Sentences with phrase «older test group»

An older test group, he adds, would have a lower mean starting score and more variability in performance, leaving more room for training to cause meaningful improvement.

Not exact matches

In the same test group, which included about 8,000 respondents globally, only 47 percent of older generations said tech has given them a better work - life balance and improved relationships.

Working with a third - party clinical testing group, Neba studied 275 children and adolescents ranging in age from 6 to 17 years old, all of whom exhibited signs of attention or behavioral concerns.

I guess if you are going to believe in an all knowing, all powerful sky daddy, reading an old compilation of 60 different books from 40 different authors put together by a group of supposedly reformed pagans 1600 years ago would just be putting your faith to the test, I mean a person with faith needs no proof.

Unlike older age groups who are often baseline tested before injury, concussion management for young children is mostly reactive.

In an effort to comfort babies and support parents this MTF Writing Group review will highlight the findings of a recent study that put some of these age - old remedies to the test.

Michael Hickey, the village resident who tested the water and sounded the first alarm about the contamination three years ago, as well as Loreen Hackett, Emily Marpe and her 12 - year - old daughter, Gwen Young, traveled there on behalf of the Environmental Working Group and Environmental Defense Fund.

But especially with further studies in older age groups, mesopic vision testing could be an important means of testing or screening of various conditions — especially for patients with conditions known to affect night vision.

Since older people have greater potential for improving their fitness than younger people, a follow - up study conducted by a research group headed by doctor and molecular biologist Helmuth Haslacher from MedUni Vienna, in collaboration with Robert Winker's team from the Health and Prevention Center of the Healthcare Institution for City of Vienna employees, took blood samples from 47 marathon runners before an ergometer test, in order to carry out laboratory tests to determine levels of analytes, including inflammatory markers, muscle and liver parameters.

As predicted for older adults, during the Stroop test both sides of the PFC are active, with no difference between right and left, verifying the HAROLD phenomenon amongst this group of men.

For the test, the participants were divided into three groups — those diagnosed with MCI or had a family history of Alzheimer's disease, and two control groups, young adults and older adults, without a family history of the disease.

To test this, the researchers recruited a diverse group of 171 seventh - and eighth - graders and followed them from ages 13 through 27 years old.

Studying older people over time can be challenging given their uncertain health, but Ritchie and his colleagues had an unusual resource in the Lothian Birth Cohort, a group of people born in 1936 whose mental function has been periodically tested by the Scottish government since 1947 — their first IQ test was at age 11.

Both groups had the old test and the microchip - based test performed on their blood.

The older gamers showed gains of about 100 milliseconds in the speed of their response to a test of working memory — the ability to hold something in the mind briefly and then recall it — while there were no improvements in the control groups (who either didn't play the game or weren't forced to do the driving and sign recognition tasks simultaneously).

To investigate, Chen and his colleagues tested a group of five - week - old mice, with two weeks of voluntary wheel running.

Now that chess and checkers are old news, other scientists in Schaeffer's group, including Martin Muller and Akihiro Kishimoto are turning their eyes to what many see as an ultimate test of artificial intelligence: the traditional East Asian board game go.

During the study, a group of 57 younger and older adults (between the ages of 17 to 23 and 60 to 86) were shown the faces and names of 24 different people and were tested on their memory right after.

• Extra: Instead of testing two random groups of volunteers, try testing four groups of volunteers — two who are relatively young and two who are relatively old (with half of the younger people and half of the older people each receiving the plain lists and the other halves getting the lists with the mnemonic device).

To test whether the inocula produced any other type of toxicity in the recipient mice, a group of 4 - wk - old, male, Tg - hIAPP mice was inoculated with a single i.p. injection of 100 µl of 10 % pancreas homogenate.

Another group of mice underwent memory testing at both middle age (one year old) and old age (two years old).

Greater running distance in the 2 - to 3 - month - old mice may partially explain these data, but the solo - housed wild - type mice used to test solo - versus group - housing (Fig. 5) ran similar distances as the young mice, yet did not show any increase in brain progranulin levels.

C) Glucose tolerance test (1.5 g glucose / kg body weight, i.p.) was performed in unrestrained 4 - mo - old male mice after an overnight fast (n = 15 / group); blood glucose measurements were taken every 15 min for 120 min with a blood glucose monitor (Accu - Chek).

«This is the first study of its kind designed to test the effects of a diet on the decline of cognitive abilities among a large group of individuals 65 to 84 years old who currently do not have cognitive impairment,» says Martha Clare Morris, ScD, a nutritional epidemiologist at Rush and principal investigator of the study.

To test our hypothesis, we generated heterochronic parabiotic pairs between 15 - month - old (Het - O) and 2 - month - old (Het - Y) male mice, as well as control groups of age - matched pairs, namely isochronic young (Iso - Y) and isochronic old (Iso - O) pairs (fig.

Testing the tibialis anterior (shin) muscle, they found that the masters runners had 140 motor units on average, compared with 150 for the young group but just 91 for the old non-runner group.

(1) vegans have always existed, and our numbers include Leonardo Da Vinci and St David of Wales, a tribe who have been vegan for their 2000 year existence, a group from a Chilean mining village who Charles Darwin commented on positively for their strength, and an ancient 5000 year old European body that isotope tests showed to have eaten a plant - based diet (2) It is only very recently that people have begun to eat so much meat.

A twice daily dietary supplement for 13 weeks containing whey protein, leucine, and vitamin D (20 g whey protein, 3 g total leucine, and 800 IU vitamin D) was given to older (~ 78 years) primarily independent - living sarcopenic adults and resulted in improved chair — stand test time and showed a greater gain in skeletal muscle mass than the control group (and these results were repeated in other studies).

At 8 months of age, both DIO and DR groups had increased hyperglycemic response during a glucose tolerance test, which was normalized in 16 - month - old mice.

In one large study published in 1996, German researchers tested Ginkgo extract on a group of 222 patients, aged fifty - five or older, who were diagnosed with mild to moderate dementia caused by either Alzheimer's disease or multi-infarct dementia.

A 14 - year - old boy, of course: Women don't get much thought in this film, although it technically passes the Bechdel test because a group of female Highway Patrol officers talk about how much prettier one of them is than the rest.

The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) tested 125,000 15 - year - olds in 52 countries and economies to analyse how well they work together as a group, their attitudes towards collaboration and the influence of factors such as gender, after - school activities and social background.

Schools should be permitted to use multiple, locally created assessments instead of «one shot» tests to measure student progress for accountability purposes, according to a report released last week by a panel of experts convened by the Forum on Educational Accountability, a group that includes some of the most vocal critics of the 5 - year - old No Child Left Behind Act.

Older observers, used to exams that entail silence and test booklets, are surprised to learn that a lively discussion between a teacher and a small group of students is actually a formal and rigorous assessment.The teacher is asking them probing questions about their project.

*** These activities also require additional materials which are easy to come by: Plastic water bottles (4 per group) Plastic soda bottles (1 per group) Plastic cups (16 per group) Small rocks (2 - 3 cups per group) Sand (2 - 3 cups per group) Old t - shirts (1 per group) Dirt (1 large Ziploc bag per group) Variety of edible plant seeds, at least 8 different kinds (tomato, lettuce, etc...) Salt (1 large container per group) Sticks (10 per group) String (1 roll per group) Roll of plastic trash bags (1 bag per group) Duct tape (1 roll per group) Foam pool noodles (1 per group) Poster board (1 per group) Rubber bands (5 - 10 per group) A container large enough to hold water for testing floatation (ideally 1 per group but can be just 1 for the class) *** Please make sure to rate and leave feedback.

While breaks can help reset student focus, a useful alternative — especially for older students — is to switch teaching strategies throughout a lesson: Try having students team up on a think - pair - share activity or work in groups, spend a few minutes reviewing concepts, or give a low - stakes practice test at the end of a lesson.

The second type of classroom, which we used as a control group, consisted of classrooms with large test - score gains but no evidence of cheating in their answer strings, a sign of plain - old good teaching.

Testing started Tuesday at the school, where a group of teachers, administrators, parents and students had earlier agreed to boycott the exams, called Smarter Balanced, which are replacing Washington's old statewide tests.

Test - Refusal Movement's Success Hampers Analysis of New York State Exam Results New York Times, 8/14/15» «I remember the bad old days when achievement gaps between groups of students or between schools and school districts were hidden as if they were a dirty secret,» Thomas Kane, an economist and professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, said in an email.

Intelligence testing in kindergarten for placement in groups there and in the first grade was enhanced by the invention of readiness tests that aimed at sorting those five - year - olds that could make the transition to the first grade from those who could not.

Groups of parents in parts of England have withdrawn their children from school, in protest against new tests for six and seven - year - olds.

NAEP's 2012 long - term trend assessment shows that students in the two younger tested groups — 9 - and 13 - year - olds — scored significantly higher in reading and math than these age groups did forty years ago in the early 1970s.

Scores for 17 - year - olds, the third age group tested by NAEP, are a point or two higher than they were in the 1970s but the difference is not statistically significant.

«Whether it's a handshake or a hug at carpool; a reflection on Sunday's gospel; an inspirational video from YouTube; a read - aloud from an old favorite like the Giving Tree; affirming a member of the community for a good deed; a blessing on a group of students like a CYO team before a big game or the eighth graders prior to taking their high school placement test; a prayer intention for someone who is ill or who has recently returned home to heaven; so many different activities can take place during morning assemblies, but there is only one goal, make God known, loved and served.»

Rather AIR is the same old stale Common Core company that has a contract with the Smarter Balanced testing group that, along with the PARCC testing group that Arizona used to be a part of, received over $ 350 million from the U.S. Department of Education to develop a Common Core test to assess the privately owned and secretly created federal Common Core standards.

«What is particularly worrying is that this week's reading and numeracy test results for 7 to 14 year olds showed similar gender gaps, which bodes ill for these year groups taking their GCSEs in the next decade.»

Interestingly, although the 2014 Chevrolet Equinox is one of the oldest models in the group, its touch - screen navigation interface ($ 795) is attractive and modern — one of the best in the test.

Either individually or in small groups, upper - elementary (or even older) students can make windmill models from scrap materials and test them with a small fan.

To see how much blue light screens are giving off, the group tested some of «the latest» LE devices, including an iPad Air, iPhone 5s, and a Kindle Paperwhite 1st generation (yes, they're actually older models — but the team addresses this as a limitation in the discussion at the end of the paper).

Manulife said it's also reducing electrocardiogram testing requirements for older age groups applying for up to $ 5 million in coverage.