Sentences with phrase «abilities of a graduate student»

The motivations most frequently cited by investigators who withheld data were that sharing required too much effort (80 %) and that scientists needed to protect the ability of a graduate student, postdoctoral fellow, or junior faculty member to publish (64 %).

Despite these hierarchies, some degree of «decentralization» could be found in more than half of the projects, as measured by the ability of graduate students to make changes of their own to research protocols.

Not exact matches

Laing also notes that companies should understand that undergraduate and graduate students have different levels of abilities that should not be applied indiscriminately to assigning internship duties.

Volunteer internships at AAAS exist to make use of training and abilities of undergraduate and graduate students in developing special projects or studies for the organization.

«What we've determined is that this protein's ability to alter editing of mRNAs is not specific to just a few genes, but instead, its ability to bind to mRNAs is required for proper RNA editing of most mRNAs,» said Michael C. Washburn, a graduate student in the IU College of Arts and Sciences» Department of Biology and first author on the paper with Boyko Kakaradov of the University of California, San Diego.

An important role identified by some students is the service's ability to introduce the strengths of graduate students to potential employers.

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.

At a University of Wisconsin lab, occupational therapist Kathi Kamm, right, tests graduate student Carla Becker's ability to «see» while blind - folded.

«College Selectivity and Degree Completion,» by Scott Heil of the City University of New York (CUNY), Liza Reisel of the Institute for Social Research in Oslo, and Paul Attewell of the CUNY Graduate Center, is the first study on this topic to use nationally representative data and to account for the higher graduation rates of highly selective institutions in terms of their ability to attract and enroll higher achieving students.

«Having the ability to represent false beliefs means recognizing that others can have different thoughts from us,» said Peipei Setoh, who, as a graduate student, conducted the study with University of Illinois psychology professor Renée Baillargeon and fellow graduate student Rose Scott.

Making the transition from high school to college may be stressful — but it can be downright depressing for students who graduate from a school with peers of high academic ability and wind up at a college with students of lesser ability, according to a new study.

Crone feels that a strong union presence can limit the ability of other graduate student organizations to work productively with the administration.

The report's authors argue that many graduate students are ill - served by this approach because it limits the ability of NIH to hold principal investigators (PIs) accountable in their roles as mentors.

Tend to overshoot expectations and abilities of beginning graduate students.

«We tested the present - day receptors first, and saw that only GR, out of the five steroid receptors, had the ability to bind DNA repressively,» says lead author Will Hudson, PhD, a former Molecular and Systems Pharmacology graduate student at Emory.

I was co-president of the Graduate Students» Association at UCSF for a few years, and I developed some valuable skills in that role, including the ability to organize and motivate others to work on a large and complex project.

A couple of excellent graduate students of mine, Tom O'Conner and Youping He, measured the ability of these nutrients to affect liver and pancreatic cancer.

Set in the sun - dappled Lombardian countryside in the mideighties, this portrait of a brief but extraordinary romance between a young man and the graduate student who comes to stay with his family for the summer holiday is a stirring depiction of self - discovery and love's ability to shake the foundations of our lives.

Muting the Mozart Effect Harvard Gazette, 12/11/13 «Though it has been embraced by everyone from advocates for arts education to parents hoping to encourage their kids to stick with piano lessons, a pair of studies conducted by Samuel Mehr, a Harvard Graduate School of Education doctoral student working in the lab of Elizabeth Spelke, the Marshall L. Berkman Professor of Psychology, found that music training had no effect on the cognitive abilities of young children.»

14, conducts research examining how law affects the ability of undocumented students to attend and graduate from college.

Washington — The «modified» ability tests that may decide whether a physically handicapped student graduates from high school or is accepted by a college do not and can not comply fully with federal regulations designed to prevent discrimination against the handicapped, according to a report issued here last week by the National Research Council, the research branch of the National Academy of Sciences (nas).

Classroom «Crisis»: Many Teachers Have Little or No Experience MSNBC, September 26, 2011 «While education experts caution that lack of experience isn't necessarily an indication of a teacher's ability, student achievement scores do show that on average a first - year teacher is not as effective as a third - year teacher, said Susan Moore Johnson, an expert on teacher recruitment and retention at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.»

The study, part of the Program on Education Policy and Governance Working Papers Series at Harvard University, found that students moving from grade 5 into middle school show a «sharp drop» in math and language arts achievement in the transition year that plagues them as far out as 10th grade, even risking thwarting their ability to graduate high school and...

David Campbell's research piece finds reason to praise the nation's largest private system of schools, the Catholic schools, for their ability to graduate students with a healthy regard for our political traditions and a commitment to social action, but he also finds signs that private schools with other religious affiliations may not have such excellent records.

Shaw's current research examines how law affects the ability of undocumented students to attend and graduate from college.

Thus both dropouts and graduates may reap the rewards of higher standards, if the standards signal to employers that the average ability of all students has increased.

The Campaign for the Harvard Graduate School of Education will enable the school to strengthen its capacity in a number of areas including its ability to attract the most talented students to education and prepare them to be transformative leaders, to recruit world - class faculty to build a knowledge base about what works in education, to encourage entrepreneurship and partner with the field to implement innovative solutions, and to leverage the convening power of Harvard to improve education.

The Mitchell Institute report, Preparing young people for the future of work, found that students are not graduating from school with the abilities they require to prosper.

«Research has shown that community violence has large, short - term impacts on children's attention and impulse control, both of which are central to students» ability to learn in school,» says Dana Charles McCoy, assistant professor of education at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education, who has studied the impact of neighborhood environments on the development of children's cognitive and socioemotional skills...

Although Republicans have pledged to eliminate gainful employment, Debbie Cochrane, vice president of the Institute for College Access and Success, said the rule addresses two issues — the burden of student debt and the ability of graduates to find well - paying jobs — that President - elect Donald Trump spoke about on the campaign trail.

Rather than looking to emulate the English model of the 1990s, the U.S. might instead consider emulating some key features of the modern English system that have helped moderate the impact of rising tuition, such as deferring all tuition fees until after graduation, increasing students» ability to cover living expenses, and automatically enrolling all graduates in an income - contingent loan repayment system that minimizes both paperwork hassle and the risk of default.

The program is offered to students who have experienced traumatic life events, exhibit disruptive behaviors in the school setting, are at risk of dropping out or failing to graduate, and are coping with significant challenges that interfere with their ability to learn, function and thrive in school, at home, and in the community.

The total demand for and resulting cost of the Pell Grant program grew exponentially between 2007 and 2011 as a result of more Americans enrolling in college and lower family incomes during the Great Recession.58 In 2011, to compensate for an inadequate reserve to fund the growing demand of Pell Grants, Congress cut year - round Pell Grant eligibility, which was restored this year, and eliminated graduate student subsidized loans.59 This affected the student aid packages of students nationwide.60 By cutting the Pell Grant reserve, President Trump and Secretary DeVos risk the ability to fund future upticks in Pell Grant demand, thereby requiring either future reductions to eligibility, lower awards, or cuts to other education programs.

While students are taking standardized tests aligned with the standards, the state Board of Regents decided in February to delay some aspects of the plan, including one that tied students» test scores with their ability to graduate.

We all have an interest in the success of our public schools and in the ability of students to graduate into adulthood with an understanding of creative and collaborative learning processes.

Attrition rates are an indicator of a school's holding power, or the ability to keep students enrolled in school and learning until they graduate.

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With the provision of space on the website, and based on the ability of UCEA to acquire external funding, scholars will engage in a graduate student seminar held annually during the UCEA Convention and have ongoing participation in listservs and other forms of communication.

There appears to be widespread agreement that schools should not only produce graduates proficient in an agreed - upon set of thinking and learning skills like those embedded within the Common Core State Standards, but also students who work well together and are self - motivating, responsible learners with the ability to contribute to healthy enterprises.

The recommendations are a response to proposals that could threaten schools» and districts» ability to provide students with a comprehensive education that prepares them to graduate from high school ready for success in college, careers, and citizenship, and that narrows the definition of such readiness to only the Common Core State Standards.

In terms of programmatic goals and policies, the administrators in charge of the teacher certification programs indicated that there was a programmatic expectation that students would graduate with the ability to integrate technology in the classroom in accordance with NETS - T.

Not only will portfolios give students an authentic example of assessment that they might use in their own teaching, but students will graduate with a tangible record of their experiences and a better understanding of their own abilities.

Palm Beach County School Board members want to become the state's second school district to opt out of state - required testing, a controversial move that could jeopardize funding, athletics and students» ability to graduate.

Coupled with the continued testing and accountability fetish are dangerous provisions that will serve to diminish the quality of the teaching workforce in favor of a competitive teacher preparation market, whose graduates» worth will be measured by their ability to raise student test scores, and little else.

Drawing on his «crisis of confidence» in reading academic texts as a graduate student, Vacca explains that self - efficacy — a belief in one's ability to succeed — provides the key to struggling readers» ability to comprehend texts outside their comfort zone.

In most post graduate or PhD programs, research paper is one of the most essential parameters that determine the comprehensive ability of a student.

In a poll - oriented study, The Student Loan Report found that 63 percent of college graduates with student debt said student loan debt was impacting their ability to buy Student Loan Report found that 63 percent of college graduates with student debt said student loan debt was impacting their ability to buy student debt said student loan debt was impacting their ability to buy student loan debt was impacting their ability to buy a home.

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Students who are not high school graduates (or who have not received General Education Certificates) can demonstrate that they have the «ability to benefit» from the education or training being offered by passing an approved ability - to - benefit (ATB) test or upon satisfactory completion of six credit hours or equivalent coursework that is applicable toward a degree or certificate.

Other than that, ones that, attractive aspects that jump out to me specifically are: the ability to potentially have the government subsidize interest after graduating college, that fact that capitalization of interest is limited to 10 percent of the original balance, and that your loans will be forgiven after 20 years of payments (which will reduce the number of people having to pay off student loans off in retirement).