Mattis stood at the head of a sprawling parade field to view the demonstration with drums thudding in the background, as a dizzying mix of acrobatics, military precision and over the top theatrics took place simultaneously — a display that was most impressive, if not always tactically useful.
The students with lower math scores who viewed the demonstration had slightly more improvement in test performance than those students who did not view the demonstration.
Student participants were randomly assigned to one of two groups for the remainder of the study; the experimental group (EXP) would view the demonstration, and the control group (CON) would not.
Yet students who did not view the demonstration topic undoubtedly spoke with their peers and increased studying of the relevant material, thereby skewing the results of the CON group on the final long-term posttest.
We used a repeated-measures design, although students in the CON group did not view the demonstration intervention and were not given the Poiseuille assessment test (posttest) a third time.
Yet we saw only modest gains in performance on the mean multiple-choice assessments, and many students who did not view the demonstration were able to eventually "catch up" at the time of the midterm, albeit on a single assessment question.
Speaking at a protest Monday, Davis said he viewed the demonstrations as part of a larger nationwide response to a historically unpopular new leader.
(His remarks recall his complaint, at a conference in China in 2009, that Hong Kong was "too free" and consequently "very chaotic").But many of the city's cultural figures appear to have viewed the demonstrations as capturing the mood of the city's young people; some may, like Mr Ho, have been inspired by their idealism: "The students have reminded us that it's important to have ideals," he says.
From the outset, the Giuliani administration has viewed the demonstration, scheduled for Saturday, with suspicion.
