Sentences with phrase «observer ratings»

First, children's sustained attention and impulsivity at age 4.5 years partially mediated the relation between parenting quality (as measured by a composite index of physical and social resources in the home, observer ratings of parental sensitivity and cognitive stimulation) at 4.5 years and children's academic achievement (as measured by performance on standardized reading and mathematics tests) at age 6 (NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2003).

Responding to the call for independent data in maternal depression research (Burt et al. 2005), separate informants were used to assess the four constructs in the model — maternal reports of their depressive symptomatology, observer ratings of the quality of mother - child interaction, teacher ratings of child emotion regulation, and peer nominations of child social preference.

An adapted version of the Social Skills Questionnaire for Preschoolers (SSQ - P; [23]-RRB- was used as an index of observer ratings of child social skills at each age.

While we studied the adolescents» own emotional experience, the above studies used videotaped observations of emotional displays (Keltner et al. 1995) or observer ratings of emotions (Eisenberg et al. 2001).

Although not unique to family assessment, there are typically modest associations between self - assessments and observer ratings of family functioning.

Results indicated both concurrent and predictive associations with indices of child regulation based on observer ratings or maternal report.

The CAARS scales provide a multiple - informant assessment with self - report (CAARS — S) and observer ratings (CAARS — O).

Results showed that, compared to GC cases, BSFT cases showed significantly greater pre - to post-intervention improvement in parent reports of adolescent conduct problems and delinquency, adolescent reports of marijuana use, and observer ratings and self - reports of family functioning.

Wehmeier et al24 found QbTest to be a valid measure of treatment outcome and highly correlated with blinded observer ratings of behaviour in placebo - controlled randomised controlled trial (RCTs).

This study examined whether attachment theory could be used to shed light on the often high degree of discordance between self - and observer ratings of behavioral functioning and symptomatology.

The relationship between cognitive style match and observer ratings of cotherapy teams: Dissertation Abstracts International.

The present study examined the relationship between student and observer ratings of the class environment.

Conversely, if observers based their scores on what they already know about teachers» value - added, the observer ratings would be distorted in ways that make the correlations might be very high, which might also be a red flag.

Teacher and observer ratings of children» s social skills: Validation of the Social Skills Rating Scales

Unfortunately, because observer ratings would have been too expensive, the TAQ ratings in the Fragile Families study had to be done by the mothers.

She wanted to get at least a minute of film on each teacher to be rated, play the tapes without sound for outside observers, and then have those observers rate the effectiveness of the teachers by their expressions and physical cues.

But her adviser encouraged her to try anyway, and with 10 seconds of tape, the observers rated the teachers on a 15 - item checklist of personality traits.

Tony and I developed a 30 hour course at Lead Level of the APST and we asked teams to use some of the work that has been done on teacher observer rating.

It will not be used as a checklist, but rather as a guide, with observers rating teachers based on «a preponderance of collected data.»

The one example where an observer rated a lesson's technology as less useful than an alternative was a situation where a time - consuming art activity facilitated with technology likely detracted from the quality of scientific information that the students were being asked to research and present.

Fairness requires consistency — meaning that different observers rate the same performance in the same manner.

They also found that when presented with video recordings of infants listening to speech, unfamiliar observers rated the infants more «appealing» when the infants were listening to IDS than when they were listening to ADS.

Discounted observer rates are available.

Later, independent observers rated each partner's conflict recovery on a scale of 1 to 5, based on the person's ability to make a complete transition from the conflict to the cool down discussion.

Observers rated the classroom atmosphere.

In 12 studies, participants who received active psychotherapy showed improvement at follow up (mean effect size 1.1, 95 % CI 0.9 to 1.3 for self report measures and 1.3, CI 0.8 to 1.8 for observer rated measures).

interview part of the measurement, another set of trained observers rated the levels of mother and

Observers rated contingent parent attention, negative statements, questions, rewards (including praise), α - commands (specifically stated maternal commands), β - commands (nonspecific directives that are difficult to interpret or do not direct the child to do a specific task), and child compliance.

To get «under the hood,» schools and districts might use tools such as classroom observation rubrics, a School Quality Review in which an outside observer rates a school's environment, or an examination of the steps a district has taken to support SEL.

HighScope observers rated the quality of each participating preschool classroom that year.

Observers ratings showed that teachers in the intervention group had significant improvements in warmth, social / emotion, inconsistent, and harsh / critical compared with control teachers; Head Start intervention teachers showed significant improvements in effective discipline compared with Head Start control teachers, but no effect was found for first - grade and kindergarten teachers.

In a series of studies where child participants were either told or not told that a partner with whom they were about to interact had ADHD, observers rated the participants as less friendly and more hostile when participants expected the partner to have ADHD (even when the partner was in fact typically developing)[56, 57].

Not exact matches

«Observers seem to think that go - getters exert less effort than slackers, even when they're working on the same task, and even though they themselves rated the assignment as equally difficult.

Yet there is another scenario, which, many observers believe, is just as likely: that Putin, with about $ 465 billion in foreign cash and gold in Russia's Central Bank, could try to ride out sanctions, perhaps for years, and emerge even stronger (his approval ratings are above 80 %) as the Man Who Faced Down the West.

With debt crises looming in the U.S. and the EU, central bankers are still hesitant to heed the advice of observers who warn (as the OECD did in a recent report), that rock - bottom interest rates have touched off problematic inflation.

Still, few observers think Mozilla can continue to win converts at the astounding rate of the past two years.

Time Warner may well get a better interest rate for its orphan than Tribune, according to knowledgeable observers.

The Fed previously had signaled it plans to raise interest rates two more times this year, but some observers have expressed concerns that the tightening monetary policy would accelerate over fears of inflation.

This shortage is why several bond - market observers such as Jeff Gundlach and Gary Shilling expect rates to stay low.

We hear numerous observers saying that stocks are «cheap relative to interest rates.»

As the Fed tapers, many observers worry about the effect on the stock market, while others are worried about the risk of inflation or deflation and everybody is worried about the effect of higher interest rates on economic growth and for the bond market.

Along those lines, some observers have suggested that it's necessary to raise the target for the fed funds rate soon in order to keep inflation under control.

I now turn to the second factor that leads observers to favor raising interest rates soon: financial stability.

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch)-- The Federal Reserve will hold policy steady at the end of its two - day meeting today but is likely more comfortable with a plan to raise interest rates in September than investors now realize, according to a keen outside observer of the U.S. central bank.

Through November, investors put $ 86 billion of new money into fixed - income ETFs in 2016, even as many industry observers, including CFRA, expect the Federal Reserve to resume raising interest rates in December.

While some market observers believe that even a modest rate rise will disrupt markets, the Fed has made it clear that rate increases will be measured and gradual, a pace likely well - anticipated by markets at this stage.

During the past few months, economic data, both in the United States and overseas, has been stronger than most market observers were expecting several months ago, especially given the fact that interest rates have risen.

A casual observer can only conclude that higher rates are clearly positive for equities.

Predictability is the key word — the central bank is expected to raise interest rates up to three times in 2018, but the moves will likely have little impact because the markets already anticipate them, observers say.

This move has come as a shock to many observers, especially in the face of the Fed raising interest rates.