Sentences with phrase «of nonparticipants»

The school - based sample design, using 1 class period for completion of the questionnaire, precluded ability to compare respondent characteristics with those of nonparticipants.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

It must be conducted in language and expressive gestures at least some of which are already familiar to nonparticipants.

In abolishing the practice of deacons» communicating the presbyters, the Nicene Council characterized as against tradition what had, in fact, been primitively the natural function of the servants of the bishops, namely, to pass the bread and wine and first of all to the liturgically nonparticipant but revered and seated elders (presbyters) of the congregation.

Limitations of the study included low response rate for control families, higher socioeconomic status in participants vs. nonparticipants, possible residual confounding despite multivariate analysis, and possible recall bias because of retrospective design.

To the extent that the rate of fan use was different between participants and nonparticipants and was related to case or control status, these results may be biased.

Although we could not find estimates of fan use in the US population, we examined the potential selection bias by evaluating characteristics associated with SIDS risks in study participants and nonparticipants in a previously published article.16 Using California birth certificate data, we compared the ORs for maternal age, maternal education, parity, birth weight, infant sex, and late initiation of prenatal care (> 5 months» gestation).

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.

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

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

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

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.

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).

Two surveys were distributed in conjunction with a number of personal interviews and nonparticipant observations of middle school teachers in a Florida county.

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

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

Somewhat surprisingly he sees import tariffs on products from nonparticipant countries as a part of the most promising solution.

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).

Comparison of Participants and Nonparticipants in the Prospective Outcome Study Among Childhood ADHD Cases

There was also a lower rate of reimprisonment for program participants than nonparticipants; however, this difference was not statistically significant.

Thus, no analytic comparisons of participants versus nonparticipants could be performed.

Relative risk of problem gambling among past - year participants in nine legal gambling activities compared to nonparticipants

Relative risk of problem gambling among past - year weekly participants compared to nonparticipants

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