Sentences with phrase «recent academic study»

One recent academic study assessed the form as being «overly complicated» and written at too high of a literacy level for the average American adult.

Panic and intense anxiety don't have a great effect on decision - making, a recent academic study by American psychologists found.

And so I read with interest about a recent academic study probing the relationship between creativity and credit.

Recent academic studies highlight the importance of early childhood in kids» lives.

Recent academic studies estimate the 1.5 °C carbon budget is likely to be 200 - 415GtCO2 from 2011 to 2100 for different likelihoods.

It might, for example, be job - training you once received, or recent academic studies you undertook as part of career orientation.

Researchers at Portsmouth Business School in the United Kingdom conducted a review of recent academic studies on project management to answer the question: «what components exist across the board in the worldwide practice of 21 st century Project Management and what are some universal challenges that exist?».

Not exact matches

In one recent study, Choi and several colleagues wrote that smartphone addiction, like other impulse - control disorders, can «interfere with school or work; decrease real - life social interaction; decrease academic ability; and cause relationship problems.»

Coming back to the broader issue of data innovation, it is interesting to note that dataset merges have been behind a growing number of important academic studies and research findings in recent years.

We know a lot from various kinds of evidence: a) the experience of the real estate sector, where recent studies by Macdonald Realty and Re / Max have confirmed the dominance of foreign buyers at the top end of the market especially, as stated for years by individual realtors (accounts often denigrated as «anecdotal»); b) there is the digging of several investigative journalists, and most notably by Ian Young of the South China Morning Post who has boldly and effectively raised issues native journalists have sometimes shied from; c) academic work, including the books by Katharyne Mitchell (2004) Beyond the Neoliberal Line and David Ley Millionaire Migrants (2011).

All this despite the fact that private schooling doesn't actually yield better outcomes for students, according to a recent Statistics Canada report (instead, the apparent academic success of private school student is due to their socioeconomic backgrounds).9 A UBC study also found that students from public schools scored higher in first - year university classes than their private school counterparts.10

It's a big deal in light of North Carolina's other and very similar academic shenanigans (Peppers struggled at everything but African and African - American studies classes, which we'd assumed was a more recent thing for UNC).

However, a recent study suggests that this connection is false or actually the opposite and that the results are due to the fact that moms with an academic education (and supposedly a higher IQ) tend to breastfeed their babies more.

A recent study found that when fathers encourage and promote the academic and athletic achievements of their daughters, the girls were more likely to grow up and experience career success and financial well - being.

A recent study, published in the April 2015 issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family, suggests that kids» academic and emotional well - being is not necessarily contingent on the amount of time they spend with their mothers.

Indeed, a recent US academic study led by Dr Kurt Hübner, director of the Institute for European Studies at the University of British Columbia, makes the case that Irish unity could be worth 36 billion euros for the island of Ireland overall, with long - term improvements in productivity and growth.

In a recent study of academic salaries in 28 countries that included Brazil, Russia and India, China scored among the lowest when it was measured by purchasing - power parity.

From Mexicali to Harvard by V. Chase, 8 July 2005 Luis León, a third year doctoral student studying immunology at Harvard University and a recent recipient of a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Gilliam Graduate Fellowship, talks about his path from minimum - wage jobs to academic researcher.

A recent study on the career preferences of science graduate students, published in PLoS ONE, has attracted a lot of attention for one of its conclusions: that student interest in academic research careers declines over the course of graduate school.

While it is known that red and yellow pigments found in bright fruit and vegetables increase skin yellowness, recent studies have shown that «carotenoid coloration is a more important factor in healthy appearance than melanin coloration,» clarify the academics.

This is the first nationwide academic study in the United Kingdom since last winter's failed Copenhagen talks and the recent Climategate scandal.

I was riding high on a series of recent academic honors for my work studying toxigenic molds and was looking forward to spending a sabbatical leave at The Institute for Genomic Research, now the J. Craig Venter Institute, in Maryland.

In a recent Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica study, poor academic performance, measured as grade point average (GPA) at age 16, was a robust and strong predictor of suicide attempt up to middle age.

Led by researchers at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, the study builds upon recent findings that the same program generally improves the behavior and academic skills of children and helps shy students be more engaged in their classwork.

Results of recent studies led by senior investigator Ruth Milanaik, DO, in which testers identifying themselves as 15 - year - old boys and girls called 244 health food stores in 49 states (both independently owned and large - chain retailers) will be the focus of three presentations Sunday at the Pediatric Academic Societies meeting in San Diego.

Early childhood programs have long been known to be beneficial to children from low - income backgrounds, but recent studies have cast doubt on their ability to substantially increase the rate of children's academic achievement.

Most academic studies have found little evidence of any tangible long - term economic impact, with the most recent concluding that in most cases the Olympics are a money - losing proposition for host cities.

For example, a recent study conducted in urban middle schools found that there were more similarities than differences in the reading profiles of struggling students from non-English-speaking and English - speaking households, and that low academic vocabulary knowledge, a major component of advanced literacy skills, was a shared source of difficulty.

One researcher suggested that recent studies saying current middle school programs focus more on developing a nurturing climate than strong academics, and the emphasis on high - stakes tests in eighth grade, may have spurred some principals to drop service - learning programs, according to Kielsmeier.

Recent studies confirm that many new and prospective faculty members are dissatisfied and disillusioned with academic careers.

However, many make good academic strides during the year, and that's not well captured by current measures — or by recent studies.

Although students in the Southeastern region of the United States appear to have made some of the greatest academic strides over the long term, the overall picture of student performance in the nation is one of some early gains followed by a recent stabilization, a new U.S. Department of Education study reports.

Our findings are consistent with those of a recent study by Richard Patterson and Robert Patterson, which found that in - class computer usage reduces academic performance by between 0.14 and 0.37 points on a four - point grade scale among undergraduate students at a private liberal - arts college.

The U.S. Department of Education's National Postsecondary Student Aid Study for the 2011 - 12 academic year (the most recent survey) includes data on how much graduate students borrow broken out by race and type of school.

Not only are there huge opportunities for environmental and financial benefits of energy efficient buildings, but recent studies, including the James Review on the procurement of education buildings, have demonstrated the direct link between the quality of school buildings and academic attainment.

The University of Salford published a recent study showing that the classroom environment can affect both learning and academic progress by as much as 25 per cent.

In a recent blog post, Associate Professor Hunter Gehlbach discussed his findings from his latest research study, «Creating birds of similar feathers: Leveraging similarity to improve teacher - student relationships and academic achievement.»

Recent and ongoing projects include a researcher - practitioner partnership focused on familial and school - based relationships that support adolescents» emerging sense of purpose, academic engagement, achievement and post-secondary school transitions; Project Alliance / Projecto Alianzo, a multiethnic study of parental involvement in education during adolescence; and collaboration with a local school district focused on school choice policies to examine equity and access to high quality schools, along with demographic variations in parental priorities and experiences with these policies.

Although some other studies have advocated faster immersion in English, the most recent national study suggests that keeping students in native - language classes for at least five years gives them a better foundation for future academic success.

There is no causal relationship between fluctuations in the size of primary schools and academic performance, SPA faculty members Seth Gershenson and Laura Langbein co-wrote in a recent study.

Study Links Brain Anatomy, Academic Achievement, and Family Income MIT News, 4/17/15 «In recent years, the achievement gap in the United States between high - and low - income students has widened, even as gaps along lines of race and ethnicity have narrowed, says Martin West, an associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an author of the new study.&rStudy Links Brain Anatomy, Academic Achievement, and Family Income MIT News, 4/17/15 «In recent years, the achievement gap in the United States between high - and low - income students has widened, even as gaps along lines of race and ethnicity have narrowed, says Martin West, an associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an author of the new study.&rstudy.»

A recent study of public pre-K in Texas, which is aimed toward poor children and those with limited English proficiency, finds relatively large academic benefits, even though the program itself is not considered «high quality.»

Other teacher attributes: Recent studies suggest that measures of teachers» academic skills, such as SAT or ACT scores, tests of verbal ability, or the selectivity of the colleges they attended, may predict their effectiveness more accurately than the characteristics discussed above.

Now a recent study in Education Next from researchers at Mathematica Policy Research examines whether KIPP's positive effects are attributable to better peers, which would consequently make it difficult to replicate the KIPP model and academic successes in public schools.

There is no national standard for a «high quality» charter school, but U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan wants one because recent studies have raised concerns that dozens of charter schools fall short of academic standards and are financially troubled.

Among the findings and research - driven strategies highlighted throughout the Education Leader's Guide to Reading Growth is data from a recent study that shows «struggling - to - successful» readers read approximately six minutes more per day on average than «persistently struggling» readers — findings that may have a long - term impact on a student's academic career.

«CAP chose to ignore the most recent research on the academic performance of voucher programs, including the recently released study showing improved academic achievement for Louisiana Scholarship Program students.

A recent report from the Learning Policy Institute, a research and policy organization in Palo Alto, cites studies that found «that teachers of color boost the academic performance of students of color,» on measures such as improved reading and math scores, graduation rates and greater aspirations to attend college.

And yet, «results,» or rather, academic improvement, act more like a fig leaf, especially in light of numerous recent studies that show charter schools, taken on the whole, actually do a worse job of educating students than regular public schools.

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