Sentences with phrase «relatively weak students»
These results imply that being the best student in a class of relatively weak students and being the worst student in a class of relatively strong students are both better than being the middle student in a heterogeneous class.
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Posselt writes that, in some cases, including astrophysics and biology, admissions committees made allowances for certain «specific «underrated» universities whose reputations for strong training in the field surpassed their college or university's relatively weak overall ranking,» but she provides no hints about which programs these may be, so it is not clear whether any are at institutions that enroll significant numbers of students from non-elite or minority backgrounds.
The converse, those students who are weaker in those cognitive skills, can be partially compensated by utilizing visuals and having relatively difficult texts read to them.
Various studies in the 1970s and 80s described the limits of higher levels of authority in the governance structure for education, and the relatively weak impact of state policy on student outcomes.294 But loose coupling does not mean that no influence flows from superordinate entities.295 Even as schools are busy developing their own policies and initiatives, they pay attention to demands from «outside the system» when those demands are consistent with the directions in which their organizations are already moving.296
Another concern had to do with constantly changing expectations related to student testing, coupled with relatively weak communication.
A couple of years ago I claimed that teaching methods typically considered «student - centered» together represent a «pedagogy of privilege `; such methods might be good — or at least good enough — for relatively strong students, but they often do not meet the needs of students with weaker skills.
Even with Britain's exit from the EU progressing, the relatively weak Pound has attracted additional applications from non-EU students, with their numbers rising 5 % over the last year.