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Showing 1 to 20 of 80 for “"random assignment"”.
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Neighbourhood effects in educational outcomes with non-random assignment : a memberships approach
… education as allocation to residence is non-random in this setting.
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Approaches to education market design
… switching costs, and demand responses to prior assignments. The estimates suggest that there are even more changes in underlying demand, undermining the welfare performance of the initial match. To alleviate the cost of demand changes, I investigate dynamic mechanisms that best accommodate …
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Collateral Benefits Of A Brief, Couple-Focused Intervention On Coparenting: Indirect Effects Through Couple Relationship Quality And Conflict
… heterosexual) participated in a longitudinal randomized controlled trial. Both members of the couple (49.3% women) reported on perceived relationship quality and conflict frequency (at baseline and post-intervention; T1, T2), and coparenting (at baseline, 1-month, and 3-month follow-up; T1, …
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Criminal careers and restorative justice
… Justice Research Consortium (JRC) completed a randomised controlled trial testing the crime reduction effects of restorative justice conferences. Burglary and robbery offenders and victims who agreed to participate in the trial were randomly assigned to either a face to face conference …
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Gender Bias in Microlending: Do Opposites Attract?
<p>This study exploits a quasi-random assignment of clients to loan officers using a unique database and survey from a large microfinance bank in Nigeria to show that opposite-sex preferences affect credit demand and supply. We find that clients matched to loan officers of the opposite gender are …
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To prosecute or not to prosecute, that is the question: the Federal Trade Commission and Antitrust Division's antitrust enforcement dilemma under judicial uncertainty
… uncertainty created by appellate courts' random assignment of judges and cases affects the likelihood of bureaucratic prosecution. Given that the decision from a specific panel of a circuit court can be estimated by its median judge's policy position and that the bureaucracy does not know …
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A Summative Evaluation of FlightSafety International's Computer Assisted Instruction known as "Principles of Troubleshooting"
… ability in aircraft maintenance trainees. Sixty randomly chosen Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) students served as control and experimental subjects with the POT course as the independent variable. Because random assignment was possible, a posttest-only control group design was used. …
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Psittacidae, a monograph of the parrot family
The design of this study was a random assignment of subjects to the control and the experimental groups, treatment given to the experimental group, and the collection of data from five post tests on both groups. The five post tests were evaluations of the subjects bys clients, peers, supervisors, …
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Assignment problem for the U.S. Marine Corps: regional, culture, and language familiarization program
… assigning Marines to one of the 17 regions. The assignment is done manually and oftentimes, by random allocation without a standard operating procedure. We developed two integer-programming models and a matching algorithm that utilizes top trading cycle and serial dictatorship. These models …
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Guided Imagery Strategy in Poetry Writing Instruction: Its Effects on Creative and Critical Thinking Skills of Middle School Students
… of fourth and fifth grade students. After random assignment to groups, students were given the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking and the Ross Tests of Higher Cognitive Processes. Half the students participated in guided imagery strategies while the remainder of the students received only …
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College integrated care: Effectiveness of the use of a modified version of the patient health questionnaire for patients in a university health clinic
… and referrals for behavioral intervention. After random assignment to condition, 109 participants in the experimental condition completed the mentalhealth- oriented Patient Health Questionnaire and the college-adjustment-oriented College Health Questionnaire, and 91 control participants received …
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Applying the foot-in-the-door approach to increase response rates to mailed questionnaires and to enhance donation behaviour.
… Bell and Mail Only Groups) were established by random assignment from a randomized cluster-sample of 910 households in the City of Kanata, a satellite community west of Ottawa, Ontario. The promised charitable donation by a corporate sponsor stimulated a greater response rate for …
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Exposure dose, trauma type, and attrition in PTSD efficacy studies
… 32 studies that met search criteria (i.e., random assignment to groups, use of a control group, manualized treatment, and clinician-generated PTSD diagnosis). The hypotheses were tested using chi-square analysis of independence. The results suggest that there are not significant differences …
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The effect of music on anxiety in patients undergoing arthroscopic knee surgery
… on the patient's postoperative anxiety level; Random assignment to a music treatment group or a no music control group, by surgical day, was performed. The experimental (music) group (n = 12) was given a tape recorder with headphones and instructed to listen to their music selection throughout …
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The effects of ludic activities as a motivational strategy to evolve oral production of intermediate Intensive English I students of the Foreign Language department at the University of El Salvador
… students divided into the two groups following a random assignment method. A teacher was assigned to both groups in order to make sure both groups received the same level of motivation and there were no other variables on regards the teaching technique. However, ludic activities were applied in …
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Trainee Attitudes Toward Social Class as Predictors of Clinical Decision Making: Exploring the Effects of Classism in Psychotherapy
… programs in the U.S. were recruited and randomly assigned to one of two clinical vignette conditions. Both vignette conditions included identical data regarding a hypothetical client’s presenting concerns (e.g., sleep disturbance, worry, rumination, loneliness), but differed on indicators …
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Essays in public health and early education
… is made for attrition and possible violations of random assignment. The second chapter, coauthored with Sir Michael Marmot, investigates the effect of promotions on heart disease. The positive cross-sectional relationship between socioeconomic status and health is well documented, but little …
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The effects of perfectionism on decisional delay under conditions of perceived risk
… of undergraduate students (N = 90) following random assignment to one of two (low, high) risk conditions on a reward selection decision-making task. Overall, analyses showed that dimensions of perfectionism carried mixed predictive abilities for selection difficulty and stress reactivity on a …
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Character Education Program in a Single-Sex, Urban Charter High School: Learning from Teacher and Student Perceptions of Its Implementation.
… Focus group participants were chosen using random assignment. An open coding method and grouping the data into themes were used to analyze the qualitative data. Using percentages, quantitative data was streamlined into graphs. I used the Character Education Program evaluation to determine …
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The Impact of Treating Major Depression During Pregnancy on the Postpartum Phase
… six months, and nine months postpartum following random assignment to one of three treatments delivered over eight weeks during pregnancy: active acupuncture, control acupuncture, and control prenatal massage. Mixed effects analyses revealed that responders to the acute phase of treatment during …
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