Sentences with phrase «from academic peers»

Industry ties, they report, are also associated with longer delays on publication, confidentiality restrictions, and a greater withholding of information from academic peers.

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I've heard similar echoes from academics, entrepreneurs, parents, and peers.

It may be that Brown can be so sanguine about overcoming the fragmenting effects of disciplinary diversity because the national scholarly organizations that institutionalize the various academic guilds today exercised less political power in the 1930s over scholars» standing with peers, mobility from school to school, and promotion to tenure.

Some teens may benefit from being around a private school group of peers who are almost universally serious about academics.

M: I think it is very important that research papers that come from the MANA Stats Project's datasets go through the process of rigorous peer review required for publication in an academic journal.

I refer readers there because you get a synopsis of peer - reviewed research from a credible academic, and you get the citations to track the studies down if you want to.

One of the challenges for parents with a gifted child is to encourage them to develop a range of interest outside the academic sphere that not only rounds them out but stops them from being isolated from their peers.

The children at the Fresh Foods distribution, who were not even 10 years old, were already considerably behind in terms of academic and enrichment opportunities than their peers from the more affluent neighborhood.

David interviews Lord (Maurice) Glasman — Labour peer, academic, and architect of «Blue Labour» — for his predictions on the outcome of 2015, the future of the Labour Party, and what modern politicians can learn from Wolf Hall.

We know this works - not just for protecting kids from the mental and emotional impact of porn, or sexual predators, or the requests of their peers - but even in their broader academic life.

That is why an impact assessment approach is endorsed by a range of NGOs and academics from various sectors affected by drug policy, and politicians from all parties, including the Conservative peer and professor of government Lord Norton, who was the prime mover in making impact assessments obligatory for all new Acts.

ENDS Notes to Editors UK Alcohol duty context For a short video summary of the issues around alcohol pricing, please visit: https://vimeo.com/191959217 Following heavy lobbying from the alcohol industry, the last four Budgets have seen real terms cuts in alcohol duty Alcohol is 60 % more affordable than it was in 1980 — the alcohol duty escalator, introduced in 2008, which ensured that duty rose above inflation, helped mitigate this trend, but this progress has reversed since the duty escalator was scrapped in 2013 In real terms, spirits duty has halved, and wine duty fallen by a quarter since 1978 - 9 The Government estimates suggest that the duty cuts since 2013 will cost the Exchequer # 2.9 billion over four years The University of Sheffield estimated that an additional 6,500 people would be hospitalised each year as a result of the alcohol duty cuts in 2015 The report The report was peer reviewed by academic experts the fields of economics, public health and public policy prior to publication.

Over 40 leading academics have resigned from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) peer review college over the inclusion of the «big society» in its delivery plan.

Thom Brooks, an academic at Newcastle University who has led the campaign, told politics.co.uk: «The next step is to call on others to join us in resigning from the Peer Review College.

«THE STUDY FOUND THAT BLACK AND LATINO STUDENTS HAVE HALF THE NUMBER OF ADVANCED PLACEMENT CLASSES compared to their white and Asian peers, according to data from 353 high schools in the 2011 - 2012 academic year.

Does an academic's use of legal threats to stop a critical paper from being published subvert the peer review process, which is fundamental to modern scientific research?

However, when I was offered my first academic clinical position with a mandate to obtain «peer - reviewed external funding from agencies such as the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) within a 3 - year span,» it was soon evident that, despite my solid training, I had a lot to learn if I was to be able to be seen as a competent scientist and be able to survive the tough peer - reviewed grant process.

Mary Ellen Lane, associate dean for curriculum and academic affairs at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, says that the anxieties she hears from current Ph.D. students are similar to the concerns she and her peers had as cell biology doctoral students in the late 80s and early 90s.

Bilingual children from low - income homes are at greater risk of falling behind their peers in developing the appropriate language skills for their age group, leading to poorer academic achievement over time.

With a more homogenous learning environment, it's easier for teachers to match their instruction to a student's needs and the students benefit from interacting with comparable academic peers.

It elicits the best ideas and best work from highly motivated scientists because it chooses the grantees through a competitive system of merit rankings done by peer committees composed of academic experts in each field who serve as part - time judges.

Making the transition from high school to college may be stressful — but it can be downright depressing for students who graduate from a school with peers of high academic ability and wind up at a college with students of lesser ability, according to a new study.

Because students from disadvantaged backgrounds are likely to be more affected by a change in peer groups through day - to - day interaction with academically inclined peers and academic groups, there may be a greater effect of university education on students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

A new study of science PhDs who embarked on careers between 2004 and 2014 showed that while nearly two - thirds chose employment outside academic science, their reasons for doing so had little to do with the advice they received from faculty advisors, other scientific mentors, family, or even graduate school peers.

These uncertainty - reduction strategies included seeking social support from friends, family, or academic counselors; socializing with friends to take a break from sports and school pressures; negotiating with coaches in an attempt to raise their scholarship; and sometimes concealing their athlete status from peers to minimize people befriending them for the wrong reasons, or prevent negative stereotypes.

Our professionally facilitated workshops and training courses provide excellent learning and peer - to - peer networking opportunities with a cross-section of the nuclear industry — from licensees and regulators to security experts, academics, law enforcement and vendors.

Over the past 12 years, the IAYT has made major strides with its mission to establish yoga as a respected and recognized therapy in the West, from publishing an annual peer - reviewed medical journal to presenting at academic research conferences.

The Gaulds had no idea that children could suffer from such profound academic deficits when they opened the D.C. school in 1999, and they quickly discovered that a healthier peer culture wasn't going to improve anyone's reading comprehension.

It can be frustrating to watch student behaviors that detract from personal or academic success: breaking classroom norms, getting into peer conflict, demonstrating a lack of motivation, and so on.

There are more than 200 peer - reviewed journal articles which have been published, examining the Character Strengths from diverse angles, such as the strengths most strongly correlated with student engagement, academic achievement, life satisfaction and physical activity.

Australian students use technology for academic research; for downloading and uploading resources; for taking notes, writing essays, assignments and reports; for presentations that incorporate video and text; and for communicating with peers and teachers from within their school and across the globe.

For example, KIPP students might benefit from attending school with peers who are especially motivated to accept KIPP's academic and behavioral demands.

The takeaway: Don't underestimate the effect of peer pressure in your school — it's powerful enough to get students to walk away from even life - changing academic opportunities.

Insofar as students benefit from peer effects in classrooms, corridors, and clubs, and insofar as being surrounded by other smart kids challenges these students (and wards off allegations of «nerdiness»), schools with overall cultures of high academic attainment are apt to yield more such benefits.

Students from low - income families, like their more - affluent peers, should be able to attend the public institutions that best fit their academic talents and personal and professional goals.

Right along with the students they are coaching, the peer tutors also benefit from this academic help: Confidence and capabilities increase for both the givers and receivers of this classroom insider advice.

In their school environments, students acquire these values and behaviors from adult role models and peers, and in particular, through an understanding of the principles of academic integrity.

New Jersey measures growth for an individual student by comparing the change in his or her achievement on the state standardized assessment from one year to the student's «academic peers» (all other students in the state who had similar historical test results).

Non-college enrollees also differ from their peers while in high school: they took fewer rigorous academic course, earned lower grades, spent fewer hours on home work, and performed more poorly on math and reading assessments.

A: For subjects tested by the state standardized assessment, New Jersey measures growth for an individual student by comparing a student's growth to the growth made by that student's academic peers (students from around the state with similar score histories).

Now a recent study in Education Next from researchers at Mathematica Policy Research examines whether KIPP's positive effects are attributable to better peers, which would consequently make it difficult to replicate the KIPP model and academic successes in public schools.

But pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds focus this additional time «on traditional academic subjects such as English, science and mathematics», according to by Dr John Jerrim of the UCL Institute of Education, while their more advantaged peers opt for «music, sport and foreign languages».

In addition, the main thrust of the report's criticism, that the state's ESSA plan is not sufficiently similar to what it would have been had No Child Left Behind remained in effect, assumes the test - based accountability strategy that these reviewers have made their careers pursuing had been effective, which it has not; and therefore, when coupled with the false claim that California has high - quality academic standards and assessments, which it doesn't (California's standards being based on the Common Core, which leaves American students 2 - 3 years behind their peers in East Asia and northern Europe), California's families remain well advised to opt out of state schooling wherever and whenever possible, until the overreach from both the federal and state capitals is brought to an end and local schools that want to pursue genuinely world - class excellence can thrive.

This complex statistical methodology identifies academic peer groups of students from across the state who performed the same way in the past, then determines their relative growth this year in order to rate the overall growth for students achieved at a school.

Breakthrough schools are communities where students reach their full potential — and where the academic achievement of lower - income students is indistinguishable from that of their higher - income peers.

The state tracks students individually from year to year, and measures their learning gains compared to their academic peers.

«Children from high - income backgrounds who show signs of low academic ability at age five, are 35 % more likely to become high earners than their poorer peers who show early signs of high ability,» Ms Greening told a Social Mobility Commission event.

In the latest release of data, we have a sense of how much progress students show on state assessments from one year to the next (as it's been two years since the last time we had growth data, here's a quick reminder on how it is calculated: a student's performance on the test is compared to her «academic peers» — other students who had the same test score she had the previous year, resulting in the individual's student growth percentile.

The latest report from the New York City Charter Schools Evaluation Project compares the academic performance of charter school students with that of their peers who attempted to enroll in charter schools but were not selected in a random lottery.

Engaging Schools will be at AVID's annual conference in Orlando, Florida from December 11 - 13, during which Director of Professional Services Michele Tissiere will present «Using Group Academic Conferencing to Build Peer Cohorts and Support Urban Students» Success.»