Sentences with phrase «when education researchers»

When education researchers gathered this year for their annual convention, they found before them a dazzling array of seminars, discussions, and presentations on the most important issues in their field.

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When the researchers accounted for a number of variables — like mothers» weight and education, family income and race — bottle - feeding itself was still linked to lesser self - regulation later on in infancy.

So, in 2013, he teamed up with Allison Mattheis, an education researcher whom he met when both were at the University of Minnesota, to set it into motion.

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.

When the researchers broke out the 2012 data into two categories — parents with a college education versus parents without — they found quite a difference.

Shirley Malcom, director of Education and Human Resources Programs at AAAS, said researchers have found that problem - solving skills, critical thinking, and self - confidence benefit when students interact with a diverse group of peers.

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.

The researchers examined respondents» deference to science on a scale of 0 - 10 when it came to 14 policy issues, including child vaccinations, stem cell research, global warming, child obesity and diet, AIDS prevention, birth control education, legalizing drug use, gun control, regulation of nuclear power, animal testing, and teaching evolution in schools.

In the new study, people with one «low» MAOA gene and one «high» MAOA gene reported having credit - card debt 7.8 percent more often than did people with two «high» versions, the researchers found, even when they controlled for factors such as education and socioeconomic status.

Without consensus on how, and when, to teach science, cognitive psychologists and education researchers differ regarding what aspects of the research are most important.

British and Swedish researchers analyzed data from Sweden, and also found the risk increased when more of the students» parents had a university education.

When tai chi was combined with a standard depression treatment for a group of older people with depression, researchers found better improvement in the level of depression, as well as improved quality of life, better memory and cognition, and more overall energy, in comparison to another group in which the standard depression treatment was combined with a health education class.

In a ten - year study by the Wisconsin Center for Education Research on high school interdisciplinary teaching teams, researchers found that team teaching produced positive outcomes for students, and professionalism and morale improved when teams developed collective authority and accountability.

But a new report from researchers at Stanford University's Graduate School of Education has found that young people do experience difficulties when it comes to evaluating information they find online.

John Hattie, an education professor and researcher in Australia, has done the wonky work of evaluating mountains of data to determine which decisions make the biggest difference when it comes to learning.

In the health education arena, for example, researchers have contributed substantially to understanding when and how to run randomized trials using schools as the units of allocation and analysis to test schoolwide risk - reduction programs.

Researcher Andrew A. Zucker was designing a federally financed study of middle school science teaching two years ago when he came up against new U.S. Department of Education security rules that would have required him to undergo fingerprinting and an extensive background check.

When I then returned to university to obtain my credential and Masters of Education degree, these familiar neuroimaging tools had become available to education resEducation degree, these familiar neuroimaging tools had become available to education reseducation researchers.

This may not much matter when it comes to the study of material science or Renaissance poetry, but it does if we hope to see responsible researchers contribute to public discussion of education.

Researchers Mendez, Arkoubi, and Cai - Hillon argue that in education when students become the storytellers, student retention and engagement with course information increase, and their critical thinking skills increase as well.

A study by University of Pennsylvania researchers, which has been used to counter arguments that America's public education system is not working as well as it should, found that the U.S. was generally a bit above average when compared with other industrialized nations and in the middle in the important subjects of math and science.

Rachel Flynn, an education researcher at New York University, recently studied the impact of such professional development and found when its done well it has «the potential to improve teacher behavior management practices and reduce exclusionary discipline.»

As someone who was on the Department of Education's «naughty» list for much of the Bush era, and who has a, shall we say, complicated relationship with the current administration, I don't think the nation is well - served when analysts, researchers, and critics are either attack dogs or cheerleaders.

When Bryan Mascio entered the Mind, Brain, and Education (MBE) Program, he did so with the intention of transitioning from his role as a teacher to that of an education neuroscience reEducation (MBE) Program, he did so with the intention of transitioning from his role as a teacher to that of an education neuroscience reeducation neuroscience researcher.

[9] The absence of data from meal applications that results when LEAs implement CEP has implications for state and local education agencies, as well as researchers, but that is beyond the scope of this report.

Washington — At a time when interest in government support of private schools is high, the experiences of countries with large amounts of this type of support — such as the Netherlands, Australia, and Canada — are of particular interest to education researchers.

In our book, we point out that the research methods, most valued by American researchers, which involve the random assignment of research subjects to «treatments,» can not be used when researching entire national education systems, because it is not possible to randomly assign national populations to the national education systems of other countries.

Analysis of these rich curriculum data, along with our more curriculum - sensitive measures of student achievement, revealed that the mathematics content teachers covered in their classrooms was significantly related to their students» performance even when researchers adjusted this relationship for student background factors (ethnicity, parent education level, socioeconomic status, and so on).

Researchers need to understand how teacher educators perceive blended courses when they teach teacher candidates, because teacher preparation programs have different features than other higher education programs have.

Research behind VAL - ED (the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education tool to assess principal performance, developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University) suggests that there are six key steps - or «processes» - that the effective principal takes when carrying out his or her most important leadership responsibilities: planning, implementing, supporting, advocating, communicating and monitoring.40 The school leader pressing for high academic standards would, for example, map out rigorous targets for improvements in learning (planning), get the faculty on board to do what's necessary to meet those targets (implementing), encourage students and teachers in meeting the goals (supporting), challenge low expectations and low district funding for students with special needs (advocating), make sure families are aware of the learning goals (communicating), and keep on top of test results (monitoring).41

``, by Richard Rothstein of the Economic Policy Institute cautions researchers against using poverty or family income when crunching numbers to come up with education policies.

When researchers factored in the cost for programs after high school education such as college or vocational training, the United States spent $ 15,171 on each young person in the system — more than any other nation covered in the report.

«We definitely should be including GPAs when assessing college readiness,» said Michelle Hodara, the lead author of the study and a senior researcher at Education Northwest.

When I returned to California, policymakers, researchers, reformers and education leaders were still emphasizing the importance of reading and math instruction.

These trend lines confirm what education researchers have found when examining school accountability.

But when a team of researchers led by Dr. John Fantuzzo from University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE) studied every third grader in the Philadelphia public schools, they found strong student achievement in some schools with high concentrations of poverty.

While some education researchers may question the validity of the nation's «STEM crisis,» it remains clear that California students continue to struggle in mathematics when compared with their peers across the nation.

Researchers studying classwide peer tutoring (CWPT) in inclusive classrooms with students who have mild mental retardation and their general education peers have found that for both groups, academic achievement and academic engagement was higher when spelling instruction was delivered using CWPT than when it was delivered using teacher - led instruction.

The practicing educator needs to be more informed than ever about the methodology of researchers in a time when the U.S. Department of Education stoops to deleting studies from ERIC that it disagrees with.

In two studies of women, aged 18 - 25 and 30 - 40, respectively, researchers assessed the characteristics women value when selecting males as long - term relationship partners versus selecting males as sperm donors.1 The women were randomly assigned to rate a series of characteristics desired in their «ideal man» as a sperm donor or their «ideal man» as a relationship partner, including physical traits (e.g., height, body shape, hair and skin color, overall attractiveness) and demographics (e.g., age, education, income, ethnicity, religious and political affiliations).

Researchers at Healthy Relationships California (HRC) found significant improvements in marital satisfaction among participants in Marriage Education programs in the first 8 years of their marriages, a time when couples are particularly at risk for divorce.

This work began in 2003 when CASEL collaborated with the Illinois State Board of Education, educators, researchers, and child advocates to develop the Illinois preschool to high school SEL student learning standards.