Sentences with phrase «classes of students studying»

«Previously, almost all neuroscience Ph.D. students at Karolinska were recruited from classes of students studying to become M.D.s,» says Olsen «but in the last 10 — 15 years this has changed so that now a small minority of the students we accept for our Ph.D. program are derived from the M.D. curriculum classes.»

Not exact matches

To figure out when the more social among us flourish and when they struggle, the team studied 162 Belgian business students who were separated into 27 teams as part of a class project.

A University of Arizona study on college students» financial behaviors found that three things help there: Parental involvement, taking a personal finance class and having a part - time job and other hands - on money experience.

By logging into Koofers — which has a Facebook app and is accessible online via Facebook ID and password — a student in an introductory chemistry class of 30 can now swap and share materials with tens of thousands of students studying the same curriculum worldwide.

The most recent National Survey of Student Engagement revealed that «nearly half of seniors majoring in business say they spend fewer than 11 hours a week studying outside class.»

Given the importance of physics and science, would it surprise you to learn that studies have shown that traditional introductory college classes can decrease students» conceptual understanding of the subject?

The Miami - based students have most core classes on the Miami campus and travel to Evanston in January of their second year for an International live - in week and to begin their winter quarter studies.

Students spend an average of 25 to 30 hours of work outside of class weekends studying.

Over the years Richard Leblanc, an adjunct at Osgoode Hall Law School and associate professor of governance law and ethics in the School of Administrative Studies at York University, has been struck by the number of students who had difficulty staying awake during class.

A new study by Millennial Branding, of 225 employers using Experience Inc.'s data pool of over 100,000 US companies, uncovers the student employment gap, skill requirements, and sources of hire for the class of 2012.

Finra's study also found that personal finance education lowers the probability of falling 90 or more days behind on future credit accounts, especially for students who took required classes in economics or personal finance after the first - year mandates were adopted.

All this despite the fact that private schooling doesn't actually yield better outcomes for students, according to a recent Statistics Canada report (instead, the apparent academic success of private school student is due to their socioeconomic backgrounds).9 A UBC study also found that students from public schools scored higher in first - year university classes than their private school counterparts.10

For this study, we analyzed student loan debt data from 1,138 schools in the United States, including student loan debt per borrower, proportion of graduates with student loan debt, and the number of borrowers from the Class of 2016.

If lets say some students of a certain class flunk the Maths test but most others passed it, does it mean the students who failed did not study their Math book properly and there is something wrong with the Math book?

Students will come to a theology or biblical studies class knowing more of what their tradition says about the Bible then they do about what the Bible says itself.

For example, I still remember in one of my «Eschatology» classes (study of the End Times), three different students were interacting with the professor about what we were learning.

The computer teacher is free to offer a short prayer at the beginning of class, but ought not spend half the time on a study of the Torah when the students should be learning Microsoft Excel.

(Since the study was of parents of college students it is probable that it did not include a proportional sampling of the lowest classes on the socioeconomic scale.)

Micah told the story of how he took a graduate course on Joshua and Judges in which the professor, on the first day of class, went around the room and asked each student why he or she elected to study these two Old Testament books.

The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health studied a collection of students from the class of» 94 - 95 and has been keeping up with them ever since.

Whether in the classrooms on this campus or the lecture halls of other colleges, I have found that surprising numbers of white students (who are nothing if not middle class) are deeply interested in the study and application of religion.

This works quite well for some students (our Campus and Community page discusses options for what your family can do in our neighborhood while you're in class); other students, however, find they can focus more on their studies when they are here alone and that their children are happier staying with a caregiver in the familiar environment of their own home.

The preparation of class plays are integrated into the Waldorf curriculum deepening students» connections to their academic studies.

Skipping classes will also keep you from making important connections with other students, including being part of study groups, sharing information and ideas, and making personal connections that can last a lifetime.

Public Speaking & Debate was requested by my social studies students a year ago as an extension of discussions we hold at the end of each year's History classes in a current events unit.

Though we found some rigorous studies that after controlling for certain variables showed positive results of the AP program, especially in the sciences, we believe more research needs to be done before we can verify the broad claim that taking AP classes makes students more likely to succeed in college.

Social - studies work may also include a basic discussion of citizenship: What is your child's role as a student in the class, in the school, in the community?

The first of these assertions comes in for particular scrutiny, specifically the sub-claim that AP classes increase a student's chances of academic success in college; «[A] closer look at studies [on the subject] reveals some potential problems with the notion of causality,» reads the report.

Along with a graduate student, he studied 36 infants in swimming classes at warm pool — one of the few actual studies into diving babies.

The plan will affect a larger number of state employees — about 28,000, most of whom are upstate — and is designed to include students who use work - study jobs to pay tuition and bills while attending classes.

Cuomo's idea is to give a free ride at SUNY schools for students who are in the top 10 percent of their class and study STEM.

«THE STUDY FOUND THAT BLACK AND LATINO STUDENTS HAVE HALF THE NUMBER OF ADVANCED PLACEMENT CLASSES compared to their white and Asian peers, according to data from 353 high schools in the 2011 - 2012 academic year.

Recently, students attending a Global Studies class at Clarkstown South High School were shown a video that was both offensive and disturbing in its portrayal of Judaism in Roman times.

Osun state Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has expressed joy and excitement as one of the 87 students sponsored by his administration to study Medicine at the National University of Kharkiv, Ukraine, Miss Oyeleye Lateefah Abiola, emerged the best overall in her class for 2017 topping the class with a percentage score of 95.6 %.

That's the conclusion of a new study that logged the neural activity of 12 high school students and their teacher with electroencephalography (EEG) headsets over 11 classes.

Most previous studies on evolution views were done in the Midwest and Northeast, Rissler said, and hearing many of her students say the topic was avoided in their high - school science classes helped prompt the study, she said.

A North Carolina State University study of middle school science classes explored whether teachers» beliefs about climate change influenced students» perceptions.

Many scientific studies, though, pull from the vast pool of Psych 101 students required to participate in studies for class credit.

Black students in the study who participated in MESA in the fall of their freshman year were more likely to take one or more Advanced Placement (AP) classes in a STEM subject later on in high school.

Steele and his colleagues performed a series of studies to prove that regardless of class, racial pressures depress the academic performance of African - American students.

In one study of 1,651 high school students from three states, reading ability was just as important to students» science - class grades and scores on state - level science tests as the amount of science knowledge they had.

According to the study, 50 percent of the wealthiest students with a learning disability reported receiving accommodations; only 30 percent of low - income, working - class, and middle - class students with a learning disability said they received extra help.

The results showed there were no statistically significant differences in test scores or students» assessments of the flipped classes compared to a traditional lecture course of study.

A rising number of research studies document how the odds are stacked against students and faculty from working - class backgrounds.

Classes are becoming all - ability groups — in Denmark it has become illegal to stream children on the basis of their ability — and all students are required to study all the sciences.

After reflecting on the exam format, the students identified which of 15 available class resources they would use to study effectively.

On a positive note: «Our research indicates that if a student can structure a consistent schedule in which class days resemble non-class days, they are more likely to achieve academic success,» said study co-lead author Aaron Schirmer, an associate professor of biology at Northeastern Illinois University.

«We found that the majority of students were being jet - lagged by their class times, which correlated very strongly with decreased academic performance,» said study co-lead author Benjamin Smarr, a postdoctoral fellow who studies circadian rhythm disruptions in the lab of UC Berkeley psychology professor Lance Kriegsfeld.

University students who used a Facebook group as part of a large sociology class did better on course assignments and felt a stronger sense of belonging, according to a Baylor University study.

In the late 1990s, he was a young graduate student studying molecular genetics and biotechnology and teaching an introductory biology class at the University of Guelph in Canada.