Sentences with phrase «of student observations»

Despite the tens of thousands of student observations, those in schools under private management are clustered within only 30 schools managed by for - profit organizations and 16 managed by nonprofit ones.

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At the same time — while Perkins stopped short of asking — she relied on her longtime observations of non-designers and student designers.

This observation is underscored with a special pointedness in the 1979 report of the Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education, titled Fair Practices in Higher Education and somewhat ominously subtitled «Rights and Responsibilities of Students and Their Colleges in a Period of Intensified Competition for Enrollments.»

An inductive, empirical approach in a field such as anatomy would certainly demand more than that each new student start from scratch, with only such general observations as that people come with parts such as heads, thoraxes, loins, thighs, hearts, kidneys, spleens and an assortment of tubes.

Every American student, by reading, discussion, and observation, should be thoroughly acquainted with the fundamentals of the political system of his country.

The teacher, as an enabler or equipper or coach, no matter how expert he is as a scholar, is in his teaching function asked to help the student to release and develop powers of observation and reasoning that will serve him as a continuing learner.

Waldorf schools aim to help students learn to find meaning in life and to understand literature, music, theater, and dance from experience, not just observation and study, while fostering a lifelong love of learning and use of the child's imagination.

Linden students learn correct technique, develop listening and observation skills, and experience the gift of making music for others and themselves.

Abbott's experience serves to back up Viertel's observation that «if students have participated in growing the crops themselves in the school garden, they are much more open to trying new things they've never seen or heard of before.

Every afternoon, Mrs. Q — who asked to remain anonymous out of concern for her job — photographed the lumps on her orange school lunch tray, and shared her observations about the food and how it affected students.

From 1970 - 1971, as a graduate student in Anthropology and Folklore, I conducted observations and interviews at the Chicken Ranch, a house of prostitution in La Grange, Texas.

When Scott Bearby, General Counsel for the NCAA, was asked by yours truly at the NCAA Convention in San Antonio last week about who holds the athletic trainers and medical staff accountible about return - to - play decisions for student athletes, it opened the door to an interesting observation about the culture of concussions.

Summer Science Splash Camp is a week - long residential camp — an immersion in scientific observations and experiments for middle - school students — on the campus of Westminster College in New Wilmington, PA..

Having attended middle school lessons at our school, and reviewed several students» Lesson Books, I am impressed by the focus on cultivating powers of observation and perception as a basis...

Having attended middle school lessons at our school, and reviewed several students» Lesson Books, I am impressed by the focus on cultivating powers of observation and perception as a basis for comprehending scientific principles.

The Waldorf School of Princeton's comprehensive program begins with the observation of children and also may include child studies, consultations with parents as well as additional educators and / or specialists, various assessments, and individual and / or group lessons with other students.

They Include: * Individuals, families, and corporate or community groups * Students, parents, professionals, and retirees * Seasonal, weekly, occasional, or one - time volunteers Depending on their interests, experience, and the time they have available, volunteers contribute to Mass Audubon in a variety of meaningful ways — welcoming visitors to the sanctuaries, maintaining trails, tending gardens, submitting wildlife observations, educating people of all ages, assisting with ecological management projects.

If you think that one of your students might have selective mutism, you should share your observations with his parents.

The system is based on multiple measures of performance including student achievement and rigorous classroom observations.

Teachers can determine their overall rating by finding their Measures of Student Learning rating on the y - axis and their Observations (teaching) rating on the x-axis and plot where the two points meet.

If a teacher receives a rating of Developing in Measures of Student Learning and Effective in Observations, the final rating would be Effective.

The State Education Department has yet to issue final regulations on how the Measures of Student Learning and Observations will be determined.

Following a three - year study that involved about 3,000 teachers, analysts said the most accurate measure of a teacher's effectiveness was a combination of classroom observations by at least two evaluators, along with student scores counting for between 33 percent and 50 percent of the overall evaluation.

Whereas Mr. Hayford must have made this irresponsible conclusive statement which can only be based on observation but not one born out of a study, the management and SRC of GIJ must note that as an institution of higher learning, students are to be seen to live according to the ethics of the profession.

Recentanalysis by the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project found that teachers» student survey results are predictive of student achievement gains and produce more consistent results than classroom observations or achievement gain measures.

In his State of the State address, Mr. Cuomo argued that rooting half of a teacher's evaluation in student test scores and the other half on observation is the only way to improve stubbornly low pupil performance rates.

In this plan, 50 % of the teacher's evaluation will be reliant on the scores students received on state exams while the other 50 % will be based on independent observation.

Recent analysis by the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project found that teachers» student survey results are predictive of student achievement gains and produce more consistent results than classroom observations or achievement gain measures.

A review of the states implementing evaluations shows two central components to conduct and compare teacher evaluations: in - class observation and growth in student performance on assessments, including standardized tests.

I believe both components — in - class observation and growth in student performance — are necessary and that use of the state test is needed to provide a statewide basis of comparison.

Whatever the parties negotiate or King decides, the evaluation system will be based 20 percent on standardized test scores when applicable, 20 percent on other evidence of student learning and 60 percent on classroom observation and other measures of teacher effectiveness, in keeping with the 2010 state law on teacher evaluation.

The new evaluation system will provide clear standards and significant guidance to local school districts for implementation of teacher evaluations based on multiple measures of performance including student achievement and rigorous classroom observations.

Working together, they will develop and test a variety of learning experiences in which students use online simulations to model energy - releasing and energy - requiring reactions, analyze and interpret data to make predictions about energy phenomena, and use evidence from their own observations or from simplified versions of scientific articles to explain phenomena and construct and critique arguments.

In recent years, based on observations at the WIYN telescope at Kitt Peak, Arizona, Mathieu and his students have established that over three - quarters of blue stragglers, in fact, have stellar companions.

Overall, students were likely to be successful on parts of the testing «that involved limited sets of data and making straightforward observations from those data,» he observes.

Regarding the newly reported scores, Buckley says that «As a citizen and a parent, I was not particularly happy — although pleased to see that the vast majority of students was capable of making straightforward scientific observations from data.»

A psychology PhD student from the University of Sheffield shares her initial observations on how well local people understand the behavior of tornadoes.

These may include portfolios of student work, classroom observations, achievement measures, and intelligence scores.

The original observation, that 10 minutes of classical music made college students briefly perform better on a paper - folding task, was twisted so out of context that the governor of Georgia used tax money to buy a classical music CD for every baby born in the state.

Using pre - and post-course surveys, open - ended questions, self - reports of section leader teaching practices, and classroom observations, the researchers compared student examination scores and end - of - course evaluations from 150 Masters - level candidates in the «Principles of Epidemiology» introductory course.

More recently, Ajo - Franklin's group published a follow - up study led by UC Berkeley graduate student Nate Lindsey, «Fiber - Optic Network Observations of Earthquake Wavefields,» in Geophysical Research Letters (GRL), which demonstrates the viability of using fiber - optic cables for earthquake detection.

Previous methods for performing this type of tuning have either required extensive manual labor, or a large amount of very accurate observation data, which has limited the applicability of these models until now,» Doctoral student Antti Kangasrääsiö from Aalto University explains.

Team member and former masters student Irene Vikatou needed only good observation to detect a high prevalence of a rare type of bone lesion called osteochondritis dissecans (OD) in the foot bones.

To determine the effect of being under observation, the researchers took the students» pictures and told them that in some rounds the opponents would see their picture and in others they wouldn't.

Based on earlier observations and modeling by Falke and a team of graduate students and faculty at CSU, the Arikaree River in eastern Colorado, which is fed by the aquifer and used to flow about 70 miles, will dry up to about one - half mile by 2045.

The students expect Euclid observations to yield an even more accurate picture of the Milky Way.

By applying an innovative theoretical analysis to observations from a first - of - its - kind experimental setup, LANP graduate student Bob Zheng and postdoctoral research associate Alejandro Manjavacas created a methodology that solar engineers can use to determine the electricity - producing potential for any arrangement of metallic nanoparticles.

But not long afterward, work by one of his students, Wojciech Zurek, inspired Wheeler to begin talking about observations in terms of information.

Students at schools equipped with soap and water, instead of sanitizer, were 1.3 times more likely to wash their hands during simultaneous video surveillance and in - person observation when compared with periods of in - person observation alone.

Ultimately, careful observations and analyses of the sun by Dicke, his students and colleagues could not confirm the idea.