Sentences with phrase «education researchers who»

We can train, advise and support education researchers who want to reach a wider audience via the national media.

The audience for the workshop includes mathematicians, mathematics educators, classroom teachers and education researchers who are concerned with improving the teaching of mathematics and, in particular, the mathematical education of teachers.

WHAT Dr. Bridget Terry Long, a renowned higher education researcher who specializes in the transition from high school to higher education and beyond, will deliver a public lecture titled «Supporting College Student Access and Success: Making Sure Hard Work Pays Off,» as part of the American Educational Research Association's Centennial Lecture Series.

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All of which is fascinating for data - obsessed education researchers, but what's the bottom line for our hypothetical concerned parents who are wondering where to send their kid to school?

«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).

In the early days of the federal War on Poverty in the 1960s, researchers provided three - and four - year - olds from impoverished Ypsilanti, Michigan, with enriched preschooling, and then compared their life trajectories over several decades with those of Ypsilanti peers who had not received any early childhood education.

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.

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.

Ten years ago, researchers used data from the Listening to Women survey to examine associations between childbirth education and knowledge about childbirth interventions.3 The results were disappointing, women who attended childbirth education were no more likely to have knowledge of the risks of interventions than women who did not take classes.

Researchers in the Mid-Atlantic Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center at the W.G. (Bill) Hefner Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Salisbury, N.C., evaluated 45 U.S. veterans who volunteered to participate in the study.

«In participating schools, ADAP is delivered as part of the standard health education curriculum, which facilitates its sustainability,» says Holly Wilcox, Ph.D., M.A., associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the researcher who oversaw the study on the effectiveness of the ADAP curriculum.

Problematic behaviors also tend to crop up in children who are caught off guard by the physical changes of puberty, prompting the researchers to propose that sexual education may help stave off misconduct.

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

Adolescents are significantly affected by HIV and other STIs, yet many lack access to sexual health education that could minimize their risks, said the researchers, who note that videogames offer an accessible, portable tool for promoting health and reducing risky behavior among teenagers, particularly minority youth who are disproportionately impacted.

«It will be a valuable resource for everyone who works in K - 12 science education — those who design curriculum and assessment, those who educate teachers, education researchers, as well as our nation's teachers,» he adds.

After adjusting the data for age, sex, race, education, smoking, alcohol use, blood pressure, diabetes, high blood pressure medication, cholesterol levels, statin use and body mass index, the researchers found that those people who met both the recommended activity levels and had vitamin D levels above 20 nanograms per milliliter experienced about a 23 percent less chance of having an adverse cardiovascular event than those people with poor physical activity who were deficient for vitamin D. On the other hand, people who had adequate exercise but were vitamin D deficient didn't have a reduced risk of an adverse event.

«That means that researchers who might be looking for genes to target for citrus greening resistance now can search through the many genomes of tolerant types and compare with sensitive types,» said Gmitter, a faculty member at the UF / IFAS Citrus Research and Education Center.

Other researchers point to the model of Finland, where educational theories, research methodologies and practice are all important parts of teacher education, according to Pasi Sahlberg, who in 2011 wrote Finnish Lessons, an account of how the country rebuilt its education system and rose to the top of international math and literacy rankings.

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.

Young people who are not in education, employment or training (NEET) are committed to working but vulnerable to experiencing mental health problems, according to a new study by researchers from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London, Duke University and the University of California.

Gabrielsen, an assistant professor in BYU's Counseling Psychology & Special Education department, and Miller, who is now at the Center for Autism Research at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, worked on the study with four other researchers.

After adjusting for confounding factors such as age, education and occupational status, the researchers found that not only was there a 30 % increased risk of any arrhythmia with the highest number of races completed and the fastest finishing time, but also the risk increased by 10 % between each category for the number of races completed, i.e. there was a 10 % increased risk from the least exposed group of participants (those who completed only one race) to the next group (two races), another 10 % increase in risk to the next group (three - four races) and another 10 % to the most exposed group (five or more races).

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.

Researchers found that children who participated in the nutrition - education program were about 39 percent more likely to drink or use low - fat / fat - free milk on their cereal than children who were not exposed to the program.

Immigrants who came to the United States illegally as small children and who meet the requirements of the Development Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, more commonly known as DREAMers, are at risk for mental health distress, according to a new study from researchers at Rice University.

Amid all the findings of concern, including the overall trend and disparities of income, education, insurance and ethnicity, the researchers did find one bright spot: Black men, who are known to be at higher risk for prostate cancer incidence and death, were more likely to report having discussed advantages and disadvantages than men on average.

The researchers conclude that the best way to boost organ donation rates is a multi-pronged approach that includes education and engagement with potential donors and their families, broader community engagement, concerted efforts by hospitals caring for potential donors, and optimized performance of organ procurement organizations who manage organ donation in this country.

According to the researchers, who report their findings in a recent issue of Management Science, business support organizations offer recommendations and programs, including energy audits and pollution prevention education, on how to improve efficiency and increase environmental compliance.

«What we want to do is provide a guide for researchers who want to investigate STEM teacher preservice education,» said Yolanda George, deputy director of the AAAS Education and Human Resources Programs, adding that the resulting information would be disseminated «as widely as possible» throughout the educatieducation,» said Yolanda George, deputy director of the AAAS Education and Human Resources Programs, adding that the resulting information would be disseminated «as widely as possible» throughout the educatiEducation and Human Resources Programs, adding that the resulting information would be disseminated «as widely as possible» throughout the educationeducation field.

Researchers at Jefferson's Maternal Addiction Treatment Education & Research (MATER) program found significant improvement in the quality of parenting among mothers who participated in a trauma - informed, mindfulness - based parenting intervention while also in medication - assisted treatment for opioid use disorder.

«The key factors are the effects of increasing female education on lowering birth rates in developing countries, and the health target that includes universal access to reproductive health services,» says IIASA population researcher Samir KC, who also worked on the study.

After the researchers corrected for factors such as age and education, they determined that Norwegians who had taken salbutamol at least once in their lives were about one - third less likely to develop Parkinson's disease.

The researchers, reporting in the journal Neurology, found that those with the equivalent of at least a college education are seven times more likely than those who didn't finish high school to be disability - free one year after a TBI serious enough to warrant inpatient time in a hospital and rehabilitation facility.

Researchers falling under the selection criteria as detailed below who are interested in applying should be nominated by their higher education institution.

To analyze the correlation between myopia development and education, researchers at the Mainz University Medical Center examined nearsightedness in 4,658 Germans aged 35 to 74, excluding anyone with cataracts or who had undergone refractive surgery.

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.

Other researchers have identified another factor that could contribute to a correlation between bilingualism and a decreased risk of dementia — the higher education level that is present in some people who speak more than one language.

April 28, 2015 Church - based diabetes education program leads to healthier lifestyles among Latino adults Latino adults with diabetes who participated in a church - based education program reported eating less high - fat food and exercising more after the conclusion of a pilot intervention by researchers from the University of Chicago Department of Medicine.

However, even after accounting for factors such as age, education and gender, those who had held grimmer views on aging decades earlier experienced significantly greater size reductions than more - optimistic respondents, the researchers found.

BTW, who are the women researchers or publicly - oriented female authors, doctors, etc. in this Plant - based world of education and practice?

Interestingly, those who ate mostly meat and fried foods and drank alcohol did not have a higher risk of death than those who ate healthy food after the researchers took into account other factors that could affect the results, such as age, gender, race, education, physical activity and total calorie intake.

The earliest known scientific reference to OTS was made by a researcher and athlete named Robert Tait McKenzie, who noted in his 1909 book, Exercise in Education and Medicine, an acute exhaustion and «slow poisoning of the nervous system which could last weeks or even months.»

«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.

Fourth, the researchers carefully tracked the students who left the Milwaukee voucher program and even published an article in the top education journal about it.

In terms of improving student achievement, she points to the work of education researcher Professor John Hattie, who notes the importance of teachers becoming self - evaluating.

The program is called the Talent Development Institute (T.D.I.) and involves about 240 students participating in 10 enrichment groups - or clusters, a term coined by gifted education researcher, Joseph Renzulli, who pioneered the enrichment cluster model.

In preparing the report, the Mitchell Institute brought together a roundtable of education practitioners, government leaders, policy specialists and researchers who suggested two possible reforms: transforming secondary education and revitalising apprenticeships.

Based on a review by independent researchers, the Education Commission of the States is discounting the conclusions of a small study that showed teachers from Tennessee who received national board certification did not markedly affect their students» achievement.

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.

«I am hard - pressed to think of any researcher who has had a bigger impact on the education debates of the last half...