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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"Matched Sample"”.
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Achievement of public and non-Catholic private high school students within a matched sample
… in this study non-Catholic private schools are matched with public schools similar in school average base year student achievement levels, school average base year student socioeconomic levels, geographic region and racial composition. T-test results show that, among students in the most similar …
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Differential Development of Delinquent Behavior In A Matched Sample of Gang- and Nongang- Affiliated Youth
… onset of antisocial behavior between a matched sample of gang-affiliated and nongang-affiliated youth. Balanced risk set matching was used to isolate the effects of gang membership, thereby removing confounding effects related to level of background risk and permitting a more stringent …
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Managing service quality by managing the service encounter : a case study of commercial banks in South Africa
… questionnaires was conducted among a matched sample of 210 front-line employees and 1050 customers in three major commercial banks with national branch networks in South Africa.
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A Comparison of Physical Fitness Levels Attained Over a Two Year Period by Elementary School Children using Obstacle-Type Playground Equipment as Against Conventional Equipment
… procedure used in this study included the matched sample and random sample t test. In using these two procedures, the matched sample t test was computed using a program of related t scores in matrix form for 30 variables with means and standard deviations. The random sample t test was also …
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Do Academic and Private Entrepreneurs differ? An empirical analysis of the Micro-Foundation of Entrepreneurial Orientation
… of their academic affiliation, comparing a sample of ‘Academic Entrepreneurs’ to a control sample of ‘Private Entrepreneurs’ affiliated to a matched sample of Academic Spin-offs and Private Start-ups. Building on the Theory of the Planned Behaviour, proposed by Ajzen (1991), I present a …
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An Analysis of the Financial Reporting Quality of Early Adopters of Accounting Standards Update, ASU 2016-02
… aids in the development of the hypothesis and matched-sample event study using restatements and audit opinions as proxies for financial reporting quality. It is hypothesized that the early adopters of ASU 2016-02 will have better financial reporting quality when compared to a control group. …
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The Ultimate Power of Religiosity-Local Religiosity and CEO Gender Pay Gap
… both a longitudinal as well as propensity scored matched sample, results indicate that local religiosity slightly negatively relates to the level of CEO compensation for male CEOs as opposed to the positive and significant association with the level of female CEO remuneration. Contrary to …
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The Ultimate Power of Religiosity-Local Religiosity and CEO Gender Pay Gap
… both a longitudinal as well as propensity scored matched sample, results indicate that local religiosity slightly negatively relates to the level of CEO compensation for male CEOs as opposed to the positive and significant association with the level of female CEO remuneration. Contrary to …
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Community college dual credit: differential participation and differential impacts on college access and completion
… in dual credit and the average outcomes of sub-samples of students of color and low-income students participating in dual credit. It relies on theoretical constructs associated with Perna and Thomas’ (2008) Conceptual Model of Student Success and uses a descriptive and quasi-experimental design. …
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The case for humble and narcissistic leadership: creative self-efficacy and idea generation in entrepreneurial settings
… properties of the focal constructs with a sample of 98 students. I further refine the measures and check their consistency with 380 participants from Amazon M-Turk. Consistent results from Phase 1 and Phase 2 show the scales are reliable and valid. I conclude by testing the hypothesis with …
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ASSESSING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN BERNARDINO FACULTY/STUDENT MENTOR PROGRAM FOR FULL-TIME FIRST-TIME FRESHMEN
… Faculty/Student Mentor Program to conduct a matched sample analysis comparing mentored students with non mentored students. Both files were drawn from the same specified period (fall 2003 to fall 2012 academic years) based on a set of control and outcome variables provided with the …
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The control environment and financial reporting quality : does "tone at the top" matter?
… material misstatements and an industry- and size-matched sample of firms without misstatements. Using factor analysis, I find a factor composed of lower analytical thinking and higher clout significantly improves the explanatory power of a logistic regression of concurrent material misstatement …
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Healthy hearts in family child care: what is the current state of provider health?
… Study 1. FCCP health was compared to a matched sample from the same state using data from the Center for Disease Control (2014). Online and paper-based surveys were utilized to form an analytic sample of 165 FCCPs. SPSS v23 was used to calculate descriptives, chi-square tests, multiple …
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Student Hormonal Responses in Two Learning Environments
… in the traditional lecture hall. We used a matched sample design to compare cortisol levels and self-reported stress over the course of seven weeks. We also compared average exam scores and student attendance between the course sections. In this preliminary study, we found that there was no …
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Validity and reliability of the international fItness scale (IFIS) in a population-based sample of schoolchildren in Bogota, Colombia: The FUPRECOL study
… reliability of the IFIS on a population-based sample of schoolchildren in Bogota, Colombia. Participants were 1,875 Colombian youth (56.2% girls) aged 9 to 17.9 years old. We measured adiposity markers (body fat, waist-to-height ratio, skinfold thicknesses and BMI), blood pressure, lipids …
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Sleep Health Among Children Recently Adopted from Foster Care
… within the past two years and propensity score matched sample of 379 caregivers of children currently in foster care. Both samples completed online questionnaires about their child’s sleep, physical, and mental health. Comparatively, children in foster care experienced more nightmares, night …
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Female alcoholic subtypes : some clinical and social implications
… disturbance on the above groups with an age-matched sample of male alcoholic in-patients on criteria of neuroticism, psychoticism and personal disturbance. The female gamma group had a higher Total Hostility (p < ,01) Extrapunitiveness (p < ,01) and Intrapunitiveness score (p < 05) than the …
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The Relationship Between Drug Usage, Mental Well-Being and Felony Convictions Among a Sample of Adult Recreational Drug Users: Case-Control Analyses
… mental well-being and felony convictions among a sample of adult recreational drug users. The primary purpose of this analysis was to develop a set of predictor variables from the DRUGNET data set (i.e., lifestyle, drug usage, GWBS) that were able to account for the criterion variables (i.e., …
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Leadership, Ascendancy, and Gender
… the strength of this relationship using a matched sample of male and female managers. Eighty-five subjects, from the same U.S. based health-care products corporation, had previously participated in a multirater assessment process where seven different facets of their leadership skills were …
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Early antecedents of academic and psychosocial outcomes for students identifying as LGBQ
… lens for students identifying as LGBQ. Using a matched sample of 82 students, half of whom identify as LGBQ at age 15, we examined the relationships between this identity and psychosocial outcomes (e.g., mental health, academic skills, and peer victimization). We also investigated the role that …
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