Sentences with phrase «skills than those in the control group»

MRI scans of the patients» brains showed that those in the tDCS group had more activity in the relevant brain areas for motor skills than those in the control group.

Not exact matches

The results of a recent randomized trial of CSRP showed that children who spent their prekindergarten year in a CSRP Head Start classroom had, at the end of the school year, substantially higher attention skills, greater impulse control, and better performance on executive - function tasks than did children in a control group.

MRI scanning also showed that those who had had tDCS had more activity in the relevant brain areas for motor skills than the control group.

By the fall of their kindergarten year, children who participated in Head Start and the REDI - P group scored higher than the children in the control group on several measures, showing greater increases in their vocabulary, literacy skills, reading fluency and academic performance upon entering kindergarten.

Their children showed greater gains in language skills — both in the number of things they said and in their functional use of words — than children in the control group.

The research group showed significantly more improvement in their skills than the control group for screening, brief interventions, but not for referral.

Second graders who had participated in the SFA program for three years significantly outperformed their peers who were not in the program on a measure of phonics skills, but on average did not perform better than the control group in reading fluency or comprehension.

The study, made possible by a gift from the Richard and Susan Smith Family Foundation, found that teachers who participated in a Facing History seminar and received coaching and support showed significantly greater self - efficacy for creating engaging classrooms and promoting academic skills and civic learning than control group teachers.

Similarly, in a study of Interpersonal Psychotherapy approaches to preventing youth depression, Young and colleagues found that teens who participated in a skills - based intervention targeting interpersonal role disputes, role transitions and interpersonal deficits reported fewer depressive symptoms at six - months follow - up than teens who were assigned to a school counseling control group.

Six months later, children in this group exhibited better preschool social skills — and fewer behavior problems — than did children in the control group (Christakis et al 2013).

The videotape - based parenting - skills group with therapist - facilitated discussion showed greater reductions than the control group showed in the frequency of problem behaviors and in the intensity of the three most troubling behaviors.