the student body's ethnic makeup, and most likely in other characteristics as well, the only major difference between the always - D schools and the other two groups is the competition they face from vouchers.

There are observable characteristics of the lived culture such as trust, collaboration and direction.

By balanced, we mean that we can not reject the hypothesis that there are no differences in the observable characteristics of lotteried - in and lotteried - out students.

Even if two children appear similar in terms of all observable characteristics, it is nearly certain that the retained child differs in some important way from the child who was promoted, and it is likely that this difference will influence each child's long - term outcomes.