According to the year 2010 iQUEST Report by the project evaluator, «students of iQUEST teachers
make significant learning gains during the year, and iQUEST professional development for teachers positively affects student performance.»
Not exact matches
This is something I
learned the hard way once when I
made a pretty
significant hiring mistake.
Make significant progress toward every daily goal you've created for your career, health / fitness, fun / self love,
learning or giving
The masochistic few who read further
learned that «
significant progress has been
made across the board» and that the federal government would continue to «vigorously defend Canadian interests.»
«I
make a point to have a
significant conversation with one to two employees every day to
learn about what they're working on and get to know them better.
Questions for consideration: Which lessons have you
learned this year that have
made a
significant change in your business?
Miller strikes another note seldom heard in this country: «How can the Catholic academy in the U.S., and to a lesser extent in Europe, blessed with such enormous wealth,
make a
significant contribution to institutions of higher
learning in the Third World?»
And an admittedly hurried examination of several texts intended for use in courses of instruction before confirmation or in «religious studies» in schools for adolescents has
made it plain that this whole set of ideas is either entirely absent or is so «muted» (to put it so) that it plays no really
significant part in what children or confirmands
learn as they are introduced to the Christian faith and its theological implications.
But here's the good news: The fact that these women lived in a time and a culture much different than our own
makes them no less heroic and no less
significant to modern - day women hoping to
learn from their stories.
If you're worried about keeping your body healthy and strong for your little one, you may be surprised to
learn that coffee can actually
make a pretty
significant difference.
Learn how you can
make a
significant difference in your area by offering or contracting for a summer feeding program.
I am proud of the ways you have
made service a
significant part of your life: as a boy scout, an alter server at our parish, with your religious education class (
making lunches for those who are less fortunate in a nearby suburb), as a member of National Junior Honor Society at Keller, and volunteering with the Summer
Learning Program at our neighborhood library.
While
significant progress has been
made since the turn of the century, there is still much to be
learned.
Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said, «By providing tax credits that support scholarships, after school programs, and teachers that buy supplies for their classrooms, we can
make a
significant investment in our school system — and one that leads to an improved
learning environment for our students.
But there were other groups who had no idea and
made no
significant efforts to
learn how vulnerable the city was to storm surges from the Atlantic.
In 2004, a study of 3000 children, funded by the UK Department of Education, showed that an extended period of play - based preschool education
made a
significant difference to
learning and well - being through the primary school years.
Federal funders that have
made significant investments include the National Science Foundation, through its Science of
Learning Centers program, which offers awards for large - scale centers dedicated to the science of learning, and the Department of Education's Institute for Education Sciences, which funds neuroscience projects related to ed
Learning Centers program, which offers awards for large - scale centers dedicated to the science of
learning, and the Department of Education's Institute for Education Sciences, which funds neuroscience projects related to ed
learning, and the Department of Education's Institute for Education Sciences, which funds neuroscience projects related to education.
Researchers at Aalto University and Cambridge University have
made a
significant breakthrough in computational science by combining atomic - level modelling and machine
learning.
«Although the 3D scanning technology has
made significant progress in recent years, it is still a challenge to capture the geometry and shape of a real object digitally and automatically,» explains Mario Fritz, who leads the group «Scalable
Learning and Perception» at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics.
«We've still got a lot to
learn,» he notes, pointing out that overweight and obese people, who
make up a
significant percentage of the obstructive apnea population, are not considered good candidates for the procedure because of their excess airway tissue.
Her detailed and long term - studies of patients, lasting for many years, before and after brain surgery, have
made significant contributions to the understanding of the structure of the brain, especially the functions of the hippocampus and the temporal, frontal and parietal lobes in
learning, memory and speech functions.
Ross's research has also
made significant contributions to the field in terms of what forensic investigators can
learn from the skulls of children.
Ms. Scott Brown has
made a particularly
significant contribution to the experience of American higher
learning, providing campus plans for numerous universities, including Penn, Dartmouth, Bryn Mawr, Michigan, Kentucky, Williams, Brown, and Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Her detailed and long - term studies of patients, lasting for many years, before and after brain surgery, have
made significant contributions to the understanding of the structure of the brain, especially the functions of the hippocampus and the temporal, frontal and parietal lobes in
learning, memory, and speech functions.
If parents say no just because generations before them have said no, they should
learn more about the
significant health benefits before
making that choice.»
After struggling with building muscle for close to a decade, I've
made significant progress in the past few years, packing on 20 + pounds of muscle,
learning handstands, and adding 200 + pounds to my deadlift.
Sometimes, in addition to bloating, cramping, gas, constipation or diarrhea, FODMAP's can also create symptoms outside of your gut, such as depression, fatigue, headache or brain fog (which
makes sense, since your body creates a
significant amount of your neurotransmitters in your gut — it's that's whole brain - gut thing you already
learned about).
I have
made significant change to my diet as well, based on what I've
learned from the book and have lost 20 lbs.
The
learning that I did in this class strongly supported my ability to
make a number of
significant changes in how I address my sense of wellness.
But Lee gets comments from pretty much every
significant figure involved in the
making of Bad — including the directors of the album's videos — and he supplements it with appreciation from modern performers, who reflect on what they
learned from Jackson.
by Angelo Muredda The apocalypse becomes an occasion for everything from
learning what
makes humans tick to getting to know the distant alien who is your
significant other in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's genre - defying twentieth feature Before We Vanish, which might be most firmly characterized as a black comedy if it weren't so puckishly sunny.
Doctoral student Helen Malone has been researching time and
learning and says that because this is so new, «there's no rigorous data yet, but what they are finding is that kids are
making significant gains on standardized test scores.»
Our students have
significant social and economic disadvantage and although our NAPLAN results indicate improvement greater than the state they are below state average, however we understand from experience that knowing where students are in terms of skills and developing a scaffolded
learning program can
make a difference.
Our research centers are already
making extraordinary contributions to generating knowledge that matters and working closely with partners in the field to answer questions with
significant implications for teaching and
learning.
Even such a simple change as
learning content being
made available via the web can result in
significant changes in
learning.
Technology, the global job market, school choice, student expectations, political pressures, and
significant advancements in what we know about how kids
learn — the science of teaching — are among the forces that
make changes in how schools operate and how teachers teach inevitable.
Colleges consider the Regents diploma a mark of
significant achievement,
making it worth students» while to
learn the tested subjects.
Whilst these results only reflect the recent sports tours survey, our other surveys and independent evidence from research by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, reports by Ofsted and the diverse wealth of research
made available by the Council for
Learning Outside the Classroom support the proposal that learning outside the classroom, in all its forms, has significant benefits for school managers to c
Learning Outside the Classroom support the proposal that
learning outside the classroom, in all its forms, has significant benefits for school managers to c
learning outside the classroom, in all its forms, has
significant benefits for school managers to consider.
Moreover, information sharing and knowledge retention process can be
made more effective with the help of an all - inclusive checklist which provides workers with important takeaways and
significant learning.
It means that traditional public schools are really capable of
making significant progress if only they become more open to
learning from successful charter schools.
Making learning personal has 3
significant benefits:
There is only more
learning to be done, more improvements to be
made and more
significant impact to be had.
Being able to provide executives with a persuasive business case that promises a
significant ROI can
make a great difference in convincing them to alter the company's current
Learning Management System.
It is recognised that by combining classroom teaching with outdoor experiences
significant achievements can be
made by children, supporting a holistic education and life long approach to
learning.
«We are honored to receive this gift, which recognizes the
significant contribution Out of Eden
Learn is
making to the developing field of digital cross-cultural exchange,» says Lecturer Liz Dawes Duraisingh, co-director of OOEL.
Reviewing and monitoring energy usage has huge
learning benefits too — children love the responsibility of helping the school to
make significant savings.
This is the most
significant change to Queensland senior schooling in decades, and will require schools to
make considerable changes to their teaching,
learning and assessment programs across all secondary year levels.
«It is the most expensive compensatory program ever attempted anywhere in education,» he wrote, voicing complaints that sound similar to those
made by critics of «adequacy» lawsuits today, «yet no
significant improvement can be detected in the
learning of these «disadvantaged» children.
I find it intriguing that we have not fully realised the affordance that technology offers in relation to real - time (just in - time) formative assessment practices that research tells us
makes a
significant impact on student
learning (Wiliam, Black, Hattie) I have a pre-school age child whose school uses a «reporting / communication» tool where daily updates are captured by the educators including work samples, outcomes linked, photos of my child engaged in
learning tasks etc..
Once we get beyond the idea that assessment is more than just quizzes and tests — and that it's the documentation of whereby you
make this case that the student has done something
significant — this body of evidence, if we want to stick with that judicial metaphor, proves the student actually
learned something.