Sentences with phrase «ability of students at»

Substantial record of building English and reading ability of students at both the college and elementary level.

But Dunbar says that when you get down to measuring the ability of students at Dallas's Woodrow Wilson High School, for example, where you're comparing this year's ninth graders to last year's, accountability test scores are not very useful.

Each chapter provides a profile of typical reading and writing abilities of students at these different stages, but it is important to keep in mind that these are generalized descriptors and are not meant to be all inclusive and comprehensive.

Not exact matches

It also gave students more flexibility in customizing their coursework to account for their ability level, offering core classes at several different levels of difficulty.

So a student in the bottom half of his class at Harvard University might be less confident in his abilities than a student in the top half of his class at a less prestigious institution.

«If you're not going to be in the top half of the class, you're going to run the risk of mistakenly thinking that you are not a good student, of coming to a conclusion about your own abilities that's at odds with reality.»

His ability to eliminate his student loans and grow that business has allowed him reach financial independence at the young age of 32.

A recent report from the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center at the George Washington University said 54 % of millennials are concerned about their ability to repay their student loans, and nearly half don't think they could come up with $ 2,000 for an emergency.

My messages were very much like a top exit student from theological training who preached at the church I was attending, and was impressed with his own ability to exegete every word of «the original Greek».

If SB 1146 were to pass, it would deny students» ability to participate in state grant programs — programs that exist to help low - income students, and which are overwhelmingly used by racial minorities — at schools that are found in violation of the bill.

Furthermore, just as comprehensive schools are desirable as a solvent of social class lines, so classes with students of differing abilities are valuable, provided the classes can be internally organized so as to let students proceed at their own pace, with enrichment through greater depth and scope of materials independently mastered by the most able students, and with special assistance by the teacher for the less able.

I'm a student at a Christian college, and it saddens me to think that you would distrust my collaborative ability based on the fact that I attend a school that has a specific set of moral principles.

By throwing millions at various diversity initiatives, university administrators propitiate the idols of diversity and tolerance while contributing to a climate that actively undermines the ability of students and faculty alike to engage in free speech and debate in an atmosphere of respect and civility.

Testing provides, sort of a snapshot, of a child's skill set and abilities at a given time, and allows a parent and a school to develop more appropriate expectations of the students; whether it's performance in school or ability to learn.

One of the fundamental beliefs of deeper - learning advocates is that these practices — revising work over and over, with frequent critiques; persisting at long - term projects; dealing with the frustrations of hands - on experimentation — develop not just students» content knowledge and intellectual ability, but their noncognitive capacities as well: what Camille Farrington would call academic perseverance and what others might call grit or resilience.

In particular, such stressors compromise the higher order thinking skills that allow students to sort out complex and seemingly contradictory information such as when the letter C is pronounced like K (what psychologists call «executive functioning»), and their ability to keep a lot of information in their heads at once, a skill known as «working memory» that's crucial to success in school, college, and work.

At the heart of our education lies the goal to bring students to an understanding of the commonality of the human experience of all of the world's people, transcending the stereotypes, prejudices, and divisiveness of classification by race, religion, sex, nationality, and ability.

Admission is based on a review of many factors, including strong prior academic performance, positive teacher reports, a successful interview at our School, and the student's ability to give something back to our School community.

At Kosciuszko Pool, 2732 N. Avers Ave. (486-9340), diving instructor Jim Carney likes to take his students to the limit of their ability.

Bradford Trudeau, Director of Student Nutrition Services at Garland Independent School District (TX), said two of the fastest trends in school meals are international options and the ability to have students create their own lunch.

The parent shall provide for an annual educational evaluation in which is documented the student's demonstration of educational progress at a level commensurate with her or his ability.

Continuation in a home education program shall be contingent upon the student demonstrating educational progress commensurate with her or his ability at the end of the probationary period.

By doing away with a la carte snacks, which had become the emblem of «I have money», and instead offering a variety of full meals (all of them covered under the free / reduced lunch program), we have achieved the ability to offer older students a wider variety of choices at lunchtime but also a fully equitable program, where literally there is no way to tell anymore who bought their meal and who is eating free.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — Chess enthusiasts of all ages and abilities are invited to join instructors and students from the National Scholastic Chess Foundation for Chess in the Park being held Monday, October 9 from 1 to 4 pm at the Ruby Dee Park at 1

«She had a very strong sense of community and a great ability to get her fellow students involved in causes that were important to her,» said Angela Carannante, her former teacher at New Dorp HS.

And he rejected the claims of private college officials that his proposal will wreak havoc on their ability to attract students, especially at a time when many small, independent colleges are financially struggling.

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.

• Notably, nearly two - thirds (64 percent) of the students who experienced cyberbullying said that it really affected their ability to learn and feel safe at school.

The study also found that nearly two - thirds (64 percent) of the students who experienced cyberbullying stated that it really affected their ability to learn and feel safe at school.

Among those middle and high school students who had the lowest levels of resilience, their ability to learn and feel safe at school was negatively affected many times.

Following a review of the available evidence and a public discussion involving the program's faculty, staff, and trainees, the exam's ability to predict student performance seems «weak at best» while it significantly disadvantages women, minorities, and students from low socioeconomic backgrounds, writes Scott Barolo, director of the Program in Biomedical Sciences (PIBS), in the announcement.

Choi, Christine Lippard, an assistant professor of human development and family studies at Iowa State; and Shinyoung Jeon, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Oklahoma - Tulsa, analyzed data measuring inhibitory control (the ability to pay attention and control natural, but unnecessary thoughts or behaviors) and math achievement for low - income students in Head Start through kindergarten.

«The major advancement of this new tool is the ability to use a low - cost and accessible imaging method such as EEG to depict deeply located brain activity,» said both senior author Dr. Talma Hendler of Tel - Aviv University in Israel and The Sagol Brain Center at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, and first author Jackob Keynan, a PhD student in Hendler's laboratory, in an email to Biological Psychiatry.

«From the first moment she came into our school,» wrote teacher Mike Weddle, «I was amazed at her ability to captivate the students with a succinct explanation of the pika's very complex characteristics and behavior.»

The research tested the ability of 114 nutrition and dietetics students in the U.S. and Australia to identify foods and determine serving sizes by looking at photos of food on plates.

As an EU citizen living in Scotland, at the moment I am worried about how Brexit will affect my ability to stay and work in the United Kingdom, and how it will affect my students, the members of my lab, and a lot of my colleagues and collaborators.

We hope this leads to the ability to design, study and test new therapies for every patient on their own cells in the lab, leading to new treatments and breakthroughs in personalized medicine for individuals with a variety of lung diseases, including cystic fibrosis,» explained lead author Katherine McCauley, a PhD student at BUSM.

Both studies involved a values affirmation exercise aimed at diminishing the threat of negative stereotypes related to African American students» academic abilities.

Schools should use both ability grouping and acceleration to help academically talented students, reports a new Northwestern University study that examined a century of research looking at the controversial subject.

He found that even escapist fantasy games are embedded with one of the core principles of learning — students prosper when the subject matter challenges them right at the edge of their abilities.

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

The study, carried out by undergraduate student, Rie Davies, and academics Dr Maddie Ohl and Dr Anne Manyande from the School of Psychology at the University of West London, explored the pro-sociability, co-operation and problem - solving abilities of 24 girls and 24 boys aged four.

At the beginning and end of the study, both groups of students were evaluated for their ability to recognize other people's emotions in photos and videos.

Students in the study looked at photos and were tested on their ability to recognize the emotions of those pictured.

Just 38 percent of parents are very confident in schools» ability to assist a student suspected of having a mental health problem, according to a new report from the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health at the University of Michigan.

«This is particularly important when you want to look at a species» ability to cope with change,» said Jennifer Pistevos, a master of research student at the Marine Biological Association, who studied clone populations of Celleporella hyalina, a tiny organism she found to have an amazing ability to reproduce in both more acidic and warmer water conditions.

This ability to deceive oneself and one's audience completely, while remaining in touch with harsh reality is, of course, the reason why most students become barking mad and continue the pain by applying for postdoctoral positions at universities.

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.

In this situation, entrepreneurial education at the universities encounters a very diverse body of students, because they are differently motivated («ambition»), pre-educated, and capable («ability»).

A Dutch study has found that introverted students are more likely to choose science subjects at school, while more sociable peers tend to drop them at the first opportunity — regardless of their natural ability.