Sentences with phrase «studies subject tests»

The authors found that PLCs have a positive effect on student learning: student scores increased in reading, writing, math, science, and social studies subject tests.

Not exact matches

The study subjects agreed to a fresh round of personality testing and the contemporary results were compared to the decades» old findings.

In a German study, researchers gave two groups of subjects, one well - rested and one sleep - deprived, a math test.

Levy reported that in a 2004 study of suburban rail commuters taking the train from New Jersey to Manhattan, «Wener and his coauthor Gary Evans found that the longer their test subjects» journey was, the higher the levels of cortisol (the primary stress hormone) in their saliva, and the more difficult they found to focus on the task of proofreading assigned them at the end of their commute.»

The researchers used something called Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) to stimulate an area of the brain associated with creativity while they asked study subjects to complete tests of verbal creativity, such as coming up with as many associations between a set of words as possible.

The series of studies led by New York University's Gabriele Oettingen tested the effects of positive thinking on subjects» moods, both in the moment and several months later.

The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Sydney and examined three groups of students, who were tasked with completing an «alternate uses» test — a common creativity drill wherein subjects are given an object and asked to come up with as many uses for it as they can.

To test the connection the research team had 72 study subjects memorize 90 word associations.

The series of studies tested the effects of power hierarchies on team productivity by creating teams with either a mixed propensity towards leadership — in one case some participants were primed to feel powerful by thinking of a time they wielded power over others while others subjects were asked to envision a time they were bossed around before joining the group — or teams made up entirely of hard charging leadership types or participants primed for a meeker, go along, get along approach.

On April 26, 2012, the results of a study which tested their subjects» pro-social sentiments were published in the Social Psychological and Personality Science journal in which non-religious people had higher scores showing that they were more inclined to show generosity in random acts of kindness, such as lending their po.sse.ssions and offering a seat on a crowded bus or train.

These methods must provide ways rigorously to test and test again any claim to have discovered the truth about the subject under study, and the tests must be shown to be appropriate to the sort of thing being studied and to the sort of questions being asked about it.

An Australian study actually showed that 240 calories of plain boiled potatoes (which are «whole» carbs and rather bulky) satisfied test subjects an astounding 7 x» sas much as a very non-bulky — but low GI — 240 calorie croissant serving.

In addition, an independent consumer research study commissioned by Freedom Foods Group noted statistically significant reductions in body weight, body fat and body mass index (BMI), and decreased feelings of anger when test subjects committed to a 28 - day Barley + Nutrition and Lifestyle Reboot Program; a by - product of good nutrition and lifestyle.

so often they just look at potential markers — but those don't always equate to diseases)- what was the health of the those being studied - I'm assuming the test subjects were people, but other studies done on animal subjects might not be as reliable as those done on humans.

A 2009 study shows that homeschoolers are, on average, in the 84th percentile for all subjects on standardized tests.

This was collaborated by a 1998 article in the Journal of the American Medical Association where studies proved that acupuncture was effective at turning breech babies in 75 percent of the test subjects when combined with moxibustion.

The estimates for the 7 studies reporting exclusive feeding were more homogeneous (χ2 = 8, P = 0.23) than were the estimates from all 17 studies; the overall mean difference in total cholesterol from the 7 studies reporting exclusive feeding was stronger (mean difference: − 0.15 mmol / L; 95 % CI: 0.23, − 0.06 mmol / L; Figure 3) than that in the remaining 10 studies (14 388 subjects) that did not report exclusive feeding (mean difference: − 0.01 mmol / L; 95 % CI: − 0.06, 0.03 mmol / L; χ2 = 14, P = 0.12; test for difference between groups, P = 0.005).

«The digital library will provide a repository of contents which include 2,000 study aids on core subjects from primary to senior secondary school curriculum, over 1,600 tutorials, instructional videos and selected e-books for primary to SS3 approved texts, brief history of Lagos State, online forum, podcasts and exam - mate (A Test Resource).

The test, Raven's Progressive Matrices, usually entails both visual and symbolic reasoning, although brain imaging of study subjects with autism showed they were able to score well using only the areas of their brains associated with visual processes.

In closing, remember that this new interviewing style differs from the «normal» interview much like the difference between two types of tests — a test on an academic subject you have studied and a generalized intelligence test like an IQ test.

Chris Nadeau is studying a species of water flea whose tiny, easily replicated and manipulated rock pool habitats make them ideal test subjects for predicting how climate change affects the planet's most vulnerable species.

Preliminary studies of ampakines on healthy human subjects have shown small to moderate improvements in their performance on memory tests.

Goitein, the physicist who helped bring 3 - D to proton therapy, challenges the wisdom of subjecting half of the study's 400 test subjects to IMRT instead of what he is convinced is a better therapy.

The second test, which involves a timed essay - style exam, is based on the preparation of a case study on a subject of the candidate?s choice.

Finally, Lowry and his colleagues studied another set of mice, who were subjected to a stress - response test.

The 110 study subjects had repeat mechanical and thermal pain sensitivity testing to measure immediate, within session, change in pain sensitivity.

In later decades, other scientists got much more rigorous in their study of fear, in many cases turning to rats rather than people as their test subjects.

In studies of women with only one X chromosome, he found that test subjects who inherited their X chromosome from their fathers had better social skills than those who inherited their X chromosome from their mothers.

A group of scientists planning to map all the major connections in the human brain began studying their first test subjects in August.

Study 2 looked at test subjects» impressions of the honesty of simple factual statements made by other people.

In the in - car information system study, the researchers did an initial test on the subjects, then let them take the cars home for five days to practice using the systems.

In a nearly year - long double - blind study, some lucky test subjects drank brewed cocoa, cocoa with caffeine, caffeine without cocoa, and a placebo with neither caffeine nor cocoa.

As part of an unusual study, Philip Sadler, the Frances W. Wright Senior Lecturer in the Department of Astronomy, and colleagues tested 181 middle school physical science teachers and nearly 10,000 of their students, and showed that while most of the teachers were well - versed in their subject, those better able to predict their students» wrong answers on standardized tests helped students learn the most.

As part of an unusual study, Sadler and colleagues tested 181 middle school physical science teachers and nearly 10,000 of their students, and showed that while most of the teachers were well - versed in their subject, those better able to predict their students» wrong answers on standardized tests helped students learn the most.

Working at ALS beamline 12.3.2, a superconducting bending magnet X-ray micro-diffraction beamline, the research team studied a reproduction of Roman volcanic ash - lime mortar that had been previously subjected to fracture testing experiments at Cornell University.

«One of the surprising findings from this study was that even the subjects who had extreme exposure — two subjects who went to a music festival with 16 hours of exposure at 101 to 103 dBA (A-weighted decibels), which is around 1,000 percent of the daily occupational noise limit — had only temporary changes on some functional tests, with no evidence of permanent pathology,» Le Prell said.

To identify the brain regions involved in canceling a decision, the new study recruited 21 subjects for a modified «stop signal task,» a commonly used neuroscientific behavioral test that involves canceling a planned movement.

That may explain why 98 % of the e4 - positive subjects said they would still get tested if they had the choice again, says Robert Green, the Boston University neurologist who led the study: «If this information was a drug,... it looks pretty safe in this small group of screened individuals.»

Seventeen test subjects participated in the study and researchers were able to successfully demonstrate that this device can in fact be used to diagnose inflamed joints.

In one study, after just two consecutive nights of four - hours» sleep, test subjects had a 28 percent higher ghrelin (hunger) hormone level and 18 percent lower leptin (satiety) hormone level in their blood compared with subjects who had spent 10 hours a night in bed.

In their study, University of Nebraska researchers Yulie Meneses and Rolando Flores tested wastewater from whey of Cheddar cheese by subjecting it to reverse osmosis and ultrafiltration, as well as an additional step of spray drying.

A new report, published online October 24 in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, reviews 18 carefully controlled laboratory studies that tested human subjects» physiological and behavioral responses to sleep deprivation as they relate to metabolic health.

Their statement is based on the results of a comparative study of different types of therapy carried out with adult test subjects.

Yes, using mice in early drug studies can spare human test subjects from harm, which most people would argue justifies the frequently misleading findings.

After Ilina completed her study and showed her study subjects the results of her tests «two or three of the smokers have quit smoking, and that makes me feel good,» says Ilina.

In that study, therapeutic touch practitioners, prevented from visually observing the subject's hand, were able to locate the hand correctly in only 122 of 280 test runs — 44 percent of the time, a rate roughly equivalent to chance alone (50 percent).

Despite these shortcomings, manufacturers make claims of very high accuracy, Weyer says, citing one drug package insert that says the test is 100 % accurate, although the study included only 10 subjects.

Too many neuroscience studies test too few subjects to arrive at firm conclusions.

Similarly, a study of «therapeutic touch» published in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that practitioners who insisted they could sense a patient's «energy field» proved incapable of even sensing the presence or absence of a test subject's hand.

As part of the study, carried out at the University Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (led by Siegfried Kasper), the study team obtained quantitative information from healthy test subjects about stressful life events, such as deaths in the family, divorce, unemployment, financial losses, relocations, serious illnesses or accidents.