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Showing 1 to 20 of 155 for “"Practical significance"”.
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The meaning and practical significance of the cohesion intercept in soil mechanics
An extensive literature study has resulted in a data base on both the laboratory measured cohesion intercept, c$\sp\prime$, and field mobilized cohesion intercept, c$\sp\prime$(mob). The data base includes values of c$\sp\prime$ and c$\sp\prime$(mob) for over 300 natural deposits throughout the …
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Is Hiring Fair and Accurate? Perceptions of Statistical and Practical Significance of Adverse Impact Indices
… factors) as well as a host of subthemes (e.g., practical significance, sample size, data aggregation, communication, the goal of the adverse impact analysis). Turning to the experiment, all participants were highly numerate, creating range restriction that limited my original intent to analyze …
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Modelling Intention to Stay and Actual Voluntary Exit Using Employee Survey Information: An Investigation of Statistcal and Practical Significance to Human Resources Planning in the Royal New Zealand Navy
… through the OAtS; and second, to review the practical significance of these statistical models and their potential contribution to RNZN human resource planning. Analyses supporting this study apply a range of statistical techniques. Principal components analysis and reliability analyses …
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The Direct Teaching of Thinking Skills for Improvement of Reading Test Results
… means indicated that there were no statistically significance differences between the experimental group and the control group at the .05 level. The null hypothesis was not rejected as a result of the findings. A delta test was calculated to determine if there were practical significance to the …
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Some problems on nonequilibrium systems
… of two nonequilibrium systems: one is of practical significance for present technologies, and the other is of conceptual importance for future theoretical research.
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An Analysis of the Differences Between Learning Groups Using the Project DARE Program
… means indicated that there was statistical significance between the experimental group and the control group at the .05 level. The null hypothesis was rejected as a result of the findings. A delta test was run to determine if there was practical significance of the findings. The delta test …
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The Valuation Implications of International Accounting Diversity: An Examination of the United Kingdom
… differences across countries can be of practical significance, at least differences between the United Kingdom and the United States. In addition, the findings contribute to our understanding of the usefulness of accounting measurement practices currently being debated by international …
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A Study of the Association between Multi-Age Classrooms and Single-Age Classrooms Regarding TCAP Reading/Language Gains.
… the calculation of effect size showed no practical significance. Significance was also revealed in favor of males over females in both single-age and multi-age classrooms; although, effect size indicated only a small to moderate practical significance exists. This study provides an …
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Comparison of Guided and Open Inquiry Instruction in a High School Physics Classroom
… mean scores between the two treatments. Small practical significance was found in the greater short-term mean gain scores of the guided-inquiry class with an effect size of .34. The CRT showed the open-inquiry class to have a higher mean score that was slightly statistically significant …
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The Effects of Teacher Certification on Freshman High School Students' Algebra I Achievement
… and other variables, the difference was of no practical significance. There was no practical significance in a student's odds of passing the examination between students in certified teachers' classrooms and those in uncertified teachers' classrooms. The results of this study offer further …
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Stability of a Normal Heterosexual Female Response to Affinity 2.0
… significant at the p < .01 level; while practical significance for PPMCC could only be considered moderate as best (range of r =.28 - .63), Spearman's Rho correlations (range of r =.41 - .65) were stronger and approached practical significance. The existence of an overall distinct and …
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Effects of Culturally Responsive Child-centered Play Therapy Compared to Curriculum-based Small Group Counseling with Elementary-age Hispanic Children Experiencing Externalizing and Internalizing Behavior Problems: a Preliminary Study.
… hypothesis, to determine the statistical and practical significance of the difference in the pretest to posttest behavior scores of children in the two groups. According to parents' reports, the children receiving play therapy showed statistically significant decreases in externalizing …
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Rice straw fiber polymer composites: thermal and mechanical performance
… lignocellulosic characteristics. It is thus of practical significance to understand and predict the thermal decomposition process of rice straw fibers. A method proposed by Málek, Šesták, and co-workers was used to investigate and model thermal decomposition process of common natural fibers with …
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Child-Centered Group Play Therapy with Children with Speech Difficulties
… group play therapy was shown to have a large practical significance in helping children improve their expressive language skills. Child-centered group play therapy was shown to have a medium practical significance in increasing children's receptive language skills. Small sample size may have …
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Effects of a Trained Therapy Dog in Child-Centered Play Therapy on Children's Biobehavioral Measures of Anxiety
… in this study were retained based on statistical significance at the .05 level. The combination of child-centered play therapy (CCPT) and animal-assisted therapy was shown to have little practical significance in decreasing children's first 5-minute biobehavioral measurements, middle 5-minute …
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The Effect of Surface Irregularities on The Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication of Sliding Line Contacts
… and state of stress in the solid surface. The practical significance of the analytical results is the implied accelerated fatigue and scuffing failure in machine elements under sliding line contact EHD lubrication conditions.
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Local Use of a Nationally-Developed Predictor of University Student Attrition
… related to attrition, was lacking in practical significance, especially when considering its incremental predictive value over high school grade point average and ACT composite score. Dropout Proneness Local was found to be both statistically significant and practically significant, …
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Analysis of the Impact of Scenario-Based Training on the Aeronautical Decision Making of Collegiate Flight Students
… the experimental treatment. Although there were practical improvements, the differences were not statistically significant. The practical significance of the results suggests that further research is required.</p>
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Assessing the Relationship between Student Involvement and Academic Performance in Higher Education
… were considered too weak to be of any practical significance. A statistically significant relationship was also found between number of credit hours enrolled and GPA.
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The Influence of Personality on Health -Specific and Global Psychological Well -Being Perceptions of Cardiac Rehabilitation Patients
… from program entry. This finding has practical significance in light of the literature that cites compromised well-being and psychological distress as representing significant and serious threats to ongoing health status. The results of this study suggest that measures of neuroticism …
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