Results indicate that participants had a statistically significant lower recidivism rate, measured as committing any new offense compared
with nonparticipants, however, no statistically significant differences were found across individual offense types.
The Boston study of just over 2,000 students in the public school district's universal program for 4 - to -5-year-olds found greater gains in vocabulary and math for participating students compared
with nonparticipants, after one year, than seen in any other study of other large - scale pre-K programs around the US.
A handful of experimental studies of desegregation programs compare participants
with nonparticipants.
CASEL president Roger P. Weissberg and Joseph Durlak, a Loyola University psychologist, reviewed 300 studies and found that, compared
with nonparticipants, students participating in programs aimed at improving the social and emotional learning environment in schools «have significantly better attendance records; their classroom behavior is more constructive and less often disruptive; they like school more; and they have better grade point averages.
Previous small studies have documented improvements in body fat and aerobic performance in BOKS participants, compared
with nonparticipants.
Not exact matches
The other, since he evades purification and lives
with illusory pleasures, making the illness difficult to cure, is estranged from the natural, lives a life contrary to nature and becomes a
nonparticipant in this natural life which is communion
with God.
Although we could not find estimates of fan use in the US population, we examined the potential selection bias by evaluating characteristics associated
with SIDS risks in study participants and
nonparticipants in a previously published article.16 Using California birth certificate data, we compared the ORs for maternal age, maternal education, parity, birth weight, infant sex, and late initiation of prenatal care (> 5 months» gestation).
This is best way to rule out unobserved differences between participants and
nonparticipants but means it's hard to compare the DC results
with those from Milwaukee and Florida.
The authors of the study hold out hope that the positive finding on kindergarten retentions means that the TN - VPK had a positive effect on children's social / emotional development, which will lead to long term positive outcomes like those that were found in the famous Perry Preschool Project (in which, for example, participants were less likely than
nonparticipants to have had encounters
with the criminal justice system as adults).
Two surveys were distributed in conjunction
with a number of personal interviews and
nonparticipant observations of middle school teachers in a Florida county.
We matched 8,095 dual credit participants to an equal number of
nonparticipants within the same high school at the point of postsecondary enrollment using propensity scores calculated through a two - level hierarchical generalized linear model
with college type as a post treatment adjustment.
participants and
nonparticipants in the public schools is that students who have transferred to the private sector using a FTC Scholarship appear to be keeping pace
with the gains observed in the public sector.
The school - based sample design, using 1 class period for completion of the questionnaire, precluded ability to compare respondent characteristics
with those of
nonparticipants.