Sentences with phrase «think about their efficacy»

But they shouldn't: Not only is skin your largest organ, but what is applied to the skin is absorbed by the body (if you're suspect, just think about the efficacy of transdermal birth control or nicotine patches).

The teachers are assisted through a Cognitive Coaching process that utilizes school academic and discipline data to challenge their thinking about the efficacy of their Culturally Responsive Pedagogy.

So I encourage teachers to think about their efficacy and focus on strategies they need to put in place that will help students who are academically behind, prone to distraction or easily discouraged.

This is the case whatever you think about the efficacy or otherwise of those questions, or whatever is your personal opinion of who ought to have won in the Carlson versus Nye tiff.

What do you think about its efficacy?

This approach goes against much contemporary thinking about the efficacy of psychological therapies and the general trend which has suggested that specifically targeted psychotherapies are more effective.2

Not exact matches

«I really worry about this study — I think it's flawed,» says Peter Snyder, a neurologist who studies ageing at Brown University's Alpert Medical School in Providence, R.I. Snyder agrees that data supporting the efficacy of brain training are sparse.

In this segment, Dr. House and Dr. Barrett talk about why the brain «fools us» into thinking our functional vision and movement is normal in the presence of neurological disease, and what this means for professional caregivers, families, and our medical culture and society, since patient self - reporting is now a major source of information about public health needs and treatment efficacy.

«The main focus now is to search for techniques allowing for increased accumulation of nanomedicines in the tumor which should potentially allow for higher efficacy and in parallel thinking about more sophisticated constructs which are capable of interacting with the tumor microenvironment,» he said.

It's natural to think of pills as straightforward actors on our bodies, but our expectations about them, the way they're presented to us, and our genetic makeup are all ingredients in the efficacy mix.

Vitamin d derivatives control the responsiveness of cells to the mitogenic effects of IGF - 1 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9379127 and when you control for vitamin d levels (not by any means the efficacy of vitamin d, but certainly an indication of the availability of vitamin d) the association mostly disappears http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22216097 I simply don't think that there is any reason to worry about increases in IGF - 1 levels if vitamin d is doing its job in the body.

For two years, Agency by Design has partnered with preK — 12 educators in Oakland, California, to develop instructional strategies and tools to help students think critically about the design of objects, ideas, and systems — and to test the notion that maker - based experiences can increase students» sense of self - efficacy.

I don't know ----- since reading Diane Ravitch's, E.D. Hirsch's, and Charles Murray's latest books, along with much of the recent books about the current thinking in psychology, I find it highly unlikely that the confidence of education reformers in the efficacy of «objective measures» of student performance is well - placed.

Topics include classroom management to engage students, problems that stem from students» worry about what others think about them such as cheating and lack of participation, and teacher - student communication about self - efficacy.

We wanted to learn more about how the eWriters might influence students» desire to write (their motivation) and how they thought of themselves as writers (their self - efficacy).

I think I am less reflexively sceptical about the efficacy of the Fed's policy (but I fully agree with your view that they are not supporting employment with it).

Gold is selling off as uncertainty grows about the identity and thinking of the next Fed chairman, about the efficacy of QE and about the world's tolerance to endure even the slightest tightening in the Fed's unprecedentedly easy monetary policy.

It's about efficacy, a real effect missed by the likes of Lewis in his one - dimensional way of thinking.

I think the core «belief» that has caused much harm is about the efficacy of computer models for complex and poorly understood systems.

The Marvel paper gets around this thought by talking about the «accident of history» and implying that the efficacy measure is very much unique to the recent climate conditions and pointing to the efficacy measure different than unity being related to the non uniformity in the x, y and z directions of the global atmosphere of the negatively forcing agents.

Nic, I was not clear about my confusion with the data used for ERF and iRF approaches to efficacy determinations in Marvel, but I think I may now have it figured out — if you can verify that my understanding is correct.

David Roberts» most recent post tackles an issue I spend a good amount of time thinking about: the efficacy of civil disobedience in the modern era.

I don't think you can attribute it all to doubts about the efficacy or reliability of alternative legal services providers: the major players in this sector have ten - plus years of outstanding results and tens of millions of dollars in annual turnover.

It really is exciting to think about the many ways Cincinnati can become a strengths - based city or the strengths capital of the world: In addition to relishing in the outcomes of strengths use such as greater engagement, happiness, meaning, self - efficacy, etc., it's fascinating to consider the ingredients and pathways to getting there.

In addition, the opportunity to view themselves in interaction with their baby and to observe positive responses from the infant, together with the guider using the video to prompt the parent to think about what the baby might be feeling, can bring about a range of meta - cognitive changes that result from the discrepancy between their own beliefs about their ability to parent and what they can see on the video, in addition to an increase in feelings of empowerment and self - efficacy, and their ability for RF (Kennedy 2011).

16 Parental knowledge is thought to provide a global cognitive organization for adapting to or anticipating developmental changes in children.17 Mothers who are knowledgeable respond more sensitively to their child's initiations, 18 while mothers with inaccurate expectations about their child's development tend to be more harsh.19, 20,21 Studies have indicated that when mothers have higher knowledge of infant and child development, they show higher levels of parenting skills, 16,22,23 their children have higher cognitive skills, 16,24 and there are fewer child behaviour problems.16 Furthermore, a positive association has been found between parental self - efficacy and parenting competence when knowledge of child development is high.