Sentences with phrase «ability students studying»

An overview of all 10 required practicals for lower - middle ability students studying AQA biology GCSE.

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Other measures include: • remove rule limiting Child Tax Credit (CTC) to one claimant per household (to allow two or more families sharing a house to claim the CTC); • repeal $ 10,000 cap on medical expense tax credit claims made on medical costs incurred for an eligible dependent; • easier access to funds in Registered Disability Savings Plans for beneficiaries with shortened life spans; • improved Employment Insurance benefits to parents of gravely ill, murdered, or missing children; and • enhanced ability to make transfers between individual RESPs, and better access to RESP funds for post-secondary students studying outside Canada.

«Nearly 40 percent of millennials who would like to own a business someday said student loan debt is affecting their ability to start one,» reported the study.

Studying the humanities offers students «mental empowerment» so that they can go forward in life armed with «a sense of social responsibility» and «intellectual and practical skills that span all areas of study, such as communication, analytical and problem - solving skills, and a demonstrated ability to apply knowledge and skills in real - world settings.»

A great flaw in turning study into play is that it deprives students of the ability to derive the great enjoyment that follows from substantial knowledge of and affinity with one discipline.

From next year one examination board will be introducing a choice of Shakespeare for students of differing abilities: those with a higher ability will study King Lear and those with a lower ability, Romeo and Juliet.

Students would buy the attention - deficit drugs from other students with an ADHD diagnosis before AP Exams, research papers or SAT / ACT tests, in hope of increased concentration and a greater ability to stay awake during sStudents would buy the attention - deficit drugs from other students with an ADHD diagnosis before AP Exams, research papers or SAT / ACT tests, in hope of increased concentration and a greater ability to stay awake during sstudents with an ADHD diagnosis before AP Exams, research papers or SAT / ACT tests, in hope of increased concentration and a greater ability to stay awake during studying.

Psychologist Angela Duckworth, a protà © gà © of Seligman's, has done a range of studies — on college students with low SAT scores, West Point plebes, and national spelling bee contestants, among others — and has found that a determined response to setbacks, an ability to focus on a task, and other noncognitive character strengths are highly predictive of success, much more so than IQ scores.

Studies suggest that hunger is directly related to the ability to learn — and we wonder why our schools are getting low marks and our students lower grades?

They welcome students from all ability levels who can study a range of subjects, from Key Stage 3 through to A-levels.

A 2008 GLSEN study found that some students were told they should not do sports, or had their athletic abilities questioned, because they had LGBT parents.

Certainly, studies support that painful truth that students — no matter their economic status — lose about two months of math abilities over the summer months.

Glick said the Cuomo plan also needs to be studied for its possible impact on capacity issues within the SUNY system to accommodate an expected rise in attendance and, in turn, how such a trend might affect ability of in - state students to get into a SUNY or CUNY school.

Excerpt: «Chris knows that we have to invest in Oregon's community college and state university system to ensure students from all walks of life have the ability to study, train and update their skills so they can compete for good - paying jobs today and be ready for the high - tech jobs of Oregon's next economy.»

Spurred by Trump's announcement in September that he planned to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, members of the chamber wrote a letter to the Florida congressional delegation urging them to «quickly find a legislative solution before the program expires»... «Without a legislative solution, 800,000 DACA recipients will lose their ability to work and legally study, and it will leave many Florida employers, workers and students without certainty,» the chamber's CEO Mark Wilson wrote in the letter... «The Florida Chamber supports an earned pathway to citizenship for immigrants that pass criminal background checks as well as supports policies that reduce illegal immigration and improve on border security.»

Whilst the UK Government preoccupied themselves with ending maintenance grants, Kirsty Williams has been busy ensuring that for every student in Wales it is your academic ability and not your ability to pay that determines whether you can study at University.

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.

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.

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.

«While forensic DNA technology has made several advancements since the 1980s, the ability to produce high quality DNA profiles from IEDs can still be quite difficult,» said Esiri Tasker, a PhD student who lead the study.

In one study of 1,651 high school students from three states, reading ability was just as important to students» science - class grades and scores on state - level science tests as the amount of science knowledge they had.

Classes are becoming all - ability groups — in Denmark it has become illegal to stream children on the basis of their ability — and all students are required to study all the sciences.

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.

«Students of all intellectual abilities should be responsible for not letting themselves be distracted by use of the Internet,» said Susan Ravizza, associate professor of psychology and lead investigator on the study.

Pre-class assignments, small group discussions and clicker quizzes improve students» ability to grasp tricky first - year calculus concepts, according to a new study by UBC researchers.

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.

«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.

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.

«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.

«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.

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 an entrepreneurial education as a course of studies the students are expected to have thought about their motives for their future work, and therefore the focus is on giving them the «ability.»

They studied the ability of music videos to enhance students» understanding of scientific concepts.

Some studies have suggested that such introversion hinders Chinese students» ability to learn English as a second language.

The study, conducted by economists Amanda Griffith of Wake Forest University and Kevin Rask of Colorado College, examines how high - ability students from 2005 - 2012 decided where to enroll from among the schools where they were accepted.

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.

The study showed that prediction of student graduation may be significantly improved by including in the college admission process consideration of AP exam performance and a small set of personality traits, along with traditional indicators of student abilities and high school grades.

«This study demonstrates that human infrastructure development along coastal areas have long - term consequences on the ability of coastal wetlands to adapt to sea - level rise and other processes that reduce the size of coastal wetlands,» said Talib Oliver - Cabrera, the study's first author and a UM Rosenstiel School Ph.D. student.

There's a quiet revolution brewing among Penn State students; they're finding meaning in their studies, changing majors, and developing confidence in their ability to contribute to a greater good.

«The ability to coordinate attention with another person without a smile, without an emotional component, seems to be particularly important for high - risk siblings in the development of ASD symptoms,» says Devon Gangi, Ph.D. student in the UM College of Arts and Sciences and first author of the study.

«Experiencing conflict or making an error is something that normally gets us worked up, perhaps by activating our fight - or - flight response, which can interfere with our ability to focus on a task,» said first author R. Becket Ebitz, a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University who conducted this study as a graduate student at Duke.

IQ is generally considered a predictor of learning ability, but in this study with students who are intellectually disabled or low IQ, the results showed that IQ didn't always predict academic achievement.

Studying more from a biomechanics teacher, she found that many yoga students (myself included) have developed too much extension in lower lumbar / sway back and have lost ability for flexion.

Psychological studies also indicate that arts - integrated classrooms increase students» ability for self - regulation (such as monitoring, guiding, directing, and evaluating one's own learning) and their memory and attention capacities.

These studies show, consistently, that parental schools of choice not controlled by public school districts 1) are usually prohibited by law from screening out students based on admission exams, 2) use ability tracking less frequently than traditional public schools even when, legally, they can, and 3) may use ability tracking, but when they do, it is less likely to have a negative effect on the achievement of low - track students.

Burris combines reviews of academic studies, as well as personal anecdotes from her own experience as an educator, to argue that ability tracking has a negative effect on the educational achievement of «low track» students while also undermining social cohesion.

The study concludes, «among students assigned by lottery to see live theater, we find enhanced knowledge of the plot and vocabulary in those plays, greater tolerance, and improved ability to read the emotions of others.»