Sentences with phrase «existing understanding»

Recent advances in the study of ancient DNA present an intriguing opportunity to test existing understandings of Egyptian history using ancient genetic data.

Learning these new pieces of information often fits neatly into existing understanding.

Where legal operations exist understand their role within the business; if you're bringing forward ideas and efficiency legal operations is a terrific entry point.

This discovery in a slime mold, a distant cousin of plants, fungi and animals that appeared on Earth some 500 million years before humans, improves existing understanding of the origins of learning, which markedly preceded those of nervous systems.

This lesson draws on existing understanding about the medieval Church in order to help students explore the degree of satisfaction with the Catholic Church in 1500.

Next, she could ask them about their families, where they can explore examples of family rules and how those rules help everyone to get along, continuously connecting existing understanding to new learning.

Though many preservice teachers mentioned how rewatching videos of their vehicle's movement forged connections between their project and forces and motion science concepts, their responses did not identify which concepts or how the iPad promoted existing understanding.

Introducing PS will be an opportunity to demonstrate a shared positive approach to exhibiting contemporary artworks, where the presenting of works and considering of ideas becomes a moment for examining existing understandings and a testing - ground; suggesting and offering new possibilities.

Remember that genuine interest in the industry or activity is valued by employers, as it demonstrates existing understanding of the product, market and audience.»

Initial performances would be rather simple, such as discussing as a group how coal mining relates to students» existing understandings of energy resources.

Importantly, Jesus goes beyond deconstructing their (and our) existing understanding.

We believe that improving the existing understanding of and attitudes towards attachment is essential for influencing the positive development of Ireland's child and adult health and well - being.

We believe that improving the existing understanding of and attitudes towards attachment is essential for improving Ireland's profile in terms of emotional health and in understanding socially destructive behaviors.

But the finding does challenge the existing understanding of genetics, and it may have implications for humans.

My arctic experience was the equivalent to science boot camp, with a rapid fire of data, dialogue, and decision - making that supplemented my existing understanding of the art of practicing good science.

Although constructivism has been defined many different ways, Applefield, Huber, and Moallem (2001), in their review of constructivist literature, found the following four central characteristics of constructivist learning: (a) learners construct their own learning; (b) the dependence of new learning on student's existing understanding; (c) the critical role of social interaction and; (d) the necessity of authentic learning tasks for meaningful learning (p. 38).

Where learning is most effective, teachers have the opportunity to relate new ideas to their existing understanding, whereas the least effective learning happens where they passively listen to someone else describe their own understanding.

We know, for example, that the mind constructs knowledge — that people learn by connecting new information to existing understandings and conceptual frameworks.

Of course, at the beginning of your life, you don't know what originality is and you derive everything you do know from the existing understanding or history or things you've read.

Speaking of his originality, Milton said: «At the beginning of your life, you don't know what originality is and you derive everything you do know from the existing understanding or history or things you've read.

«Science is an attempt to obtain the closest possible approximation to «truth» by seeking information which contradicts existing understanding (s) and amending or rejecting existing understanding (s) in the light of obtained information.

Pseudoscience accepts an existing understanding as being «true» then seeking information which supports the understanding while ignoring and / or rejecting information which contradicts existing understanding.»

Although temperature increases in 2009 and 2010, the lack of a clear increase in global surface temperature between 1998 and 2008 (1), combined with rising concentrations of atmospheric CO2 and other greenhouse gases, prompts some popular commentators (2, 3) to doubt the existing understanding of the relationship among radiative forcing, internal variability, and global surface temperature.

The hypothesis that the post 1998 period is consistent with the existing understanding of anthropogenic climate change is evaluated with a test statistic that evaluates the null hypothesis that the long - run relationship between global surface temperature and radiative forcing is unchanged after 1998.

As such, we find that recent global temperature records are consistent with the existing understanding of the relationship among global surface temperature, internal variability, and radiative forcing, which includes anthropogenic factors with well known warming and cooling effects.

You will know if the returning employee «fits», and they will arrive with an existing understanding of your company culture and purpose, which reduces the risk of an unsuccessful hire.

We believe that improving the existing understanding of and attitudes towards attachment is essential for improving Ireland's profile in terms of emotional health and in understanding socially destructive behaviors.

We believe that improving the existing understanding of and attitudes towards attachment is essential for influencing the positive development of Ireland's child and adult health and well - being.

Done well, the results from these path - breaking projects should inform the marriage field, and they should add value to our existing understanding of the potential and the pitfalls of government intervention in this critically important arena.