Sentences with phrase «homogeneous grouping on»

«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).

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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.

Such homogeneous ability grouping in schools is urged on behalf of increased learning efficiency.

A prospective, controlled study of the effect of breast milk on infection among low birth weight infants was conducted in India in 1981.18 Although the sample size was small, 62 infants, the study design was a randomized block design in which feeding schedules for breast milk or formula were randomly allocated within groups of infants that were determined to be relatively homogeneous with respect to factors predisposing to infection.

By insisting on larger, more homogeneous patient groups and longitudinal rather than cross-sectional studies, the field is poised to fulfill its ultimate role of linking defects in molecular biology to aberrant behavior.

With high and homogeneous image quality (the mean seeing in the g band is 0.78 arcsec), and reaching limiting magnitudes of around 25 across the ugriz filter set, this survey has yielded several dozen new gravitational lenses on both galaxy and group scales (Cabanac et al. 2007; More et al. 2012; Sonnenfeld et al. 2013; Gavazzi et al. 2014).

The effects of within - class grouping on student achievement and other outcomes were quantitatively integrated using one set of 145 effect sizes exploring grouping versus no grouping and a set of 20 effect sizes related to homogeneous versus heterogeneous ability grouping.

A teacher might use heterogeneous or homogeneous grouping in ways that address learners» needs or provide interventions for some students, such as an abbreviated version of a vocabulary list or an alternative way to demonstrate knowledge on a major assessment.

Being in a homogeneous group may feel more pleasant, she says, but diverse groups keep people on their toes.

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.

To sustain a high level of student success, teachers need to think beyond the traditional classroom environments where there is an over-reliance on homogeneous grouping.

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.