Sentences with phrase «of academic peers»

SGPs describe the percentile rank of students» growth by examining student achievement in year X relative to the achievement of their academic peers.

On a whole Denver elementary students showed impressive improvement last year: the percent of students meeting or exceeding grade level expectations increased 4.7 points in English Language Arts and 2.3 points in math; on average elementary students scored better than 56 % of their academic peers across the state in ELA and better than 54 % of their peers in math.

The calculations used to plot the trend line predicting future performance include all of the student's past scores; these calculations may also include scores of academic peers.

This, after all (and here I throw down the gauntlet to some of my academic peers), is what examination shows them to be.

I am, to my own continuing surprise, philosophically more conservative than the vast majority of my academic peers.

It is important to note that the letter was not signed by any of the authors of the academic peer reviewed papers and books which, the letter claimed, provide the evidence for their charge.

It is important to note that none of the authors of the academic peer reviewed papers and books, whom they claim provided the evidence for their charge, signed the letter.»

A press release promoting the report points out the IPCC is «already under severe criticism for violating the requirements of academic peer review and relying on secondary sources.»

The United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), already under severe criticism for violating the requirements of academic peer review and relying on secondary sources, comes under attack again in a new report co-produced by three nonprofit research organizations.

Not exact matches

«Our research shows that this generation of business leaders wants greater control over educational choices, continued exposure to peers with deep, global experience and more opportunity in their academic experience to self - analyze and self - reflect.»

2016.06.21 RBC Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards: Make «Room» for this eclectic mix of Artists, Academics, Entrepreneurs and Community Champions 200 inspiring immigrants have been recognized by their peers for outstanding contribution to Canadian society since the awards...

Jon's original research on investing has been published in the academic peer - reviewed Financial Planning Association's Journal of Financial Planning.

It was shortly after the housing crisis, when in October of 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto released an academic «White paper», titled, «Bitcoin: A Peer - to - Peer Electronic Cash System», to a small cryptographic community's web space.

He is well - liked by his peers, volunteers with University Big Brothers and Sisters, is involved in his church (he is an adult convert to Mormonism), is a member of the University's interfaith Religious Life Council, and has compiled an impressive academic record.

There is not one peer reviewed academic study that demonstrates even ONE poor outcome of actually following through with what the Declaration of Independence says «ALL men, (not just straight men) are created equal»

Even as I was being chosen by my peers and coaches and teachers to be the captain of sports teams and academic clubs, even as I was embraced as a best friend and confidant, a very clear «Whites Only» sign still hung boldly over the «family room» in the white American house.

Yes, his appointment as a Fellow of Oriel College at Oxford gave clear testimony to his academic brilliance, a verdict of his peers that he vindicated with such scholarly publications as Lectures on Justification and The Arians of the Fourth Century.

Submit it to a peer reviewed journal and any number of academic journals of History.

Fifth conviction: I must be ready to give account of my interpretative encounters with Scripture not just to my human and academic peers but to God himself, who will one day require this of every theologian and of me among them.

Then I was seeking to live out my life mostly in accountability to contemporary academic peers; now awareness of final judgment makes me only proximately and semiseriously accountable to peers.

I'm sorry that her academic credentials do not meet your standards, but may I also remind you that our current, sitting president had test scores that were far inferior to his other Harvard peers which begs the question of why he was admitted at all?

The peer groups that define the issues to be explored, that award academic status, that provide access to power in the academy, and that make mobility possible are no longer comprised of one's colleagues across the disciplines within one academic institution; rather, one's peer group is comprised of one's colleagues in the same «field» or «subfield» nationally.

It may be that Brown can be so sanguine about overcoming the fragmenting effects of disciplinary diversity because the national scholarly organizations that institutionalize the various academic guilds today exercised less political power in the 1930s over scholars» standing with peers, mobility from school to school, and promotion to tenure.

But that's not how Ellis was understood by most, and there is a direct line to be drawn between the Ellis article and the self - conscious if tacit defensiveness of the Land O» Lakes statement, which seemed to say, yes, we're second - rate, maybe even third - rate, and the way to be first - rate is to be like Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and the rest of what would be called, in twenty - first - century Catholic academic jargon, «aspirational peers.»

The program was created by a dynamic team of scientists, industry leaders, growers, and academics, and is peer - reviewed and accredited by Protected Harvest, a non-profit organization that independently certifies farmers» use of stringent environmental growing standards.

Since 1969, dozens of studies of food - grade carrageenan have been published in peer - reviewed academic journals.

Some teens may benefit from being around a private school group of peers who are almost universally serious about academics.

M: I think it is very important that research papers that come from the MANA Stats Project's datasets go through the process of rigorous peer review required for publication in an academic journal.

I refer readers there because you get a synopsis of peer - reviewed research from a credible academic, and you get the citations to track the studies down if you want to.

Individual attention, flexible instruction, and an array of academic supports are all helping him learn, maintain and develop positive relationships with peers, and regulate his emotions throughout the day.

NHERI executes, evaluates, and disseminates studies and information (e.g., statistics, facts, data) on homeschooling (i.e., home schooling, home - based education, home education, home school, home - schooling, unschooling, deschooling, a form of alternative education), publishes reports and the peer - reviewed scholarly journal Home School Researcher, and serves in consulting, academic achievement tests, and expert witness (in courts and legislatures).

One of the challenges for parents with a gifted child is to encourage them to develop a range of interest outside the academic sphere that not only rounds them out but stops them from being isolated from their peers.

It's a set of skills that helps you and your family handle conflicts, behavior issues, academic concerns, peer issues, family disruption, mental health diagnoses, parenting shame, and everything else thrown at your family in a way that keeps you connected and healthy together.

We want to make sure that we haven't made any mistakes, that we've been really transparent in how we've calculated our numbers, and that it meets the standard of rigorous peer - review for an academic journal.

And the increased academic requirements, test pressures and the age of the peers their kids will be competing against has many parents wondering if their kids are really ready to start Kindergarten.

«When children feel emotionally connected to their parents and the parents use this bond to help kids regulate their feelings and solve problems, good things happen... our studies show that children who are Emotion - Coached do better in terms of academic achievement, health, and peer relationships.

They are associated with a wide range of problems in adolescence and adult life, including academic failure, delinquency, peer rejection, and poor psychiatric and physical health.

Reports by Project Ready researchers have been published in academic journals such as Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Journal of Adolescent Research, Journal of Family Psychology and other peer - reviewed publications.

In an important series of studies by psychologist John Gottman and his colleagues, children of parents who valued and accepted their children's feelings showed better academic achievement, had lower levels of stress hormones, and were more successful in resolving conflicts with their peers.

The children at the Fresh Foods distribution, who were not even 10 years old, were already considerably behind in terms of academic and enrichment opportunities than their peers from the more affluent neighborhood.

Just a guess, but peer review is probably the core of it since thats whats used in all other academic fields

Blue Labour was launched in 2010 by academic and Labour peer Maurice Glasman, and dedicated to reclaiming distinctive traditions of reciprocity and mutuality in the labour movement.

David interviews Lord (Maurice) Glasman — Labour peer, academic, and architect of «Blue Labour» — for his predictions on the outcome of 2015, the future of the Labour Party, and what modern politicians can learn from Wolf Hall.

We know this works - not just for protecting kids from the mental and emotional impact of porn, or sexual predators, or the requests of their peers - but even in their broader academic life.

He said the academic performance level of students within the Region especially in science is abysmal as compared to their peers in Ashanti, Eastern, Greater Accra and Brong Ahafo Regions.

Among her accomplishments was the implementation of a peer mentoring and faculty advisement program to improve retention for students on academic probation or alert.

Parliamentary Affairs is an established, peer - reviewed academic quarterly covering all the aspects of government and politics directly or indirectly connected with Parliament and parliamentary systems in Britain and...

That is why an impact assessment approach is endorsed by a range of NGOs and academics from various sectors affected by drug policy, and politicians from all parties, including the Conservative peer and professor of government Lord Norton, who was the prime mover in making impact assessments obligatory for all new Acts.

ENDS Notes to Editors UK Alcohol duty context For a short video summary of the issues around alcohol pricing, please visit: https://vimeo.com/191959217 Following heavy lobbying from the alcohol industry, the last four Budgets have seen real terms cuts in alcohol duty Alcohol is 60 % more affordable than it was in 1980 — the alcohol duty escalator, introduced in 2008, which ensured that duty rose above inflation, helped mitigate this trend, but this progress has reversed since the duty escalator was scrapped in 2013 In real terms, spirits duty has halved, and wine duty fallen by a quarter since 1978 - 9 The Government estimates suggest that the duty cuts since 2013 will cost the Exchequer # 2.9 billion over four years The University of Sheffield estimated that an additional 6,500 people would be hospitalised each year as a result of the alcohol duty cuts in 2015 The report The report was peer reviewed by academic experts the fields of economics, public health and public policy prior to publication.

Over 40 leading academics have resigned from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) peer review college over the inclusion of the «big society» in its delivery plan.