Sentences with phrase «on different achievements»

You get additional skulls based on different achievements you get in each level.

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On your journey toward discovering what drives you, it's important to identify what's holding you back from success, as well as your positive traits, and learn how to align the different aspects of your personality for a life of achievement by taking the DISC index.

[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid of your fear of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?

The very simple CNN poll was different from the questions posed in the study and was based on more educational achievement and socioeconomic status than anything.

It begins with Richard Rorty's vision of the achievement of our country, followed by Allan Bloom's more negative and today's libertarians» different and more positive and productive spin on roughly the same understanding of today's psychological facts.

With a new generation on board and with different achievement and direction headed by the two clubs it will be interesting to see who comes out on top after both legs.

Am never one to excuse our continuous failings and Wenger's general ineptitude but all this talk of Afobe been another one we missed out on is a bit preposterous and very very premature... yes he's scored a few goals for Bournemouth but can we all take a step bck and recognise that playing for a team who will be happy just to avoid relegation is very different from playing for a club which demands trophies and high achievements every season (yea, I know we have been found wanting on these fronts for a long time)... some players are better in small clubs with limited expectations and very neat to no pressure... that is why history is littered with stories of good players who went to big clubs and flopped only to go down a few levels and find their form again....

Every position on the pitch is then awarded a different number of points for various achievements during a match.

The Obama agenda has focused almost exclusively on systemic school reform to address the achievement deficits of disadvantaged students: standards, testing, teacher evaluations, and a continued, if different, focus on accountability.

In 1984, Conservative Education Secretary Sir Keith Joseph decided to proceed with a merger, on the premise that the new qualifications should be based on general and subject - specific criteria approved by himself; that the O Level exam boards should take responsibility for carrying forward the O Level A to C grade standards into the new scale, while the CSE boards should do the same for grades D to G, which were to be based on CSE grades 2 to 5 respectively; and that most subjects should be examined through tiered papers focusing on different parts of the grade scale, ensuring that each grade reflected «positive achievement» on appropriate tasks, rather than degrees of failure.

But those results were widely criticized by educators and software makers for lumping together the outcomes from many different products and for testing their impact on student achievement in the 1st year the teacher had used the material.

In prior achievements, these scientists invented a new class of water - based electrolytes that can work under extreme electrochemical conditions that ordinary water can not, and have successfully applied it on different lithium - ion chemistries.

But her most important achievement, she thinks, was shedding new light on the physiology of brain activation by using a variety of different contrast agents.

«Additional research is needed to examine impacts on academic achievement across different demographics and for longer periods and on outcomes in other domains, such as energy balance.

But some perennial topics have acquired a different focus; for example, the question about the internet has shifted from ensuring access to cybersecurity and privacy, and the question dealing with education now focuses on attracting more women and minorities into the scientific workforce rather than on boosting overall student achievement.

Through each of the different eras that have defined its evolution, the once modest contest has grown to the greatest professional bodybuilding competition on the planet, thanks to the hard work of the bodybuilding visionary Joe Weider and of course, the memorable achievements of all contestants who've left their mark on this sport throughout the years.

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Thus the NRC mantra, repeated with slightly different wording throughout the report: «Despite using them for several decades, policymakers and educators do not yet know how to use test - based incentives to consistently generate positive effects on achievement and to improve education.»

The data allow me to use several different methods to analyze the effect of start times on student achievement.

Gary Phillips at the American Institutes for Research has also conducted a series of analyses comparing state achievement on NAEP to international performance on a different international test, the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).

The patterns in Washington, D.C., are quite different, probably because the city is divided between extremes of wealth and sophistication on the one side and poverty and low achievement on the other.

A 2010 study by Richard Freeman and colleagues shows that countries that perform best on TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) not only have a higher average score, but also have 1) less variation in performance and 2) smaller achievement gaps between different demographic groups.

A translation of the results in a way that reveals the effects of peer achievement provides a different perspective: being surrounded by peers who score 1 point higher on average raises a student's own score by 0.3 to 0.5 points, depending on the grade.

(To generate the weights, we regressed a teacher's average student - achievement gain in one class against the three different measures from another class, resulting in weights of.758,.200, and.042 on value - added, student survey, and classroom observation, respectively).

On the vertical axis is predictive power, or correlation with a teacher's average student - achievement gain working with a different group of students in 2009 — 10.

The paper defines performance assessment and different types of performance tasks; reviews recent history of performance assessments in the United States; and summarizes research on the quality, impact, and burden of performance assessments used in large - scale K - 12 achievement testing.

Figure 1 compares the three different methods (classroom observations, student surveys, and student achievement gains) on reliability and predictive power.

Have the last 50 years of education research led us to fundamentally different conclusions about the impact of teachers on the educational achievement of students?

If a teacher behaves unusually on the day of the observation, then the student surveys and achievement gains may tell a different story.

The achievement gains based on that measure were more reliable measures of a teacher's practice (less variable across different classes taught by the same teacher) and were more closely related to other measures, such as classroom observations and student surveys.

Among students assigned to different teachers with the same Overall Classroom Practices score, math achievement will grow more for students whose teacher is better than his peers at classroom management (i.e., has a higher score on our Classroom Management vs. Instructional Practices measure).

Interestingly, students with widely different views on academic achievement responded to the peer pressure similarly.

«The teachers in each year level are rotating with one another... doing different activities based on Aboriginal culture — from the history to the art, through to Aboriginal Australians [and their achievements]...»

You will embark on a journey of self - examination about your mindset and your beliefs about different students and their achievement, learn to have courageous conversations about differences, and gain a deeper understanding of the blind spots we all hold.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) measures achievement in different grades and attempts to put it on a common scale.

Literature reviews by scholars Alan Krueger, Larry Hedges, and Rob Greenwald have arrived at different conclusions than Hanushek's concerning the effects of resources on student achievement.

With respect to the research on test - based accountability, Principal Investigator Jimmy Kim adds: «While we embrace the overall objective of the federal law — to narrow the achievement gap among different subgroups of students — NCLB's test - based accountability policies fail to reward schools for making progress and unfairly punish schools serving large numbers of low - income and minority students.

His dissertation, «The Effects of School Context and Course Placement on Racial Achievement Dynamics in High School: Modeling Key Elements of Social and Structural Theory,» explores how school setting, socio - economic status, and academic engagement relate to the achievement of students of diffeAchievement Dynamics in High School: Modeling Key Elements of Social and Structural Theory,» explores how school setting, socio - economic status, and academic engagement relate to the achievement of students of diffeachievement of students of different races.

Employing information on in - class time use provided by a nationally representative sample of U.S. teachers in the 2003 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), we estimate the impact of teaching practices on student achievement by looking at the differential effects on the same student of two different teachers, using two different teaching strategies.

This approach of using data from different sources allows for a focus on closing achievement gaps without narrowing the number of students who qualify for supplemental educational services or public school choice priority.

The study of teacher preparation models by Constantine et al., showing that students with an alternatively certified teacher did no worse on achievement tests than students whose teacher came through the traditional route, shed light on the effectiveness of different teacher training strategies.

Portsmouth High School teachers addressed a different aspect of homework completion and its impact on overall student achievement.

His story illustrates that political and educational leadership are inextricably linked, as he describes his 14 - year focus on and commitment to narrowing the achievement gap while working tirelessly with his different constituents to bring them into the process.

The U.S. Department of Education should fund research and pilot demonstration programs that will provide empirical evidence of how effective different kinds of teacher tenure policies are on raising teacher quality and student achievement

A Different Look at the Causes of the Achievement Gap: The Matthew Effect In this hour - long presentation, David Liben provides a thorough review of research on the causes of the reading achievement gap and offers practical suggestions — and free resources — for teachers to narrow the gap and increase aAchievement Gap: The Matthew Effect In this hour - long presentation, David Liben provides a thorough review of research on the causes of the reading achievement gap and offers practical suggestions — and free resources — for teachers to narrow the gap and increase aachievement gap and offers practical suggestions — and free resources — for teachers to narrow the gap and increase achievementachievement.

A third study using a different approach and using data only on Texas schools finds mixed results in the first year of implementation including negative impacts on student achievement in elementary and middle school, and positive effects on high school graduation rates.

That could be the case, but the pattern of increasing achievement among younger students and flat high school achievement is observed on two different versions of the NAEP as well as on international assessments used in the U.S.

Because NCLB schools are evaluated primarily on the basis of achievement levels, the evaluation can not readily detect how much growth is taking place within a school, simply because children come with dramatically different educational endowments.

The annual award, announced today, honors large urban school systems that demonstrate the strongest student achievement and improvement while narrowing performance gaps between different groups based on family income and ethnicity.

After exploring some different ways of measuring segregation, Rivkin also looks at data on the connection between desegregation and student achievement.