In the long term there were small
positive effect sizes for externalizing behavior.
Positive effect sizes indicated improvement in symptoms.
Although there were no significant differences between groups,
positive effect sizes (range:.25 — .40) were found for the COPE program with respect to maternal state anxiety at 3 of the 4 postdischarge time points.
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The Education Endowment Foundation suggests that thinking skills can add eight months of progress to a child's development; John Hattie suggests a strong effect size of 0.53, while and all the other studies which we look at suggest
positive effect sizes.
Many of
the positive effect sizes were modest, but some were considerable and, until now, none had found any harm.
Within group effect sizes were calculated (Cohen's d), with
positive effect size indicating improvement.
Not exact matches
The negative
effects of lower oil prices hit the economy right away, and the various
positives - more exports because of a stronger U.S. economy and a lower dollar, and more consumption spending as households spend less on fuel - will arrive only gradually, and are of uncertain
size.
Researchers found statistically significant improvements in knowledge, more
positive attitudes towards fathers and heightened intention to engage with fathers in practice after the training, with moderate to strong
effect sizes.
It's also the first study to show the
size of the
effect of
positive pressure mask treatment (CPAP) in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSAS) on their nocturia symptoms.»
«Although the current studies demonstrated that telling women that men prefer women with body
sizes larger than the thin - ideal can have immediate
positive effects on women's body image, it is unclear how long these
effects may last,» Meltzer said.
Because of small sample
size, the changes in tumor - initiating cell number were not significant (P > 0.05), but these data are supportive of the in vitro findings and suggest that hypoxia may have a
positive effect on the tumor - initiating cell population in ER - α —
positive breast cancers and a negative
effect in ER - α — negative tumors.
All the big bros training with you are natty, until you start education yourself on the subject of steroid more and learn about the
positive effects they have on muscle strength and
size, but also on the negative
effects as well.
When looking at progesterone therapy benefits and side
effects in males, other
positive changes include reducing body odor and sweat and improving urine flow as prostate
size decreases.
The
positive effects of IGF - 1 on the rats continued for months after the rats stopped getting the supplemental hormone, whereas the exercising rats immediately lost
size and strength as soon as they stopped exercising.
The only way to prove that plus
size women online dating has an
effect on marital outcomes —
positive or negative — is to do a controlled trial in which people are randomly assigned to meet people online or in the real world.
While there may be other mechanisms through which increased school spending improves student outcomes, these results suggest that the
positive effects are driven, at least in part, by some combination of reductions in class
size, having more adults per student in schools, increases in instructional time, and increases in teacher salaries that may help to attract and retain a more highly qualified teaching workforce.
Others have found it tempting to argue that the state's constitutional amendments to reduce class
size and provide universal pre-kindergarten services — both of which could have a sustained
positive effect on young kids — are the most likely driver of the gains.
Due to the relatively small sample
sizes, all of the
effects are imprecisely estimated and do not allow us to definitively rule out reasonably large
positive effects.
In 11 of the 18 nations, the estimate of the
effects of class
size were
positive and statistically significant, suggesting that students in larger classes perform significantly better than students in smaller classes.
In using a regression - discontinuity design (comparing schools that received the SIG treatment to slightly higher performing schools that did not receive the treatment), the authors were not able to generate a sample
size that would be sensitive to
positive significant
effects that, in my mind, could be considered a success.
NAPLAN effective
size gain (relative to the nation) shows a significant increase in
positive effect from 2014 - 16.
(In the fourth year report the sample
size shrunk so that the
positive achievement
effect barely missed meeting a strict threshold for statistical significance — p <.06 just missing the bar of p <.05.
A meta - analysis of 85 independent
effect sizes extracted from 46 primary studies involving a total of 36,793 learners indicated statistically significant
positive effects of CT on mathematics achievement.
In Tulsa, Oklahoma, New Jersey, and Boston, pre-kindergarten programs demonstrate impressive outcomes that include
positive effects on math scores, grade retention, and chronic absenteeism at the end of grade 8; increased achievement on language arts, literacy, math, and science, as well as decreased grade retention and special education placement at the end of grade 5; and stronger than typical impacts on academic readiness (
effect sizes in the 0.4 — 0.6 range) at school entry.
On average, the
effect sizes in reading turn
positive in the second year of the programs and exceed 0.1 standard deviations after three years.
But the total
effect on test scores also increases because the
positive effect of adding a day to the school year is always greater than the negative
effect of the needed reduction in class
size.
The
effect sizes are negative in math during students» first and second years in the program, turn
positive in the third year, and increase thereafter.
For African Americans,
effect sizes were
positive for parenting style and for family attendance at various school events, but those variables were not statistically significant for other groups.
It is well established that lowering class
size, especially for K - 3, can have a
positive effect on students.
The moderating
effects of organizational characteristics are to be expected, since district
size and school
size almost always «make a difference,» no matter what the focus of the research is.180 Elementary schools are typically more sensitive than secondary schools to leadership influence, although previous leader - efficacy research has reported mostly non-significant
effects.181 And the rapid turnover of principals has been widely decried as anathema to school improvement efforts.182 Now we have some evidence that the
positive effects of leader efficacy are also moderated by school and district
size (the larger the organization, the less sense of efficacy among principals).
Egalite found, «The competitive threat of the LSP ranges from negligible to modestly
positive in the public schools exposed to the threat of competition, with
effect sizes growing in magnitude as the competitive threat looms larger.»
Collective teacher efficacy (CTE), the perceptions of teachers in a school that the efforts of the faculty as a whole will have a
positive effect on students (Bandura, 1977, 1986, & 1997), has a 1.57
effect size (Eells, 2011, Hattie, 2014).
We find
positive effects on reading comprehension among third and fourth graders, with
effect sizes of.21 to.29 standard deviations, but no
effects for first and second graders.
In both cases, increasing
size initially brings
positive effects but these trends are reversed as
size continues to increase.
Based on scores in nationally standardized tests (fourth grade reading and math and eighth grade reading and math), greater union membership of educators tends to have a
positive impact on student test scores while larger class
sizes tend to have a negative
effect.
As shown in Table 2,
effect sizes were all
positive, illustrating the general tendency of the middle school students in this baseline data sample to be more
positive in their perceptions of STEM than were the preservice teachers.
It found that
effect sizes grew or held steady and that
positive effects were found for both high - and low - poverty families.
When students are grouped and one teacher gets the lowest performing students, another gets the gifted students, and so on, there is no
positive impact on student achievement (even with the highest group the
effect size is minimal).
Leading Educators Fellows who taught mathematics in New Orleans had a statistically significant,
positive effect on student achievement, and the
effect size was nearly three times that of attending a highly effective urban charter school.
One of the most widely admired educational studies is the Tennessee STAR class
size project, which established that small classes had a significant
positive effect on student achievement.
These did have more moderate (but
positive)
effect sizes because, presumably, the cardio challenges were absent.
Ninety percent of all
effect sizes in education are
positive (d >.0) and this means that almost everything works.
I think there's no one
size fits all, which is why you have to diversify so the negative
effect of any one thing is offset by the
positives your books in that one thing.
Zwirner's role in the market will undoubtedly have a
positive effect due to the
size of the gallery and its geographic reach.
Their enormous
positive effect is a result of their proven effectiveness in reducing family
size and population growth.
However, I am willing to be convinced of the mechanism you propose, CO2 greenhouse
effect with a
positive feedback of equal
size to the initial forcing.
[98] Due to their
size, HGVs often receive criticism regarding their CO2 emissions; however, rapid development in engine technology and fuel management is having a largely
positive effect.
Clouds can have either a
positive or negative feedback
effect, depending on their altitude and the
size of their water droplets.
The reduction of square footage helped us reduce the
size of HVAC systems that had a direct
positive effect on operational savings.