Glossary E

Glossary E

Effective schools is defined as schools that are generally successful at achieving curricular and non-curricular objectives, regardless of the racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic background of the student population

Effective temperature refers to the combination of air temperature, humidity, airflow, and heat radiation that determines how hot or cold the environment feels.

Deutsch: Wirksamkeit / Español: Eficacia / Português: Eficácia / Français: Efficacité / Italiano: Efficacia

Effectiveness in the psychology context refers to the degree to which a psychological intervention, therapy, or method achieves its intended outcome in real-world settings. It measures how well a treatment works in practice, outside the controlled conditions often found in research studies.

Effectiveness rates is defined as estimated rates of the number of women who do not become pregnant each year using each method of contraception.

Effectiveness studies refer to studies that emphasize external validity and the representativeness of the treatment that is administered. A treatment is considered effective to the extent that clients report clinically significant benefit from the treatment. Moreover, Effectiveness studies is defined as the assessments of therapeutic effectiveness based on well-controlled investigation of well-defined clinical problems.

Effector refers to organ or body part that responds to stimulation by an efferent neuron, example, a skeletal muscle in a withdrawal reflex.

Efferent axon is defined as a neuron that carries information away from a structure

Efferent fibers refer to nerve fibers (motor fibers) that carry neural information from the central nervous system to the periphery.