Sentences with phrase «test than the control group»

The pilot study, conducted by Dr. Keiko Abe of the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, showed that healthy laboratory rats fed a diet in which some of the carbohydrate was replaced with pure maple syrup from Canada, yielded significantly better results in liver function tests than the control groups fed a diet with a syrup mix containing a similar sugar content as maple syrup.

The results, published in 2007 in the Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, showed that the storytelling students scored significantly better on vocabulary and reading «readiness» tests than the control group.

A 2011 paper that investigated the effects of tutoring provided by teachers found that students who received tutoring in either reading or math performed significantly better on the state standardized test than a control group of students with similar prior scores who did not receive tutoring.19 Even when programs are less structured and instruction is not provided by trained teachers, tutoring can have a notable effect on student performance.

Not exact matches

The intervention tested by Bonuck et al. (31) yielded impressive results with significantly higher rates of any breastfeeding through 20 wk PP, with the exception of week 18 (53 vs. 39 %, P < 0.05) and greater breastfeeding intensity (defined as more than half of feedings derived from breast milk in this study) through 9 wk (46 vs. 33 %, P < 0.05) in the intervention (vs. control) group.

At the end of the test period the massage group had significantly less depression and very significantly better interaction with their babies, than the control group.

Tests revealed that during their fetal development, boys with autism were exposed to even higher levels of sex steroid hormones than the control group of boys.

The first group also scored up to 17 percent lower than the control group on multiple - choice tests, evidence that engaging in messaging unrelated to the class hurts student learning.

The task force also wants to expand a type of trial that tests different drugs in separate arms against the same control group, which they say is more efficient than running a control group for each drug.

When Kolb put them through a series of cognitive and spatial - ability tests, the vitamin - charged rats did markedly better than the control group.

In every test, the Maya chose the correct answer far more often than not, scoring almost as well as a control group of Italian adults (doi.org/wvt).

The research team found that IED - diagnosed group was more than twice as likely to test positive for toxoplasmosis exposure (22 percent) as measured by a blood test, compared to the healthy control group (9 percent).

On average, both groups did slightly better on these tests than control subjects who read either a nonfiction article or nothing at all.

Some other test groups, however, were healthier than the controls.

Surprise, surprise, the distracted group didn't do as well on the test — 10 points worse than the control group.

For cerebellum, the drug (F = 15, P = 0.0004) and drug × group interaction (F = 8.2, P = 0.007) were significant; post hoc t tests showed larger decreases in controls (13 ± 11 %) than abusers (1.4 ± 16 %)(P = 0.01).

Results showed the first two groups didn't develop PCOS, unlike the mice in the control group, whereas the test subjects with ovary ARs still contracted the disease, albeit at a lower rate than the normal mice.

Numerous small studies show a reduction in depression and fatigue in cancer patients who received Reiki, and a rigorously controlled study in the Journal of Orthopaedic Research showed that cells in test tubes treated by Reiki practitioners grew better than those in an untreated control group.

In a study at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, people who received high doses of the stress hormone cortisol daily for four days performed worse on recall tests than those in the control group.

In the second test, with 24 hour deprivation and cookie feeding, rats that had been in sweet restricted cycles ate almost 20 % more food than the control group.

A twice daily dietary supplement for 13 weeks containing whey protein, leucine, and vitamin D (20 g whey protein, 3 g total leucine, and 800 IU vitamin D) was given to older (~ 78 years) primarily independent - living sarcopenic adults and resulted in improved chair — stand test time and showed a greater gain in skeletal muscle mass than the control group (and these results were repeated in other studies).

Consequently, the pups of the test group gained significantly less weight than the control group's pups.

In a research study carried out in 2013 and published in Skin Pharmacology and Physiology, women with TE or pattern hair loss were tested to check their vitamin D levels, and even though female pattern hair loss is considered hereditary, levels of vitamin D were lower than the levels of women from the control group.

These anecdotes are supported by research showing that students who are taught to develop mental imagery of text do better than control groups on tests of comprehension and recall.

When content was tested, the children who watched the humorous segments scored higher and showed better engagement than the control group.

The smallest differences after two years were observed in New York City, where the combined test scores of African - American students attending private schools were 4.3 percentile points higher than those of the control group.

On average in the three cities, African - American students who switched from public to private schools scored 6.3 percentile points higher than their peers in the control group on the reading portion of the test and 6.2 points higher on the math portion.

Data also show that students in the reduced - size classrooms had higher standardized test scores in reading and mathematics than did students in the control group.»

Black students who attended D.C. private schools for two years scored 9.0 percentile points higher on the two tests combined than did students in the control group.

Students who received at least 25 hours of math or 34 hours of English Language Arts instruction did better than control group students on tests in fall 2013 and fall 2014.

Researchers found that those who attended a five - to - six - week summer program for 20 or more days in 2013 did better on state math tests than similar students in the control group.

On all outcome measures, the intervention group means were higher than the control group means, although statistical tests did not yield significant differences between the groups.

The researchers in the district tested three theories about the negative impacts and found that only one of them may explain some of the learning loss experienced in voucher schools.46 More specifically, they investigated the possibilities that control group students were in higher - performing public schools; that voucher schools continue to offer less instructional time than public schools; and finally, that student mobility — the fact that a student is moving and adjusting to a new school — may be the underlying cause of the negative impact.47

Few differences existed across groups in 9th grade, but by the end of 10th grade, students» test scores, academic grade point averages, and progress to graduation tended to be better for the students in programs of study (i.e., treatment students) than for control / comparison students.

The summative portion was designed to determine if students in the treatment group would score higher on the Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP) and Metropolitan Achievement Test, 7th Edition (MAT7), than would students in the control group.

A recent three - year study by Vanderbilt University found that teachers offered a $ 15,000 bonus for raising test scores did no better than a control group.

Students exposed to the intervention also did much better on the TAAS reading test than did students in the control group.

You would need to have had a control group that had not been neutered equal to the test group in more than just size.

Most Americans can correctly identify carbon dioxide as a gas created by the burning of fossil fuels (68 %), and a similar share, 65 %, recognize that a comparison or control group is a better method for testing the effectiveness of a new drug than simply giving the drug to a single group.

In Upjohn Co. v. United States, 6 the United States Supreme Court held that a company's attorney — client privilege extends to company counsel's communications with employees in certain prescribed circumstances.7 Rather than providing a simple objective test, the Upjohn court instead established five factors to guide courts in determining whether the company's privilege should extend to counsel's communications with its employees: (1) whether the communications were made by employees at the direction of superior officers of the company for the purpose of obtaining legal advice; (2) whether the communications contained information necessary for counsel to render legal advice, which was not otherwise available from «control group» management; (3) whether the matters communicated were within the scope of the employee's corporate duties; (4) whether the employee knew that the communications were for the purpose of the company obtaining legal advice; and (5) whether the communications were ordered to be kept confidential by the employee's superiors, including that the communications were considered confidential at the time and kept confidential subsequent to the interview.8 When these elements are established, courts generally consider communications between company counsel and an employee to be within the scope of the company's attorney — client privilege.9

In Denver, low - resource families who received home visiting showed modest benefits in children's language and cognitive development.102 In Elmira, only the intervention children whose mothers smoked cigarettes before the experiment experienced cognitive benefits.103 In Memphis, children of mothers with low psychological resources104 in the intervention group had higher grades and achievement test scores at age nine than their counterparts in the control group.105 Early Head Start also identified small, positive effects on children's cognitive abilities, though the change was for the program as a whole and not specific to home - visited families.106 Similarly, IHDP identified large cognitive effects at twenty - four and thirty - six months, but not at twelve months, so the effects can not be attributed solely to home - visiting services.107

Because the univariate effect of the representativeness of the sample was lost in multivariate analysis, we conclude that this effect was based on a confounding variable (the use of control groups rather than test norms in community - based studies with representative samples).

Behavior therapy is considered probably efficacious for childhood depression, and a number of other experimental interventions show promise but require further evaluation.12 Currently, only 2 research groups have focused on psychosocial interventions for childhood bipolar disorder.13 - 15 Hence, increased attention to creation and testing of treatments specifically targeting depression and bipolar disorder in children is needed.16 In particular, studies should focus on children's developmental needs, address comorbidity, involve family members in treatment, demonstrate treatment gains as rated by parents and clinicians rather than children themselves, and compare experimental interventions with standard care or treatment as usual (TAU) rather than no - treatment or attention control groups.12, 17,18 In addition, parental psychopathology may affect treatment adherence and response.

Scheffé post hoc tests confirm that laughter rates (i) are significantly higher in all the comedy conditions than in all the control conditions, (ii) are significantly higher in the comedy - alone condition than in the control conditions, (iii) are significantly higher in all the group comedy conditions than in the comedy - alone condition (all at p < 0.001), and (iv) do not differ significantly between the experimental (comedy) conditions across experiments (p > 0.600).

Parents in the intervention group on lying also scored higher on the perception test than did the control group.

MIT using bibliotherapy was chosen as a comparison group because: (a) it seemed inappropriate to withhold treatment by assigning children to wait - list groups when the efficacy of moderately intensive parent training is well - established; (b) comparisons to alternative treatments provide stronger tests of treatment efficacy than do comparisons to untreated controls; and (c) WLC cause problems in assessing outcomes because WLCs generate a disproportionate number of dropouts that are difficult to address in «completer» analyses (Werba et al., 2006).