Sentences with phrase «researchers tracked the students»

The researchers tracked the students throughout their four years of schooling by having them complete questionnaires about recent emotional experiences each year, beginning in the first year and continuing throughout their undergraduate degree.

To separate the owls from the larks from the finches, and gain a more accurate alertness profile, the researchers tracked students» activity levels on days that they did not attend a class.

The surveys analyzed by the researchers tracked students as they graduated from high school and entered college, following up with them 3 and 10 years after they had left college.

Chicago researchers tracked students from closed schools and found that most ended up in academically weak schools and, except for the few students attending high - scoring schools, were no better off academically one year later (de la Torre & Gwynne, 2009).

In an upcoming study to be published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, researchers tracked students over the course of a month.3 A third of the students were randomly assigned to write about what they were grateful for each day and were instructed to share their experiences with their partners.

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According to a study in the Journal of Behavioural and Experimental Economics, researchers from Columbia Business School designed an experiment where they gave cheques to MBA students and tracked how long they took to cash them.

Researchers at the University of Arizona monitored a group of students and tracked their «loneliness levels» while posting Facebook status updates.

On a different track (but related to the remark above about cooperation between ivory - tower scientists and economic - value scientists), having a reputable pure mathematics department attracts students and fellow researchers.

They share an impressive track record of increasing the number of overseas researchers and students, improving international collaborations, introducing English language courses for students, training administration staff to produce bilingual documents, and introducing new salary scales to commensurate with institutes in Western countries.

Researchers used sophisticated eye - tracking technology and found that preschool teachers «show a tendency to more closely observe black students, and especially boys, when challenging behaviors are expected,» the authors found.

For graduate students and undergraduate researchers, include a permanent address so that you can track their careers after they leave the lab.

«We now have better information sharing between federal agencies and systems to track whether students and researchers have changed their fields of study,» says C. Stewart Verdery, outgoing assistant secretary for Border / Transportation Security Policy at the Department of Homeland Security and one of the officials who worked on the extension.

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.

As Alex Lewis, president of the Council for Postgraduate Students and Junior Researchers in Europe (Eurodoc), pointed out during the meeting, young scientists have an obligation to use their own networks to learn about different career tracks and to seek opportunities.

Researchers tracked how many errors the students made when attempting to identify the emotions in the photos and videos.

Its study draws upon data from two states, Florida and North Carolina, that allow researchers to track the progress of students through the system and beyond and possibly correlate it with the contributions from individual teachers and specific educational practices.

Other researchers are mining data to track the progress of many students over time.

Researchers who tracked flu symptoms in the friends of a group of college students during the 2009 H1N1 «swine flu» pandemic predicted the flu outbreak in the general college population with at least 2 weeks» advance notice.

After categorizing various eye patterns as «zoning out» or «not zoning out,» the researchers were able track students» eye movements in real time to predict when their minds were probably wandering.

For instance, researchers who tracked brain activity in high - school students as they drank chocolate milkshakes found that high - sugar shakes stimulated pleasure centers in the brain that play a role in compulsive eating.

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.

One, by the same team of researchers who studied teachers switching between schools (Chetty, Friedman and Rockoff), tracked teachers long - term effects on student earnings.

Fourth, the researchers carefully tracked the students who left the Milwaukee voucher program and even published an article in the top education journal about it.

Funding has been obtained from NSF to support a stable cohort of such students whose duties involve the training of a new generation of graduate researchers to work in the museum; the presentation of information on ongoing research to museum educators and interested parents; the tracking of participation by children and families in such research initiatives.

New York — Addressing the federal group charged with recommending ways to improve American education, two researchers last week urged that elementary and secondary schools make tougher academic demands of students and experiment with new tracking systems, while another argued that such in - school factors were more important than has been commonly held in recent years.

Education researchers and policymakers are increasingly interested in tracking students» long - term outcomes, such as high school graduation, college enrollment, college graduation, and earnings in the labor market.

Twenty years after students participated in the program, John Holbein, a researcher at Princeton and the new study's author, matched Fast Track participants — now adults — to state voter files and found that those in the intervention group voted at a rate 11 to 14 percentage points higher than their peers in the control group, a significant boost considering that get - out - the - vote programs typically boost turnout by only 1 to 4 percentage points.

Researchers say the early warning indicator system emerged as a way to measure whether students were on track to reach stages along the way to the project's goal: measuring true college readiness, meaning that students would not need a remedial course when they arrived at college.

When Jill Biden convened a gathering of researchers and university faculty to mark the five - year anniversary of Operation Educate the Educators last spring, they also celebrated significant policy gains, like the enactment of the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children, which smooths transitions by eliminating conflicting state educational requirements, and the «military - student identifier» provision in the Every Student Succeeds Act, which requires states — for the first time — to track outcomes for these ststudent identifier» provision in the Every Student Succeeds Act, which requires states — for the first time — to track outcomes for these stStudent Succeeds Act, which requires states — for the first time — to track outcomes for these students.

Researchers at the University of Washington tracked 598 students over a period of 12 to 15 years.

Even when researchers can evaluate charter schools that are large enough to contribute useful results to a study, old enough to have a track record, and representative of a substantial share of all charter schools, they face a daunting analytical challenge: finding students in the regular public schools who are truly comparable to the charter school students.

Moreover, while the researcher tasked with tracking the achievement of scholarship students was unable to make clear apples - to - apples comparisons with Florida public school students last year, he was able to do so in years past when Florida's public school students also took the nationally norm - referenced Stanford Achievement Test.

Within days of the news of the breach, a security researcher revealed that the platform was tracking both teacher and student activity and selling it to data brokers.

Researchers began tracking K - 3 students in 79 schools scattered across Tennessee in 1985.

Educational researchers are working with game manufacturers to create a new brand of «serious games» that have the potential to capture and stream the kind of important assessment data that educators can use comprehensively, from tracking individual student achievement to determining national educational trends.

Researchers found that social media use varied when students were using it specifically for academic purposes like sharing course information with peers or tracking down academic information.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

It would also become impossible to track how students progress from grade to grade and take reams of data out of the pool that researchers use to study schools, said Morgan Polikoff, an assistant education professor at the University of Southern California's Rossier School of Education.

In a randomized control - group study, researchers from New York University, Fordham University, and Columbia University tracked the development of students in nine New York City elementary schools that implemented The 4Rs Program compared with children in nine control schools over three years.

Since then, due in large part to the availability of new data sources that link and track teachers and students over a number of years, researchers have been able to estimate the overall contribution of teachers to student learning.

In the paper, which was published last week by the National High School Center at the American Institutes for Research, researcher Chrys Dougherty contends that educators can draw on longitudinal data on students to determine how far off the college - and - career track their students are when they enter...

Together, districts and researchers can create a predictive model that will help not only track progress of specific student groups but also inform planning as student demographics shift.

Over a three - year period, researchers from the University of Georgia and the Georgia Department of Education partnered to track the effectiveness of a computer - based mathematics program that was used with students from special populations.

«You're looking at different kids,» said Mathematica senior fellow Steven Glazerman, lamenting that NCES doesn't allow researchers to track the same group of students over time.

The researchers also kept track of how the teachers were instructing students during these observations.

The Brookings researcher, Tom Loveless, found that states that track more students into different ability levels in eighth - grade math wind up with more students scoring better on Advanced Placement exams, typically taken by top students during the senior year of high school.

As many researchers have noted, socio - economic differences among families — which often track with race — account for one of the main reasons some students start school knowing their ABCs and numbers, and others don't.

Based on my research, I suggest that districts consider more systematically tracking information regarding principals and linking this principal data to student information systems so that district or external researchers can examine how principal education and professional experience seem to influence student outcomes and principal retention in their districts.

Tracking those factors is necessary to ensure that efforts to improve the learning environment are effective and that schools don't overlook the needs of students from some populations, like those from racial minority groups, researchers say.