Sentences with phrase «small effects on performance»

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While this may be alarming to many shavers as an excessive number of hairs, the fact that the knot of the average shaving brush contains thousands of individual badger hairs means that this very small percentage will likely cause no noticeable effect on the brush's density or performance qualities.

Therefore, even small changes in computer time, dinner time, or staying awake to do homework can lead to poorer neurobehavioral functioning the next day and have an effect on sustained vigilance and attention, which are vital for optimal academic performance.

... But by and large the newly decentralized, choice - driven system has had small positive effects on the academic performance of most Swedish students.»

To eliminate the effects of any chance differences in performance caused by other observable characteristics, our analysis takes into account students» age, gender, race, and eligibility for the free lunch program; whether they had been assigned to a small class; and whether they were assigned to a teacher of the same race — which earlier research using these same data found to have a large positive effect on student performance (see «The Race Connection,» Spring 2004).

Analysis of the indirect effects of classroom variables on math performance indicated a small significant mediating effect of self - efficacy.

Rather, much disagreement and debate, in fact, still exist regarding whether inducing teacher turnover will get «us» really anywhere in terms of school reform, as also related to how big (or small) teachers» effects on students» measurable performance actually are as discussed prior.

It found that the size of the venue in which students take the SAT test has a tremendous effect on performance — the smaller the venue, the higher the score.

Extra performance is just a pleasant side - effect of the trend for smaller, turbocharged engines, so it's something of a joke that cars aren't delivering on their apparent gains.

And small increases in annual costs can have a huge erosive effect on portfolio performance over time.

Swaps have the effect of leverage on the Fund, meaning that a small investment in swaps could have a potentially large impact on the Fund's performance and its rate of income distributions for a particular period of time.

And even the smallest change to what sword you wield can have a dramatic effect on your warrior's moveset and therefore performance.

I've used 1440p monitors on gaming desktops, and I found the jump from 1080p to 1440p to have only a small negative effect on performance.

The researchers found that the reform had small positive effects on verbal test scores, but no effect on the mean performance in the arithmetic or logical reasoning tests.