Sentences with phrase «course failure rates»

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The overwhelming fraction of undergraduate science courses are taught by a professor lecturing to students, even in the face of many hundreds of studies showing that alternative teaching methods demonstrate much greater student learning and lower failure rates.

If the failure rates of 34 percent for lecturing and 22 percent in classes with some active learning were applied to the 7 million U.S. undergraduates who say they want to pursue STEM majors, some 2.38 million students would fail lecture - style courses vs. 1.54 million with active learning.

«One theory for low high - school completion rates is that failures in early courses, such as algebra, interfere with subsequent course work, placing students on a path that makes graduation quite difficult,» write authors Kalena Cortes, Joshua Goodman, and Takako Nomi in the article, «A Double Dose of Algebra,» which will appear in the Winter 2013 issue of Education Next and is now available online at www.educationnext.org.

They had an array of problems: overcrowded classrooms with little ventilation, high absentee rates, few textbooks and other instructional materials, abysmal aca - demic results, and failure to file financial reports and to offer the advertised courses.

(Of course, standards per se don't carry costs or failure rates, either.

Alarmed by the high dropout and failure rates for college students who start out in remedial classes, Florida lawmakers voted last year to make such courses, and even the related placement tests, optional for anyone who... earned a [high school] diploma....

One theory for these low high - school completion rates is that failures in early courses, such as algebra, interfere with subsequent course work, placing students on a path that makes graduation quite difficult.

She was disturbed and puzzled by the fact that students «course - failure rates (which principals were required to report every six weeks) were unacceptably high (e.g., 29 % at the high school level) despite the history of formally satisfactory student results on state tests and school accountability ratings:

Such goals as «We will adopt the Junior Great Books program» or «We will create three new labs for our science course» give way to «We will increase the percentage of students who meet the state standard in language arts from 83 percent to 90 percent» or «We will reduce the failure rate in our course by 50 percent.»

Examples include efforts to address the high rates of failure among students in community college remedial math courses and strategies for improving feedback to novice teachers.

When implemented, this model is proven to increase course credits earned, grade point averages, and test scores; and decrease failure rates, suspensions, and absenteeism.

Here's an idea: Let's make the fear of reprisal so severe that when said penalties for misbehavior are trotted out during the real estate university 101 «pre-course» (a one - day eye - opener reality - check course regarding the wannabe failure rate)-- starting on day one in class, when the pitfalls of being a Realtor are revealed vs how much money one can generate (if one is one of the few lucky ones) once in the saddle — the unethical - by - nature future miscreants quickly exit stage left, or right, ask for their money back, and rightfully blank off back to their holes in the ground.

I'm glad that you make a living selling hard - sell box -»em - in techniques to previously soft - sell so - called failures - in - waiting who may simply just not belong in the business of transacting real estate sales in the first place, because they really don't know what they are talking about due to a pervasive lack of underlying industry - related experience, as the high failure rate attests to, but surely you have the insight and ability to design a new course of action for Realtor consumption, one that respects the wishes, feelings and views of potential clients... first and foremost.

An upwards of 75 % to 80 % participant failure rate in the business within three years of working on the so - called foundations after «achieving» a 75 % passing mark on the education requirements vis a vis the vast majority of course graduates?

Although the pre-licensing courses have reduced the revolving door concept to a degree, the high failure rate persists.

THAT is not taught in real estate courses, typically, and that alone is often responsible for the failure rate among new people.