Sentences with phrase «small positive effect»

We find smaller positive effects on 8th - grade math achievement.

In the long term there were small positive effect sizes for externalizing behavior.

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.

Some studies find small positive effects on achievement, others find no effect, and recent research found that Louisiana's voucher program had very poor results, leading to lower achievement in both reading and mathematics.

While we tend to find many more positive estimates than negative estimates, the weight of the evidence indicates that refugees have either a precisely estimated zero or very small positive effect on incumbent students» outcomes, both immediately following the arrival of refugees and up to two years afterward.

Yet even smaller positive effects were championed by the administration as justification for expanding Head Start....

In reading, Hispanic students experience significant gains, whereas most other subgroups show slightly smaller positive effects.

Studies have variously found small positive effects, small negative effects, or, often, no effects.

As our study has a power of 80 % (α = 0.05) to detect a difference of at least 5.7 points for the Bayley PDI and 2.6 points for the Peabody motor scales, we can not exclude a small positive effect of breast feeding on motor development.

«We would hope that good quality work experience with training would have a small positive effect compared to Jobcentre Plus support, but the evidence needs to stand up to critique.

Nevertheless, Dr Sipilä has some further good news: «There is a possibility that religiosity might have a small positive effect on body image.»

Some small positive effects have been observed on sprint performance and vertical jumping, but these benefits seem to be almost negligible.

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

A comprehensive 2013 study of charter schools in 27 states conducted by Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) found that charter schools, on average, have no effect on students» math achievement and only a small positive effect in reading.

The most recent national charter school study finds a small positive effect in reading and a small negative effect in mathematics.

«Charter schools are unlikely to have significant negative effects on student achievement in traditional public schools — and may, in fact, have small positive effects on nearby schools.

This CREDO paper, which looked at charter school performance in Texas between 2011 and 2015, found a small positive effect in reading and no effect in math.

Additionally, schools that had a larger share of FTC students and were therefore more financially dependent on the FTC program had a smaller positive effect on low - income students» college - going rates than schools with a smaller percentage of FTC students.

There was still, however, a small positive effect on four - year college enrollment for students who began FTC in elementary or middle school.

Previous randomized experiments have found that TFA teachers had a small positive effect (compared to regular teachers) on math scores but no effect on reading.

On net, human activity has a small positive effect on temperature after 1999 because of slight increases in anthropogenic forcing and on - going adjustments to postindustrial increases in anthropogenic forcings (Fig. 3).

Further work shows that the small positive effects on achievement primarily occur for those children making the transition into middle childhood, whereas the small negative effects occur among those children making the transition out of middle childhood.