Sentences with phrase «by other groups of students»

For example, Smarter Balanced's «Bias and Sensitivity Guidelines» point to the word foyer as unfair: «assuming a student knows what a «foyer» is would be unfair because the term: 1) is more likely to be known by some groups of students than by other groups of students, 2) is not required by the Common Core State Standards, and 3) is not likely to have been routinely used in the classroom.»

Not exact matches

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.

Researchers studied disagreements by teaching two groups of students a card game that contained largely similar rules, except for one key difference — one group was taught aces were the highest card in the game, while the other was taught aces were the lowest, Greer says.

That group and other students from across the Denver area also held a «lie - in» at the state Capitol around noon Wednesday ahead of debate in a House committee over a handful of pro-gun bills introduced by Republicans expected to happen Wednesday afternoon.

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The survey of 1,002 Canadians was commissioned by Trade Justice Network (TJN), a coalition of social, labour, environmental, student and other groups concerned about the secrecy and anti-democratic provisions of international trade negotiations.

The reflection is given concreteness and specificity («context») by being embodied by the practices of this specific group of students, who are responsible to each other for the success of the process.

In addition to classroom growth methods, schools should develop a variety of other small groups for students, led by qualified teachers, counselors, and school psychologists.

A study of the patients visited regularly by the students (compared with a matched control group of other patients) showed that the program had made a significant difference in the general improvement and discharge rate of those visited.

Only two - thirds of the directors said that all the foods and beverages sold «a la carte» in their meal programs met the Smart Snacks standards for competitive food, and only two in ten directors reported that products sold by other departments and groups on campus (e.g., through student fundraisers) were Smart Snacks compliant.

The ways we engage with our friends, the preferences and hostilities we harbour, the views we have about teachers, parents, education, or people from other ethnic groups — however loosely held — can easily be «excavated» by the student of ideologies, who can then identify, classify and maybe even anticipate the ideas and behaviour people display in their roles as members of a society.

By shining a light on school - level funding inequities before the school year begins, the final budget can serve as an important new protection for students of color, low - income students, and other historically under - served groups of students across the state.

Free food is always appreciated by starving students, but the group lunch is also valued because it gives current MD / PhD students who work at different research institutes and who are at differing stages in the program a chance to catch up with each other at the beginning of a new academic year.

«We further theorize that the essential difference between collaborative group work and direct instruction is that students learn about the «self as agent and others as (the) audience,»» a hypothesis explored in another paper by Zhang's co-authors, Richard C. Anderson, director of the Center for the Study of Reading, and graduate student Joshua A. Morris, both of the U. of I.

Niyogi joined Fink's lab and found himself in an unusual situation: As a graduate student in a group of about 20, he was surrounded by postdocs, because he was focused on Arabidopsis and all the other graduate students worked with yeast.

Now a group of materials chemists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst led by Dhandapani Venkataraman, with Ph.D. student and first author Seung Pyo Jeong, Ph.D. students Larry Renna, Connor Boyle and others, report that they have solved one of the major hurdles in the field by developing a polymer - based system.

In fact, in an assessment earlier this year, Cambridge researchers Professor Roger Pedersen and PhD student Victoria Mascetti concluded that the existence of naive human stem cells required confirmation by other stem cell research groups: «Like Higgs» Boson to the field of particle physics,» they explained, naivety in human stem cells «was predicted from considerations of symmetry and conservation, [but] we are yet to unlock its potential.»

The report (1)-- from a group led by UCLA's Dr. Michael Teitell, and including graduate student Carla Koehler, Newcastle University's Dr. Robert Lightowlers, and others — identified and provided initial characterization of polynucleotide phosphorylase (PNPase) as a mammalian - specific system for the mitochondrial import of nuclear - encoded RNA.

University students who learned the Transcendental Meditation technique showed an improvement in general health as assessed by the Duke Health Profile (composed of physical, mental, and social measures) after three months, in contrast to groups of students from two other universities who did not learn the Transcendental Meditation technique.

The first chapter in the Shin Megami Tensei: Persona RPG series released for the PlayStation 4 features an episodic story about a group of high school students in a fictionalized version of Tokyo's Shibuya district who explore the Palace, an alternate world created by the hearts of other people.

Among many other experiences, he follows a large group of Israeli high school students on a journey to Poland's death camps, where some admit to being afraid of leaving their hotel rooms, so frightened are they by the remarks of teachers and Secret Service agents on the dangers of anti-Semitism.

«This means every ninth - grader has a big sister or big brother in each of the other classes.This vertical integration, as opposed to horizontal integration of grouping students in grade levels by age, fosters deep friendships across grades and promotes a feeling of family in our school community.

Group students by teams with the charge of helping each other collect the same Pokémon into their respective Pokédex.

Turning Points 2000: A Blueprint For Middle Grades Education Reform A new report by the President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans advises that groups need to work together to help Hispanic students close the achievement gap with students of other ethnic groups.

Students could work in small groups and prepare mini-presentations that could then be peer assesed by other groups a marking sheet is provided with the question that also could be used for more formal peer assessment of written work.

Organized by partnerships between school districts, nonprofit organizations, universities, and others, they provide a more diverse group of students with the enriching science, art, and community - based activities that middle - and upper - income parents can provide by paying for fee - based summer sessions.

As part of the project, students develop ideas for reducing their carbon output, which they will do by collaborating with other schools and groups across the UK and by sharing their data.

Seating students in heterogeneous groups maximizes the learning environment: weaker students see how stronger students learn and approach problems, while stronger students gain a deeper understanding of the subject by teaching it to others, creating a «technical success.»

By coming together as a larger group throughout the year, like at a culminating conference in April, students and partner schools in both courses share what the journey looks like and what they've learned, and also discuss other topics of interest.

These functions include the ease with which teachers and other adults who are regularly around individual students can directly observe the soft skills they are expected to support, the clear implications for intervention suggested by low scores on a particular skill by a particular student or group of students, the signals sent to administrators about teachers and groups of students who may need additional help, and the usefulness in communicating with parents.

On the other hand, when schools can achieve substantial «improvements» by focusing on a relatively small group of students, they face a strong incentive to game the system.

In August 2016, the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC)-- supported by nearly 40 other public interest groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)-- sent a letter to Education Secretary John King demanding the department track and remedy the disproportionate consequences of student loan debt for borrowers of color.

On the other hand, if I were commissioned to find a teacher for a group of adolescent boys and if, by some miracle, I could secure either Socrates or the latest Ph.D. from Teachers College, with his equipment of the latest technologies and techniques of teaching, with all due respect to the college that employs me and to my students, I am fairly certain that I would jump at the chance to get Socrates.

Then give students instructions for the activity: They must locate the other members of their animal group by imitating that animal's sound only.

Your article on the Milwaukee school - choice evaluation («New Studies on Private Choice Contradict Each Other,» Sept. 4, 1996) accurately reports that our study of the Milwaukee choice program found that choice students outperformed a comparable control group of Milwaukee Public Schools students on standardized tests by a considerable amount after three and four years of experience in the choice schools.

School of One places students in larger classes or smaller groups or in a one - on - one instruction situation, either by a tutor or online, depending on the number of others in the class who are at a similar price point and share interests.

They created a student group, which attracted the support of other students interested in the subject, and by January, they had partnered with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, which is advising on ways to ensure open - access course materials for teachers on the internet.

Growing interest in «blended learning» and other classroom uses of technology, which help teachers customize and individualize learning by letting some students move at their own pace online while teaching other kids in smaller, perhaps more homogeneous groups.

Yet Coleman also noted that the composition of a student's peer group was more important for learning than any other school - related factor, a finding used by the Johnson and Nixon administrations to reinforce their strenuous desegregation efforts in southern states.

I think that math or any other subject can be taught as per levels of the students by forming ability groups despite which ever grade the child is studying in or whatever his age may be.

Once family background and the nature of the peer group at school were taken into account, student achievement was unaffected by per - pupil expenditure, school size, the science lab facilities, the number of books in the library, the use of tracking by ability levels to assign students to classrooms, or other factors previously assumed to be indicators of what makes for a good school.

Lessons are grouped by the five areas of achievement and include standards, student materials, teacher facilitation guides and other resources.

As early implementers, these educators have gone both to the «source» of the standards and used other proxies for quality and alignment: They've worked directly with and learned from the standards» authors themselves and / or used tools created by them (e.g., the Publishers» Criteria developed by Student Achievement Partners and several other groups).

Like all of the other Symonds» students, he began his days with a morning meeting, worked with teacher support in large and small groups, experienced academic choice, lived by rules and consequences, attended art, music, physical education, and media classes, and became a part of the Symonds community.

There are instruction sheets included which can be given to «topic specialists» (students who can understand that particular topic) so they can not only develop their understanding of the topic by having to be able to explain it to other students, but also it helps with the management of different groups around the room.

I haven't yet found other instructional strategies that bring out the same kind of behaviors from all students — especially from the majority of learners outside the small group motivated by grades and / or college - admission requirements, or the even smaller group motivated by intellectual curiosity.

And one reason may be that black students are more likely than students in any other racial or ethnic group to attend schools with police, according to the analysis of 2013 - 14 civil rights data, the most recent collected by the U.S. Department of Education.

Now teachers and safeguarding leads will be able to extend their safeguarding provision to a wider group of students, as the packs allow them to see and monitor phonetic representations of what students are typing in languages other than English; alerting them to activity by any student who is potentially open to physical or emotional harm — and allows them to take the appropriate action.

(3) other advisory and individual or group counseling assistance to enable students to benefit from the curriculum, to help students develop and implement postsecondary education and career plans, to help students who exhibit any attendance, academic, behavioral or adjustment problems and to encourage parental involvement, provided that advisory assistance shall be provided by teachers or counselors, or by certified teaching assistants under the supervision of counselors or teachers, and that such individual or group counseling assistance shall be provided by certified or licensed school counselors or by certified or licensed school psychologists or certified or licensed school social workers in cooperation with school counselors; and

In the principles, the groups highlight the important and historic role the federal government has played during the 50 years since the ESEA was originally passed in promoting educational opportunity and protecting the rights and interests of students disadvantaged by discrimination, poverty, and other conditions that may limit their educational attainment.