Sentences with phrase «as academic abilities»

Graduate management training schemes can be highly competitive so you'll need to possess a range of soft skills as well as academic abilities.

Sierra Funck has used her time at HFCS to develop her creative side as well as her academic abilities.

Not exact matches

When that failed, the department was both an academic liability (as the least scholarly unit in the university) and a financial one (as unlikely to attract endowment from any other source, and a possible obstacle to the university's ability to receive funds from the state and certain foundations).

You are essentially doubting the abilities of very basic science, and might as well remove science from the academic curriculum.

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.

Those abilities, even though we don't always think of them as academic in nature, are enormously helpful in achieving academic success in kindergarten and beyond.

An academic child may be shunned or treated as «different», and learn to quench his ability in order to fit in with the rest of his class.

Despite government assurances that «no grammar school will lose its right to select pupils by academic ability as a result of converting to become an academy,» the National Grammar Schools Association has urged schools to «exercise extreme caution» before making the change.

«No grammar school will lose its right to select pupils by academic ability as a result of converting to become an academy.

Memorisation is being mistaken for learning and high academic records as a yardstick for measuring the ability of students» creativity.

Fellows use their academic training as they research, write, and report today's headlines, sharpening their abilities to communicate complex scientific issues to the public.

But, as anyone who has ever stood before a classroom or worked in a lab knows, the individuals enrolled in a given program, regardless of their nationality, vary widely in academic ability and creativity.

Previous work experience, an ability to work outside your degree field and a willingness to work overseas were at least as important as academic qualification in getting a job, so some new graduates would choose to brighten up their lives and employment prospects by «doing a year abroad».

I am still uncertain if an academic career is for me, but regardless of my future employment options, I think my teaching experience will be advantageous as it demonstrates to an employer that I have the ability to present data to a group of people in a logical manner.

«Children who received music lessons showed improved language - based reasoning and the ability to plan, organize and complete tasks, as well as improved academic achievement,» says Dr Jaschke.

«Many permanent academic posts represent leadership positions, requiring an ability to publish papers and secure external funding... as well as heavy responsibilities for management, administration and teaching.

As well, the study finds that a child's nurturing environment is more strongly correlated than biological factors to brain development and general intellectual ability, declarative memory, procedural memory, executive function, academic achievement, fine motor dexterity, and socio - emotional health.

«Making a leap from high - ability high school to college of lesser academic status can be a real downer: Students who are «undermatched» as they shift into higher education show a 27 - percent hike in symptoms of depression.»

One of the key skills in BI, as in academic research, is the ability to ask the right question, says Raif Majeed, who leads a quality assurance engineering subteam in Seattle at Tableau, a BI company that was founded by two Stanford University computer scientists.

Academic research supports them as a way to increase physical activity at work Thinking abilities only drop slightly when using one, but not below average performance marks Sitting at a desk all day could be shaving years off your life A neuroscience professor at a research institution is getting one after studying them

They measured students» beliefs about themselves, both broadly and about their academic abilities, as well as their social adjustment in school, including their feeling of belonging and attachment, academic values, and peer support.

New Ph.D. researchers with «stronger academic ability,» as indicated by having received university support in the form of a fellowship or assistantship or by having at least one parent with a college degree (which, especially in poor or middle - income countries, places the family among an educated class that is much smaller than in a rich country) are likelier to stay than those who lack these presumed correlates of academic strength.

Cognition measuring tools were used to measure abilities like planning as well as academic skills like reading and math.

Involvement in these projects has also proven to increase academic achievement as students learn problem - solving skills, how to plan activities and important team - work abilities.

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.

Even as school systems redrew their boundaries, fired black teachers and principals, and tore up foundational enrollment structures to comply with desegregation orders, they largely ignored Coleman's earlier research on motivation and academic achievement, which found that competition «has a magic ability to create a strong group goal.»

One possibility that has been embraced by many advocates is some type of measurement of student soft skills, which include social skills, self - management abilities, academic soft skills such as listening carefully to instructions, and approaches to learning such as willingness to take on challenging tasks.

New approaches, he says, could focus on social and emotional development as well, since science now tells us that relationships and interactions with the environment sculpt the areas of the brain that control behavior (like the ability to concentrate), which also can affect academic achievement (like learning to read).

Graduates of these schools supposedly come away with the ability to seek out whatever content is needed to address academic questions as they arise.

She brings a new twist to the issue of the gap between American minority low - income children and middle - class children; what has engaged her passions and formidable abilities is not the academic gap, though of course she is fully aware of it, but the gap in the ability to participate effectively in the civic life, to influence political choices, the «Civic Empowerment» gap, as she labels it.

As he puts it, «Our ability to improve the academic accomplishment of students in the lower half of the distribution of intelligence is severely limited.

It is telling that Willingham does not argue against the existence of human abilities outside the academic domains, such as kinesthetic skill, musical talent, and social insight.

Although mastery experience is typically the most influential source of self - efficacy, the strength and influence of the sources differ as a function of contextual factors such as gender, ethnicity, academic ability, and academic domain.

And so one of the things that our group is doing right now is we're engaging with teachers from all around the country, in fact all around the world, to try to learn from them what they're doing in their own classroom practice to instill a growth mindset in their students and to help students see intelligence, and to see their academic ability, as things that they can grow.

I certainly could have simply told passive students the definition of this term and what it means, but by enabling them to actively construct their own knowledge, they internalize the ideas more deeply — as well as internalize their ability to have voice and agency in an academic setting.»

Once the state has decided on its policy position, however, a judicial presence should be maintained to ensure that the chosen policy is fully funded, is implemented in a coherent manner, and results in substantially improved student performance, as measured by validated assessments of academic achievement and of students» ability to function as capable citizens and workers.

It's an absolute disgrace that the pressure on schools to ensure pupils pass tests means children as young as three consider themselves «low ability» right at the start of their academic life, a belief which could impact on their self - esteem, carry on throughout their schooling and determine the direction of their adult lives.

This report shows that by placing an average ability student in the least effective, rather than the most effective classroom environment could affect their academic progress by as much as the average improvement across a year.

This makes it difficult to confidently assess the causal effects of the program, separate from pre-existing characteristics which may simultaneously affect both who participates in FWS as well as subsequent academic and labor market outcomes (factors such as student's academic ability, organization, or motivation).

Students answer ten questions that test their ability to demonstrate understanding of vocabulary related to family, domestic living, and academic settings; subject pronouns; and Spanish language in the US, the arrival of Columbus, and the Mexican population This printable quiz includes: • Five matching questions • Five short answer questions • Questions including key vocabulary words and topics, such as: la pizarra, el hogar, el rey, Mixtecos, and Mayas • An accompanying teacher guide with correct answers Need more resources?

Closer examination of the studies of such schools clearly show that the apparent academic advances are due to the presence of such factors as smaller class size, more resources, greater parental interest, and higher student ability and motivation — not to the absence of the opposite sex.

Our first approach measures the relationship between student outcomes and one teacher's expectation, controlling for the other teacher's expectation as well as the student's home background, academic ability, and past grades.

The Coleman Report identified the peer group at school as an important factor affecting learning, but several papers in this volume suggest that the socioeconomic status or academic ability of peers has little effect on academic performance.

In a separate report, a council of 28 scientists called on schools to focus on SEL, making the argument that student success is tied not only to academic ability and cognitive skills (such as working memory and self - regulation) but also to emotional skills (such as the ability to cope with frustration) and interpersonal skills (including empathy and the ability to resolve conflict).

Many academic LMS platforms feature built - in personalization tools, such as the ability to create individualized learning paths and clickable eLearning course maps.

Many of his studies took him into controversial territory, including his investigation of whether incentives increase academic achievement (in most cases, no), and his investigation with Steven Levitt of whether there are systematic racial differences in mental ability among young children (no, when they're under the age of 1; yes, as they get older, hinting at the importance of environmental differences).

If we really want to prepare our students for their futures and «build a strong platform for healthy development and effective learning... then we must pay as much attention to children's emotional wellbeing and social capacities as we do to their cognitive abilities and academic skills» (National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, p. 7).

Although physical activity can not be branded as a silver bullet to increase academic performance among every pupil, evidence shows that its numerous benefits on metabolism help children and teenagers to enhance their scholastic abilities.

But motivation is a complex phenomenon and depends, among other things, on whether a student identifies as the kind of person who belongs in a particular academic setting, or on whether he believes that his ability in an area can be developed with effort.

As a result, Title I and English - language - learner subgroups typically face a gap in academic ability that tends to persist or grow throughout their school experience.