Sentences with phrase «few surveys of students»

Although well - known for many years, these ideas have not been put to a careful empirical test, in part because few surveys of students contain detailed contextual information about their school community and track the students into adulthood.

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The most recent National Survey of Student Engagement revealed that «nearly half of seniors majoring in business say they spend fewer than 11 hours a week studying outside class.»

Half of millennials are carrying student loan debt and the resulting financial pressures are so severe that fewer than two in five are saving for retirement, with many also delaying such key steps in life as buying a first home and getting married, according to a major new online survey of 1,016 millennials conducted in April 2015 by the nonprofit Investor Protection Institute.

In one of the few studies to examine the impact of early lunch on students, Pennsylvania State University researchers found in a 2003 survey that many early diners chose a la carte items, such as cookies and chips, rather than a hot meal.

• According to a survey of members of the Association of American Universities and the Association of Public and Land - grant Universities, Jeffrey Mervis wrote on Monday, federal government sequestration has led to fewer student positions (31 % of respondents), a reduction in temporary or part - time staff positions (30 % of respnodents), and a decline in postdoctoral fellows (24 % of respondents).

A graduate student working with Rudnick made the connection between the survey and the microwave map: The cold spot corresponds to a region of the sky, 40 times the area of the full moon as seen from Earth, where relatively few galaxies have turned up.

Yet a recent survey of high school students conducted by National Geographic found that American students could answer fewer than 50 percent of the questions correctly (compared with 70 percent for high school students in Sweden, Germany, and Italy).

(A few years later, using survey data from the second round of «High School and Beyond,» the team showed that students in private schools had greater learning gains between their sophomore and senior years than did students in public schools.

In 2002 and 2003 no single choice received more than half of the responses, but the fact that fewer than half of the teachers surveyed selected the first choice, none, is remarkable; it means that for two years» running more than half of the union members surveyed believe that some portion of their pay should be based on accurately measured student growth.

A nationally representative survey by Public Agenda found that 85 percent of teachers and 73 percent of parents agreed that the «school experience of most students suffers at the expense of a few chronic offenders.»

Few high - school principals have taken steps to ensure that their students are aware of the new academic standards for freshmen college athletes passed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association last year, according to a survey by four faculty members at Clemson University.

A few months after a national panel of experts and a survey of history teachers both lamented a lack of opportunities for students to develop and hone their writing skills, the latest results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, released here last month, seem to offer more evidence of the need to improve writing instruction in schools.

Differences among schools in their facilities and staffing «are so little related to achievement levels of students that, with few exceptions, their effect fails to appear even in a survey of this magnitude,» the authors concluded.

Allow all students throughout the school to provide anonymous survey responses using a few standard questions for their teachers (with appropriate accommodations for elementary students) and perhaps a few questions of particular interest to the teacher, which then becomes a conversation between the teacher and supervisor.

Fewer than one - fifth of the teachers surveyed gave the top rating to their schools in preparing students to learn.

The data - collection process, which occurred over the course of a few months, brought together student performance data, teacher survey data, and data on school capacity to support literacy.

Summary: Few measures of teachers» classroom ability inspire as much optimism among researchers — and as much unease among educators — as surveys of students.

Almost two thirds of 650 state school teachers, surveyed by Sussex University researchers, said the EBacc meant fewer students were taking GCSE music.

Please take a few moments to complete a short survey to help us understand how you use the Lions Quest program to fit the needs of your students, school, or organization.

Over the past few years, nearly 6,000 schools across 14 states have used the 5Essentials survey to systematically measure nonacademic factors that decades of research have shown matter most for school improvement and student success.

What these two survey results find that students are overburdened with too much of assignments and only a very few students can submit them keeping the deadline.

In fact, over the course of a few days of surveying we found 477 undergraduate and graduates students that agreed to participate in our survey.

While a recent survey showed that nearly 80 % of Millennials would like to work for an employer that offered reimbursement benefits, while approximately half of the same survey respondents would decline a 401 (k) match for student loan reimbursement benefits, very few employers currently offer it.

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The Hockney show surveyed six decades of his work, with examples from his student days at the Royal College of Art in London, his transporting views of Los Angeles with their gorgeous blue skies and rippling blue swimming pools and the later images of the Yorkshire landscape after returning for a few years to live in Bridlington.

Two months after a few legal stars dissed student law reviews, the Harvard Law Review is showing genuine moxie by surveying legal academics on the quality of their product.

The rating incorporates school - reported data and the average responses of law students at the school to a few questions on our law student survey.

It said: «From the evidence gathered by this survey, too few schools are providing careers guidance that meets the needs of all their students.»

Please take a few moments to complete a short survey to help us understand how you use the Lions Quest program to fit the needs of your students, school, or organization.

And after a few minutes of brainstorming and debate, they come up with the first step of their campaign: survey at least 1,750 students by April 30 in order to determine if they're aware of their on - campus birth control options and ask what other choices they'd like to be available.

Participating schools with fewer than 5 students undertaking the survey will not receive a school report in order to protect the identity of students.