Sentences with phrase «more academic evidence»

These data show that traditional providers required more academic evidence for undergraduate program completion than alternative providers, emphasizing candidates» GPA, credits, professional GPA, and subject area.

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Brittney Kaiser, a former employee for Cambridge Analytica — who left the company in January and is today giving evidence in front of a UK parliament committee that's investigating online misinformation — has suggested that data on far more Facebook users may have found its way into the consultancy's hands than the up to 87M people Facebook has so far suggested had personal data compromised as a result of a personality quiz app running on its platform which was developed by an academic working with CA.

The academic evidence relating to the impact of SRE in schools is not much more hopeful.

It is important to observe that these comments do not necessarily apply to charismatic scholars who, though they may share with Pentecostals certain values of spiritual evidence, emerge for the most part from mainstream Protestant backgrounds where there is generally a more positive evaluation of the academic enterprise.

«The assertion that mixing energy drinks with alcohol contributes to people drinking more is at odds to the totality of evidence coming from international authorities and academic institutions» said the Council's CEO, Mr Geoff Parker.

Good academic standing includes: satisfying the requirement of at least one semester of residency; full - time student (enrolled for 12 credits); evidence of normal academic progress (successful completion of 24 credits during the two preceding terms); and the completion of four seasons of eligibility in no more than 10 semesters of attendance at any institution.

And perhaps we can also start to be more aware of the persistence of social class in this country, where political leaders are drawn from a narrow social elite and where birth cohort evidence shows that parental background has a huge influence on academic attainment, health and labour - market opportunities.

Again most analysts and academics know that if anyone wanted to demonstrate the strange hypothesis that multiple and widely divergent exchange rates do not affect foreign investment, he could cite the evidence of more recent years, but that obviously not being consistent with the facts, our economist then went over two decades back to 1994 to cite an exception, a single investment in an environment of otherwise grossly low investment, in a sector where people invest even in times of war, to justify a faulty hypothesis!

Health officials also say there's evidence that teen drinkers have more academic difficulties than teen nondrinkers in school.

I haven't come across statistical evidence, but it certainly seems that academic women suffer from more health problems than men.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that academic women experience more health problems than men.

However, more evidence is needed to draw causal inferences about the long - term impact of school breakfast on academic outcomes, according to the study background.

According to Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel at Thomas More, Dawn and Julie's method of presenting the material and asking the students to pick a theory and debate it, based on the evidence, is a method of teaching that's supported by the judicial concept of academic freedom: that teachers and students have the right to pursue knowledge, wherever it may lead.

A major international research project led by a University of Sussex academic provides new evidence that the common belief in a cultural divide between the West and the rest of the world is little more than a myth.

«We find strong evidence that women faculty perform more internal service than male faculty in academia and are essentially doing more than their fair share of «taking care of the academic family»,» Guarino said.

«Evidence shows that if you can hook students earlier in their academic careers, they are more likely to retain an interest in that area later on,» Dr. Chudler said.

Look at the collected reviews of Pauline Kael since the early 70s, when academic film study in the U.S. was just getting started, and you'll be hard put to find a shred of evidence in more than two decades of energetic writing that such studies existed at all.

Standardising practice in core academic areas also creates more space to systematically innovate where the evidence isn't strong, including how to help young Australians develop broader skills for a changing world.

On the contrary, the evidence seems to suggest that the families that are most in need of school choice — minorities, low - income households, and students with lower prior academic achievement — are more likely to apply.

In the case of cursive — and more broadly, handwriting in general — there's plenty of evidence of cognitive and academic benefits.

While there is more emphasis on academics at all grade levels today and evidence that the middle school burden can be overcome (Williams and colleagues showed in a major 2010 study, called «Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades: Why Some Schools Do Better,» that an intense focus on academics can work), it is odd that Walcott would favor reforming middle schools instead of doing what the research suggests is better and easier — creating smaller, «elemiddle» (K — 8) schools — and what the trends are showing is happening all over the country — as David Hough, managing editor of the Middle Grades Research Journal, told me, «the trend is definitely away from stand - alone middle schools.»

Comparing districts with and without systems of choice, Schneider, Teske, and Marschall find little evidence of increasing inequities where choice is available; the academic performance of all schools appears to increase with even limited choice in a district; and parents become more engaged when allowed to choose their schools - thus enhancing the community's social capital.

Emerging evidence indicates an improvement in academic results when more, not less, HPE and physical activity is timetabled into the school program.

Although such schools typically win plenty of accolades, including academic prizes, stellar college - matriculation results, and lofty rankings on «best high schools» lists, they haven't had to produce hard evidence that they impart more knowledge or skills to their students than these same talented youngsters would pick up elsewhere.

In a new article for Education Next, Diane Schanzenbach, an education professor at Northwestern University, and Stephanie Larson, director of Rose Hall Montessori School in Wilmette, Illinois, weigh the evidence and conclude that postponing a student's entrance into kindergarten does more harm than good both academically and socially and that where there are academic advantages, they are short - lived.

Even more persuasive, check out the thickening body of evidence that NAEP's «proficient» level — long derided by critics as too tough and typically attained by just one quarter to one third of U.S. high school seniors — really does correlate with academic preparedness for college - level work in math and English.

«Combining Academic and Career - Technical Courses To Make College an Option for More Students: Evidence and Challenges,» David Stern and Roman Stearns, November 2006

As evidence has mounted showing that failure is often determined by what happens in the toddler years, educators have converted kindergarten and preschool from «playful social experience to a more narrow educational opportunity focused on so - called cognitive and academic skills.»

They can write better, deeper academic papers because they can support their arguments with more evidence.

Measures of teachers» academic skills, such as their verbal ability, may more accurately predict their effectiveness, but there is far less evidence on this issue, and these findings are also not conclusive.

Recently, I had a discussion about Common Core with several university level educational leaders who expressed the need for students to be better prepared for college: to read and write in a more academic manner, to make logical inferences, and to cite specific evidence from the text to support their conclusions.

Evidence of effectiveness in teaching the state's academic content standards, including the common core and English language development standards as measured by more than one year of summative and formative assessment data.

Evidence... suggests that most OECD countries are moving away (or have long moved away) from the traditional (more academic) teaching approach.

Ascend Public Charter Schools network has implemented more restorative practices in its schools, such as Responsive Classrooms, an evidence - based program focusing on the link between academic success and social and emotional learning.

Major changes to the test include incorporating more relevant words such as «empirical» — which the Common Core State standards call «academic vocabulary» — instead of the traditional «SAT words» such as «sagacious;» including an evidence - based reading section; narrowing the focus on math topics to allow for deeper knowledge testing; and eliminating the previous penalty for wrong answers.

As a parent, it concerns me that you have required states to expand charter schools, increase standardized testing overall, tie teacher jobs to test scores, and turn around schools by firing half or more of the staff, when the overwhelming body of evidence — including that of the research arms of the federal government — is clear that these strategies do not improve academics overall and can have serious negative effects on children and their education.

There is little evidence that pupils from low socio - economic backgrounds are more likely to succeed against the odds when academic selection is used to sort pupils into different secondary schools.

The evidence shows that rather than improving students» behavior, such punishments are more likely to result in negative effects such as higher drop - out rates and lower academic performance.

There's little evidence disadvantaged pupils are more likely to succeed when academic selection used

We also find consistently strong evidence that students with disabilities who spend more time in general education classrooms experience better outcomes — fewer absences, higher academic performance, higher rates of grade progression and on - time graduation, and higher rates of college attendance and employment — than students with disabilities who are similar in other observable ways but spend less time in general education classrooms.

While the authors note a lack of substantial evidence of positive effectives of Linked Learning on college enrollment or completion, they also describe several studies that have found positive results on high school student achievement and argue that blending academic work with career technical education (CTE) could make college an option for more students.

This update to their seminal 2008 report uses the latest scientific evidence to rebut several common myths regarding how best to support the linguistic and academic achievement of young children who are learning more than one language — from the Foundation for Child Development

Klein's actual biography tells an important story, just not the one he imagines: It's more evidence that student achievement mostly reflects the social and economic environment in which children are raised and that the best way to improve academic achievement is to address these conditions directly.

(Md.) More and more, schools are turning to research - based programs to engage parents and guardians in the education of their children — a strategy that evidence is showing may be a key impact upon a student's academic achievemMore and more, schools are turning to research - based programs to engage parents and guardians in the education of their children — a strategy that evidence is showing may be a key impact upon a student's academic achievemmore, schools are turning to research - based programs to engage parents and guardians in the education of their children — a strategy that evidence is showing may be a key impact upon a student's academic achievement.

To probe these questions, The Wallace Foundation in 2011 launched a five - year, $ 75 million initiative to help six large districts build stronger principal pipelines by (1) creating clear job requirements detailing what principals and assistant principals must know and do, (2) ensuring high - quality training for aspiring leaders, (3) developing more selective hiring procedures, and (4) using well - crafted evaluations to identify the needs of principals and ongoing support to address them.79 Over the life of the initiative, it is expected that participating districts will have filled at least two - thirds of their principal slots with graduates of high - quality training programs - enough to enable independent researchers to gather meaningful evidence on whether and how better leadership can transform the academic fortunes of children.

A report commissioned by the Connecticut State Department of Education entitled Evaluating the Academic Performance of Choice Programs in Connecticut compared student achievement in public schools, charter schools, magnet schools, and among those students bussed from urban areas to the suburbs and did not find evidence that students in charter schools had greater achievement than other students, even with their more select student body.

This data provides more evidence that participation in programs focused on social and behavioral development can lead to improvements in three key areas of a child's education: attitude, behavior, and academic performance.

While those who stand in denial of climate change have failed in the last 15 years to produce a single, peer - reviewed scientific journal article that challenges the theory and evidence of human - induced climate change, mainstream media was, until very recently, covering the story (in more than half the cases, according to the academic researchers Boykoff and Boykoff) by quoting one scientist talking about the risks and one purported expert saying that climate change was not happening — or might actually be a good thing.

More troubling, the second hand evidence had little academic rigour itself, and moreover tried to establish belief in conspiracy theories in an area that had seen a massive incident in its very recent history.

The problem with the trial judge's reliance on academic research was that it was not part of the evidence before the court, said Emma Cunliffe, a professor at the University of British Columbia's Peter A. Allard School of Law, adding that expert witnesses would have been more appropriate.