Sentences with phrase «researchers asked students»

In the first study, researchers asked students how they and their peers would and should respond to eight hypothetical scenarios involving Facebook.

The researchers asked the students whether they believed that humans are causing climate change, and they also had the students complete a test intended to reveal their automatic, instinctual preferences toward the politicians.

Did you know that when researchers asked students to rate their ability to get along with others, 60 % percent rated themselves in the top 10 %?

And in a study of American undergraduates, researchers asked students who they consulted when they had to make moral decisions.

When the researchers asked students, local community members and online participants whether they thought their intelligence would be judged more positively in speech or text, most expected no difference.

Not exact matches

In a study published earlier this month, researchers at Michigan State University monitored the brains of 79 female and 70 male students, who were asked to fill out a survey about their own anxiety levels.

The researchers asked 122 students to answer that question the way they would in a job interview, getting answers including: «My inability not to be nice to co-workers» (ouch) and «I'm not always the best at staying organized.»

Researchers approached 122 undergraduates, asking them to participate in a survey about comprehensive exams for graduating students.

In a 2008 study, Michigan State University researchers asked college students to look at fictional Facebook profiles and decide how much they liked the profiles» owners.

The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Sydney and examined three groups of students, who were tasked with completing an «alternate uses» test — a common creativity drill wherein subjects are given an object and asked to come up with as many uses for it as they can.

In one experiment, researchers told the students the test they were taking would gauge their career success and then asked students whether they believed God had a hand in that success.

Researchers asked 1,000 Americans in a phone survey, «Should student religious organizations, recognized by publicly funded colleges, be allowed to require their leaders to hold specific beliefs?»

The researchers categorized each student's peer status and then asked teachers and peers what they thought about each student's academic success.

Specifically, University of Illinois at Chicago researchers asked school administrators at 537 elementary schools about their students» reactions to school meals after the HHFKA's nutritional improvements went into effect.

«They ask us for excellence, but they give us miserable resources,» said Guadalupe Barrera, a researcher at the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM), who marched with students from her ecotoxicology lab.

Researchers asked college student volunteers to think through a fantasy version of an experience (looking attractive in a pair of high - heeled shoes, winning an essay contest, or getting an A on a test) and then evaluated the fantasy's effect on the subjects and on how things unfolded in reality.

The researchers assessed how quickly and accurately students performed an addition and subtraction test and a test that asked for the color of a written word, rather than the word itself.

So the researchers tested interoceptive awareness in a group of 46 female university students by asking them to count their heartbeats without taking their own pulses.

«For instance, a paper talking about protein - folding patterns is a great example of the practice of making models to understand phenomena, while preliminary results from a study of black holes might be a great way to ask students to examine what the next steps would be for the researchers, allowing them to develop hypotheses and design possible experiments,» Lake said.

The researchers, who released their findings in a recent issue of the Social Science Journal, asked 152 college age students to fill out a 70 - question survey on their attitudes toward texting in various situations and their general texting habits.

The researchers then gave the students tests that asked questions about a passage on a science topic that hadn't been presented in class.

At a meeting in Western Canada between the directors of the NSERC and some 170 researchers and graduate students, a young physicist asked members of the audience to give their opinion about collaborative grants by a show of hands.

Researchers at the University of Toronto asked college students to shop for products online from either an eco-friendly or a conventional store.

The researchers showed pictures of children at ages 1, 10, and 20 to student volunteers and asked them to pick the real parents of each child from sets of three possibilities.

The researchers tracked down pairs of students in public spaces — the student union or the cafeteria — and asked them to fill out a questionnaire designed to measure a wide swath of social attitudes, behaviors and values that might matter in a friendship.

One to two years later, the researchers asked the same students if they had since tried tobacco.

In that study, the researchers asked graduate students, researchers and faculty members to name the qualities that were most conducive to success in their fields.

For students, it's «totally acceptable» to ask a senior researcher who isn't your own supervisor about your problem, says Rebecca Voorhees, who has just finished a Ph.D. and is now a postdoc in Ramakrishnan's research group.

Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London, led by PhD student Leslie van der Leer, assigned participants a computer task in which they observed the color of a black or white fish caught from one of two lakes and were then asked to choose to see further fish or decide on one of the lakes as the source of that sequence of fish.

The researchers conducted a large controlled trial of almost 2000 students aged 14 - 16 in 78 classes from 23 schools across the south and south west of the UK, in which teachers were asked to teach genetics before evolution or evolution before genetics.

Science's news team grabbed researchers, students, and even celebrity science advocate Alan Alda in the hallways and asked them to tell us the coolest science fact they knew.

The researchers conducted a series of studies in which students were asked to give feedback to their university on how much of a $ 100,000 grant should be awarded to each applicant, based on merit.

In one study Australian researchers asked 624 high school students about their lives and nightmares during the past year and assessed their stress levels.

The researchers checked on the health of these 744 students between 1 September 2009, and 31 December 2009 using two different methods: a twice - weekly e-mail survey that asked the students if they had any flu symptoms and the students» records at the campus health clinic.

The researchers gave American and South Korean students surveys on how they customized their mobile phones and asked them how they perceived their social identity and efforts to self - promote.

But instead of «ewwwwws» and twinging faces, the students from Decatur's Renfroe Middle School were excited to know even more about each part of the brain — asking Black, a postdoctoral researcher, more about the parts controlling speech, taste and sight, for example.

Each booth at the event has interactive activities as well as information, and the pre-college students are encouraged to ask questions of the scientists and researchers at each booth who have years of experience in neural engineering.

The researchers started their experiment by asking college students their opinion on this statement: «The government should provide health insurance to everyone, even if it means raising taxes.»

In addition to surveying the elementary school kids, the researchers asked 210 college students about their TV and video - game use and how they felt it affected their attention.

In the study, researchers found that students asked to remember a seven - digit number were twice as likely to choose cake than peers asked to remember a two - digit number when presented with cake or fruit salad.

The researchers used a data set involving more than 200 University of Rochester students, who in the 1970s and 1980s had been asked to keep daily diaries tracking their social interactions for two weeks, once when they were about 20 years old and again when they were about 30.

Researchers Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Jessica Hockett have explored these institutions, asking if their «whole school» focus on high achievers might play a larger role in educating top students in a national climate «consumed with gap closing.»

The researchers measured critical thinking skills by asking all students to write a short essay on a painting they had not seen before, which was then graded and scored blindly using a rubric.

To measure historical empathy, researchers employed a series of statements and asked students to agree or disagree, including, «I have a good understanding of how early Americans thought and felt.»

In one study, researchers asked nearly 400 college students to document their teachers» appropriate or inappropriate use of humor, their effectiveness as teachers, and how students perceived the humor.

The series, called Ask a Researcher, offers evidence - based guidance to classroom dilemmas in the areas of literacy, mathematics, and English language learning, giving teachers credible strategies to enhance student learning.

Researchers at UCLA's Memory and Lifespan Cognition Lab asked 192 college students to memorize 120 words divided into six sets of 20.

What McKinney discovered is that work in which the teacher, researcher, or curriculum developer selects materials and listens closely, and allows questions to come from the students (and not from a teacher's guide or the all - to - common «list of questions to ask about a historical document») is extremely rare.

The sleep study will focus on GCSE students from year's 10 and 11 and the researchers are asking secondary schools to get in touch if they would like to be a part of the programme and to help collaborate on what needs to be done for a later start time to become feasible in practice.

Senior Lecturer Joe Blatt, director of the Technology, Innovation, and Education (TIE) Program, is pleased that Dockterman's course was added to the TIE curriculum as it asks, he says, important questions such as «What does the term [adaptive learning] mean to school leaders, teachers, artificial intelligence researchers, and students?