Sentences with phrase «as education researchers»

It centers on developing constructivist - learning opportunities for students to participate in roles as education researchers, school planners, teachers, learning evaluators, systemic decision - makers, and advocates in schools, for schools.

Meaningful Student Involvement can take the form of engaging students as education researchers.

The role of Student / Adult Partnerships is central to involving student as education researchers.

Engaging students as education researchers is another, as are school planning, classroom teaching, learning evaluation and education advocacy.

Engages participants in learning about engaging students as education researchers, planners, decision - makers, evaluators, teachers, and advocates.

At the workshop, Gardner led a discussion on ethical issues with Ross School teachers and staff, as well as education researchers.

Over the last few years as education researchers at University of Michigan and Michigan State University, we have worked to address this question through a large study of the effects of PBL on social studies and some aspects of literacy achievement in second - grade classrooms.

As education researchers, we feel like we have seen it all during the last few years.

As education researcher Eileen Raymond states, «The ZPD is the distance between what children can do by themselves and the next learning that they can be helped to achieve with competent assistance.»

In this article, we draw upon our combined experience — Schanzenbach as an education researcher and Larson as a preschool director — to provide some practical, evidence - based advice.

Worth the Money In my work as an education researcher, I've listened to the stories of hundreds of students from all sorts of backgrounds and circumstances.

Prior to working as an education researcher, he was a middle school history teacher.

Prior to my entrance in the world as an education researcher, I engaged in youth - adult governance work as a practitioner for another five (See Brasof, 2009; Brasof, 2011; and Brasof & National Constitution Center, 2012).

As education researcher Patricia Lauer has found, the amount of time that children spend hanging out on street corners with their friends after school is actually a better predictor of poor academic performance than is family income.

As an education researcher, what interested you most about this article?

The educational inequalities that I observe as an education researcher are not the result of racist individuals but rather racist systems that were put in place by our predecessors.

Not exact matches

«Even though extant research has identified numerous predictors of people's happiness and well being, most of these factors represent relatively stable aspects of an individual's life, such as the cultural environment in which one is raised or resides and demographics such as age, education, social class, marital status, and religion,» write the researchers.

Known in the community as the «Hip Hop Doc,» Williams is a highly regarded NIH researcher and expert in community - based health education interventions targeting economically disadvantaged minority communities.

Today, as a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, Yeager is among the leading researchers exploring how to apply the findings of education psychology in the classroom.

While O'Kane said there was some evidence that concussion education could improve the percentage of athletes reporting concussions, pointing to a 2012 study [8] finding that high school athletes receiving concussion education were twice as likely to report symptoms to coaches compared with those with no education (72 % vs. 36 %), he acknowledged that a 2013 study [9](also by researchers at the University of Washington) found that many high school soccer players, despite understanding the symptoms of concussion and the potentially severe complications from playing with concussion, would continue to play despite symptoms.

As counselors and published higher education researchers, we aim to bring perspective (and some sanity) to college planning, and we strive to provide students with the support they need to enroll and succeed at a college that is right for them.

«The importance of storytelling, of the natural rhythms of daily life, of the evolutionary changes in the child, of art as the necessary underpinning of learning, and of the aesthetic environment as a whole — all basic to Waldorf education for the past 70 years — are being «discovered» and verified by researchers unconnected to the Waldorf movement.»

According to researchers, parenting education programs such as those provided by ECPC, can increase appropriate development in young children.

Researchers at the IFS estimate that the cuts will hit higher education, as funding to universities has been cut by 40 %, but some of that shortfall will be recouped with increased tuition fees.

Researchers from the UK and Hong Kong will be researching themes that arise in our everyday lives including parenting styles, education and management practices as well as global issues including sustainability and migration.

For more consistent results, the researchers only recruited women, and the participants completed surveys to see if there were any other factors at work that could affect brain structure, such as depression or level of formal education.

But, as study co-author Schaffer, quoted by Basken, observes, «there is no evidence that there is a shortage of young, well - trained biomedical researchers to take their place on faculties in schools of higher education or as principal investigators on NIH research grants.»

But,» [w] hile in developing countries those friendships helped in securing the most attractive jobs, such as professorships, within their national higher education system, researchers in developed countries benefited from the global network of their senior friends giving them access to the most respected research groups, labs and universities, allowing them to present their work at the most prestigious conferences and publish in the most important books and journals.»

Not only microbes protect against asthma evidently, but also farm animals: Petting cats and cows and drinking farm milk can also prevent asthma, as the team of researchers headed up by Remo Frei of the Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research from the University of Zurich in cooperation with the Center for Allergy Research and Education (CK - CARE) in Davos and the Children's Hospital of Eastern Switzerland in St. Gallen: «Early childhood contact with animals and the consumption of food of animal origin seems to regulate the inflammatory reactions of the immune system,» says immunologist Frei.

Ann Childs, a lecturer in science education at the University of Oxford, says that the main reason most researchers want to retrain as teachers is that they «want to impart their enthusiasm for science on young people.»

The researchers plan to expand their data collection with more volunteers, and see whether incorporating other variables such as handedness or education level can increase accuracy.

«In participating schools, ADAP is delivered as part of the standard health education curriculum, which facilitates its sustainability,» says Holly Wilcox, Ph.D., M.A., associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the researcher who oversaw the study on the effectiveness of the ADAP curriculum.

Top graduate programs, which receive many more applications than they can accept, often use «objective» numerical criteria as screening devices to shorten their lists of «serious» candidates, explained education researcher Julie Posselt of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping.

The researchers accounted for other factors including the age, smoking, education and ethnicity of the expectant mothers as well as the gender of the baby.

The largest urban health systems, which serve as safety nets for large patient populations with lower socioeconomic status and greater likelihood to speak English as a second language, do worse on government patient satisfaction scores than smaller, non-urban hospitals likely to serve white customers with higher education levels, according to a new study by Mount Sinai researchers published this month in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

The results were the same when researchers adjusted for other factors that could affect brain volume, such as age, education and having diabetes or high blood pressure.

* Having previously served as a faculty member, a division chair, and an academic administrator, Dr. Trower is currently a researcher at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.

Researchers are now studying the effect of this peptide to see in what other areas this type of immune education will prevent disease, such as with food allergies.

Researchers can also conduct their own analyses of the data by, for example, studying possible interrelationships among different indicators, such as education, R&D, and economic activity.

Rhythms, pace, and expected outcomes can be frustratingly at odds, as university researchers prioritize education and basic research and corporate scientists pursue products and profits.

The researchers found, after controlling for variables such as health, wealth, gender, ethnicity and education, that well - being increases over everyone's lifetime.

But in their experiment, the researchers were able to prove, mathematically, that such answers wouldn't get someone any closer to inferring information about any single person or business that might violate privacy regulations — such as whether an employee held a job at a particular workplace, or precisely what fraction of a company's workforce belonged to a certain race or had a certain level of education.

Universal child care that starts as early as age one improves language skills for young children, especially those from low - income families, according to a study of Norway's child care system by a team of researchers led by Boston College Lynch School of Education Professor Eric Dearing.

As the German minister for education and research, Edelgard Bulmahn, argued in a previous Next Wave article, the major objective of the 12 - year qualification limit was to finally call a halt to the insecurity that results from the ongoing employment of young researchers on temporary contracts.

The researchers also reexamined factors that other research groups had linked to IQ, such as nutrition, literacy, education, gross domestic product, and temperature.

The use of simulation techniques in medical education, such as lifelike mannequins and computer systems, results in improved patient care, better outcomes and other benefits, according to a study led by a Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine researcher.

«It will be a valuable resource for everyone who works in K - 12 science education — those who design curriculum and assessment, those who educate teachers, education researchers, as well as our nation's teachers,» he adds.

Group visits build in additional time for education, skill building, and the opportunity to discuss and learn from the experience of peers, as well as more face - time with caregivers, say the researchers.

When the researchers controlled for the influence of about 50 environmental factors, such as smoking and education, they found that selection acted on these traits and, for example, led women with lower cholesterol to have more children, although the reasons are unknown.

Researchers suggest that factors relating to the nature of modern education such as more time devoted to studying and working with computers and less time spent outside may help to explain the correlation between short - sightedness and education levels.