Sentences with phrase «wide variability»

In nearly every study that includes a large number of classrooms, there is also wide variability in the opportunities that contribute to improved achievement.

As an airborne infection, influenza is transmitted easily and quickly, and its effects can be acute, although there is wide variability in response to infection.

«There's a very, very wide variability in what's being delivered as clinical care,» says Lurie, noting that case fatality rates differ dramatically in different locations.

Moreover, global stocks have delivered a slightly better return on equity this century than Canadian listed companies, despite wide variability across geographies and time.

Moreover, global stocks have delivered a slightly better return on equity this century than Canadian listed companies, despite wide variability across geographies and time.

However, although deemed as common conditions, ADHD and ASD have prevalence rates of < 5 % in general population samples, with wide variability in reported prevalence rates in different geographic regions (Polanczyk et al. 2007; Rutter 2005).

If the baby were in trouble during the labor, there would be wide variabilities noted in the fetal heart rate usually resulting in the prolonged bradycardia, which would cause the practitioner to ask the mother to leave the bath prior to the babies birth.»

Published early online in CANCER, a peer - reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the analyses indicate that religion and spirituality have significant associations with patients» health, but there was wide variability among studies regarding how different dimensions of religion and spirituality relate to different aspects of health.

But through research conducted in Michigan Tech's cloud chamber, which was published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Cantrell, graduate student Kamal Kant Chandrakar, fellow physics professor Raymond Shaw, and colleagues found that cleaner clouds also have a much wider variability in droplet size.

The impact of public charter schools on their own students» academic performance is by now well - documented, showing wide variability overall but also clear evidence of large positive effects in many urban centers, including New York City.

«There's a very, very wide variability in what's being delivered as clinical care,» says Lurie, noting that

Dr. Levine: I think the confusion of teacher education leads to wide variability in teacher education programs and their graduates and insufficient oversight by the states and the primary accrediting association, National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE).

This is difficult to definitively conclude, the report says, because, once again, of the wide variability in application of the AP program in high schools.

There was wide variability in physical characteristics of the stream - water sites, including:

«Wide variability in organ donation rates across United States: Midwest leads nation in highest rates of lifesaving donations.»

Furthermore, there is wide variability in the degree to which these genetic factors are expressed.

There's wide variability in amputation rates among patients with diabetes; some groups of people with diabetes, such as African Americans, are more likely to have an amputation than others.

Points of difference include the questionable value of blood tests and the wide variability of testosterone levels in men without any sign of andropause symptoms, the subjective nature of so - called benefits, as well as testosterone's potential risk of heart attacks and prostate cancer, and the claims that testosterone prevents aging.

And we haven't even mentioned the wide variability in grading standards from classroom to classroom, school to school, district to district, and state to state.

Because of the wide variability in students» levels of attainment, any single year - level standard, wherever it is set, will be inappropriately easy or unrealistically difficult for a large proportion of students.

«Because of local control, because teachers work in isolation, because until recently there was no national framework — there is wide variability teacher to teacher, school to school, and district to district.

In Houston, where teacher evaluations are based significantly on value - added scores, this wide variability in teachers» ratings from year to year led teachers to feel their ratings were unpredictable and not connected to their instructional practices (Darling - Hammond et al., 2011).

In order to help students develop the skills to learn, experience learning, and foster a desire to learn more, educators must account for the wide variability of individual students, so that all students can succeed at becoming experts in their own learning, no matter their level of skill5.

Designing instruction that meets the new, more rigorous objectives posed by state standards and can be accessed universally by the wide variability of learners in a given classroom can be intimidating: a common misconception is that designing instruction that has a universal appeal for students requires many different lesson plans for the same lesson.

This wide variability in short - term performance is essentially noise and easily gives the illusion that an underlying reason explains the differential and that investors — especially the attentive, skilled, and opportunistic ones — have a chance to profit by gearing their long - term investments to the near - term evidence of superior returns.

Piotroski recognized that, although it has long been shown that value stocks (or high book - to - market firms as he calls them) have strong returns as a group, there is nevertheless a very wide variability in terms of the returns of these stocks, with most of them performing worse than the market.

Avoid generic medications since in humans generics have been found to have wide variability in the body's ability to absorb the medication.

When using a product not speci fically prepared by a manufacturer, you face the potential of a wide variability in the quantity and ef ficacy of the mushrooms» health - yielding substances.

This phenomenon accounts for the wide variability in symptoms; some dogs get only a few mild symptoms while others get a full lethal combination.

In the late 1950s, supported by an Air Force contract to study weather anomalies, he had been struck by the wide variability of climates as recorded in the varying width of tree rings.

It is the only gas with a wide variability from almost zero to 4 percent.

• There is wide variability in forensic science disciplines, not only in techniques and methodologies but also in reliability, error rates, reporting, research, general acceptability and published material.

Before the Transition API, we created our own solution to track mileage that combined GPS, phone sensors, and other metadata, but due to the wide variability in Android devices, our algorithm wasn't 100 % accurate and some users reported missing or incomplete trips.

It's important to customize your CIO resume to the particular position, given the wide variability in corporate expectations of the top technology leader.