Sentences with phrase «particular students as»

Neither a student's ability nor the difficulty of the item can be directly observed, but both can be inferred from the pattern of answers given by a particular student as well as by other students taking the same test.

Not exact matches

In particular, Code.org strives to reach underserved minority groups such as girls and Hispanic and African American students so they, too, have a chance to learn about computer sciences.

In particular, the IRS officially stated that former Corinthian students whose loans are discharged through a borrower defense to repayment WILL NOT owe taxes as a result.

And, as Zapolsky was no doubt aware, no organization had been more dogged in raising those concerns than New America — and, in particular, a 28 - year - old law student named Lina Khan.

Groups that only welcome a particular demographic can continue to operate, just not as officially sanctioned student organizations with Vanderbilt funds.

In particular, I should wish it to be «for» several students at the latter institution, who during my three months as a visiting professor there showed me such loving friendship: David Asher, Susan Bansgrove, Rick Morden, and Deborah van der Goes.

Above all, I think it's critical that college students — particular Christians — seek out a welcoming community of like - minded peers to serve as a support structure.

Although there are many ways I try to live out my vocation as a female professor, one particular way is with undergraduate students.

At the end of the study, the particular recommendations come as no great surprise: seminary training should include the study of asceticism and the regimen of ascetical discipline; assessment should be of the candidate's capacity to live a life of chaste celibacy and spiritual poverty; wilful deviations from discipline should be taken to indicate the lack of a religious vocation; those who form and mentor students should be sterling examples of ascetical discipline.

While some people whom I would include in this mode of thought are involved with «religious studies,» particularly at the undergraduate level, and see autobiographies as a valid way of introducing students to different religious traditions (and I would agree that it is a valid way), the main drive, I believe, is focused on the central task of theology — serving the hearing of the word of God in a particular time and place.

Because, therefore, I see these three facts so deeply determinative among theological students in particular, but generally evident in this generation as a whole, I devote the remainder of this lecture to a description of them:

That course had an even more profound effect on me: It made me decide to devote my life to the study of East Asia, Japan in particular, and I entered the graduate program at Harvard as the only student in sociology and Far Eastern languages.

At that time, of course, he knew nothing in particular of Lewis, but over the next three years as student» and more years after that as friend and....

For students of the history of science, this shameful incident is etched indelibly in their minds as an example of the bullying of science by those having an apparent stake in the upholding of a particular religious worldview.

The students function as collaborative researchers, people who are themselves attempting to identify and understand the particular facts to be uncovered in this situation, and how ministry is to be undertaken.

He apologised for not taking a particular student into the household as boarder, there was no room left.

Nearly all students were members of a particular college or Bursa as it was called, and Martin was almost certainly in St George's.

As noted above, post-Enlightenment students of human culture have continued to use mythic figures like Apollo and Dionysius to distinguish in trenchant form the ethos of particular cultures.

One Cowboy wrestling family member in particular, I have had the honor and privilege to coach, as well as mentor beyond high school is 1996 alumni Joe Iacono, a true student - athlete motivated by sheer determination to follow and achieve his dreams.

As her report put it: «The research suggests that, while there may be little return to trying to make students more gritty as a way of being (i.e., in ways that would carry over to all aspects of their lives at all times and across contexts), students can be influenced to demonstrate perseverant behaviors — such as persisting at academic tasks, seeing big projects through to completion, and buckling down when schoolwork gets hard — in response to certain classroom contexts and under particular psychological conditions.&raquAs her report put it: «The research suggests that, while there may be little return to trying to make students more gritty as a way of being (i.e., in ways that would carry over to all aspects of their lives at all times and across contexts), students can be influenced to demonstrate perseverant behaviors — such as persisting at academic tasks, seeing big projects through to completion, and buckling down when schoolwork gets hard — in response to certain classroom contexts and under particular psychological conditions.&raquas a way of being (i.e., in ways that would carry over to all aspects of their lives at all times and across contexts), students can be influenced to demonstrate perseverant behaviors — such as persisting at academic tasks, seeing big projects through to completion, and buckling down when schoolwork gets hard — in response to certain classroom contexts and under particular psychological conditions.&raquas persisting at academic tasks, seeing big projects through to completion, and buckling down when schoolwork gets hard — in response to certain classroom contexts and under particular psychological conditions.»

In particular, such stressors compromise the higher order thinking skills that allow students to sort out complex and seemingly contradictory information such as when the letter C is pronounced like K (what psychologists call «executive functioning»), and their ability to keep a lot of information in their heads at once, a skill known as «working memory» that's crucial to success in school, college, and work.

Daycare providers should be able to give a smack to one of their wards should misbehaviour occur, and teachers should be allowed to spank their students as a way of teaching lessons — especially the littlest ones in preschool, as the reasoning I have read here appears to be that children around that particular age just can't understand alternatives to spanking.

Another important factor to consider when comparing your school or district with another one is how many students are qualified for free and reduced price lunch in each, and what percentage of the cafeteria volume is represented by paying students; note that the percentage of students in any category eating in the cafeteria is not the same thing as the number of students who are classified as being in that particular category.

Yes Madison just called a key platform of the Dems, student loan forgiveness, a wicked project] for an equal division of property, or for any other improper or wicked project, will be less apt to pervade the whole body of the Union than a particular member of it; in the same proportion as such a malady is more likely to taint a particular county or district, than an entire State.

The institute drew particular attention to plans to allow universities to recruit as many students with AAB grades at A-level as they like, a plan which it found would entrench social divisions in the higher education sector.

Miliband's repeated use of the language of «our economy», «wages,» and «working people,» coupled with his shunning of variants of «control» and of references to «migrants» as a group or in particular categories such as students and family members, supports this sort of interpretation.

In this particular case, the woman was coming to help her sister in - law — a postgraduate student at the University of Oxford — with childcare as she finished her studies.

Rosters are added as student registrations are compiled for the particular class, and only after the minimum number of registrations have been received.

Available information indicates that, this particular visit is the first of its kind as far as independence anniversary celebration by Ghanaian students in Central China is concerned.

If in the end the student feels that it is logistically more feasible or even more desirable to pursue another academic route, sometimes that is the best for that particular student at that time, and as a mentor, you have no choice but to support the student in that decision.

These are a great resource even if there isn't any information on the particular company you are applying for, as there is some common practice and reading about students» experiences with other employers should reassure you.

My current position as co-PI and deputy director of Bio-Link, the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technology Resource and Education Center for Biotechnology (see box below), gives me the opportunity to help train community college students in general — and underrepresented minorities in particular — interested in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

As a graduate student at the University of California, San Francisco, he heard molecular biologist Cynthia Kenyon describe how worms with a mutation in a particular gene had double the lifespan of those without it.

But setting that aside for now, the fact remains that these particular students do have an incredibly strong identity as Nittany Lions — and recognizing that identity can help us understand their behavior.

As a grad student, I once spent 2 months demonstrating that three particular amino acids on a protein in the arabinose operon (the group of genes that allows bacteria to metabolize a certain sugar) do not play a role in causing that protein to bind to other copies of itself.

As a graduate student or postdoc in science, you may feel outside pressure to conform to a particular ideal.

By the time I'd arrive at my computer, there'd be as many as 50 e-mails from students commenting on the lecture I'd just given, asking me if I'd read a certain article or visited a particular Web site.

Each map, such as those for Natural Selection and Statistical Reasoning, shows how students» understanding of a particular topic might progress from the simplest ideas in kindergarten to more sophisticated ideas in high school.

The method, known as regression - discontinuity analysis, compares two groups of students on either side of a particular threshold.

A unit on the Philosophy of Science and the History of Science (taught by the professor or a visiting colleague) could benefit all inferences made of scientific studies as well as expose students to alternative ways of assessing particular problems.

In particular, Shah and her colleagues — her student Been Kim, whose PhD thesis is the basis of the new paper, and Cynthia Rudin, an associate professor of statistics at the MIT Sloan School of Management — were trying to augment a type of machine learning known as «unsupervised.»

«This incident, and its handling by the relevant authorities, are symptoms of problematic attitudes ingrained in UC Berkeley as a whole, and the Astronomy Department in particular,» the graduate students wrote.

As a mom, student, counselor, wife, etc., life is always busy, but recently it seems to have a particular edge to it.

As I travel throughout India and the United States to research yoga therapy, I notice that even masters who write books and articles recommending specific sequences for particular conditions often don't use these sequences when they work with students.

This leads me to wonder whether students of classical music, who show particular promise, are encouraged to apply for scholarships at specialist schools, as the state system is simply not tuned up to provide the high - level teaching required for the most talented?

I'm going to focus on the development of students» academic discourse as a high - leverage instructional practice that contributes to deeper learning, one in which our urban students need particular explicit instruction.

Students improvised different scenes (such as «your character finds food») and emotions («your character is angry») by themselves to become more and more familiar with their particular character.

Based on these statements, we can categorize the schools roughly into five groups: those that have a child - centered or progressive educational philosophy and typically seek to develop students» love of learning, respect for others, and creativity (29 percent of students); those with a general or traditional educational mission and a focus on students» core skills (28 percent of students); those with a rigorous academic emphasis, which have mission statements that focus almost exclusively on academic goals such as excelling in school and going to college (25 percent of students); those that target a particular population of students, such as low - income students, special needs students, likely dropouts, male students, and female students (11 percent of students); and those in which a certain aspect of the curriculum, such as science or the arts, is paramount (7 percent of students).

But the category of English - language learners differs from other subgroups, such as students of a particular race.

No matter which piece a particular researcher focuses upon, though, it's important to pay attention to matters of sample size and context and actual student impacts — as opposed to, say, teachers» qualitatively gathered impressions.