Sentences with phrase «in quality of student»

Teachers are the single most important school - related factor in the quality of a student's education, and this reward is a positive step...

West Windsor - Plainsboro has been formally collecting student performance data on the Global Challenge for the past six years.2 The data indicate that there has been a steady increase over time in the quality of student problem solving, collaboration, and communication skills.

The potential for these focused improvement plans to make a difference in the quality of student learning is highly dependent on the degree to which local educators are able to align local curriculum, teaching, and assessment practices with the external measures against which they are being held to account.

The mathematics teacher plays a key role in the quality of the student's relationship with mathematics.

That measure of human capital, however, implicitly assumes that each additional year of schooling translates into a comparable increment in the stock of relevant skills, totally ignoring any variations in the quality of the student's home, community, school, teachers, and other factors.

I see its impact each and every day in the quality of my students work and their academic outcomes as so far, 100 % of our graduating students have been accepted to 4 - year schools.

Not exact matches

«We found that our students are happy with Lululemon clothing they bought maybe four or five years ago, but they aren't as happy with the selection or quality of what they bought in the last year or two.»

For those students who are the first in their families to attend, quality advice is thin on the ground, but even if your parents are grads, much has changed in the worlds of work and education since they sat in a lecture hall.

Introduction to grasping reality with both hands: Private university students who try to take out $ 250,000 in student loans when they're barely out of puberty are patted on the back and given directions to a high - quality local state university.

His attributes his success at the bargaining table and in the classroom to empathy, «the No. 1 quality of a great negotiator,» and even attends undergraduate courses in different disciplines to maintain the perspective of a student.

The investigation stemmed from allegations that UNC had a system in which students took an African Studies course that never met, had little instruction, and required only one paper that received high marks, regardless of quality.

In a statement to Canadian Business he said, «Surveys are by no means the final word on the quality or performance of a business school, but they do offer prospective students and corporate recruiters a truly independent and objective assessment.»

Further, the higher degree of freedom to experiment in informal learning settings is an increasingly attractive quality for students.

This investment will make a big difference in the quality of your course and students» perceptions of it.

Dr. Loughlin has published empirical papers in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, the Journal of Applied Psychology, and the Journal of Occupational and Organisational Psychology, as well as co-authoring book chapters on work stress, workplace health and safety, and the quality of youth employment (several of these publications have been with her students).

L'Université Laval came third, providing the students with multiple endowed faculty chairs specializing in a variety of topics including materials for renewable energy, modelling for water quality and planning sustainable forest value networks.

If we keep all these measures of quality in mind, can we say that students are good enough to meet the demands of contemporary ministry?

Some critics say that today's students lack the quality of younger students in the past.

That quality of conviction is found precisely in one of Gwynne's inspirations, the 1918 edition of The Elements of Style, the original version William Strunk wrote for his Cornell University students.

God's Not Dead, the tale of a college professor who grades his students based on whether they'll write «God is dead» in their notebooks, is not an example of high quality movie making.

My late father used to speak of the attractiveness of real goodness, and we should not be shy about seeking to demonstrate that quality and to evoke it in students.

My experience with professional growth groups for theological students over the last decade has convinced me that the quality of professional services could be raised significantly in a few years if growth groups were used widely in professional education.

To understand what is in his heart, therefore, the student must not merely listen to or read what a believer affirms, but must come to know those qualities of the believer's life that can become known only in that personal two - way relationship known as friendship.

As a professor in the master's program for Tequila Production Process at the Autonomous Guadalajara University, the recommendation to my students is to pay attention to every single detail of the tequila production process and always focus on quality.

Several publications and websites ranked the program among the worst in the country based on surveys, and rumors of low - quality meat and other substandard practices were rampant among students.

The company was founded in 2007, by a group of students who longed for better quality, locally farmed, fresh food options.

Four seasons ago the rapidly expanding school (from 3,800 to 12,000 students in 10 years) decided to improve the quality of its basketball.

The qualities of focus, courage, determination, cooperation, and perseverance permanently benefit our students both in and out of the gym.

Qualified gym staff are available to ensure the delivery of a safe and quality service to all members and the rates for student members are the best in Oxford — check out the memberships!

The Coach of the Year Award acknowledges head coaches whose qualities as a leader and motivator embody NICA's mission to provide student - athletes with the coaching and camaraderie to help them achieve both competitive and non-competitive goals in a safe and enjoyable manner.

Over a span of 18 years, 3,100 students (47 percent of which were athletes) at UNC took advantage of these courses which allowed them to receive quality grades without having to show up for class, turn in papers or take tests.

At the very moment when a student might be gearing up to react to the teacher's comments as a threat, a sign of the teacher's personal disapproval or bias, the Post-it gave the student an alternative frame through which to view those comments — not as an attack, in other words, but as a vote of confidence that the student was capable of high - quality work.

Character Education: The Policy on Quality Character Education (2004) recommends that schools adopt secular character education programs to teach fairness, trustworthiness, citizenship, and self - restraint in order to help students learn and foster the well being of democratic society.

«Our students and staff members have been very pleased with the healthfulness and quality of OrganicLife's food, and we are glad it will continue to be our provider,» Superintendent Nanciann Gatta said in a statement.

Focusing on the nutrients that are in a food product rather than looking at the impact of the food as a whole causes schools to focus on looking for cheap ways to meet the minimum guidelines instead of focusing on finding quality items to feed their students.

Dr. Cheyney currently directs the International Reproductive Health Laboratory at Oregon State University where she has developed an academic learning community comprised of five undergraduate research assistants, 12 graduate students and one postdoctoral fellow whose research agendas are focused on identifying culturally appropriate ways to improve access to high quality midwifery care as a means of reducing health inequalities for mothers and babies in the U.S and abroad.

There's James Heckman, a Nobel Prize - winning economist at the University of Chicago, who found in the late 1990s that students who earned high school diplomas through the General Educational Development program, widely known as the GED, had the same future prospects as high school dropouts, a discovery that led him to conclude that there were qualities beyond courses and grades that made a big difference in students» success.

To me, the solution to the attrition issue, whether it's at a KIPP middle school or the Promise Academy middle school, is the Harlem Children's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first few years.

They largely refused to acknowledge that poverty rather than school quality was the root cause of the educational problems of disadvantaged kids, for fear that saying so would merely reinforce a long - standing belief among public educators that students unlucky enough to live in poverty shouldn't be expected to achieve at high levels — and public educators shouldn't be expected to get them there.

Though CPS has improved the nutritional quality of its meals this year, it also has seen a drop - off in meal participation among students, many of whom say the food tastes bad.

The disparity results in a revenue shortfall that undermines the goal of providing the highest quality meal possible to all students.

It found that after the healthier standards were in place, the overall nutritional quality of the foods chosen by students increased by 29 percent, and the calorie content per gram decreased by 13 percent.

«We are excited to see Chicago Public Schools continue to be a leader by using procurement dollars to improve the freshness, quality and nutrition in their meals for students while growing opportunities for local, sustainable and fair producers and processors,» stated Rodger Cooley, Executive Director of the Chicago Food Policy Action Council.

Since returning from California, Chagnon and other members of the Challenge Success team have worked with teachers to emphasize quality over quantity in homework assignments and craft policies to reduce students» workload.

The program might allow certain students opportunities for higher - level work, yet it also can siphon off the best students and teachers and may reduce the quality of education for non-AP students, and in some cases, cause undue stress for students enrolled in the program.

«The quality of the homework assignment and whether or not students find it meaningful can have a significant impact on student achievement, homework completion, motivation and physical health, Pope said in a recent interview.

With the USDA's recent proposal to improve the nutritional quality of snack foods sold in school vending machines, a la carte and in student stores (a.k.a. «competitive foods»), schools across the nation will be turning to healthy vending to assist them with compliance and improved student performance.

In addition, through warmth of heart, clarity of thought, and strength of purpose, Waldorf students are uniquely equipped to address the global challenges facing their generation — issues of renewable energy, climate change, food quality, wildlife conservation, and preserving our natural resources.

Since the updated meal standards were implemented, students of all ages are choosing lunches higher in nutritional quality with fewer calories per gram and consuming more fruits and larger portions of their entrees and vegetables.

That's why so much of my time is taken up in trying to publicize just how important it is for our lowest income and most vulnerable students to have access to the highest possible quality of food at school.