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Is this simply a hold - over from an earlier day which the general conservatism of the educational world perpetuates because it has become a sacred tradition, or is there something in the study of literature which, regardless of the field of specialization into which one goes, makes it of vital importance?

First, the collaboration between universities and church educational centers has been increasing, and some institutions closely involved with churches have become universities or parts of universities, giving rise to a new set of university - level departments (which have generally opted for the «theology and religious studies» model).

This is being done by African students who study in the higher educational institutions in Cairo and North Africa and go back to their countries with new ideas acquired from the reform movements which are being advocated by enlightened Muslims.

During his two - month, 5,000 - mile survey trip, Townsend met a number of key figures, of which the most important was Mexico's director of rural education, Rafael Ramírez, who opened the way for him to study the nation's educational system.

There are at least four channels through which the prophetic ministry can be implemented: (a) prophetic preaching, (b) study - discussion groups (and other educational programs), (c) social action groups, and (d) action by individual members through community social action projects.

A marital enrichment group, a family camp, a child - study group, a youth fellowship, a preparation for retirement group, a nursery program, a senior citizen club, premarital counseling, marriage counseling, pastoral care in bereavement, parent - child counseling, and the entire spiritual growth and educational thrust of the church — all these are examples of resources which are designed to stimulate the growth of personality toward the realization of each individual's potentialities.

At the same time that she was ingesting all this psychological research about motivation, Farrington was also studying the related sociological literature, which was concerned with how institutional structures affect individual behavior and, specifically, how certain educational structures — like school funding mechanisms, teacher contracts, or patterns of segregation — might incline students toward success or failure.

Besides the 2013 University of Washington study, a number of other recent studies have found education ineffective in improving self - reporting by athletes, adding to a growing body of evidence challenging the conventional wisdom that inadequate athlete concussion knowledge is the principal barrier to increased reporting, and suggesting that one of the best ways to combat underreporting by athletes of concussion symptoms may be to shift the focus of educational efforts towards helping coaches facilitate concussion reporting, the theory being that athletes will be more likely to report concussion symptoms if they no longer think that they will be punished by the coach for reporting, such as by losing playing time or their starting position, perceived by their teammates as letting them down, or viewed by their coach as «weak,» all of which have been documented in numerous studies over the past decade as reasons athletes are reluctant to report concussion symptoms.

Another meta - analysis7 found that various types of neuromuscular and educational interventions appear to reduce the incidence rate of ACL injuries by approximately 50 %, but that the estimated effect varied appreciably among the studies, the reasons for which were unexplained.

A review by Goldman (2005) of five studies using multivariate analyses which isolate the independent impact of fathers» involvement in children's learning on educational outcomes, clearly shows that fathers» involvement (both in terms of level and frequency) in their children's schools is a key factor that correlates with better educational outcomes for children.

Results: Eleven studies were identified, of which 8 demonstrated improvements in infant sleep outcomes subsequent to the implementation of an educational behavioral program.

A midwife is a person who, having been regularly admitted to a midwifery educational programme, duly recognized in the country in which it is located, has successfully completed the prescribed course of studies in midwifery and has acquired the requisite qualifications to be registered and / or legally licensed to practice midwifery.

For instance, the study of Mattar et al. revealed a marginal increase in EB at six months after delivery among the group which received a prenatal educational intervention highlighting the benefits as well as the management of breastfeeding issues as the main content of the educational material (booklet), video, coaching session and counselling, compared to the group receiving only the booklet and the video, and the one recipient of only routine prenatal care, concluding that that educational material alone in the prenatal period is not enough and that specific prenatal education that addresses breastfeeding following a single meeting through counselling can significantly improve

«A midwife is a person who, having been regularly admitted to a midwifery educational program that is duly recognized in the country in which it is located, has successfully completed the prescribed course of studies in midwifery and has acquired the requisite qualifications to be registered and / or legally licensed to practice midwifery.

Our educational offering is second to none and many students rightly want to study in the UK to get the British Cultural experience and enjoy the our exciting, vibrant and tolerant society which many experience before they return home

One of the areas emphasized by HSD in 2006 is decision - making, risk, and uncertainty, which includes studies of risk perception, responses to hazards and extreme events, and the role played by educational systems in that response.

The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, investigated the extent to which improvements in living conditions and educational opportunities over a person's life affect cognitive abilities and their implications for men and women.

The study, which analyzed 210 lawsuits involving First Amendment claims by professors and college instructors against public colleges and universities from 1964 - 2014, found that educational institutions won more than 73 percent of cases in federal and state courts.

In a recent study, 49 percent of middle class children reported downloading an app, 80 percent of which were educational, while only 30 percent of low - income children downloaded an app, 57 percent of which were educational.

Our study, along with prior studies, supports the notion that «cognitive reserve» resulting from early - life and lifelong education and cognitive stimulation may be a potent strategy for the primary prevention of dementia in both high - and low - income countries around the world.21 However, it should be noted that the relationships among education, brain biology, and cognitive function are complex and likely multidirectional; for instance, a number of recent population - based studies have shown genetic links with level of educational attainment, 22,23 and with the risk for cognitive decline in later life.24 Higher levels of educational attainment are also associated with health behaviors (eg, physical activity, diet, and smoking), more cognitively - complex occupations, and better access to health care, all of which may play a role in decreasing lifetime dementia risk.

In 1996, in response to these concerns, Varmus, then director of NIH, impaneled a group of experienced clinical investigators and academic health center administrators to make recommendations that might guide the NIH toward policy changes to alleviate the concerns in the clinical research community.14 Several of the panel's recommendations have been implemented, including increased support of the General Clinical Research Center budget, expanded support of training in clinical research, and the establishment of NIH - sponsored educational debt relief programs for clinical investigators.15 - 18 The panel also recommended restructuring of NIH peer review groups so that patient - oriented grant applications would be evaluated by study sections in which at least half the grant applications involve patient - oriented research.

The strengths of the present study include the large size and the relatively homogeneous nature of the cohort, which reduced confounding by several variables, such as access to medical care, educational attainment, and socioeconomic status.

RYSs must provide a minimum number of hours of study in each educational category, and to make up the total 200 required hours, must also provide additional hours of study relevant to these categories, which may be distributed according to the school's chosen emphasis.

Those who swear by it frequently invoke the results of Project Follow Through, the largest and most expensive educational research study ever mounted by the federal government, which compared the outcomes of over twenty different educational interventions in high - poverty communities over a multiyear period.

The First Things First evaluation was one of two study reviews posted online Jan. 24 by the What Works Clearinghouse, which the U.S. Education Department set up to vet existing research evidence on the effectiveness of educational programs and practices.

The study was carried out by Education Datalab and found that schools in the North East had the highest scores in the country for 2015, on the grounds of «contextual value», which assesses pupils progress in addition to factors such as gender, ethnicity, depravation, special educational needs and whether English is a second or first language.

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.

Studies confirm what parents have long known, which is that teachers are the most important educational factor influencing student trajectories.

JE: The results of this study were published in February in the academic journal Building and Environment (which is not unusual of course for educational research to be published in an academic journal).

Yet the iep teams are not trained in the most effective educational programs, nor are they able to tailor plans to pupils» needs, according to the study distributed by the Baltimore - based Abell Foundation, which allocates grants to human - services organizations in...

In Utah, which has the fastest - growing school - age population in the United States, a task force studying educational reform has found «an education system locked into a network of operating procedures by a multitude of traditions, decisions, practices, and attitudes which have evolved slowly over the years,» and has recommended 27 steps «to dislodge or alter some of the procedures.»

This is why the experts over at Study Medicine Europe decided to put this infographic together which showcases some of the best options suitable for the educational sphere.

Kamras» experiences as a teacher in D.C. - where over 90 percent of his students live in poverty - have further shaped his interest in educational inequities, which he studied at HGSE.

Given the results of these three studies, one which was overseen by the U.S. Department of Education and two which were recognized with the Department's highest award for rigor, we might expect President Obama to receive a swift response regarding his call for the federal government to search for programs that boost educational outcomes for African American men.

The study by online bookseller Book People surveyed 1,100 parents with children under the age of 12, asking them how highly they place educational value when choosing gifts for their children, as well as which items they believe aid child development in a number of areas.

Naturally, we wanted to maintain our core educational philosophy, which for a Steiner school includes providing a comprehensive, general humanist education, which aims to educate students for life beyond employment and further study.

This course introduces students to the origins, epistemologies, key concepts, and central questions of the academic field of Ethnic Studies, while applying these concepts and questions to our own educational experiences, and the various realms of education in which we currently work.

Complex questions of learning and development require just as complex modes of investigation and practice, which can be formulated by the collaborative work of those studying cognitive and neurobiological phenomena in laboratories, those observing learning in classrooms, and those making educational decisions in Capitol Hill.

The Minister said he was very encouraged by the findings of this study which show local children have a positive attitude towards educational achievement both at home and school.

Meeting or activity shall mean those school - initiated meetings or activities attended by parents or persons in parental relationship who are hearing impaired, which are specific to the academic and / or disciplinary aspects of their child's educational program, including, but not limited to, parent - teacher conferences; child study or building level team meetings; planning meetings with school counselors regarding educational progress and career planning; suspension hearings or any conference with school officials relating to disciplinary actions.

The studies should be at the center of any discussion of educational reform, because they offer by far the clearest evidence about which parts of it are working and which are not.

This concentration is housed within the Educational Studies program, which fosters links among students and faculty in a number of specializations sharing a commitment to the integration of theory and research on teaching, learning, and educational access in P - 12 settings.

The work of High Scope Research Foundation in it's longitudinal study of preschool children and adult decisionmaking as well as the longitudinal work of the ABCDerian and Chicago Parent Child Centers which confirms High Scope's findings, are not well known by educational decision makers despite the high quality of the research and the repercussions of itheir findings.

But only four of these studies were based on students» outcomes and most of them were more than 25 years old, which means they predated the «value added» methodology of assessing educational effects that is now standard practice.

In that role he championed the use of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to study the effectiveness of educational policies and interventions, which was a huge improvement in rigor for US ED - funded projects.

At Project Zero, she is the principal investigator of the Interdisciplinary Studies Project, which examines the intellectual, organizational, and pedagogical qualities of exemplary interdisciplinary work as it takes place in expert institutions and exemplary collegiate and precollegiate educational programs.

Also embarrassed by the America Achieves study is the lefty labor Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., which recently released a sophomoric study (see my January 16, 2013, post on the Education Next blog) that tried to use the PISA data to attribute educational deficiencies to the U.S. social structure, not its school system.

These findings confirm those from a variety of previous studies, which have shown that adjusting the data for students» socioeconomic status is usually enough to eliminate most or all of the difference between blacks and whites in educational attainment.

[16] We point out that the studies on which they are based are of a couple of small intensive programs from a half century ago that bear little resemblance to present daycare and early education programs, some of which have little in the way of explicit educational goals.