Sentences with phrase «than their matched peers»

Results indicate that community college students taking dual credit were significantly more likely to obtain a baccalaureate degree (28 % to 19 %, respectively) than their matched peers who did not participate in dual credit.

It found that students who used vouchers did not see academic gains in their new schools and that they performed worse, on average, than their matched peers in the public schools that they left.

Not exact matches

The Fuller Brush Spiffy Maid electric broom more than matches its more popular peers for features and utility.

Infants raised in homes where they hear a single language, but spoken with different accents, recognize words dramatically differently at about 12 months of age than their age - matched peers exposed to little variation in accent, according to a recent study by a University at Buffalo expert in language development.

An analysis of about 1,300 peer - reviewed research articles found that few studies included men and women equally, less than one - third performed data analysis by sex, and there was wide variation in inclusion and matching of the sexes among the specialties and the journals reviewed, according to a study published online by JAMA Surgery.

Maybe someday there will be a scientific report — with sufficient detail about a site's algorithm - based matching and vetted through the best scientific peer process — that will provide scientific evidence that dating sites» matching algorithms provide a superior way of finding a mate than simply selecting from a random pool of potential partners.

Believe it or not, there are more women on gay apps than you might imagine, everyone from a guy's best friend scooping out a potential match on their behalf to lesbians who enjoy playing games with guys, as one peer of mine recently admitted.

Twenty years after students participated in the program, John Holbein, a researcher at Princeton and the new study's author, matched Fast Track participants — now adults — to state voter files and found that those in the intervention group voted at a rate 11 to 14 percentage points higher than their peers in the control group, a significant boost considering that get - out - the - vote programs typically boost turnout by only 1 to 4 percentage points.

In 2007 they approved funding for the first public Waldorf methods high school, in the Sacramento Unified School District; and (3) Three key findings on urban public schools with Waldorf methods: (a) In their final year, the students in the study's four California case study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the adults.

Peer to peer lending companies such as Prosper and Lending Club find borrowers who are looking to borrow money at rates cheaper than what banks will lend to them at and match them up with investors who are looking to earn a higher return on their money and are willing to fund their loPeer to peer lending companies such as Prosper and Lending Club find borrowers who are looking to borrow money at rates cheaper than what banks will lend to them at and match them up with investors who are looking to earn a higher return on their money and are willing to fund their lopeer lending companies such as Prosper and Lending Club find borrowers who are looking to borrow money at rates cheaper than what banks will lend to them at and match them up with investors who are looking to earn a higher return on their money and are willing to fund their loans.

Japan promised cuts in emissions to match those of its peers, but meeting the goals will cost more than the country is willing to pay.

Heck, even peer pressure in scientific elites, a far weaker force than a full - on culture, managed to delay the proper emergence of the theory of continental - drift / tectonics for several decades, with pretty much the entire geological establishment against it at one point, despite a six year old child could see that the east coast of South America matched the west coast of Africa.

Furthermore, these children have been found to perform more poorly on measures of speech and language development than mental - aged - matched peers with other cognitive difficulties (Roberts 2008).