Sentences with phrase «of cohorts of students»

I have heard many senior lawyers say that they would not be competitive among the current hires, and I am always impressed by the accomplishments and work ethics of the cohorts of students I see hired each year.

Their analysis of the data led the teams to define questions about the progress of cohorts of students as they moved from one grade to the next.

Ravitch found that during Klein's five - year tenure academic gains have been smaller than during the previous five years and that the reading scores of cohorts of students are actually declining as they progress through the system.

Although the NewSchools data set does not include state test results for individual students, it does include grade - level performance for most schools, which makes it possible to track improvement of cohorts of students from one year to the next.

A representative sample of this cohort of students took the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests, administered by the Organization for Economic Development (OECD) two years later, as 15 - year - olds, in 2009.

This young man was not the exception in his high school of underprepared students, but a member of a cohort of students who moved steadily toward college entrance with college credits under their belts.

The study adopts a mixed methods approach, combining: documentary analysis; surveys of cohorts of student teachers at various points in their student and newly qualified teacher (NQTs) career; surveys of ITE providers; interviews with student teachers and NQTs; and interviews with ITE providers.

Not exact matches

Described as the «ideal EMBA student» by Brian Jennings, associate dean of the program, Smith made his mark by his «willingness to go the extra mile, put in the extra hours, and help his fellow cohort and team members to excel with him.»

Last week, my fellow Startup.SC cohort entrepreneurs and I delivered our first public business pitch to a standing room full of business leaders, students and potential investors.

So we learned from that cohort of students and made the Course Builder's Laboratory even more outstanding.

This year's cohort of Student Entrepreneur Supporters includes; Bristol - Meyers Squibb Company, Dell Technologies, Ericsson North America, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Macy's Inc., Merck, Office Depot, Inc, Pfizer Inc., U.S. Postal Service, and Walmart Stores, Inc.,

Overview Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) successfully completed its second cohort of student working group showcase competition on May 27, 2017.

Last summer, Student Loan Genius joined the inaugural U.S. cohort of BBVA's program for social entrepreneurs.

Simon Fraser University students Ardalan Benam, Nell Du, and Rachel Chase have been named to the 2018 cohort of the Next 36, a national initiative aimed at transforming Canada's most promising...

«I would highly recommend it, but each student needs to decide if they are ready for the challenge,» says Aster Lau, another of the nine students enrolled in the first cohort.

Nine University of Calgary students are part of the first cohort of the new dual degree program between the Schulich School of Engineering and the Haskayne School of Business.

In October 2017, the first cohort of PSLF program participants eligible to receive student loan forgiveness after working in public sector jobs began filing their requests.

Authored by economists Raymond Fisman, Pamela Jakiela, and Shachar Kariv, along with law professor Daniel Markovits, the research is based on surveys of three cohorts of Yale Law students, one in 2007, another in 2010, and a final one in 2013.

According to Turnaround's research, many of the behavior - management challenges that educators in high - poverty schools face are due to the combustible combination, in the classroom, of two cohorts of students.

But Jackson also found that there was another distinct cohort of teachers who were reliably able to raise their students» performance on his noncognitive measure.

Oregon Infant Mental Health Association (ORIMHA) was formed by the faculty and students of the first cohort of Portland State University's Postgraduate Certificate Program in Infant Mental Health.

Friesen says, «Freshman Academy allows students to go through their classes in a small cohort with the support of their professors, a faculty Learning Coach, and their classmates.

This year I travelled again and she was part of the second cohort of students.

The blog will include contributions from the first ever cohort of students on the Blavatnik School of Government's Master of Public Policy course, who originate from 19 different countries, as well as members of the Commission and scholars at Oxford and Cambridge.

At least this is the case for the mainstream of economic research, and also, importantly, for the way in which it is taught to cohort after cohort of undergraduate students.

Before joining the first cohort of students at the Blavatnik School of Government, I worked as a journalist for state - owned China Central Television, the biggest media outlet in China.

«The first cohort selected will serve as models in creating uniformity across the City on the essential components of Dual Language programs,» explained Milady Báez, Deputy Chancellor for the Division for English Language Learners and Student Support.

According to a staff analysis, the second year of funding will increase the enrollment target by an additional 150 students by 2023 and the four - year graduation rate by an additional 6 percent for the 2023 entering cohort.

In September the first cohort of students will enrol at the new National College for High Speed Rail in Birmingham and Doncaster.

The E-Blocks commissioned by former President John Mahama are among the schools that will receive the first cohort of students to benefit from the government's Free Senior High School program.

You may be the only «non-traditional» student in your incoming cohort (I was), but don't think of this as a disadvantage.

Graduate students, faculty and professionals in the field of earth and atmospheric sciences and their applications form a cohort that tackles hands - on exercises, hears from dozens of prominent experts and forges strong professional networking connections.

At the beginning of graduate school, you're often part of a large student cohort, but as you move forward, you get to the point when you are essentially sailing off on your own.

Across all other disciplines, cohorts, and career paths, the percentage of students with a negative view of any career ranged between 6 % (early - cohort physicists; careers in government) and 24 % (late - cohort chemists; careers in academic teaching).

Here's the result that has gotten the most press: Academic research careers were less popular with the late cohorts than the early ones in all disciplines, suggesting, perhaps, that graduate students are disillusioned by exposure to the lives and careers of their faculty advisers.

The report estimates that providing needy students with the financial support they will need to earn their degrees would cost $ 150 million a year for the first cohort and eventually rise to an annual level of $ 600 million.

To recognize the achievements of the younger cohort of policy researchers, in 2000 the PRI teamed up with the federal funding agencies (CIHR, NSERC, and SSRHC) to establish the Graduate Student Prize, which covers the areas of health and natural sciences, social sciences and humanities, and technology.

The late 1980s featured stark warnings of an impending shortage of scientific talent based on a demographically driven formula for calculating the number of science and engineering Ph.D. s in a given cohort of college - age students.

Two of Mariusz's Ph.D. students will shortly be among the first cohort to be awarded Birkbeck's new M.Sc.

The Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study, directed by Malcolm Sears, MB, ChB, professor in the Department of Medicine at McMaster University, is believed to be «the first to determine the effects of timing of food introduction to cow's milk products, egg, and peanut, on food sensitization at age one in a general population - based cohort,» said lead investigator Maxwell Tran, a research student at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Across two different cohorts of students in a college statistics class, the researchers randomly assigned half the student participants to receive the intervention prompt; the other half received no prompt, serving as the comparison group.

Using data from the 2004/09 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study, the study tracked a cohort of beginning bachelor's degree students over six years, providing a close look at STEM attrition among a group of high - performing college sStudents Longitudinal Study, the study tracked a cohort of beginning bachelor's degree students over six years, providing a close look at STEM attrition among a group of high - performing college sstudents over six years, providing a close look at STEM attrition among a group of high - performing college studentsstudents.

In a late - night text chain, a cohort of BYU communications master's students, entrenched in a selfie - saturated social media culture, asked the question: what motivates me and you — and people of all ages, cultures, genders and religions — to take and share selfies?

Researchers Professor Melinda Mills and doctoral student Anna Barbuscia, from the University of Oxford's Department of Sociology and Nuffield College, used data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study, a nationally representative group of 18,552 families.

«It's hard to see NIH proposing a program in these very important areas at the same time that NIH is not supporting, for example, a [training] program that we had at Harvard, which basically had this terrific cohort of graduate students,» Kirschner said.

Mark Beach, Professor of Radio Systems Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Manager of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Communications (CDT), remarked: «Peter was one of the students in the first cohort of researchers in the CDT.

Moreover, these metrics did not predict other quantitative measures of productivity — the number of conference presentations and independent grants and fellowships received — or the student's progress through the program, further analysis of the Vanderbilt cohort revealed.

Thus, doctoral students who enter our program in bioethics and health policy are part of a cohort of approximately 10 - 15 new students annually in the Department as a whole.

The 2016 cohort of interns joins the more than 400 students since 2001 who have spent a summer learning advanced techniques in molecular biology, genomics and bioinformatics at BTI, while making life sciences discoveries and exploring new careers in research.

The total size of the graduate cohort was 279 students (i.e., all students in the cohort participated in the leadership course); a 100 % response rate was obtained for part 1 of the study, which was done in accordance with the standards of the local ethical review board.