Sentences with phrase «homogeneous grouping»

Despite that, many church buildings are full of very homogeneous groups of people.

I understand that school systems try not to put students in homogeneous groups for social reasons, butt there are many other places and times for gifted and talented students to socialize with these people.

Teaching a more homogeneous group of students might allow teachers to adjust the material covered and the pace of instruction to students» needs.

On the other hand, some teachers argue for homogeneous grouping.

Even then, however, teachers work to «differentiate instruction,» which often means separating the kids back into homogeneous groups again, and offering more challenging, extended assignments to the higher - achieving students.

However, Columbia University's Katherine W. Phillips and others mentioned in the HBR story on women directors point out that while diverse boards that are not properly managed may «create distrust and dissatisfaction,» homogeneous groups don't come to any better solutions.

The basic thesis of the movement is that congregations must be built from homogeneous groups of people.

Finally, if you look at Table C, you discover that a relatively homogeneous group of teachers (namely only K - 2 teachers) still uses 42 different formulas to rate the teachers.

«Because middle school educators emphasize the negative impact of homogeneous grouping on at - risk learners, heterogeneity has become a hallmark descriptor of «good» middle schools (Carnegie Task Force on the Education of Young Adolescents, 1989).

When this rather homogeneous group of viewers was asked whether watching religious television had changed their involvement in the local church, 7 per cent said that it had increased their involvement, and 3 per cent said that it had decreased theirs.

The findings resemble real - world clustering behavior among nearly homogeneous groups: Tanzanian hunter - gatherers, executive MBAs at a mixer, and monks in a monastery.

In the third component of SEM - R, students remained in the same homogeneous groups to which they were assigned in phase two, and were encouraged to move from teacher - directed opportunities to self - choice activities over the course of the intervention.

Teacher modeling is one effective method (i.e. the teacher shows how collaboration is done), while avoiding homogeneous groups and grouping by ability, fostering individual accountability by assigning different roles, and evaluating both the student and the group performance also support collaborative learning.

Overall, results favored homogeneous grouping.

Although, as discussed earlier, the majority of teachers tend to view gifted students as a fairly homogeneous group, researchers have noticed profound differences between moderately gifted and exceptionally gifted children on almost every cognitive and affective trait that has been studied.

She agrees with Delisle that homogeneous groups benefit high - achieving students, but points out that struggling students often fare worse when separated from peers.

As a caution, however, educators should recognize that when homogeneous grouping is used consistently in the classroom, the practice is similar to tracking students.

In spite of this evidence, over this same period, the vast majority of teachers and administrators have enacted practices that separate students by ability; their argument is that homogeneous grouping produces greater learning by allowing for the concentration of instructional resources on the same set of learning problems.

By combining grades 1 - 2, 3 - 4, 5 - 6, and 7 - 8, comprehensive gifted centers have been created in some of the larger schools that allow for all - day homogeneous grouping of gifted students within a school.

This is a tall order for teachers and students, because the usual remedy is to segregate these students into small homogeneous groups or to assign individual projects.

Many are afraid to say anything about the bad behavior of these self - publishers because the immature have a tendency to strike back irrationally, taking things out of context, being rude, and try to apply everything they say against all self - publishers even though they are clearly only speaking about some, and the others blindly support them because they band together as one homogeneous group without realizing it is these bad apples who are destroying the reputation of the rest.

In organizations that have thousands or even millions of clients, mathematical formulae are used to determine homogeneous groups.

The term life cover can also be purchased by homogeneous groups (groups with similar characteristics).

We use the nationality of each mother at birth without any categorisation, which allows us to construct highly homogeneous groups within the study population.

LCA and LPA are methods to empirically identify homogeneous groups of individuals with similar profiles of problem behavior on a set of categorical variables (LCA) or dimensions (LPA).

Specifically, my dissertation research examines whether homogeneous groups are dehumanized compared to heterogeneous groups and the extent to which this homogeneity - based dehumanization leads to both decreased prosocial and increased antisocial behavior.

Lower ability students tend to work best in mixed groups, medium ability students in homogeneous groups, and for higher - ability students, group ability levels make no difference (Lou, Abrami, Spence, Poulsen, Chambers, & d'Apollonia, 1996).

It should be noted that GEE analyses that we used reflect a marginal model, i.e. the average person's change within the population, which constitutes a backdrop against which more homogeneous groups of girls with multiple mental health problems can be compared.

The Solo and Small Firm conference is created for a relatively homogeneous group: lawyers who practice either on their own or in a small firm in Ontario.

Does homogeneous grouping of students enable the largest number to experience the most learning success?

If it is a homogeneous group, these are issues you are likely to face in the future.

Homogeneous groups are comprised of leaders from similarly sized companies facing similarly complex issues.

First, Canadian millennials are not a homogeneous group.

If you have 20,000 people in your database, many of them may have some characteristics in common, but they are likely not a homogeneous group.

I say this only to again point out that, just like atheists can not be described as a homogeneous group, neither can Christians, at least philosophically or theologically.

The Arabs in this area form a homogeneous group with a Sunni majority except in Lebanon which, like a Persian carpet, is made up of a colorful mixture of all the creeds and sects to be found in the Middle East.

Just as my Christian faith will look similar and different to other Christians, atheists are not a homogeneous group, but encompass a range of views.

However, it is clear that they were a homogeneous group with common caste customs and practices.

They are now far from a homogeneous group.

She told the Political Thinking podcast: «I think that we have different lived experiences and we're not one homogeneous group.

This suggests that the first wave of immigrants to Alaska was not a homogeneous group.

Decades of research by organizational scientists, psychologists, sociologists, economists and demographers show that socially diverse groups (that is, those with a diversity of race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation) are more innovative than homogeneous groups.

Members of a homogeneous group rest somewhat assured that they will agree with one another; that they will understand one another's perspectives and beliefs; that they will be able to easily come to a consensus.

It seems obvious that a group of people with diverse individual expertise would be better than a homogeneous group at solving complex, nonroutine problems.

«If you visit a multiracial church and peek inside a Sunday school class, you're more likely to see a homogeneous group than in the main service.»

«Most significantly, the system will provide a means to test, experimentally, how a homogeneous group of cells organizes itself in space, a central process in the development of any organism, and the ability to recreate in culture the niches that adult stem cells create during embryogenesis and which have remained elusive experimentally.»

It's easy to forget sometimes that film / television critics are a homogeneous group (white men predominantly).