Sentences with phrase «of an action research study»

Maine Township decided that a next step would be to get data on how well their students were doing with cooperative learning by organizing a number of Action Research studies.

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Research studies indicate that «positive emotions broaden peoples» momentary thought — action repertoires, widening the array of the thoughts and actions that come to mind.»

One interesting bit of research I came across is that a study found a 33 percent increase in the completion of goals among those who wrote their goals down, created an action plan and shared with a friend.

There is a necessary rhythm of formal study and «action research» that together comprise the training program of the core group and may hopefully spill over into the congregation in the form of conferences and forums.

Professor Robert West, Cancer Research UK's director of tobacco studies at the Health Behaviour Research Centre at UCL, said: «The smoke - free law has been a huge boost to smokers trying to quit, but radical action is now needed to build on this success.»

Anji Malhotra, co-author of a study released by the University at Buffalo and Cornell law schools based on two years of research into Buffalo Police Department policing practices, joined other activists Tuesday on the steps of City Hall to call for action to be taken against what they called discriminatory policing practices.

UIC's Alexander Mankin and Yury Polikanov are corresponding authors on the study and led the research on the antibiotic's mechanism of action.

The committee that conducted the study and wrote the report recommended actions the FDA, other federal agencies, state and local governments, and health - related organizations should take — which include promoting more judicious prescribing of opioids, expanding access to treatment for opioid use disorder, preventing more overdose deaths, weighing societal impacts in opioid - related regulatory decisions, and investing in research to better understand the nature of pain and develop non-addictive alternatives.

Jordi Mestres, coordinator of the IMIM and UPF research group on Systems Pharmacology at the Biomedical Informatics Program (GRIB) states «With this study we have contributed to complementing the detection of these quite unstable fragments, with information on the mechanism of action of the drug, based on three aspects: similarity to other medicines, prediction of their pharmacological profile, and interference with specific biological pathways.

His research focuses on the development of high - precision, single - molecule methods to study the mechanism of action of macromolecular machines, such as dynein, telomerase, and Cas9.

Next, the research team will study how the potential negative health impact of tobacco shops and liquor stores can be mitigated in South Los Angeles through community action and policy change.

«We've known for several years that people working directly with livestock are at increased risk for MRSA infections, but this is one of the first studies providing compelling evidence that everyday consumers are also potentially at risk,» says Lance Price, PhD, Director of the Antibiotic Resistance Action Center, which is based at Milken Institute SPH, and Director of Translational Genomics Research Institute Center for Food Microbiology and Environmental Health.

According to the authors of the study, in future researches it will be necessary to know about the action mechanism of the new products - highly selective and with low cell toxicity on in vitro tests - and broaden preclinical studies with laboratory animal models.

For their study, Beyrer and his colleagues analyzed published medical research from January 2007 through October 2015, to identify which elements of their call to action from 2012 had been achieved.

This study also shows that the importance of biological diversity has been underestimated because previous research only focussed on individual trophic groups: «Our extensive research programme demonstrates how important it is to study the broader context and that there is a need for action to protect ecosystems,» summarises Fischer.

«Preeclampsia: New study documents its enormous economic and health burden: New research takes a deep dive into the economics and medical impact of preeclampsia, urges action to mitigate the situation.»

Unlike the low luminosity of the objects she studies, Dr. Marla Geha from Yale University shines brightly in this talk describing research in action at the W. M. Keck Observatory.

Another reason to pick PKM2 was that cancer researchers have studied the enzyme intensively (because low activity of PKM2 can boost tumor growth) and created many research tools and drug compounds to probe its actions, King says.

«It is useless to take reactive actions decades later,» she writes in the study published in Journal of Environmental Research.

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The goals of EPSCoR are to engage across different fields of study to address environmental and energy challenges and to educate on the benefits of the research; develop new ways of thinking and action through targeting education programs, focusing on long - term sustainability; build competitive research teams, and integrate new initiatives into our institutions.

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He spent his basic research career studying the mechanisms of steroid hormone action on the brain, behavior, and mental health, and the influences of the environment and stressors on those actions in laboratory rodents.

They call for the study of viruses to be incorporated into extraterrestrial science missions and astrobiological research at home, and have a checklist for the actions needed to put viruses on the interplanetary map.

I've studied all of the research so that you don't have to and in Metabolism on Fire you will get an action plan on what you can do to reignite your slow metabolism.

Although further research needs to be conducted, the study suggests that compounds other than lycopene could also be playing a role in the preventative action of tomatoes.

While there is no one - size - fits - all dosage level at which «magic» happens, based on the most recent research by GrassrootsHealth — an organization that has greatly contributed to the current knowledge on vitamin D through their D * Action Study — it appears as though most adults need about 8,000 IU's of vitamin D a day in order to get their serum levels above 40 ng / ml — a far cry from the 400 IU's studied.

Nutrient Interaction / Contraindication Based on the mechanism of action of this nutrient and its proven safety in research studies, 10, 13 NO interactions or contraindications are known at this time.

Neither doctors nor patients should take «large - scale action» based on the findings; more work is needed to substantiate the idea that white rice increases the chances of getting Type 2 diabetes, according to Bruce Neal, a professor of medicine at the University of Sydney in Australia, who was not involved in the research but who wrote an editorial accompanying the study in the journal.

Past studies have suggested that people who are dominant tend to have more sexual partners than people who are submissive, but there has been little research into whether a person's level of interpersonal warmth — the way in which they interact with others — affects their sexual actions.

Despite different histories and demographics, there have been similarities among school districts in the district - level strategies for implementation that are important to study to take the kind of courses developed in the Knowledge in Action research to scale.

The U.S. Department of Education intends to pay for research to study online professional - collaboration communities for teachers and other educators, according to the action plan in the final version of the Obama administration's National Education Technology Plan.

This presentation explores findings from a three ‑ year action research study which has proven successful in encouraging academics to engage with a range of VLE tools and reflect on potential usage within their own teaching practice.

A nice succinct animated call - to - action video produced by BlendedLearningNow, a portal for aggregating blogs, articles, case studies, research, and videos to help educators make sense of blended learning.

Recognizing that priorities for both laboratory - based investigation and community - based action are determined by the meeting participants, a preliminary menu of potential topics includes the following: 1) Advancing the frontiers of scientific research: • construct a developmental framework to study the differential effects of biological embedding of significant adversity related to age, beginning in the prenatal period and extending into adulthood.

«The types of questions the Court is considering in Schuette relate to my research interests and, in past work, I have found that bans on affirmative action lead to statistically significant declines in the enrollment of underrepresented students of color in various graduate fields of study,» she says.

This article will describe 3 specific benefits of integrating eLearning into knowledge dissemination, meaning using eLearning to communicate the results of research studies for the purposes of moving knowledge into action.

In School Breakfast in America's Big Cities, a January 2011 report released by the Food Research and Action Center, 16 of the 29 urban districts examined in the study «performed above the national average in reaching low - income students with breakfast.

Joellen Killion, the former NSDC director of special projects, added that a solid repertoire of professional learning is focused on student results — standards - based, school - based, and content - specific — and includes training, study groups, action research, and observation.

Before coming to St. Catherine's, Dorothy was as classroom teacher and the Action Research Coach for The Center for the Study of Boys at St. Christopher's School.

Today, I am a classroom teacher and the research coach for our Saints Action Research team, part of our school's Center for the Study research coach for our Saints Action Research team, part of our school's Center for the Study Research team, part of our school's Center for the Study of Boys.

At the Lawrenceville School, she has taught, been an assistant housemaster, overseen the early warning system, a program to close the achievement gap, served as an instructional leader, worked with University of Pennsylvania's Center for the Study of Boys» and Girls» Lives» to foster student action research projects and coordinated the educational support program.

This study is an action research, which involves six EFL learners at one of the universities in Indonesia.

Decades of best practice, cutting edge research in early education including the Head Start Impact Study, expert advice, and The Secretary's Advisory Committee's recommendations all culminate in a call to action for policy changes that ensure all Head Start programs provide a consistently high quality early learning experience that prepares children for Kindergarten and has long - term effects on their academic success and overall health.

Issues with research of collaborative educator study groups as a professional development process include how the process is defined and the number and specific elements and practices members use within the group, such as peer coaching and action research (Vescio et al., 2008).

Senate leader Phil Berger (R - Rockingham) cites decades - old research to support his claims that class size reductions are the best course of action for improving student achievement — a study out of Tennessee that Randolph County Board of Education chair Todd Cutler said is flawed and many researchers are unconvinced of the study's results.

«Teacher Inquiry», also referred to as «Action Research», is defined as a systematic study by teachers of their own practice.