Sentences with phrase «previous high school studies»

Students entering grades 10 — 12 are required to have official academic transcripts of their previous high school studies sent to us.

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In 1999, only 17.2 % of the PPE forms in one high school study asked questions about exercise - related cardiac symptoms, a previous diagnosis of a heart murmur or high blood pressure, and about family history of heart attack before age 50 or sudden cardiac death (three main components of the cardiac history portion of the PPE recommended by the AHA);

Sadly, the fact is that, while they are one of the most - if not, the most - preventable of all catastrophic sports injuries, heat - related deaths among high school and college football players in the United States nearly tripled between 1994 and 2009, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Georgia, with an average of nearly three players dying each year during that time period versus about one death per year during the previous 15 years.

Previous studies also support this idea, whereby teenage crash rates fell by as much as 16.5 % when the beginning of high school classes was delayed by one hour.

Previous studies all looked at adults, but never at the 7.8 million high school athletes in the nation — yet nutrition is especially important for these young athletes, whose bodies are still growing while also handling the heavy physical demands of athletics.

«Previous studies have linked intake of high fructose corn syrup sweetened beverages with asthma in school children, but there is little information about when during early development exposure to fructose might influence later health,» said Sheryl L. Rifas - Shiman, MPH, a study lead author and senior research associate at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Instschool children, but there is little information about when during early development exposure to fructose might influence later health,» said Sheryl L. Rifas - Shiman, MPH, a study lead author and senior research associate at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care InstSchool and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute.

Most previous studies on evolution views were done in the Midwest and Northeast, Rissler said, and hearing many of her students say the topic was avoided in their high - school science classes helped prompt the study, she said.

Previous research cited in the study suggests that children placed in special education are at higher risk for dropping out of school and for committing crimes as adults.

A new study led by a Colorado State University researcher indicates that riding with an impaired driver is prevalent among emerging adults, with 33 percent of recent high school grads reporting the risky behavior at least once in the previous year.

Based on a study of more than 30,000 elementary, middle, and high school students conducted in winter 2015 - 16, researchers found that elementary and middle school students scored lower on a computer - based test that did not allow them to return to previous items than on two comparable tests — paper - or computer - based — that allowed them to skip, review, and change previous responses.

«These new studies support previous findings that reducing sodium from very high intake levels to moderate levels improves health,» said committee chair Brian Strom, George S. Pepper Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.

«In runners, the association of higher impact loading rates and injury risk has been demonstrated in previous studies,» says Robert Diaz, MD, resident physician at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital / Harvard Medical School and lead investigator in the study.

Previous studies have found that people who had higher levels of education and years spent in school were more likely to be nearsighted.

Previous studies have found a link between bullying and a higher risk of mental health problems during childhood, such as low self - esteem, poor school performance, depression and an increased risk for suicide.

SCIgen emerged out of Krohn's previous work as co-founder of the online study guide SparkNotes, which included a generator of high - school essays... who co-founded both SparkNotes and the dating site OKCupid, now runs...

Estimates of teacher effects on achievement gains are similar in magnitude to those of previous econometric studies, but the authors found larger effects on mathematics achievement than on reading achievement, and in low socioeconomic status (SES) schools than in high SES schools.

«Previous to using edTech apps, my assessment of skill gaps in student learning was, at best, approximate and anecdotal; that is, I estimated these gaps based on anecdotal observations from class discussion and student evaluations such as unit tests,» said Kevin Neal, a social studies teacher at Valley High School in the West Des Moines school district in IowaSchool in the West Des Moines school district in Iowaschool district in Iowa, USA.

Previous studies have shown that minority and low - income students tend to participate in AP courses and take AP exams at lower rates than middle - class white students at the same high schools.

Most high school teachers believe their physics courses are preparing students for college physics, perhaps, as Sadler discovered, because all previous studies showed that college students who studied physics in high school outperformed their classmates who did not.

It found that students in these schools had higher academic achievement, a «competitive effect» that echoes a previous study of competitive effects in Florida.

According to a study of lottery data, students who apply to charter schools, on average, scored higher in the previous year than the students who didn't submit an application.

Nevertheless, previous studies have been unable to determine reliably whether differences between Academy students» high school experiences and outcomes and those of other students result from the Academy itself or from the program's student targeting or its selection practices.

In this study, 27 high - poverty elementary schools (75 — 100 % eligibility for free or reduced - price lunch) were matched by prior reading achievement and poverty level and randomly assigned to one of two implementation conditions: a core treatment condition that directly replicated implementation procedures used in previous experiments, or a core treatment with structured teacher adaptations condition.

Raw gaps of that magnitude would be similar to those found in previous studies of high - school - age children.

«This study builds on Mathematica's previous body of research on the KIPP model in middle schools by addressing the effects of KIPP elementary and high schools on student achievement and a variety of other outcomes,» explains Christina Tuttle, senior researcher and lead author of the study.

This study used descriptive summaries and regression analysis to elucidate patterns in advanced course - taking in high school among four groups in Washington state: current English learners, monitored English learners (reclassified as English proficient within the previous two school years), former English learners (reclassified as English proficient three or more years ago), and never — English learners.

This study builds on a previous REL Northwest study that found high school GPA was a stronger predictor of college academic performance than scores on standardized college entrance exams among first - time students at the University of Alaska.

Previous studies have found evidence of a link between high school music participation and higher standardized test scores.

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In a previous study (Booker et al., 2011), we found that students attending charter high schools were 7 to 15 percentage points more likely to graduate from high school and 8 to 10 percentage points more likely to enroll in college than a comparison set of students attending traditional public high schools.

Like previous studies [c.f. 30], Darity and his colleagues pointed out that enrollment of underrepresented populations in more advanced courses in high school is highly linked to early identification and nurturing of those students as AIG.

In a nationwide Centers for Disease Control study of tens of thousands of high school students in 2011, almost 30 percent had felt hopeless and depressed for more than two weeks running, just in the previous year.

Although, sampling differences between the US and Dutch participants (i.e. there were no high school students in the US sample) might partly explain this result, it stil is remarkable, as previous Dutch studies showed that D / HH students do have a lower friendship quality than hearing students [1], [8].

Because of skewness and the ordered categorical nature of our variables, we estimated α within a structural equation model framework, which resulted in higher α coefficients.20 Our ω reliability analyses yielded results consistent with previous studies reporting ω reliabilities for preschool and school - age SDQs.9, 16

Consistent with previous studies, 1,7,8,11,12 bullying was reported as more prevalent among males than females and occurred with greater frequency among middle school — aged youth than high school — aged youth.

Advice from designer Robyn Clarke You might not have an entire room to spare, but understanding the process behind the space (above and on previous pages) by Toronto designer Robyn Clarke for two brothers — ages seven and nine — will help you create a study area that can take your children from kindergarten through high school.