Sentences with phrase «produced small improvements»

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.

BACKGROUND: Cholinesterase inhibitors produce small improvements in cognitive and global assessments in Alzheimer's disease.

Some of them only produce small improvements, but when combined with lots of others, they can make a pretty big difference.

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