Sentences with phrase «research substantial problems»

Students can effectively research substantial problems in education such as student and teacher engagement, safety, racial segregation on campus, relationships between the school environment and student apathy, and even teachers» grading and assessment policies and practices.

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A substantial body of research now indicates that high levels of involvement by fathers in two parent families are associated with a range of desirable outcomes in children and young people, including: better peer relationships; fewer behaviour problems; lower criminality and substance abuse; higher educational / occupational mobility, relative to that of parents; capacity for empathy; non-traditional attitudes to earning and childcare; more satisfying adult sexual partnerships; and higher self - esteem and life - satisfaction (for reviews see Flouri 2005; Pleck and Masciadrelli 2004).

National security organizations and think tanks have produced substantial research projecting that warming will exacerbate existing problems like infectious diseases and resource competition, which underlie many of today's conflicts.

There is an equally substantial body of research concerning the worrying increase in stress and mental health problems among children whose childhood education is being «schoolified».

Looking back, I can see a pattern in those times when I made a substantial contribution to a piece of research: That contribution was often just a suggestion that X's technique might be usefully applied to Y's problem.

«There's a substantial amount of evidence suggesting that student mobility poses serious problems for the students who change schools, as well as their schools, teachers and even peers who do not change schools,» said Ruth López Turley, an associate professor of sociology at Rice and director of the Houston Education Research Consortium.

However, states and the U.S. Department of Education must together confront substantial implementation problems in this area, because the new requirements are fraught with technical complications, will lead to dramatic increases in the number of schools identified as failing, set improvement targets that many see as unrealistic, and are no more grounded in research or experience than the standards set by most states under the old law.

Did the above exercise yield substantial background literature and supporting research to confirm that a problem really exists in terms of learning and performance?

Instructional strategies include problem - based learning; action research; field - based projects; journal writing; and portfolios that feature substantial use of feedback and assessment by peers, faculty, and the candidates themselves;

Conduct in - depth research and outreach to identify new challenges and opportunities for resolving civil rights problems facing or impacting DOT as an employer and / or as an agency that provides substantial federal financial assistance.

On the overarching question of «solving» the climate problem, I'm sure Joe would agree that global warming is inevitably going to be, at best, managed — not «fixed» — given the trajectories for emissions in a world inexorably headed toward roughly nine billion people seeking energy - enabled lives and with substantial warming already in the pipeline, according to a heap of research.

But there are troubling instances in which an undisclosed financial tie has created after - the - fact problems for substantial research projects.

To maintain the physical - social separation the report must play down or dismiss the problem of «moral hazard», that is, the likelihood that a substantial research program, let alone any deployment, would almost certainly reduce the political incentives to rein in carbon emissions.

She was awarded substantial funding to research therapeutic jurisprudence and problem - solving courts in the USA by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.

A substantial body of research indicates that regardless of race and age, female offenders have higher rates of mental health problems, both internalizing and externalizing, than male offenders.19 In a study of serious «deep - end» offenders, females exhibited both more externalizing problems and more internalizing problems than males.20 Moreover, a recent study using common measures and a demographically matched sample of community and detained youth found that gender differences were greater among detained youth than among community youth, with detained girls having more symptoms of mental illness than would be predicted on the basis of gender or setting alone.21

Parenting interventions that are delivered during this developmental period are necessary in order to capture the groups of youth and families (i) currently experiencing problems, but who did not receive an intervention during early childhood; (ii) those who received an intervention in early childhood, but who continue to experience problems and (iii) those who are not currently experiencing problems, but are at risk for developing problems later in adulthood.7 In Steinberg's 2001 presidential address to the Society for Research on Adolescence, a concluding remark was made for the need to develop a systematic, large - scale, multifaceted and ongoing public health campaign for parenting programmes for parents of adolescents.8 Despite the wealth of knowledge that has been generated over the past decade on the importance of parents in adolescent development, a substantial research gap still exists in the parenting literature in regards to interventions that support parents of adolResearch on Adolescence, a concluding remark was made for the need to develop a systematic, large - scale, multifaceted and ongoing public health campaign for parenting programmes for parents of adolescents.8 Despite the wealth of knowledge that has been generated over the past decade on the importance of parents in adolescent development, a substantial research gap still exists in the parenting literature in regards to interventions that support parents of adolresearch gap still exists in the parenting literature in regards to interventions that support parents of adolescents.