Sentences with phrase «rigorous study by»

A rigorous study by David Deming of Harvard, for example, found that Head Start graduates were less likely to repeat grades or be diagnosed with a learning disability, and more likely to graduate from high school and attend college.»

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Omada Health's first product, called Prevent, is essentially an online version of the Diabetes Prevention Program, which grew out of an NIH study proving the most effective means of staving off diabetes is rigorous lifestyle intervention, overseen by health coaches.

We find these results highly promising, however we have not fully vetted the results and note that the strongest programs we have considered are backed by multiple studies, while there has only been one rigorous study of the Living Goods program.

Among those who were truly Catholic writers according to Ker's rigorous definition» including Robert Hughe Benson and Maurice Baring» Ker's six stand out because they are still widely read and studied by Catholics and non-Catholics alike.

The three questions can serve as horizons within which to conduct rigorous inquiry into any of the array of subject matters implied by the nature of congregations, disciplined by any relevant scholarly method, in such a way that attention is focused on the theological significance of what is studied:

The one constraint this proposal does lay on decisions about the content of the course of study is that it be focused by rigorous and sympathetic study of a pluralism of types of Christian congregation.

Social action was not informed by a lively sense of Christian community, rigorous prayer, and disciplined Bible study; our secular critics and our conservative brothers and sisters were not far off the mark in describing Christian social analysis as warmed - over liberalism.

«A 2006 «Study of the Thera - peutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP)» led by Harvard professor Herbert Benson was by far the most comprehensive and rigorous investigation of third - party prayer to date.

Whitehead in this respect as in others provides a rigorous ontological grounding at the microcosmic level for the macrocosmic phenomena studied by biologists.

In an atmosphere of free and open inquiry, students and teachers debate, collaborate, and investigate, challenging assumptions — and one another — with insights backed by rigorous study.

Nevertheless, the initial study was viewed by AAAS as a useful step toward development of a more scientifically rigorous and representative international survey that would enable generalization beyond the sample completing the questionnaire.

This is believed to be the first study to use a rigorous nutritional analysis to evaluate healthfulness of food and drinks marketed by music stars, reviewing dozens of advertisements that were disseminated over a 14 - year period.

Project Blue Book was shut down in 1969 after a rigorous study led by the physicist Edward Condon concluded that UFO sightings all had mundane, nonthreatening explanations.

The study, «Prevalence of hypertension, awareness, treatment and control in the Hispanic Community,» led by Dr. Paul D. Sorlie of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), sampled 16,400 individuals, making it one of the largest and most rigorous health studies of the Hispanic community.

Early 20th - century studies claimed that hermit thrush song follows the same principles found in human musical systems, but these were anecdotal reports which were not supported by a rigorous analysis.

Because of discordant findings in studies on the relationship between the athlete's age and sports - related concussion symptoms and their duration, Lee, Odom, and colleagues chose to study age - related differences by applying rigorous matching criteria across different age groups and by using reliable change index (RCI) methodology.

Often clinical studies fall short of the rigorous methodology demanded by «gold standard» clinical trials, in which patients are assigned to treatment groups at random and nobody knows which group is which.

By using meta - analysis, an advanced statistical technique that analyzes many studies at the same time, they performed rigorous testing to determine whether the beneficial effect of adding biochar depends on geography.

But a new study by sociologists at BYU, Cornell and LSU provides a rigorous new estimate.

However, if the promises of findings reported in the studies by Mahajan and colleagues and Herberg and colleagues are fulfilled by replication and refinement in other rigorous investigations, it may be possible that such advances will further reduce morbidity, mortality, and costs associated with caring for febrile children.

What Martinez and his team have done is more than triple the color palette — with a suite of emotional categories that can be measured by the proposed computational model and applied in rigorous scientific study.

But by 2004, after researchers had completed two major parts of the Women's Health Initiative — which together formed a massive study of 27,347 women that compared treatment with a placebo in a scientifically rigorous way — doctors realized hormone therapy does more harm than good in most women over the long term.

Douglas Berg, a microbiologist at Washington University in St. Louis, while impressed by the new study, cautions, «Critical tests and rigorous proofs are difficult to obtain in their field of «microbial anthropology,» and some scientists will think that the authors rather overstated their case.»

Use by the American public is one of the four guiding principles that determine the practices and products studied by NCCIH, and these NHIS findings reflect the importance of continuing to study approaches to health and wellness that the public is using, often without the benefit of rigorous scientific study.

Although the notion that sharks and rays are more resistant to cancers needs rigorous scientific confirmation, the results of this new study raise the enticing prospect that the proteins produced by these cancer - related legumain and Bag1 genes have modified functions in sharks, including the possibility of actually protecting the animals from acquiring cancer.

«When we provide convenient and rigorous medical care to African - American men by coming to them — in this case having pharmacists deliver that care in barbershops — blood pressure can be controlled and lives can be saved,» said Ronald G. Victor, MD, associate director of the Smidt Heart Institute and the study's lead author.

This view on historic temperatures, particularly in the Medieval Warm Period, has been reversed by a number of more rigorous studies.

«This small but rigorous study seems to confirm that, unsurprisingly perhaps, the rising popularity of gluten - free diets is not accounted for by any increase in clinically proven coeliac disease in the USA.

In the past, a number of studies similar to White's that have found an apparent link between supplements and reduced cancer risk haven't been confirmed by more rigorous studies, says Jay Brooks, MD, an oncologist at Ochsner Health System, in Baton Rouge, La..

The study by Wilson et al. (2013) showed that BetaTOR reduced the increase in serum creatine kinase (CK) in highly - trained participants performing a rigorous training program.

So this is a pro-supplementation study, for a moderate dose of supplements in an elderly population being stressed by rigorous exercise.

Yoga research for individuals with PTSD is in the early stages, and more empirically rigorous studies are needed to understand the specific mechanisms (cognitive, emotional, behavioral, physiological, etc.) that might be affected by regular yoga practice, as well as yoga's direct effects on PTSD symptoms.

Ashwagandha has been shown by rigorous scientific study to improve neurological function, improve exercise endurance and recovery and boost immunity.

But this practice might be grossly misleading and even counterproductive — especially since none of these formulas has undergone rigorous scientific review, according to a study led by Eli Finkel of Northwestern University.

Venice Film Festival If «Hunger,» artist - turned - filmmaker Steve McQueen's remarkable debut feature, was a study of a body strenuously denied its fundamental needs, his satisfyingly rigorous, explicit follow - up, «Shame,» traces the very different damage done by a body over-gifted with wants.

«This is well - documented in the decade - long role HGSE has played in this rigorous experimental evaluation study led by Dennis Barr and implemented by many HGSE alums on the research team.

A recent rigorous RAND study of Carnegie Learning's Cognitive Tutor Algebra I program found that the blended - learning model boosted the average student's performance by approximately eight percentile points.

A DfE spokesperson said: «These rigorous new computer science qualifications, backed by industry experts, will give pupils the skills they need to progress to further study and a range of top jobs.

The $ 6 billion funding for the federal Reading First program has helped more students «crack the code» to identify letters and words, but it has not had an impact on reading comprehension among 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders in participating schools, according to one of the largest and most rigorous studies ever undertaken by the U.S. Department of Education.

New York State and North Carolina, by contrast, give students an incentive to study through the use of rigorous end - of - course exams that signal medium and high achievement levels, not just meeting minimum standards.

The shortcomings of this study, the paucity of independent research on the National Board, and the large investments being made by states in rewarding National Board - certified teachers highlight the need for a rigorous and arm's - length cost - benefit study of National Board certification.

Two well - known commercial reading programs, which have been adopted by some of the nation's largest school districts and have met the strict requirements for research - based programs under the federal Reading First initiative, failed to earn ratings from the What Works Clearinghouse because they do not have any studies that satisfy the agency's rigorous evidence standards.

The Commission, chaired by Dr. Paul Hill of the University of Washington, carefully reviewed the research on the impact of school choice on student achievement and included in its report the following statement: «The most rigorous school choice evaluations that used random assignment... found that academic gains from vouchers were largely limited to the African - American students in their studies.»

A recent rigorous and quantitative study by the American Institutes of Research (AIR) demonstrates the effectiveness of schools that are designed to develop these outcomes.

Jennings also appears unaware that there are rigorous studies on the effects of NCLB and other high - stakes accountability systems, such as those by Thomas Dee and Brian Jacob (see «Evaluating NCLB,» research, Summer 2010) and those published by Stanford University researchers Eric Hanushek and Margaret Raymond in 2005, and Martin Carnoy and Susanna Loeb in 2002.

(*) Promising programs are supported by case studies but are not yet tested by rigorous research.

While one case study by Sarah Fairbanks and colleagues in 2007 suggests that office referrals decreased following implementation of RTI, and teachers rated student misbehavior to be less intense and less frequent, few rigorous evaluations of RTI have been conducted.

Specific practices and programs shown by multiple, rigorous, peer - reviewed studies to benefit K - 12 youth are described on the Evidence - Based Programs page of the SEL research review.

Rigorous studies consistently show that the impact of a more - effective teacher is substantial A high - performing teacher, one at the 84th percentile of all teachers, when compared with just an average teacher, produces students whose level of achievement is at least 0.2 standard deviations higher by the end of the school year.

Using rigorous non-experimental methods, a 2013 study of charters in 16 states by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes found that average charter school effectiveness increased overall, due in large part to closures of poorly performing schools.