Sentences with phrase «asks groups of students»

At graduation, he asks groups of students to stand, honoring everyone from athletes to musicians.

I once asked a group of students to rank various professions, first by how spiritual they were and then by how practical they were in society.

In one fascinating example [pdf], Princeton University psychologist Eldar Shafir asked a group of students to act as the jury in a mock custody battle between two parents.

In the late 1940s, psychologist Bertram Forer asked a group of students to fill out a personality test.

Second, they asked another group of students to learn Japanese words.

I asked a group of students at one school how they were using their devices, and they told me that they now had their textbooks on the iPad.

Almasi asked a group of students one simple question: Why do children talk about stories after they read them in school?

In Part III, he asks a group of students how they find new books (hint: book reviews don't play a prominent role here).

Not exact matches

The second group of guinea pigs were college students, half of whom were asked to complete a survey for charity in an overheated room, and half of whom got to do the same task in a nice cool one.

Kohn and a colleague conducted a handful of experiments in which they asked students — both in groups and individually — to come up with ideas on how to improve the university.

To investigate the impact of not looking our best on our behavior, Stanford professor Margaret Neale and PhD student Peter Belmi asked a group of both women and men to write about a time they felt either attractive or unattractive and then quizzed them on their attitudes to inequality and hierarchy.

They told a group of nearby students that they were filming and asked them to cheer during the intro.

This bias was demonstrated in an experiment at Stanford University in which a group of students was asked to guess the songs tapped by others on a table.

To test the effect of sharing a meal on the outcome of negotiations, Balachandra put 132 MBA students into small groups and asked them to hammer out a complex joint venture agreement between two companies.

The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Sydney and examined three groups of students, who were tasked with completing an «alternate uses» test — a common creativity drill wherein subjects are given an object and asked to come up with as many uses for it as they can.

Things moved pretty quickly for gun - rights advocate and Marjory Stoneman Douglas student Kyle Kashuv after he asked a man he calls his «mentor» — Charlie Kirk, founder of the conservative student group Turning Point USA — how many retweets he'd need to convince Kirk to speak at Stoneman Douglas...

From Clay Shirky, «Why I Just Asked My Students To Put Their Laptops Away» https://medium.com/@cshirky/why-i-just-asked-my-students-to-put-their-laptops-away-7f5f7c50f368 (which is largely irrelevant to this thread, apart from its discussion of group behaviour and unconscious behavioural influences)

At lunch, a group of students were asked about their thoughts on the future of Christianity and several mentioned the importance of looking to the global South and East since the center of Christianity seems to be shifting in that direction.

Ask college students from elite schools that question, and they will probably say that most of the new fathers belong to the secular and unaffiliated group.

In the last ten years I have moved increasingly toward experiential teaching (using self - awareness exercises, role playing of counseling methods, live demonstrations of growth groups, and so forth), which involves the students» own feelings, responses, and needs; asking the students to draw up their own «learning contract» based on what they want to get from a given course or workshop; expecting students to participate in the teaching by sharing in some systematic way the insights they have discovered to be meaningful; revealing my own struggles, uncertainties, and weaknesses; and asking the students to evaluate anonymously the course, including my teaching.

He famously told a group of students who asked about the virtual civil war then underway, «I believe in justice, but I will defend my mother before justice.»

A group of alumni, otherwise unidentified, had asked the bureau whether «an organization which raises funds to be used principally in travel and other activities necessary to interview and persuade prospective students with outstanding athletic ability to attend a particular university» was tax exempt.

In one famous early study recounted in Daniel Pink's book Drive, Deci, then a graduate student in psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, asked two groups of students to complete challenging puzzles.

I had a group of 15 student enter to room to stare at my labouring vagina, no body asked me.

Check out these guides from the National PTA and ask your local parent - teacher - student group to make the success of student nutrition programs a priority.

It was both shocking and sad to see Jamie ask a group of elementary students to identify various vegetables, only to have asparagus mistaken for onion and celery mistaken for potato.

Each Program Director is asked to limit student submissions to a maximum of 3 presentations per grouping (3 undergraduate & 3 graduate) per institution.

I once asked a group of 25 students in a government and politics class in Cambridge if they knew what the electoral register was.

Also this week, we ask a group of first time student voters for their perspective — what's been memorable about their first election, why apathy is so prevalent among young people, and is there room for any optimism about the future?

The Universities UK document, which advises universities on the invitation of external speakers to campuses, includes a case study in which a representative of an «ultra-orthodox religious group» asks for male and female students hearing the talk to be segregated.

At 11:30 a.m., NYPIRG and other student groups deliver petitions to the governor and Legislature, asking for SUNY tuition to be frozen after five straight years of «rational» increases, LCA Press Room, 130 Legislative Office Building, Albany.

A group calling itself Concerned Law Students, have asked the government to find ways of expanding the Ghana Law School to admit more qualified candidates.

At the end of the course, students were asked to rate the discussion group instructors on 12 different traits, covering characteristics related to their effectiveness and interpersonal skills.

So the researchers tested interoceptive awareness in a group of 46 female university students by asking them to count their heartbeats without taking their own pulses.

Previous work in this realm typically asked black - and - white questions with just two answer options or tested a non-representative sample such as a group of recruited high - school students.

Masi, a former student of Gehlert's, and University of Chicago oncologist and geneticist Olufunmilayo Olopade asked Gehlert to work with a group they were forming to look at health disparities in breast cancer.

I get asked a variety of questions when I speak to groups of grad students.

Helmicki says that Bortner's teaching assistant told the class «women and men should not be working together in science» after a student asked why the class was being placed in single - sex groups on the first day of class.

To find out, the team interviewed four groups of people in Munich and Chicago — shoppers and graduate students with degrees in finance or economics from both cities — and asked them which of 798 American and German companies they recognised.

But Stratton is convinced that in a few years time, once the full pattern of the cancer genome is revealed, his next group of students will ask the same question about the present state of research.

So he had a graduate student, Drew Walker, ask UC San Diego undergraduates to rate the attractiveness of hundreds of individuals, men and women, pictured both on their own and in a group.

The objective of the group is straightforward, says Tate: to encourage women graduate students, who are interested in pursuing an academic career, «to take time to think about where we are going, ask questions we're afraid to ask, and discuss the many paths that a successful academic career can follow.»

Paleoanthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, for example, plans to ask his students to determine whether there's more intermarriage between hunter - gatherer groups that live close together and, therefore, are likely to have similar cultures.

A paleontologist colleague of ours was recently asked by a student whether brachiopods, an invertebrate group commonly preserved as fossils, were kosher.

After the video, the students were asked to write a short blurb introducing themselves to another member of the group, none of whom they'd ever met before.

In the study, Dr. Christakis and his co-author, James Fowler, PhD, a professor of medical genetics at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, chose 319 Harvard undergraduates at random and asked them to name their friends, which yielded a group of 425 students who were named at least once.

Last week, i asked a random group of martial arts instructors and students the following question.

Another student, Hilary Dusome claimed that Franco had created an «unprofessional and hostile atmosphere» during a scene filmed in a strip club by asking a group of female actors: «So, who wants to take your shirt off?»

When asked to agree or disagree with the statement, «I have a good understanding of how early Americans thought and felt,» 70 percent of the treatment - group students express agreement compared to 66 percent of the control group.

The cut out / sort / group activity is accompanied with a PowerPoint for display that includes a starter activity (defining «network») and a concluding activity asking students to answer an 8 mark exam style question to consolidate their understanding of the sort activity.