Sentences with phrase «students as a control group»

Most medical students are not planning research careers, so using all medical students as a control group is not especially helpful.

Not exact matches

Organizers at national gun control groups, who provided logistical support and public relations advice as the students planned the Washington rally, said they believed that the students would not become disillusioned by the lack of immediate action in Congress.

These experiments have their roots in a technique Cohen developed as an assistant professor at Yale in the late 1990s that he called wise intervention — brief, controlled interactions that served to counteract students» fears that their teachers were judging them not as individuals but as members of a stereotyped group.

Miliband's repeated use of the language of «our economy», «wages,» and «working people,» coupled with his shunning of variants of «control» and of references to «migrants» as a group or in particular categories such as students and family members, supports this sort of interpretation.

Their performance was compared to that of a control group of non-experts who were attending the same meeting, as well as a group of untrained students.

A third group of college students served as controls and did no special exercise program.

In a study of fourth - and fifth - grade students, we found that those randomly assigned to learn the WWWDOT framework became, as compared to their pre-test and to a control group, more aware of the need to evaluate information on the internet for credibility and better able to evaluate the trustworthiness of websites on multiple dimensions (Zhang & Duke, 2011).

82 % of Silver CREST students took a STEM AS Level, compared to 68 % of a statistically matched control group.

In every experimental evaluation of private school voucher programs, the students who won the voucher lottery but did not consistently use their voucher to attend private schools have remained in the study over time as members of the treatment group, and the students who lost the voucher lottery but enrolled in private school have remained in the study as members of the control group.

Silver CREST students were also 21 % more likely to take a STEM AS level subject than control group students.

On average, students in these groups fared just as well whether they attended a school that was participating in the bonus program or one in the control group.

• The offer of a voucher raised the proportion of African American students who enrolled in a private four - year college by 5 percentage points, an increase of 58 % as compared to the control group.

Many teachers associate a wide variety of challenges and concerns with group work: kids goofing off, copying from each other, and letting one student do all the work, as well as issues around the teacher not feeling in control.

Most importantly, we tracked the performance of individual students over time to see how their performance evolved relative to that of their peers as they progressed from grades 3 to 8, in essence, using each student as his or her own control group.

We randomly assigned groups of students to receive free tickets to see a play or to remain in their school to serve as the control.

As one would hope from a lottery - based research design, the resulting treatment - and control - group students are generally alike in terms of gender, race, and the grade in which they are enrolled.

and 83 percent of the students who were assigned by lottery to see the play could correctly identify them as Hamlet's friends, compared to 45 percent of the control group.

Of the students who saw A Christmas Carol, 88 percent could correctly identify Jacob Marley as Ebenezer Scrooge's deceased business partner, compared to 66 percent of the control group.

What's more, students who were eligible for free school meals and took part in a CREST Silver Award were 38 per cent more likely to take a STEM subject at AS Level than the matched control group.

As would be expected in a randomized experiment, students in the treatment and control groups — both overall and across African Americans and Hispanics — had similar characteristics on average.

It may be that control group students are in schools that will fare as well or better on test score measures.

The second - year study showed that the Core Knowledge kids made reading gains twice as great as those of students in the control group.

Forty - five percent of the Hispanic students in the control group enrolled in college within 3 years of expected high school graduation (as compared to just 36 percent of African American control group members).

This method honors student choice, but also gives you some modicum of control based on what you might already be learning about your new students — individually and as a group.

In one, researchers examined how SEL intervention programs (such as social skills training, parent training with home visits, peer coaching, reading tutoring, and classroom social - emotional curricula) for kindergarten students impacted their adult lives, and found that these programs led to 10 % (59 % vs. 69 % for the control group) fewer psychological, behavioral, or substance abuse problems at the age of 25 (Dodge et al., 2014).

The research also found that: students who took a Silver CREST achieved half a grade higher on their best science GCSE result compared to a statistically matched control group; students who undertake a CREST Silver Award are 21 per cent more likely to take a STEM AS Level.

Students in the third experimental group served as a control and were given books after posttesting occurred in the fall.

Parents remained more satisfied with their child's school and viewed it as safer if offered a voucher, even though students had similar views of school satisfaction and safety whether in the treatment or control group.

Most recently, multiple analyses of the New York City Choice Scholarships Foundation program found that students who received scholarships as a result of a lottery had math scores that were five percentage points higher on average than the control group.

In other words, we can use each student in our study as his or her own control group to learn whether disability designations vary by sector.

Random assignment to treatment or control groups was not possible, as second grade teachers and principals influenced the assignment of students to intervention.

Given the growth of national charter school networks, such as the Challenge Foundation — a national group that funds a pair of schools, accounting for nearly 11 percent of the student population, in rural Rutherford County — proponents say it's essential to maintain some local control over charters.

Students in a third section (n = 22) of the course, serving as a control group, did not engage in a video activity but took the same paper - based classroom observation test as students in the two video conStudents in a third section (n = 22) of the course, serving as a control group, did not engage in a video activity but took the same paper - based classroom observation test as students in the two video constudents in the two video conditions.

Transfer of learning was assessed 1 week after completing the interactive video activities by all of the students participating in the interactive video activities as well as the control group.

But teachers who took part in the focus groups also had concerns that a new system would rely too heavily on standardized test results, that evaluations from time - crunched principals could be «phony,» and that a new system would not account for students slipping in school because of factors outside a school's control, such as a divorce or death in the family.

From participation in cooperative learning activities, students with emotional disorders can (1) learn from positive role models how to control emotions and behave appropriately in group settings; (2) develop sensitivity to the needs of others and understand people «as individuals rather than as stereotypical members of a particular group»; 14 (3) increase their ability for self - direction; (4) increase their interest in learning; and (5) gain an increase in self - esteem.15 Likewise, students who are not disabled are given the opportunity to become more understanding and accepting of students who are emotionally behaviorally disordered.

Through simple activities such as read - alouds, sing - alongs, murals, and performances, students learn how to get along in a group, empathize with others, develop self - control, and give and receive feedback, all while becoming confident readers and writers.

Some groups, such as VARC, adjust those raw test scores to control for students» outside factors, such as income or race.

Finally, students in summer sites rated by teachers as having strong behavior management policies and well - behaved students outperformed students in the control group in reading.

We can not control what happens outside school, but we can validate students within our schools by ensuring that we show respect for all groups students claim as their own.

High - attending students were also rated by teachers as having stronger social and emotional competencies than the control group students; however, researchers have less confidence that this was due to the programs, given the lack of prior data on these competencies.

Researchers also compared specific groups of students — such as high attenders with at least 20 days of attendance — to the control group.

As an alternative, I invited Mr. Talton to produce two control - group studies of any of the nation's school - choice programs that show students learn significantly less after choosing to go to school elsewhere.

The California Board of Education is facing some tough choices — and heavy lobbying from parent groups and student advocates — as it works its way toward approving a new school accountability system that meets federal mandates and the vision of Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature in passing the Local Control Funding Formula.

As one of the first research projects undertaken by The Sam & Myra Ross Institute at Green Chimneys, the 12 - week study will include a controlled trial with 32 Green Chimneys students ages 8 - 15, comparing an animal - assisted social skills group and a traditional social skills training group without an animal present.

When working with a student she tries to show them the «stuff that isn't the books» such as enrichment, play groups, self control, stress reduction and other alternatives that can help dogs in their training.

Continuing to feel the pressure of control over her teaching curriculum, she gave up these positions as well to instead give a free private class to a select group of female students.

In addition, we will ask you to prepare a presentation as part of a summer student group in respect of which you will have complete control.

In Control is recognized as a 501 (c)(3) and has trained over 30,000 students and receives endless praise from graduates, parents, schools, police departments, insurance companies, legislators and community groups all over New England.

Table 2 also shows that roughly equivalent proportions of students in both the full intervention and control groups were living in disorganized neighborhoods at age 16 years as indicated by students» self - reports of rundown housing, crime, poor people, drug - selling, gangs, and disorderly and undesirable neighbors in their neighborhoods.