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

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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.

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

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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.

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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

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

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