Sentences with phrase «than control students»

The intervention group students were more satisfied with the game outcome and prize division than control students.

Results Fewer students receiving full intervention than control students reported violent delinquent acts (48.3 % vs 59.7 %;P =.04), heavy drinking (15.4 % vs 25.6 %; P =.04), sexual intercourse (72.1 % vs 83.0 %; P =.02), having multiple sex partners (49.7 % vs 61.5 %; P =.04), and pregnancy or causing pregnancy (17.1 % vs 26.4 %; P =.06) by age 18 years.

Treatment students were also more likely than control students to report better behavior and attention in class after sports, games and play.

Treatment students provided interview responses using language associated with higher grade levels and with more words than control students.

Across all five plays we found that students randomly assigned to see live theater scored significantly higher than the control students on measures of tolerance and social perspective taking as well as a test of their knowledge of the play's plot and vocabulary.

Treated students attempted two more credits than the control students during the second semester.

At the same time, the students of the Facing History teachers demonstrated significantly greater historical thinking skills, civic efficacy, and tolerance for others with different views than control students.

Not exact matches

The student organizers raised more than $ 3 million through an online GoFundMe campaign and worked with Everytown for Gun Safety, which advocates for universal background checks and other gun control measures.

Last week: The tectonic shift in the conversation about gun regulations, school safety and mental health since the murder of 17 faculty and students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is nothing less than amazing when, in defiance of the NRA, it produced the first successful gun control measure in Florida in over two decades!

Less than a week after the tragic shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School, some of the surviving students — who are barely old enough to vote — have become some of the loudest and most prominent voices for gun control reform.

Yet another sign of the flourishing of AATS - member graduate professional schools in the United States was the astonishing — from the vantage of the 1990s — statistic that despite the intervening economic depression they averaged three times as much endowment per student ($ 6,103) as all privately controlled academic institutions ($ 2,040), and more than ten times as much as publicly controlled institutions ($ 455).13

Some students prefer to use «problem drinking» rather than alcoholism in describing this non-addicted excessive drinking, since there is apparently no loss of the ability to control the intake of alcohol.

Students at Elm City (86 percent of whom qualify for free or reduced - price lunch) now control their schedule and follow their own personal interests in their learning much more than they used to, and they have more autonomy in the subjects they study, including daily «enrichment» courses in robotics, dance, and tae kwon do.

A majority of the more than 1,385 high school students, 3,600 parents and 520 teachers of all grade levels who returned a questionnaire after this change was piloted in Palo Alto said, «If I controlled the school calendar, I would want first - semester finals to occur before winter break»; this included more than 85 percent of the high school students, according to Challenge Success.

But new research from a spate of economists, psychologists, neuroscientists and educators has found that the skills that see a student through college and beyond have less to do with smarts than with more ordinary personality traits, like an ability to stay focused and control impulses.

When researchers randomly assigned some primary school students to perform three acts of kindness each week, those kids became more popular than did children in a control group (Layous et al 2012).

As James Heckman and several other researchers have noted, certain, non-cognitive skills or character traits, such as «grit, self - control, zest, social intelligence, gratitude, optimism and curiosity,» have an even greater impact on student achievement than academic skills.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, between 2011 and 2016, the number of high school students who reported smoking tobacco in the last 30 days declined by more than 15 percent to about 8 percent.

Students at more than a dozen school in central and northern New York are expected to take part in a national high school walkout today to demand action on gun control.

Cuomo has already rolled out a series of proposals over the last several weeks for the new year, beginning with a new gun control measure designed to take guns away from domestic abusers to combating student loan and spending $ 34 million to overhaul Stewart Airport in the Hudson Valley to name three of the more than a dozen or so proposals unspooled.

«To deny New York City's 1.1 million students anything less than the full preservation of mayoral control is to subject them to the dysfunction and chaos of the old system, as well as risk an end to higher test scores and graduation rates.

«The exclusion of mayoral control is nothing more than politics at the expense of students,» said de Blasio spokeswoman Freddi Goldstein.

E-cigarette use among U.S. high school students more than doubled from 4.7 percent in 2011 to 10 percent in 2012, according to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Youth Tobacco Survey.

Entering Head Start, bilingual students had higher inhibitory control, but lower math scores, than English - only students did.

They were consistently more accurate on all tasks than the controls and the students,» says Dr White.

But the strongest improvement was in the bottom quartile of students, who scored a full 10 percent better, on average, than the bottom quartile of the control section.

Overall, the researchers report, students who learned metacognition skills scored around 4 percent higher on the final exam than their peers in the control section.

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.

«When dexamethasone was given during the rebuilding phase, the tissue in the healed Achilles tendon was more than twice as strong as it was in untreated controls,» says Parmis Blomgran, PhD student and principal author of the article.

«Cognate words were processed more quickly than control words,» said Jason W. Gullifer, a graduate student in psychology, suggesting that both languages are active at the same time.

Black students in the experimental group, in contrast, did significantly better academically than their peers in the control group — cutting in half the average achievement gap between racial groups seen at the start of the study.

«These new findings allow disease early warning systems to provide warnings for upcoming epidemics with much longer lead time than before,» says Prasad Liyanage, doctoral student at Umeå University and Medical Officer for dengue control in Kalutara district at the Sri Lankan Ministry of Health.

But students and postdocs had higher success rates than tenured faculty members, even after controlling for the fact that the junior people tended to ask for less money.

The odds that a given student experienced bullying were 1.5 to nearly 2 times higher in control schools than in KiVa schools nine months after KiVa's implementation.

I think most graduate students become accustomed to running their experiments their way and having more control over their day - to - day activities than they typically would in another job.

So a Mexican ecology graduate student spent 1.5 years traipsing through that country, combing through dense jungles and braving areas controlled by drug cartels to net more than 900 of the nocturnal creatures.

My high school placed more emphasis on controlling student behavior rather than inspiring them to seek higher education.

«But not having a comparison to a control group [of children without ADHD], I'm not sure that's higher or lower than what the student population would be doing.»

Her name is Parvana (voiced with strength and conviction by newcomer Saara Chaudry), and she is allowed to visit Kabul's market square only so long as she is accompanied by her father (Ali Badshah), a one - legged local teacher whose reverence for books upsets the militant young men — including one especially spiteful former student, hardly more than a child himself — who've since seized control of the region.

What better way for students to discover their identities as capable mathematicians than to be in control of monitoring their progress and investigations?

These studies show, consistently, that parental schools of choice not controlled by public school districts 1) are usually prohibited by law from screening out students based on admission exams, 2) use ability tracking less frequently than traditional public schools even when, legally, they can, and 3) may use ability tracking, but when they do, it is less likely to have a negative effect on the achievement of low - track students.

We should be telling parents about ways to limit device usage (see Curbi Parental Controls for iOS), other than just the plain old every day discipline of taking a device away or sitting beside a student while they use technology (by the way, these two things are the best way to be proactive with our children).

Treated students both attempted, and earned, 1.5 more credits (about half a college course) than those in the control group during their first semester.

For example, students randomly assigned to receive a school tour of Crystal Bridges later displayed demonstrably stronger ability to think critically about art than the control group.

After controlling for average class size, per - pupil spending in 1998 - 99, the percentage of students with disabilities, the percentage of students receiving a free or reduced - price school lunch, the percentage of students with limited English proficiency, and student mobility rates, high - scoring F schools achieved gains that were 2.5 points greater than their below - average D counterparts in reading (see Figure 2).

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.

A fixed mindset can be thought of as one in which a student's belief of what they can achieve is controlled by their inherited characteristics (for example, predispositions and intelligence) rather than the belief that effort can and does make a difference (Dweck, 2007).

The results showed that students who participated in the program performed at significantly higher levels in reading than the students in an experimental control group.

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

By the end of two years of the program, students in incentive schools performed significantly better than those in control schools.