Sentences with phrase «one's immediate peers»

The perception of what is acceptable in doctoral education tends to be based on personal experiences and those of immediate peers.

This also creates for improved student engagement and immediate peer feedback.

AbbVie, a stock that had its own share of problems this year, after all, is still trading at over 11 times forward earnings, and the vast majority of Gilead's immediate peer group (large - cap biotechs) are trading at valuations well north of 13 times forward - looking earnings.

Studying the two different types of twins allowed researchers to estimate the relative influence of three different factors on twins» trust and distrust trust behaviors: heritable factors — that is, genetic influences; shared environmental factors — that is, common experiences of growing up in the same family and interacting with the same immediate peers; and unshared environmental factors — or the siblings» unique experiences in life.

Over time, with Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning and even his former wife Helen Frankenthaler as immediate peers and influences, Motherwell created a stripped - down, somber style of gestural abstraction.

The combining of multiple elementary schools and their students also disrupts a student's immediate peer group.

«Relative deprivation is an idea that says that when we make judgments about ourselves, we judge ourselves next to our immediate peers — people like us in the same room as us — not to the world at large,» Gladwell said in a recent interview with author Daniel H. Pink.

Homeschool children spend their time with children and adults of all ages rather than a limited group of their immediate peers.

The meeting itself is a great chance for grad students working on climate change — broadly defined — to get together with their immediate peers, away from, ahem, pesky senior scientists.

In addition to making decisions that affect themselves and their immediate peers, students can participate in boards of education, grant making, and school assessment at the district and state levels.

Artists from both movements have expressed differing perspectives on the links between their practices and those of their immediate peers.

Her immediate peers from the New York Studio School — Christopher Wool and Joyce Pensato — are also compass points in the stripped down dedication to raw painterly brio they share.

AGW nothing but a greenie / socialist bandwagon, as long as our peers (especially our immediate peers) do, despite it being so in conflict with later information,

Graduates from the class of 2011 will not only be competing with their immediate peers but with the 250,000 graduates leaving university this summer.

Perpetrators of bullying are often supported by their immediate peer groups known as «assistants» and «reinforcers».