Sentences with phrase «education researchers learn»

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It was designed to be a shared space where students and members of the education community — professors, deans, researchers — can learn about the many opportunities offered by the energy industry in general and Total in particular.

«The importance of storytelling, of the natural rhythms of daily life, of the evolutionary changes in the child, of art as the necessary underpinning of learning, and of the aesthetic environment as a whole — all basic to Waldorf education for the past 70 years — are being «discovered» and verified by researchers unconnected to the Waldorf movement.»

Educators involved in the assessment of student learning in science, including middle and high school science teachers, science specialists, assessment directors and coordinators in states and school districts, assessment and curriculum developers, university science education faculty, education researchers, and informal science educators.

There is a body of evidence showing the benefits of synchronizing education times with teens» body clocks; interestingly, while «studies of later start times have consistently reported benefits to adolescent sleep health and learning, there [is no evidence] showing early starts have a positive impact on such things», add the researchers.

Jeremy Roschelle, a mathematics - education researcher and the director of SRI's Center for Technology in Learning, says his work is similar to that of a university professor except that he doesn't have teaching responsibilities.

This week, Science Careers profiles two researchers who are working to span this neuroscience - education divide to help children with learning disorders.

Along with researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research and Duke University, Professor Sarah Woolley investigated this question in songbirds, which learn their songs during development in a manner similar to how humans learn to speak.

Group visits build in additional time for education, skill building, and the opportunity to discuss and learn from the experience of peers, as well as more face - time with caregivers, say the researchers.

In the early years of IES, Whitehurst and others frequently compared education science with drug studies, indicating that people who study schools should test curricula or learning practices the way a pharmaceutical researcher might test a new drug.

The program appears to offset what education researchers call «summer loss,» or the tendency of children to forget during summer break what they learned during the previous year.

The successful adaptation of astronomy education research to improving teaching and learning in astronomy departments requires close contact between astronomy education researchers, education researchers in other disciplines and teachers who are primarily research scientists.

«They're learning content about neuroscience and neural engineering, and I think it's changing their attitudes about science... Those young students can see those researchers as role models,» said Dr. Eric Chudler, executive director and education director at the CSNE.

Toddlers vary widely, however, in the rate at which they learn new words.1 A team of Harvard Graduate School of Education researchers set out to ask whether and how children's language environment can...

In «Learning from Rudolf Steiner: The Relevance of Waldorf Education for Urban Public School Reform,» a study published in 2008 in the journal Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice, researcher Ida Oberman concluded that the Waldorf approach successfully laid the groundwork for future academics by first engaging students through integrated arts lessons and strong relationships instead of preparing them for standardized tests.

Last month, researchers convened in Washington, D.C., to find out what we can learn from large - scale education studies that show no impacts.

Currently, a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University's Graduate School of Education, where he recently obtained a Ph.D. in the Learning Sciences and Technology Design Program, Schneider focuses on how emerging technologies can help educators design better learning envirLearning Sciences and Technology Design Program, Schneider focuses on how emerging technologies can help educators design better learning envirlearning environments.

But instead of beating the dead horse of education school ideology, researchers might better spend their time trying to figure out which forms of teacher preparation best enhance student learning.

As education researcher Eileen Raymond states, «The ZPD is the distance between what children can do by themselves and the next learning that they can be helped to achieve with competent assistance.»

School choice programs which allow parents to select the schools their children attend deepen educational inequality and fail to yield consistent learning gains, according to nine studies of choice initiatives coordinated by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Since its inception, the Foundation has grounded its storytelling about innovations in education research and has even commissioned research from leading researchers in the field of learning; now, George Lucas decides that it's time to deepen the organization's commitment to research and creates a division dedicated to conducting and funding rigorous research in collaboration with university partners, leading educators, and research firms.

For teachers to develop the kinds of professional learning communities that have gained currency with education researchers, they need to interact with each other in new and often uncomfortable ways.

The Ed School's Usable Knowledge, in partnership with Digital Promise, a nonprofit authorized by Congress to spark innovation in education, launched a new series called Ask a Researcher that offers guidance to classroom dilemmas in the areas of literacy, math, and English language learning.

As parental education has been shown to be a reliable indicator of a student's readiness to learn at school, the researchers categorized students into 1) those with a parent who had a college degree, 2) those with a parent who had only a high school diploma, and 3) those whose parent (s) did not have a high school diploma.

University researchers are conducting important laboratory and classroom research and there is a growing body of teachers and school leaders who recognize one of the great ironies of education in the United States today: that the organ of learning is the brain but few educators have ever had any training in how the brain works, learns, and most importantly for students, changes.

Measuring the student benefit of mentoring can be tricky, but «presumably, if teachers do a better job, students learn more,» says Sharon Nemser, a professor of education at Brandeis University and senior researcher behind Learning from Mentors, a study published by the National Center for Research on Teacher Learning.

About Askwith Forums: The Askwith Forum, established in 1998 by an anonymous donor and named in honor of New York City public - relations consultant, writer and publishing executive Herbert Askwith, is a series of public lectures at the Harvard Graduate School of Education that provide an opportunity for practitioners, policymakers, and researchers to share their work, talk with one another, and advance proven practices that will improve learning opportunities for all.

Called Parents as Learning Partners, the initiative is having a positive impact on the attitudes of both parents and teachers toward family involvement in education, according to the study conducted by Denise D. Quigley, a senior education researcher from the Center for the Study...

Professor Ross Cunnington is a Chief Investigator at the Science of Learning Research Centre (SLRC)-- an Australia - wide collaboration bringing together researchers from the fields of education, neuroscience and cognitive psychology.

To isolate the effect on student learning of the language of instruction, the researchers followed students who were all learning reading via the Success for All curriculum but were randomly assigned to structured English immersion or transitional bilingual education.

For education researchers, this makes it easier to learn about studies of crime interventions in which education outcomes were measured.

John Hattie, an education professor and researcher in Australia, has done the wonky work of evaluating mountains of data to determine which decisions make the biggest difference when it comes to learning.

In this watershed moment, the Saul Zaentz Early Education Initiative is gathering researchers, policymakers, advocates, and practitioners from across the country to the Harvard Graduate School of Education for the express purpose of reframing discussions around early education, the delivery of high - quality early learning at scale, and its benefit to children andEducation Initiative is gathering researchers, policymakers, advocates, and practitioners from across the country to the Harvard Graduate School of Education for the express purpose of reframing discussions around early education, the delivery of high - quality early learning at scale, and its benefit to children andEducation for the express purpose of reframing discussions around early education, the delivery of high - quality early learning at scale, and its benefit to children andeducation, the delivery of high - quality early learning at scale, and its benefit to children and society.

Customization Is the Future of Teaching, Harvard Researcher Says The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 25, 2012 «It doesn't have to be that way, says Chris Dede, a professor of learning technologies at Harvard University.

This is what the researchers called «Task Alignment», but in education it amounts to learning through problem - solving.

In Teaching and Learning for the Twenty - First Century (which has been published in Chinese, Portuguese, and Spanish editions as well), Reimers, Chung, and global colleagues interviewed education researchers and stakeholders in Chile (in a chapter by Cristián Bellei and Liliana Morawietz), China (by Yan Wang), India (by Aditya Natraj, Monal Jayaram, Jahnavi Contractor, and Payal Agrawal), Mexico (by Sergio Cárdenas), Singapore (by Oon - Seng Tan and Ee - Ling Low), and the United States (by Chung and Reimers).

To this, Australian researcher Geoff Masters offers helpful clarity: «The fundamental purpose of assessment in education is to establish and understand where learners are in an aspect of their learning at the time of assessment.»

Lortie - Forgues, Tian and Siegler (2015) repeated the question with students of the same age in 2014 — 27 per cent got it right, leading the researchers to comment: «Thus, after more than three decades, numerous rounds of education reforms, hundreds if not thousands of research studies on mathematics teaching and learning, and billions of dollars spent to effect educational change, little improvement was evident in students» understanding of fraction arithmetic.»

Toddlers vary widely, however, in the rate at which they learn new words.1 A team of Harvard Graduate School of Education researchers set out to ask whether and how children's language environment can impact vocabulary development.

Researchers from many higher education institutions are sharing the knowledge that «how» we are currently teaching and «testing» is the exact opposite of how the brain is wired to learn.

New York University educator and researcher Andrea DeCapua notes that students who have missed a lot of formal education often come from communities where new learning has immediate and direct relevance.

The president may be certain that reducing class sizes will enhance learning, but he doesn't have much company among education researchers.

«What attracted me to the field of education was that it allowed for a lifestyle of constant learning and developing — whether [as] a teacher, administrator, [or] researcher,» he says.

An evaluation study of the nonprofit Facing History and Ourselves, conducted by Harvard Graduate School of Education researchers, shows its positive effects on teacher and student learning.

Parental Involvment Still Important for High Schoolers The Pitt News, 11/23/2014 «The research team, which consists of Wang, Tara Hofkens, a graduate researcher in Pitt's Learning Research and Development Center, and [Professor] Nancy E. Hill, a professor of education at Harvard University, asked more than 1,400 families in the Eastern region of the United States about how involved the parents were in the school lives of their teenagers.»

Put aside the crystal clear anecdotes that go beyond the on average results — something education researchers are not good at doing — that show that for certain students in certain circumstances, full - time virtual charter schools are absolutely the best place for them to learn and that these students have not only been successful in these environments, they have also thrived in ways they would not have in traditional brick - and - mortar schools.

Because of how our higher education system is structured and how professors are trained, they learn very little in the way of how to teach effectively, and the incentives in the system bestow prestige on those who are the best researchers, not teachers.

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Classrooms that emphasize group learning may be less effective at encouraging girls to study mathematics and science than traditional classrooms, according to a researcher who contributed to a new book on effective practices in science education.

«While educators and policy makers can provide insight into the academic and political landscape of education, only parents have the ability to link the impact of home and school life with the learning success of their children,» the researchers note.

«Researchers from the Carnegie School of Education look forward to sharing their expertise, but just as importantly, to learning alongside the practitioner researchers who get engaged in each settResearchers from the Carnegie School of Education look forward to sharing their expertise, but just as importantly, to learning alongside the practitioner researchers who get engaged in each settresearchers who get engaged in each setting.»