Sentences with phrase «small comparison group»

Local norms are useful for resource allocation, but they can be confusing for parents as they are directly connected to a very small comparison group.

For this portion of the study, we compare KIPP students with two groups of district school students: all those attending non-KIPP middle schools in the same district, and a smaller comparison group of students attending middle schools that accepted an above - average number of students from the feeder elementary schools.

Not exact matches

It's also greater than the 3.4 percent rate of employment growth measure in a comparison group of small, non-clustered businesses based on Dun & Bradstreet data.

We're just a small group by comparison, I suppose, one little gathering, but we're representative of a multitude all over the world.»

Small groups are by comparison far less associated with physical proximity and decidedly more purposive, intentional and voluntaristic.

By comparison with these scientists, the climate expertise of the small group of contrarians was substantially lower (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.1003187107).

And although «bias may be small in comparison to reviewer randomness,» he notes, it can still give an edge to preferred groups.

The bp inactivated vaccine (BPV), was only available at one dosage with alum so a smaller volume (25 µl) was given to one group for a dosage comparison.

In addition, a small subset of normal tissues will be collected from living surgery patients as a comparison group.

We often go to my husbands aunt's house with all his cousins and extended family (small group in comparison about 10 or so but the most wonderful people in the world) or we hang at home.

A reanalysis of the data used in the UCLA report found much smaller differences between charter and traditional public schools once more appropriate comparisons were made between the two groups of schools.

We need a way to pool data among school districts, most of which are too small to assemble sufficient comparison groups on their own.

If, as has been the case in a number of places, the comparison group is all the teachers in a given grade in the school district — with, say, the top 15 percent of the 4th grade teachers receiving an award — what is the significance of a big or small school?

Trish Gorham, president of the Oakland Education Association, said the actions of a small group of activists pale in comparison with the uncertainty created by some of the sweeping changes Wilson has proposed.

Large districts will have large comparison groups; small districts can band together to create comparison groups of sufficient size.

The Lab also hoped to identify a small set of common quantitative measures that could provide some cross-city comparison of progress, but this proved impossible given the range of initiatives and focus on different age groups.

News Release Monday, January 13, 2014 Media Contact Van Schoales, CEO, A + Denver [phone] [email protected] Year Three Innovation Schools Study shows small differences in school culture, student achievement and workforce capacity between Innovation schools and comparison group A + Denver, Colorado Education Association, Denver Classroom Teachers Association, and Denver Public Schools released part three of an evaluation...

Re the 12 - week window, several factors are that item - tryout studies are not strongly sensitive to time - of - instructional year like operational programs where you want all students taking the test within a relatively small window for comparisons across students or groups of students, nor are you generally concerned about test security since it is a low stakes research data collection.

In 23 trends measured, Edison students were making smaller gains on criterion - referenced tests than comparison groups.

Even so, the number of books by these unclassified publishers and the indie authors we have identified are still relatively small in comparison to the output by traditional publishers, while all three of these groups together are still only a third of the entire catalog.

PIJAC is, by comparison, a small group and continuously faces arguments that we are just in it for the money and don't care about the welfare of pets.

Luckily we're small (33 artists), so we can't cover every base, and in being small we are specific about comparisons and juxtapositions — it is explicitly a group exhibition that mixes artworks by different artists.

In the history of twentieth - century collectivism in art, Colab has so far occupied an inferior position in comparison with coeval groups like General Idea or Group Material that were smaller, more structured, and more inclined to dialogue with the official art world.

A small group of scientists and lobby groups and alarmists perhaps are staring to come across to the public as no better than those proclaiming the «Rapure» today, and the comparison between CAGW and this are being made.

As more and more cities grow and reach a level of what I would call «UHI saturation», the slow growth of big cities and smaller in absolute values UHI increase for cities from a certain size explains a smaller delta UHI for an urban group that contains cities, in comparison with a UHI contaminated average containing many small locations growing — consistent with the results from the BEST study — divergence appearing in the 1950s — and with the logarithmic dependency of UHI growing trend based on population.

The study design was weak, the study was small and there was no comparison group.»

In comparison, the Futures Commission was slightly more open in that it also invited persons it deemed to be «innovators» [56] to make presentations and make written submissions — that group, again, was composed principally of lawyers but also included a small number of nonlawyers (Colin Rule, Co-Founder and COO of Modria, [57] John Suh, CEO of LegalZoom, [58] Richard Barton, Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Zillow, [59] and Mark Britton, CEO of Avvo [60]-RRB-.

Limitations included the lack of a control or comparison group, small sample size, and lack of follow - up..

Limitations include the lack of a control or comparison group and the small sample size.

While this Phase I study is small and lacks a comparison group, the demonstration of positive results is promising and warrants further attention.

First - time mothers, overseas - born mothers and mothers with more than one risk factor in the intervention group also were more emotionally and verbally responsive than their comparison group counterparts; however, the effect sizes were small.

Findings suggest substantial improvement via an intensive approach for young children with autism; however, important differences in group assignment at baseline, difficulties with systematic measurement overtime, the lack of reported treatment fidelity or adherence characteristics, and the small number of children in the comparison group limit interpretation of these findings.

These non-significant results are arguably due to the study's relatively small sample size for a genome - wide association study that requires multiple testing (ranging from N = 372 — 436 in the high and low trait comparison groups), making it unclear whether the same genetic variants are involved in these sub-domains.

Of those that examined immunizations (NFP - Memphis, HFA, HSP, EHS, Queensland, and Early Start), only EHS identified a significant program effect on immunizations, though the size of the effect was quite small and applied to the comparison of the entire treatment group to controls, not specifically to those families who had received home visits.70 The one - year follow - up of the Queensland program also suggested a trend in favor of the intervention group's having higher levels of vaccinations than the control group.71

For example, in one study, neglected children had a smaller corpus callosum relative to control and comparison groups.8 Compared to their non-maltreated peers, children in another study who experienced emotional neglect early in life performed significantly worse on achievement testing during the first six years of schooling.9 Furthermore, although both abused and neglected children performed poorly academically, neglected children experienced greater academic deficits relative to abused children.10 These cognitive deficiencies also appear to be long lasting.

Limitations include lack of control or comparison group, lack of randomization of participants, and small sample size.

Limitations included small sample size, lack of randomization, and lack of a no - treatment control or comparison group.

Study limitations include very small group sizes, lack of randomized design and lack of an untreated comparison group.

Limitations include differences in the number of therapy sessions across groups and small sample sizes, particularly for the comparison groups.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study examined the effects of Child - Centered Play Therapy (CCPT) compared to a curriculum - based small group intervention with Hispanic children referred for school counseling due to behavior problems.

Limitations include the small sample size, lack of control or comparison group, and generalizability to other ethnic populations.

Limitations include children did not meet diagnosis of anxiety disorder, small sample size, lack of comparison group, and length of follow - up.

Limitations include small sample size, lack of comparison group for follow - up, reliance on self - reported measures, and limited generalizability due to ethnicity of participants.

Limitations include lack of a non-maltreated or child welfare services involved comparison group, possible sample collection time variation, and small sample size.

Limitations include the nonrandomization of participants, lack of statistically significant findings between the intervention group and comparison group, small sample size, and lack of follow - up.

Limitations include lack of randomization, lack of comparison group, lack of follow - up, and small sample size.

Limitations include small sample size, lack of wait list control group, and lack of comparison of dosages across experimental conditions.

Limitations include small sample size, non-randomization of participants, and comparison group not from the same population pool.

Limitations include reliance on self - reported measures, lack of comparison group at follow - up, small sample size and generalizability due to ethnicity.

Limitations include the small sample size, the lack of a comparison group, and a comparatively small number of male adolescents who participated in the treatment.