Sentences with phrase «scale survey studies»

A: I think we need to deploy a range of methods to address this, from rich ethnographic studies of families, to large - scale survey studies, to experimental interventions.

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[5] Longley op cit p254 [6] Humanae Vitae n. 17 [7] To date, the evidence for this claim is limited to small scale studies and nonrandom surveys.

Large scale random probability surveys, such as the Labour Force Survey, The National Readership survey and the British ElectionSurvey, The National Readership survey and the British Electionsurvey and the British Election Study

The study was a collaboration with IBM and offers a large - scale survey of the commonly used container management framework known as Docker, a platform that facilitates the deployment of microservices by providing a registry service that acts as a central repository for software components focusing on specific functionalities called images.

«More broadly, seismic surveys for oilfield exploration or earthquake investigations tend to rely on length scales that are usually much larger than those used by our study,» she added.

He suspected he had surveyed the sites too soon after they were cut and decided to expand his next study, in both time and scale.

One reason is that the tool used by nearly all studies in this field — surveys asking people to self - report their happiness on numerical scales — is cheap and easy to implement.

To further investigate the prevalence of the phenomenon, the researchers carried out the first large - scale online study of this barely - known effect, and recruited 4,128 participants to answer a survey, with 1,058 of these also answering additional trait - related questions.

Adolescents completed a survey that contained a mixture of 20 negatively and positively worded items — such as such as «I felt sad,» «I enjoyed life,» «My appetite was poor,» and «People are unfriendly to me» — in the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES - D).

First, the research team asked over 200 volunteers to fill out a survey about «recent affective experiences;» what the volunteers didn't know was that a well - known measure of depression — the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES - D) scale — was embedded within this survey.

In addition, the data density and geographic extent of this study is far greater than most previous studies because over 16,000 stream temperature sites were used with thousands of biological survey locations to provide precise information at scales relevant to land managers and conservationists.

Johanne Korsdal Sørensen has previously studied the scale of substance use disorders among medical doctors in a survey among 4,000 members of the Danish Medical Association.

But what makes the new survey all the more unnerving is that until now, very few studies have combined the considerable body of existing geographic - information - system and remote - sensing information and ape population data on such a scale.

A study conducted by the University of Kent's Dr Amy Hinsley and Dr David Roberts, and published by Conservation Biology, represents the first large - scale global survey of wildlife trade via a social - media site, using the orchid trade as a case study.

To conduct the new study, the Hawaiian team, led by astronomer Istvan Szapudi, combined two large - scale observations of the cosmos that already had been completed: the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which represents the last, dying embers of the big bang, and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which comprises images of millions of galaxies.

The star - forming dwarf galaxy in the new study was found during an ongoing, large - scale inventory of the heavens, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which revealed it as a possible point of interest.

Together with the Galactic Archeology study based on the HSC wide - field survey of the Subaru Strategic Program, we hope to establish the presence and nature of satellite galaxies, and determine the large - scale structure and stellar content of halos of spiral galaxies in general.»

Large - scale optical, infrared, and radio surveys and synoptic studies, requiring decades of precise measurements on a large number of targets, may also be conducted advantageously from the ground.

Taking the findings forward While the scale of this project was very small, with teachers from five schools being surveyed, informal conversations with a range of educators seems to indicate that the conclusions of the study are valid.

The study was based on a large - scale survey tracking Danish children that included the collection of mental health data for seven and 11 year olds.

The study, carried out by researchers Alice Bradbury and Guy Roberts - Holmes from UCL Institute of Education, University College London, involved more than 1,400 teachers and leaders who took part in focus groups, interviews, and a large - scale survey.

While the scale of this project was very small, with teachers from five schools being surveyed, informal conversations with a range of educators seems to indicate that the conclusions of the study are valid.

To study the extent to which these kinds of scenarios might unfold on a larger scale, we use rich survey data from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS), which was conducted by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statisstudy the extent to which these kinds of scenarios might unfold on a larger scale, we use rich survey data from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS), which was conducted by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education StatisStudy of 2002 (ELS), which was conducted by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics.

The team at ACER UAE is highly experienced in the management and administration of large - scale national and international surveys, through their work on the UAE National Assessment Program for the past six cycles and the administration of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) and ePIRLS, and Programme for International Student Assessment in the UAE in both Arabic and English.

Over half of CPS teachers surveyed for a small - scale study by an education policy group said they do not regularly use strategies learned in professional development provided by the district.

A large - scale study published by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (2011, 2012) concluded that student surveys should be a significant part of an array of assessments used to judge teacher quality.

We created a large - scale nationwide study that surveyed English teacher educators about English teacher preparation programs throughout the United States, asking the question, «How do we, as the field of English language arts, recognize new areas of emphasis within the discipline?»

The Center's staff has extensive experience in statistical analyses and data management, qualitative research methods, randomized controlled trials and quasi-experimental studies, and large - scale surveys.

The version of the survey used in this study has 18 items and uses a 6 - point Likert scale, ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 6 (strongly agree).

Louis (1989), drawing upon a large - scale survey and case studies of effective schools initiatives in urban secondary schools (Louis and Miles, 1990) identified four district - level approaches to school improvement varying in terms of the uniformity of process and outcomes intended: implementation strategy; evolutionary planning; goal - based accountability; and professional investment.

What large - scale, survey research tells us about teacher effects on student achievement: Insights from the prospects study of elementary schools.

The study also uses survey data from developers to gauge the effect of timeline uncertainty in each municipality, with responses measured on a five - point scale from (1.0) «encourages development» to (5.0) «would not pursue development due to uncertain approval timelines.»

Psychological studies * and surveys have revealed deeply ingrained human traits, many shaped by our evolutionary history as a «here and now» species, that prevent us from acting rationally in the face of threats with long time scales, dispersed impacts and inherent complexity.

''... avid birders across the U.S. and Canada have contributed sustained observations of birds at the same broad geographic scale in which weather and climate have also been observed and understood,» says another study author, Julio Betancourt of the U.S. Geological Survey.

We report three studies — including an analysis of large - scale survey data — in which we systematically investigate the ideological antecedents of general faith in science and willingness to support science, as well as of science skepticism of climate change, vaccination, and genetic modification (GM).

In a case — control study comparing suicidal completers and community control adolescents, impulsivity was related to suicide in univariate analysis but not in multivariate analysis.37 In another study surveying suicidal and non-suicidal adolescent inpatients, the self - reported Impulse Control Scale score was not different between the two groups.38

* SES, socioeconomic status; CES - D, Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale; SRQ20, Self Reporting Questionnaire; CIDI, Composite International Diagnostic Interview; PSE, Present State Examination; Mini, Mini-Mental State Examination; CIS, Clinical Interview Schedule; DSM - III - R, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition, Revised; DIS, Diagnostic Interview Schedule; GHQ, General Health Questionnaire; HOS, Health Opinion Survey; CIS - CV, Clinical Interview Schedule — Chinese Version; SADS, Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia; CPIS, Clinical Psychiatric Interview, Semistructured; DPAX, Depression and Anxiety; HDL, Health and Daily Living Form.

Depressive symptom measures were derived from both surveys using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies - Depression Scale.

Study 1 presents the validation of the scale on parents of preschool - age children (ages 3 — 6 years); whereas Study 3 broadens the range of ages to which the survey might apply (from 18 months to 8 years old).

This paper describes the theoretical framework, selection of items and scales for the survey, and four studies that were conducted to revise the MDI and examine its psychometric properties.

Until recently, there were four sources of large - scale self - report survey data on victim rates, cross-nationally: EU Kids Online, Global School Health Survey, Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, and Health Behaviour of School - aged Chisurvey data on victim rates, cross-nationally: EU Kids Online, Global School Health Survey, Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, and Health Behaviour of School - aged ChiSurvey, Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, and Health Behaviour of School - aged Children.

As part of all 3 surveys, we used the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES - D) to measure maternal depressive symptoms.

Therefore, studies that have applied survey scales to measure pathological gaming have generally included items concerning various problems and conflicts arising from gaming habits (e.g., Charlton and Danforth 2007; Salguero and Moran 2002).