Sentences with phrase «academic evidence on»

Vince Cable's understanding of the preponderance of academic evidence on the labour market effects of immigration is accurate.

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«We think of it as a marketing campaign that begins as soon as people step foot on the campuses where we recruit,» she says, noting the company only targets students with stellar academic credentials who have shown clear evidence of leadership.

The academic evidence however does not support excessively long - serving directors, or directors who are serving on multiple boards (known as «over-tenured» and «over-boarded» directors, respectively).

The Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law Tuesday released a report summarizing academic studies and other documented evidence of employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Brittney Kaiser, a former employee for Cambridge Analytica — who left the company in January and is today giving evidence in front of a UK parliament committee that's investigating online misinformation — has suggested that data on far more Facebook users may have found its way into the consultancy's hands than the up to 87M people Facebook has so far suggested had personal data compromised as a result of a personality quiz app running on its platform which was developed by an academic working with CA.

Matt Hall, cofounder and president of Hill Investment Group, introduces his 2016 book, Odds On: The Making of an Evidence - Based Investor, by stating that: ``... the evidence - based movement has been studying market data and academic research to identify the groups of stocks and other investments that provide better odds of long - term Evidence - Based Investor, by stating that: ``... the evidence - based movement has been studying market data and academic research to identify the groups of stocks and other investments that provide better odds of long - term evidence - based movement has been studying market data and academic research to identify the groups of stocks and other investments that provide better odds of long - term success.

Or a similar integrity, for, as Anderson writes, «the largest and most rigorous academic study on the results of hormonal and surgical transitioning... found strong evidence of poor psychological outcomes.»

For instance, Dr Gary Habermas, an evangelical US theologian who is known for his academic work on the biblical evidence for the resurrection also regularly gives presentations on the shroud as supplementary evidence.

Occurring as it does in the context of a review of one of the most spectacularly successful empirical historical investigations in the whole field of life of Christ research, it is clear evidence of a tendency of the «new hermeneutic» to blur the distinction between statements possible on the basis of academic historical research and statements possible only on the basis of faith.

The Conversation's FactCheck team will be in Adelaide for the next two weeks, working with academics to test politicians» claims against the evidence as South Australians prepare to vote on March 17.

Thus Stephens, where two - thirds of the girls go on to higher education after graduation, is convincing evidence of the benefits of properly coordinated physical and academic education.

The research that Farrington drew on didn't show any evidence of specific interventions changing a student's innate level of grit, but there was plenty of evidence that students» tendency to persevere at academic tasks was highly responsive to changes in school and classroom contexts.

«There is little evidence that working directly on changing students» grit or perseverance would be an effective lever for improving their academic performance,» Farrington and her colleagues wrote.

You may recall that the original impetus for focusing on this previously unexplored set of skills, in How Children Succeed and elsewhere, was the growing body of evidence that, when it comes to long - term academic goals like high - school graduation and college graduation, the test scores on which our current educational accountability system relies are clearly inadequate.

and Another Academic Weighs in on CIO there is no evidence that cry it out is safe, despite what its supporters will tell you.

Hsu insists that there are «a variety of studies conducted on the effects of homework in the elementary grades and not one of them could provide any evidence that directly links traditional homework practices with current, or even future, academic success.»

Evidence Based Parenting: You Can Make A Difference Join us for Coffee and Conversation on Wednesday, November 6 at 8:30 am The discussion will be led by Dr. Anne Townsend, President and Chief Academic Officer of Mariposa Child Success Programs, and current WSB parent.

Goer has also written The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth, which gives pregnant women access to the research evidence, as well as consumer education pamphlets and articles for trade, consumer, and academic periodicals; and she guest posts on Lamaze International's Science & Sensibility.

It then relied on evidence from voluntary and statutory agencies, prison governors, former prisoners, HM Inspector of Prisons, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, child psychologists and academics to put together today's report.

And perhaps we can also start to be more aware of the persistence of social class in this country, where political leaders are drawn from a narrow social elite and where birth cohort evidence shows that parental background has a huge influence on academic attainment, health and labour - market opportunities.

Yet there is a strong and deep academic literature, that draws on extensive interdisciplinary evidence from economics, political science, anthropology and history, which shows how simplistic and misguided such arguments about «resource wars» are, both when approached theoretically and through Asian or African case studies.

Evaluating the Public Health Responsibility Deal for Alcohol surveys the evidence on the Government's flagship public health programme, which was launched in 2011 as a voluntary partnership with commercial organisations, public bodies, academics and NGOs to promote public health goals.

The report draws on government and trade statistics, academic evidence and economic theory to challenge arguments that the health and social benefits of reducing alcohol consumption are likely to come at a cost to the economy, finding: · Any reduction in employment and income resulting from lower spending on alcohol would be offset by spending on other goods · Econometric analysis of US states suggests that a 10 % decrease in alcohol consumption is associated with a 0.4 % increase in per capita income growth · Lower alcohol consumption could also reduce the economic costs of impaired workplace productivity, alcohol - related sickness, unemployment and premature death, which are estimated to cost the UK # 8 - 11 billion a year The analysis comes at a timely moment, with health groups urging the Chancellor to raise alcohol duty in next month's Budget.

While it said there was «unclear» evidence that free school lunches raised attainment, it pointed to its own research on free school breakfasts in disadvantaged schools delivering similar academic benefits to free school lunches, but «significantly improved» behaviour and concentration, and reduced absences.

By reviewing over 90 academic studies on consumer response to process labels, the researchers found that while these labels satisfy consumer demand for quality assurances and can create value for both consumers and producers, misinterpretation is common and can stigmatize food produced by conventional processes even when there is no scientific evidence those foods cause harm.

However, more evidence is needed to draw causal inferences about the long - term impact of school breakfast on academic outcomes, according to the study background.

According to Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel at Thomas More, Dawn and Julie's method of presenting the material and asking the students to pick a theory and debate it, based on the evidence, is a method of teaching that's supported by the judicial concept of academic freedom: that teachers and students have the right to pursue knowledge, wherever it may lead.

Since 1995, Dr. Maharaj has been applying his academic experience and performing evidence - based chemotherapy treatment and bone marrow stem cell transplant procedures on a completely outpatient setting, with the main purpose of improving patients» safety by minimizing the risks of mortality associated with hospital - acquired infections and, ultimately, improving quality of life.

The emphasis in the selection is on the excellence of the academic track record; evidence of unusual creativity and ingenuity in addressing scientific problems; both the novelty and feasibility of the proposed approach; and the quality, adequacy and appropriateness of the host environment.

«Evidence shows that if you can hook students earlier in their academic careers, they are more likely to retain an interest in that area later on,» Dr. Chudler said.

The findings add to growing evidence that calorie restriction can benefit health and longevity, but this shouldn't prompt already skinny seniors to start dieting, says Carol Greenwood, PhD, a senior scientist and assistant director of the Kunin - Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit at Baycrest, a Toronto academic medical center focused on aging.

Responsive Classroom is an evidence - based approach to teaching that focuses on the strong link between academic success and social - emotional learning (SEL).

Following an academic talking head's advice that «Physical evidence helps to preserve a memory» — and a less convincing authority's insistence that a dead person's soul lingers in their newly - vacated home for about eleven months after their death — the filmmakers take it upon themselves to turn their grandmother's house inside - out, the better to immortalize her through the spectral traces they log on camera.

And the evidence on the importance of teacher academic proficiency generally suggests that effectiveness in raising student test scores is associated with strong cognitive skills as measured by SAT or licensure test scores, or the competitiveness of the college from which teachers graduate.

«I want them to think through what they read online, to apply all the skills they learned in the class — evaluating source credibility, identifying logical fallacies, recognizing bias, basing written arguments on solid evidence — to social media platforms just as much as they do in their academic work.»

«There's lots of evidence that kids immersed in the arts do better on their academic tests.»

On the contrary, the evidence seems to suggest that the families that are most in need of school choice — minorities, low - income households, and students with lower prior academic achievement — are more likely to apply.

In his 2014 academic paper — The achievement effects of tardy classmates: Evidence in urban elementary schools — Michael Gottfried explores the impact of tardy students» behaviour on their peers.

These targets — which can shift throughout the year — are based on standards and can include active voice, upgraded verbs, academic vocabulary, transitional phrases, textual evidence, clarifying questions, etc..

Professional learning and support is provided to team leaders by the principal and academic partners and all participants are released for four half days to work on key elements of the project throughout the year, in addition to meeting regularly for planning, to discuss evidence and to provide feedback to each other.

The precise impact of instructional time on student outcomes is notoriously tricky to pin down, but the weight of the evidence (and common sense) indicates that it is an important contributor to academic success.

By far the largest and most comprehensive study on this topic ever conducted, «THE ARTS AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT: WHAT THE EVIDENCE SHOWS,» confirms claims that listening to music temporarily enhances spatial skills (the controversial «Mozart Effect»), as well as claims that children who study music gain skill in spatial reasoning.

Rothstein may feel justified in downplaying hopes for school reform because of the evidence he presents on the large influence social class has on academic achievement.

Despite the challenges of isolating the impact of school desegregation on student achievement, a small but growing body of research provides valuable evidence on the relationship between segregation policies and students» academic and social outcomes.

Taken as a whole, the evidence on racial composition, desegregation, and resegregation effects suggests that desegregation had a positive but likely uneven effect on academic and social outcomes.

While there is more emphasis on academics at all grade levels today and evidence that the middle school burden can be overcome (Williams and colleagues showed in a major 2010 study, called «Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades: Why Some Schools Do Better,» that an intense focus on academics can work), it is odd that Walcott would favor reforming middle schools instead of doing what the research suggests is better and easier — creating smaller, «elemiddle» (K — 8) schools — and what the trends are showing is happening all over the country — as David Hough, managing editor of the Middle Grades Research Journal, told me, «the trend is definitely away from stand - alone middle schools.»

The Chicago trial provided evidence that the program affected perceptions of school and academic climate and had a small effect on academic achievement over the period covered by the study.

Hanushek and Hoxby seem to stand alone in their findings that class size reduction has little or no impact on student academic outcomes — yet they are disproportionately referred to for evidence here in Australia.

Twenty Ideas for Improving the Progress of Pupil Premium Disadvantaged students I'm not an academic and many of these below are not based on verifiable evidence.

Although such schools typically win plenty of accolades, including academic prizes, stellar college - matriculation results, and lofty rankings on «best high schools» lists, they haven't had to produce hard evidence that they impart more knowledge or skills to their students than these same talented youngsters would pick up elsewhere.