Sentences with phrase «rigorous study using»

The two highest - intensity interventions have received the most rigorous study using controlled designs.

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ALDI Nord GmbH's Trader Joe's chain, The Kroger Co., and Whole Foods Market Inc. opted to shun selective food additives such as synthetic colors, preservatives, stabilizers, emulsifiers, and naturally occurring texturizers such as carrageenan (from seaweed) even though scientific literature reported that rigorous double - blind studies have not found evidence of these ingredients provoking true allergic reactions or health - or life - threatening reactions with prolonged use.

Because most school districts do not keep detailed records regarding the cost and revenue associated with various components of the school food program, it is often difficult to gain a clear picture of how they use federal reimbursements (except where USDA has conducted rigorous studies).

More rigorous longitudinal studies using outcome measures focusing on movement quality are recommended to understand any long - lasting influence on the motor skills in these infants.

The review of home visiting programs described above included only studies using rigorous designs and measurement.

Although there are studies of home visiting that report effects of child maltreatment on child and family outcomes, relatively few of them use rigorous methods that support drawing causal inferences about effectiveness.

In its most recent study, the lab used rigorous detection techniques to look for such signals in human breast milk.

We also sometimes use it formally, to describe a particular course of learning: often one that requires rigorous research and study.

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.

Out of thousands of studies considered for the analysis, a mere 63 met the research team's strict criteria: Studies had to use rigorous methods and establish cause and studies considered for the analysis, a mere 63 met the research team's strict criteria: Studies had to use rigorous methods and establish cause and Studies had to use rigorous methods and establish cause and effect.

Dr. Braithwaite said rigorous methods were used to identify concussion studies to be used as part of the meta - 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.

And the study uses neither blinding nor a placebo group, design elements considered essential for rigorous medical research.

Using simple statistics, without data about published research, Ioannidis argued that the results of large, randomized clinical trials — the gold standard of human research — were likely to be wrong 15 percent of the time and smaller, less rigorous studies are likely to fare even worse.

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.

The study used rigorous statistical methods to identify changes in fish populations attributable to the MPA and not due to other pre-existing factors, such as preferentially locating MPAs where threats are low.

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.

For their analysis, researchers used the results of 23 rigorous studies on the short - and long - term impact of school - based interventions on student knowledge of teen dating violence, attitudes toward teen dating violence, and frequency of perpetration or victimization in adolescent intimate partner relationships.

Preclinical studies of vaccine candidates have typically shown post-infection virologic control, but protection against acquisition of infection has previously only been reported using less rigorous viral challenges.

The research team noted that even though the flu shot has been in use for more than half a century, there have been very few studies that have tracked the immune system health of recipients in such a rigorous way.

Different styles of yoga have been studied in a variety of serious stress disorders including cancer, post-trauma, and addictions, and has been found to be beneficial even when tested using rigorous scientific study design.

Studies using the rigorous standards outlined above have consistently shown that when people eat a calorie restricted diet — they lose weight.

Through the use of props and other innovative methods, the students also study various adjustment and alignment techniques to extract maximum benefit of each asana, while the alignment techniques are also extremely crucial preventative measures undertaken to avoid injuries during rigorous yoga practice.

88, Ed.D.» 91, along with researchers from Abt Associates, Inc., and other institutions of higher learning, worked with Facing History's evaluation staff — including Terry Tollefson, Ed.D.»89 — to carry out the study using rigorous methods.

We are also in talks with various folks about additional studies, all of which will use random assignment or similarly rigorous methods.

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 most rigorous and statistically reliable studies will use randomized - assignment control groups - though the much higher costs associated with randomized experiments will limit the number of these studies.

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 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.»

If you would like me to develop a project that is learner - centered, community - focused, and academically rigorous, how also can it require that we «study prefixes and suffixes using Jonathan Edwards's sermons»?

The No Child Left Behind Act famously endorses the use of «scientifically based research,» the federal Institute of Education Sciences has elevated the profile of rigorous scholarship, and presidential candidates tout studies on teacher quality, testing, and school choice.

Four recent rigorous studies — in the District of Columbia, Louisiana, Indiana, and Ohio — used different research designs and reached the same result: on average, students that use vouchers to attend private schools do less well on tests than similar students that do not attend private schools.

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.

She leads a number of studies that evaluate education programs using rigorous econometric methods, including randomized control trials, propensity score matching methods, and other quasi-experimental evaluation designs.

Four recent rigorous studies — in the District of Columbia, Louisiana, Indiana, and Ohio — used different research designs and reached the same result.

Based on rigorous selection criteria, the authors narrowed the field to the 19 studies — representing 11 voucher programs — that used randomized controlled trial (RCT) methodology — the «gold standard» for research.

We conduct rigorous research and evaluation studies using quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods that inform education policy, promote equity, and improve student outcomes.

This research study included the development and implementation of the MQI Coaching Cycle, as well as a rigorous evaluation of the program's effectiveness using a teacher - level random assignment design....

However, these results must be confirmed using more - rigorous experimental study designs.

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.

Yet, as the reflections of the 17 teacher - learners examined in this study suggested, video production used as an instructional strategy and integrated in classrooms in robust and rigorous ways promotes content learning.

A handful of studies using less rigorous methodologies have had more mixed results, and the report does not address English / language arts.

The three remaining studies, authored by scholars at Stanford, Princeton, and Wisconsin - Madison, are the most rigorous (that is, more likely to use student - level data) and find the most modest effects for choice.»

This is the first study to show that programs like MTP - S that focus on teacher - student interactions in a sustained manner using a rigorous approach can actually reduce the disproportionate use of exclusionary discipline with African American students.

To be prepared for rigorous study in school, and for the working world after formal education is completed, students must be able to use language effectively.

Using case studies and lessons drawn from online tutorials, participants plan standards - aligned lessons and assessments that will enable students to meet newly rigorous expectations.

In fact, studies that use rigorous, randomized designs show the same results as for Head Start: Gains do not last beyond the pre-K year,» according to the Daily News.

Using the Framework as a guide, teachers of social studies can begin the conversation with colleagues and administrators about how to ensure that the content facilitated by the teacher is rigorous and fosters civic engagement.

Throughout the study group, the committee employed rigorous analysis of research and data on racial equity, using the best available evidence to guide its observations and recommendations.

Importantly, this analysis uses only one rigorous, well - regarded study on each topic.