Sentences with phrase «previous rigorous studies»

Not exact matches

«It's not clear if [Chan's study] falls into the same trap as previous studies that found similar associations, but didn't stand up to rigorous scrutiny,» Swaminath said.

The resources available for this study ($ 500,000, or roughly $ 8,000 per teacher) would certainly have been more than enough to perform a rigorous analysis of the performance of National Board teachers vis - à - vis unsuccessful candidates, using a random sample of the two groups and adjusting for students» socioeconomic status and previous achievement levels.

The Fordham Institute study you mentioned confirmed that the previous Sunshine State Standards weren't so different from the Common Core, and in some instances more rigorous.

As I have explored in previous posts, there is evidence of the effects of preschool on more advantaged students from studies that use other rigorous methods, but I have not yet cited a random assignment experiment.

Although previous studies generally assumed that pathological gaming has an effect on aggressive behavior, and not vice versa (e.g., Caplan et al. 2009; Grüsser et al. 2007; Kim et al. 2008), the cross-sectional nature of these studies does not allow for rigorous testing of such causal assumptions.