Sentences with phrase «example of a group of students»

King gives an example of a group of students a few years ago who were working to replicate a paper about presidential election campaign strategies by a respected social scientist — King declined to name names — and after following the paper's methods section to the letter came up with vastly different results.

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Hess, for example, recalls feeling defensive when a group of students ripped into Window Depot's website and logo.

For example, the company's employee - initiated group HACEMOS (the Hispanic Association of Communications Employees of SBC), has started an initiative that will link thousands of students across the country via satellite for High Technology Day, which educates students about technology careers.

For example, I would be happy to be in a group of students that are gay OR supported those who are gay.

For example, I was in D.C. for the March for Life, and I saw Students for Life groups from the University of Florida, MIT, Notre Dame, and the University of Chicago, for example.

For example, the motives of a theological student in a required course in school are very different from those of a person not being rewarded with professional status and a way of earning a living for participating in the group — that is a lay person.

For example, a group of high school students may be facing the standard but almost impossible question, «Is God good?»

The introduction to «Overloaded and Underprepared: Strategies for Stronger Schools and Healthy, Successful Kids,» a new book from the Stanford University Graduate School of Education research group Challenge Success, begins not with research or analysis but an example of a high school student's daily schedule.

As one small example, I spoke to a group of pro-choice activists a few weeks ago, many of whom work with students on college campuses.

Under such a contract a Ph.D. student is paid half the salary that would be paid to a researcher with a Ph.D., and the student should also work only half - time, for example by leading seminars, tutoring student groups, or working for the research lab of his or her professor.

In one fascinating example [pdf], Princeton University psychologist Eldar Shafir asked a group of students to act as the jury in a mock custody battle between two parents.

The Minority Student Caucus (MSC) at the University of North Carolina, for example, a student - led group that serves minority students in the School of Public Health, has been organizing an Annual Minority Health Conference sincStudent Caucus (MSC) at the University of North Carolina, for example, a student - led group that serves minority students in the School of Public Health, has been organizing an Annual Minority Health Conference sincstudent - led group that serves minority students in the School of Public Health, has been organizing an Annual Minority Health Conference since 1977.

For example the Women in Engineering (WIE) arm of the IEEE — an association of 380,000 members in areas ranging from aerospace systems to biomedical engineering — sponsors 186 affinity groups worldwide, several of which are student groups based at universities.

For example, think about a classroom of students (a population made up of a group of individuals).

«One example of an intervention might be treating the underlying causes of anemia, such as iron deficiency, which is common in this age group,» said Raphae Barlas, co-author and medical student at the University of Aberdeen, who carried out the project as a summer research program scholarship recipient.

Examples of fringe collaboration include the amateur naturalist who brings in a species new to science but is not concerned with subsequent taxonomic research on it, the technician who makes a vital series of analyses at a distant laboratory, or the group of undergraduates who provide a preliminary database from student projects that later forms the justification for a full - blown project.

While being a student was associated with excessive drinking, this was true only at certain ages and for certain student groups: for example, during the traditional college ages of the early 20s and for those students living away from home.

Many graduate programs, for example, are making concerted efforts to recruit students from historically marginalized groups, including African - Americans, Latinos, and students with disabilities, but this approach will only succeed if faculty members, administrators, and the scientific community at large also consider the environment that the students are being recruited into, and how to make those spaces truly inclusive arenas where a diverse group of scholars can thrive.

Examples of potential ways to make colleges more inclusive include programs that train faculty, staff and students how to be allies for sexual - and gender - minority people; forming resource centers and student groups for these minorities; as well as creating and enforcing anti-discrimination policies that protect these groups.

Paleoanthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, for example, plans to ask his students to determine whether there's more intermarriage between hunter - gatherer groups that live close together and, therefore, are likely to have similar cultures.

Future research is needed to establish the benefits of the program across different age groups and populations, for example, college versus high school students.

For example, a group of students working on developing video games that can be successfully played by blind people visited a local center for the blind.

The above example outlines one scenario in which a science news article might be used with a group of students to supplement other assignments and discussions and to contextualize (or reinforce) the material being learned.

Sherri's a shining example of what's best about EHI... and does an amazing job of making sure our student body is filled with the most beautiful group of outcasts, misfits, nerds, activists, and heros... just the way we love it at EHI.

In this example, students can now clearly see that 7 comprises a group of 2 plus a group of 5.

For example, students randomly assigned to receive a school tour of Crystal Bridges later displayed demonstrably stronger ability to think critically about art than the control group.

The journals are academic and personal gold — none of my students let me keep their journals as examples for the next group coming up.

Tier Two: Students who need additional support (for example, in reading accuracy, fluency, or comprehension) work in small groups of four to six sStudents who need additional support (for example, in reading accuracy, fluency, or comprehension) work in small groups of four to six studentsstudents.

For example, a group of students excelling in literacy might be formed into a book study group for independent reading and discussion.

A study of Civil War battles would be an example of that type of activity; the teacher would assign groups different battles, the students would research their assigned battles, collect pictures, and then give a guided tour of the battlefield, telling what happened there.»

The authors cite this as an example of «how a student's placement in the lowest attainment group results in misrecognition whereby his / her placement in the attainment grouping hierarchy can be interpreted by teachers as reflecting the student's innate «ability».

Then, from 10 a.m. to noon, she gathers small groups of students for class meetings or individual coaching — discussing strategies with a student who needs backup for his thesis statement in an essay, for example.

Miss Tew, Biology Teacher hosted a nature specimens quiz on Wednesday, which encouraged students of all year groups to identify and answer questions about some superb examples from the natural world.

For example, teachers may retire rather than face a lower - performing group of students.

Organizational choice, for example, might mean students having a voice in seating assignments or members of their small learning groups.

As examples, he points to Rocketship, a group of schools in California serving low - income students that credits their high achievement in part to a daily two - hour computer lab; Carpe Diem, a top math performer in Arizona; and Robert A. Taft Information Technology High School, a Cincinnati school that converted to a technology focus and saw its graduation rate soar from 21 percent to more than 95 percent.

One of the students» tasks would be to think of ways our school building was analogous to their assigned body function — for example, the nervous system group might see the elevator in our eight - story building as the spinal cord, the main office and library as the brain, and so on.

For example, a teamwork strand teaches students the components of successful collaboration and allows them to playtest and assess their group work skills, creating norms around working together.

You might have two groups of students based on age — for example, eight - year - olds and nine - year - olds.

Share space in class conversations: I work not to prioritize my voice over the voices of my students through established rhythms and routines — for example, I ring a chime rather than raise my voice above my students» voices when I need to interrupt conversations and bring us back together as a group.

Consider, for example, starting a unit by showing students an image of two people or groups of people whose differences and known disagreements are likely to trigger historical or cultural assumptions (such as Native Americans and early Great Plains settlers, British and German soldiers from World War I, or police officers near a picket line of striking workers).

A percentile ranking of 60, for example, indicates that the average student in a district performed better than 59.9 percent of students in the global comparison group.

For example, if students throughout a school were asked to redesign their classrooms, each classroom would look different as it would be tailored to the needs of that particular group of students.

Slide 9 gives an example of how to connect hexagons to the relational stage - The hexagons have the key content information — where they will discover in pairs / groups what the reasons for the boom conditions were as opposed to a teacher telling the students.

For the classroom teacher, this might take the form, for example, of a roster of students who are flagged because they are consistently receiving low scores on a particular Report Card item or group of items, e.g., having friends.

One response to this observation has been to assume that the closing of achievement gaps requires group - based solutions — for example, special initiatives aimed at boys (or girls), educational solutions for Indigenous students, or government programs targeted on students from low socioeconomic backgrounds.

For example, if you have volunteers who lead reading groups, you can measure student achievement from the beginning of the school year to the next or set a goal for each student; that is, students will increase reading vocabulary by 25 percent.

For example, for Standard 3, we want to know how the teacher works with a group of 25 students, with a range of needs, and adapts instruction to meet their individual needs.

For example, Smarter Balanced's «Bias and Sensitivity Guidelines» point to the word foyer as unfair: «assuming a student knows what a «foyer» is would be unfair because the term: 1) is more likely to be known by some groups of students than by other groups of students, 2) is not required by the Common Core State Standards, and 3) is not likely to have been routinely used in the classroom.»

To take an example, imagine that a particular sub-group of students do more poorly than expected (based on their performance on other questions testing the same math skill) on a math item that uses the word «foyer,» while other groups of students do just as well as expected.