Sentences with phrase «research and study skills»

How can two teachers share responsibility for teaching a diverse group of students whose reading, writing, research and study skills vary from well below to above grade level?

Not exact matches

That was the driving force behind both the Georgetown research and another recent study out of the University of Pennsylvania which focused on improving language skills through the use of tDCS.

For example, Canada's support will help fund research studies, surveys, conferences, and training focused on business and entrepreneurship skills, access to markets for products and services, and technological innovation.

With specialized streams of study in Biotechnology Management & Entrepreneurship, as well as Innovative Management, the EMBA program at the Faculty of Business provides students with the theory, skills, experiential learning and research opportunities to advance their knowledge and enhance their employability in these flourishing fields.

Unfortunately for the Japanese labour markets, as with many other countries, many young intellectuals seek further study elsewhere in countries like the UK that have renowned Universities and research facilities, taking a large portion of the skilled labour force the Japanese markets need, into other areas of work such as research and academia, a less hands on field that benefits the computer science industry on the whole but does not help specific firms achieve their targets directly.

Research into the role of the churches in community mental health may take two directions: (1) statistical studies, empirically designed, as to the effect of religious beliefs, membership in, and activities of, members of churches and synagogues, and (2) the effects of training in mental health principles and skills of clergymen and laymen in improving their effectiveness in religious behavior.

«The possibility that forces being trained by the US now will eventually turn on the IDF [Israel Defense Forces], using enhanced skills and equipment, is exceedingly high,» wrote David Bedein and Arlene Kushner in a 2009 study for the pro-Israeli Center for Near East Policy Research.

Many of those we have trained in extension of postharvest technology have gone on to use their knowledge and skills for their Master's or PhD research studies, to design extension programs for local farmers, and to develop their own postharvest handling «train the trainers» programs in their own languages.

Our study draws from this existing research and was designed to examine the ways in which camp is a learning environment that provides kids with opportunities to practice and develop SEL skills.

A 2010 study published in Behaviour Research and Therapy found that kids who lack problem - solving skills may be at a higher risk of depression and suicidality.

Instead, research and studies have found that co-sleeping and bed - sharing give children the capacity to fully engage with others, develop problem solving skills that children who sleep alone may not possess, and that human development is too complex to link with one particular idea or notion, whether it's bed - sharing or sleeping alone.

Field researchers who are well - informed and knowledgeable of cross-disciplinary Middle Eastern Studies, and who are equipped with technical skills and field research experience, will enhance the success of their field work.

However, suturing requires either an open operation so surgeons have enough room to maneuver instruments, or highly specialized technical skills in minimally invasive procedures, and it takes time to place multiple layers of sutures during a procedure, said Claire Graves, MD, lead author and research fellow at the University of California San Francisco when the study was conducted.

As I continue to learn and develop my scientific skill set in a new field of study, I hope to maintain a sense of wonder, both in my research and in my time with my family.

Puneet Arora, an engaging physician who has studied at Indian and American universities and practiced medicine among America's underserved — and who currently is Amgen's director of clinical research — appeared on behalf of Immigration Voice, an organization of «legal high - skilled future Americans,» its Web site says.

The technical skills can be picked up anywhere — the personal qualities have to be developed and the best way to do this is by doing some clinical research during your studies.

«I am often asked... whether primates that innovate new skills become more popular,» said Lydia Hopper, the assistant director of the Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo, who was not part of this research.

Whether you work at the bench or in the field, you must have the research and technical skills required to execute your studies.

Steverink's research spans the theoretical and practical: She has developed a theory of psychological well - being in older people, she studies their capacity to manage their own well - being, and she creates courses to teach elderly people self - management skills.

A forthcoming study from North Carolina State University and Microsoft Research finds that game developers need a suite of non-programming skills — including communication skills — that are considered less important in other fields of software development.

«Based on our research criteria, parents report that the girls in our study with autism seem to have a more difficult time with day - to - day skills than the boys,» says Allison Ratto, Ph.D., lead author of the study and a clinical psychologist within the Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders at Children's National.

Lead researcher, Professor Bill Richardson, Director of the UCL Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, said: «From earlier studies of human white matter using advanced MRI technology, we thought OLs and myelin might be involved in some way in skill learning, so we decided to attack this idea experimentally.

In a new study, researchers from GAMUT, Uni Research Health and University of Bergen, could show that the quality of the therapeutic relationship predicts generalized changes in social skills in children diagnosed with an autism spectrum condition (ASC).

The study, conducted by Francesca Filbey, Ph.D., Director of Cognitive Neuroscience Research of Addictive Behaviors at the Center for BrainHealth and her colleagues, shows that risk - taking teens exhibit hyperconnectivity between the amygdala, a center responsible for emotional reactivity, and specific areas of the prefrontal cortex associated with emotion regulation and critical thinking skills.

Although the study explains some of the skills that patients with OCD lack, Moritz says further research is needed to find out to what extent improving such coping skills during childhood and adolescence through cognitive behavioural therapy or similar interventions may indeed improve a sufferer's life.

The study published by Dr Duncan Astle and colleagues from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in the Journal of Neuroscience tested whether it is possible to improve memory skills in childhood with training.

To get a clearer picture of what effect posture has, researchers would have to test each child's math skills without having them pay particular attention to posture and then test them again after asking them to focus on sitting up, says Marjorie Woollacott, a neuroscientist studying motor control at the University of Oregon, who was not involved in the research.

In a 7 - year study at a Boston elementary school where half the students are English Language Learners (ELL), setting a school - wide goal of improved writing skills and using a genres - based instructional method improved the performance of ELL students on state and internal assessments, according to Boston College Lynch School of Education Professor Maria E. Brisk, who presents her findings today at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting.

Intrigued by the research, Eden decided to split her time between Oxford and Wake Forest, where she studied children with dyslexia and children who read normally, collecting data on visual - spatial skills and temporal processing.

Zeggini then did a 1 - year postdoc at Manchester's Centre for Integrated Genomic Medical Research, where she honed her skills in statistics and started developing computer - based strategies to analyse data from complex, multigene studies.

Military personnel develop valuable skills that can serve them well in a research lab, and the National Science Foundation (NSF) is offering a new funding opportunity intended to encourage them to pursue graduate studies.

If you are serving both as mentor and principal investigator, it is a good idea to find the right project to build your mentee's confidence with some early success while preparing her with skills for the longer - term research studies that may be both riskier and more difficult.

We are skilled at sourcing the right animal for the study, including offering unique research opportunities through our colony of multi-generational, pedigreed and genomically - sequenced vervet / African green monkeys.

Critical appraisal skills — including basic numeracy, electronic database searching, and the ability systematically to ask questions of a research study — are prerequisites for competence in evidence based medicine.6 But clinicians need to be able to apply them to real case examples.51

Sternberg & Williams (1997)[6] demonstrated that GRE scores fail to correlate with several key skills for graduate study, including analytical thinking, creativity, research acumen and teaching, and correlate only modestly with first - year grade point average.

The variety of career options available today demands a diverse array of skills, such as writing grant proposals and CVs or mastering the principles of effective resource management, that are often neglected during doctoral study and postdoctoral research.

A study conducted by the Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities in New York showed that walnuts can improve memory deficits and learning skills and may also have a beneficial effect in reducing the risk, delaying the onset, and slowing the progression of Alzheimer's disease.

Guest blogger Cathy Knutson, an elementary school librarian and media specialist, suggests a summer home study in digital literacy for parents who want to teach their children safe, smart Internet research skills.

Schools should also support the professional development of staff through the use of research, higher level study and targeted skills development.

He further adds, «Given his vast experience in the field of global education and his current research on a cross-national project to study K - 12 educational programs that support the development of 21st century skills in Chile, China, India, Mexico, Singapore and the United States, we are certain that his visit to Singapore will bring along with it deep and valuable insights to the Singapore education fraternity.

The lessons progress through a range of tasks that engage student's interest, encourage them to: -: interact and share what they know -: develop their abilities to extract information from text and graphics -: view information critically -: check the credibility and validity of information -: develop online research skills -: use web based tools to create surveys and data visualisations The lessons cover a range of topics including: -: Advertising and how it influences us -: Body language and how to understand it -: Introverts and extroverts and how they differ -: Emotional intelligence and how it impacts on our relationships -: Facts about hair -: Happiness and what effects it -: Developing study skills -: The environment and waste caused by clothes manufacturing -: Daily habits of the world's wealthiest people -: The history of marriage and weddings Each lesson includes: -: A step by step teachers guide with advice and answer key -: Worksheets to print for students

This threatens the state's ability to sustain the current economic boom and traps the workers themselves in jobs with little opportunity to advance, according to New Skills for a New Economy, a new study based on over two years of research conducted at the Harvard Graduate School of Education's National Center for Adult Literacy and Learning (NCSALL) and Northeastern University's Center for Labor Market Studies.

A growing body of research suggests that college remediation programs — meant to bolster the skills of students deemed underprepared for the rigors of postsecondary study — seem to make very little positive difference to students, and may even have a negative effect on overall success in college.

Research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found that children from low income backgrounds that possess high reading skills at the age of ten, will earn 21 per cent more than someone of the same age and from the same background by the age of 38.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

In a 2005 study published in Cognitive Brain Research, researchers gave a difficult problem to boys who were gifted in math and to others with average math skills.

[iii] And, finally, there are several research studies that demonstrate that what happens in schools and classrooms can impact measures of abstract soft skilAnd, finally, there are several research studies that demonstrate that what happens in schools and classrooms can impact measures of abstract soft skiland classrooms can impact measures of abstract soft skills.

Evidence from various research studies of senior leaders and their bosses, indicate that leaders may have skill set gaps that don't allow them to successfully lead their organization's strategic direction or meet defined goals.

In a February 2013 essay on the topic, E.D. Hirsch cites a 2012 study by the National Research Council, which found that «21st - century skills [are] dimensions of expertise that are specific to — and intertwined with — knowledge within a particular domain of content and performance.»

Further review of recent research studies on leadership development at the executive level identified content areas where leaders may have skill and knowledge gaps that could negatively impact organizational change, growth and success.