Sentences with phrase «points academic report»

How to Write a Report: Let Discuss the Key Points Academic report is a kind of independent research that you need to know how to write.

Not exact matches

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- There was a sharp rise in reports of sexual assault at the US Military Academy at West Point in the last academic year, according to a Pentagon study released on Wednesday, highlighting an issue that has long plagued the military and its academies.

The Reuters Institute Digital News Report has become a central reference point for evidence - based discussions of news and media developments across the countries covered, and is frequently the basis for both professional, industry, policymaker and academic discussions.

There are a host of academic reports and papers that both help to explain the civil unrest and point towards possible solutions.

With more than two months left in the 2015 - 16 academic year at that point, the number of intoxicated students transported to the hospital t approached the total number of transports reported during the 2014 - 15 academic year, according to the report.

They point to a report by the federal Department of Health and Human Services last fall suggesting that academic gains made in the early education Head Start program fade by the time the children reach third grade.

In addition, the children on average showed a roughly 7 - point IQ increase, and teachers and parents reported significant improvements in academic performance and behavior.

News around the world reporting every day new cases of suicide are concerning and there is a noticeably rising tendency to point out the correlation between the academic stress and the suicidal ideation.

To get full «academic» points, the program must require schools to administer standardized assessments, publicly report the results, and submit to independent evaluation.

She points out that adding academic time was one of five major recommendations in the landmark 1983 report «A Nation at Risk» — the only recommendation never acted on.

The report provides data that indicate scholarship students are making academic progress and are closing the achievement gap with the statewide student average by almost half over the last five years, from 32 percentage points in 2011 to 18 percentage points in 2015.

They also point to a recent Stanford University report that there's no evidence of the academic boons long touted by private school voucher supporters.

The report also points out that much of the research over the last ten years has been conducted by pro-voucher organizations, and yet these organizations have not conclusively shown higher academic achievement resulting from vouchers.

Dr. Seider has reported on this work in more than 60 academic publications including Character Compass: How Powerful School Culture Can Point Students Toward Success (2012), which won the American Educational Research Association's outstanding book award in moral development and education.

During middle school, for example, students from elementary schools that had implemented the Developmental Studies Center's Child Development Project — a program that emphasizes community building — were found to outperform middle school students from comparison elementary schools on academic outcomes (higher grade - point averages and achievement test scores), teacher ratings of behavior (better academic engagement, respectful behavior, and social skills), and self - reported misbehavior (less misconduct in school and fewer delinquent acts)(Battistich, 2001).

This report uses the latest data available to look at key transition points for DPS students from 2005 to 2011 to identify: Outcomes and trends in academic achievement and growth as students move from preschool through K — 12 and into college; and Potential barriers to success.

A 2012 report by the Center for Public Education pointed to a lack of overall regulation of credit recovery programs, as well as a lack of any full academic study of their effectiveness.

College students who are exposed to information about brain development that shows the plasticity of intelligence, Aronson and several colleagues have demonstrated, «reported greater enjoyment of the academic process, greater academic engagement, and obtained higher grade point averages than students in the control group.»

«The Common Core standards, along with the aligned curriculum and the mining of nearly 400 data points reveal that the goal of the standards is not simply to improve academic achievement but also to instill federally determined attitudes and mindsets in students including political and religious beliefs,» states a report on the website of the Florida Stop Common Core Coalition.

Magnolia Public Schools (MPS) reports outstanding gains in 2012 Academic Performance Index (API) scores for its 12 schools, with an average increase of 27 points, outpacing average district gains where the schools are located.

The report attributed the low rate of academically - caused closures to inadequate data collection, and made the point that schools that close for managerial reasons would have likely faced academic woes later on.

The report looks at key transition points for DPS students from 2005 to 2011 in order to assess outcomes and trends in academic achievement and growth as students move from preschool through K — 12 and into college.

It suggests that at this point, academic research was having only a small to moderate influence on decision making relative to other sources, despite teachers generally reporting a positive disposition towards research.

He reported on a sentence he read in the Journal of Finance which he said «perfectly encapsulates (in an academic way) the exact point I had been trying to make about the rolling period results».

Similar to Tate Papers and other successful journals produced by museums, Stedelijk Studies offers a focal point for academic reports on research activities at the Stedelijk Museum.

Besides the «teaching point» recently reported here on RC yet again by yours truly, in my refs / urls to the expert Professor Philip Mirowski irl teaching academic students and post-grads what the Neoliberal Thought Collective already KNOW and actually say and write and believe:

«La Nada»; Wandering gray whale points to climate change; Wallace Encourages Fox Viewers To Remain Misinformed On Climate Change; Transparency Maldives launches Global Corruption Report on climate change; Australia academics blast UK lord over Hitler jibe; Storm Warnings: Extreme Weather Is a Product of Climate Change; American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) AAAS Board: Attacks on Climate Researchers Inhibit Free Exchange of Scientific Ideas

A press release promoting the report points out the IPCC is «already under severe criticism for violating the requirements of academic peer review and relying on secondary sources.»

As a closing point, in Simonsohn's widely publicized discussions of academic fraud last year e.g. here, Simonsohn stated that compliant articles ought to disclose «failed» calculations, as well as the ones reported (see Simmons et al 2011 here.)

I can't help but think the point re a public investigation (this was a congressional submission) report vs an academic publication for credit, is the important one here.

At some point, a publisher who is losing their shirt on academic articles could stop doing any articles and reports.

We focus on these outcomes in kindergarten because academic skills and behaviors at that time point are strong predictors of educational trajectory.10 We hypothesized that ACEs in the birth - to - age - 5 time period would be associated with poor teacher - reported academic skills including emergent literacy and behavior difficulties.

Participating families (N = 1,160) completed questionnaire measures of externalizing, internalizing, and social competence (maternal report), as well as individual assessment of academic achievement, spanning five time points from age 54 months through age 15 years.

At two time points (T1 and T2, ~ 15 months apart), we examined early academic skills (school readiness), and parent - reported behavioral adjustment (internalizing and externalizing behavior) and adaptive functioning of a sample of 75 children (45.9 % boys, mean age = 5.17 years) adopted from Russia into US families.

Second, our longitudinal study involved assessment of parental behavior at just one time point (i.e., parent - child interactions were studied at Time 1 only and parental reports of the HLE were gathered at Time 2 only) and so cross-lagged analyses to determine the direction of the association between parental behavior, EF and academic outcomes was not possible (Menard, 2002).

Although the existing findings on the relations between parental behavior, EF and academic ability reported earlier involved multiple time points, the presumed mediator was either measured alongside the predictor (e.g., NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2003) or the outcome (Friedman et al., 2014).