Sentences with phrase «researchers subjected the students»

Before and after the supplementation, the researchers subjected the students to a whole battery of mental tests that you would expect to cause mental stress.

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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.

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.

Jesus Luevano, a medical student at Harvard Medical School and a researcher the Ragon Institute examined bacterial communities from the gut of 145 people in Boston and 120 subjects in Uganda.

«To ensure that researchers and research facilities funded through the DHS [Center of Excellence] award meet the highest safety standards possible,» the UCCLS report states, «DHS requires every recipient to develop a Research Safety Plan» showing, among other things, that the researcher has identified the potential hazards in the research and will use accepted and appropriate protocols and practices; that the institution provides faculty oversight for students and education and training to develop a culture of safety; and that subject matter experts not involved in the research review protocols and practices.

To investigate, researchers from the Channing Division of Network Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, led by Amir Bashan, PhD, and Yang - Yu Liu, PhD, analyzed data from large metagenomic datasets (e.g. the Human Microbiome Project and Student Microbiome Project) to look at the dynamics of the gut, mouth and skin microbiomes of healthy subjects.

Doing productive science with colleagues from other countries — whether you've gone abroad as an international student, postdoc, or more senior researcher, or are working in your own country with collaborators or subjects located elsewhere — thus demands not only «high - level scientific skills» but also attention to «cultural and social aspects [that] are not intuitive.»

One problem, the researchers say: breaking the «cycle of ignorance,» in which teaching students lack good role models for teaching evolution because they weren't taught the subject well in high school or college.

The researchers concluded that, in math and science, the teachers overestimated the boys» skills and underestimated the girls» abilities, and that this had long - term implications for students» attitudes toward these subjects.

In a placebo - controlled within subject study, researchers from the Netherlands and Germany took 24 students (aged 19 to 27) with light to moderate cocaine use, and gave them either 300 mg of oral cocaine, or a placebo.

Starting in the late 1980s, University of Alabama researcher Ning Li published several papers on the subject, and in 1992 grad student Evgeny Podkletnov reported «gravity reduction» in his lab at the Tampere University of Technology in Finland.

It can be difficult to find non-gamers among college students these days, but from among a pool of subjects participating in a much larger study in Stephen Mitroff's Visual Cognition Lab at Duke, the researchers found 125 participants who were either non-gamers or very intensive gamers.

With the latter groups «you get results in those experiments that look nothing like what you get with university students,» the subjects commonly used by researchers in such experiments, Henrich says.

Always my first port of call for all subjects relating to strength and conditioning, it is an unrivaled resource for researchers, tutors, students or anyone who has an interest in picking heavy things up, and putting them down again.

In their article, «The Relative Equitability of High - Stakes Testing versus Teacher - Assigned Grades: An Analysis of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS),» Harvard Graduate School of Education researchers Robert T. Brennan and James S. Kim, and UMass Boston researchers Melodie Wenz - Gross and Gary N. Siperstein compared 736 student results on the MCAS with teacher - assigned grades in order to analyze the relative equitability of the two measures across three subject areas — math, English, and science.

Researchers have found that learning from fellow students fosters deep understanding of the material and a positive attitude toward the subject matter.

In a single - subject, across - participants design, researchers analyzed whether a computer - assisted reading intervention program increased literacy in inattentive struggling readers compared to students identified as attentive struggling readers (Walcott, Marett, & Hessel, 2014).

While standardized test scores are typically the measure of student learning used by VAM researchers, studies show that test scores are subject to numerous factors that teachers do not control, according to Audrey Amrein and David Berliner (PDF).

Researchers found that it took Fairfax ESL students four to nine years to reach grade level on standardized tests in reading and other subjects.

[ix] We build on the work of other researchers [x] in examining the likelihood of taking additional courses in a subject area as a measure of teaching excellence — the more likely a student is to continue studying in a particular discipline, the better the teacher is thought to have been.

A study by researchers at Princeton University and UCLA Los Angeles found that, while students who type their notes on a computer record more and type faster, students who handwrite their notes are able to better comprehend and recall the subject they wrote about.

Education researchers and teachers are working together to explore strategies to boost Indigenous student achievement in STEM subjects.

Specifically, researchers have noted that professional development directly related to a teacher's assigned subject area has a greater impact on teacher and student learning than general pedagogical topics (Blank et al., 2008; Garet, Birman, Porter, Desimone, & Herman, 1999; Van Driel & Berry, 2012).

While scholars have described PCK in a variety of ways, many of the researchers who extended Shulman's work included the following two elements of PCK: (a) knowledge of students» understanding of conceptions and content - related difficulties and (b) knowledge of instructional strategies and representations of subject matter likely to improve students» understanding of content (Angeli & Valanides, 2009; Graham, Borup, & Smith, 2012; Park & Oliver, 2008).

Like policy researchers, measurement researchers generally have not distinguished among different subject areas in their targets for study or in their conclusions and recommendations, even though Linn (1998)(a prominent measurement researcher) has found differences in student performance across subject areas and within subscales of the same subject area.

The state agreed to have researchers at Harvard University analyze the scores and compare them with results on national exams and Regents tests, the subject exams that high school students are required to take for graduation.

If we want our children to grow into the scientists, researchers, educators and entrepreneurs who will address our most pressing challenges, and if we want our nation to remain a global leader in innovation, we must ensure that all students have access to deep learning in STEM subjects and are taught by talented teachers knowledgeable in these fields.

Meaningful Student Involvement engages students as researchers of the educational settings, practices, beliefs, and outcomes that they are subject to.

Researchers used scores of roughly 8 million students tested in fourth and eighth grades in math and reading / ELA in 47 states during the 2008 — 09 school year to estimate state - and district - level subject - specific achievement gaps on each state's accountability tests.

In No Small Change: Targeting Money Toward Student Performance, researchers analyze more than 100 variables before they grade states from A to F on four major categories: the rigor and clarity of the state's standards in core subjects; its efforts to improve teacher quality; its school climate as measured by absenteeism, school safety, parental involvement, character education, and other variables; and the extent to which it provides resources equitably.

Training context related factors, which were included in the analyses, consisted of students» grade level, the length of the training, if teachers or researchers directed the intervention, as well as the school subject in which context the training took place.

Researchers Find that Districts and Schools Honored Have Common Traits, Including Consistent Funding and Strong Community Support for Music ``... students in quality music programs are consistently more proficient in other subjects and develop many ancillary life - long skills.»

Researchers found that at the same time that Denver's punitive discipline went down, the district showed «a steady and substantial increase» in the percentage of students scoring proficient or higher in nearly every subject for six consecutive years.

Researchers found a positive relationship between teachers» data use and student achievement in elementary and middle school math, and the use of data by principals was associated with higher student achievement in some grades and subjects.

While the researchers found some positive effects in science, specialization hurt student learning in many subjects and grade levels — including fifth grade math.

The «layered model,» as it is called by researchers, collects between three and five years of test - score data for each student in as many subjects as possible, including reading, math, science and social studies, in order to make predictions about how a student will score on a given test.

The referenced summaries, created by Cornell University law students and researchers, allow meaningful open discussion at multiple levels — from the general public to subject matter experts.

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In partnerships with teachers, librarians teach lessons that provide students with the overarching critical thinking and skills needed to be successful, independent and ethical researchers, and accomplished and thoughtful readers across all subject areas.

High - calibre chapter authors and extensive subject coverage make it valuable to people with an interest in weather and climate forecasting and environmental science, from graduate students to researchers.

Educational researchers emphasize that students must have a strong grounding in subject matter before information retrieval skills can be developed and retained.7 Yet it is not until their second - year that students have sufficient proficiency in law to develop legal research skills.

First, the National Chief of the AFN and other leaders at the All - Chiefs Assembly in Whitehorse, July 16 - 18, addressed newly published evidence by a scholarly researcher that students at certain residential schools had been subjected to nutrition experiments which entailed deliberately depriving some students, already showing signs of malnutrition further deprivation of both food and health supplements such as vitamins.

The researchers — some of whom are still medical students — strapped several trackers to the subjects, who then walked on a treadmill for 500 steps, and then 1,500 steps, twice.

• Lab Technician - Branson's Laboratories - Los Angeles, CA - 2015 to presento Conduct tests and experiments using the most advanced technology availableo Work directly with test subjects, educating them on standard procedures, what to expect, and potential risks, receiving informed consent with documentationo Contribute data for over 25 studies with published findings in peer - reviewed journalso Maintain a proper laboratory work environment and train newer staff and those in other areas of expertise in appropriate protocol • Graduate Research Assistant - University of Denver - Denver, CO - 2007 - 2017o Performed experiments and investigations under the direct supervision of the lead scientists and professorso Aided lead scientists and / or head researchers in collecting and interpreting information for their projectso Recorded data and results, and collected relevant information for the official reportso Directed a group of 11 biomed students through a research project for light therapy on rats