Sentences with phrase «change students over time»

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The answer lies in the way student loan rates are set, and the changes to the way they have been set over time.

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Borrowers who have private student loans do not have the option to change their selected repayment plan after the loans have been dispersed, while federal student loan borrowers may request a change to their repayment program should their financial circumstances or needs change over time.

A variable rate student loan has an interest rate that changes, or varies, over time.

If we define evolution as simply a change in species over time, any student of biology must agree that species do in fact evolve.

The study — conducted by Hio Wa Mak, doctoral student of human development and family studies — examined how parental rejection, as well as the overall well - being of the family unit, were related to changes in adolescents» social anxiety, friendships and feelings of loneliness over time.

Tough, a former editor at The New York Times Magazine and the author of Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America (2008), believes that students from schools like KIPP may have «character advantages» over their wealthier counterparts because of the hard work it takes for them to succeed.

In bringing the curriculum at the developmentally appropriate time through art, the teacher is able to arouse the feeling life of the students, thereby helping them to arrive at living concepts which change and grow with the child over the years.

However, student acceptance of the changes will likely improve over time, as indicated by their positive comments about healthy food and consumption of fruits and vegetables in most districts GAO visited.

Future work can build on these findings by using similar techniques to evaluate changes over time in the nutritional quality of foods selected by students.

By considering the changes in these natural areas over time, students will evaluate the roles humans play as a part of these prairie and lawn ecosystems.

The changes made to the state's tests have made it difficult to compare student performance on the assessments over time — a fact that has not stopped the de Blasio administration from publicly celebrating rising scores.

The new analysis, based on data assembled primarily by graduate student Yan - Jie Feng at Sun Yat - Sen University in Guangzhou, China, focused on the sequences of 95 genes located on chromosomes in the nucleus and how they changed over time.

«We know that our brains change over time, but fully understanding how we make and recall memories as we age has been a mystery,» said Renante Rondina, a University of Toronto and Rotman graduate student in the Department of Psychology and lead author of the study.

Lead author PhD student Adam Hejnowicz said: «Seagrass meadows could play a vital role in combating climate change as they are regarded as a net global sink for carbon.They have the capacity to bury significant deposits of organic carbon beneath the sediment, up to many metres thick in places and over millenary time scales.»

In her dissertation work, Veronia Strandh, doctoral student at Umeå University, analyses how international patterns of attacks against rail bound traffic has changed over time.

Although what it takes to be successful in science has not changed much over the years, in these tough economic times, it is more important than ever for graduate students to start looking for a postdoc position at least a year before finishing their graduate work.

First author of the study, William Symes, a graduate student from the Department of Biological Sciences at the NUS Faculty of Science said, «Protected areas are not static but instead dynamic, shifting institutions that change over time, and it is crucial for conservation planners to recognise this.

During the Biophysical Society's 62nd Annual Meeting, held Feb. 17 - 21, 2018, in San Francisco, California, Samuel H. Schneider, a graduate student in Stanford University's Boxer Lab, will present the group's research studying what happens when an enzyme is accelerating reaction and how an enzyme changes over time making it resistant to antibiotics.

«The model is really flexible, and we are already starting to use it with fMRI data to understand how regions of the brain interconnect and change over time,» said Fuchen Liu, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Statistics and Data Science.

Simulation Server allows students to model genetic changes over time — simulating the same conditions in 100 or more test populations at a time.

The tests are designed to monitor if there is any change in how students perform at national level over time, which will provide valuable additional information for the awarding GCSE grades.

For example, students can look at photographs to see what Blackpool looked like in the past, then can explore the rock pools and compare videos of how the scene has changed over time.

Students will apply change over time observations.

In the absence of a compelling reason to retain control centrally, school leaders, as the primary agents of change, should have freedom and flexibility over how best to use their resources (time, people, and money) to create meaningful changes that directly impact students.

While we can not separately identify for - profit graduate enrollment for 1993 graduates, cross-sectional enrollment data from the National Postsecondary Student Aid Survey (NPSAS) allow us to examine how graduate enrollment patterns have changed over time.

I have used this resource many times over the last few years and just changed it each year to make it up to date, it has always gone down really well with students!

I first analyze changes over time in the FCAT test scores of students in their initial 3rd - grade year in order to discern the extent to which Florida's elementary - school students made true achievement gains during the period in question.

While calculus or physics might not have much relationship to demographics of the students, clearly the choice of texts to read in a history class, or a literature or sociology or urban studies class, might evolve over time to reflect changing demographics.

Test - retest reliability over short periods of time is the preeminent psychometric question for report card items because the data are not useful if scores that teachers generate for individual students on individual items are unstable during a period of time in which it is unlikely that the student has changed.

If students do sort themselves into middle schools because of some unobserved characteristic that causes changes in academic achievement over time, we would incorrectly attribute differences in achievement to the middle schools instead of to characteristics of the students themselves.

A dissimilarity index at the district level, however, measures the dissimilarity of districts and the overall student population in the area, and provides information on changes over time in racial differences in the distribution of students among districts.

Individual needs are diverse and change over time, so continuous tracking is essential, especially for students at risk of disengaging.

Every year, a sample of GCSE students will take the same test so it will show over time, if there is any change in how students perform at a national level.

Over time these changes could lead to increased respect for teachers, improved results for students, potentially higher pay, and, in the long run, greater desire by talented people to join the profession.

Instead, science students at Hollywood Elementary School, in Stevensville, Michigan, go outside into a 19,000 - square - foot garden to crawl around in the dirt and see how nature changes over time.

Challenges At the same time as acknowledging the strong case for focusing teaching on big ideas, it is important to recognise that some developments over recent years have created challenges to the changes that are needed for students to have the chance to develop understanding.

This is all the more impressive since the latest Florida Department of Education report found that «public school students who ultimately became program participants are more likely to be the relatively lower - performing students in their schools, a fact that has not changed over time.»

In addition, we control for determinants of student achievement that may change over time, such as a teacher's experience level, as well as for student characteristics, such as prior - year test scores, gender, racial / ethnic subgroup, special education classification, gifted classification, English proficiency classification, and whether the student was retained in the same grade.

She told those gathered that preparing students for citizenship «has been the primary purpose of education in the United States,» but that its role has changed over time.

It also encourages students to think about how interpretations of heroism, gender, and the Odyssey change over time.

Second, the comparatively steady gain in adjusted scores over the period provides evidence of improvements in instructional quality, independent of changes in the amount of time students were in class.

At the end of the worksheet, students should have a better sense of how languages change over time and how English is related to other languages.

Policymakers and the media use this enrollment information to assess the economic diversity of the student body at individual universities, whether universities are effectively recruiting low - income students, and how access to college has changed over time for students in different income groups.

The significant changes in Pell Grant take - up rates, eligibility rules, and enrollment patterns over time make the Pell proxy extremely unreliable for tracking changes in low - income student enrollment over more than a few years.

The change over time in the share receiving Pell Grants is even larger for the students whose families earned between $ 30,001 and $ 65,994.

They investigate how the student composition and academic achievement of charters have changed over time, what drives charter school entry and exit, and the factors that are associated with charter school success.

Regardless of whether this makes the Pell proxy more or less accurate for identifying low - income students, the important point here is that eligibility has been moving up the income spectrum, changing what the proxy measures over time.

Interact with the charts below to see how graduation rates for U.S. students, and different student populations, have changed over time and how your state's graduation rate compares.

We also include student fixed effects, which account for changes in the composition of the schools» student populations over time that can not be explained by the limited set of student characteristics for which information was available in the district's database.