Sentences with phrase «analysis shows students»

On the importance of setting high expectations, analysis shows students in schools where teachers have low expectations are 1.2 times more likely to perform poorly in mathematics, after accounting for socioeconomic status.

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For students taking out private loans to cover college funding gaps, having a cosigner not only improves the odds of being approved for a loan, but can help borrowers obtain, on average, a better interest rate, an analysis of Credible user data shows.

Critics like University of Victoria professors Rob Gillezeau and Jeffrey Ansloos point, for example, to the Parliamentary Budget Officer's analysis that shows the federal government may not have allocated enough money to fulfill the Liberals» key 2015 election promise to eliminate the gap between federal spending on First Nations students and kids attending provincially funded schools.

Recent analysis of the widely followed voucher experiment in Milwaukee shows that low - income minority students who attended private schools scored substantially better in reading and math after four years than those who remained in public schools.

The analyses show that younger students often do bring certain strengths to theological study that older students lack.

Research presented at the October meeting of American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) titled «A Comparative Analysis of Injury Rates and Patterns Among Girls» Soccer and Basketball Players,» showed that students participating in sports at a schools without access to an athletic trainer had a greater likelihood of being injured, suffering recurrent injuries and concussions.

Questar reported that its preliminary analysis shows 52 students in 5 schools are affected.

«In November, the nonpartisan Research Alliance for New York City Schools presented findings from a rigorous analysis of school closures under Mayor Bloomberg, showing that graduation rates improved by 15 - points for students who left and attendance and graduation rates improved for those who remained during the transition.

In a paper presented at the NARST annual meeting, Abel showed how a detailed analysis of answers in a multiple choice test on elementary - school energy ideas showed which misconceptions were popular and persistent for different students.

A recent and exhaustive meta - analysis of scientific data shows that top psychology studies tend to make conclusions about human nature based on samples taken solely from Western undergraduate students.

Close analysis of cases and literature show that a number of concerned parties avoid responsibility when things go wrong in the supervision of a PhD student.

The information interpreting, data analysis, and problem solving they did as Ph.D. students were important in research and nonresearch positions alike, a recently published survey of 3803 science and engineering Ph.D. s shows.

Her analysis goes on to show how the structure of the admissions process helps perpetuate the privileges of students already in the academic stratosphere.

Analyses showed that 10.4 percent of students reported they missed at least one day of school in the past month because of feeling unsafe.

Reviewer Erin Dolan of the Institute for Discovery Education in Science at the University of Texas, Austin, wrote that «[m] any studies and multiple meta - analyses... have shown that students in online courses realize the same, if not better, outcomes as compared to students in face - to - face courses.

The new analyses by Powers and colleagues showed that individual student grades also improved just from being in classrooms with a greater proportion of African Americans who received the intervention.

An analysis of one million students in New York showed that those who regularly ate lunches with no artificial flavors, preservatives or dyes did better on IQ tests than students who ate lunches with additives.

Explained Zahra Aghajan, a UCLA graduate student and another of the study's lead authors: «In fact, careful mathematical analysis showed that neurons in the virtual world were calculating the amount of distance the rat had walked, regardless of where he was in the virtual space.»

Video analysis of 144 speed dates showed that for each one - point increase on a seven - point scale of expansiveness, college students» chances of getting a «yes» response increased by 76 %, according to the paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

A recent analysis of the elementary and middle school results shows that U.S. students tend to decline in almost all subject areas between the fourth and eighth grades.

«When we analyzed the Keck data, we found the emitting region of SDSS1133 is less than 40 light - years across, and that the center of Markarian 177 shows evidence of intense star formation and other features indicating a recent disturbance that matched what we expected for a recoiling black hole,» said Chao - Ling Hung, a UH Manoa graduate student performing the analysis of the Keck Observatory imaging in the study.

Hauser's analyses show that retention rates are already high, especially for male students and African Americans.

Even after allowing for the cost of educating students with special needs, S&P's analysis showed a wide dispersion across school districts in the spending observed to achieve equivalent outcomes.

The analysis of the results in the pretest samples of teacher and students, both in the control and in the experimental group show a medium level of exclusionism, segregationism and assimilationism with a little bit higher results on individualism and integrationism.

An analysis of student performance on the state's standardized science exam has repeatedly shown that our students do better on questions that relate to the project - learning curriculum.

«The new analysis from the Productivity Commission highlights the way enrolments have been calculated to date meant they could be flawed by showing all students in the year before school had been enrolled by comparing four and five year olds in preschool with just the population of four year olds.»

An Education Week Research Center analysis of federal data shows spending levels per student in most U.S. school districts for fiscal year 2013.

Results for pilot schools were less clear; some analyses showed positive results at the elementary and high school level, while results for middle school students were less encouraging.

Another reason for the proliferation of the myth on learning styles is the publication of meta - analysis which showed a large impact on students» learning from teachers using specific learning styles.

This analysis (again the Newspeak) builds on a large body of program evaluations in Louisiana, Indiana, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., all of which show that students attending participating private schools perform significantly worse than their peers in public schools — especially in math.

Kirshner's study, published last September in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, showed dropout rates among displaced students rose from 7 to 15 percent; the likelihood of graduating fell from 71 to 49 percent.

Anaheim, Calif — The narrowing achievement gap between black and white students, first reported about two years ago, is also beginning to show in college and graduate - school admissions tests, according to a new analysis of national data by the researcher whose earlier analyses first summarized the change.

Through collections of student work over time, portfolios show effort, development, and achievement using multifaceted criteria, often with personal commentary or self - analysis (Stecher, 2010).

While we would not feel comfortable claiming, based on the analysis here, that student - based budgeting has been the cause of greater equity in Houston's school funding system, our findings do show that despite an initial increase in the coefficient of variation, Houston schools have over the longer term made modest improvements in equity since the strategy was put into place.

Applying prior research findings about how gross domestic product increases with student achievement gains, the analyses show that if North Carolina began its implementation in 2015 — 16, then the annual gross state increases through 2031 would have an estimated net present value of $ 4.6 billion to $ 7.7 billion.

Beginning in the 1990s and through the 2000s, analyses of year - to - year student - test data consistently showed that some teachers helped their students learn significantly more than did other teachers.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — An analysis of a new report by a committee of the National Research Council (NRC), the research arm of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that average student gains from the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) test - based accountability measures would yield, over the next 80 years, a national economic benefit of approximately $ 14 trillion.

In 2006, a U.S. Department of Education report noted that black graduates were more likely to take on student debt, and in 2007, an Education Sector analysis of the same data found that black graduates from the 1992 - 93 cohort defaulted at a rate five times higher than that of white or Asian students in the 10 years after graduation (Hispanic / Latino graduates showed a similar, but somewhat smaller disparity).

However, the two researchers acknowledged in a 2007 Boston Globe story that while «students involved in the arts do better in school and on their SATs than those who are not involved... correlation isn't causation, and an analysis we did several years ago showed no evidence that arts training actually causes scores to rise.»

Analyses show that poor performance at age 15 is not the result of any single risk factor, but rather of a combination and accumulation of various barriers and disadvantages that affect students throughout their lives.

Their multi-level analysis of repeated measures of student achievement showed that, in most cases, the students achieved as might have been expected, and that in only a few cases was there improvement that might be attributable to the professional development program.

Students choose one artist and make a booklet exploring their analysis of the artists and the way they use white, but also an experimental booklet showing how to show «white» textual surfaces.

But the data available for this analysis clearly show that KIPP's impacts can not be explained by advantages in the prior achievement of KIPP students.

The CREDO analysis also shows that Michigan's low - income students, who comprise the vast majority of charter students in Detroit, make modest achievement gains (less than a month of additional learning in math each year) compared to district schools, as do black and Hispanic students.

Their work shows that the «personalise and localise» approach is bringing about an increase in student engagement: «Our analysis also suggests that this approach can boost career aspirations across science.»

Edval's «My Classes» feature shows all options instantly — including analysis of all possible scenarios, that may involve students changing multiple classes across lines, to pick up a desired subject.

When we show our enthusiasm for fractions or an analysis of totalitarian dictatorship or whatever, we're showing our students that learning about these things has value, and giving them more opportunity to become interested.

He recently offered an analysis that shows the average number of proficient students increasing at Democracy Prep and declining at Success in later grades.

Cambridge, MA — A new analysis of the economic impact of effective teachers shows that closing just half of the performance gap with Finland, whose students consistently outperform most developed countries, could add more than $ 50 trillion to the U.S. gross domestic product by 2090.

Comprehensive analysis of 10 years of data from New York City shows middle - school students experience substantial achievement decline compared to K - 8 peers