Sentences with phrase «academic focused study»

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Academic theologies (with their focus on such questions as method, the disciplinary status of theology in the modern university, the relationships of theology and religious studies, and the development of public criteria for theological language) are obviously related principally to the public of the academy.

He was ordained a priest in 1959 in Communist - controlled Poland, and after a period working in a parish, returned to academic studies in the Catholic University of Lublin, where his research focussed on general relativity and cosmology.

The complaint may be that the curriculum is too «academic» and insufficiently «Professional»; too «theoretical» and insufficiently «practical»; or, conversely, that it is too single - mindedly focused on producing «Professional ministers» in a certain model and too inflexible to allow individual students to pursue their own intellectual interests; and, above all, that the curriculum consists of too many small pieces of information that are not adequately «integrated,» that it provides not so much a course of study as — in H. Richard Niebuhr's wonderfully wry phrase - «a series of studious jumps in various directions.»

Sheehan et al. have studied everything (including rum and cider, the focuses of the beverage menu) with a nearly academic rigor.

Although here we have been focusing on studies conducted with tweens, self - discipline continues to be important for academic and career success well beyond the tween years.

PS 116's principal Jane Hsu told DNA Info that the school «spent over a year «analyzing studies focused on the effects of traditional homework» and decided that it was more important for the Pre-K through fifth grade students to do activities that «have been proven to have a positive impact on student academic performance and social / emotional development» such as reading at their own pace and playing.»

Numerous studies have identified possible negative outcomes of screen time to include: irregular sleep patterns, behavioral issues, focus and attention problems, decreased academic performance and negative impact on socialization and language development.

In collaboration with Elsie M. Taveras, MD, MPH, Chief, Division of General Academic Pediatrics at Mass General Hospital for Children and her First 1,000 Days Study, TFP's contribution is aimed at developing and evaluating focused interventions for fathers and families to decrease obesity in children.

It also reorganised secondary education into two basic types: grammar schools, which focused on academic studies, with the assumption that many of their pupils would go on to higher education; and secondary modern schools, which were intended for children who would be going into trades, and which therefore concentrated on basic and vocational skills.

Ruth Müller, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Research Policy Institute at Lund University in Sweden, who focused her Ph.D. on studying how the academic landscape influences the working practices of postdocs in the life sciences, notes that while the study acknowledges the diversity of the European system, it uses just one European country — Germany — in its quantitative survey.

Previous social science research has focused on the views of academic scientists and those working at elite universities while studies of religous views of science have focused primarily on the issue of evolution, said Ecklund.

Coss, who taught drawing classes early in his academic career and whose previous research focused on art and human evolution, used photos and film to study the strokes of charcoal drawings and engravings of animals made by human artists 28,000 to 32,000 years ago in the Chauvet - Pont - d'Arc Cave in southern France.

As a scholar of science and technology studies (a social science field that aims to understand the social processes of knowledge production), I focused the 4 years of my Ph.D. on studying how the academic landscape in which today's postdoctoral life scientists develop their careers influences their working practices.

Kotra is content to remain in academic research, despite the somewhat limited funding for chemistry studies with a drug discovery focus.

An academic integrity - focused approach to addressing plagiarism emphasises the promotion of positive values alongside education of staff and students about good, and bad, practice in writing, studying and assessment design.

«Rather than focusing on total numbers of published reports, reviews of academic performance should explicitly take into account the proportion of a researcher's initiated studies (e.g., those receiving ethics approval or funding) that have been reported, for which protocols have been shared, and that have had their dataset reused by other researchers.»

Research indicated that the Chinese children were sleeping less than youngsters in the United States and Europe, who had participated in similar studies — differences which may be a result of a focus on studying and academic achievement in China.

Results of recent studies led by senior investigator Ruth Milanaik, DO, in which testers identifying themselves as 15 - year - old boys and girls called 244 health food stores in 49 states (both independently owned and large - chain retailers) will be the focus of three presentations Sunday at the Pediatric Academic Societies meeting in San Diego.

«There has been a dramatic contraction of the prison education system, particularly those programs focused on academic instruction versus vocational training,» said Lois Davis, the study's lead author and a senior policy researcher at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

Whether students plan to do research at universities or work in the private sector or public institutions, Mobilities & Urban Studies at Aalborg University offers a leading and international oriented academic education focused on mobilities - one of few in fact.

If you are looking to study Nutrition, Herbal Medicine, Homeopathy or Acupuncture in an atmosphere of academic excellence, with a focus on clinical application, you have come to the right place.

Scholars can do as many studies as they please to determine some average age at which this foundation becomes sturdy enough to support more focused academic instruction.

One researcher suggested that recent studies saying current middle school programs focus more on developing a nurturing climate than strong academics, and the emphasis on high - stakes tests in eighth grade, may have spurred some principals to drop service - learning programs, according to Kielsmeier.

Lord Baker, who served as Education Secretary in the Conservative government from 1986 - 89, has questioned the government's target for 90 per cent of pupils to study the English Baccalaureate (Ebacc), claiming that it has a «narrow academic focus».

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

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.»

Virginia Echoes Harvard as Faculty Rises Up to Rehire President Bloomberg, June 25, 2012 «The core issue at Virginia may have been the speed and direction of change, as business - focused trustees have a different sense of urgency than academics do, said Richard Chait, a research professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education who studies college governance.»

While research on SEL programs generally focuses on behavioral, social - emotional, cognitive, and academic outcomes, a few studies demonstrate promising economic benefits.

Such programs seem to encourage teachers to focus their work efforts on the areas of student performance that are being measured — primarily the core academic areas of mathematics, science, social studies, and reading.

Another common thread among all of these studies is that successful programs focus not just on academic support, but also offer other enrichment activities.

According to the three - year study, which is being conducted by the Santa Monica, Calif. - based RAND Corp., majorities of elementary and middle school science and math teachers in all three states report in surveys that they are making positive changes in the classroom by focusing on their states» academic standards or searching for better teaching methods.

Our study focuses on the demographics, course - taking patterns, and academic results of pupils attending Ohio's e-schools.

In year two, during the NQT year, time would be set aside for academic study with a focus on reflection.

By contrast, our study adds a «bottom - up» approach, focusing not on governance but on salient school characteristics such as instructional hours, academic orientation, grade span, and extracurricular activities — factors that determine what students and families actually experience.

Recent and ongoing projects include a researcher - practitioner partnership focused on familial and school - based relationships that support adolescents» emerging sense of purpose, academic engagement, achievement and post-secondary school transitions; Project Alliance / Projecto Alianzo, a multiethnic study of parental involvement in education during adolescence; and collaboration with a local school district focused on school choice policies to examine equity and access to high quality schools, along with demographic variations in parental priorities and experiences with these policies.

Chris Darby Special Studies Hometown: Berkeley, California Then: Running arts and education think tank, NMBG, and working as an academic mercenary — tutoring high schoolers and consulting for students writing admissions essays Now: Continuing work with NMBG, with a focus on The Free Poster Program; working on FourthWrite, a writing consultancy founded while at HGSE that focuses on admissions essays

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A third report, Small High Schools at Work: A Case Study of Six Gates - Funded Schools in New York City, from the Academy for Educational Development, takes a close look a handful of these new small schools, focusing on particular practices associated with student success: intermediary support, personal and academic support, effective instructional practices, and college preparation.

While a growing number of studies have evaluated K - 12 school voucher programs along academic dimensions, few have focused on the development of non-cognitive skills and civic values.

Student scores from grades 3 through 8 on the math portion of the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) were the focus of the study.

Now, an independent study of the Bay Area's five middle schools operated by KIPP (the Knowledge Is Power Program) concludes that its intense focus on the academic and social success of each individual child does have measurable benefits beyond what traditional schools have achieved - usually.

grammar schools, which focused on academic studies, with the assumption that many of their pupils would go on to higher education

A duty along these lines would not undermine the academic focus of super-selective schools, argues the study.

Close Analytic reading incorporates academic language vital to EL's and struggling readers, a focus on work study so that students begin to see how words work together, fluency so that all students are on the same footing for discussing text and writing from text using evidence.

Our research - based programs have gone through rigorous studies and been endorsed by leading SEL evaluators like the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), so with a trustworthy curriculum, you can just focus on delivery.

This suggests that CTE concentrators taking both advanced academic and occupationally focused coursework may benefit from their studies.

Project RED conducted the first and only national research study focusing on academic and financial benefits of educational technology.

ELOs include traditional afterschool activities with an academic focus, but also incorporate activities such as internships with employers, independent study in alternative settings, classes on college campuses for high school students, and wraparound support services.

«AISD» provides adults as volunteers where the focus is on academic preparation and AVID provides adult mentors to lead study groups twice a week in classrooms.

The bulk of this report focuses on studies that have compared the academic achievement of magnet school students to those attending traditional public schools.