Sentences with phrase «education researchers at»

Education researchers at the University of Sussex have found major flaws in the Prime Minister's education policy, which aims to have ability groupings as the norm in key subjects.

The three tools designed by education researchers at the University of Washington are meant to help.

Education researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles, Ohio State University, the University of Florida, and Better Education, Inc. are conducting a national study to evaluate how a particular classroom communication system, called TI Navigator, has changed math instruction.

Now, education researchers at California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo have come up with a new and effective way to do just that, in the process reenergizing teacher assessment through a classic film technique known as point of view.

Over the last few years as education researchers at University of Michigan and Michigan State University, we have worked to address this question through a large study of the effects of PBL on social studies and some aspects of literacy achievement in second - grade classrooms.

In fact, of those teachers who use video games in the classroom, more than half have kids play them as part of the curriculum at least once a week, according to a national survey released by education researchers at Joan Ganz Cooney Center in June.

Mathematics - education research demands a rare combination of interests and skills, says Alan Schoenfeld, a mathematics education researcher at the University of California, Berkeley.

However, Janet Bowers, a math education researcher at San Diego State University in California, notes that 70 % of the subjects came from middle - and upper - middle class families and questions whether the result can be generalized.

«I think we need more work like this,» says Zahra Hazari, an education researcher at Florida International University in Miami.

Jere Confrey, an education researcher at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, said the value of the study goes beyond the impressive exam results.

asks Tom Loveless, an education researcher at the Brookings Institution.

Sharon Lynch, a science education researcher at George Washington University, says e-books such as these may eventually become mainstream but adds that research needs to be done on whether or not they are actually better than traditional textbooks.

«Weight - loss camps are not an easy or quick fix,» says Jennifer Hester, a sports exercise and education researcher at Leeds Metropolitan University, in the U.K. «The short - term investment of time and money does not automatically equate to healthy weight management in the long term.»

«If it's a skill deficit, a kid doesn't know how to behave,» says Joseph Ryan, a special education researcher at Clemson University who has worked in schools for disabled children.

Rachel Flynn, an education researcher at New York University, recently studied the impact of such professional development and found when its done well it has «the potential to improve teacher behavior management practices and reduce exclusionary discipline.»

It's a very different idea, says James Hiebert, an education researcher at the University of Delaware who has written about lesson study.

asked Ed Fuller, an education researcher at Pennsylvania State University, on his blog.

«This research shows that positive gains by Renewal schools were not better than schools with similar demographics,» said Jonah Rockoff, an education researcher at Columbia University who has studied New York City schools in the past and reviewed Pallas's data.

Ron Zimmer, an education researcher at Vanderbilt University, has said it's possible that fiscal strain on district budgets could spur competition, potentially helping all students.

The testing effort is a «great opportunity,» said Elliot Weinbaum, a senior education researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, but there will be «a host of technical challenges» to make the tests achieve all their complex aims.

Dan Goldhaber, an education researcher at the University of Washington, reported, «The effect of increases in teacher quality swamps the impact of any other educational investment, such as reductions in class size.»

Marybeth Bernhard Montoro, MPH, CPH, is a Health Education Researcher at the Program for Climate and Health in the Center...

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In 2009 and 2010 researchers at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, in cooperation with the Wisconsin Credit Union League, administered a series of surveys to hundreds of employees at Wisconsin credit unions participating in Inestor Education in Your Workplace ® program.

By LAURA LOREK Publisher with Silicon Hills News A crowd from the University of Texas at Austin of professors, staff, researchers and more turned out Thursday night at the AT&T Education and Conference Center in Austin to honor the UT Austin's Inventor of the Year and Emerging Inventor of the Year.

The methods were based on a 2015 study conducted by researchers at Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce.

«A study in the United States, published in the Social Forces journal and conducted by Sociology researcher Lisa A. Keister while she was at the Ohio State University, found that adherents of Judaism attained the most wealth, believers of Catholicism and mainline Protestants were in the middle, while conservative Protestants accu - mulated the least wealth, while in general people who attend religious services achieved more wealth than those who do not (taking into account variations of education and other factors).

@BADGUY In response to your request for where my cited statistics come from, I refer to a 2004 study commissioned by the US department of Education and conducted at Hofstra University, Lead researcher was Dr Charol Shakeshaft.

The issue of blatantly false (or at least extremely embellished) news stories has gotten so bad, that researchers at Stanford's Graduate School of Education call it «a threat to democracy» after a «dismaying» study found that most American students can't tell the difference between which headlines are real and which ones are fake.

Between 1962 and 2014, 276 Indian researchers participated in education and training programs at IRRI.

Today, as a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, Yeager is among the leading researchers exploring how to apply the findings of education psychology in the classroom.

While O'Kane said there was some evidence that concussion education could improve the percentage of athletes reporting concussions, pointing to a 2012 study [8] finding that high school athletes receiving concussion education were twice as likely to report symptoms to coaches compared with those with no education (72 % vs. 36 %), he acknowledged that a 2013 study [9](also by researchers at the University of Washington) found that many high school soccer players, despite understanding the symptoms of concussion and the potentially severe complications from playing with concussion, would continue to play despite symptoms.

As counselors and published higher education researchers, we aim to bring perspective (and some sanity) to college planning, and we strive to provide students with the support they need to enroll and succeed at a college that is right for them.

Harris Cooper, a well - known homework researcher, who is a professor of education and psychology at Duke University, says that no more than two hours of homework a night should be assigned to students in high school.

For the first time, researchers in the College of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M University have provided the strongest evidence to date that grade retention in the elementary grades hurts students» chances of graduating high school.

Families need more education about choking hazards, say the researchers, who presented their findings at the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference and Exhibition in San Francisco.

The strength of the association varied depending on the child's weight, time spent at school, the mother's education and the time of day and week, according to the researchers.

The researchers also looked at the effect of other variables on chronic pain including surgical technique, pain in the first 24 - 72 hours, maternal education and occupation, and anxiety during breastfeeding.

Researchers at Arizona State University developed a parent education program called «New Beginnings» in 1992 and monitored the effects for 20 years.

Terry is a researcher, course instructor, director at Forefront, a non-profit focused on innovative solutions to sustainability in underdeveloped countries, and a Ph.D. student studying historical approaches to understanding the racial inequalities in education in the U.S. I am an education policy consultant, writer, and co-founder of Guardians of Our Sons, a Philadelphia based non-profit for boys of color.

Researchers at the IFS estimate that the cuts will hit higher education, as funding to universities has been cut by 40 %, but some of that shortfall will be recouped with increased tuition fees.

Students enrolled in public pre-kindergarten programs in New York City are more likely to take the city's exam for entry into gifted and talented programs, according to a new study by researchers at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development.

The researchers looked at reasons why people voted Leave and found that whether someone had been to university or accessed other higher education was the «predominant factor» in how they voted.

For more consistent results, the researchers only recruited women, and the participants completed surveys to see if there were any other factors at work that could affect brain structure, such as depression or level of formal education.

This document, which has been drawn from the presentations and discussions at the workshop, has been written for anyone involved with or interested in interdisciplinary research and education, including funders, administrators, researchers, faculty, and students.

So, in 2013, he teamed up with Allison Mattheis, an education researcher whom he met when both were at the University of Minnesota, to set it into motion.

From volunteering in elementary school classrooms to helping undergraduate researchers craft resumes, AAAS» Education and Human Resources department aims to provide opportunities for students at all levels.

But,» [w] hile in developing countries those friendships helped in securing the most attractive jobs, such as professorships, within their national higher education system, researchers in developed countries benefited from the global network of their senior friends giving them access to the most respected research groups, labs and universities, allowing them to present their work at the most prestigious conferences and publish in the most important books and journals.»

The Project 2061 authors, along with nearly 40 other scientists, science educators, science education researchers, and teachers, were invited to present their work at an international energy summit held at Michigan State University in December 2013.

Still, that can correlate with more education, and the researchers say an across - the - board increase in U.S. education levels could mean millions fewer jobs at risk.

Now an assistant professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School, Bry, 42, has melded her computer knowledge with her clinical and research education to fill a critical need: She has developed an informatics solution to get blood and other biological samples to researchers at a lower cost, and in a shorter time frame, than ever before.