Sentences with phrase «than students in the control group»

The students taking the course online did substantially better on assessments of algebra knowledge at the end of eighth grade, scoring 0.4 standard deviations higher than students in the control group.

They found that students provided with these custom lists were more likely to apply to the schools on the list than students in the control group.

Students in the treatment group were 18 percent more likely to attend the exhibit than students in the control group.

Students who played the game everyday for twenty minutes improved 50 percent more than the students in the control group.

But over the last few years, the Bloomberg approach has been vindicated by an innovative, multiyear study showing that the poor, minority students who attend small specialized schools do better academically than students in a control group who attend traditional high schools.

Magnolia's study revealed that Achieve3000 users did significantly better over the course of the school year and performed better than students in the control group on the GMRT - 4.

His results were striking: after one semester, students who were randomly assigned to experience the intervention achieved a significantly higher GPA than students in the control group.

After one year, black students who switched to private schools scored 0.17 standard deviations higher than the students in the control group.

In 2010, the U.S. Department of Education found that students who were offered a voucher in the Washington, D.C., voucher lottery graduated high school at a rate 12 percentage points higher than students in the control group.