Sentences with phrase «students write group»

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«Chris Wallace was the only unbiased moderator of all four,» wrote Joshua Thifault, a director at Turning Point USA, a national student group right - wing activism.

To investigate the impact of not looking our best on our behavior, Stanford professor Margaret Neale and PhD student Peter Belmi asked a group of both women and men to write about a time they felt either attractive or unattractive and then quizzed them on their attitudes to inequality and hierarchy.

«The ingenuity that is possible when students are given the time and resources to explore their passions is remarkable,» the group's coordinator wrote on their GoFundMe page.

Writing — this study, published in the Journal of Research in Personality, examined a group of 90 undergraduate students who were split into two groups.

With a clear four - step methodology to help readers move from idea to action, templates for readers to map out their problems and the opposing ideas for solving them, and with practical and memorable stories, from music mogul Jay - Z, to the founder of Vanguard Group, Creating Great Choices was written with MBA students, business managers, non-profit and government agency leaders, teachers, and even elementary school students in mind.

The students in Dara Hass» English class, Room 1216, had been broken into groups writing essays when the shooting starts.

«Your group does not allow full participation «without regard to... religion...» as mandated by our Application for Official University Recognition,» Jonathan E. Curtis, UNC - Chapel Hill's assistant director for student activities and organizations wrote to the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in a December 10 letter.

Members of this group write study books for the student movement and speak about secular, worldly and non-religious theology.

«We would be remiss in our duty to you and our students if we did not challenge your continuing misuse of Catholic teaching to defend a budget plan that decimates food programs for struggling families, radically weakens protections for the elderly and sick, and gives more tax breaks to the wealthiest few,» the group wrote in a letter to the lawmaker.

As someone writing about K — 12 education and Common Core, I have observed that students rarely have a moment to themselves to read and think, but are asked to «collaborate» in groups with their peers on «projects» and develop «speaking and listening skills» as they do.

Through intensive psychological testing, careful interviews, the writing of personal autobiographies, the use of interpersonal interaction groups, and other ways of getting to know them better, we discovered that the students tended to think in a continuum on a power - person scale.

One student in a sharing group writes of what the experience meant to him:

«A 1994 Plymouth Acclaim,» I explained to a group of writing students who walked me through the parking lot after a lecture once.

In this century, deeper - learning proponents argue, the job market requires a very different set of skills, one that our current educational system is not configured to help students develop: the ability to work in teams, to present ideas to a group, to write effectively, to think deeply and analytically about problems, to take information and techniques learned in one context and adapt them to a new and unfamiliar problem or situation.

Wordsmith Express (Wellesley, MA) is a small - group summer writing program for elementary students.

Spending one to two hours a day in the world of words, students will gain valuable writing skills while unleashing their creativity in a lively and collaborative small - group setting.

Update: Todd over at the Bivings Report writes up a new Facebook - derived group called Students for Barack Obama, which claims over 20,000 members.

A group of students writing for the Uptown Chronicle at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism filed these three articles profiling controversial Bronx state senator Pedro Espada.

Written materials were provided to Assembly members and senior political science graduate students facilitated their small group discussions.

«The bond act proposal could ensure all students have access to the opportunities instructional technology can provide,» the group wrote.

«This bill,» the group wrote, «will harm the Oklahoma economy, bring costly lawsuits, and irreparably harm our students» education in science.»

Each summer, he coordinates the mentoring of a group of about 15 students from around the world who are learning to write open - source code through the Google Summer of Code program.

In 2009 University of Virginia psychologist Christopher S. Hulleman described a semester - long intervention in which one group of high school students wrote about how science related to their lives and another group simply summarized what they had learned in science class.

The new «CrispRGold» program written by PhD student Robin Graf from the MDC research group headed by Prof. Klaus Rajewsky makes it significantly easier to disable specific genes.

About 7 to 10 days before each class exam, students in the intervention group received a survey that asked them to write down the grade they wanted to get on the exam and rate how important it was to them to achieve that grade and how confident they were that they would meet this goal.

The prompt instructed some students to write about their most important values, such as friends or artistic ability; these students were in the intervention group.

A group of undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of science, engineering, and mathematics sharpened their reporting and writing abilities, and honed their communication skills after spending the summer working in the fast - paced environments of the nation's top newsrooms.

Other students, assigned to the control group, received a prompt instructing them to write about their least important values.

Before the exercise, the students were divided into two groups and given the same writing assignments as in the buyer - seller experiment.

Students who participated in the Facebook group scored higher on quizzes, wrote stronger papers and did better on exams than classmates who did not take part, the study reports.

Because the majority of students access Facebook through a mobile device such as a cellphone or iPad, «the class Facebook Group was almost always with them... No student in our class needed assistance using Facebook,» researchers wrote.

The study, published recently in the journal Memory & Cognition, is based on a series of reading - and - recall experiments in which one group of students is told they will be tested on a selection of written material, and another group is led to believe they are preparing to teach the passage to another student.

Students in all three groups then looked at a list of 30 words — including food, trees, and sadness — and, after spending a few minutes on other tasks, had to write down as many of the listed words as they could.

Women have a higher success rate than men, and a majority were led by students, found scholars who wrote the study for The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a nonprofit group in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that supports economics studies relevant to public policy.

Using only the classroom sounds, DART could classify the audio into three categories — single voice (traditional lecture with question and answer), multiple voice (student interactive group work), or no voice (student thinking, writing or individual problem solving)-- with over 90 percent accuracy, which matched the ability of the human evaluators to correctly classify the classroom environment.

«Although electronic alcohol screening and brief counseling interventions may have effects on participants among subgroups of university students or among other groups, the results of this study and others suggest that the effect of this type of intervention among university students is modest at best,» write Timothy S. Naimi, M.D., M.P.H., of Boston Medical Center, Boston, and Thomas B. Cole, M.D., M.P.H., of JAMA, Chicago, in an accompanying editorial.

Employers always provide the same three reasons as to why they like my students: 1) their written and oral communication skills, 2) their versatility in research, i.e., their ability to change research directions without inhibition, and 3) their ability to adequately conduct research within the context of a group project.

F. Events and activities charged to the SURPAS accounts must comply with University Event Planning and Alcohol Policies as well as other applicable funding policies that pertain to student groups at Stanford, including those on sponsorships, unless a written authorization for a policy exception is received by the Treasurer from the Associate Dean for Postdoctoral Affairs.

The study method is also known as problem based project work and, in brief, this means that in each semester you work closely together with a group of fellow students on a large written assignment.

After the video, the students were asked to write a short blurb introducing themselves to another member of the group, none of whom they'd ever met before.

Recently, she has helped coordinate and teach yoga classes for the student - run yoga group at Brown; has interned, wrote and modeled for Yoga International magazine; and is currently helping to start up a college yoga initiative called UniYogi.

Since then, College Fashion has grown from her personal fashion blog into a worldwide student - run online fashion magazine, written by a group of stylish college girls from universities across the globe.

A curious group of small town high school students discover a malevolent diary with the power to manifest any evil written in its pages, sparking a wave of terror that soon threatens to engulf their entire community.

The inspiration of the story came from an article Michael Ardnt (who wrote the film) read in a newspaper, where Arnold Schwarzenegger was quoted speaking to a group of high school students: «If there's one thing in this world I hate, it's losers.

Having dropped in on classes as a lecturer before, he committed to a three - hours - a-week, ten - weeks - a-semester program with a group of UCLA students eager to learn more about writing incredible movies.

For Olivia Dejazet (Marina Foïs), a famous crime novelist teaching writing to a group of small - town teens in Laurent Cantet's The Workshop, that student is Antoine (Matthieu Lucci), an angry young man with an unhealthy interest in stories of mass murder.

One student blogger wrote, «I was in the group that had the straw, and let me tell you, breathing through a little straw is not fun.

Two other studies — one involving 79 pairs of teachers in Los Angeles (which I wrote with Douglas Staiger) and the Measures of Effective Teaching study involving 1,591 teachers in six different school districts (which I wrote with Dan McCaffrey, Trey Miller and Douglas Staiger)-- randomly assigned teachers to different groups of students within a grade and subject in a school.

As a creative project, a teacher could post a short - story starter, then let students continue to write the story as a group, each taking turns creating the next sentence or two.

Extension Activity: You might have students work on their own or in their groups to use some of the new vocabulary to write a brief conversation that might have taken place on or near the Civil War battlefield.