Sentences with phrase «cognitive achievement»

Make no mistake, the next - generation standards worldwide require profound cognitive achievements.

The paper suggests that international differences in educational institutions explain the large international differences in student performance in cognitive achievement tests.

Overall, children born to teen parents experience disadvantaged cognitive achievement at school entry compared with children born to older parents.

There is a tendency to highlight the importance of cognitive achievements and the family's socioeconomic background for people's success in the future, but this study shows that children's self - regulation, which comprises children's social skills and processing of emotions, directs the future development in a profound way in different domains of life.

They also positively influence cognitive achievements in ways discussed in other chapters of this volume, such as by giving opportunities for authentic learning, engaging students actively, fostering co-operation and collaboration, meeting individual interests, empowering learners and extending horizons beyond comfort zones.

In How Children Succeed you say that cognitive achievement as measured on conventional tests misses key ingredients for student success.

Extensive research on the relationship between cognitive achievement (IQ scores, grades in school) and breastfeeding has shown the greatest gains for those children breastfed the longest.

If anything the evidence indicates that the great cognitive achievement in human evolution was cortical plasticity, which allows for rapidly adaptive changes to the environment, both across evolutionary time and [across] individual lifetimes.

In short: Preschoolers and adolescents show patterns of cognitive achievement and problem behaviour that should be of concern to policy - makers.

Hence, there are plausible theoretical reasons to hypothesize that neighborhood disadvantage constrains parental practices and the family environment «under the roof» (8), which may in turn bear on cognitive achievement.

while clinging to his truck in a playgroup, it's not so much a selfish refusal to share as it is a cognitive achievement.

Considering that the average lifespan of a raven in the wild is just 10 — 15 years, their cognitive achievements are all the more remarkable.

This evaluation problem is further complicated by the fact that schools have goals other than cognitive achievement (for instance, promoting citizenship, fostering individual development, and reducing drug use and violence) that are difficult to measure and are often achieved only with teachers» cooperation.

In addition, providing the choice of discussion format to students enhanced course satisfaction and, while some differences were found in cognitive achievement, the results were weak.

In Israel, Victor Lavy found that a public school choice program «significantly reduces the drop - out rate and increases the cognitive achievements of high - school students.

The simple fact that drawing real objects is a cognitive achievement is being forgotten today, as modernism becomes our orthodoxy.

This research links residence with biological and nonbiological married and unmarried parents to the cognitive achievement and behavioral problems of children aged 3 — 12, controlling for factors that make such families different.