Sentences with phrase «levels of groups of students»

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The psychologists assessed each student's level of extroversion and then followed the progress of the groups, monitoring their level of conflict and group dynamics over time.

Researchers at the University of Arizona monitored a group of students and tracked their «loneliness levels» while posting Facebook status updates.

As the general public, entrepreneurs, regulators, small businesses, educators, students and industry groups become more aware of the facts about crowdfunding and the impact that it can have at the grassroots level for every small business on every street corner to the highest levels of government and regulation, a groundswell of interest has emerged sparking dialogue and events bringing crowdfunding education, awareness and issues into the spotlight.

Whereas lower - level classes were taught in the European style — a lecturer spoke and students listened — seminar courses centered upon group discussion of texts.

A group of journalistic gumshoes for the Pittsburg High School student newspaper in Kansas did some All the President's Men - level sleuthing on their incoming principal and found that her credentials didn't add up.

The few games I've been able to get to this year, attendance in the student section is so bad that you'll see clusters of students sitting down, taking advantage of the leg room available while there is a group down at field level about 10 rows deep, standing and cheering as you'd hope.

The East Bay Tigers is a group of selected student - athletes who want to play basketball at its highest level on the national AAU circuit.

Students are placed according to age group or skill level in order to get the most out of the camp.

So if participation in high school sports is good for students, at a certain level it makes sense that as many students as possible should get that opportunity — but if the same group of athletes hogs three sports» worth of spots, then opportunities are lost for others.

Bradley school of music offers a variety of private and group classes for students of all ages and skill levels.

But then, once a basic level of calm prevailed in the school, the coaches turned their attention to encouraging what they called cooperative learning, a pedagogical approach that promoted student engagement in the learning process: less lecture time; fewer repetitive worksheets; more time spent working in small groups, solving problems, engaging in discussions, and collaborating on longer - term creative projects.

The first is a small group of students who have experienced high levels of toxic stress (and likely have high ACE scores) and as a result are angry and rebellious and disruptive.

Achievement First has been assembling its own version of Geoffrey Canada's «conveyor belt»; this year, for the first time, one of the group's charter elementary schools began feeding students into one of their middle schools with four years of Achievement First education under their belts — arriving ahead of grade level instead of well behind it.

It can be used for a whole range of tasks, from playing high - def video to word processing, and its designers, a group of Cambridge University computer scientists, came up with the idea of Raspberry Pi to encourage more children to get involved with the programming side of computer science, after seeing skill levels among A level students dwindle since the mid 1990s.

He introduces readers to a group of MIT students who made a fortune playing Massachusetts state lottery games, showing how PhD level pundits using methods originally developed for the U.S. nuclear program to accurately predict field goals and race times, and explains why poker is one of the ultimate challenges for artificial intelligence.

By shining a light on school - level funding inequities before the school year begins, the final budget can serve as an important new protection for students of color, low - income students, and other historically under - served groups of students across the state.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

Detmar Meurers, professor for computational linguistics at the University of Tübingen, summarizes: «Authors of textbooks should consider much more systematically what makes texts suitable for students of different age groups and performance levels in order to advance students in terms of language and content.

But in the adult group, the gains were reversed — to the point that college students performed at the level of the kindergarteners on two of the three tasks — suggesting the «use it or lose it» effect.

To see whether cancer stem cell renewal involves a chain of events similar to that used by embryonic stem cells, and whether the process was affected by oxygen levels, Semenza and graduate student Chuanzhao Zhang focused their studies on two human breast cancer cell lines that responded to low oxygen by ramping up production of the protein ALKBH5, which removes methyl groups from mRNAs.

Dr. Yorks and her fellow researchers at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine recruited 69 medical students — a group known for high levels of stress and self - reported low quality of life — and allowed them to self - select into a twelve - week exercise program, either within a group setting or as individuals.

The one developed by Zhang and his team, including Ph.D. student Inga Haedicke, U of T Assistant Professor Hai - Ling Margaret Cheng and two research groups (Dr. Timothy Scholl and Dr. Paula Foster) from Western University, can improve monitoring at the cellular level, which is a crucial element in measuring the effectiveness of stem and therapeutic cell treatments.

«Having a concentration of facilities and scientific insight in an environment where this group of talented researchers is given every opportunity to succeed — again, regardless of level — will ensure that CUNY generates top - level research outputs demonstrating very clearly that its students are making meaningful contributions.»

«Using the scale, we can compare different groups of students to see which have higher and lower levels of engagement,» Wang said.

For the study, Tiago Outeiro (o - TEE - ero), a graduate student in Lindquist's lab and lead author on the paper, assembled a group of yeast cells, each containing varying levels of the aSyn protein.

Students who practiced the Transcendental Meditation program showed significant increases in math and English scale scores and performance level scores over a one - year period.A significant portion of the meditating students — 41 percent — showed a gain of at least one performance level in math, compared to 15 percent of the non-meditating students in the control group.Among the students with the lowest levels of academic performance, «below basic» and «far below basic,» the meditating students showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a sligStudents who practiced the Transcendental Meditation program showed significant increases in math and English scale scores and performance level scores over a one - year period.A significant portion of the meditating students — 41 percent — showed a gain of at least one performance level in math, compared to 15 percent of the non-meditating students in the control group.Among the students with the lowest levels of academic performance, «below basic» and «far below basic,» the meditating students showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a sligstudents — 41 percent — showed a gain of at least one performance level in math, compared to 15 percent of the non-meditating students in the control group.Among the students with the lowest levels of academic performance, «below basic» and «far below basic,» the meditating students showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a sligstudents in the control group.Among the students with the lowest levels of academic performance, «below basic» and «far below basic,» the meditating students showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a sligstudents with the lowest levels of academic performance, «below basic» and «far below basic,» the meditating students showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a sligstudents showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a sligstudents in the control group, which showed only a slight gain.

They began by teaching at - risk youth in Baltimore's underserved communities and have since expanded to teach private and group classes and workshops for students of all ages, demographics, and levels of experience.

Being hailed by most as Transformation Retreat - Students from all age groups and backgrounds are coming and learning to incorporate the lessons of this workshop in their personal lives and benefitting from the changes it is bringing to their lives.More than 95 % students have reported Reduced mental stress, high levels of physical energy and improvement in emotional and physicalStudents from all age groups and backgrounds are coming and learning to incorporate the lessons of this workshop in their personal lives and benefitting from the changes it is bringing to their lives.More than 95 % students have reported Reduced mental stress, high levels of physical energy and improvement in emotional and physicalstudents have reported Reduced mental stress, high levels of physical energy and improvement in emotional and physical health.

While our open - group yoga and meditation sessions are intimate and specialized to provide a certain level of attention to each student in addition to serving the purpose of coming together in universal consciousness, we understand the need for private sessions as well.

With each class catering to a wide range of levels, its group of experienced teachers were incredible at providing an amazing level of attention to each and every student to make sure I never put a foot wrong.

My teacher diligently taught a group of mixed - level students, week in and week out, a (sometimes slightly modified) version of the Primary Series.

Teachers can use this lesson in BTEC Level 2 Business Award / Certificate / Extended Certificate / Diploma - But you could use this for any group of students

The pattern is particularly striking when schools are grouped according to their average level of student achievement.

Although composite classes are common, students tend to be grouped into year levels, by age, and to progress automatically with their age peers from one year of school to the next.

At the secondary level, wellbeing is taught to groups of 12 students in four 50 - minute coaching sessions each week.

The control groups consisted of students at the same levels in the regular program from EC's schools in Manchester and LA.

«This means every ninth - grader has a big sister or big brother in each of the other classes.This vertical integration, as opposed to horizontal integration of grouping students in grade levels by age, fosters deep friendships across grades and promotes a feeling of family in our school community.

The key is not just involving groups of this nature in cursory or low - level decisions; students also engage in determining and perpetuating school - wide celebrations and traditions.

The analysis of the results in the pretest samples of teacher and students, both in the control and in the experimental group show a medium level of exclusionism, segregationism and assimilationism with a little bit higher results on individualism and integrationism.

This lesson includes: - Clear learning objectives, - Fully differentiated resources, - Opportunities for group work, class discussions and extended writing, - Pace and challenge throughout, - High level analysis of challenging texts, - Links to relevant clips including a documentary for higher level students,

The survey sought to identify issues and successful practices in «inclusive» STEM schools — schools that serve students from groups historically under - represented in STEM fields and with a higher percentage of students who qualify for a free or reduced - price lunch (which is linked to family income)-- as opposed to «selective» STEM schools, which recruit students who have higher levels of prior achievement.

Thus, disparate impact doctrine, which is supposed to help minority groups, will, once again, inflict punishment on minority students, who will be forced to learn from teachers who demonstrate lower levels of literacy or who perhaps even lack basic knowledge — just one more reason the Supreme Court should have sent disparate impact to the dustbin of legal history.

States must consider n - size alongside how they permit schools to combine data over grade levels, school years, and / or groups of students — strategies many states have been using under NCLB waivers and that first - round states have included in their ESSA plans.

82 % of Silver CREST students took a STEM AS Level, compared to 68 % of a statistically matched control group.

According to the report, the overall learning culture that ability grouping creates inhibits learning opportunities for some students and can leave them stuck at a level of learning they have potential to advance from.

Acceleration (as mentioned in the Hattie video above) is a way of having students move to a group of students who are functioning at their level.

It will also serve as a daily meeting space for one of five student advisory groups at each grade level.

They are designed to cater for all alternative curriculum students — those within the pupil premium category, in exclusion or inclusion, home education or isolation, school refusers, target groups, or those with low literacy / numeracy levels, to mention just a few — and meet the needs of their teaching assistants, senior leadership and parents.

Teacher constructions of students in lower attainment groups in English secondary schools, the ability grouping technique is likely limiting for students learning at a low - attaining level.

Our group of experts discuss initiatives at the national, state, and local levels that aim to prepare all students for postsecondary education.