Sentences with phrase «of robust student»

There has been expansion of the SEMA Young Executive Network (YEN), now 1,300 strong; development of a robust student program that brings 500 - plus automotive students to the SEMA Show each year; and substantial support of other productive youth - oriented automotive programs, such as Hot Rodders of Tomorrow.

First, small schools are well positioned to build a strong sense of community through the development of robust student - teacher, parent - teacher, and student - student relationships.

Not exact matches

A robust 68 percent of job seekers who are millennials said an option to work remotely would greatly increase their interest in specific employers, according to a survey by AfterCollege, a career network for college students and recent grads.

The school is also dropping its health insurance plan for students because the new health care law requires employers to provide more robust coverage, making it more expensive, said Tom Sofio, a spokesman for the Franciscan University of Steubenville.

As the class discussion went on I became aware that Coffin's theological posture, though the core of a robust political ethic, was not fully connecting with the new generation of theological students.

An impression one gains from many teachers of these subjects as well as from their students, is that often now a robust sense of Church is accompanied by great willingness to enter into conversation with secular society.

This session ended with a robust panel discuss (led by Kelly Toups of the Oldways Whole Grains Council, a resource specialist for the Plant - Forward Working Group) of how campus dining leaders developed jackfruit pop - up events with social media promotions and marketing to get students interested in vegetarian and blended (meat + jackfruit) menu options.

«It's a big, robust, solid looking structure and the star shape ties in with the name of the product,» says MSU packaging instructor Dennis Young, who organizes this annual competition with Rick Bayer, GPI Academic Subcommittee Chair, as part of GPI lectures to MSU packaging students.

«With the approval of these assessments, New York State is leading the way in new, innovative pathways that not only preserve our robust graduation requirements but also offer students rigorous alternatives that will keep them engaged in learning and result in more career prospects,» Board of Regents Chancellor Betty A. Rosa said.

GIJ has a robust practical teaching and learning structure that is designed to ensure that students of the Institute come out ready for the inky fraternity.

Arguing the new proposal is more «robust» than the original, the official said: «Students will have more protections now than they ever have in the history of the state of New York.»

John Jay has a robust and diverse pipeline of students moving on to post-graduate professional careers in STEM fields, and it is exciting to see these students becoming skilled scientists.»

«The key to the film's performance is the highly - ordered spacing of the pores, which gives it a more mechanically robust structure without impairing the refractive index,» says Xu Zhang, lead author of the paper and a Ph.D. student at NC State.

We observed similar robust increases of intracellular calcium concentrations in response to KCl and ATP in both GFP - expressing (n = 28) and GFP - nonexpressing cells (n = 12), whereas 5 - HT elicited an increase in intracellular calcium only in GFP - expressing cells (KCl: t (40) = 0.98, p = 0.33; ATP t (38) = 1.04, p = 0.30; 5 - HT: t (38) = 5.24, p < 0.0001 Student's t tests; Fig. 4A, B, F).

In the research, PhD student Alastair Key and his research associate Christopher Dunmore, of the University's School of Anthropology and Conservation, showed that the production of stone tools requires the thumb on the non-dominant hand to be significantly stronger and more robust than the fingers.

It is up to university educators to train diverse students to contemplate diverse (yet robust and sustainable) solutions to a diverse and limitless set of biochemistry and molecular biology questions.

Through detailed instruction and personal attention, Lori encourages each student to challenge themselves so that they can reap the benefits of a robust yoga asana and pranayama practice.

Staying true to its cause as an adult dating site, Adult Friend Finder comes complete with adult chat groups, a hot or not liking game, the option to favorite or become «top fans» of others you find sexy,, and a robust community section with photo contests, sexually - themed groups, and a full online sex academy, from which students may pass courses and display certificates of completion on their profile.

The workshop will offer a differentiated active learning experience in the Question Formulation Technique (QFT), a simple yet robust method for teaching students to ask better questions that was developed by Rothstein and Santana through years of trial and error and practice - based research.

Just small steps can be taken in order to prevent against these threats, including regularly updating software and malware protection, ensuring firewalls are robust and up to date and ensuring that access to certain areas of the network are restricted to specific users — this is particularly important in schools, as students and staff alike should only be able to access a certain proportion of the network.

If your school has a robust project - based program, or at least the teachers your students had last year did a lot of PBL, starting your class with a project sends a message to students: let's get right to it, this is how we learn here.

The Midland Academies Trust released a statement in response to the report and acknowledged the shortcomings of disadvantaged pupils, it said: «We are aware of the achievement shortcomings for disadvantaged students within some parts of the trust for 2014, and have taken robust steps to overcome these, with some impact for 2015.»

While content marketing thrives on quick bites that leave people feeling they have learned something new, eLearning students often need more formal, thorough, individualized, or robust instruction to really come away with something of value.

Regardless, our results indicate that, under a robust system of performance evaluation, the turnover of teachers can generate meaningful gains in student outcomes, particularly for the most disadvantaged students.

Students» critical thinking as supported by the utilization of both essential questions and visible thinking routines creates a more robust model for digital portfolios.

Studies are resounding: robust family engagement in schools positively affects student growth, improves test scores, and enhances the overall vibrancy and success of a school.

Rather, the results provide support for robust efforts to regulate the for - profit sector, to improve degree attainment and promote income - contingent loan repayment options for all students, and to more fully address the particular challenges faced by college students of color.

Robust evidence can give them confidence that the approaches they select have the best chance of working for their students.

Among the book's more «robust» conclusions, to use the economists» term, is that the high Swedish expenditure on adult education (which is very well developed in Sweden, as a resource for unemployed workers and as a way of upgrading or changing one's credentials) is not warranted by its returns: But how could it be, when, we learn, «individuals received student pay [all students are paid in Sweden — part of the commitment to equality] at the level of unemployment benefits, which in Sweden replace up to 80 percent of forgone earnings.»

Then there are the tests and examinations that are meant to be a robust, objective measure of students» and schools» performance.

In the 1978 case Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, Justice Lewis Powell's majority opinion supported affirmative action for its contribution to a diverse student body and the «robust exchange of ideas.»

In a months - long tussle between IES and Congress over the evaluation of Upward Bound, IES insisted that a robust test of whether the program made a difference to students required a control group — students eligible for but not served by it.

As he explains; «probably the most robust finding to date from research on accountability policies is that the strongest initial predictors of the impact of policy on student performance are the attributes of schools rather than the attributes of the policies themselves.»

The most robust array of online programs, the deepest, inquiry - based learning experiences, and the most sophisticated assessments will never erase students» need for human connection and adaptability.

I believe that we must confront these complex challenges, as part of a robust response to the educational challenges our neediest students face.

Going forward, though, how a more robust federal partnership might yield the next generation of benefits, especially to raise students» capacity to read and reason, is the pressing question.

It appears that private schools have more robust anti-bullying programs, have students who are more likely to report bullying and yet fewer reported instances of bullying.

Experts say that the contents are correct and adequate; programmers have achieved a robust and secure platform, and tutors do a proactive monitoring of students.

ED's press release explains, «The administration's proposal for fixing NCLB calls for college and career - ready standards, more great teachers and principals, robust use of data and a more flexible and targeted accountability system based on measuring annual student growth.

In part because of its dismal public school system and in part because of a strong religious, especially Catholic, tradition, New Orleans had a robust private school network before Katrina: some 25,000 students, more than a third of the number in the public schools, attended 92 different schools.

In this course, participants will learn to use the Teaching for Understanding framework as a tool for shaping curriculum and classroom experiences that help students develop this kind of robust and transferable understanding.

It is not hard to foresee it casting a warm glow on the kinds of schools Fariña likes, whether or not student achievement is robust.

Only with robust financial aid can HGSE attract the best students, lower the barriers to attendance, and alleviate the burden of debt, which can limit career choices.

These studies still leave plenty of open questions, including whether the estimated effects are robust to more rigorous methods of evaluation, and whether the reforms affect student outcomes beyond grades in the «gateway» college - level course.

In contrast, Ruth Schoenbach and Cynthia Greenleaf elevate the term with a more robust definition: «By adding the word engaged, we mean to distinguish between the skilled but rote and unsophisticated kind of academic literacy that many «successful» students master, and the more analytic, critical, and discipline - specific ways of making meaning emblematic of engaged learners.»

Combining it with Danielson's framework begins to give a more robust profile of our teachers — and to help identify those who are doing the most, or the least, for our students.

They must continue with their own high quality delivery themselves, retain robust models of leadership, and provide educational excellence for their students.

Yet robust evaluations of NMSI's program, conducted by the economist Kirabo Jackson, show how incentivizing outcomes can powerfully affect both short - and long - term student outcomes, particularly when coupled with teacher support (see «Cash for Test Scores,» features, Fall 2008).

«I am confident that the partnership with CEG Digital will allow us to satisfy our strategic ambitions in this area by facilitating the recruitment of new student cohorts in a high quality, pedagogically robust manner,» explained Professor Rebecca Lingwood, Vice-Principal (Student Experience, Teaching and Leastudent cohorts in a high quality, pedagogically robust manner,» explained Professor Rebecca Lingwood, Vice-Principal (Student Experience, Teaching and LeaStudent Experience, Teaching and Learning).

In the past few years, educators and education advocates have put a robust focus on equitable access and representation in STEM fields for disadvantaged groups, such as girls or students of color.