Some of them only
produce small improvements, but when combined with lots of others, they can make a pretty big difference.
BACKGROUND: Cholinesterase inhibitors
produce small improvements in cognitive and global assessments in Alzheimer's disease.
While some broad policies such as No Pass, No Drive and some low - intensity interventions have
produced small improvements, it is likely that substantial improvement will require more substantial investments.
Not exact matches
Small improvements produce results that you can see immediately, and this is gratifying and encouraging.
Unless Cuomo is willing to take on the collective - bargaining system that
produces rigid protection for bad teachers, his reforms will only make
small improvements to the system.
They can also help break down your food into
smaller pieces that your body can absorb and
produce enzymes that promote the digestion and absorption of nutrients in food, in turn aiding in the
improvement of your immune system.
Stigler and Hiebert note that, rather than reform, the aim of lesson study is to
produce «
small, incremental
improvements over long periods of time» and however long the process there remains «an unrelenting focus on student learning».
As hypothesized, actual voucher competition
produced the largest
improvements in test scores, while the prospect of facing voucher competition
produced somewhat
smaller gains.
Indeed, the most common criticism of Boston's
improvement — and Payzant's leadership style — is that there isn't more of it; the changes have been «incremental,» suggesting that he could have made more substantial, dramatic, or even radical changes, but instead made only
small moves that
produced marginal achievements (see Figure 2).
Intervention should focus on factors that can
produce significant
improvement, including effective professional development, active parent involvement, high - quality classroom assessment, and
smaller class sizes.
Results demonstrated that the incorporation of chromium tripicolinate at 300 and 600 parts per billion in the ration of healthy cats
produced small but significant
improvements in glucose tolerance as measured by glucose half - life, area under the glucose curve, and absolute glucose concentrations.
Because compliant employees make up the largest portion of any team, even
small improvements in their performance can
produce enormous results for a store.
In the 1880s and 1890s,
improvements in photographic processes enabled manufacturers to
produce small, handheld cameras that did not need to be mounted on tripods.
The Mindful Schools curriculum (which is taught to educators through our Mindful Educator Essentials course)
produced statistically significant
improvements in paying attention and participation in class activities versus the control group with just 4 hours of mindfulness instruction for the students — a very
small, low - cost dose.
Parents should be taught the skills to change their own behaviour and become independent problem solvers in a broader social environment that supports parenting and family relationships.40 A
small increase in parental exposure to an evidence - based programme can
produce meaningful change at a whole population level rather than individual
improvement at an individual case level.3, 9