Sentences with phrase «by studying textbooks»

Their work is a version of what educators call project - based learning, which means gaining knowledge by solving problems rather than by studying textbooks.

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From discovering the alphabet in the first grade to discovering anatomy, algebra, and U.S. history in the eighth grade, and all the way up through their high school studies, Waldorf students take part in the learning process by creating their own textbooks — beautifully - drawn journals containing stories, essays, poems, maps, illustrations, lab descriptions, and math equations.

She also led Project 2061's evaluative studies of science and mathematics textbooks and currently serves as principal investigator on curriculum development efforts funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences, the National Science Foundation, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

By studying black holes, the ultimate fate of many stars, LIGO also could help rewrite the textbook version of stellar evolution.

Although it is unlikely that rDLPFC will enter the textbooks as the seat of the law in the brain, this intriguing new study by Buckholtz underscores the role of this region in high - level cognitive processes in general, and judgment and decision - making in particular.

A bad textbook is «one of the reasons that students get turned off by science,» says physicist John Hubisz of North Carolina State University in Raleigh, who headed the study.

This widely accepted textbook geology is being challenged by Colorado State University biogeochemists in a new study published June 1 in Nature Communications.

Textbooks often rely on a 1938 study by Kallman.

«The old textbook description says that once maleness is determined by a few Y chromosome genes and you have gonads, all other sex differences stem from there,» says geneticist Andrew Clark of Cornell University, who was not involved in either study.

«We found there is little diversity in skin tone in these textbooks,» said the study's lead author Patricia Louie, who began the research at UBC and is now a PhD student at U of T. «Proportional to the population, race is represented fairly accurately, but this diversity is undermined by the fact that the images mostly depict light skin tones.»

Vasculata combines a self - study program and seminars from leaders in the field with optional hands - on workshops, thus providing attendees with a unique learning experience in a discipline not comprehensively covered in textbooks or even by courses in most universities.

In terms of what's in medical textbooks and medical studies, you will not find any reliable medical studies or textbooks that claim that what we eat affects the pH of our blood because the pH range of our blood is so tightly controlled by our body that it's not possible to alter it just by what we eat, and the reason for this is that even slight changes in the pH or acidity of our blood can lead to very, very serious consequences, including death.

INTRODUCTION THESE seven reviews of major high school economics textbooks were commissioned by the Centre For Independent Studies in 1989.

In school, many of us studied for tests by re-reading the chapters in the textbook or reviewing the material over and over and by going over our notes.

the textbook reffered to is AQA endorsed Nelson Thornes Religious Studies B, Religion in Morality It's not perfect by any means, I'm only an NQT, in the last 2 lessons I wanted to have the learners working with level ladders, but I've not got my assessment worked out to that extent yet.

When the Oakland, Calif., school board voted last spring to reject a set of social studies textbooks sanctioned by the state of California, most members probably knew they were taking a «road less traveled.»

The Los Angeles school board has voted to allow schools in that district to use a social - studies textbook series that was criticized by a wide range of ethnic and religious groups.

New Mexico schools will be able to use state textbook funds to buy electronic materials for social - studies classes and reference needs, under an unusual textbook - adoption process approved by the state board of education.

A new study by UNESCO's Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM) * to be issued on 19 January proposes an economic model that would help reduce the cost of textbooks and increase their availability to students in schools around the world.

In our primary niche (medical education), medical students often must endure academic torture by studying complex medical science concepts through the traditional medium of organized study, including attending boring classes, reading dense textbooks, and practicing thousands of arduous vignettes.

It draws on diverse sources: our daily poems and the poets we study, the weekly newsletter and other school publication, teachers» styles of speaking and writing, songs we sing at our whole - school morning meetings, current events, our history textbook, children's literature, the classroom walls, and writing by the students themselves.

«Never Judge a Book by Its Cover — Use Student Achievement Instead» by Thomas J. Kane This short article summarizes a study showing that textbook choices have a substantial impact on student achievement.

Even mundane decisions such as textbook purchases are rarely informed by evidence, despite the fact that the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) have funded curricula development and efficacy studies for years.

Even mundane decisions such as textbook purchases are rarely informed by evidence, even though the federal government has funded curricula development and efficacy studies for years.

The late Jeanne Chall and Sue S. Conard studied widely used textbooks covering the period from 1945 to 1975 and noted, «On the whole, the later the copyright dates of the textbooks for the same grade, the easier they were, as measured by indices of readability level, maturity level, difficulty of questions, and extent of illustration.»

Science textbooks used by an estimated 80 percent of middle school students nationwide are riddled with errors, a new study concludes.

The three - year, $ 1 million study, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and released here last week, found that only a handful of the questions on major commercially available tests in mathematics and science, as well as on tests included in textbooks, measured the kinds of conceptual knowledge and problem - solving abilities reformers say should be integral to...

By doing this — studying textbook effects across multiple settings — we can begin to develop a better understanding of what is working, where, and for whom.

This essay begins by detailing cultural biases in textbooks, and what research says about the impact on students of Eurocentric versus ethnic studies curriculum.

However, their self - confidence and motivation to read roller - coastered each day because in their English class they were expected to read Animal Farm (1993) by George Orwell as well as ninth grade — level textbooks in science and social studies.

One teacher initiated the study of the new reading series throughout the grade levels, examining the Literacy by Design «Sourcebook» (student textbook) and guided reading series for its alignment with character virtues, ethical decision - making, coping skills and authentic learning.

For another fifty minutes a day, half of my students are in social studies classes run by exceptional teachers recently trained in teaching literacy skills using history textbooks.

Last week, EdWeek ran an article about a study by two professors evaluating whether commonly used K - 12 textbooks are aligned to the CCSS.

The study found that Georgia's tuition tax credit program was funneling taxpayer dollars into private schools that were «condemn [ing] homosexuality on religious grounds; [p] unish [ing] gay students by excluding them from admission and scholarships or expelling and disciplining them because they are gay; [u] s [ing] textbooks and curricula that are harshly anti-gay — some even comparing gays to rapists and murderers; and [e] xpel [ling] or disciplin [ing] students in some cases for simply tolerating homosexuality.»

The traditional instruction method in this study was lectures given by a teacher, use of textbooks and other materials, and a clear explanation of procedural knowledge and conceptual knowledge of fractions to students.

First, students took a 135 - item, multiple - choice and matching pretest provided by the textbook's publisher that covered the upcoming nine - week study of Asia.

Patrick Murphy, a political scientist at the University of San Francisco who recently completed a study on the cost of implementing the Common Core, funded by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative think tank, estimates that the cost of transitioning to the Common Core could be as low as $ 3 billion nationally if districts forgo traditional options and instead choose digital textbooks (that can more easily be updated), tailored teacher - training videos and free curricula available online.

When the authors of the AERA study analyzed the literature used by Common Core writers to justify the need for more complex texts, what they found was: «a tight and closed loop of researchers citing one another and leading... to an artificially heightened sense of scholarly agreement about a decline in textbook complexity.»

A report last month by the Book Industry Study Group, found that 25 % of students photocopied or scanned textbooks from other students, up from 17 % in 2012.

In short, for no discernible reason whatsoever, a Friday night hissy fit in Seattle over a supply chain issues has transformed into a «how not to» case study that will quite likely wind up side - by - side in business textbooks next to the Johnson and Johnson case study.

CourseSmart, a leading supplier of e-textbooks for higher education, shared the results of a two - year study on the use of digital textbooks which had been commissioned by Alternative Media Access Center (AMAC) and AccessText Network (ATN) following a grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE).

By an extraordinary coincidence, he happened to be studying a module on The Senses, and kept sharing with me fascinating facts from his textbook.

The model of adaptive learning that is made possible by metrics included in digital textbooks helps students maximize their study time by deciphering which parts of the material the students have already mastered, while helping them pinpoint which areas still need focused attention and repetition.

GoodeReader reported on digital textbook publisher CourseSmart's involvement in a multi-year study by STEPP (STudent Erent Pilot Project) on how the rental of digital textbooks are affecting learning outcomes at the higher education level, with a special focus on providing easier and more cost effective accessibility... [Read more...]

CourseSmart, a leading supplier of e-textbooks for higher education, shared the results of a two - year study on the use of digital textbooks which had been commissioned by Alternative Media Access Center (AMAC) and AccessText Network (ATN) following a grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education... [Read more...]

A lot of people think the iPad's success is going to be dictated by the kind of apps it has and textbook, study guide, and test preparation apps certainly add value.

By Publishing Perspectives staff Germany's book market is among the top three in size in the world, though e-books remain only a small percentage of overall sales, accounting for 21.2 million Euros in revenue in 2010, or 0.5 % of the total market (excluding academic books and textbooks) and just 5.4 % of sales, according to a new joint study between the German...

In The Digital Reader, Nate Hoffelder describes capabilities possessed by Nook Study that render it superior to other e ‐ reading software for reading textbooks.

The popularity of digital textbooks may have hit a tipping point in 2012 as preference by college students climbed significantly, according to new research from the Book Industry Study Group (BISG)'s ongoing study of Student Attitudes Toward Content in Higher EducaStudy Group (BISG)'s ongoing study of Student Attitudes Toward Content in Higher Educastudy of Student Attitudes Toward Content in Higher Education.

I must turn to the great oracle and brain of the modern world, Google and Wikipedia, even to refresh my memory of things I have actually studied and know fairly well, and to go beyond them to textbooks, also written by «authorities», or the literature when the first two fail or appear likely to be unsound or I really need to see the results themselves to judge.