Sentences with phrase «of literacy studies»

JAMES PAUL GEE ([email protected]) is Regents» Professor and Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz..

-- James Paul Gee Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies, Regents» Professor, Arizona State University

Before joining the Charter Center, Edith served for 16 years as the Director of Finance for the Institute of Literacy Studies at Lehman College, where she also graduated with a Degree in Accounting.

Professor of literacy studies at Arizona State University and author of What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy

Not exact matches

In fact, 42 percent of millennials have used methods like payday loans as a way of dealing with debt, according to a recent study by the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center at George Washington University.

In consultation with the U.S. Department of the Treasury and President Bush's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy, the FINRA Investor Education Foundation commissioned the first national study of the financial capability of American adults in 2009.

The overarching research objectives of the National Financial Capability Study were to benchmark key indicators of financial capability and evaluate how these indicators vary with underlying demographic, behavioral, attitudinal and financial literacy characteristics.

This reduces indigenous literacy, forcing some non-Arab Muslims to study Arabic language and culture, and the rest to listen to the preaching and scriptural interpretation of an Arabic Imam.

The AAC monograph, for instance, identifies nine «methods and processes, modes of access to understanding and judgment» (ICC 15) that it thinks are essential to know: logical analysis, verbal literacy, numerical understanding, historical awareness, scientific method, informed and responsible moral choice, art appreciation and experience, international and multicultural experiences, and study of one field in depth.

From the religious angle we have Jews» early and widespread literacy as a sine qua non of studying Torah, which developed into a passion for education generally.

This is the point of view of an elitist from the first world with total disregard to the circu.mstances of lots and lots of people in much more difficult circ.umstances in the rest of the world who have neither the leisure time, education, literacy, or resources to «study» any religion, let alone choose yours to study.

Scott Hahn has founded a study centre specifcally to «promote biblical literacy for Catholic lay people and biblical fuency for Catholic scholars and clergy» — a fruit of Pius XII's Divino Afante Spiritu and Vatican II's Dei Verbum.

He cites the role of the Bible in teaching literacy; Charles Finney's conversion, brought about by his study of Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws; and an 1892 Supreme Court opinion, Church of the Holy Trinity v. U.S., which stated, «This is a Christian nation.»

It is a combo app where children can not only have fun but they will learn many different things such as cognition and knowledge of math, science, social studies, language and literacy as well as social as well as emotional development.

Studies have compared groups of children... who started formal literacy lessons at ages 5 and 7... (T) he early introduction of formal learning approaches to literacy does not improve children's reading development, and may be damaging.

The NPP running mate said this in a lecture on the topic: «The Role of Financial Discipline and Investment in National Development» at a National Financial Literacy and Investment Summit organised by the University Students Association of Ghana (USAG) at the University for Development Studies, Wa campus.

Continuing its series on poverty in the Syracuse region, this week's edition of the Campbell Conversations focuses on an under - studied and under - appreciated aspect of the problem: adult literacy.

Thousands of young Buffalo Public Schools students fell further behind in key literacy benchmarks as they progressed through the district's early grades, according to a study from 2006 to 2011 ordered by a former superintendent.

The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) shows England has fallen from 3rd to 19th place in a global league of reading among ten - year - olds.

A first - of - its - kind study by Michigan State University researchers found that early childhood educators» self - reported ability and enjoyment was high for literacy, but much lower for science and math.

«Black children were slightly older at the first admission than white children, which could represent a subtle marker of diminished access to medical care or a delay in disease recognition,» said Dr. Dotson, who explained other studies have shown that the role of biology in health disparities in chronic diseases is often modest, and there are many other factors, such as access to care and health literacy, that contribute to disparities in care.

More than 90 per cent of educational materials written for kidney disease patients is higher than an average patient's literacy, according to a new study published in the June issue of the National Kidney Foundation's American Journal of Kidney Diseases.

In a related study published recently in the journal Child Abuse and Neglect, Valentino found that maltreating parents, many of whom had experienced childhood trauma, could successfully be taught to use more elaborative and emotion - rich reminiscing with their preschool - aged children, which has been linked to a children's subsequent cognitive abilities in a number of areas including memory, language and literacy development.

«In our review of research, we did find some support across several studies both for using English as the language of instruction and for incorporating the home language into strategies that focused on language and literacy,» said Buysse.

«Conducting formal readability testing, as suggested by the study authors, along with use of patient reviewers from a variety of educational and cultural backgrounds may provide important feedback to enhance the value of materials across a larger spectrum of health literacy levels.»

The report assesses the state of science and health literacy in the United States and those who study it.

In a bid to raise educational achievement for women, whose literacy rate is half that of men, he has promised an «all - out effort to make education free for girls [through the] college level, including professional courses of study.»

The longitudinal study looked at the electrical brain responses of six - month - old infants to speech and the correlation between the brain responses and their pre-literacy skills in pre-school-age, as well as their literacy in the eighth grade at 14 years of age.

The study by academics at the university's Centre for Advances in Behavioural Science compared children with dyslexia to youngsters who had a history of repeated ear infections to see if they had a similar pattern of literacy difficulties.

«The effect is almost as big as financial literacy,» meaning people's ability to digest complicated financial information, says Jan - Emmanuel de Neve, an author of the study.

The 2017 Michigan Scientific Literacy Study is based on a national probability sample of U.S. households from a U.S. Postal Service listing of all occupied households.

The committee that conducted the study and wrote the report said that science knowledge is only one component of science literacy, which also encompasses understanding scientific practices, such as forming and testing hypotheses, and understanding science as a social process, such as the role of peer review.

Web - based learning tools can help deepen science knowledge among all middle school students, and ease the science literacy gap for underachieving students, according to a three - year study published today in the International Journal of Science Education.

One recent academic study assessed the form as being «overly complicated» and written at too high of a literacy level for the average American adult.

She plans to pursue a Ph.D. in neuroscience or psychology, studying the neural underpinnings of biases, beliefs, and information literacy.

The program builds on the outcomes and competencies of the Master of Oriental Medicine program with the addition of 28 doctoral - specific competencies in the domains of research literacy, advanced diagnostic studies, systems - based medicine, and professional development, along with an enhanced clinical training.

For example, a recent study conducted in urban middle schools found that there were more similarities than differences in the reading profiles of struggling students from non-English-speaking and English - speaking households, and that low academic vocabulary knowledge, a major component of advanced literacy skills, was a shared source of difficulty.

Halvorsen's work focuses on elementary social studies education, particularly for children from low socio - economic backgrounds, the history of education, teacher preparation in the social studies, and the integration of social studies and literacy.

Social studies is often neglected in the U.S. primary grades, and although literacy typically gets lots of attention at this age, informational reading and writing often do not.

The full project covers a number of curriculum areas: literacy, numeracy, health and wellbeing, religious and moral education, social studies and technologies.

Over the last few years as education researchers at University of Michigan and Michigan State University, we have worked to address this question through a large study of the effects of PBL on social studies and some aspects of literacy achievement in second - grade classrooms.

The outcomes on standards - based social studies and content literacy assessments indicated that the project - based learning curriculum virtually erased the achievement gap between second graders of high and low - socioeconomic backgrounds (Halvorsen, Duke, Burgar, Block, Strachan, Berka, & Brown, 2012).

To ensure that her students were engaged, New York teacher Lauren Leigh Kelly also designed a Hip - Hop Literature and Culture class, «to engage students in the study of hip - hop texts, including songs, films, and music videos, as a means to develop media literacy and critical - analysis skills.»

A study of New Mexico's prekindergarten program says the initiative has helped children improve their mathematics, vocabulary, and early literacy skills.

Eight assessments generate valid estimates of U.S. national reading performance: the Main NAEP, given at three grades (fourth, eighth, and 12th grades); the NAEP Long Term Trend (NAEP - LTT), given at three ages (ages nine, 13, and 17); the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), an international assessment given at fourth grade; and the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), an international assessment given to 15 - year - olds.

The Department of Education has spent $ 1.8 million for a panel of researchers to analyze studies on how English - language learners develop literacy, but has decided not to publish the resulting report.

For example, the Concept - Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) approach, which has had positive impacts on literacy in a number of research studies (Guthrie, McRae, & Klauda, 2007), is designed to include five motivational practices:

In one of CERG's recent studies, students were 26 percent more likely to correctly identify accurate and inaccurate news stories after a course on media literacy, even if those news stories supported their preconceived beliefs.

She reports the result of a study exploring the relationship of learners» emotional and cognitive development to their competency in information literacy.

How about 2 terms paid study leave (topics such as leading change, differentiation, assessment literacy, leading relevance in mathematics, inclusive STEM management etc etc) for every 5 years of classroom teaching?